new life career

[_carmi]

i wanna flip burgers for the rest of my life. fuck school i'm so fed up of studying and not even getting good grades. this semester has been shit. total shit.

so on a more positive note, what are your NYE plans?

 

[S O F I]

Yeah, I always wondered what happens to people who study a lot but still don't get good grades. It must suck. A complete mental fuck.

 

[_carmi]

I dunno it started happening this semester. It's like I keep studying but my brain refuses to actually memorize and understand what I am studying. Been like this all semester.

I get another semester like this one and I swear it's a mental breakdown I'll do.

 

[keco52]

First year that I'm staying home since I decided to quit drinking (see concussion thread) not too upset about it. My best friend is in Costa Rica anyway and I don't do anything without my shadow.

 

[vg4030]

You can always toss salads if you don't wanna flip burgers...

 

[vg4030]

Oh.. And the grades thing is sometimes due to stress.. are you in your final year or are you suddenly taking things more seriously for some reason?

 

[Bender]

you are studying psychology, mental breakdowns should be your speciality, maybe you should look for a career in counselling rather than flipping burgers

 

[Jokerman]

C'mon, you won't have to flip burgers. You can also lick stamps. There are many similar career choices to choose from.

 

[masta247]

I used to have it that way last year when I had my procrastination strategy on and I couldn't help it. Other people used to study a lot daily while I was just being lazy doing only these things I really had to. I didn't pay attention to classes as much as I should and we rush really fast with our material here. Not to say much at some point I wasn't able to keep up with some of the hardest courses.
Then before I had to pass them I thought that I was studying a lot and learned close to nothing compared to what I should already know. A whole day of studies seemed really irrelevant - the progress seemed so unimportant that I was depressed. I barely passed everything thanks to studying a lot for 2 months (and I mean really a lot - about 10 hours/day without many pauses). It was terrible.

This semester is entirely different.
I started studying more systematically, paying attention to each lecture and doing everything on time, spending an hour or two/day to repeat it at home and voila! I don't even have to study for my exams more than just repeating the most important things I already wrote down in a small book (about 200 pages of most important things I had to learn for my mid-term exams this semester - while reading I see that I know most things).
Technical studies are a bit different and really they demand your consistency but I guess it'd also work for you if you could really make yourself do so. I still procrastinate before exams but now it's much better because I can since I already know most things.

 

[_carmi]

you are studying psychology, mental breakdowns should be your speciality, maybe you should look for a career in counselling rather than flipping burgers

i am actually thinking about doing counselling psychology instead of psychology per se.

and yeah i am taking school a bit more seriously and see to be getting Ds everywhere. i never ever got a D since i started uni. now i think i am getting 2 out of 4 courses. it's killing me. and it makes me depressed, unmotivated and stressed. not a good combination. anyways two exams left, one monday one tuesday. then i'm done. one's cumulative (18 chapters, what a bitch that teacher) and the other is only the new material (thank god).

but anyways my NYE plans are to go in a hall and get smashed. yeah. and get my friends smashed too cause they aren't the type to get smashed. yep.

 

[yak pac fatal]

i wanna flip burgers for the rest of my life. fuck school i'm so fed up of studying and not even getting good grades. this semester has been shit. total shit.

so on a more positive note, what are your NYE plans?

drug dealin is the way to go

-you make your own time
-tax free
-you get your exercise when the 5-0s chasin you

 

[Duke]

^ lmao

Imagine if options like "Drug dealer" and "serial killer" were present in those career tests.

"Well Jimmy, based on your severe autism and knack for violence, we feel your talents would be best used in a career in strangling Japanese schoolgirls with noodles."

 

[Shadows]

Carmi, i was the same way and had to drop out.

A semester later, i finally went back to school and it had me unmotivated. I wouldn't drop out no matter how bad though.

Keep it up, it will knock it self out.

Until like 3 weeks ago i started learning everything and i just may have saved myself from getting a D in one of my math classes. Tomorrows final should be easy though. Trigonometry is easy to me.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

I dropped the ball with my art history assignments this last semester. Had a text analysis due, wrote it the night before - got a distinction. (second highest grade), wrote my tutorial the night before I presented it - got a distinction. Then I left my essay til the final week, mosty because everytime I looked at it my head would hurt I chose the wrong question totally pissed me off, but managed to write it.. Got a distinction.

Next year I plan to be more organised. I'll most likely have aother lecturer who is known to be a tough grader.

NYE is up in the air.. Possibly going out to a few different spots listening to some friends DJ/sing.. Or a house party. Money is looking worse than bad so we'll see..

 

[Flipmo]

I'm going to Tremblant, rented a suite, there are going to be 6 of us.

As for studying, I should have done that tonight, but got drunk instead.

Oupsy!

 

[Da_Funk]

Yeah, I always wondered what happens to people who study a lot but still don't get good grades. It must suck. A complete mental fuck.

lmao.

I dunno it started happening this semester. It's like I keep studying but my brain refuses to actually memorize and understand what I am studying. Been like this all semester.

I get another semester like this one and I swear it's a mental breakdown I'll do.

That sucks. I don't know how you work during the semester or how you study but try:

changing your study environment

Your studying method

Keeping up with the work throughout the year, and taking time to review what you do each day. I know this is hard as fuck tho if you have an intense course load full of labs and assignments each week .

 

[ArtsyGirl]

I heard if you don't read your notes within 24 hours it becomes alot harder to understand the information..

 

[Rukas]

I found that if I wasnt enjoying life while studying and wasnt enjoying what I was learning I would do poorly.

So whenever Id have a good social life and learn things I liked I did great! But being forced to study crap, which resulted in having to try harder, which resulted in less social life, resulted in grumpiness, which resulted in shitty grades.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

dont give up carmi, keep working hard!!

like shadows said it will knock itself out, so if you keep going you will overcome your difficulties.

always have a positive approach towards it. have you tried making small checklists in order to plan your day out? this way you can work through everything step-by-step and narrow down what you have left to work on.

dont know if you've studied memory (if you havent look at rehearsal techniques and how to encode info into the long-term memory), maybe that could help in future.

p.s. dont overload and good luck.

 

[_carmi]

Carmi, i was the same way and had to drop out.

A semester later, i finally went back to school and it had me unmotivated. I wouldn't drop out no matter how bad though.

Keep it up, it will knock it self out.

Until like 3 weeks ago i started learning everything and i just may have saved myself from getting a D in one of my math classes. Tomorrows final should be easy though. Trigonometry is easy to me.

i'm just soooo tired. i don't feel like going out but i still do. little things like suppers and movies. i force myself to cause lately i haven't been keeping in touch with anyone and i can't blame nobody else than me. i even find keeping friendships a hassle these days. maybe i'm doing a burnout.

but no worries i ain't stopping school. i need to continue. if i take a break i know i won't go back and i don't intend on being a collection agent all my life.