It could be several things.
one your first semester you took easy classes. the General Ed stuff and this current semester your taking your major courses.
switch from 4-5 days a week courses to 2 days isn't that big a deal as you will have more time to do homework. but if the 3 non school days all your doing is surfing the net then well you'll surely fail.
3rd possibility assuming your starting your major courses. You have no real interest in them. You've told yourself since high school, I'm gonna take this, this and this when you get to college. But now that you are finally there, things seem boring to you. when they are your mind wanders and you can't focus.
all rephrase the last bit, its possible what you always thought you wanted to do, isn't what you really want to do. When you don't have that drive, its always gonna be an up hill battle.
one your first semester you took easy classes. the General Ed stuff and this current semester your taking your major courses.
switch from 4-5 days a week courses to 2 days isn't that big a deal as you will have more time to do homework. but if the 3 non school days all your doing is surfing the net then well you'll surely fail.
3rd possibility assuming your starting your major courses. You have no real interest in them. You've told yourself since high school, I'm gonna take this, this and this when you get to college. But now that you are finally there, things seem boring to you. when they are your mind wanders and you can't focus.
all rephrase the last bit, its possible what you always thought you wanted to do, isn't what you really want to do. When you don't have that drive, its always gonna be an up hill battle.
It's not that its boring.. it's that I just cannot comprehend it. I want to learn it.. But nothing is clicking whatsoever... But it seems to be for everyone else.
KoolAidKid
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Sounds like you're getting overwhelmed for one reason or another. I would try to slow things down a bit in your life. Don't try to fit so much in to your days. Perhaps only take a couple of classes until you feel you can handle a heavier load. Realize, though, that college can be a lot more difficult than high school. Some high schools tend to do a lot of hand-holding. Makes the students feel good when they are there (and benefits the school financially), but when they enter college it can be a rude awakening.
I really wish they would've forced high-school kids to take a national test every year and would be required to pass it in order to go to college.
Nocturnal
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I'm the same way. I take Adderall for adult ADD but it doesn't help tremendously. There are people who can take it and perform overnighters and study what would be to them boring ass material yet I can't do the same. I can't even do it with great material. That's how bad my ADD really is. I wish I had a magic answer for your problem but I don't. All I can offer is my sympathy as I know how it feels.
You might be burn out with school. Depress and feeling lost and don't know what to do with your life. Fine a friend/GF, might stablize you.
GuitarDaddy
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Don't get down on yourself! The transition from HS to your core college classes is a real bitch, it is the hardest time you will face. Many of my friends from HS didn't make it through this period and dropped out. And the one thing I can say about all that dropped out is they lacked confidence in themselves and were too eager to say "I can't do it" "I'm stupid" etc.... etc.... etc..... It's always easier to write yourself off and bail.
I too was an A honor roll student in HS, but my first year (especially second semester) tried to kill me and I barely pulled a C average. This is also when they TRY and make you fail, to "seperate the men from the boys" so to speak. I spent many allnighters studying and would often have to keep going back to the prof over and over until the light came on:light:. But once I adopted the attitude "I can, and will do this" even if it fvcking kills me, things seemed to get much easier. You will be surprized that once you remove failure as an option and make it a matter of pride and remove all negative thoughts, it becomes much easier to concentrate and accomplish your goals. By the end of the four years I had a 3.8gpa overall and graduated deans list and with honors.
You can not, I repeat CAN NOT be successful as long as you allow failure to be an option. You will be constantly bombarding yourself with negative thoughts and distractions. Everytime something gets a little tough your sub-concious will say "I can't do this" and your thoughts will wander to something that makes you happy, or you will turn on the computer and spend three hours mindlessly gaming. You are your biggest enemy and once you realize this and concour your inner fears your well on you way to cruising through college.
This post is a perfect example of creating a negative distraction for yourself, you obviously spent some of your precious time belittling yourself on the internet and making yourself feal like shite when you could have been making progress towards one of your courses. STOP IT!
Man o' man, it's been almost 27 years since I graduated and your post made me remeber the feelings like it was yesterday!
