{"id":204,"date":"2018-01-18T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=204"},"modified":"2018-01-18T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T19:36:02","slug":"how-do-i-gain-enough-motivation-to-get-a-4-0-here-its-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/18\/how-do-i-gain-enough-motivation-to-get-a-4-0-here-its-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I gain enough motivation to get a 4.0 here? It&#8217;s so hard. (:"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"How do I gain enough motivation to get a 4.0 here? It's so hard. (:\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011818-6.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do I gain enough motivation to get a 4.0 here? It&#8217;s so hard. (:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Break big goals like that down into small, achievable goals (such as &#8220;will draft 3 pages of history paper today&#8221;) and focus on them. Intrinsic interest in the subject of study is also important: earning a 4.0 is already like climbing a mountain; if you&#8217;re not interested, it&#8217;s like climbing a mountain when you&#8217;d rather be sailing. Keep in mind, too, that there are many other avenues to success (and other kinds of success) to be had in college: making and keeping long-term friends, for instance, who can help support you throughout the long, successful life in store for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break big goals like that down into small, achievable goals (such as &#8220;will draft 3 pages of history paper today&#8221;) and focus on them. Intrinsic interest in the subject of study is also important: earning a 4.0 is already like climbing a mountain; if you&#8217;re not interested, it&#8217;s like climbing a mountain when you&#8217;d rather &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/18\/how-do-i-gain-enough-motivation-to-get-a-4-0-here-its-so-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I gain enough motivation to get a 4.0 here? It&#8217;s so hard. (:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}