does anyone else get bored with college!!!?

Question

what did you or do you do when you become so bored and disengaged with school... what made or makes you continue on... what advice would you give to someone who just didn't want to do it anymore like me... I hate just going to school, its not enough for me I get bored and just tune out, its like I need more than just school or something.... so basically how did you make it through college when you didn't really want to be there?

same thing happened in high school actually... don't remember how i finished it and got into college... i sure wish I did though!

thats what happened to me i left the country and came back uninterested!

Answer 1

It sounds like you hate it...... so why not leave and go find something you love. You only live once.

Answer 2

Oftentimes you feel bored in school because you don't understand something. You should ask yourself if you understand everything you're learning. Having a good dictionary is important, so if you don't understand a word you can look it up. It's extremely important that when you study, you stop and look up words you don't understand before going any further. This is one technique that can keep you engaged in the learning process. It helped me a lot when I felt bored with school.

A couple of other ways to keep from getting bored are to ask yourself if the subject you are studying seems real enough to you. If you're studying cows, but don't know what a cow looks like you likely will zone out. You need to see a picture of a cow or even better to see one in person and even to touch it. This is true with many topics.

Finally, often you become bored because you've skipped a step in the learning process. In math, for example, you need to understand every step in the process of solving an equation. Skip a step and you will be lost and thus bored. The same is true with lots of subjects. You need to know how you get from here to there without skipping any steps.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

I look at like this: You can expect to live to about 80. College is 4 years, roughly 5 percent of your lifetime. Follow me here because here comes the important part: If you don't finish it will make the remaining 72.5 percent ([80-22]/80) SUCK BIG DONKEY NUTS! And it will have been a prison sentence that you gave to yourself that will get increasingly bitter each year. Dude, don't be a sissy, the only alternative is work or being a bum on the streets; chose school so that you can be somone's boss and have a trophy wife or trophy dude for whatever your inclination is.

Answer 4

My son is in your shoes. In fact, I wondered if this was him, except he would never use your moniker!

in my case, I didn't think about being bored in college. I never gave that a consideration. Maybe I'm a robot, but I don't think like that. I just think of it as a job I had to do, one more class to get through. Fortunately, I like to read most things, and I like to learn, so I would draw little maps of the material and how it all fit together to make more sense out of it, rather than just reading the lines of words. I would allow myself enough time to study and then I would go thru my ritual of getting a coke and chips and then it was time to study. I didn't think about escape, I knew that was impossible. So I didnt dwell on how I didn't want to do it. I just got busy. And just plunging right in is really how you get thru. You don't look at the big picture too often, you just take the details as they come and just get thru the next test, until one day you are done, no more tests.

I also didn't take much math. I think that would have been hard for me.

Answer 5

By the time my Jr year came around, I hated it. , .It gave me a rather jaded outlook towards college. First, no one gives a rip what college you went to or what you majored in, all they care is, did you graduate.
I was in so deep, i figured,what the hell . I could put up with another year.
But after that, I almost choked, when telling someone, Yes " xxxx University is a great school, rich in tradition, " and" Abslutely, History is wonderful major..."
I didn't want to deflate somebody's ego or tell them they were wasting their money on anything more than a state college or Univ. And my textbooks on Victorian Poetry went in the trash ages ago.
My daughter majored in Physcial Therapy, which was a great thing to do.
Five interviews in five days, followed by five offers.I did not steer her into Phys therapy, she chose the program on her own. That made it easy, all I had to do was pay for it.

Answer 6

Hi,

Keep focused on your overall goal, perhaps it's to get a good job and make more money, to appease your parents, or your sheer love of learning. I understand what you are going through, I too became quite disinterested my last semester of college when I returned from India and realized there were much bigger prospects out there.

One thing that seemed to help my friends who were going through what you are now experiencing was to take a "fun" class i.e Belly dancing or Kendo. That might just reinvigorate you.

Answer 7

It'll sound trite, but think about all the people in the world who will never have the opportunity to get any kind of education, let alone attend college.

Education is a privilege we should be thankful for. If your course does not capture your interest, maybe take a break then re-enrol in something that suits you better.

Answer 8

I hate school man! I am in summer classes too. The only thing that keeps me going is knowing that I'll get a better paying job after I'm done.

Answer 9

Everyone goes through what your going through. The real question is what do you want to do with your life? Do you really need school? If so just keep going and muscle through it, if not quit.

Answer 10

Just humor them and do it.. the paper (diploma) u get is worth a lot of money!