<!--QuoteBegin--Dread+Nov 19 2003, 04:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dread @ Nov 19 2003, 04:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's kind of funny to know that I have teh skill and I was doing über good until I was 15 or so. Then, gradually, I just stopped doing my homeworks so often. I didn't care. Luckily I still do fairly well in tests, but I know I could be easily doing better. And yet I can't find the motivation I used to have. Well, meh. I guess it get's all better after I get out of secondary school/sixth form college and in to uni. I just have to hold out this semester and I'm all fine. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> ARGH.
This is <i>exactly</i> what happened to me.
I never EVER EVER got below a 90 in anything but Math up until last year. For a good reason too. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I'm a very book-smart person, I have a good memory for facts. But last year I just... fell off, in pretty much everything but History, because I have a certain love for History. I actually failed two quarters of English and hardly passed the subject.
Then again, I'm completely switching it up this year because I'm loving my schedule so much, it's really about liking what you're doing. I like every single one of my teachers and classes this year and my first quarter report card just came home.
I'm back above a 90 in all my classes besides Math (mental roadblock here). <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
So hopefully you'll be motivated by learning something you really like.
I'm like that....I have no motivation for anything at all. I still do good in school (4.0 gpa) but thats only because of tests...I never do my homework. There is one class that if I do bad in, it affects me for like a week...andthat's math. I am so horrible at math its not even funny, and I'm only in algebra 2. I've never passed a math class with anything higher than a D...thank god my honors classes make up for it.
Stick with it man, find something interresting to you. Some people just don't understand Computer Science, trust me I am a CS major at Georgia Tech, where EVERYONE is required to take the introduction to computer science course and many majors are required to take the second computer science course. You'd be amazed how many very intelligent people struggle through those courses. Find something you want to do. that's what college is for.
As for the procrastination thing, what do you think I'm doing now? I have a debate in Ethics tomorrow. Ethics! ARGH!
In grade 1 it was like: "woh, sweet, yayaya, let us run around and count numbaz wit our hands!" In grade 5 it was like: "whatever, school isn't that bad."
<Insert puberty and skip a few years>
In grade 7-9 it was like: "school sucks dope; fricking relationships and who is hot and not; then your teachers biatches at ya...
High school.... Then next next next......
YADAYADA, get the point?
/ends imature rant /starts new mature rant, hopefully
Take school for as long as twelve years and your stumped; all the motivation that you once had as a child is gone; the only thing keeping you in school is some dark determination-a will that keeps you striving to do the best you can possibly do-and that is linked with something deep inside the mind, and often a quality amongst the well faring.
Mathematics isn't my favorite subject and so I sometimes don't even bother to accomplish any of it, simply because it doesn't spark a plug in the motivation center of my brain. All you got are numbers galore. The more interesting sujbects dig into your mind and you actually accomplish most or some of it. Whatever the whole process behind motivation truly is, we can probably see that it is linked to what our interests are, the environment, and whatever you think may be for you.
You know... the whole motivation thing wasn't really a issue in highschool. In highschool, i took 1 project home, with term papers and all that jazz, i NEVER EVER took one thing home. I had study hall... and half the time i never used it... however i got a 3.82 in highschool.
No i think my problem is that my classes are over a mile away (literally), and the route their is freezing cold and (today at least) is being pelted by icy rain that freezes when it hits the ground. If i could instantly teleport to each of my classes, i wouldn't miss a single one... but that mile hike is just one of the many obsticals to a class i dont even want to go to in the first place.
If i manage to stay in school longer, i am sure to snap out of this funk i am in. The thing that worries me is that is the exact same thing i said to myself last year... and while this year is no where near as bad as last year... it still is not that great. Maybe i am making a slow progression to normal study habits, or a slow progression towards getting worse... which one i will find out in the next year or two.
about the people with social problems - go to a lan
im serious
its a sociable event [kinda <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->] and you can work your way up gradually
as for motivation for schoolworks/doing anything.. its fine once you get started. a few tips:
set a STRICT timetable for all the stuff you need to do. if youre not following it or go over by a slight margin, have alerts. if still not working, have alerts 5 mins before hand as well as at the swap over. if its STILL not working, set up a scheduled task [same way you make alerts] but one that kills all your explorer.exe and other stuff
awesome sig catpoker <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also, No, not everything can be solved by joining the marines!@# Y^FGHSDNG#$@%@#%%#^
:|
i wouldnt reccommend it to anybody. although, ive never been a marine hehehe, i just dont like that sort of stuff. i just dont need it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
No, No, you dont understand, EVERYTHING can be solved by joining the marines!
