I need help.. I need to study - Page 2

On September 21 2010 01:32 eLiE wrote:
i go through the same thing. my parents were gonna withhold my education fund unless i went into nursing before applying to med school, and i absolutely hate it. i feel like i could be learning much more important stuff, it just feels like a huge waste of time (plus it doesn't prepare me for the mcat). i have no motivation to do anything, but i need the good marks for med school so i'm plowing through the shit. these last couple weeks have been hell for getting back into readings (i'm a pc addict as well). what i like to do is really clean my workspace, and just use my laptop for music while i do my work. if it becomes a problem, i have another room with no computer. i find i need a comfortable area that's organized and clean for me to do good work. this year i'm also writing down all my readings so that i can see what i'm doing, and i feel like visually crossing shit out as i do it will add some sort of positive reinforcement and make everything easier.

i think writing down what you need to do would help. and ask for a ban so you can focus, you're spending too much time here when you should be working!

On September 21 2010 01:20 youngminii wrote:
I've always been addicted to the computer. Mostly gaming. I was raised on the internet and my mom did a pretty decent job of keeping it in check, I even had a breakdown over my gaming restrictions when I was about 15 which was probably the lowest moment of my life (how sad is that). Now I'm 18 and she decides to give me more freedom blah blah and I SHOULD be responsible enough not to abuse the freedom and it's not like I want to. But games just take over my life. I already failed the entire first semester of my course because of SC2 beta (was doing so well before I discovered it) and now I'm probably going to fail this semester unless I can get whipped back in shape.

On September 21 2010 04:07 ProHellZerg wrote:
You said you are an Asian; are you a Korean (just wondering since usually some Koreans really get obsessed with Starcraft and Korean parents are VERY strict)?

On September 21 2010 05:04 youngminii wrote:

Fucking hell, at times like this I hate being Korean.

@ Hesmyrr I know I hate life at this very moment

I don't think I have the balls to uninstall my games, to be honest. I dunno, I somehow actually quit gaming in Year 12 to study (well, half of Year 12 anyway, the last half was filled with L4D but I had already gone through the entire Syllabus by myself for 3 out of my 5 subjects when I was hardcore studying) and the only thing that got me through that hell was knowing how free I would be and how I could do whatever I want in Uni.

What a fucking joke, I feel even more trapped than I did in Year 12 except it's even easier to fall off the edge now.

On September 21 2010 02:43 GreyCone wrote:
Let me save you some time and predict your future.

You are going to procrastinate the shit out of this assignment and studying for your test. You are going to fail both of them. You will tell yourself that you are going to study/work harder next time, but you won't. You'll fail this semester and at some point you will need to tell your mom and then you're just going to be more miserable about it. She loves you and will give you another chance, but you'll fuck that up too. This is going to continue to fuck up your life and set you back even though the reality is if you gave a mediocre effort you would get thru just fine.

No logic or good advice from this blog is going to help you because you won't use it. You're fucked and you are going to learn the hard way. You already know what you need to do, but you won't do what's necessary. Sorry bro, but this is the road you'll pave.

On September 21 2010 05:15 sluggaslamoo wrote:
Unfortunately, there are no excuses.

You won't be able to get into a programming job without a degree unless you know all this shit already, which means that you would be getting a credit->distinction average in the course without even studying or going to any lectures, so you may as well do the degree anyway, which is what I did.

On September 21 2010 01:44 SpartiK1S wrote:


rofl, what ghetto college do you go to?

I have the same problem in life, OP. I might be fine during the week, deprived of sc2 though. Then the weekend comes, im staying up till 6 am, waking up at 4pm, and have class 10 am monday. It is a bad feeling, the way I feel is school is getting in the way of what I want to do. I'm pretty hardcore though, and I would actually pursue pro-gaming if I dropped out, but nearly everyone in life says the degree is worth it.

I'm not going to tell you something that makes you want to study, because that would be hipocritical. The system we live in though, games can be a little like drugs nowadays, and you gotta be careful how much the drug creeps into your life.