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I'm having some serious issues studying at home. I spent(wasted)my whole saturday playing bw and chatcrafting for most of the day or just sitting there doing nothing. I seriously don't even know what I did but it sure wasn't anything productive.
The only thing I've "accomplished" this whole weekend is my programming homework.
I even googled "i can't study at home" that's how bad it is. I spent today sleeping till 12:00pm then had to pick up my friend and take him to chess club then had to buy some stuff at walmart, came home it was 2pm. Then I ate while watching bnet attack and played a game of bw and it became around 3:00pm. Surfed the web and took a nap till around 4:00.
Finally attempted to start on my stats homework and look up study materials for my entc class till i finally couldn't focus and wanted to eat+play bw+watch bnet attack again. Then I went to google like I mentioned earlier and read through some of the links. Then I went to teamliquid and searched "can't study" or "can't focus" only to find a thread made by tot)strafe( with some content that was taken out which might've helped me.
So yea it's 6:20pm and I'm about to get the F out this apartment and drive to my school library.
I'm not completely irresponsible either(I don't think). I finished my programming homework but only because the professor did a problem very similar to it and I just had to change some parts of the program. Everytime i'm on bw I feel guilty but when I try to study I end up doing something else like eating or watching bnet attack or surfing the internet or taking a nap cuz the bed is nearby etc.
Even now I just spent like 30 minutes procrastinating writing this blog trying to think of my problems and organize it in a presentable OP.
What do you guys do? Most of yall go to good school's and doing computer science and doctor and stuff so I was hoping to pick up some good study habits. This weekend taught me that studying at home is just not going to work for me. there's too many distractions.
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Don't work where you play, period. You'll be way more productive if you have an office, and if not, use a library/cafe/somewhere public where you're less likely to screw around.
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Getting into a routine about when you do work can be helpful. This varies from person to person but also decide if ikl2's advice is good for you.
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Personally, I find a change of location at a particular time every day the absolute best way to enforce a routine. If I'm still in my apartment at 8.30, I make absolutely certain to leave that moment. No stopping to check my email, do dishes, whatever.
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Unplug your computer
Tell your parents/roommate/whatever to hide it from you
Do homework.
If you need a computer to do homework/study, go to the library or your school's computer lab. Work around their hours.
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something that worked for me was just pushing myself to go to library or make yourself go somewhere away from distractions leaving yourself with nothing to do but study. One of my friends used to have somebody drop him off at library and get picked up like 3 hours later so he had no options but to study. he would even leave his library card at home so he couldn't get on a PC at the library to browse TL or screw around...LOL
And what micronesia said is really helpful too, getting into a routine helps alot, make some nights (or days?) dedicated times for studying. "I will go to library for 2 hours every other night to study etc"
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That's why people go to study at the library.
I got so much more productive once my computer got move out of my room lol
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Same answer from me. I have to go to my university library to study. I don't even bother attempting studying at home anymore (unless I'm ok with maybe getting an hour worth of study out of 14).
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Your problem is actually more common than you think. You are suffering from something called procrastination. If you want to eliminate procrastination, its simple (This doesn't mean its easy). The opposite of procrastination is decision. If you make the decision to do something, you can't possibly procrastinate. People who don't procrastinate make decisions very quickly and change them very slowly. What you are doing is you're making decisions slowly and you're changing them quickly. If you can habitually reverse the equation and make decisions quickly while changing them slowly, you will end your procrastination. Once you get into the habit of making decisions quickly and changing them slowly it will be impossible for you to procrastinate. So sit down for 4-5 minutes and decide what you really want, and then do it. If you change the decision do it slowly.
Also, time cannot be managed, but it should be respected. Time should be respected because its what our life is made of.
Think of a minute.
Only 60 seconds in it.
So forced upon me I can't refuse it.
I didn't seek it and I didn't choose it.
But its up to me to use it.
I'm a suffer if I lose it.
Give account if I abuse it.
Its just a tiny little minute,
But eternity is in it.
Ask yourself, what are you going to do today? See its what you do with your days. But then if you break it down its what you do with each hour, isn't it? If we break that down into 60 minutes its what you do with each minute. Do you know how your looking at this? Why you have such a difficult time with figuring this out? What are you doing? Its the acts. What am I doing? Am I making my life worthwhile? Think about whether or not your acts of today will make the best use out of your day. See, success if a progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Its something that is continuous and never ending. Success is no way discrete. It has no endpoint. When you decide what you want human nature will cause you to never be satisfied, therefore the journey to the attainment of what you truly want never ends.