Especially if you put my name down as the one who recruted you <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<------- Is considering to join the marines...still have a year and half of highschool tho <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
What classes do you have to take to get your CS major? I'm kind of interested in CS...
The great thing about army is that you don't have to stress too much. I mean you can have 0 brain activity and you could still be the best soldier in the whole regiment. They tell you precisely everything you need to do and you can just...do it without thinking.
place for me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
i'm sorry I don't feel like reading through it all to absorb it haha
forgive me it's early morning
Obviously, I have the same problem of staying up for no reason. The thing is, I am doing well and I am determined to do well.
I used to have exactly the same problem as many of yall. I also fuked up majorly. But my attitude has finally turned around. I really do not know how to explain right now, and perhaps how to help you. But let me think of some things.
I relaxed my passions. I became secure. (more so, anyway haha) I now see that my dream that I dreamed is indeed in reach, however long it might take. I have a goal that I am determined to make, that I feel very strongly about, that I think of everyday when it comes to a question of whether or not to go to class and whether or not to do my work.
I do still have problems with certain classes such as writing. That is my own quirk tho, altho many others in the technical fields have it as well. Also, I am nowhere near my dream productivity. The things I used to do, the things I imagine and want to do, I am nowhere near taking advantage of my time and reaching out and learning and doing.
But there is hope. For I will not fail here in college, everything is going smoothly, and there is a high chance that I can achieve my dream, and soon (and which I will not tell you, not yet anyway). Once I pull this off I will be happy beyond belief. Save for the brief highs of childhood play, the brief glimpses of good things, and that one year, I will be happier than I have ever been in my entire life. It gets me high just thinking about it. It doesn't matter that maybe things won't turn out like I hope, once I get there. Just having gotten there is enough. Having achieved; it means, I can do anything.
<i>She said, "I knew then, that I could do anything"..</i>
I might do military, except I don't like the brainless aspect, I want to do Rangers or Special Forces. Also, the multi year committment can't interfere with my other life plans. And, my parents are not the type to encourage running off to the army. It makes sense, as they are fairly practical people and there are no causes for which I see fit to give my life to this country.
The main thing for the Special Forces would be the rush, of being the best, of working together, of operating independently and competently, of success in the mission. I would not care if I died. But I know that my loved ones would suffer, altho I am selfish and would still run off to die. However, my own dreams will have a greater pull.. also, I do not think this country deserves my life. That wouldn't stop me from dying while in the service of its military, but I spit on the concept of treating this nation as if they were my blood brothers. For my teammates it would be different, assuming everything worked out and I actually got into Special Forces.
this afternoon i didnt get out of bed till 5 pm. purely cos i couldnt see the point.. to get moaned at cos i hadnt done something... to get moaned at again cos i wasnt listening.. to get moaned at for w/e i do... meh!
I would have loved to have been in the military, but thier reputation to constantly yelling at recruits really got to me. I would certianly punch someone screaming in my face every day of the week for a month or two... then comes Mr. Court martial and i am in prison for the next 20 years or something.
Also, i went through highschool and college football like nothing, i know i could do the physical aspect, but the real reason i didn't want to go is that i knew i would be singled out. I am 6'8" and am 300 LBS... i could imagine the instructer would decide to make me Gomer pyle or something stupid like that.
If i dont make it through college... i am thinking about going carrer in the army though... i always wanted to be a gunsmith.
I suppose you would need to have pretty good papers(in physics/chemistry/maths mostly) to get to be a gunsmith. Not that I know anything about anything.
Gunsmithing is more along the lines of mechanics and the like... maybe your thinking of weapon development, then you would need all that math.
No, Weapons, drugs, and games seem to be the only thing that brings joy into my life. Strange, if you consider the fact that all those destroy and kill.
On a side note, i plan on going a week without gaming, maybe i will post a journal on how that week goes here on this forum.
I'm going to major in electrical engineering, I hope to work for a contract weapons development company. Thats where the moneys at. Plus it kinda beats walking around in a bunnysuit all day at the Intel/AMD clean rooms.
<!--QuoteBegin--Vulgar Menace+Nov 20 2003, 04:15 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vulgar Menace @ Nov 20 2003, 04:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I plan on doing something that dosent involve killing people. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Nice of you to use such a blanket statement. I suppose we could not research new weapons at all, and then we would still be carpet bombing entire cities into rubble and seeing multi-year million casualty conflicts.
Instead those heartless **** baby seal clubbers in weapons development created precision missiles to minimize non-combatant casualties, the audacity!
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Majin - I have not been driving with insurance because it will cost me 8000 bucks for the year.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What kind of car you got, boy??!?!? JESUS that's high....
