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drazzilB

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For those people at uni/college or whatever, how does smoking affect your study and just uni in general. Particularly those doing science/maths based courses.

I do engineering and sometimes I think that regular smoking slows me down, though sometimes it doesn't seem to. I also find it sooo much easier to stay in bed and skip class the morning after a sesh. But mainly I'm asking how being stoned regularly affects your analytical/logical thinking.

I don't smoke really heavily compared to some of you I probably vary between a couple of days a week to everyday some weeks mostly at night time before i go to bed. Also I'm not talking about studying while you're stoned, just say does smoking regularly in your free time make you more scattered or not able to think as clearly the rest of the time.

So:
How often do you smoke, what do you study and how does smoking affect your learnings?
 
Doesn't really affect me at all... maybe towards the better...

I was a daily pot smoker for a few years and I would always toke a bowl before doing my Chem/Math homework. Seems like it helped me. Not to mention I smoked two blunts before my Algebra III w/ Stats test and made a 95, highest in the class...both ways =D
 
Hey mate, nice question! I was doing electrical engineering part time. I didnt smoke first few years, and second two years I was smoking almost everyday usually at night. I think it is fine as long as you dont smoke too much. I find their is a point at which it starts being counterproductive for me. This is as you may have guessed when I smoke a fair bit. As for smoking night before then attending lectures etc, I find it's fine. I transferred over to a bachelor of science because I despised the fact that ee just seemed to be a wrote learnt load of shit. I am now happily doing a bach science at another institution in sydney and am enjoying it. My advice? Smoking helped me commit to the boredom that often comes with eng lectures. It helped my sleep so much it's not funny and my memory did not suffer. Learn how your body reacts and act accordingly. Don't listen to the paranoid bullshit the media spins. Happy smoking!!
 
hey I'm doing elec eng in melbourne hah, yeah for the most part I experience the same thing, I think it also depends how much you smoke when you do smoke(how cloudy you are in the morning) though a strong coffee normally sorts me out... Yeah sleep is so much easier when you goto bed whacked, none of that can't sleep bullshit.

I dont know how you can study stoned etak, I've set out to do it before but as soon as I'm stoned I cbf and just end up dong something else instead.
 
most of the engineers I know do lol, yeah its alright I'm in 3rd year at the moment finding it's getting a lot harder though, actually starting to have to study :/ ... hence this post hah
 
I find if I smoke I suck at studying or doing anything . But once I'm sober I'm as goodas I always was .


But if I smoke sativas or out of my vape I find I can think clearer and do hwk and other stuff in general :-)
 
etaks2evil said:
highest in the class...both ways =D
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Heh, took a sec.

I haven't come to class sober in months, and my chem grades pretty much show it. I don't pay attention at ALL. My other classes I'm doing great in. Pre calc and Spanish seem a TON easier stoned.
 
drazzilB said:
For those people at uni/college or whatever, how does smoking affect your study and just uni in general. Particularly those doing science/maths based courses.

I do engineering and sometimes I think that regular smoking slows me down, though sometimes it doesn't seem to. I also find it sooo much easier to stay in bed and skip class the morning after a sesh. But mainly I'm asking how being stoned regularly affects your analytical/logical thinking.

I don't smoke really heavily compared to some of you I probably vary between a couple of days a week to everyday some weeks mostly at night time before i go to bed. Also I'm not talking about studying while you're stoned, just say does smoking regularly in your free time make you more scattered or not able to think as clearly the rest of the time.

So:
How often do you smoke, what do you study and how does smoking affect your learnings?
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Before I say anything, I just want to mention this. The drug use/partying/etc.. = is all going on in the background, the type of student you are and the amount of effort you put in to SHOWING UP, paying attention, studying, developing a relationship with your professor, etc... will ultimately determine the outcome of your grade. I firmly believe you can be a "pothead" and an exceptional student.

