academic apathy?

College Life
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<p>So the deal is I’m normally smart and motivated, and when I care about my schoolwork I get really good grades. But then I’ll go through these periods of Not Caring about schoolwork at all. Well, I’ll realize it’s there, and I’ll kind of want to do it. But if I have a problem set due in an hour I’ll be like “oh, it’s no big deal, I can just take a late penalty.” Right now I have two late problem sets that I’m nowhere near finished with that I really could have finished on time but didn’t feel like it.</p>

<p>Does this happen to anyone else? What can I do to get back on track, motivation-wise?</p>

<p>(See, what happens is something will happen to drain me emotionally. And normal people will Not Care about their work for a few days, but then get back on track. For me it takes…weeks? Months? It’s like once something happens to me I’m screwed for the rest of the term. This is kind of a problem when you consider that emotionally draining events happen frequently and unpredictably.)</p>

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<p>omg that happens to me too. But it’s not certain events that emotionally drain me but just overall tiredness. That’s why I got a not high GPA (3.3UW 3.9W)considering the good amount of AP’s I took(but still high AP scores). I really hope the phases of laziness go away when I start college in the fall.</p>

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<p>not this again … this might be turning into the equivalent of the “asian” topic virus on CC</p>

<p>that’s not apathy, that’s procrastination</p>

<p>if u really were academically apathetic, u would not have cared to go to college, not have cared about anything academic-wise at all</p>

<p>ppl really need to stop overusing the word</p>

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<p>Maybe you are bipolar. I go through the exact phases and they seem to last weeks to months. If your procrastination is due to emotional drain then I’d really see a counselor to rule out the possibility of any mood disorders.</p>

<p>When I’m feeling lazy, I just force myself to do whatever task I’m procrastinating from. The more I get accomplished, the more drive I have. It works for me and I’m diagnosed with bipolar and am not on any medications.</p>

<p>Otherwise you may just be lazy. The only way to solve that is to stop being lazy, haha.</p>

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<p>You’re burnt out. Year after year after year after year of school all in a row has a tendency to do that.</p>

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<p>It happens to everyone. it happened to me my senior year in HS and im sure it’ll continue. maybe it’s because you are not studying what really interests you?</p>

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<p>thanks for the help guys.</p>

<h1>2, #6: glad to know i’m not alone. oddly i do really like my classes, at least i did for the first seven weeks of term.</h1>

<h1>4: it’s very possible, i mean people have said that about me before. but it’s kind of a useless diagnosis because even if i was bipolar i wouldn’t go on mood stabilizers. i hear they screw with your ability to mathematize.</h1>

<h1>5: i just got back from a year off (that i had to take because basically the same thing happened). it would be really annoying if i burnt out now.</h1>

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<p>I know the feeling. I love my classes and do all of my work for the first third of each semester and then I start procrastinating. Most of the time I just need to get myself to start working because I usually like my work once I have started. A little competition can do wonders as well. (Competition against classmates, the expectations of the professor, my previous achievements, whatever)</p>

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<p>yaa i always start the sememster with the mindset that I will keep up with my readings/other work. 1/3 of the way through i grow tired and just stop keeping pace. Because of the procrastination, when finals roll around, i become almost more apathetic because I realize I haven’t been keeping up and that failure is inevitable despite any last-ditch efforts that could possibly arise</p>