For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 07, 2024

And started at 3:30 am

Only Michael would think he would do well on an exam for no other reason than he studied till 4 am. Most regular students know how well they did on an exam by how many of the answers to the questions they knew.

Ahh, college life.

Michael appears to be the only student in that college who looks normal!!

Must be an open-admissions school that accepts any geek who applies.

Charlie brown did this too with similar results

Numskull. :P

course I started studying at 3:59 a.m.

My best time for studying is early in the morning after a good night’s sleep.

The comic on the calendar: Life in Hell?

Adam Savage: Well, there’s your problem!

My experience in school was I either knew it or I didn’t, studying helped but not to the degree that I would get a really bad grade if I didn’t study.

It was never quite this bad, but I definitely cut my studying too close a few times in school!

To make what you are learning stick, it works better if you study first and then relax with friends.

LOL… all the “tests” at college are in the classrooms… Will see if Mike learns that lesson soon enough.

Was Michael a fan of a 1980s cartoon show about an undersea race of creatures? He said “Snork” in the eighth panel.

That’s the problem!!!

Is there anybody else here who did not study just before a test? I never saw the point: if I needed to study I did it about as early as I could, right after the lesson if possible.

Typical university student. No parent to nag you to study, and professors don’t care. Professors do not even care if you show up to class. Many have student lecturers, who do the work for them. Once they get tenure, many profs do “research”…another work for “nothing” and getting paid for it, and cannot get fired.

How a college student studies…………

I had to learn early on in college, much to the dismay of my friends. That I had to quit partying or get good grades. I quit the parties. Lost some friends. Got an education and a great life.Yay! But that was over 50 years ago. I’m sure it’s different now. lol.

College is not a Marx Brothers movie.

Michael will have to realize he cannot burn his candle at both ends.

No, you didn’t.

The English department I worked in required all its majors to have at least a one-semester internship of some kind so that they could have that on their records when looking for a job. They often have more trouble getting an initial position but many do very well in business and government jobs.

Seems like he should have been paying closer attention during class

Gotta love Michael’s always-mutating mustache! Hitler in the first panel to past the corners of his mouth in the second. Hitler’s back in panels 3-6. Fu Manchu in the 7th, pornstache in the 8th, Sam Elliot in the 10th, and gone in the final panel.

If that party was for New Year’s, aren’t you guys on winter break!?

I wonder too……

Another factor to consider is how useful will it be when Michael leaves the ivory tower of academia and has to apply what he learned in the real world?

If the test he just flunked was in math, science, or geography, that could be a problem and he better buckle down.

If the test he just flunked was in gender studies, Michael ought not lose any sleep.

If he just bombed an English exam, he can laugh it off.

Michael: Why do I need to learn English? I am never going to England!

Mike would ace an exam if were given on his eyelids!

Gosh, I have my own college experiences.

Wanted to comment on my own experiences on here, but it seems the GoComics censors deem it as “containing banned word(s)” yet, no matter how many ways I try to edit it (even though I cannot find anything that falls under their guidelines anywhere in my copy) they keep flagging it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

When is he going to shave that scruff off his face? I like a nice beard, but he looks like he should be on the corner with a cardboard sign.

The photo of Farley on his wall is bigger than the photo of his girlfriend.

Ah, college days.

Time to take a course in Time Management.

An exam already?? He only started classes on Wednesday at the earliest!

That’s how freshmen flunk out..

What’s an exam schedule? My college courses all had exams during the class period.