Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!
My assessment is that you’re frustrated with your poor academic performance, and mistakenly think that you can only correct the situation by sacrificing what you love most about college life (ie. Partying, chicas, etc.). You have decided to think outside the box, and have come up with outlandish excuses as to why your academic failures are inconsequential and excusable.
My advice is to stick with school, and forget about engineering, because it seems you’re only studying the subject to appease your parents. Choose and study a subject area you enjoy, and live the phrase: STUDY hard, play hard. Lastly, for heaven’s sake, stop belittling your life accomplishments and overplaying your shortcomings, and don’t worry about the events in the future you have little or no control over….CARPE DIEM
This is epic. I feel so proud of myself right
now....
I ended up continuing into second year at the same school without a break,
started dating my best friend and by the end of second year I had narrowed in
on a major. I worked and went to school part time for second and third year,
taking key courses and bumping up my GPA to get into the program. I am now in
my sixth and final year, taking three courses a semester, and absolutely love
my program, the people in it, and the great job prospects!
After seeing this post I am very grateful I didn't major in an arts degree
because In reality I have no interest in that stuff, it was just a short phase.
I am grateful I didn't go ski bum it for a year because I would have missed out
on all the amazing experiences and people I have met to date.
Life definitely never gets easier but it is pretty awesome right now. Some
tough personal and career decisions to make in the coming months and years.
Who would have thought the kid gambling online, drinking and getting high all
the time, and failing/dropping half his courses would be applying for graduate
programs across the continent, work with some of the brightest people in the
field, and make friends with so many amazing people.
Not this guy that's for sure. This post (4 years and 7 months ago) seems a
world away from my situation right now. It is astonishing the change you can
make in your life in such short time.
It is also pretty cool/scary how the internet has a trail of you, forever.
P.S. I had dinner with a man last night worth 200 million dollars, my sister is
marrying into his family. Just a claim, I am hoping he lets me drive one if his
cars some day.
Anyways how cool is newschoolers. I can dig up this thread, read through all
the great advice and see how far I have come.
Cheers to ladies men for keeping it real and dishing out some solid advice....
can't remember if I listened to any of it but here I am and the support and
understanding sure felt great!
Life is amazing.
I'm sure many of you have similar stories. Where did you all end up so far?
TheBigAppleThank you everyone, I guess I really should follow my dreams, and my gut.
You can't connect the dots looking forward, you just have to trust yourself and then looking back, you will be able to connect each life changing event into one incredible series that lead you to where you are at that moment.
That being said, it is best to take it one step at a time, which is what you guys are saying, and so that is what I shall do, one step at a time.
The short term plan, haul ass for the last month so I can at least keep it above 500 (pass more than half my courses), and then work for a few months, save some money, move to B.C. and live there indefinitely exploring nature, and skiing. It just seems so scary to leave it all behind.
TheBigAppleI never did move to B.C. I stuck it out and did a 6 year undergraduate degree. I ended up finding a program I liked, started getting A's instead of C's, dated a lovely girl for a while. Currently going to graduate school in a professional program, have published a couple research papers and make a boatload of money now as I also have a job.
Life is so simple. Be your best to yourself and to others, and have as much fun as possible! Started back country skiing finally and realize that living for the weekends isn't all that bad! Plus there is plenty of time in the evenings to pursue other activities. I can still explore nature and ski plenty enough for my aging body to get its fix.
TheBigAppleHaha i didn't realized I had already bumped this two years ago. Just needed a pick me up... move along...
triebbyWell, first off on the topic of school, it is not for everyone. Obviously it depends on what you want to do with your life, and for better or for worse YOU are the only one who can make that choice because you know yourself, your ambitions, your goals, and your passions better than anyone else. So maybe you take a little time off from school to re-evaluate things and look at what you really want to do (because at the end if the day you need to bring in money but you also need to love what you do) and then go do it. Living on your own, independent from a college for example, can be difficult for someone recently out of highschool, but it can help you more clearly discover who you are and what you would like to do in your life's future as well as teaching many valuable lessons along the way. You might not think you are ready, but I am willing to bet you are. That doesn't mean that it won't be difficult, or scary, or intimidating, but i am sure you are capable if you believe you are and if you want it bad enough.
The bottom line is at the end of the day the choice needs to be yours, not your moms, not your dads, not your friends but yours. And you can choose to tough it out going through a shitty program just to get to a well paying job that you don't really like and then live for the weekends, or, you can find something that you love to do, whether it pays 40,000 a year or 240,000 a year, if it requires a degree or doesn't require a degree. I know that for me personally I would rather make enough money to live a modest life style and love what I am doing than make bank but loath going to work every day.
As for the whole philisophical thing as far as "What is the point? We are all gonna die sometime." well, what if everyone took that same approach? Nothing would get done in this world. Henry Ford wouldn't have started a mighty car company, Michael Jordan wouldn't be the greatest basketball player in the world, hell we would probably all still be living in caves if we had no ambition.
The fact is, we have all been given the gift and opportunity of life, It is a limited amount of time that we have on this Earth and in this world, infact we do not know how limited, and it only makes sense to use our time to the best of our ability. Sure you can sit around, watch tv, get high, get wasted, go party, but at the end of the day is that really what you want your life to be about (by "you" I mean the general mass, but it could be you as well)? I think we have a great opportunity to live full, healthy, productive lives and to not do so, would be to squander a great opportunity. Sure you are gonna die sometime, but others will live on, for how long only God knows. But why not go out, seek your passions, do what you love, and try to make a positive impact on the world? I am willing to bet that you make some good friends, achieve some great things, and have a damn good time doing it.
And, the final thought, as far as getting behind in school and being years begind your friends, it all dpends on how you look at it. If you are going to school for something you really have a passion for and really want a career in, then I am pretty sure you will mkae it through school. Sure you might not like it at the time, but if you have high goals, it is gonna take some hard work, doing some things you don't want to do, and some perseverance to reach those goals. No one said it would come easy, but if you want it bad enough then you can get it. And once you get out of school (if that is the path you take), then you will be ready to go to seek out that job/career you are so stoked on. In some repects you may actually be ahead of your friends because you are fresh out of school knowing exactly what you want to go do and being excited to do it.
So that is my advice post of the day, actually probably the month or maybe the year, but I feel, at least I hope, I did a decent job in trying to help you out.
BuglerDude. Don't be depressed, You would fit in PERFECT with the Philosophy majors!