Heh, got barred from school for 2 quarters.

My school is based in a quarterly system with 3-4 classes per 3 months. My problem wasn't so much the workload or studying, I was doing good with my homework and projects. It was the exams that pretty much messed me up. I'm like one of those sods that can't focus for crap on tests, regardless if how much studying was done before.

I'm probably going to take classes I guess, but at the same time I want to take time off just to figure out what I want to do personally and not just based on an academic perspective. I actually started school a year before I should have (at 17), so maybe I wasn't mentally ready for it. I dunno, lol.

Totally with you dude. I learn extremely well by DOING things instead of listening and studying via lecture. I can ace any lab or field experiment or homework and completely bomb (ok not bombing, but like coming out to about a C) the class because of the exams. I think it's because i don't know what to study so i try to study everything i possibly can, resulting in me understanding enough to get pity points for all the questions, but never the whole thing. It's frustrating especially when you KNOW you can do all those things in practice. And because of that tendency, I now have a sub-par GPA (i'm trying to get into the 3.0 range right now, which would require i start getting B's and up in all my classes ><" )

As per your predicament, I'd say find a small part time job and take a couple of courses at the local CC. Keep your material fresh in your mind, while making bank.