<p>It feels like whenever I'm not in class, I just waste time. I wake up late, sit around, go on FaceBook/CC and other forums, keep checking when nothing is new there, then go watch television, then sit around some more...</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel this way? How do I fix it?</p>
<p>^I stay up late for no reason doing nothing, so yes. I feel that way all of the time.</p>
<p>Same here. I can’t get a job because it’s all filled, and hardly anyone is hiring teens because of this economy we’re in. I don’t go to camp because it’s too expensive. My volunteer work happens once in a while. So I just read and work out. Or start some of my summer hw.</p>
<p>Yeah is there any block for CC or something? Like an add on maybe?</p>
<p>Same as all of you, but I’m slowly easing out of it, I think. That’s really the only way to go without going back, you gotta ease out of it. To start, you need to find something to motivate you; I’m trying to do stuff so I can guess say I didn’t just do nothing this summer, especially since my friends seem totally busy. Maybe you can look into stuff that you thought of doing before but never did, or maybe you can get more involved in your school or community (I’m trying to start a school paper at my school, just for the heck of it you know). It’s different for everyone, really, I’ve had experience with other people, so you kinda need to work on it and really want to be doing something.<br>
It seems totally lame and corny and stuff, but just don’t give up and find something you want to do, and that something might just be lazing around.</p>
<p>I feel that way all the time but I just graduated high school and it’s summer and life shouldn’t just be about AP classes and self studying calc over the summer so I’m just going to relax and enjoy it and write run on sentences ok yeah bye :)</p>
<p>why is it that any time not studying is a “waste?”</p>
<p>i think that’s a horrible mentality brought upon us by years of academic servitude. it’s sad that the best and brightest are enslaved in this way.</p>
<p>you are relaxing your brain, and what is so wrong with that?</p>
<p>I feel this way. My parents bought me roughly 8 PSAT/SAT/ACT prep books. It’s rediculous. I also have been meaning to practice a double bass piece for a regional orchestra. But, I really haven’t been doing any of this and I feel useless.</p>
<p>You could always just read a book…the thing is, I find it very relaxing, so it’s like lounging and being productive at the same time.</p>
<p>If there are no books around, I go to Barnes & Noble, grab a book, and sit in some random secluded corner to read. It makes me feel much more accomplished. :)</p>
<p>same here…my summer is going so wasted for me. :(</p>
<p>I have 3 SAT/ACT prep books, a precalc book and a College chemistry book. I need a calculus one.</p>
<p>Mine felt the same way. But now I am making myself go to bed by 11:45 and getting up at eight. The day seems so much fuller (<-word?). My routine is usually get up, eat breakfast, then do calc and physics on and off until around one. After that, it is hanging out with friends and having fun. </p>
<p>See the balance? It works for me.</p>
<p>MIT, I would suggest this –> [url=<a href=“http://www.toddfadoir.com/teaching.htm]Teaching[/url”>Teaching]Teaching[/url</a>]
someone posted it before and I am using it to learn calc.</p>
<p>That seems good. Thanks.</p>
<p>Yeah, I lounge around with nothing to do. I think my “useless period” started when my boyfriend broke up with me. I lost a lot of weight and I felt really depressed (more so than usual, and it didn’t help that I randomly had stopped taking my medication…doh). I’m slowly getting back up and getting out there again, though. I’m learning to read again for enjoyment, and to do some things that I like to do in solitude.</p>
<p>Recently I’ve been feeling that my whole life, at least up to now, has been living in vain. What I learn, what I do, are all discovered and done by people of past ages; there’s nothing new to be discerned and then further pursued by such stupid mind as mine. :(</p>
<p>^ Aww c’mon now. You’re going to Caltech! I’m sure you’ll have some wonderful research opportunities there where you can do and discover what no one has before you!</p>
<p>@ibSleepy: thanks for your encouragement!
but, the thing is, research doesn’t correlate with new discovery. sigh, it’s so tricky, to mind those research things.</p>
<p>
Whoa, I feel that way too! But I’ve somehow come to terms with the fact that not every person can have brilliant creative genius like those who come up with the things that I enjoy reading. I can only continue expanding my intellectual repertoire and thinking in order to * maybe * stumble across an original concept.
I enjoy discovering things that are novel to me but…it would be unbelievably amazing to discover, truly, something new.</p>
<p>it’s not genius so much as luck,
given the right amount of luck (and some baseline level of knowledge) almost anyone can make groundbreaking discoveries</p>