Need decent advice

How fucking old are you? Five? Everyone on this forum board likes to play video games and wasting time posting useless crap to strangers they have never met in real life.

Durr hurr. Thank you Captain Obvious.

Good things don't come in life without sacrifice. The world isn't handed to you on a silver platter. Everyone is competing to get ahead in life.

Because in my previous posts,I said I expected things for free, really.

There is a reason why you are getting a masters in computer science isn't it? There is a reason why you wasted that butt-load of money to continue your education instead of investing that money in a business or an industry. YOU are a product of investment and you are wasting all that money by not harvesting your academic potential.

Which is exactly what I said was bothering me in my first post. Thanks for repeating me.

Many people get sick of their studies after awhile. I don't love EVERY aspect of my major. The only reason why I stick with it is because I'm getting a lot of financial aid money from it and I'm learning technical skills that I couldn't have gotten from any other major. In the end of the day I would prefer playing videogames and doing nothing all day. I wouldn't mind being a janitor, cleaning nasty poop and mopping up floors all day. I really wouldn't care. But people depend on me. Who is going to take care of my parents financially when they get old? Who is going to provide funding when my two cousins who are academic drop-outs are unable to make ends meet? Do you still want your parents to pay your rent when you're in your 30s? I don't. That's why I make investments and go the full mile even though I'm not infatuated with my area of study. People don't like the jobs they work but they understand that they've got to pay the bills.

Thanks for clarifying this, because I was thinking of not paying the bills, since, you know, I'm engaged and all. You think I give a damn what you do with your life? All you've done in your pithy little rant here is double up on things I've already acknowledged to in my previous posts. Wanting to better myself by changing things up a bit so that I land a decent job and end up finishing my Master's program with a decent GPA is exactly why I posted this topic in the first place. So, let me extend a formal "thank you" for taking what I previously said, and making it more wordy than it needed to be.

Why is this a problem?

Oh gee, I don't really know. Why the hell wouldn't I want to make all A's if I know damn well I'm capable of doing so? If I know I can do something, and my own laziness prohibits it, yes my friend, it's a problem. But I'm glad to hear that you're satisfied with mediocrity though.

If you've been blessed with the ability to naturally get above average scores then why do you need to consider studying. Unless your gift isn't really as grand as you're making it out to be. I could have done great on a test? The question apparently doesn't drive home and hurt your conscience. It clearly doesn't make you feel guilty and wonder why you're such a waste. It doesn't rip you apart and make you physically grapple in the air trying to give shape to a future that has yet to come into existence. It doesn't make you pull an all-nighter when you feel like shit and deal with people you would have murdered if they were people walking on the street. I could have been this, I could have been that? It sounds like me when I was five years old and speculated being everything from President to Astronaut.

Wow, uh, thank you Dr. Phil. The reason I want to study more and harder is simply because I haven't been doing what I know I need to, and that bothers me. Once again, it's nice that you're satisfied with being mediocre, but not everyone is. So, as far as I'm concerned, you can take your self-righteous attitude and shove it up your ass.

If you really want to change yourself then you'll stop bullshitting yourself about your "natural gifts" because they clearly aren't good enough to make you happy with how you're doing in your classes.

Bullshitting myself? Yeah, I'm bullshitting myself alright. I think I'm just too cool for school. I'm the best there is, and that's why I made this topic. Could you be any further away from the truth? o_O

And the only thing that should matter to you is being happy at the end of the day.

It does, huh?

You're infatuated by the short-term benefits that have been provided to you by financial loans and aren't looking at the long-term picture.

Oh right, I forgot. I have a fiance that I plan to marry in a year. Then, I plan on settling down somewhere and having children shortly after, while I'm working a job that I plan on finding right after I graduate. But please forgive me, you're completely right. I'm not looking at the long-term picture. Silly me.

The irony is that college is a long-term investment. A graduate program is an even more pronounced long-term investment.

That's ironic? Why don't you look up the definition of the word "irony" and then get back to me. I've been in college for seven years, you twit, so don't preach to me about college being a long-term investment.

Losing sight of your investment now is getting rid of a very large down-payment that you could have used to invest in stock, go to Vegas and blow it all off on hookers, or set-up a sushi business or your own mom-and-pop shop.

Because I'm totally thinking about dropping out two weeks before graduation, really. Thanks for this completely irrelevant piece of information.
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Once again, I'd just like to take this time to extend a personal "thank you" for your ever-so-helpful post. You've enlightened me on so many things I seemed to be in the dark about. But, more seriously, as far as I care, you can take your mediocre self and go preach at someone who gives a damn about your pointless little rants and repetitive speeches. Moron.