college, doing homework, lazyiness, ADD?

[Nocturnal]

does anyone else besides me prcrastinate to the very last minute to do their homework? and sometimes not even understand their homework? i am so lazy (so i think) that i sometimes rather go online and refresh web pages than to do my homework or read chapters that i was assigned. is this normal, or is this a case of ADD? if so, i rather not go on medication just so i can do my work.

any else experience this at any point in their life?

 

[Maverick]

dude that was the story of my college life

 

[thawolfman]

dude....i've been playing UT2003 for a good part of the day, and some Madden2003 online earlier...

I've got a book to read(due tmrw) and a paper to write(due thurs) on the book for Sociology, and then I've gotta read a couple chapters in my communications book, so no...you're not alone

Just one more game of UT2003 and i'll pick that book up......

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
dude....i've been playing UT2003 for a good part of the day, and some Madden2003 online earlier...

I've got a book to read(due tmrw) and a paper to write(due thurs) on the book for Sociology, and then I've gotta read a couple chapters in my communications book, so no...you're not alone

Just one more game of UT2003 and i'll pick that book up......

dood, ill like read a part of the book or try to answer some questions that im supposed to answer for my english 100 class, and then ill like just look back and start refreshing threads LOL.

do you plan on finishing your book/write your paper today?

 

[MajesticMoose]

you should be more worried if you don't procrastinate

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: MajesticMoose
you should be more worried if you don't procrastinate

LOL

 

[Nocturnal]

anyways, i wanted to add something, sometimes i dont do the work... well not yet this semester, but... has any of you had this happen to you? where youre up all night playing whatever game it may be and end up falling asleep? or do you guys tweek your way into the wee morning hours and finish up all the homework that was needed to be done?

 

[cliftonite]

I remember at the beginning of freshman year the school put on a little play for us which ended with the following words "Procrastination is like masturbation because in the end you are only screwing yourself"

 

[Darien]

or do you guys tweek your way into the wee morning hours and finish up all the homework that was needed to be done?

Yup yup

 

[FuZoR]

hahaha... you describe me perfectly

right now im supposed to be writing a essay but every few sentences im refreshing sites or channel surfing... sigh i need to break this habit... i should go to a library or something to bad they dont stay open late :-(

 

[Jzero]

I had a problem like yours that mysteriously cropped up my sophomore year. I just flat-out stopped doing work, and I would skip a lot of classes.
The cause was that I had one absolutely horrendous teacher who managed to strip me of my passion for computer science and at the same time depressed me to the point of giving up on all of my classes.
I lucked out in that I can fly by the seat of my pants well enough to get good grades without working...I got an F from this clown, but As and Bs in my other classes.

Don't let this happen to you. Recognize the cause and drop the offending class, or get the help you need to get through it.
Hopefully you go to a big enough school where you can take the class with a different teacher.

I was able to retake the class with a different teacher. I got a B-.
Unfortunately, I had the same teacher for another class. This time, recognizing the danger, I worked extremely hard both to keep my spirits up and to do the work as best I could. I handed in every lab early, I even aced the first of 3. My final lab was 20 printed pages of COMPILED code and he gave me a 20 out of 100. 20! You would think a fully-written and compiled program would be good for AT LEAST half credit.
And so, despite my hard work I got ANOTHER F. I will point out that my lowest grade in ANY CS class before this was B+. I'm not exactly a poor student.

I ended up having to take a takehome test (which I aced, BTW) and they "generously" allowed me to accept a D if I passed it.
And, I was going to have this teacher for ANOTHER class. The dept. chair and dean wouldnt' recognize the teacher as the problem (surprise, surprise), and at the end, I actually had to have my mom call the school (WTF am I, in 5th grade?). Not surprisingly, the runaround suddenly stopped, and I was suddenly pre-approved to take the corresponding class at NJIT, which, I might add, I did minimal work in, and I got an A.

I still think I should have sued the college for the cost of the NJIT course and having to retake the first class I failed.

And people wonder why I'm disillusioned at the higher-education business.

 

[BillGates]

Wow, JZero, that's nuts. Did he do that to everybody or did he have some vendetta against you or something?