<!--QuoteBegin--Dubbilex+Nov 20 2003, 05:32 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dubbilex @ Nov 20 2003, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Majin - I have not been driving with insurance because it will cost me 8000 bucks for the year.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What kind of car you got, boy??!?!? JESUS that's high.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> More like how many accidents have you had, everytime you have an accident it goes up. Stop hitting stuff <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. Mine is about 1200 a year. Lets hope I don't hit anyone <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.
No, you can hit stuff, don't don't report it. I used to hit all kinds of things (well,except other people) such as poles, deer (actually, THEY HIT ME!), gaurd rail at the high school (ICY AND FUN!!), banks, trees, old houses that my friends wated torn down anyway....
Having old beaters that run and aren't worth anything are fun!
Insurance sucks, they raise your premium whenever you file a claim, even if it's not your fault. Such as with a person I knew who parked somewhere and had a brick fall off of an old building onto the windshield and hood of the car. Premium's went up.....
A lot of things go into how they determine your premium, age, gender, car and previous record.
<!--QuoteBegin--Smoke Nova+Nov 19 2003, 09:32 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Smoke Nova @ Nov 19 2003, 09:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> (doesn't remember calling Xzilen a dirty rightest)
Like I said many times before, just find subjects you enjoy! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> errr wrong person.
<!--QuoteBegin--elchinesetourist+Nov 20 2003, 05:56 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (elchinesetourist @ Nov 20 2003, 05:56 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I might do military, except I don't like the brainless aspect, I want to do Rangers or Special Forces. Also, the multi year committment can't interfere with my other life plans. And, my parents are not the type to encourage running off to the army. It makes sense, as they are fairly practical people and there are no causes for which I see fit to give my life to this country.
The main thing for the Special Forces would be the rush, of being the best, of working together, of operating independently and competently, of success in the mission. I would not care if I died. But I know that my loved ones would suffer, altho I am selfish and would still run off to die. However, my own dreams will have a greater pull.. also, I do not think this country deserves my life. That wouldn't stop me from dying while in the service of its military, but I spit on the concept of treating this nation as if they were my blood brothers. For my teammates it would be different, assuming everything worked out and I actually got into Special Forces.
A rather major digression, but hey. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> *Rolls eyes*
Comments
ARGH.
This is <i>exactly</i> what happened to me.
I never EVER EVER got below a 90 in anything but Math up until last year. For a good reason too. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I'm a very book-smart person, I have a good memory for facts. But last year I just... fell off, in pretty much everything but History, because I have a certain love for History. I actually failed two quarters of English and hardly passed the subject.
Then again, I'm completely switching it up this year because I'm loving my schedule so much, it's really about liking what you're doing. I like every single one of my teachers and classes this year and my first quarter report card just came home.
I'm back above a 90 in all my classes besides Math (mental roadblock here). <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
So hopefully you'll be motivated by learning something you really like.
Like I said many times before, just find subjects you enjoy!
As for the procrastination thing, what do you think I'm doing now? I have a debate in Ethics tomorrow. Ethics! ARGH!
-MadCow
In grade 5 it was like: "whatever, school isn't that bad."
<Insert puberty and skip a few years>
In grade 7-9 it was like: "school sucks dope; fricking relationships and who is hot and not; then your teachers biatches at ya...
High school....
Then next
next
next......
YADAYADA, get the point?
/ends imature rant
/starts new mature rant, hopefully
Take school for as long as twelve years and your stumped; all the motivation that you once had as a child is gone; the only thing keeping you in school is some dark determination-a will that keeps you striving to do the best you can possibly do-and that is linked with something deep inside the mind, and often a quality amongst the well faring.
Mathematics isn't my favorite subject and so I sometimes don't even bother to accomplish any of it, simply because it doesn't spark a plug in the motivation center of my brain. All you got are numbers galore. The more interesting sujbects dig into your mind and you actually accomplish most or some of it. Whatever the whole process behind motivation truly is, we can probably see that it is linked to what our interests are, the environment, and whatever you think may be for you.
No i think my problem is that my classes are over a mile away (literally), and the route their is freezing cold and (today at least) is being pelted by icy rain that freezes when it hits the ground. If i could instantly teleport to each of my classes, i wouldn't miss a single one... but that mile hike is just one of the many obsticals to a class i dont even want to go to in the first place.
If i manage to stay in school longer, i am sure to snap out of this funk i am in. The thing that worries me is that is the exact same thing i said to myself last year... and while this year is no where near as bad as last year... it still is not that great. Maybe i am making a slow progression to normal study habits, or a slow progression towards getting worse... which one i will find out in the next year or two.
im serious
its a sociable event [kinda <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->] and you can work your way up gradually
as for motivation for schoolworks/doing anything.. its fine once you get started. a few tips:
set a STRICT timetable for all the stuff you need to do. if youre not following it or go over by a slight margin, have alerts. if still not working, have alerts 5 mins before hand as well as at the swap over. if its STILL not working, set up a scheduled task [same way you make alerts] but one that kills all your explorer.exe and other stuff
that way youll get all your stuff done.
