[cperciva]

I often learned things by reading the textbooks. Usually this took the form of the textbook pointing out an interesting question and me figuring out the answer before I reached the page following where it was explained; but knowing the right questions to ask is often much harder than figuring out what the answers are.

As has already been pointed out, I started reading before the first day of classes -- I would usually have most of my textbooks 2-3 weeks before classes started.

[tootlol]

Why did you hand in only 50% of the assignments? Were you saving time to do other things?

[cperciva]

Not exactly. I was doing lots of other things, yes, and in hindsight many of them were far more useful than the homework assignments I skipped; but the lack of assignment-completion was more from laziness and a lack of motivation to do boring assignments than from a deliberate decision.

[tootlol]

What other things do you think would be more useful and help in the long run?