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Staying Motivated in School (pg. 3)
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| leph555 |
| i know a kid that dropped out, got into some serious and then he was on his way to jail were he told his ******s that he is taking them with him if they don't pay up 200k. Guess what they did? They payed up, and he spent around a year in jail for fraud. Once he got out He started up a load of businesses. Now he drives a brand new ing Land Rover, lives in his own apartment and he is only 21. and no his parents didn't help him through any of this |
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| Akridrot |
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How organized are you? In school, at school, and mentally? Do you have a hard time keeping track of where your time is going? Does it feel like days pass in blur? What does your room like?
Also, how much free time do you have and how much of it do you waste? Basically, if you have like 6 hours of free time after school, how much of it spent doing things that aren't beneficial to you.
When I was younger, I strongly believed that everything would turn out OK for me as I got older. I believed that I'd be a talented, accomplished adult at 18 and I'd be on my own. I believed this with almost religious conviction and you couldn't convince me otherwise. Everyone told me I was intelligent. My friends, teachers, and my mother always told me that they thought I'd be successful and that I was so smart.
So, what was the problem? While I was waiting for my life to undergo a transformation, I was doing nothing. Somehow I reasoned that practice, learning and experience didn't apply to me because I was "above" other people. Even though I wasn't really investing time in anything worth learning, I thought that everything I'd need to know later would just come to me. They didn't. Now here I am, a few years later with a ton of potential wasted.
Now I'm trying to get everything back in order, but I have so many things I need to sort out. School is bombarding me with projects, I have to keep on top of job applications, I have to organize my thoughts clearly, and I have to make better use of my time. That's a lot of work, and it's hard to get started when you don't know where to start.
My advice would be taking a careful look at your time and sticking to a schedule. This is what I'm planning on doing. Give yourself breaks for play and goofing off, but once those regular breaks are over, do what you planned to do. Take your time and think about things before you start this, because you might end up constantly changing your schedule and making an even bigger mess of things.
I don't know why I'm like this. It looks like I can easily do tasks in class when the professor is there and I have no other options, but at home, nobody is telling me to do anything so I just do other . It's like I avoid putting in any effort into things I'm supposed to do. But if it's pointless , like games, forums and random things (like interesting articles), I have no problem using effort.
This post is a clear example of my problem. I could have easily used all the time I took to write this post to start writing a paper for a class, but I didn't.
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It just makes no sense to me. Even when I do research, one of the first things I do is open up a browser and type in the URL to a forum. After that I browse a thread or two, and *then* I start researching.
I wish I could keep myself from doing that for like a whole month, just to get a load of work done. |
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| Zild |
If you aren't doing something you enjoy you might as well seriously consider doing so. I changed my major after doing 5 semesters of philosophy. I honestly think it was the right move. Sure I'm 23 now and I still need 30 hours to graduate, but I just don't think I would have been happy if I stayed on the road I was on. I almost failed out of school before I switched my major because I couldn't care less about my classes. It is something to think over. In the grand scheme two years isn't much to lose if it means doing what you enjoy. If you really want to study architecture then transfer somewhere that will let you major in architecture.
On the other side of the story chemistry is supposed to suck. Like one of my organic professors told us, "Dave, chemistry sucks!" That said it isn't really all that difficult to learn. You have to put your shoulder down and get through it. No TV, internet, video games, etc... Just you and the chemistry. Realize you are better than the chemistry. Don't let it kick your ass. |
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| tubularbills |
by the time i was in my last year of school, i was so burnt out of it...i didn't give a about any of my general elective classes (speech, communications....stupid ass general that i needed to take to fulfill graduation requirements). thanksfully, they were easy as classes, because i literally didn't do anything for them.
all i had left in me was my research (which, after a semester of that was also tiresome), and knowing that when i was going to graduate, i'd have a job w/ the AF.
that and racquetball. i loved playing racquetball for a class. oh, and bowling too.
sports are fun...any intramurals you can be a part of? |
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| Erotic Buddha |
| well, i gotta say i'm very lucky and fortunate for my parents to be able to pay my entire way through college, enough for me to slack off a lot but get it in gear when it was needed just enough to graduate in four years. just four months out of college, now i'm making 55,000 bucks a year for my first job doing design engineering for AT&T, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with my business economics degree. my advice is just to keep on grinding your way through, and once you graduate, you might end up finding a job having nothing to do with your major. personally, as long as my current job pays the bills and gives me extra money to spend and i don't hate it, i'd say i'm very fortunate in my current situation. |
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| zoogla |
I did my undergrad in philosophy and history, and now I'm working in banking. My undergrad was all planned out for me to go to law school but then due to a life event I had to start working, so that's where I am.
