Motivation

[Mittens]

Basically, Im fucking up in school, and pretty bad. I've applied to one Uni and I cant meet the requirements to get in. The best I can hope for is an interview, which might change things, but thats about it.

Other than that, my schoolwork is kinda.. not so good..
I dont have the initiative anymore to do stuff school-related (at the level im at anyway). I need to catch up quite badly to one of my subjects (the last one I need to get a shot at Uni) and the other is a retake that I've already gotten an overall grade in.

In other words, I'm pretty depressed right now, and I need motivation bady to do what I need to do. So any sorta recommendation to get myself motivated would be great.

[Plekto]

Go to the local junior college. Get the AA degree so you *never* have to touch G.E. again and transfer into a good school from there.

Saves tons of money and gets you up a level or two higher than you could get rightout of high school, guaranteed. My sister did this and instead of being stuck at the state college level, she managed to get into a good university after two years at the J.C. And she owes half the money for student loans as well.

[japanat]

This is great advice! My brother did the same, when he was 33, after a fairly poor job of it in high school (he was smart but just hated classes). It also helps reduce the stress of all the applications, etc. Thankfully, what counts most is what you learn, not where you learn it.

[Trump]

Just keep at it. You can either quit now and hate yourself for the rest of your life (or until you decided to try again), or you can spend the extra hour a day to make it work. Really, its just an hour. Watch a little less TV or something, that's all it takes.

[Mastiker]

Ugh, I know what you're going through Mittens. I just... could care less about school at this point... but I think it's cause I'm still at home. My home life is... distracting, to say the least. I just wanna be out on my own at college, but if I don't do good this year, that won't happen XD

[4letterwords]

I knwo EXACTLY what you're going through. I have no motivation to do anything... honestly, most days I wake up and think that it would be better to sit and bed and eventually die than to get up and do something meaningless.

So depressed. :(

[Mastiker]

I'm not depressed about it though, not anymore. No point in being upset about it, I messed up and now I'm dealing with it. I've gotten over the fact that I might not go to college, because I don't need college to live the way I want to.

Especially if I marry rich :innocent: hey, a guy can dream XD

[4letterwords]

I've got the grades, I've got the cash... but I just can't make myself see any importance in it. It's not even that I'm lazy, I just really don't care about anything.

[kilreli]

yeah...im kinda not motivated either...jeez... so many of us. i like it when i can keep busy. when i have free time, its wasted time. :(

[Mittens]

Wow, I had no idea there were peoples as unmotivated as I was, if not more so.
I do truly feel for you all.

[xtine]

This might seem a bit campy, but I find this article on getting motivated a little helpful when I didn't have much motivation at work or in school: http://www.e-articles.info/e/a/title/The-Ten-Part-Mental-Fitness-Program/

[Plekto]

I hear being poor and starving motivates you too...

[Angelyne]

Basically, Im fucking up in school, and pretty bad. I've applied to one Uni and I cant meet the requirements to get in. The best I can hope for is an interview, which might change things, but thats about it.

Other than that, my schoolwork is kinda.. not so good..
I dont have the initiative anymore to do stuff school-related (at the level im at anyway). I need to catch up quite badly to one of my subjects (the last one I need to get a shot at Uni) and the other is a retake that I've already gotten an overall grade in.

In other words, I'm pretty depressed right now, and I need motivation bady to do what I need to do. So any sorta recommendation to get myself motivated would be great.

Take a long hard look at your reasons for wanting to go to Uni. Do you truly want to go there? Or are you going because you feel pressured to, don't know what else to do, etc.?

I ask this because every one of my friends who has felt unmotivated in school later realized that they either 1) didn't feel like they were ready for college or didn't want to be there in the first place or 2) were stuck in some major that they hated. Hell, I've been there myself--I was miserable and not really sure why I was there until I found a subject that I really enjoyed.

xtine's link had some good advice--keep your goals in mind. If you really do want to go to uni, remind yourself of that every time you need to do some work or go to class. And if for some reason you don't get in, don't let that drag you down. You can always start a degree at a different college and later transfer into the one you want.

[Trump]

You can always at least go to a community college. I'm not sure I've ever heard of one of those that refused someone admitance as long as they paid for the classes.

[Plekto]

And, once again, the way it works in the U.S. is that *any* college's AA degree is seen as equivalency for lower division GE at any school(as long as it's a legitimate community college that is - trade schools are a bit iffy).

So you get in and don't have to take history or english or...
And honestly, there's zero difference between lower division ANYTHING taught at a CC/JC versus even the private ones. So why pay the money?

[Baroness]

Just think of your future. Do you want to be wealthy? A success? Or do you want to be a loser on welfare? It's your choice and school can get boring at times but you have to get through it and be a success so you can live your dreams and not be sitting here five years down the road with a dead end job getting minimum wage wishing you were better in school.