College (19)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-20 20:06 ID:74/muC6p

Oh well, just wanting to shout. Don't bother reading everything since I don't even know if my grammar is correct but if you're interested go ahead and thanks for having interest..

So, here am I in college. Got accepted this year and am already being fucked up. I have just no will to study what they teach me and due to that my grades are damn low. I try to study but when I grab the book and start reading I see that I understand nothing and lose all my motivation (that was near to zero) to keep on.
I try to be good enough to simply be approved (need to get at least 5 in a scale from 0 to 10) but it looks damn hard to keep up with even that when you're not in the mood to try.
I though about going to another college but than I would "waste" another year in my life studying to get accepted.
Now I don't know what to do. I could just give up this semester and try to restart on the next semester, could try to apply to another college or don't know, give up everything and try something out of the normal lines that I don't know exactly what could be.

Feel free to give suggestion, shit comments, laughs or whatever.

2 Name: 43 : 2007-11-20 20:21 ID:8vj/y383

>I though about going to another college but than I would "waste" another year in my life studying to get accepted.

Identify the problem. Why is it that you're not interested? is it the course you're doing?

"Wasting" a year of your life trying to get into another course is better than actually wasting 3-4 years pretending you like this current course.

3 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-21 23:52 ID:VvDPjzPa

I wasted 3.5 years switching majors twice to things I thought I'd enjoy but ended up not enjoying. Go to community college for a while and get a job in your target industry for a while to see how you like it. It's a heck of a lot cheaper and easier than spending tons on a 4-year college and getting poor grades.

4 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-22 15:35 ID:oKlstFOa

If you can I'd reccomend you to actually read like 3 or 4 books in the area of study from start to finish; it'll probably get you motivated in some way because, in my opinion, anything is interesting as long as you get to learn it correctly. Your story sounds a lot like mine, but my motivation actually dropped a lot as this semester in college went by; I just can't learn shit from those little bits of text with no context they force me to read and get more and more frustrated. Also, the fact that around 80% of measurement devices are basically group papers just made me give up in doing well..

5 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-22 16:29 ID:vYJ36mLW

What are you studying that's so difficult/uninteresting?

6 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-22 19:06 ID:yNTRxNiO

Same problem. I go to the university and study history. It is very boring. All you have to do is just memorizing facts. :(((

7 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-23 19:18 ID:UfOhhamF

>>6
Just... memorizing? That sounds kind of... lame. Here, even in small colleges almost all of the history courses is analysis, critical thinking and research.

Change University, seriously. Especially if they make you use the "fact" word.

8 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-23 19:20 ID:Heaven

>>7
Bad grammar, english is not my first language, and i was being distracted. Sorry. My post above sounds like a caturday one : (

9 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-24 12:39 ID:74/muC6p

OP here
Well, I don't know what to do. It's already the end of the semester and guess now I will just wait and see the results, take all the exams I have to and see what happens.
I'm studying mechanical engineering so it's kinda hard to get 3 or 4 books in the area and read'em since there are tons and tons of possible areas. I could do a research about those areas to see if any interests me and such but again I feel real motivation to do so.
Anyway, vacation is almost there, just more 3 weeks of hard study and I'll be free for almost 2 months so I guess my best choice now is to wait and see.

The course of history seems kinda interesting for me but I need to talk to someone from the history institute from my university to see if the course is really that good and such. Nowadays I feel more into humanity subjects (don't know if this is the right terminology in english) like philosophy, history and literature.

10 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-24 13:36 ID:biyPNNQu

Humanities is the right term :) At my university the facult is called Arts and Humanities because theres a certain amount of overlap between the two.

11 Name: 43 : 2007-11-24 22:35 ID:Heaven

>>10

Humanities suck, they do nothing useful for society.

12 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-24 23:15 ID:5oYmzgVG

>>11
Humanities, while doing nothing IMMEDIATELY useful for society, are still an interesting thing to study.

Back in the 1800s, and possibly earlier on in the United States, going to college wasn't about learning about a specific field of knowledge to be useful in that field and get a job in it, but rather it was about learning how to think for yourself and become a generally more intelligent person.

Some of that still holds true today. You won't necessarily get a job in the field you study. It's mostly just proof you're not a dumbass and that you can think.

You'd think a highschool degree would be sufficient for that, but if you spent a month in the highschool i graduated from, you'd that CLEARLY isn't the case. X3

13 Name: booberry : 2007-11-25 06:41 ID:09c4bZkv

I have a suggestion. Move to Florida and I'll get you a job mixing cement by hand for 10 hours a day. Or perhaps you would like to dig a ditch 300 meters long for the local cable t.v. contractor. Maybe you can try wading waist deep in human shit down in a lift station at the local water treatment plant. You'll be taught a lesson you won't learn in any college, I guarantee that.

14 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-25 11:12 ID:LZS8bPVm

Think about yourself. Think about your life. You have the future in your hands. Drop acid.

15 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-25 13:36 ID:biyPNNQu

>>11

<---- /science/ is thataway

16 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-25 18:18 ID:N20Dpaq9

>>13

It's more fulfilling than computer programming any day of the week.

17 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-25 20:14 ID:YFV9amf2

I'm behind about three years of education, but for me it's been worth it, i've found something I really enjoy and good at.

I tried doing something I didn't enjoy hoping it worked out but it didn't, if you think it's the wrong thing to do and you are in a position where you can afford to muck up then do lose a year and go found something you're good at

18 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-26 09:30 ID:x0nZAqp+

People go to college for a few reasons. Only the really stupid ones go for partying and drinking; those are simply ways to pass the time. There are the lucky ones who know what they're doing from the start and have trained since diapers to be exactly what they want to be for the rest of their lives. These are the ones who will probably become famous. Then there are the ones who have decided, or will decide, on the way, dabbling in other things and maybe changing their course if they truly decide they can't do it. There are people who go to college for their parents' sakes, and there are people who go to college to stall for time in figuring out the rest of their life; lastly, the ones who simply cannot think of a life without stepping stones, from high school to college to a career. Then there are the job hunters. They simply go to college for the degree at the end, not caring about anything else, so they could get that one job that they'll most likely hate, but will give them the money to do the things they do want to do. These people will probably budget their money for early retirement.

Of course, life happens, and things don't always go as planned. After all, someone needs to serve me burgers and fries.

19 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-26 22:22 ID:6MSlffp7

Only go to University if you need to: I want to become a geologist, so there is no other way for me, but you do not necessarily need to go if you want to be a writer or w/e. Humanities subjects are oversubscribed.

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