The way I learn.

Over the past couple of years I have gotten the reputation of learning things differently from everyone else. Perhaps it is because I was home schooled prior to college, but I tend to find problems easy that many others consider to be hard, and the ones that I consider hard many consider to be easy. The oddity, however, does not end here. This semester I found early on that my Differential Equations class was going to be easy and that I should put my energies into it to get an A. In Engineering Physics II I discovered that it was going to be a harder class and that I was probably going to get a C no mater what I did and so I nearly abandoned it to work hard at the other easier classes that would give me better results. However, it seemed that the harder I worked at Diff. Eq. and Calc. III the lower my grades got. In E.P. II quite the opposite happened. I found out at when my grades came in at the last minute that the very hard class that I had abandoned had risen to a good strong B, that Calc. III which was easy had dropped from an A to a low B, and likewise Diff. Eq. from a high B to a C. This has been a recurring thing throughout my college education. It seems that the harder I work at a class the less I enjoy it and the lower my grades get and vice versa for working less. This does not apply to studying as much as it does taking notes, working on the assignments, and listening to the lecture. However, these are so ingrained into my nature that I have to consciously fight to keep myself from attacking them at a furious rate which soon leads to burnout. What seems best is just to find a useful application and study it on my own. Though it is different, that is how I learn, if I would just do it.