I too was an A honor roll student in HS, but my first year (especially second semester) tried to kill me and I barely pulled a C average. This is also when they TRY and make you fail, to "seperate the men from the boys" so to speak. I spent many allnighters studying and would often have to keep going back to the prof over and over until the light came on:light:. But once I adopted the attitude "I can, and will do this" even if it fvcking kills me, things seemed to get much easier. You will be surprized that once you remove failure as an option and make it a matter of pride and remove all negative thoughts, it becomes much easier to concentrate and accomplish your goals. By the end of the four years I had a 3.8gpa overall and graduated deans list and with honors.
You can not, I repeat CAN NOT be successful as long as you allow failure to be an option. You will be constantly bombarding yourself with negative thoughts and distractions. Everytime something gets a little tough your sub-concious will say "I can't do this" and your thoughts will wander to something that makes you happy, or you will turn on the computer and spend three hours mindlessly gaming. You are your biggest enemy and once you realize this and concour your inner fears your well on you way to cruising through college.
This post is a perfect example of creating a negative distraction for yourself, you obviously spent some of your precious time belittling yourself on the internet and making yourself feal like shite when you could have been making progress towards one of your courses. STOP IT!
Man o' man, it's been almost 27 years since I graduated and your post made me remeber the feelings like it was yesterday!
ThePresence
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I would really advise that you speak to therapist. I suspect there are deeper issues here. There's no shame in it.
maybe your high school was super easy? how many AP classes did you take?
What college do you go to?
What college do you go to?
maybe your brain isn't made for CS? first 2 years is about figuring out what you're good at and what you will enjoy and striking a balance.
oh, and don't forget to drink, try drugs, and get laid by as many women as possible.
Jeff7
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1) Get enough sleep. If I get less than 7hrs, I start to seriously slow down and get a bit stupid. Simple things like multiplying single digits in my head becomes quite difficult and requires a lot of focus.
2) The homework may take awhile. Some of my weekly assignments take more than 8hrs to do. In my opinion, high school didn't really require any brainpower. It was mostly mindless memorization without requiring understanding. College may be different - you can memorize everything you want, but if you don't know how to apply it proficiently, you'll be screwed on the tests. And just doing the homework may not be enough - if you can do the homework with your notes handy, then you'll get credit for the work, and a bit of practice. But you should also try some of the homework without your notes; make sure that you really know what you're doing.
Concerning your computer, maybe you can save a bit of time by relying more on your laptop, and leaving your PC in one place.
I too was a nearly straight-A student (until 11th or 12th grade, when I kind of started a downfall, lost a lot of motivation to do much of anything) without really trying all that hard. The worst part about the assignments was writing (writing just hurts my hands) or the time taken. They didn't really engage my mind though. It was just along for the ride.
College: It's still a lot of memorization, LOTS of memorization, but with a bit more application. No more standardized tests, so I don't have that wonderful crutch anymore. Standardized tests were great for me, especially vocabulary tests. I hardly remembered the definitions, but I remembered the phrasing. Most of the tests were matching or multiple choice, too, so I never really needed to learn the material.
In college, there's still a hell of a lot of crap to be memorized, but there's also procedures. In my Product Design class, we're doing spur gear design. It's a very lengthy process that isn't especially difficult. It amounts to reading simple charts and plugging numbers into basic algebraic equations, over and over and over again. About 5 pages later, you've got the size of your gears, stresses on the teeth, and some idea of what material and grade of gear and pinion to use. It's tedious as hell, but not especially difficult. But I still need to know how to do it reasonably quickly and accurately to get by on the tests.
In college I've got a 3.55GPA (cumulative) right now, courtesy of a few lower-level classes that I already got a taste of in high school. This semester is not so kind - it's mostly stuff that I have never seen before. And I just am finding myself less and less motivated to continue, so I devote less time to the homework. Right now I'm looking at a C average this semester, and the possibility of losing one of my grants.
College can be challenging, but I'm finding that the biggest (only?) challenge thus far is motivating myself to devote adequate time to schoolwork.
2) The homework may take awhile. Some of my weekly assignments take more than 8hrs to do. In my opinion, high school didn't really require any brainpower. It was mostly mindless memorization without requiring understanding. College may be different - you can memorize everything you want, but if you don't know how to apply it proficiently, you'll be screwed on the tests. And just doing the homework may not be enough - if you can do the homework with your notes handy, then you'll get credit for the work, and a bit of practice. But you should also try some of the homework without your notes; make sure that you really know what you're doing.
