I was a horrible college student. I came to play sports and being smart enough to never need to actually study I was completely unprepared for what was required to be a good student in college. I also didn't like to go to class, engineering classes at my uni started at 0800 and were done before noon, I'm a night owl so dragging my ass to class at 8am was painful -if it was 8pm I probably would have been a rock start. I also learned that if I went to class and did the minimum amount of studying I did very well -of course I didn't like doing the minimum amount of studying either.

The funny thing now that I'm 30+ years out of college, college is stupid easy. I try to take a class or two every year, just to learn things that interest me. These are normal college classes filled with people that could be my children and nothing has changed, all the young people sit in class like they are being forced to be there, they don't ask questions and to me it seems like they are totally uninterested in the subject matter. Of course as the older student I ask lots of questions and challenge the instructor if they are teaching outdated bullshit, which is more often than you'd think, I know the other students hate me because I blow the curve but now that I'm way separated from college life learning is a lot more fun.