"Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" Friends or Studying Paragraph

Over the few years I have been picking my friends but now I see that's not getting me anywhere. Picking your friends over your school work puts you under the bus not them. So now I am not picking my friends I am pick school then friend. School is one of the biggest things in a person life and I am going to do my bast at it as if it was football to me.