 

[StattlichPassat]

Don't worry about it Nocturnal- you really should prioritize your 'to-do' list, and refreshing web pages shouldn't be #1. I'm bad about the exact same stuff you mentioned, but so is the majority of everyone else. It's the college mentality. Professors even go so far as to expect it! Just DON'T LET IT GET OUT OF HAND. Ask yourself, "can I really.. REEEEEALLY afford to skip this class? am I positive I've got this material down pat for the exam tomorrow?". If not, take action. I'm paying pretty dearly now (senior year) for screwing around my freshman, sophomore and junior years. Not partying- computers.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Wow, JZero, that's nuts. Did he do that to everybody or did he have some vendetta against you or something?

100% honest, the dude was a blithering idiot.

I think that what happened is that somebody HAS to fail, so he just kind of fudges the numbers to make a couple people get Fs, and by some random fluke he just happened to target me twice.

Seriously. I don't think the guy has a malicious bone in his body. He's certainly never had anything but nice things to say to me. I didn't protest the first F b/c I knew it was my own fault. When I protested the 2nd one, I had a meeting with him, and he honestly seemed surprised that it was me, as if the face he saw in class seemed to have something of a grasp on the material.......Maybe he remembered that I had failed the other class and figured I wasn't going to learn anything, so I was a logical guy to take the fall.

Some people got As, and most people got Bs and Cs.

Didn't mean to hijack the thread. What I want to say is--Recognize this problem now. Don't allow yourself to become demoralized.

 

[Jfur]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
does anyone else besides me prcrastinate to the very last minute to do their homework? and sometimes not even understand their homework? i am so lazy (so i think) that i sometimes rather go online and refresh web pages than to do my homework or read chapters that i was assigned. is this normal, or is this a case of ADD? if so, i rather not go on medication just so i can do my work.

any else experience this at any point in their life?

It's probably not ADD just a fit of laziness made possible by lack of planning. If you really want to get your work done and still have time for other things, just make a clear calendar of assignment and reading due dates and make sure you spend a set amount of time each day doing that. Unplug your computer if you have to. You'll be able to enjoy your (ample) free time much more once you have that nagging feeling exorcised

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: Jzero
I had a problem like yours that mysteriously cropped up my sophomore year. I just flat-out stopped doing work, and I would skip a lot of classes.
The cause was that I had one absolutely horrendous teacher who managed to strip me of my passion for computer science and at the same time depressed me to the point of giving up on all of my classes.
I lucked out in that I can fly by the seat of my pants well enough to get good grades without working...I got an F from this clown, but As and Bs in my other classes.

Don't let this happen to you. Recognize the cause and drop the offending class, or get the help you need to get through it.
Hopefully you go to a big enough school where you can take the class with a different teacher.

I was able to retake the class with a different teacher. I got a B-.
Unfortunately, I had the same teacher for another class. This time, recognizing the danger, I worked extremely hard both to keep my spirits up and to do the work as best I could. I handed in every lab early, I even aced the first of 3. My final lab was 20 printed pages of COMPILED code and he gave me a 20 out of 100. 20! You would think a fully-written and compiled program would be good for AT LEAST half credit.
And so, despite my hard work I got ANOTHER F. I will point out that my lowest grade in ANY CS class before this was B+. I'm not exactly a poor student.

I ended up having to take a takehome test (which I aced, BTW) and they "generously" allowed me to accept a D if I passed it.
And, I was going to have this teacher for ANOTHER class. The dept. chair and dean wouldnt' recognize the teacher as the problem (surprise, surprise), and at the end, I actually had to have my mom call the school (WTF am I, in 5th grade?). Not surprisingly, the runaround suddenly stopped, and I was suddenly pre-approved to take the corresponding class at NJIT, which, I might add, I did minimal work in, and I got an A.

I still think I should have sued the college for the cost of the NJIT course and having to retake the first class I failed.

And people wonder why I'm disillusioned at the higher-education business.

What school do you go to? RU?

 

[Jzero]

What school do you go to? RU?

TCNJ. Other than this one isolated experience, it's a very good school, though. Don't let this scare you off, if you were thinking of going there

 

[quirky]

ADD is when you have to look around you every 2 minutes and ponder about soemthing else because you cant concentrate on your study