<p>Umm...so I'm in a BS/MD program. For the past two - three semesters I have been sooo incredibly bored with my classes. I am completely unmotivated (i.e. I find it extremely hard to study/do my HMWK). In high school I was a really hard worker and never shirked from work. I was motivated when I started college, but lately I am just not myself. I really find all these science/math classes incredibly unbearable. I guess what I am looking to know is if anyone finds organic chemistry, physics, etc. interesting. Is it common to feel like this??? Is this just something I have to push through and things will get better??? I want to become a physician, but if I can't stand these boring classes now, what will it be like in medical school?</p>
<p>It will be like taking 5 of these types of courses together at one time.</p>
<p>Hmm...I'm just not sure if this is a phase or if I'm not really into this type of thing. Everyone tells me to not worry about the classes because in practice most of it isn't used, but how am I going to make it that far if I can't study?! I'm not sure if there is an easy way to tell at this point. I could wait it out a bit, but that could cost me lots of $ if I have to switch majors (right now I'm in a science/math intense major req. by the program). If I switch majors now, I'm out of the program. I don't want to regret making that decision later. Plus, I'll have people yelling at me for throwing away something "that people would give their right arm for."</p>
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<p>It's your right arm. Nobody else's. What they choose or would choose is of zero consequence.</p>
<p>That being said, I'd check out any other possible causes of the malaise. A trip to the doc would rule out several things. JMO.</p>
<p>As to your question-yeah. Some kids are pumped to be taking cell bio, doing research for credit and pay, getting their abstract together, and their posters ready for conferences.</p>
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Not exactly the case when your parents are paying for your entire education and have sacrificed a lot to get you to where you are. The last thing I want to do is cause them pain.</p>
<p>Curmudgeon</p>
<p>I just tried to send you a PM and got a note saying you had exceeded your limit.</p>
<p>Let me know when I can send it.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>These people -- henceforth "arm people" -- are being imprecise in their language. Why would they give a right arm for a BS/MD program? Well, because they want to be doctors. Why do they want to be doctors? Well, because presumably it will help them gain the things they value. Arm people would give up a right arm for a future which will bring contentment or satisfaction to their lives.</p>
<p>You are not being faced with that tradeoff. You are being faced with a tradeoff in which you are being asked to give up a right arm (endure misery) for something that ... won't bring contentment or satisfaction. (Medicine, even the practice of it, uses a lot of this sort of thing.) That's just a lose/lose situation.</p>
<p>eadad, I'm all clear.</p>
<p>Well, OP if the people yelling at you are your parents (which you didn't say, did you? "Plus, I'll have people yelling at me"), I'd suggest family counseling 'cause I know how that would go over at my house- not good. </p>
<p>Sooner or later the decisions have to be yours. You have to own them. At least that's the way I thought it worked.</p>