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What is your motivation to studying?
#1
Just wondering cause right now I have absolutely no motivation at all.

When I was in high school, it was the grade needed to get into university, it's a specific number that you have to reach. Now that I'm in university I don't have any number that I must reach. You graduate when you get over 60 but this number is way too easy.
Other motivations are friends and competition for higher grade, it seems all of my high school friends are getting lower mark than me, for no apparent reason. but I'm below average in university right now, and they are all at the very bottom.
I guess these friends are discouraging me now, although they motivated me in high school (by sometimes getting higher mark than me).

So... looking for new motivations, share how you get motivated for studying.
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#2
Hard to get motivated for freshman courses. I know this from experience. You have to find something in the course that applies to your major somehow. Almost all gen-ed courses will in some way affect your major or how you interrelate with people. Find that gem, and you can work through the rest of the course.
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#3
For someone(s) you care about. For someone(s) who's gonna rely on you for the answer and for support.
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#4
For me, my first semester in college was a nightmare. I didn't know how to manage my time at all, I slacked off a lot. After my 1st semester, I learned from it and studied more. One of my favorite college professors said this to me, which sparked something in me, and I ended up doing a lot better:

"Look. Don't be a moron. You have potential. You're getting a mid-C in this class, I realize the materials are intense, this is CISCO sh't. You know better than that. Get your sh't together, man. Don't try either, just do. Screw the games and sh't, look, after classes, I go home and play WoW all the time. Point being, just stop procrastinating, study more, do your sh't. Get your act straightened out, bro."

Yes, I am not fcking kidding, he said something along the lines of that, I can't remember every single EXACT word, but it's pretty much that... >_> He drilled it into my head. After my 1st semester, I had motivation partly because of that professor, that and my classes were fun, very fun. I had lots of fun programming CISCO routers, working with switches, and seeing how information travelled across a LAN and a WAN by using a network simulator. Loved all 4 of my CISCO semesters, made my 1st 2 years very exciting, although I also admit, the materials were very intense and mind-numbing.

Also, I realize I don't want to work Retail forever . . . I want to get a "real" job and work with computers, and do something with my life. That's how I push myself to study most times.
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#5
You're paying for credit hours I assume? Get your money's worth. I also bet there's a minimum GPA for whatever college the major you want is in. I know I needed to have a 2.9 to get into Electrical Engineering. Don't forget, employers are gonna be looking at your college transcript in the same way colleges looked at your high school transcript.

But yeah, freshmen year was silly. I took chemistry that I took in 10th grade, retook calc two... not fun. Now I have lots of engineering classes. Slightly more fun.
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#6
Fiel Wrote:Hard to get motivated for freshman courses.

Oh my god this. The only class i really enjoy is my PC hardware class and my excel class, and the latter only because the professor is a professor in my major.
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#7
Fiel Wrote:Hard to get motivated for freshman courses. I know this from experience. You have to find something in the course that applies to your major somehow. Almost all gen-ed courses will in some way affect your major or how you interrelate with people. Find that gem, and you can work through the rest of the course.

I'm currently majoring in computer science, and the course that's least motivating for me is computer science. The course is much different than what I expected it to be.
My favorite course in high school was computer science, now computer science has became the most boring course ever.
What I like about computer science is how we solve lots of complicated problems. In high school, our comp sci teacher told us to comment as much as possible, and I totally agrees with him, although most other people doesn't comment. I heard that you can't just code to get high marks in university, you have comment so the marker can understand your code, with that I looked forward to university.
However I'm totally surprised by the amount of comment you have to do in university. Computer science is not computer science anymore. It's like writing essays in codes. All of the questions for comp sci assignment are really easy, I can write each question easily under 5 minutes with java or pascal in high school and have full comments that the reader will understand the code.
However we're using a worthless programming language that no one ever heard of called Scheme. To start things off, scheme doesn't have user input or we're not taught how, doesn't have loops (for, while, repeat), and is a pain in the ass to code arithmetic.
for example if you want to do sth like a+b*c+d-e, that's all you have to do in other programming languages but in scheme you have to do this:
(- (* (+ a b) (+ c d)) e)
such a pain in the ass right? No doubt if you code like this, it slows your coding speed down greatly and have higher chance of making mistakes.
The alternative to loops is recursion in this programming language. Now, I've learned in high school recursion is great for pathfinding in a maze or a network, but not so great to replace for loop because of stack overflow. But now, we're using recursion on every simple question that needs repetition and didn't even learn what recursion are really used for (pathfinding).
The thing that bothers me the most is obviously the comment: here's an example of my assignment, these are the function given, and I have to add other functions to it, everything i'm going to add are going to be in the same format as the given functions. everything behind ";;" are comments
and something that starts off with (check-expect .... is not really code, but to test if that part of the code works properly:
 Spoiler

basically out of 136 lines of code (not including blank lines)
i counted 30 lines of code.
In most of my assignments 75% are comments and 25% are codes.
the 25% code are simple stuff, that doesn't involve using your brain at all (and without reading the comments any average person can understand the code anyways). what bothers me is the amount of BS i have to do. So I have no motivations.
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#8
Hell man, I wanna go to Medical School. I can't afford anything lower than 1 or 2 B's a semester (out of a full schedule of 5 classes). :|

Even though I hate my Gen. Ed. pomegranate, gotta get through them somehow, so I just think about what'd happen if I did badly.
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