Hey, I hear ya. Sitting baked at my finance classes was more fun than drilling the books. I passed them all somehow. My vision of school was similar to a restaurant -- I pay for the whole meal but I eat what I like. I changed my mind in the last year of studies when active recruiting began... Employers don't know you, all they care about is your GPA. I honestly re-thought by behaviour and if I could give myself the only advice at that time is to study more and work on my gradrs. It will pay off in one form or another, you never know.

Okay, I hear you, but maybe its time to reframe your belief around achievement. I own a business, I have hired the top 10 in the class and it usually ends pretty tragically. I want a person that can work to a deadline, ha the ability to balance a life between responsibility and commitments. We hire and look for the ones that just get by...they are a hell of a lot more fun, an better equiped to deal with life and all its twists and turns.

Peace.

You're the one paying for the classes, you should decide how to make them work for you. No employer cares whether you were a C student or an A student.

You sound like me in university. I was blessed with being able to retain the information given in class and so I never really had to study. I could've done so much better in school but even just giving 50 - 70% effort, I still graduated with a B average.

University is necessary to get ahead in life without a lot of drive (i.e. unless you are a self-starter, which clearly you and I are not) - it's a piece of paper that gets you ahead of the line of people who didn't finish university but have the same skills and experience as you. But it doesn't make you a better person, nor does it make you more worldly or well-rounded.

I spent a lot of money getting a university degree just so I could hang it on my wall - I knew I could do the job, but it got me in the door. A necessary evil in the business world.

Unfortunately, you get used to slacking off and it carries over into the job market. Expect to get fired a lot until you learn how to focus and deliver to deadlines.

Cause you'll need it. You already have a weak work ethic that employers will be able to tell asap just by your attitude and grades. It's about working hard first then celebrating.. Guess common sense isn't your thing. So like i said, good luck cause you'll need it in this City as things aren't getting any cheaper...

plus enjoy life when you can. The time will probably come when you are too busy to do any of those things you mentioned on the weekend. Also, it might be best for you to take a term off and just do other stuff until you are more ready to hit the books. Life experience counts too.

There are more qualified university grads than there are jobs these days, so chances are your degree is worthless anyway. I'm a UBC alumnus myself (fine arts-yes, go on, laugh), and at least half the classes i took were useless. Universities don't care about your education, they just want money like everyone else. And while a degree might look good on your resume to some employers, others will hold it against you because they have an inferiority complex. In short, life sucks no matter what, so you might as well enjoy it while you can.

All posters here are non technical majors.
Science majors from junior college are wor th more than UBC arts majors including architecture

Did you really hang it on the wall? Or just figuratively?