Treat it like a job and you will A/ Find it more enjoyable, because you actually know what people are talking about, and you also don't feel like a toss wank who never goes to lectures and is in the pub all the time, and B/ Because it's more enjoyable, it's so much easier to learn and remember it. Like your college experience, I was the same as you at the start, I never went to anything, was always bombed out ma face, and when it came to studying I didn't know where to start and had about 3 pages of notes for every subject. All my dissertations in each subject basically said the same thing, lol. I sat Pyschology 3 times and still never passed it, and with that subject all you need to know is how to spell schizophrenia and you'll get a pass. Doing it that way is actually more stressfull than just getting up and going to the bloody lectures! lol.