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  • I've dropped out of college, went back and got an associates degree, tutored three college courses, and I effectively taught one.

    Don't be like my one student who watched Fairy Tale with one headphone in all semester because he thought he knew the material already, only to come to me the final week asking how to do what we covered the second week (if statements in C++).

    I hope that helps get this through to you: don't do this to yourself. Pay attention in your class, and at the very fucking least record the audio of your lecture for review at double speed later if it's too boring to pay attention to in lecture.

    It is very very easy to overestimate your ability to multitask, and you generally won't realize that you've fucked yourself over until it's too late. It's very hard to keep up with new classwork coming in when your understanding is 1-4 lectures behind.

    It is possible to do something else while you listen to a lecture and still get what you need out of it, but playing a videogame takes too much focus. Get a pad of paper and doodle. Have two note taking windows open and use one for class notes and the other for idle thoughts.

    I wasted literal years of my life and around $50k of student loan debt by doing shit like what you are, sure that I already had it, or that I was keeping up enough to get by. I didn't already have it, I wasn't keeping up. Or I was, but then the class zoomed past me while I was distracted focusing more on custom modding Smash Bros Brawl than my courses and I was fucked with no way to catch up.

  • OP, I've been here before and walked this path - it's not one I advise anyone to take.

    Minecraft and other video games are fun, especially with friends, but you have to have your priorities sorted first before indulgence. Do you want your degree, or do you want your degree? If you imagine yourself successful in 5 years time in the profession you're studying for, how bad do you want it?

    Minecraft in class won't get you there, and will in fact hamper you. Unlike school, no one will stop you because the lecturers aren't paid to give a fuck about your success - they just lecture and it's on you to take notice.

    My intention isn't to shame you, I just see myself 5 years ago in this image and while I bounced back, it was years of hard work on myself.

    If you're finding yourself zoned out in lectures, you need to find study habits that work for you, and you have to be in the right headspace. You're very capable of completing this degree, you just have to do it.

    Take your mental health seriously if you don't already, and work with student counsellors on study habits. They are paid to answer questions like "I feel zoned out in lectures, how do I keep engaged and not fall asleep to this guy?" and "How can I have a healthy balance of games and study?"

  • I’m gonna set up a server once I move my desktop setup over and ask EVERYONE to join it. It’s gonna be fire.

    here's what i did for my 'vanilla' minecraft server:

    java, fabric, mods:

    • geyser: allows bedrock players to join the java server
    • floodgate: makes bedrock players not need java accounts to join
    • c2me: much faster multithreaded worldgen
    • krypton: network optimizations
    • lithium: general optimization
    • noisium: worldgen optimization
    • ferritecore: memory optimization
    • viewdistancefix: fixes fog when the client view distance is higher than the server

    also i made the server public so it's easier for people to join, even though it was just supposed to be for the friend group, i never had any problems with random people joining and messing things up and i have a half-hourly backup anyways (with decent retention) just in case

    there's also some other optimization mods for supporting many players at once, which are very effective, but the server I was hosting was fairly small

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