Lost interest paritally in my uni course.

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I am a BSc Pharmacology student. I chose it to focus on Psychopharmacology in the third year.

But now I am obsessed about two things: Neuropsychiatry, and Law in the UK. More so about Law right now.

I can spend hours and hours reading about them. I've been reading a book I bought on the Equality Act 2010 when I really should be studying Biochemistry for uni.

Every time I'm not reading about Law, I feel a physical and mental need to read about it.

How do I focus on my uni work and not this? I really need to catch up on Biochemistry.

Redirect yourself. Put all law-related stuff out of your sight, take the Biochemistry book in your hands, and look at it.

It might take an hour for you to open it. Keep looking at it, you will open it eventually.

Thenk, start reading it where you're supposed to read. Taking notes, especially on the computer if handwriting is challenging, should help you focus on the reading.

After a while, you might find yourself drawn into it. If you don't, just look away, take a deep breath, and then try focusing on reading the textbook again.

Also, if you have other things to do for this class (e.g. papers), make a plan for them first. Think what you want to do first, second, third, assign time to them, and work through each thing one by one. Putting a timer for a number of hours you plan to work will help you focus.

Thanks that's really good advice. I will implement it.

Glad you found my advice helpful. I used this strategy whenever I couldn't concentrate on schoolwork and it usually worked for me. I hope it works for you as well.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Curious.

I used to study Palaeobiology... but had an unnatural focus on Behavioural Evolution... I couldn't give a toss less about all the rocks and river flow side of things. I wasn't all that interested in marine life either... I mostly just got obsessed with how behaviours and their motives could be determined by their relative selective pressure, and that sorta stuff.

Of the things you're focusing on... personally, I'd be more interested in the biochem. Frankly the subject of law makes my brain just quit what it is doing and try to avoid even thinking about it at all costs. This is unfortunate... since I now work for a corporate law firm. My entire opinion on law in general is that it shouldn't exist.


Anyway...

Advice....
Keep in mind that the further you go along the University line... the less of your time will be spent learning about subjects that interest you, and the more will be spent trying to ENABLE those opportunities for learning. Everything devolves eventually into red tape, bureaucracy, managing funding and all sorts of crap like that.
That is why I quit after I got my BSc.... I kinda wanted to do the Masters, but after I learnt it was mostly about managing myself and essentially handling all the behind the scenes stuff with only a minimal amount of actually learning new things.... I just up and quit.