Friends and Studies

As I'm typing this, my friend and I are yet again debating various physics/chemistry problems like we usually do. He's a physics major, while I'm chemistry. Our studies merge together at times when we deal with atomic orbitals/quantum numbers and thermodynamics, physical chemistry principles. While some people are out partying off, we go into these long arguments, and in the end, I realize how much I have benefited from this because it really went to test what I knew, what I didn't know, and what I thought I knew. I encourage people to be with people that are higher than you in some areas, and you higher in others, because in that way you will not only be competiting with each and helping your studies, but also are able to help each at the same time. This is really similiar to studying with friends in groups (as long as you're not goofing around all the time) because when you explain something, you really get to know that...you don't know much in the first place. When I'm TA'ing organic chem now, I question myself at times and this serves to strengthen my knowlege even more.