I graduated college a while ago, but when I was in it I smoked literally EVERY day..before class, after class, during my studying, in the shower, during dinner, etc...you get the point ;) On top of that I had a BAD opiate problem during my last 2 years. If anything effected me negatively it would have been that...but all in all I did great, the weed and oxy really didn't hurt me.

I only went up to calculus..so I can't really say how it would have effected my analytical thought process in more advanced math classes. It was a very hard class..actually I think it was one of the most if not the most challenging class I had during my undergrad. Smoking would help pass the time though when I was doing busy work like homework/studying/practicing. It gave me something to look forward during studying, so it wasn't just the boring same old thing.

My weed usage didn't really have a detrimental effect on me honestly (my opinion of course). I was always a decent student growing up. By no means a nerd but I am definitely smart, and while I really never gave 100% growing up, I still did above average in school. I started smoking heavy my freshmen year of college. My patterns really did not change much, grades didn't mysteriously drop, I didn't start cutting classes, no hidden devil came out from inside me.

To play devils advocate though, I know for a fact that socially, I ended up losing out on a lot of extra curricular activities and stuff like that, because I was always with my friends or by my self smoking. I didn't participate in any of the after school stuff or even an internship (which I regret). Looking back, I never did extra carricular activities though, so this wasn't anything new..just something I noticed. I would rather be smoking and shit then doing some kind of club.

But from a strictly academic standpoint, my grades did NOT suffer, I graduated with a 3.6 core GPA with a BA in Communication. I had good relationships with my teachers. If anything, I studying more than I would have if I didn't smoke weed. It would just break the monotony..honestly I would just blaze a blunt and do my work...it just became a routine.

I ALWAYS religiously smoked before class. Yeah I was tired pretty often in class, but it also helped to get me through them..especially the boring ones.

As long as you are sticking with weed, and nothing harder, and are not new to it and have a pretty good tolerance, it is DEFINITELY possible to succeed in school and live a lifestyle that focuses around cannabis.

Opiates on the other hand...well if you had an unlimited supply it wouldn't be a problem, but withdrawing in class, when you are supposed to be studying, etc.. can be pretty debilitating and really have a negative effect on your academics. I kept a pretty steady habit so I got through college fine, but I went through a lot of struggles that I wouldn't have had to experience had it not been for my opiate addiction. Now I am battling this addiction..currently in a methadone program doin good ;) Got a good job too. Stay in school, be cool!

p.s. I wanted to drop of of college so many times when I was first in it, now I got a job I KNOW you can't get without a degree..thats a FACT. So school is a good thing. I plan on goign back for my masters if I can be admitted.
 
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Really fucked me up at first. Helped cause me to drop out of college. When I renrolled a few years later I had cut down my usage quite alot. I started to smoke less often and much smaller amounts. Could not smoke if I had class and or homework later. Everything had to be done before I would light up. Also realized that I would have to take breaks and not smoke for several weeks when things would build up. After I graduated I just kept smoking the same amount. Basically had to cut it back so it did not effect my functioning much if at all. Realized I like it better that way and I actually do not enjoy getting very ripped nowadays.

I have ADD and do not take medication for it. Cannabis can really help with some parts of it (relaxing me, slowing down my mind at the end of the day) but it also really hinders in other ways.

I have seen others smoke and smoke and be fine. Have to know yourself of course.
 
it's a lot worse on your motivation/effort than on raw brain function.

that said, i think it's a waste of weed and time to smoke before class/studying. i'm currently taking graduate level math/statistics classes, and even though i can usually grasp concepts and work problems when i'm stoned, it's more difficult and takes a lot longer. plus i'm a lot more willing to say "fuck it" and put off a difficult problem for later.

the benefit for me comes when i just want to think about, rather than learn or use, advanced/abstract concepts. one of my favorite things to do is spend a couple hours working/studying sober until i hit the wall (four hours of high-level thinking is all i can handle before my brain is exhausted), and then take a smoke break, put on a movie, and casually look back over my work. that's the point where i very often have breakthroughs on problems or revelations about connections between concepts.
 
smoking has only increased my performance in school. i've been smoking like every day for a little over 3 months, although recently i started to slow down a little. i'm a chemistry major, and if i plan on smoking around 8-9pm at night, then i usually get most of my studying done during the day instead of procrastinating and getting it done late at night.

my grades have increased this semester due to smoking every day i'd say. the key is smoking at night after your work is done, and not trying to study/take tests high.

smoking more on a regular basis also makes you more functional. you feel 100% normal the next day when you wake up, instead of waking up kinda high if you smoke once in a blue moon.
 
