How do I party and get good grades at the same time?

You get good grades while partying. It's rather simple, actually.

It's basically the banking lifestyle. Where you you think "models and bottles" came from?

Red Bull and Adderall

Skip the red bull, load up on adderall. Legally with a prescription of course.

Adderall, Bombay Sapphire and Having Balls.

I am still in school as well but I don't know anyone who manages to truly pull both off. Those who make great grades claim they party but they hardly party compared to those who make sh#t grades and party a lot. All the guys I know who want to go into I-banking are relatively smart/bookish/nerdy/ and not players who get all the laddies and drink/smoke 24/7. Maybe the money and potential power/status one days elevates them to acquire models and bottles? Who knows.

A wise man once said: "partying, sleep, grades. Pick 2"

If you don't have Friday classes, you can easily party Thursday-Saturday nights(into Sunday morning) and still get good grades. Just go to class, do the work during the week and Sunday evenings and you're fine, you can probably throw in a casual Mon-Wed drinking night too here and there no problem. Or go have some dinner and beers after class, and then do your work. Even if you sleep until 2pm on Sunday shouldn't be a problem.

Don't take early morning classes, take the easiest classes you can (will need harder ones eventually but all your general classes/electives take the classes the basketball team takes), and show up to class. College is unbelievably easy compared to the real world, enjoy it man.

what is consider good grades? 3.5? 3.7? 3.9? I think you can have a really fun time if you are aiming for a 3.5-3.7. I partied harrrrdd; progressively harder every semester, after the first semester of my sophomore year. By the end of it, I literally did not goto any class and crammed for all my exams. I got out with a 3.1. Think if I didnt Yolo my senior year I coulda made Cum Laude.

Time management - be efficient with every minute. Most people waste a lot of time just dicking around. Also exercise and don't eat garbage

best thing I ever did was have all of my classes tuesdays and thursdays (only pulled this off my senior year because of limited offerings on courses I needed). I went from 8-5 with a lunch break but it allowed me lots of time to study, be hungover, exercise, work, intern, etc., on MWF. plus if you don't have shit to do, every week has a 4 day weekend.

test days suck, but I highly recommend it if possible.

Be efficient, know what you need to study and what you can take some chances with. Helps a ton to have good test taking ability/being able to work some stuff out with potentially minimal knowledge.

Make a point of valuing your time and signaling to others that they shouldn't waste it. When you're out to party, go hard - when you're studying don't let people waste your time. Also realize that just partying 24/7 can make you a rather boring person.

I'm also a math/business double at a state school. So YMMV in terms of both partying and classes.

As others have said try to make as convenient a schedule as possible. Last semester I only had classes on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Worked pretty well for getting in some golf with my buddies.

From someone who is still in uni, this is all completely dependant upon your major(s) and how high you really want your grades to be.

Most of the people on this site seem to (naturally) be finance/accounting/economics majors. If your goal is to party and still achieve good but not top grades, then this is completely manageable. However, if you're majoring in hard sciences, you're shit out of luck.

Time management. Do your homework the day that it was assigned. Then you will always have the option to party any night that you desire given that you will never have a prwssingg deadline. Realistically, a semester project can be completed in a handful of days if you work very hard. Oh, and work out every day. It will give you way more vitality. You'll notice the difference

Always boggles my mind how people struggle with this. Partying takes ~4 hrs / night.

Party twice a week, that's 8 hours and you get an amazing social life. You still have 160 hours remaining in the week..

monkeyoasis Too bad partying for 4 hours isn't partying

It's actually easy to party hard 4+ nights a week and get top grades. The problem most kids have isn't a lack of time but a lack of time management. If you use the hours of the day efficiently you can do whatever you want at night.

Just treat your days like a job. Go on campus, go to class / library in between classes. Don't party the last two weeks of the semester. This should allow you to do whatever you want. I have plenty of friends with hard majors that pretty much drank or smoked every day of the week and still got top tier grades.

Go balls to the wall Sunday-Wednesday and then you're free to party Thursday-Saturday.

i graduated with a 3.9 and my friends were stunned to see the high honors robes on me at graduation. here is how i got it done: I only did classes Monday-Thursday and on Thursday my first three years and my last class was no later than noon on Thursdays. I registered for classes at least one hour apart from each-other during the day so while waiting for next class I would read the materials from previous class and do any homework. Thursday afternoon to Sunday night was party blackout time. Senior year I had 4 classes and i did 2 on Tuesdays on first semester and same on second semester. Partied Tuesday afternoon through Monday night. I spent a lot of energy to get my schedule just right in advance to allow me plenty of muff time (that's right, I said muff). choosing a topic that you enjoy as a major also helps.

If it's possible get either Monday & Wednesday classes. Give's you plenty of party time. Here is some free advice you don't have to be at every party, and there will always be a "party of the year" every semester. Have fun study hard! For 3 years I had 0 Friday classes. Go out on Thursday's it's cheaper.