<p>You need professional help to deal with depression</p>
<p>Darko21</p>
<p>I’m also studying computer science at a pretty good school and I’ve been hating college as well. I’ll be graduating this December after 4 and a half years of very hard work… The last year and a half I’ve worked as an intern and that has really opened up my eyes and it has made me push hard to finish my degree. It really does suck when it feels like you just (go to class, do homework, do project, do more homework, take test) but in the end its worth it. My dad used to tell me all you have to do is suffer for those 4 years and then your done… Go and finish your degree in computer science. </p>
<p>About a month ago I was informed that when I graduate I’ll be brought on full time. That means I won’t have to job search at all after college… Do you know how many college graduates can’t find jobs right now because of the economy? If you stick it out you will enjoy being able to easily find a high paying job and get on with what you really enjoy when you graduate. When you get into some of the 300-400 level comp sci classes and the math after calculus it will be hard, but I’m telling you it’s well worth it.</p>
<p>As far as my life outside of classes. I live off campus (at home actually to save money, I’m luck my school is in my hometown). My girlfriend has also been really good to me and encouraged me. My friends have been very supportive of me as well. The people I work with are great too and many of them went to the school I’m attending. I don’t hang out with friends very often because I use that time to study and do homework. I don’t agree with what some of the people have been posting regarding “not taking college too seriously”. Definitely take your classes seriously. Just work hard and get your degree. I promise it will be worth it.</p>
<p>Whatever you decide, I hope everything works out for you.</p>
<p>Darko, listen to me. If you heed my advice, I’m sure everything will get A LOT better. Here’s what you should do:</p>
<p>1- Mix with people; make friends. At times of depression, being alone is NOT good because you will delve deeper into the sorrow. Get wild: Drink (but for god’s sake, with friends and not alone), go to parties, and play video games, even.</p>
<p>2- Make studying enjoyable. If you study, you WILL do well –> If you do well, you WILL be successful in life.</p>
<p>3- Get a girlfriend, if possible. That would really help.</p>
<p>4- Join clubs for the PRIMARY reason of socializing.</p>
<p>5- Enjoy college. You won’t regret it.</p>
<p>Darko - Lobz is right, what you are going through is what i went thorugh in high school. Just mix with people and enjoy their company. Also getting a girlfriend can change your life. She can add inspiration to you. If you are not good with women read some books and learn. A book that has been recommended to me is [daitng</a> college girls](<a href=“http://www.dating-college-girls.com%5Ddaitng”>http://www.dating-college-girls.com). It may help you…
Be more postive and you will see things will change.</p>
<p>Everyone in this forum is here to support you.</p>
<p>Im not trying to be mean or anything like that but i honestly think that you are depressed. im going through the same thing and I felt the exact same way that you did/do. I go to a great program, am surrounded by people and things to do, i do all those “fun” activities, hang out with the people who are supposed to be my friends, and am taking classes that are challenging and interesting but i just hate everything about college. this sounds sappy and cliched i feel like my happiness is transitory…i might feel good doing something but only for a moment and then im back to feeling depressed, hopeless and finding everything to be useless and dull. i think that i might have bipolar depression but in any way all my symptoms are the exact symptoms of clinical depression. Even if you did drop out or changed your major, i dont think that you would find any reprieve.
You (and I) need professional help… I am going to go see a psychologist and try to work through what im going through.
