<p>I am lethargic. I have no motivation to do anything or to get anything done. Homework, SAT studying, etc. piles up in front of me, yet I can't get myself to do anything. I think it's temporary so I take a break. I watch some TV. Usually, I like TV. But now I think TV is boring. I surf the Internet. The Internet is boring. I eat. Eating is boring. I sleep. Sleeping is boring. I don't feel like talking to my friends on the phone. The music I always listen to sounds annoying. I don't find myself interested in anything anymore.</p>
<p>I try to get back to work. Nothing sticks in my mind. I don't understand anything at all. </p>
<p>On school nights, I know I have lots to do but I just sit there and don't start it until 11 or 12. I waste my time on the Internet (when I still thought the Internet was interesting...now I don't even any more).</p>
<p>I wasn't ever like this before. I WANT to stop. But how?</p>
<p>Have you guys ever gone through this before? The weird thing is, sometimes I go through this for an hour or two but then I'm good. But this time, it's been 2-3 months. I get no work done. I'm starting to get C's on tests...and B's on report cards. Teachers are disappointed in me. I've NEVER gotten those grades before, NEVER, not as a freshman, not as a sophomore. But now, it's my "hardest and most important year" (junior) and I'm like this. I used to be the over-zealous suck up who raises her hand every other minute to give a comment or ask a question in class. Now I couldn't care less. WHY? WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME and how do I come out of it?</p>
<p>Everyone goes through it. You're burnt out. I sort of went through this last year. I stopped watching TV, going online, doing homework, reading...basically anything that involved being productive, I avoided. </p>
<p>My advice? Talk to friends. I didn't feel like talking to anyone, but every time I talked to my best friend, my spirits were instantly lifted. </p>
<p>Another thing...get MOTIVATED!
and fast. You don't want to do what I did...Work really hard for 2 years and then f... everything up as a junior. Trust me, you'll be hitting yourself in the head 10 months from now. Watch a dvd of your dream school. Go visit it. Look at the classes offered. ANYTHING. I stopped going on CC. It made the whole college thing too typical, so that when I would research my schools, it would just feel like an every day thing so I didn't get any motivation.</p>
<p>I'm going through that right now, except I'm a senior and going through the entire application process in addition to trying to finish up the IB Diploma. My grades are fine (low A average), but I'm so demotivated that even the smallest assignment seems impossible to finish, or even if I know exactly what to do--how to prepare, how to organize, and what to write--I can't sit down and actually do it. Part of it is probably burnout; part of it is that I mostly hate my high school and most of the people here (students, not teachers) and don't invest myself in it at all; part of it is low self-esteem and fear of failure/performance anxiety, like I'd rather not write anything at all than write something imperfect. It's a huge problem, but everytime I mention it to anyone they tell me to Just Get The Work Done Already as if I'm only procrastinating because I feel like it, even though there's nothing I want to do less. It's not as if I actually ENJOY the things I do when I procrastinate, like going online... I just sit there, almost comatose.</p>
<p>Sorry I don't have any advice for you, but since I have the same problem any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>I have the same exact problem right now. If I talk to my friends it actually makes it worse. One friend and I have the same problem and we were talking for hours about it. It didn't help at all, we just laughed at ourselves and all the people ahead of us in class rank. When I try and look at my dream school and get motivated, it doesn't really work. I just say oh I would love to go there soo much, but if I don't it wasn't meant to be. It's not the end of the world. This might be attributed to the fact that I love my safety school and wouldn't mind going there at all. I always heard this was great but now I am thinking its horrible.</p>
<p>I cleaned my desk this morning for the first time in forever. I still haven't done any of the work I have for Monday, let alone college essays, but I feel slightly better about my chances of getting it done now that I actually have a decent workplace. I guess it might help to look at where you usually do your work, and if you have a place where you feel comfortable working, although the fact that I'm on CC procrastinating right now might be an indication that it doesn't really make a difference.</p>
<p>You guys describe my thoughts exactly. And...lol, same I clean/organize stuff too. I cleaned my workplace the weekend before Thanksgiving to 1) avoid work 2) hope that that way I won't have an excuse not to study during Thanksgiving break....but sadly, it doesn't seem to be working.</p>
<p>My dad says it's because I'm burnt out. I've been too much of an over-achiever these past two years? But now I really want that back...</p>
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EXACTLY. That's me. I really don't enjoy the things I do when I waste my time but I do it anyway.</p>
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That's me for everything right now. If I don't do something well, it's just a shrug and a "oh well i didn't put that much effort into it so it's not like I'm dumb or anything" or "it's okay, there will be other chances". It just seems like I don't care anymore.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input guys and keep it coming. I think it helps.</p>
<p>i feel the exact same way, as soon as i finished my ed school application, i cant bring myself to do any more applications for any of my other schools. I slack off on my homework and I dont feel motivated to do work. The only thing i am motivated to do is go on CC lol. : </p>
<p>i don't do anything anymore, nor do i have any motivation to. im totally burnt out, totally apathetic. years of overachieving and planning tend to do that to you.</p>
<p>somehow my grades are still good, but i honestly could care less at this point. all i do is sit around and look at the applications im supposed to fill out and the work i need to do, and just blow it all off because it all seems so meaningless. the only thing that keeps me from dying of boredom is knowing that its all going to end come june, and hopefully ill be leaving for a more stimulating environment.</p>
<p>I see juniors taking Calculus or Chemistry for the first time and they're just dumbfounded. They never knew it was going to be so time-consuming and boring and they just kinda give up. </p>
<p>My advice is to set up some kind of schedule and force yourself to take away something whenever you violate that schedule. If you can't take away something, let your parents take care of that. First, let that something be the TV, next your CD player, next your ability to hang out w/ friends, etc...</p>
<p>My classes aren't hard, or they are, but I can deal with it. (I'm in six IB classes and two others.) It isn't that I don't know how to do the work; I just don't do it. The schedule idea might work, though.</p>
<p>PS: It's pretty depressing that it's Thanksgiving break and all I've been able to think about the entire time is all the work I have due Monday. They might as well have given us all five straight days of in-school suspension (where you're forced to do work and aren't allowed to interact with anyone)... chances are it would've been more relaxing.</p>
<p>seriously. I completely agree. I have SAT 2's, college apps, ESSAYS. oh man i have way too many essays.
