motivation issue? study buddy?

[hodgepodge16]

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Hey guys,
I don't know what happened to the lounge and I'm not exactly sure where to post this but here goes...

I'm having a really hard time studying in general. Still working on my undergrad. I was wondering if anyone else is in the same situation and maybe we can motivate each other or be study buddies? I'm in southern california by the way, specifically orange county.

Thanks in advance. 🙂

 

[romylove]

Yeah, I've been feeling spectacularly unmotivated this semester. I've had every semester be more than a full load though. Full is 12 credits, I've taken 13-15 every semester for more than a year now. I see why my pre-med friend took a semester off.

I try to balance this with "fun" stuff, like last year I took 2 weeks off between semesters and took a much-needed vacation to go see my friends. That helped me get through summer semester, but I could really use something like that now.

What classes are you taking this semester?

 

[ShindyK2]

The less time u put in means the more others, ie ur competitors, will be ahead of u.

You should only need study buddies for concept based courses like organic chem and physics. Not to sound cocky, but study buddies slow me down in more than one way. It's best if you find the most efficient way of studying possible in the shortest amount of time for those fact based courses, as those are where burnouts occur most consistently.

 

[gh0lee]

At least you guys are not taking ridiculous classes. At one point, I took Ochem 1 w/ lab, Bio 2 w/ lab, Human phys w/ lab and a junior level course.. I've been taking 16-18 credit hours per semester 😱

Maybe a particular exposure to competition as well as talking to professors may give you a heads up. And be involved in a club that shares a lot of similarity with your passion to talk about!

Like the above comment, have a study buddy to share concepts that you don't get, or ideas to approaching in a different may also help answering questions.

 

[hodgepodge16]

At least you guys are not taking ridiculous classes. At one point, I took Ochem 1 w/ lab, Bio 2 w/ lab, Human phys w/ lab and a junior level course.. I've been taking 16-18 credit hours per semester 😱

Maybe a particular exposure to competition as well as talking to professors may give you a heads up. And be involved in a club that shares a lot of similarity with your passion to talk about!

Like the above comment, have a study buddy to share concepts that you don't get, or ideas to approaching in a different may also help answering questions.

Thanks for responding everyone. I am just frustrated I guess. I was kind of depressed for awhile and ended up wasting a lot of time in school. Changed from a science major to a liberal arts major so I could graduate sooner. I am only now realizing that I am not passionate about this major and that I miss taking science classes. I only have three quarters left so it is too late to change majors. I guess I feel stuck. I also live far from my school so I am disconnected from social activities so I don't even have the support system I need right now.

 

[ShindyK2]

Thanks for responding everyone. I am just frustrated I guess. I was kind of depressed for awhile and ended up wasting a lot of time in school. Changed from a science major to a liberal arts major so I could graduate sooner. I am only now realizing that I am not passionate about this major and that I miss taking science classes. I only have three quarters left so it is too late to change majors. I guess I feel stuck. I also live far from my school so I am disconnected from social activities so I don't even have the support system I need right now.

Depression? Simply ignore it. Live far away from parties? Good.

Don't rely on others. Your only motivation should be the satisfaction you will get from outcompeting others with efficiency displayed not by a tutor or anyone else, but by you and yourself only.

Don't worry about your major or graduating or a bachelor's, as many pharmacy schools only care about prerequisites. I am a damn accounting major FFS! Nothing beats a 4.0 of two yrs undergrad, because pharmacy schools want to see your capacity to produce results that can make their schools have better statistics.

And excuse me for being such a sociobiologist

 

[xtsukiyox]

Why can't you change your major - because it will lengthen your degree? In that case, financial issues aside, it seems to me you need to decide whether staying at your undergrad for longer to earn a degree you're interested in will bum you out more or less than taking your liberal arts classes. It might be better to be there longer, be interested in your classes, and earn all As rather than lose interest & drop your GPA. Food for thought.

 

[hodgepodge16]

Why can't you change your major - because it will lengthen your degree? In that case, financial issues aside, it seems to me you need to decide whether staying at your undergrad for longer to earn a degree you're interested in will bum you out more or less than taking your liberal arts classes. It might be better to be there longer, be interested in your classes, and earn all As rather than lose interest & drop your GPA. Food for thought.

yea i can't change my major because of financial issues. shindy is probably right though. i just gotta do it for myself.

 

[ShindyK2]

Uhhhh....
You are taking just the required prerequisites of the pharmacy schools you are looking into right?
Or are you trying to do a bunch of liberal arts courses with chemistry weaved into it?

If Pharmacy is your goal, and liberal arts is your major, no problemo in the first place... ignore the liberal arts associates and just complete your pharmacy prerequisites.


Unless your school has some crazy obligation for you to complete your associates