<p>I'm not really sure what happened - back in high school, I used to be extremely motivated and eager to learn (in sum: I got pretty decent grades). Now that I'm here at Michigan, my grades have slowly been slipping at an exponential rate. I understand that of course, college is more demanding and of course, it's "tougher" to get "good" grades. But I literally (and esp. this semester) have no motivation, inspiration or energy left. I've never hated school this much and honestly, I'm so done with it.</p>
<p>I've tried to be more invested in school, but I just have no motivation anymore. I'm not sure why this is happening, am I just too burnt out? But I've taken a reasonable class load every semester and mix-and-matched my classes so that I wouldn't be taking a gazillion tough classes every term. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice to picking my feet up again? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!</p>
<p>Maybe you don’t have a goal for yourself after school? In high school, wanting to go to a great college is enough to motivate people to do well academically, but in college you need to have a goal for yourself once it’s over. People that really want to go into law will work very hard to keep their grades up, for example. Chemical engineers obviously want to become chem engineers, and will put lots of effort into their classes as well since they’re key to their future careers. However, if you don’t see your classes being relevant to your future, it may affect your motivation.
Just my 2cents, maybe this isn’t your reason for being demotivated. If it is, get an idea of what you want to do after school (easier said than done). Take classes that you are both interested in and feel will help you in your future, so there is a point to all that studying. Good luck. :0)</p>
<p>Take classes you’re really interested in = do better, that’s why premed reqs can be annoying because some are only tangentially related to medicine but you still have to take them for admissions. Don’t stop looking through the course guide until you’re completely satisfied with your schedule, it’s about $50 of tuition per hour of lecture for a typical 3-4 credit class.</p>