Also, No, not everything can be solved by joining the marines!@# Y^FGHSDNG#$@%@#%%#^
:|
i wouldnt reccommend it to anybody. although, ive never been a marine hehehe, i just dont like that sort of stuff. i just dont need it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Especially if you put my name down as the one who recruted you <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
What classes do you have to take to get your CS major? I'm kind of interested in CS...
place for me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
i'm sorry I don't feel like reading through it all to absorb it haha
forgive me it's early morning
Obviously, I have the same problem of staying up for no reason. The thing is, I am doing well and I am determined to do well.
I used to have exactly the same problem as many of yall. I also fuked up majorly. But my attitude has finally turned around. I really do not know how to explain right now, and perhaps how to help you. But let me think of some things.
I relaxed my passions. I became secure. (more so, anyway haha) I now see that my dream that I dreamed is indeed in reach, however long it might take. I have a goal that I am determined to make, that I feel very strongly about, that I think of everyday when it comes to a question of whether or not to go to class and whether or not to do my work.
I do still have problems with certain classes such as writing. That is my own quirk tho, altho many others in the technical fields have it as well. Also, I am nowhere near my dream productivity. The things I used to do, the things I imagine and want to do, I am nowhere near taking advantage of my time and reaching out and learning and doing.
But there is hope. For I will not fail here in college, everything is going smoothly, and there is a high chance that I can achieve my dream, and soon (and which I will not tell you, not yet anyway). Once I pull this off I will be happy beyond belief. Save for the brief highs of childhood play, the brief glimpses of good things, and that one year, I will be happier than I have ever been in my entire life. It gets me high just thinking about it. It doesn't matter that maybe things won't turn out like I hope, once I get there. Just having gotten there is enough. Having achieved; it means, I can do anything.
<i>She said, "I knew then, that I could do anything"..</i>
The main thing for the Special Forces would be the rush, of being the best, of working together, of operating independently and competently, of success in the mission. I would not care if I died. But I know that my loved ones would suffer, altho I am selfish and would still run off to die. However, my own dreams will have a greater pull.. also, I do not think this country deserves my life. That wouldn't stop me from dying while in the service of its military, but I spit on the concept of treating this nation as if they were my blood brothers. For my teammates it would be different, assuming everything worked out and I actually got into Special Forces.
A rather major digression, but hey.
Also, i went through highschool and college football like nothing, i know i could do the physical aspect, but the real reason i didn't want to go is that i knew i would be singled out. I am 6'8" and am 300 LBS... i could imagine the instructer would decide to make me Gomer pyle or something stupid like that.
If i dont make it through college... i am thinking about going carrer in the army though... i always wanted to be a gunsmith.
No, Weapons, drugs, and games seem to be the only thing that brings joy into my life. Strange, if you consider the fact that all those destroy and kill.
On a side note, i plan on going a week without gaming, maybe i will post a journal on how that week goes here on this forum.
I'm a consistent writer.
I have a girlfriend.
I have a circle of close, devoted friends.
I also never ever ever take anything seriously in life.
Nice of you to use such a blanket statement. I suppose we could not research new weapons at all, and then we would still be carpet bombing entire cities into rubble and seeing multi-year million casualty conflicts.
Instead those heartless **** baby seal clubbers in weapons development created precision missiles to minimize non-combatant casualties, the audacity!
What kind of car you got, boy??!?!? JESUS that's high....
What kind of car you got, boy??!?!? JESUS that's high.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
More like how many accidents have you had, everytime you have an accident it goes up. Stop hitting stuff <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. Mine is about 1200 a year. Lets hope I don't hit anyone <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Having old beaters that run and aren't worth anything are fun!
A lot of things go into how they determine your premium, age, gender, car and previous record.
Like I said many times before, just find subjects you enjoy! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
errr wrong person.
My foots been in my mouth alot lately.
The main thing for the Special Forces would be the rush, of being the best, of working together, of operating independently and competently, of success in the mission. I would not care if I died. But I know that my loved ones would suffer, altho I am selfish and would still run off to die. However, my own dreams will have a greater pull.. also, I do not think this country deserves my life. That wouldn't stop me from dying while in the service of its military, but I spit on the concept of treating this nation as if they were my blood brothers. For my teammates it would be different, assuming everything worked out and I actually got into Special Forces.
A rather major digression, but hey. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
*Rolls eyes*
Yay for Anti-Americanism