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I am in university and I am having a hard time doing my homework, I think I can do it its just that it bores me so much and there is like a force that does not want me to do it. I always felt that it is not good as I dont realy learn anything and just find it plain frustrating, it is just the fact of having to spend so much time on things that do not interest me. Is there anyone with a simular problem?

just open the book, or whatever, in the right place, stare into it for a while, still without the plan of actually working and it should come to you itself. or in other words, just do the first little step and the rest will come.

I meant I just realy dont want to do it like I am avoiding it.

Do you work better under pressure? I've find that I can really do awesomely when the deadline is looming right ahead of me and I HAVE to do it. Also, how much actual, mandatory, turn-it-in-and-get-a-grade sort of work do you have to do, rather than just exercises and reading? There are study techniques by which you don't have to read every word of every page to know enough... even for a test or paper! Especially if your teacher has discussed in class and pointed out the important parts. Busywork is annoying, though. Sorry to hear that your school seems to have a lot of it.

I used to hate homework at school and genrally never did it unless i really had to(like it was coursework or something) and even then sometimes i didn't do it... I also like to work under pressure and usually if I have an assigment I do it like 2 days before its due to be in. That excites me for some reason and then I do it. Though i think that might be dangerous if i get into uni where all the assignments are much more difficult.

Well I at uni and I guess I work better under, but at the moment it is just so full on and it just like doing up heaps of accounting sheets and reports, which take a lot of time.

Yes, there is someone, I have it. I have vacation right now, but in a week I must attend school again. I live in Holland, and we have a different school system, here high school starts at the age of about twelve years old and I've had 4 years. I never did anything. I didn't do anything for school, like homework or finishing projects, whatever, I didn't do it. Except for nagging and angry teachers it worked rather ok for me. I got good grades. Since my third year on high school I know why I won't do a f***k, it is, like you, boredom. It is extremely easy, they teach me things I already know (and much more about that subject too) or that I've already figured out by logics how it works. Last year, it was so extremely easy I almost got depressed. Why should I stay in an ugly building every day without learning anything and dying of boredom? I didn't need any explaining at all.

So I know what you mean Doing things for school just seems so completely useless. Like every year, I'm rather positive and optimistic about the soon to start school year, but I always tend to forget how bad it was last year. Like a class that is nothing but crap etc.

I'm sorry, I know how frustrating it is, but I don't know any advice. I still have to figure it ou by myself, I know I must do all these things for school, but mostly I just can't .

I never did homework... Work at home? I don't take work at home ...

Teachers would give me detention all the time until they no longer could and gave up I win, they should have used another technique to teach me. I hate being taught the same thing over and over, it's like going through your head and then GONE. I need a few minutes and I know practically everything there is to know, then when they continue, it's all gone

Yes. I hated homework, HATED it! I would rarely do any. Home was supposed to be an escape imo from school and work, and those bastards tried to infiltrate it with their Homework crap, I hated it.

And yes, it's like boredom would just set in, I couldn't focus on it, it was just irritating drudgery. So I would rebel and refuse to do it.

Homework should not be required at all. One thing I wanted to make sure of was that I never had a job that would require me to bring it's work into my home after my work day was supposed to be OVER!

Well now a days lots of people work at home, and your work actually sets you assignments to do at home... I sometimes feel like the Borg...

I did too, but my story is rather odd. There was a time when my parents would belittle me and chew me out for doing homework! Basically, they wanted me to voluntarily leave this school I was in to go to the same school my sister was in, so they constantly chewed me regarding everything about my school. They kept at me until I cracked and agreed to quit. They promised me I wouldn't have to do homework all the time at the new school, but it was a lie and they gave homework. I wanted my parents to keep their word and it ended up making them mad at me for not wanting to do homework. I didn't understand why homework was wrong at one school and OK at another.

In 6th grade, I was lax about doing English homework. The teacher wanted us to write all sorts of stories about our families and I didn't want to do that since it would have required interviewing them all. I wasn't happy with my parents because of what happened during the summer, they took my summer vacation away and forced my into the swimming pool 7 days a week when my sister demanded it, instead of just letting me stay in my room by myself and do my own thing in peace. They ruined my summer and I told them this, but they insisted they made it better and I needed to realize that. My parents got called down for a conference about my lack of doing English homework. They thought my problem was too much TV, taking TV, radio, etc., away was their favorite punishment for me, dished out seemingly at random for some vague reason that rarely made sense. I think taking those things away was cruel because they were my only escape from all the crap I had to deal with day in and day out.

I did do homework in later years and in college, but like you, I did often consider it invading my time and my space. I thought once a student leaves school, they are free citizens, and the school has no say in what they do on their own time privately. At least the homework in college seemed relevant, unlike in elementary and high school it usually seemed like they wanted to tie up our evenings with their crap so we couldn't do our own thing.

One thing I didn't have to deal with homework wise were teachers who assign TV shows to watch. My sister had to deal with it a few times when a teacher at one school wanted her to watch a Billy Graham crusade and write about it, and another teacher wanted her to watch the Holocaust miniseries(I'm showing my age here). My parents complained and got her out of watching both of them. Others who've told me their teachers assigned TV shows thought it was strange that whenever that happened, alot of their classmates had broken televisions<grin>. I thought assigning TV shows was so stupid and even more stupid, some teachers I've heard were assigning their students to not watch TV. How can they enforce that?

I only did my homework when it was graded

Prisoner i couldn't imagine what that felt like, I'm glad it was only the school i really had trouble with and not my parents. U feel now a days that the college homework is relivant not like secondary school where they gave you a sheet of questions which went no where in any lessons nor was it in any tests. So yeah i think teachers just wanted you to waste your own time in secondary school.

It was hard, there was no escape. At one time, home was a peaceful place, but once I left the school my parents would yell at me about doing homework in, it all went downhill.

I used to think they weren't trying to teach us but to indoctrinate us to their narrow way of thinking, or trying to control us all the time, which I resented. I used to think assigning TV shows was part of that.

I'm just glad I'm out of school now.

So am I and not just for the teachers...most of the students i wouldn't mind ever seeing again... I find myself feeling positive everytime i go to college because I'm learning something that will get me a job and mone yand let me be creative.

Well actualy I enjoyed certain aspects of Highschool, I had some good teacher, that were actualy interested in the students and tried to teach the reasons behind things not just blurt out a bunch of facts. Though I am not realy good at it I liked english as I got to learn culture like books and see some good movies, one time we had to do an assignment on Buffy, as my teacher was realy into the show and had all the eppisodes. And I could socialise with the geeks there, but now all I get is cold business talk, mostly by people who have no interest in actualy teaching, just geting us to know facts.