My advice is that you have to go with the flow, and definitely focus on your strengths (once you figure out what those are) but I wholeheartedly recommend completing an undergrad degree; it is the most important thing you can do as a young adult because it proves to people that review your resume that you are someone who is:
- organized
- goal-oriented
- focused
- responsible
- intelligent (in some way or other)
Of course, if you can prove the above to someone (i.e. family member who can give you a job in the family business) without completing a degree, more power to you, but the majority of us don't have that so we have to prove the above to strangers, which is what a degree will do. HANG IN THERE!!! :) |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
Long:
How organized are you? In school, at school, and mentally? Do you have a hard time keeping track of where your time is going? Does it feel like days pass in blur? What does your room like?
Also, how much free time do you have and how much of it do you waste? Basically, if you have like 6 hours of free time after school, how much of it spent doing things that aren't beneficial to you.
When I was younger, I strongly believed that everything would turn out OK for me as I got older. I believed that I'd be a talented, accomplished adult at 18 and I'd be on my own. I believed this with almost religious conviction and you couldn't convince me otherwise. Everyone told me I was intelligent. My friends, teachers, and my mother always told me that they thought I'd be successful and that I was so smart.
So, what was the problem? While I was waiting for my life to undergo a transformation, I was doing nothing. Somehow I reasoned that practice, learning and experience didn't apply to me because I was "above" other people. Even though I wasn't really investing time in anything worth learning, I thought that everything I'd need to know later would just come to me. They didn't. Now here I am, a few years later with a ton of potential wasted.
Now I'm trying to get everything back in order, but I have so many things I need to sort out. School is bombarding me with projects, I have to keep on top of job applications, I have to organize my thoughts clearly, and I have to make better use of my time. That's a lot of work, and it's hard to get started when you don't know where to start.
My advice would be taking a careful look at your time and sticking to a schedule. This is what I'm planning on doing. Give yourself breaks for play and goofing off, but once those regular breaks are over, do what you planned to do. Take your time and think about things before you start this, because you might end up constantly changing your schedule and making an even bigger mess of things.
I don't know why I'm like this. It looks like I can easily do tasks in class when the professor is there and I have no other options, but at home, nobody is telling me to do anything so I just do other . It's like I avoid putting in any effort into things I'm supposed to do. But if it's pointless , like games, forums and random things (like interesting articles), I have no problem using effort.
This post is a clear example of my problem. I could have easily used all the time I took to write this post to start writing a paper for a class, but I didn't.
Edit:
It just makes no sense to me. Even when I do research, one of the first things I do is open up a browser and type in the URL to a forum. After that I browse a thread or two, and *then* I start researching.
I wish I could keep myself from doing that for like a whole month, just to get a load of work done. |
Sounds all too familiar :)
I'm defnitely when it comes to time management and staying focused. I can sit there and read for 10 minutes and then almost without even realize it, find myself browsing TA or any other number of sites. , sometimes I'll just think of some random thing in the back of my head and start reading about it, completely unrelated to what I'm doing at the time. Last night I did what was probably the best move I could make, and that was to drive to campus, sit in the union away from any form of distraction, such as my computer, and just work. I got more completed than I ever that I would in the hour and a half I had before the union closed. I'm planning on doing the same today and hopefully I can catch myself up.
I guess, like what someone had said I just need to go with the flow. Its been a recurring theme for me to slack off the first 2/3 of the semester or so and then the last few weeks of school just bust ass to get by. I'm sick of putting myself through the unnecessary stress, but even though I'll spend a whole summer pep-talking myself into really getting down to business, every year its the same deal. It has been for as long as I can remember. I suppose I'll just have to ride out the rest of this semester and see where it takes me.
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
On the other side of the story chemistry is supposed to suck. Like one of my organic professors told us, "Dave, chemistry sucks!" That said it isn't really all that difficult to learn. You have to put your shoulder down and get through it. No TV, internet, video games, etc... Just you and the chemistry. Realize you are better than the chemistry. Don't let it kick your ass. |
The only thing that bugs me is this. Theres umpteen rules, not every rule applies in certain situations, in other words, theres exceptions to every rule, and more rules to cover those exceptions that don't encompass a load of other things. It's ing nonsense. The worst part, I was talking to an ex on aim the other night, and she had told me she really enjoyed chemistry. I tried asking her some questions and she could answer some of them, but she had no idea why things were that way. Apparently her class was very straightforward and essentially just told her to memorize this, this and this but never got down to explaining why this, this or this happens. I'm in Chemistry 100 for s sake because I never took it in high school, but I'm learning everything she is and more. She could tell me that NO2- was nitrite ion and NO3- was a nitrate ion, but not why one ended in -ite and other in -ate. I don't know how you could learn the differnece without learning about distrubution of electrons in bonding, etc. |
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| KandyKid_420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
Wtf do you do? |
Garbageman for the City of Vancouver. |
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| sterilis |
| dont worry about it. ive had an assignment not even started yet and it was supposed to be done by last thursday. im a lazy ******. ill lose marks but i cant be bothered to do it. |
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| Omega_M |
I just finished my project which is due this coming thursday. 
It was a difficult project and i'm happy I don't have to do any last minute work. |
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