also, try finding someone you can truly relate to…one of the biggest reasons i feel so bad right now is because i dont really have any very good or close friends…all my friendships seem so superficial (im more honest about my feelings on a forum with strangers than with the people i see on a daily basis…)</p>
<p>But best of luck. It will all pay off, im sure of it but you need to get medical help before it gets worse…</p>
<p>I think you need to look into doing some volunteer work. Helping others is one of the best ways I know to get yourself out of this rut you are in. Look for opportunities to help someone in need. Vounteer at a food bank, work with disadvantaged kids, vounteer at a local hospital. Whatever you do, get outside of yourself a little bit and make a difference for someone else. I think you will be surprised how it benefits you.</p>
<p>I really think volunteer work is a miracle cure for many, many issues. </p>
<p>I’m not sure why the OP thinks a new school will be a solution, but I hope it will be. All his complaints were about college and working in general, not about his school specifically. I would agree with TomServo’s post about growing up. But hopefully a new school will provide a better opportunity to do that.</p>
<p>you said that you want to ride motorcycles professionally. Sorry, but unless you’re in Europe and have been at it for many years, not happening.</p>
<p>However, this situation makes me think of a NYT article (and subsequent Colbert Report interview) about a guy with a Phd in Philosophy from the University of Chicago who is now a motorcycle technician. </p>
<p>Have you considered apprenticeship or mechanic school?</p>
<p>You certainly have a right not to be content with your life. If you were at that top college, you were paying top dollar in order to get a great experience, too. People who say you need to grow up and face the misery are themselves content with misery. You don’t have to be. </p>
<p>That, and being a trade worker can be quite lucrative…</p>
<p>The OP started this thread a year ago. He may not be on CC anymore.</p>
<p>Join a fraternity.</p>
<p>I hate college but love all the parties, finishing kegs and crushing bottles of bacardi.</p>
<p>Whats horrible about all of this is that I went to Georgia Tech for a year. I will be going into my second year fall of 2010. I rocked all of my classes getting a 4.0, but I left depressed. I would even Google “I hate college” (that is how I ran into this thread) throughout college to see if this is a normal thing. I am an electrical engineering major, and I would estimate that about 10% of my classes were females, 0% of my dorm were females (I didn’t sign up for that), and about 33% of the school were females. After next fall, I am applying for a transfer to get the **** out!!! Georgia Tech blows so hard, and I would rather be on the streets than stay there for 3 more years. I have made more friends at the community college that I am attending this summer in 2 weeks than I did all year at tech. Don’t blame yourself, it happens to everybody. I didn’t realize how horrible this place is until I picked up my brother from where he goes. I don’t want this school to stain my personality, so hopefully I can get out soon!</p>
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hah that version is much better than the original… am i outta my mind? most people say prolllly</p>
<p>OP if the only thing you remember is going to class, no wonder you hate college.</p>
<p>So…I guess I’m not the only one.
Basically, I just have zero drive here. I love learning, but in this setting I just feel bored and dissinterested.
I REALLY want to transfer, but I’m a junior and I’ve been paying close to $40,000 these past three years, so leaving before I get my degree seems like a waste (especially since I’m thinking of going to China. In which case, I probably won’t even be transferring credits, but just starting over completely in a new 4 year program).
Every assignment just feels like a chore…I just feel like I’m doing all of this work for a degree, not because I truly am enjoying it all. I feel like I’m in a bind, I want out, and want a fesh start somewhere else…</p>
<p>Thanks, webster, for bumping a thread that was started in July of 2009, bumped in July of 2010, and now bumped again.</p>
<p>Darko21, I understand how you feel. I have felt that way every year since I have been in college. This is my 4th and final year, and I still wish I was somewhere else. I have good grades, I am attending a great school, and I have been out there both flipping burgers to pay for rent and interning in the professional world. Everything is hard. Everything generally sucks. Lol, best advice is: get a girlfriend and do some spontaneous things. Try to find some inner happiness, because it doesn’t really get much better. They don’t say life is hard for nothing.</p>
<p>The best times i’ve had in college were when I was in an interesting relationship with a boy, or when I had an interesting class with a fun professor. There were hardships, too, family crises and things that distracted me from the day-to-day drudgery, but believe me you don’t want too many of those. Try to distract yourself. Once you are out there making money, at least you can console the ****ty sides of life with material wealth, security, building a family, taking a few vacations, I don’t know. You will have more freedom later on with a degree than without.</p>
<p>Man, college is great. Some classes, a lot of socializing, wild nights in/out and no taxes!</p>
<p>I know the feeling, believe me. It’s funny I was really happy to be back in school last semester. It was a tad stressful but fine. But this semester…oh my gawd…everything I always hated about school is coming back to bite me now. Being forced to take classes I have no interest in because some moron somewhere dictated that I have to. I have also been forced into a group project which I could’ve done by myself two weeks ago, and because I had to wait on their stupid slackiness I now have to finish it today on a day I’d rather stay home and catch up on some much-needed sleep. Contrary to popular belief I actually love learning. I just don’t like doing it on someone else’s timeframe, by someone else’s methods and most of all I don’t like wasting precious time on stupid projects. </p>
<p>It doesn’t help that I work outside of school in a menial but physically demanding job in which my schedule is all over the place. I get up at an ungodly hour every single day of the week. And I seem to be the only person in my department who works all three shifts in one week. And I live with a drunk who takes great pleasure in being loud and obnoxious when I could catch up on sleep on a weekend night. I feel like I’m turning into a total monster because I never get any sleep. So that’s my life in one sad little nutshell. I hate it. HATE it.</p>
<p>i feel the same way the whole wake up, go to class, study, go to sleep, then repeat, what did you end up doing because college isnt working for me either</p>
<p>I can confirm that GIT sucks!</p>