What has been Veeky Forumss college experience like?
I'll start, currently enrolled:
> CS major > started lifting sometime last year > gonna try to take up new hobbies to replace browsing/being at the computer > doing my best to be social but still little to no friends > use planner for everything
i thought all of this would make me do better in school, but im failing another fucking class again, every year it's the same, it has taken me 4 years to complete 2 years worth of classes, these feelings of failure make me want to ditch everything. I really want to graduate but i don't think i can do it, really pondering upon it.
Grayson Martin
Do you:
>Drink frequently? >Use other drugs? >Use hardcore pornography? >Sleep in late regularly or otherwise have no stable sleeping pattern?
If yes to any of those things, stop doing them. The discipline that you will cultivate from abstaining and the physiological benefits will transfer into your work ethic. That's what it took for me to sort myself out. Beating it 3 times a day and drinking every other night really took it's toll. Forcing yourself out of bed at the same time every morning will quickly make a huge difference I assure you.
Julian Powell
oh jesus this thread completely describes me
time for noporn I guess
Anthony Walker
>Drink frequently? no, but i started considering it >Use other drugs? memes, quit smoking like 3 months ago >Use hardcore pornography? like 10 to 30 mins a day of normal porn >Sleep in late regularly or otherwise have no stable sleeping pattern? i go to sleep late cuz my life is so unfulfilling that i don't want to face the next day, which is why im looking for hobbies away from the pc, so i feel more 'fulfilled' (gonna do boxing and draw outside)
part of the reason is cuz this semester i didnt do anything for the first like 5 weeks (i was being a pussy cuz heartbreak) and one of the classes feels too hardcore for me to have a chance now :(
>That's what it took for me to sort myself out. tell me your story, were you in school? Did you make it user?
Jaxon Collins
never failed a class easiest 4 years of my life and now i got a cozy job
Adrian Turner
>gonna do boxing and draw outside guy, don't tell us what you're gonna do and don't rant about why you aren't doing what you know would help you function better. Just function better.
General advice for people: fuck your habits and your porn and your drinking and whatever else; do it or don't who gives a shit but: make sleep a priority. It's probably more important than what you're doing with like 70% of your day right now. Helps gains, helps brains, helps pains, and helps you pass the time for the 40+ years you have left to live.
Jackson Evans
bomp
Thomas Davis
I'm like a month behind in most my classes. Hope I can catch up before it's too late.
Eli Jones
I'm in Uni doing mech eng... Yeah I'm making it.
I've been fucking up pretty solidly for the better part of my 20s. I've been making the same mistakes stuck inside the same cycle the whole time and just getting worse and worse.
It was literally all down to those things that I posted. Sleep has been a big difference as says but changing my other habits and addictions made a huge difference too.
I was essentially flunking out of Uni in my late 20s after already flunking out at 21 and staring a life of utter failure in the face. One day I just kinda snapped. I stopped using hardcore porn, I swore off drinking and smoking and every day since forced myself out of bed at 7am.
After not going to a single lecture or class the entire 2nd semester I was completely fucked for exams. Changing these things fixed that. I went from doing sweet fuck all everyday and feeling terrible about it to quite comfortably studying 5 hours a day for about 8 weeks and absolutely smashing my exams.
I kept telling myself the whole time that I needed the 'right' motivation and how that would change things but the reality is it's never going to be that easy. I just had to sack up and force that change to happen with attrition. Once I set these things out and established them as habit the motivation grew out of nothing.
Mason Hughes
Year 1: Utter disaster, average grade was a C.
Year 2: Actually studying and my first test felt surprisingly easy. We'll see how it turns out.
