Did people consider you unmotivated in HS/College?

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Really quick, I just wanted to know if people considered you unmotivated in HS/College?

Yes, because I took subjects purely for my own amusement and not as part of any career plan.

They considered me "unmotivated to behave" in high school.

By the time I went to college, I was too old for anybody to care how "motivated" I am.

Throughout my K-12 education all the other kids thought I was pretty motivated simply because I seemed 'smart' to them. However both the teachers and I knew the truth, that was, I acted as if I couldn't care less for most of my schooling. It's pretty hard to care about school work when you have so many other troubles, to be honest.

Parents did and some teachers. Friends never really talked about it. Classmates were always surprised at how I could miss most of a week of school, come back on test day and score well on it. I was unmotivated though. It's why I settled on an associates degree in a subject that was easy for me. I still am, and it's probably my biggest struggle in life.

Yes. And for the reasons stated above, pretty much all of them.

Yes to high school, no to college.

I like choosing what I study. When it's my choice, I like school... I guess that's why I'm still in school in my late 20's lol @_@ I'm working on a higher degree; I graduated college.

Also... [steps onto soapbox] I think the American educational system is a bit disjointed in what it rearwards at different age levels. When we are young, the tasks we are given to do are simple, but non-creative, and are more about meeting "benchmarks" of neurotypical child development (ex: sit in your seat, stay asleep at nap-time, raise your hand, speak politely, memorize the alphabet, say the pledge of allegiance along with your classmates, write like everyone else, read like everyone else, do pointless math problems like everyone else, etc.). Meanwhile, as adults, we get rewarded for being creative, thinking outside of the box, and having a personality that makes you "stand out." I'm the same as I've always been, loud, curious, imaginative, and in my own word doing my own thing. I got terrible grades for this behavior as a kid, but by doing the EXACT same thing, I excelled in college and have since gone beyond to start down the road to becoming a college professor. I'm not some savant either, I just had barely enough ability to get through the first 12 years of misdirected assessments to make it to that point. [/steps down from soapbox]

...sorry 'bout the length of that.

I don't think they didn't consider me unmotivated, I was too high achieving for that. But I was highly unmotivated, I'm just good a academics.

It's hard to be motivated when the curriculum is bloody awful.

I'm very sincere in saying that I learned next to NOTHING in highschool. So many classes.... all useless. I'm not going to learn about something that I have zero interest in. All that gibberish about history and literature? History is bloody boring to me; I've forgotten all of it. And literature... I already read a bazillion books; I'll decide which ones and when, thanks. I dont need to learn about deep specifics of any of that. And as for math, well... they always said it would be necessary. For everyone. Even as someone that is a major computer user that's familiar with programming, I can say.... they were dead wrong.

And then there was COLLEGE. Uuuuugh. Associate's in computer science, which is pretty useless, but worse was the classes leading to it. Hyper expensive, but again.... I learned nothing. They either covered crap I had no conceivable use for (HTML? ....really?) or covered crap that I not only already knew, but had found EASY to learn ON MY OWN.

Just... bah. Whole education system is terrible. It was impossible to have anything resembling motivation towards it.

EDIT: This site is SUCH A FREAKING GLITCHBOMB. I love the part where I go to post and it tells me that a new post, the one I am in fact posting, was placed just now, and that I should read over it before posting. Just.... uuuuugh.

I never considered that myself, HS, and motivation in the same sentence but here it is.

No, HS is goddamned useless. I learned nothing there other than people testing my patience. As for the curriculum? Nothing.

And college? I'm partially motivated because I want to learn things, and discover them on my own later if I choose to. College went casual for me but at least I get to use the things I learned from those times. I only went for a 2 year course, because of financial problems. Even it's possible for my recently-graduated from school's system for me to extend the said course to 5 years yet I have no choice.
At least I got a diploma as a *hahah!* proof. I can learn things beyond that level on my own.

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I was generally considered motivated as i was still being stigmatized for being "different". But in subjects i had trouble in (such as literature or physics) i was called unmotivated.

On the last day of my "government" class during my senior year, the teacher (who had taught world history in ninth grade) told me that he knew I was smart enough, but he had seriously doubted whether I would get enough work done to graduate. I think he bumped my grade a little, though. That was the general story with most of my teachers starting around third grade.
I'm making plans to start college again, hopefully now that I've had a few years to play around, it'll be easier to actually WANT to pay attention. lol

I was unmotivated in high school, because a lot of the subjects were very boring and didn't interest me. My main drive to finish a class with a passing grade was so that I never would have to go through that class again.

i have always found learning interesting, so i was a decent student. i'm a slow reader, though, so didn't always read the texts. did well by taking good class notes and studying them.

I was considered a bad student in high school. I managed to graduate by passing my final exams. Though now that I'm in community college I'm actually trying and succeeding.