I had a total of 5 days this thanksgiving break to knock off ONE of those. How many did I get done?
None.
Well, then I must have done something fun in place of it right?
nope. I just kinda sat down and rolled my pencil over my SAT 2 chem book.
Only thing that's keeping me up and not like COMPLETELY giving up is the prospect of being able to give up once college apps go out.</p>
<p>As for you juniors, good luck, cuse if you're burnt out now, you're going to simply die in senior year.
Get out of it fast.
What helped me last year was just not doing ANYTHING for one weekend.
It sounds bad, but just take that weekend off to recollect yourself and reorganize yourself. Start fresh (hard to do with grades, though).
But considering that this advice didnt really work for me, I'm not sure why i'm telling you this.
I just felt like saying something.
I wish colleges would see that i'm awesome and accept me. jeez.</p>
<p>^^ im doing that this weekend. All i did was watch movies, eat, and go to sweet 16's. Ill do all my homework and get everything together tomorrow ;) </p>
<p>yeah right....it won't work. My friend has a t-shirt that says, "procrastinators unite tomorrow" Writing this post made me think of it.</p>
<p>im a junior now and i sorta feel the same way
b4 in like 8th and 9th grade, i did my work, not too much procrastination and yippee good grades
now im kind of wishing a lot for good grades
i see my books and i think to myself "darn thats a lot of books, meaning a lot of hw along with it."
its just a funk. it takes time to get out of it. u cant just say "i wanna get out of it NOW!". its sort of a gradual phase that ur going through.
yeah its annoying and it doesnt get nething done but u just gotta think to urself "well im never getting into so-and-so college that way."</p>
<p>I used to be so good with homework in 9th grade (made all A's), but this year I don't want to do anything. I don't watch TV, talk on the phone, IM people...none of that. I have a ton of homework to make-up for Chemistry and I don't want to do that either. Really, I just don't want to do anything. </p>
<p>For example, I could have finished all my make-up work and online class work in two days during Thanksgiving break, but did I do any of it for the 5 days I had off? no.....</p>
<p>All I did was read books, sleep, sleep some more, etc. Nothing productive. I hate having to do all this work for school. All I want to do is learn. If I know how to do the homework, then why should I have to do it? Why can't I read my textbooks instead?</p>
<p>That's the way I've been feeling for the last two weeks or so. I'm sick and tired of having to do the same crap over and over again.</p>
<p>youve got a plate full of apathy.....and i think i took a bite of it this yr.</p>
<p>Find something to stimulate you. What got me back on track was dance class. I needed a challenge.</p>
<p>"All I did was read books, sleep, sleep some more, etc. Nothing productive. I hate having to do all this work for school. All I want to do is learn. If I know how to do the homework, then why should I have to do it? Why can't I read my textbooks instead?
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<p>Im not sending any applications out untill I get my ED1 reply. Im applying mostly through common app, so I have the big parts done, its just a matter or printing.</p>
<p>Why not do it now? </p>
<p>Im not motivated.</p>
<p>Im holding out for my first choice (Bates College), and im sitting here thinking... eh... I have no motivation because I am still praying I get into Bates. The best thing I can do now is sit back and try to relax while I wait: which is disgustingly hard for me to do. </p>
<p>Best thing I can offer is try to spend a weekend either out and about with your best friends, or inside relaxing. My problem is I havent seen any of my friends in about a week. I miss them and so I feel drained.</p>
<p>I have a final in one of my classes tomorrow... have I opened my book? Nope... have I flipped through notes? Nope.... Im just not motivated. I might try to flip through it later but I know that most of the information is just basic duh things. "Whats the name of the leader of the catholic church" ... <em>Sigh</em></p>
<p>When we are burned out, we are burned out. Im getting better at getting/staying motivated though. :) Now instead of a week its a day, two at most, and im back to normal! Keep fighting the evil non-modivation.</p>
<p>I was feeling better by this morning, and I honestly think that if I had two or three more days I could get my life back together. I'm just not at all ready to go back to school tomorrow. I'll stay up most of the night doing homework, for sure.</p>
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<p>You're not the problem. High school's the problem.</p>
<p>honestly, when we're all doing work that you know a teacher's just gonna write off, hand back to you, and forget about, how CAN you get motivated to do anything? I know i can't.
and then there's all the ridiculous rules-can't use a cellphone in the hallway, heavily regulated dancing (to the point where all the lights are on and the music is censored and everybody just leaves after 10 minutes and finding out its all a farce), exorbitant fines for parking in a friend's spot, and uncalled for punishments for absences.</p>
<p>by the time you've gotten to senior year and you realize how stupid high school really is, it's no surprise we all get demotivated to do anything relating to it.</p>