That was the only time I've seen that meme used where it gave good agviceScorpion0x17 wrote:
1. Go talk to your tutors (they're there to help, but if you don't ask for help they can not help you).
2. Take a break (having got the permission to do so in step 1).
3. Come back with renewed vigour.
4. Profit...
It's the grunt work that I love.Defiance wrote:
You may find the subject interesting but you've got to get past the grunt work before everything becomes fun.
So what is it exactly that you're not turning in? From your post I understand that what you do turn in returns good grades but it's what you don't turn in that is dropping your overall grade. The only other thing I could think of is that you're classes are passing as far as grades go but you're just not happy at uni. Which is it?ZombieVampire! wrote:
It's the grunt work that I love.Defiance wrote:
You may find the subject interesting but you've got to get past the grunt work before everything becomes fun.
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Get off these forums and do them. Now. Tomorrow. The next day. Set up a plan so you work your ass off but don't exhaust yourself otherwise the work you do won't be top notch. Just get them done. I have a problem doing out of class work, ideally school would be in school and outside of it would be whatever. Unfortunately, that's not the case. When I sit down to do work I feel physically uncomfortable when starting (IE: this work sucks) but that uncomfortable-ness goes away 5 minutes after you start.ZombieVampire! wrote:
I'm not turning in the major assesment pieces because I keep putting them off despite the fact that I find them fascinating.
Whilst I don't know that I'm exactly enjoying uni, I can't think of anything I'd enjoy more.
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I don't really know what to say. It's like your out of focus in the biggest way possible. I think you ought to get checked out with a psychiatrist. I don't have much real experience in that field, but it may help you.ZombieVampire! wrote:
No, they've been an gone now. I've failed the courses.
But still, the big issue for me is that I'm not doing, rather than the results. I seem to be constantly doing stuff that I don't really enjoy. Just mindlessly doing things. Even when I go places with people, and tell them I'm having, I'm not really. I'm just..........I don't know. Just doing things.
Sometimes it can be hard to feel motivated. I certainly know how that is, and my way of fixing it was making a set schedule. I went to the library everyday at 8am and stayed until 4 or 5pm, leaving only for classes and doing work for the rest of the time. Then I would go home and 'do' homework there, which was far less productive. At the library, I didn't have people around bothering me and it was quiet-- so it was a lot easier to think and far less distracting. Also, since I was going there to do work, my demeanor was less of the 'anything but this' and more of the 'I'm here to do work and nothing else'.ZombieVampire! wrote:
I'm not turning in the major assesment pieces because I keep putting them off despite the fact that I find them fascinating.
Whilst I don't know that I'm exactly enjoying uni, I can't think of anything I'd enjoy more.
No, the work itself is fascinating. The assignments are about thinking about the issue which is what I live for. My biggest issue should be expressing what I want to express within the word count.SenorToenails wrote:
Is it that the thought behind the large assignments is fascinating and the actual work isn't so much? If that's the case, you need to either force yourself to do the work or find something else to do (even if it's only for a short time).
It sounds counter-intuitive, but that's why you probably need to take some time out.ZombieVampire! wrote:
I already work. But I don't see the point in taking time off because I don't know what I want to do.
I only ask because I took classes where the thought was neat, but the homework was pure, unadulterated drudgery. If you had that feeling in a lot of classes, then it could be you need to think of taking something else to rethinking college altogether for the time being.ZombieVampire! wrote:
No, the work itself is fascinating. The assignments are about thinking about the issue which is what I live for. My biggest issue should be expressing what I want to express within the word count.SenorToenails wrote:
Is it that the thought behind the large assignments is fascinating and the actual work isn't so much? If that's the case, you need to either force yourself to do the work or find something else to do (even if it's only for a short time).
Hmm... Might you be depressed?ZombieVampire! wrote:
Nothing.
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Oh yes. Unfortunately that makes all too much sense to me - if definitely sounds like depression - Here's an on-line test for depression - but note, it is only an on-line test...ZombieVampire! wrote:
But I'm not sad. Just not happy.
Does that make sense to you?