<p>I have never been the smartest student ... But my work ethic has always gotten me through everything... My study habits have gotten me A's and B's.... I'm in my second year of college and my work ethic has just gone down the drain.... I don't know why but I just can't get motivated ... I want to find the easy way out but there is none.... I feel lost because this isn't how I am ... I have never lost motivation to work hard.... Does anyone have advice on how to get back to my usual ways ?</p>
<p>I would talk to a counselor. you sound like you could possibly have an underlying depression or a problem that the counselor can help bring to the surface. is the workload hard? do you want to switch majors? the way i do it, and get myself motivated is to pick an activity or item that i want and say to myself i can have it when im done my work. having an incentive definitely help. but talk to a counselor they are there to help and its free :)</p>