DO WHAT YOU ENJOY
i know it's like a cliche and trite, but goddammit, listen to me. i was a freshman once. a sophomore. i thought i was fairly bright. so why was i getting 2.9's in my classs? or even a 1.5 once? averaging around 3.0 a quarter?
because i was pre-med, and in it for the money. then i took a programming class, and realized that CS was for me... i've been getting like 3.8-4.0 quarters ever since.
even if the courses themselves are not relevant to what you love, you'll find that your attitude and study habits will be pulled upwards by the classes that you DO enjoy. you will want to learn more, you will want to talk to the professor after class, you will want to do your HW, you will want to do all this proactive stuff that magically leads to you actually learning more and thus doing a lot better in your classes.
being successful requires a lot of hard work. don't let the media fool you, with images of people who are just magically good at things, like goodwill hunting. that only happens in the movies, if you spend your time waiting for something like that to happen, you'll be waiting for quite a while. the trick is to have that DRIVE, that force pushing you to do all that hard work. love for a subject can be a much better drive than pure greed, in many cases.
even if you manage to get through and get a degree in some lucrative field that you don't love, you're just going to spend your time doing something you don't enjoy. even if it means you can retire a few years earlier, you have still spent your youth basically suffering. just think about that.
i know it's like a cliche and trite, but goddammit, listen to me. i was a freshman once. a sophomore. i thought i was fairly bright. so why was i getting 2.9's in my classs? or even a 1.5 once? averaging around 3.0 a quarter?
because i was pre-med, and in it for the money. then i took a programming class, and realized that CS was for me... i've been getting like 3.8-4.0 quarters ever since.
even if the courses themselves are not relevant to what you love, you'll find that your attitude and study habits will be pulled upwards by the classes that you DO enjoy. you will want to learn more, you will want to talk to the professor after class, you will want to do your HW, you will want to do all this proactive stuff that magically leads to you actually learning more and thus doing a lot better in your classes.
being successful requires a lot of hard work. don't let the media fool you, with images of people who are just magically good at things, like goodwill hunting. that only happens in the movies, if you spend your time waiting for something like that to happen, you'll be waiting for quite a while. the trick is to have that DRIVE, that force pushing you to do all that hard work. love for a subject can be a much better drive than pure greed, in many cases.
even if you manage to get through and get a degree in some lucrative field that you don't love, you're just going to spend your time doing something you don't enjoy. even if it means you can retire a few years earlier, you have still spent your youth basically suffering. just think about that.
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