Smoking seemed to help me in my astonomy class. I felt like I couldn't take notes fast enough. Being stoned allowed me to relax and pick out more of the main points. Outside of that however I doubt it helps. Just makes it more bearable.
 
Thanks for the replies, i guess it seems ymmv a lot from person to person, yeah motivation really sems to be the main affected area for me when I really think about it. I can normally study alright when smokng regularly it just takes a bit more effort to get started or get out of bed for class in the morning heh, the problem seems to be I really just don't care as much as I would normally; it's so much easier just to not think about it.

The carrot on the stick thing does work well I find, if I know I'm going to smoke later I'm more likely to get off my ass and study rather than procrastinating the day away.

Oh and stuck in a loop I agree that the type of student you are and how you have fun are independant, though sometimes they do seem to push each other around, and it mainly seems to be the fun doing he pushing lol
 
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I started smoking after i graduated Engineering. Working out mathimatical and logical problems while high is neigh impossible for me, even when i tryyyyyyyy so hard. I also have issues remembering the details of things i learn while high - only able to remmember them while high!

So for me, study and high isnt a good match. I actually did some post-grad courses after i had started smoking. Never came to class or tests high, but my grades and ability during this time was just as it was before i started.

At work, the day after effects was when i noticed the biggest change in my ability to work. it wasnt a problem at first, but after about a year of 2-4times a week use, i would begin to get hangover type symptoms. But this directly preportional to the amount i would smoke. Say if it was just a hit or two before bed, i would be sweet, but if it started at 6pm and ended at 10, i would be a little groggy next day....

The only advantage i would smoking has given me in my acedemic life, was the ability to grasp foriegn concepts or solve abstract problems. Like mentioned earlier, on my then one occasion i have set out and smoked with a problem in my head that needed to be solved. And i have come into work the next day and presented something to the boss that has blown things out of the water and been a real positive influence over a project.

So yeh, good and bad from me. Im defaintly not one of those people whos acdemic ability is improved by smoking. But i can maintain/further my ability while still enjoying the J, just not while mixing them!
 
I'm a biochem major. I wholeheartedly agree with everyone who says that it's possible to succeed academically and be a heavy smoker. I smoke stupid amounts daily and am in good standing in an honors program without having to over-exert myself. However, at the same time it's certainly not doing me any favors. It makes me unambitious and gives me shitty sleep. It makes me slow as hell in trying to get my work done and makes my writing sloppy. Being stoned makes me much more apt to read stupid shit on wikipedia than work with numbers and formulas.

The only academic area that smoking assists me in is history. I really feel a part of the time period, like I can more closely empathize with historical figures I read about. When I try to work through math or physical science problems stoned I can more easily visualize the bigger picture, but I end up mucking up the obvious minor details cause my head is in the clouds.
 
drazzilB said:
hey I'm doing elec eng in melbourne hah, yeah for the most part I experience the same thing, I think it also depends how much you smoke when you do smoke(how cloudy you are in the morning) though a strong coffee normally sorts me out... Yeah sleep is so much easier when you goto bed whacked, none of that can't sleep bullshit.

I dont know how you can study stoned etak, I've set out to do it before but as soon as I'm stoned I cbf and just end up dong something else instead.
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Hey a fellow melbournite pot head. Nice one.

I do all of my best writing high. I find that words flow better and my vocabulary gets more imaginative. Plus I get more philosophical when I'm high.
 
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