<p>I'm doing okay at my school although I'm capable of doing better. My main issue is that I have motivation and procrastination issues. I have a set career goal and I know what I want to do after college but even with this in mind, I can't bring myself to be motivated at school. Furthermore, there is a lot of free time in college so I end up procrastination more than I should be. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice on how to overcome this?</p>
<p>You should read Cal Newports blog. He always gets me to stop procrastinating…somehow he gets me EXCITED to be doing my work.</p>
<p>Then again, I’m kind of just a nerd:p</p>
<p>Do you like your school? It could be a problem that your school was not the best fit.</p>
<p>I also had this issue. I needed winter break to get over it, but I do recommend a gap year, as awful as that may sound at first, it has helped lots of my friends.</p>
<p>Thank you PRiNCESSMAHiNA I’ve been lurking on this forum for over a year and because of the ■■■■■■ and unbelievably ignorant chance threads I never made an account but by you “linking” me to Cal Newport’s blog I decided to make an account just to say thank you. If you have any more inspirational blogs you turn to or blogs that help you with college I will be more than ecstatic to view them.</p>
<p>Then you obviously don’t want success enough. I can’t make you want success. Until you do, you’ll procrastinate. I badly want a good job in computational physics or something related to that, so that’s why I, King of Procrastinators, am doing well in college.</p>
<p>Maybe you need to leave college and spend five or six years seeing what it’s like without an education.</p>
<p>I had some issues with this, so i turned to yahoo answers. The “top contributor” told me to drop out of school immediately. So take what anyone says with a grain of salt!</p>
<p>Year. Off. Naow.</p>
<p>I second dantheman. How stupid does TomServo sound. Why the hell would you take 6 years off and realize “oh…education is important” and then go finish 3 years of undergraduate education. That sounds so dumb.</p>
<p>And he’s supposedly in “college.” LOL. Oh gosh.</p>
<p>I’m not taking a year off. I don’t see the point in it. I’m class of 2014 and I plan on graduating in that year.</p>
<p>TomServo, you’re right. Self pity isn’t going to get me the motivation or grades I want.</p>