User:つがる/advice

Some friendly but earnest advice:
I've just seen your questions today, both to and at the WP:Teahouse, so I'm going to give you a bit of a friendly telling off, now. (Mind your ears): GO AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK! DON'T SPEND ALL YOUR TIME HERE. COLLEGE WORK IS MORE IMPORTANT! If you must write an essay, as you suggested at the Teahouse, do one that might be more beneficial to you, like: "Why I shouldn't edit Wikipedia". I know you recognise the draw that editing here has, but I am genuinely concerned that you are spending far too much of your time on this site when school work should be your No 1 priority. Any essay you do about the negatives of Wikipedia should include bullet points like 'lack of sleep', 'reduced attention', 'poor grades in college, resulting in lower job prospects', 'reduced social contact'. Nearly 50% of your edits so far are to your own user page. This is ridiculous - you don't need to be updating how many edits you've  made every few days. I want you to stop fiddling on your user page, limit yourself to one hour here a day (MAX!)  and  put some real effort into your real life. You're at an important stage of your life - Wikipedia can wait. School and your future prospects can't! Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

✅ See User:Thegooduser/Why I shouldn't edit Wikipedia Thegooduser   talk  03:02, 15 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm going to expand somewhat on what Nick Moyes said above. I'm not the kind of person to tell others what to do - especially in their personal and private lives, but I'd like to leave you some advice that I frequently told others who were just starting their college careers:


 * Having fun, being active, making friends and socializing, taking breaks to relax and unwind, and doing things that you enjoy is equally as important as attending class, completing school work, doing well on exams, keeping a strong GPA, and taking internship and job opportunities. Obviously, if you don't engage enough time toward studies and your education, you're wasting precious time and money for you not to learn anything. However, if you never give yourself any free time at all and you never give yourself time to break away and let yourself relax and have fun, it will lead to one of the worst things that could happen while you're in school - burnout. When you burn out from the constant stress of school work and studies, it takes quite some time to recover from it. When you finally do manage to take a break, your mind will never want to go back to focusing on school anymore - because you've essentially trained your brain to see school work and studying as unhealthy and your brain will naturally try to avoid what it thinks is bad for it. Basically, there's a precious balance between work and fun that you must always keep in-check while you're in college. I saw many friends and acquaintances fail out of college and/or drop out of college and without finishing, and a significant portion did so due to the inability to maintain that balance one way or the other. However, as with everything in life you have to eat you peas and your carrots before you can enjoy desert. If you've read my user page, you'll see that I took an extensive leave from Wikipedia during the middle of my college life - I was too busy with college and keeping healthy free time to fit it into my schedule. I encourage anybody to prioritize college, keeping a healthy social life, and having fun in college as your top priority. Wikipedia will be here when you're ready to return. I have a three year gap in my contribution history, and it didn't hold me back wikipedia-wise at all after I returned. It wasn't used against me on Wikipedia later, since my explanation for the gap in my contributions was a legitimate one.


 * Anyways, I hope my response and what I expanded upon from Nick Moyes and his reply was of some help. Either decision you make, I wish you the best of luck while you're in school :-).  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:56, 15 February 2018 (UTC)