“I quit all social media for 50 days and had my best term of college ever.”
So going into this term, I was a bit less than a B-student coming off of two F’s that I really shouldn’t have gotten, going into two classes that I had heard were incredibly difficult. I spent a lot more time looking at memes than I did studying, but I didn’t really think much of it because memes are life. Anyway, this term started out basically the same way as the last, which I didn’t like, so I got desperate and, after seeing the “Focus February” thread, I decided I should eliminate some distractions, primarily social media. I stayed off of social media for all of February and only used Reddit occasionally after that.
Ironically, I got a D on the first test I took after I started my meme-fast, but that’s mostly because I spent most of the day before it setting up Cold Turkey to block everything until this week instead of studying. Luckily, that professor let the class retake the test because everyone else bombed it too. But after that, everything was just easier. I had one less thing to split my time for. I spent a lot more time with my friends, and when I wasn’t with friends, I was studying. The end result: I got my GPA back over a 3.0 (pretty comfortably too), my mental health improved, my social skills improved, and overall, this was the best two months of my life. Needless to say, I’ll be doing this again next term.