About 5 weeks left of school....but I'm out of gas now

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Recently, I have been having problems with school. I'm almost done with my sophmore year, however things have been so nightmarish I know I'm not going back for a while. Only problem is, its not over yet, but I have no more motivation.

It would be....very financially inconvenient.....to just leave now, rather than finish the semester. However, I still got 2 projects due, not to mention exams. However, I can't bring myself to get to work. I wouldn't mind just failing if it weren't for the fact that it could make going back to school when/if I ever do that much harder. Its like I'm stuck between my logic and my baser instinct. Logically, I know I need to suck it up and get through the best I can so I don't screw my permanent record. I just have no more motivation to keep going back to the professors for extra help on understanding the material. I've got a homework assignment downstairs right now I that needs to be done, but I don't even want to take the time to try and understand it. I broke down monday and came home (I go to school locally), but I'm going back tomorrow and I don't think I can face it.....

Oh, do I remember THAT feeling!

As horrible as it feels to go now, see if you can figure a way to do it anyway - it will feel even worse later.

This sounds lame, but just get out a calendar, make a schedule, and follow it. Just tell yourself you are going to have a lousy bunch of weeks, but then it will be OVER.

You have only a few weeks to go, and at the end of it you can give yourself an enormous reward!

Good luck!

That makes me glad, that I never did regular college. My suggestion won't be a very good one, but here it goes. Do the very best that you can. I hope that things turn out, for you.

Eat some beans. That should help!

I almost dropped one class this week... the last week for student-initiated withdrawals.

Instead, I chose to speak with my two instructors (it's taught by them both... kinda weird) and they talked me through it all.
Basically they saw my as a person with a, "All-or-Nothing" attitude towards the class material.
It's an intro to programming class and they said I expect to be able to do too much as this early stage in the game.
Although they both said it would need to be my decision whether to quit or not... they felt I should stay-the-course.

This is exactly how I would get at UAF... behind, discouraged, with lots of self-loathing.
At this point, I would drop classes or just not show up any longer.

Now-a-days, I am trying to recognize the signs this is coming on and working to find ways for me to push beyond the depression.
Today I went back to school and it was better than yesterday or even last week.

I don't know what to tell you in your case... but I really don't want to quit my schooling.

I do know that what helps me most is staying in personal contact with my professors.
I don't use my ADD/HD as a crutch to make them feel sorry for me or to get special favors, but I do try to understand it's impact on my life and work with it.

Hope you can figure out something that will turn out the best results for you.

Is there a counselor at the school that you can see about it? There are probably accomodations that can be made for you. Isn't that the law or something?

Well, I went all yesterday without a big attack of depression. I'm going to try to get through the last leg of school without completely failing, though I just failed a test in my Computer Design class. I know for certain I'm not going to go back to school next semester. As for ever getting a college degree, if I can find happiness without it, then I don't see the point of going back. Right now, I just wanna find a decent job which I don't mind doing, and come back and play video games.

I have gotten lots of help over the past two semesters, but most of these I walk out of feeling I don't understand much more (if anything at all) than when I walked in.

I Don't know, I still don't care, and I'm starting to not even feel depression. Maybe I'm going into emotional shock.

Good for you - it's a good plan to finish this semester as best you can. You can always go back later if you want to.

I ended up getting paid so well that it was not worth my stopping work to finish my degree, so I didn't end up getting my Bachelor's until I was 41 years old.

The best part was that Citicorp, where I worked at the time, paid the rest of my tuition, and when I finished, I got a $20,000 increase and 3 more weeks of vacation. So, even a rough start can have a decent ending.

Best of luck to you!

I'm already sick of college, and I'm not even done with my freshman year yet! I know how you feel. My best friend is too, and he's been considering dropping. Neither of us is motivated. The only thing that keeps me going is the fear of ending up like my dad.

I hope things improve with you soon!

Found out i AM failing comp design class. Strangely I don't care, I just want it to be over. I just hope my GPA doesn't get completely thrashed...

I dunno, I'm in class while typing this, the prof is talking but I'm not even trying to pay attention....sigh...

That's not good!

Good luck for the rest of the year!