is anyone struggling in college?

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When doing Psychology in the past I got a paper done over the 2 weeks christmas break ready DAY ONE of the Spring semester.

Spring 2011 I pulled an all nighter reading Moby Dick (10:30 AM-2AM)

Fall 2010 Day 1 did a project that wasn't due for a month and was always at least 2 weeks ahead of everyone

Spring 2011 paper assigned Jan (due April) was practically finished by the beggining of Feb.!

Spring 2011 I loved taking a Social Problems course and loved the topic of Sociology

ffwd to Fall 2011 (now)

I'm dead. I have no motivation. 3 weeks in and I've barely touched my school work. I rushed through finishing a paper that was due this Wed. (I'm used to paper due at the end of semester NOT 3 weeks from the first day of classes! I have to take Spanish I HATE THE IDEA OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH A PASSION! IMO you come to America LEARN OUR DAMN LANUGAGE! and while I AM taking an Intro. Sociology and American Family course (both Sociology based) so special interest. I kind of haven't had any passion to do that work either.

Any ideas or tips? Hell I haven't even started on the Spanish work since it seems daunting and overwhelming I HATE THE IDEA of having to learn a foreign language HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!

Foreign languages will teach you about your own language by giving you another perspective on your own language.

Sometimes you have boring classes, or nice classes with work you don't feel like doing. It happens. Probably the best thing to do is to just get started on it. I usually find that if I get started on something, then it won't matter so much that I don't want to do it, because I've already started.

It's like how you jump off a high-dive. You're scared and everything, but you take one foot and put it over the edge. Then you take the other foot and put it over the edge too, and it's too late to worry about whether you're scared because you're already falling.

Most students struggle with motivation at some point (god knows, I do). I don’t think there is any great secret to overcoming it – just starting assignments when you get them and forcing yourself to get the work done.

If you are aspiring to be a researcher, I would think that having foreign language skills (particularly reading skills) would be very advantageous in terms of being able to access the research of non-English speaking scholars.

Check this link out,

ADDitude Mag

It has a lot of good tips for dealing with procrastination, short attention span, try them all see what works best for you.

As far as learning Spanish, do you know in other parts of the world many people know at least three languages if not more, including English?

Of all languages you could be learning right now, you may find having some knowledge of Spanish very handy in the future. There is a very large Spanish speaking population in the USA.

If you still balk at learning it and it is part of your graduation requirement for your degree, settle down and fill the requirement. Drop it as soon as the requirement is met. Done deal.

Since you hate learning foreign languages so much, maybe you could just do some extra math classes and get a BS degree instead.

When I was in college, I didn't find the homework the least bit difficult... which is part of the problem for me. The textbooks were often just wastes of paper, some merely coffee table decoration books such as "the universe and beyond" for their single astronomy class. Their college algebra was high school level algebra I. Until this year they didn't even have calculus or anything beyond "college" algebra. They also cost too much, even if their classes went crappy wastes of time. Not only that, but also my reason for selecting my major was based on the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which has since changed its predictions. So for $2,000 a class and a minimum of two classes per quarter, I considered my college a waste of time and money and effort. Why stick myself to some arbitrary schedule just to rush through textbooks and churn out busywork while paying the college's bills? I rather just study on my own using any textbooks I select myself to determine if they are worth my time and effort.

Only during my last few months when I had to create a computer program and a simple video game in only two months. That;s when I really struggled but I manage to pass those last two classes and graduated with a 3.0

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I have not looked at it yet but the college experience was a total disaster for my son, one semester of community college and he told me later, "nobody talks to me there" and he hasn't gone back since.

At the time I hadn't clued into Aspergers, neither had his High School, but GATE student failing most of his classes senior year? They really didn't care truthfully but that is another story....

I still think he should go back to College but he does emphatically does not.

I will be interested in the results of your study. Good luck.

Great, thanks for the link!