Grades vs. a “Well-Rounded Education” (Ep. 84)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What's more important, getting good grades or getting a "well-rounded education"? Is there really a difference? How much should you focus on your coursework in college? In this episode, my friend Tom Miller and I discuss these questions. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: WTF Professor Getting Grades vs. Learning: The Great Debate (Tom's post) Go to College to Get an Education, Not Just a Degree (Ransom's post) Automate Your Learning and Build a Bulletproof Study System: The Consolidation Method The Engineering School Survival Guide: 4 Frameworks To Dominate Your Degree Signaling Model of Education My interview with med student Ryan Nguyen My interview with Cal Newport The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman Limitless Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:46.0	In this episode we're going to be talking to my friend Tom Miller who runs WTF Professor.com and if you've been reading the blog over at college infogate.com recently, you'll know that
0:54.9	Tom has written a couple of excellent, excellent guest posts over there. The most recent one was over
0:59.3	the exam prep cycle, which was ridiculously in depth. A lot of people found it super helpful.
1:04.4	And actually every month Tom and I get together with our friend collid who runs
1:08.4	Better Explained.com and we have a little mastermind group of sorts for
1:12.1	educational content creation.
1:14.2	So Tom has been a good friend for quite a while.
1:16.4	We talk every month and I've been wanting to have him on the show for some time and
1:20.4	today is that day.
1:22.3	So today we're going to talk about the age-old debate whether you should focus
1:25.9	exclusively on your grades or if your grades are not an accurate marker of
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