Do all students feel like this at some point?

lethal_2

apoorstudent wrote:

^haha. bravo for proving them wrong. the human mind is an amazing thingie. here's to hoping that i pass my exams in the 16th/18th. *keeps telling self that it'll be worth it in the end.

PS: good luck to you!!

we both hope the same mate!

me too got an exam on 16th........not looking forward

not forgeting 2/4 in for next friday :eek:

that student life for you......hey?

ames123_2

Hey apoorstudent. Know what you mean about essays and exams! I think most students leave essays to the last minute. I'm in 2nd year and sorry to tell you this but I haven't stopped that habit! As someone else says above I keep saying next semester i'll do better, but I don't!
I've got two essays in for Tuesday, which I have typed everything up for, just need to rearrenge it all, actually go through it and answer the question, add intros and conlusions and reference it.
Got exams Monday, Tuesday and Thursday as well! I haven't done any revision but am gonna do some tomorrow for Monday as I don't know much. I do this all the time, you'd think i'd learn!

haribo27

Hello Im in third year and have found it tough at times I think most people do. I would say that if you can bear it stick with it because at least when you leave you will have better job propects than if you drop out. However, there are loads of people on my course (a teaching degree) who went to uni straight out of school, started all sorts of degrees and hated it, so dropped out and reapplied. I know this probably wasn't particularly helpful, but I think you would find that most students feel like this at some point. Right now, all I want to do is get a job and leave!!!! I even have a chart on my wall and I tick off the days till I graduate - sad(!)

apoorstudent

I think procrastination is hereditory... Procrastination definitely seems to run in my family, anyway.

& ames123: you sound just like me! I said (after doing about 5-minutes of revision for my A level exams) I'd kick this habit in time for uni; but alas, here I am doing it again. I really don't want to spend the next few years in such a frenzy everytime we have a deadline *she says, with an exam on Tuesday that she hasn't done a single bit of preparation for* Downward spiral...

HOWEVER when I was in the computer room yesterday (to print off my work) there were about 70 other students from my course, as well as a queue of 10 people waiting at the door, all rushing to write their essays in time! This made me feel slightly better about having finished mine AND managing to proof read it (a rarity for me) WITH TWO HOURS TO SPARE!! Maybe I'm getting better after all? :P

ames123_2

Haha. I always see people handing in essays at the 5pm deadline like me, rushing to fill in the cover sheet!
I went to the library today and bumped into a friend who is still doing these essays too and I know of some more who are still doing them too.
The amount of time I spend just mindlessy on the internet I should just take half an hour out each day and write a bit of an essay and it would be done in plenty of time, but that's not how it works in our minds!!

slowlyfading

Just seen this now, glad you got your essay done in time! I'm a second year student and I dont know whether I picked the right subject really, I picked it at the time as I am good at it, and didn't know what else to do. I dont feel passionate about it at all, but I dont know what else to do, ya'know? I'd see how you feel at the end of second term, because there is the option of changing degree course. Hang in there
Nicola x

patwa_2

Hi, I know just what you mean. I've been in a rut since September, not good as it's my third year. Did the coursework, would start off in plenty of time, only to find myself staying up 48 hours straight before the hand in date. I handed it in late for three of them, just a day, 10% penalty (monday instead of the friday before), I justified it as using the weekend to 'refine' it and possibly get a better mark with the 10% penalty then if I'd have handed it in without.

Now I have exams starting, first is on Monday, and I will be starting my revision for it later this morning, less than 24 hours. Third year is first marks count, fail the exam, and it's a fail on your certificate even if you resit and get top marks.

I can see things sliding, I acknowledge that, I can and will admit it, but it just seems like I can't do anything to stop it. Can't put my finger on what the problem is.

I swore to myself that I would get in shape, I thought maybe I'd start with the environment. They say if you're surroundings are weary, you'll be too. So it's what I'm doing - I'm re-vamping my room, completely changing it from what it was, hopefully to give myself a new start there.

So I know how you feel, sadly I can't give you any more advice than the loads that's already out there, but I'd say life in general has a lot to do with it. You need something to take your mind off things, and as I've been finding to some limited success lately, you need something to aim for, you need to know there is something or someone that is pushing you to do what you want to do. For me, it's a girl I've had my eye on for some time and whom I've recently got to know a bit better - I tell myself I'm going to pick myself up and get on track for her, that she's watching over my shoulder. Whenever I feel like just sleeping in all day, I hear her voice in my head, guiding me, telling me what to do, telling me about the light at the end of the tunnel. I hear her encouraging me, I hear the promises of what will come once I've got through this day, just one day, one activity at a time. And honestly, I can feel it working to some extent. I can feel myself wanting to please her, to reward that confidence and trust in my ability to do well, to show her something of what I've done. And oK, 95% of this is all imaginary and if she ever reads this post, please tell my mum I love her and all the rest of that before you kill me, but nevertheless it drives me on, which is all I can ask for.

apoorstudent

The amount of time I spend just mindlessy on the internet I should just take half an hour out each day and write a bit of an essay and it would be done in plenty of time, but that's not how it works in our minds!!

^^Ah dear. It's almost laughable... that exact thought crosses my mind as I type this reply. I must get a grip.

Just seen this now, glad you got your essay done in time! I'm a second year student and I dont know whether I picked the right subject really, I picked it at the time as I am good at it, and didn't know what else to do. I dont feel passionate about it at all, but I dont know what else to do, ya'know? I'd see how you feel at the end of second term, because there is the option of changing degree course. Hang in there
Nicola x

^^Thanks It turned out to be not-so bad after all... I think my fear is not being able to reach the minimum word limit. Once I start writing, I usually find that I have more to say than I first realised! & that's the reason I chose my degree. I spent an extra year doing A levels (in stead of an official gap year) just to decide what course I wanted to do... But then ended up doing 'ip-dip' the day before I sent my application off

I handed it in late for three of them, just a day, 10% penalty (monday instead of the friday before)

^^You guys are lucky; if our work isn't handed in then it's an automatic fail for the ENTIRE MODULE. Then in the summer when we resit, any mark we get is capped at 40%.

Oompa_Loompa_2

No, not stupid at all! I reckon it's pretty normal to have "lows" on any course you are doing - you'd be more odd if you were loving every minute of it!! Remember exams and university are not the most important thing in the world, although sometimes it can feel that way.

lethal_2

just think, this time on tueday I will be free and then just coursework for me ................well untill june anyway