Top 10 HINTS ON GETTING AN “A” IN CLASS

Credit and apologies to:

Guy Kawasaki and Paul Rausch

10. Pretend to be interested and attentive until you become interested and attentive

9. Don’t depend on others to get you motivated

8. Forget about grades and

enjoy the course

7. Let a thousand flowers bloom:

Let new ideas in

6. Be prepared to be challenged – don’t get discouraged

5. Challenge yourself

4. Barriers are for those who don’t want it badly enough

3. Don’t let the bozos grind you down

2. Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant

1. Study, study, study

January 7, 1973

Fascinating, the human mind; unfathomable. To think that we inhabit the greatest, most ingenious work in the universe…that is, the human brain…and we inhabit it gracelessly, casually, rarely aware of the phenomenon we’ve inherited. Like people living in a few squalid rooms, in a great mansion. We don’t even know what might await us on the highest floor; we’re stuck contemplating the patterns in the floorboards before us. Once in a while a truly alarming, profound dream/vision cracks through the barrier and we’re forced to recognize the presence of a power greater than ourselves, contained somehow within our consciousness.

From The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates