How to Stay Motivated Academically During Senior Spring?

Fellas, when I graduate, I have accepted an FO AM role at a well-respected BB (not MS/GS, but not a firm that's trashed on in this forum either). 

I attend a semi-target and my GPA is just shy of a 3.6 (3.58). 

I want to go get an MBA a few years down the line, and I know that I cannot afford to let my GPA tank. 

How did you all stay motivated academically during your senior Spring?

Cheers

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3.58 is below average for T10 MBAs, you need to get a 4.0 this semester. This should be the mentality. You want to hook yourself up for the future.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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