a little early to start drinking! Beer, at least. I just woke up from a 45-minute "nap" which was my night's sleep– sometimes, there is just not enough coffee in the world for the amount of work to be done. It explains why kids in my area with access to study drugs create massive drug-peddling enterprises instead of taking the stuff themselves, because apparently the demand is high enough to offset the value of their grades. Hm. They seem quite happier than me. Really in the mood for the summer right now. The beach. Or a donut, or something.
Maybe they somehow manage to get good-to-decent grades without the drugs. OR, maybe, as they are interested in lucrative careers in drug dealing, they do not see much value in school. After all I don't think anyone asks drug dealers for their resumes.
I knew a guy who got his psychiatry degree primarily through speed. His dad, also a psychiatrist, gave him a prescription for amphetamines. Then, for when he did too many amphetamines, he'd inject himself with thorazine. Better living through chemistry.
I find it highly unlikely that they can't study without it, I find it very likely that they have forgotten how to study without it and without it, it is very hard to do the work to figure out how. That's what I've found stimulant abuse does: makes you believe the stimulants are responsible for your work, and then when you quit them, robs you of the motivation to do (anything) the work to remember how to do work yourself, on your own. It's like a double kicker. Makes you feel like you can do anything, but that you can't do anything without it.
I'd argue about the "better" part, coming from the perspective of one who has absolutely done too much amphetamine at points in life. If you gotta shoot yourself up to bring yourself down you're doing it wrong. Boy has an ex who was prescribed amphetamines and sleeping pills. Take one to stay up take the other when she didn't want to any more. Yeah it's convenient but I don't think it's great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Living_Through_Chemistry My personal opinion is that anyone whose study routine involves thorazine is pretty much rawkin' the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tip.
DuPont, how appropriate for me. Did you ever watch Better Off Ted? Reminds me of Veridian Dynamics from the show:Commercial: Veridian Dynamics. Doing the right thing. It's important. What does it mean in business? We have no idea. We know what wrong is. Actually, no, we don't. Because we're a successful company, not some boring ethics professor. Veridian Dynamics. Right and Wrong. It means something. We just don't know what.
On both points: sure. Power to 'em I guess. Just kinda uncomfortable when it seems, at least externally, that they're doing things right somehow while you're suffering–even if you were on their drugs :D