<p>Anyone here who doesn't feel like doing their homework? I kind of feel as if college hasn't started yet and it's still the summer. 'Tis bad, pretty bad of a feeling. Senioritis is still lingering one year later. I need some discipline; motivation comes from within. What keeps you motivated to do your work?</p>
<p>My motivation?
Knowing that if I don't keep the grades up I get to start paying the big bucks</p>
<p>i don't feel so bad about the homework but i dont wanna do the readings which are 100 pages like every night. gar. well i'll be up until 2 again reading them fun fun</p>
<p>Well, looking at the shineyness of my IB diploma I spent four years working my butt off for, it motivates me to spend another four years working for another shiney piece of paper. </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Oh and by the time I get my masters, I hope I will have learned how to properly spell "shiney". (You know, without the e...)</p>
<p>Realize you're paying for these classes.</p>
<p>The fact that I had my first orgo test and they're going to keep coming motivates me.</p>
<p>And that you don't have to be in college. High school was full of slackers who didn't do the work and didn't care. You're expected to do the work now, in college, because you worked so hard to get TO college.</p>
<p>I say that if someone wants to skip class and not do homework, then go home, go to community college and treat it like a 2-year extension of high school. If a person isn't ready to be mature and take full responsibility for THEIR academics at least, then they aren't ready for college. I'm not saying that's your approach to college. It seems like you're doing the work, but you reeeeeally don't want to. I understand. I've taken more history notes outside of class in the last two weeks than I did for any class the whole 4 years of high school. I'm still adjusting to the work increase.</p>
<p>The frosh/orientation week at many schools can make college life seem like one big carefree party to newcomers. It ain't. Doing well in college is hard, hard work.</p>
<p>my freshman and sophomore years, I paid every dime for my college with money i had earned working at a full-time job for two years while living/eating at home. Every month I wrote a check for $3,700 and change and mailed it off. Boy did that suck.</p>
<p>But when i'd lie in bed wondering whether to get up for 10AM physics or go back to sleep, i'd realize that every lecture I didn't go to, I might as well take $80-100 down on the street corner and burn it. That made me get dressed in a hurry.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in the same boat as monarchsfan...if I meet a ceratin GPA (a 3.2), college isn't free anymore. I like free college--therefore, I do the work, albeit late at night, but I still do it.</p>
<p>The first 2 weeks are kind of an acclimation period where the students, albeit slowly adapt towards the particular workload they will have to bear in order to obtain satisfactory grades on their work. It's a common feeling, especially for underclassmen (when I go into the study lounges at night, I see all upperclassmen and almost no freshmen).</p>
<p>Even if you're not buying your own education, by skipping class or not doing homework you're still burning money. Except it's not your hundred dollar bill. It's someone else's money that you're turning into confetti. Even worse!
Get a job...it'll teach you the value of money and time.</p>
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Damn straight, and tuition ain't cheap.</p>
<p>I have to keep a 3.5 to keep my scholarship. Without my scholarship I would probably have to go to an in-state public school instead of the out-of-state private art school I'm at.</p>
<p>For me it's not the scholarship I'd be losing. My parents would stop paying their shares (each one pays a portion since they're divorced). I know the kind of sacrifice that's being made, especially by my mom, so I'm not about to go waste their money. Well I'd still be losing a scholarship but it is by no means a substantial one since I'm at my state school</p>