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My rule of thumb is, if you don't need to turn your computer on to complete it, DON'T.
Still working on the part where you do need the computer T_T
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Same here bro.
I had to get out of the house today to study @ the café with a friend. Btw did u get your new cpu/ sc2 yet? PM me or something.
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You've studied hard before, you can do it again...
Most importantly, don't chat with people online and DO NOT ASK PPL TO HOST MT ;P. Takes up so much time ^^.
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Everyone is different, so I can only tell you what works for me and hope it will help you as well.
Get eight hours of sleep every night, wake up early, eat well, lift weights, go to lectures, do your work, relax. That's my day, in order. For me I've found the more busy I am the more productive I am, and I think this carries over for most people as well. Good luck 
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I got the same problem. Not gonna be helpful when I have uni next week.
How do I plan to alleviate it?
Staying the fuck away from home and spending all my time in the uni library. May even be a lifesaver when I got a huge assignment to hand in.
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You are too close to things that can instantly distract you. When i study my mind tends to wander and when I'm sitting in front of my computer i can instantly think of something funny i can look up and just do it but in a library there are no possibilities. i find i am more capable of studying and doing homework in the library than at home. Problem is I cant eat in the library  .
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Im not sure how old you are, but in my experience school is fucking slack. Im 18 haven't really made anything in school cause i cba rather play the games. Just send in some shit and get a d or c or however your school system works and then do something at the finals
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Hi! I had a problem similar to yours but managed to finish law school with enough GPA for distinction (except I was a little out of the time limit) and get into the Ph.D./SJD programme and then do translation school (post-Master's) in the meantime without giving up on games altogether, even while working (although my dissertation is indeed much delayed by now). So I guess I can give you some hints.
I didn't overstudy. I allowed myself my gaming breaks. I would sometimes study close to the exams rather than studying systematically but only a little bit at a time. When hardcore studying time came up, I would study some 3-4 hours, played from 1-2 to 3-4, depending on how much time I had, then went back studying. I managed to stay on top of it.
You need to get a healthier lifestyle, though, including especially normal human hours of going to bed and getting up (stuff I'm struggling with, myself, and have been for years). Early to bed, early to rise, no caffeine overdose. It works short-term but messes you up long-term. Sleeping in a lot and going to bed near dawn is very exhausting on the organism. It made me need more hours of sleep than otherwise, thus losing time, in addition to making me feel more tired. So I guess it's better to have a healthy day schedule, being stronger and less tired and thus able to set aside more time for gaming, and game more efficiently.
Sometimes drastic measures may be necessary. In my case, it was jumping out of bed on first waking in order to avoid the temptation to switch off the alarm and turn in for another couple of hours. In your case, it may be shutting yourself away from the Internet or your computer. Say, studying in a park (bonus oxygen) or at a library (morale bonus).
Might be good to look into studying techniques, as in how to study more time-efficiently (same way you try to have the same number of buildings and units by a set time mark  ), in order to make room for your hobbies.
And always remember that the game is always there but exams have a deadline, as does homework. At some point you do need to shut the computer and get the book.
Good luck. It's gonna be tough but you can make it.
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Recently finished my infrastructure engineering degree, and here's my story:
I did 95% of studying in my room, in front of my computer. Some of it was unavoidable (can't do Excel spreadsheets on paper) and some of it, admittedly, I just wanted some distraction to keep me amused. What helped me "focus" on getting work done was solid printed papers of my past failures and unattained goals. Reading those on the wall (right beside the monitor) made me shift back into focus.
I had printed sheets of my past academic record (showing massive drop in GPA in my 2nd year of university). I had sheets like "YOUR COMPETITION IS STUDYING" printed. I think I also had a big family picture printed (including my grandparents, cousins, etc.) near the monitor to remind myself that I represent not only myself, but the family as a whole. Seem like drastic measures, but they worked - I improved a little bit in my 3rd year and a lot in my 4th year. This doesn't mean I stopped gaming altogether. I usually had my work done and my time decently managed so that even when I was playing, I wasn't nervous or anything. Well, this doesn't really apply for my thesis because I spent so many all-nighters on that... but that's a different story =P
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Both OpticalShot and tryummm have very good advice.
I am struggling with procrastination too, to the point where thinking about procrastinating so much is making fun things into brainless things that aren't even satisfying.
I really like the idea of a 'failure wall', as some assignments I feel really ashamed for not doing well on. My roommate would think I'm crazy, though.
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