<p>What keeps you from burning out and thinking school is really lame and you're just wasting your time?</p>
<p>I'm supposed to be studying like 18 hours a week or so and I only study maybe 10 mins.</p>
<p>The “for every 1 hour in class, study 3 hours” isn’t necessarrily true for every student, and depends on a lot of things. You aren’t “supposed” to study any certain amount of time. Study however much you need to. Good motivation: “oh **** I have an exam tomorrow”.</p>
<p>Every few days, I lock myself up in a study room at the library and don’t let myself leave for a few hours. Bring all your textbooks, notes, and whatever else you need to study, and then there’s no option other than to keep going.</p>
<p>I am motivated because I don’t want to fail and get kicked out of school. Because then I am screwed for life.</p>
<p>Simple as that.</p>
<p>What I do to keep myself on track is write down what I need to do, per day, per hour and FOLLOW IT. I study an hour a day starting a week before the actual test so I’m not stuck with all the material the day of the test because I want to avoid all nighters. I start papers a week before they are due if the teacher tells us the assignment. Therefore I can’t slack off and not do anything because I can see it piling up, on paper, right in front of me. </p>
<p>Sounds really nerdy and stuff but I get my crap done and still have time to spend hours online shopping for clothes I’ll never buy, watch at least 7 tv shows a week, read at least a chapter a day in non-school related books, hang out with my friends until 2 am, participate in clubs that will be useless for grad school admissions and get at least 6 hours of sleep per night. : )</p>
<p>I get myself motivated by saying if I get xy or z done by this time I can watch TV or go hang out with my friends. I also think about the fact that I need to do well or I won’t succeed and get my dream job.</p>
<p>I study 30 hours a week. I am just responsible I guess and therefore self-motivated. I have ADD as well as an additional learning disability so I am not accustomed to doing well without trying. It’s calling growing up and getting what you have to do done whether you like it or not.</p>
<p>Tis not easy for me to read.sometimes i study cuz of this strong unidentifiable will to do so.</p>
<p>Why do I have a 3.5+ GPA all of my semesters? </p>
<p>You need to vision yourself about a decade from now. Where you want to be, who you’ll be in relationships with, what you’ll be living in/driving.</p>
<p>And then you need to construct a path to lead to it. And good grades are part of that path. </p>
<p>As for me, I wouldn’t mind roughly a 2 million dollar Mediterranean style villa in a tropical climate (south florida, california, etc) with a BMW M6 on the french stone driveway. A trophy wife and a few female associates wouldnt be bad either. This among many other things.</p>
<p>And for those of you who think I’m a dreamer, go ahead, think that. Because I know what I want and how to get it.</p>
<p>I also have my long term goals/dreams similar to BMW. I also look forward to more near future events to keep me motivated like a hky/soccer game or going to the gym or I think about how awesome it will be after I finish my work on Friday and go out for drinks and meet a truck load of hot girls.</p>
<p>I haven’t started classes yet but my motivation will be tha money… Plus my school has a Co-op internship program, so if I can keep my grades high I’ll be able to make 35-45k before I even graduate, yay</p>
<p>I schedule my studying. If you sit around all day waiting for ‘motivation’ to strike, you’ll be sitting for a long damn time. However, if you look at your calendar and you always study for your bio tests Fridays at lunch, then guess what you’ll probably be doing? Make it a habit, not something you do when you’re feeling inspired.</p>
<p>Competition motivates me a lot when it comes to graduate school work (I just started). The Asian communities (no prejudice intended, please! you’re nice most of the time, specially japanese girls) stick to themselves and have the ability to renounce social pleasures for the sake of reading an extra paper or coming up with an extra problem to the next meeting. Therefore, I motivate myself to compete against them with no extra nationality-affinity support or whatsoever. Most of time while undergraduate it worked out, and I love how it feels to be an overachiever when you’re not supposed (on basis of my Italian origin) to care about “beating up” competition or skipping a pizza and wine night for the sake of that extra 0.005 GPA-worth optional essay. No “dolce vita” here.</p>
<p>Knowing that I need to have a relatively high GPA to have a shot at good business schools because I’m coming from a lesser-prestige school motivates me.</p>
<p>I like to say my motivation is intrinsic, but fear of failure plays a large part. </p>
<p>I failed a quiz the second week. It was a horrible feeling. I can drop that one grade, but I’m absolutely determined to do all in my power to prevent that from happening ever again. I’m not used to studying traditionally so it has been a challenge, but failure is not an option, so I just have to bite the bullet.</p>
<p>There’s also a lot riding on my grades, so I need to be on top of the game all the time. GPA slips –> no scholarships –> no school –> career dreams crushed –> lost in life.</p>
<p>And just to counter everything, I do enjoy learning simply for the sake of learning in some subjects, so it doesn’t even feel like studying.</p>
<p>I motivate myself by thinking about the success I can have after college if I just maintain a high GPA. I did the same thing in high school-I knew maintaining a high gpa would get me a shot at the ivies. A shot at the ivies would lead to a great job and, by proxy, plenty of financial gratification.
Now that I’m here, I just think of my career. Shoot for a 3.5 or higher and never, ever have to worry about money(something I’ve been worrying about all my life really).
I’ve also always had some social issues(typical nice guy, lack confidence, no girls, etc).
If I just work hard, get money, and get paid, most of these problems pretty much go away. All I need is a high GPA.</p>
<p>That’s all the motivation I need.</p>
<p>My ultimate motivation:</p>
<p>[Management</a> Leadership for Tomorrow | A world where all motivated minorities have the opportunity to realize their full career potential.](<a href=“http://www.ml4t.org/]Management”>http://www.ml4t.org/)</p>
<p>Not wanting to get kicked out of my program.</p>
<p>I like the subject I’m studying so I don’t find it excessively difficult to motivate myself.</p>
<p>Equipotential-- that too. Though getting through gen ed requirements were at times brutal, now that I am a junior and taking almost exclusively courses in my major and electives of my choice it is a lot easier even if the work is harder.</p>