Concerning your computer, maybe you can save a bit of time by relying more on your laptop, and leaving your PC in one place.
I too was a nearly straight-A student (until 11th or 12th grade, when I kind of started a downfall, lost a lot of motivation to do much of anything) without really trying all that hard. The worst part about the assignments was writing (writing just hurts my hands) or the time taken. They didn't really engage my mind though. It was just along for the ride.
College: It's still a lot of memorization, LOTS of memorization, but with a bit more application. No more standardized tests, so I don't have that wonderful crutch anymore. Standardized tests were great for me, especially vocabulary tests. I hardly remembered the definitions, but I remembered the phrasing. Most of the tests were matching or multiple choice, too, so I never really needed to learn the material.
In college, there's still a hell of a lot of crap to be memorized, but there's also procedures. In my Product Design class, we're doing spur gear design. It's a very lengthy process that isn't especially difficult. It amounts to reading simple charts and plugging numbers into basic algebraic equations, over and over and over again. About 5 pages later, you've got the size of your gears, stresses on the teeth, and some idea of what material and grade of gear and pinion to use. It's tedious as hell, but not especially difficult. But I still need to know how to do it reasonably quickly and accurately to get by on the tests.
In college I've got a 3.55GPA (cumulative) right now, courtesy of a few lower-level classes that I already got a taste of in high school. This semester is not so kind - it's mostly stuff that I have never seen before. And I just am finding myself less and less motivated to continue, so I devote less time to the homework. Right now I'm looking at a C average this semester, and the possibility of losing one of my grants.
College can be challenging, but I'm finding that the biggest (only?) challenge thus far is motivating myself to devote adequate time to schoolwork.
Saint Nick
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Get enough sleep. Don't have too much on your plate. At one point I was selling only four things online and it was a hassle because I had to drive to the post office, had to pack stuff... that all takes time. Put school first, your job second, then your family and friends.
There's nothing wrong with you, you just have a lot on your plate and you need to slow down.
There's nothing wrong with you, you just have a lot on your plate and you need to slow down.
You might have a stroke!
Cmon OP you're overanalyzing this. Maybe you're just tired or something. Or sick. I can't think clearly at all when I'm like that either. I found out the bulk majority of my problem was just a freaking sinus infection.
Given the way you wrote your original post you sound depressed, low self esteem etc. Take a nap, make yourself feel good and ease up your work load somehow or get a plan. That's what helps me when I feel like that, and I have a lot lately.
I'm going to go with; your highschool difficulty level was a joke and you're not ready for college yet.
Take one year off, then go back and do it.
Take one year off, then go back and do it.
Exactly what I went through my first year. I can't say you definately don't have ADD, but from your history, sounds like you're just trying to crock up an excuse to pull you away from the real problem. My first semester, was expecting too much and wasn't responsible enough to check on damn schedules. Second term, almost flunked out from skipping about 7/8 of my classes, not keeping up and being addicted to Wow didn't help.
My problem was the hand holding in HS with homework, the very forgiving, slow pace and forced attendance(missed a total of zero . Got to college, someone else was paying my tuition so I just slacked to no end. After barely flunking, felt the same as you: tired of 14 years of school, wasn;t ready for college, wanted to take a year off, bla bla bla. Best thing I ever did was repeating a course that semester, came back tired, but kicking. Now almost done third year. Still, I am tired as hell of school and can't wait to leave, but do still want to finish.
So, if you must, take the year off and figure out what you want to do. If you can't do the work, get help or try harder. I can't do anything they teach me right now, but give it a couple hours, everything comes together perfectly.
My problem was the hand holding in HS with homework, the very forgiving, slow pace and forced attendance(missed a total of zero . Got to college, someone else was paying my tuition so I just slacked to no end. After barely flunking, felt the same as you: tired of 14 years of school, wasn;t ready for college, wanted to take a year off, bla bla bla. Best thing I ever did was repeating a course that semester, came back tired, but kicking. Now almost done third year. Still, I am tired as hell of school and can't wait to leave, but do still want to finish.
So, if you must, take the year off and figure out what you want to do. If you can't do the work, get help or try harder. I can't do anything they teach me right now, but give it a couple hours, everything comes together perfectly.
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