How do you stay focused Veeky Forums

It is the same for me, both the porn and Veeky Forums, and I got through most of Med-school (4th year now) and 2 degrees (B.Sc. and M.Sc.). The trick for me was to compartmentalize.
1. I carefully compartmentalize my schedule (to the level of what I want to accomplish every hour) in practical goals
2. I plan time for some fun in evening
3. I use buffer time
4. I block distractions

For instance, during the exam period I generally need to read about 120-130 pages/day to be ready for serious exams (like pathology- 650 pages in 5 days, or microbiology- 550 pages in 4 days). I read at a maximum pace of 15 pages /hour probably (depending on subject), but I plan for 10/hour, and define the study time from 09:00 AM to 00:00 AM (15 hours rather than 12-13). This both allows buffer for distractions at the single hour level (Veeky Forums, staring) and at the daily level (fapping, pooping). I keep reupdating my schedule according to progress. I do all the studying in my apartment, but for especially difficult exams I usually spend some time at my parents' place. I made my room distraction free: I have a place for my phone and TV power cable outside, and I periodically check the phone every hour. I use a chrome extension to block all porn and words related to it, I block sites like facebook and Veeky Forums that prove distractions, and I sometimes have my girlfriend watch over me to make sure I study.
I then spend a focused 1-2 hours doing something fun, before getting read for bed.

During the semester it's obviously not that crazy, but I follow the same principals - defining a clear time for studying, planning it meticulously, making it as distraction free as possible, and planning some time for fun.

It's nice that you can actually control this.

What I do is I go through cycles of

1. Have my desktop put away in the attic under a pile of crap, so I can't access it.
Without a computer I study, read stuff and do all things I should be doing, until

2. I get too lonely/bored and set up my PC again.
Then I waste an ever-increasing fraction of my day on the internet until I realise I'm late on a couple lab reports and out of laundry for the past week.
Then I put away the computer again and go back to 1.

I have a really fucking bad internet addiction issue. It's the result of relative poverty (thus inability to socialize properly) and it's not easy to "just" break out of.

I see, that sounds harsh. Obviously I don't know how it is like for you, but personally when I tried to go completely distraction free back in my first year and packing my laptop, I couldn't last long. I think the key, at least for me, is the compartmentalizing. If I don't have that 1-2 hours at the evening to surf the internet or go out with friends, I won't be able to last. I also check the news all the time, if I completely block my access to news I give up after a couple of hours of studying, but by accepting that I'm probably going to spend maybe 5% of my study and work time on news-distractions, I can plan better.

Don't know if it will work for you, since it sounds like you really need the internet, but I wish you the best of luck anyways.

I throw my internet cable under the table when I want to get some reading done, then any impulse to check some website gets thwarted quickly because I can't bother crabbing under the table to plug it in

off topic, can someone tell me how to decode this picture? I'm unsure how many red/green lines have to be in a row for it to be called a alfa helix/beta sheet

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>having to study instead of deriving all math from ancient egyptian tablets.

(you)

I am serious, retard, I need help and I dont know how to do this

Hey OP
Literally same situation.Word to word.
Except I may have had more damage to my life than yours.

We can't help you because the problem you have is within yourself
You must help yourself

Look at yourself from an external point of view
Imagine you are a different person and you own your real self as a slave
You want yourself to be the best, you want him to work hard and achieve
You beat the shit out of that little bitch when he comes up to you and says he'll study after he's watched another episode of anime or that he doesn't feel like exercising today because it's a bit cold
You make him study before play
You make him clean that room and make that bed because what are people gonna think when they see your slave acting like a lazy sod

Have pride in yourself
strive to be the best you can be for the sake of being the best because yourself is all you've got

Take control of yourself

it's called buying the book and not reading on a screen, which has been proven again and again to be slower and less memorable than a book, dumb fuck.

Exercise more. Jog for 30 minutes before you read. If you won't do this, you're not serious about getting better.

Any other pictures/reading material similar to the picture in your post?

>beat the shit out of that little bitch
Cringe.

>studying on the computer

That's why you're dumb. There's no secret, of course you won't study on the internet, there's more interesting things to do. That's where that meme about, you know, studying in a quite place comes from? No talking in the library?

Study in the library or during a dead zone in your day, such as on the bus or something. No during internet time.

This.

What did you do the MSc in and do you think there will be value in having it after getting your MD?

same, but resulting from a combination of depression/study anxiety.

maybe try using the pomodoro method, it helped me a lot. set a timer (or use an app, these also let you track how much time you spend studying) for however long you want to study for. start with as little as 15 minutes if you have to - i usually do 25 but you can up it if you prefer to work for a longer period, my friend does 45. you work until the timer goes off, and when it does, you take a break for a set amount of time - walk, eat, piss, goof off on the internet. then after that's up, you start studying again. it's surprisingly helpful

but really i just wish i had a friend with the same problems so we could be frank with each other and bitch each other out for getting distracted

I'm doing an MD-PhD , so it is actually a requirement in my country (but no thesis, so it's not too bad). Did mine in microbiology.

How to get safely in the UK tho? Without a prescription.