I hate college. What to do?

College Life
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<p>If my days were like that, I’d probably hate school too.</p>

<p>boysx3 is right: you should not be spending more than about 30 hours a week on school, including time spent in the classroom (but not including time spent commuting).</p>

<p>Make up a schedule that includes about six hours a week of real studying for each class. Keep the blocks long enough that you can think through a fairly complex argument or explanation, but short enough that you can concentrate the whole time. Use that time to organize and re-write your lecture notes, do the reading (and anything else you need to do to ensure that you understand the reading), and do your homework. Also spend a little time reviewing everything that has already happened since the start of the semester in each class.</p>

<p>When it’s time to study, go somewhere that is conducive to studying. That apparently isn’t the student center. Try the library. Try a hall in a building with classrooms. Try a stairwell. Try some place off campus. Wherever you end up, be disciplined about studying and not daydreaming or something, for the whole period. When the study block is over, be disciplined about stopping and DO SOMETHING ELSE. Preferably something you enjoy, but whatever it is, it needs to be completely different from studying.</p>

<p>If you find that that isn’t enough time to master the material, look for help. Go to office hours. See whether your school has peer tutoring set up somewhere (or see whether your mother will give you money to pay a tutor) and look into any center dedicated to helping students get the tools to succeed. At the school you are planning to transfer to, you will probably be taking more than 3 courses a semester, and you will need the skills to handle them without becoming as overwhelmed as you are now.</p>

<p>Make sure you get enough sleep, and make sure you get healthy food. Go to absolutely every lecture and stick to your study schedule. Even when exam time comes around and you need to spend more time studying, stop and go to sleep when you get tired. You’ll accomplish more if you start fresh the next day than if you push yourself to keep going and don’t get enough sleep.</p>

<p>I’m betting that if you make sure you get whatever entertainment, relaxation, food, sleep, socialization, etc., during the 138 hours a week that you aren’t in class or studying, school won’t seem like it’s taking over your whole life and you won’t hate it as much. But if I’m wrong, you will be able to go to your mother and say, “I tried hard, and I still hate it.”</p>

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<p>Yeah… You need to study less. You’re taking less than a full load at a CC. Class shouldn’t take up so much of your time.</p>

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<p>You can’t say that you hate college when you’re at community college. When you’re living on campus, it’s far more than just sitting in class.</p>

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<p>The CC I’m at now is aprox. 25 minutes from my house. The university I will be attending in the fall (as a freshmen) is aprox. 45-50 min. each way.
I do not live on campus now, and I will not live on campus in the future (at least not until possibly senior year). </p>

<p>There are no dorms or anthing where I’m at now. At at university dorms, you can get in the main door where a few chairs and a small cafe are, but you can’t walk down the dorm halls unless you have a key. A friend would have to come out and get me for me to be able to go to their room. </p>

<p>The festival (once a year) and Back-To-School-BBQ’s (twice a year) at my current school are no place to meet people. At the festival, you’d have to meet up with a friend who meets up with another friend that they introduce you to to meet anyone new. The BBQ? You just stand in line, you just go down the line to get food (like in elem. school) and go whereever you want on campus to eat. We have a tiny basketball team, but no gym, so I have no idea where they practice/play. It’s a small school. </p>

<p>I spent alot of time with the math tutor last semester, but he was unreliable. He’d have two hours to work that day, and show up half an hour late. There is an English tutor (didn’t know that until middle of last semester, good thing I was good at English and didn’t need him/her), and a Biology tutor. That’s it! </p>

<p>I’m majoring in Psychology and I either want to deal with foster care/adoptions after graduation (first choice of career) or be a play therapist for pediatric cancer patients. (second choice).</p>

<p>All of the classes I’ve taken/am taking will transfer, I’ve checked.</p>

<p>Will the tutors be more reliable and helpful, teachers nicer, activities more fun, etc. at the university?</p>

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<p>It really boils down to will you put up with whatever you feel are the “cons” of the university in order to achieve your goal of working in foster care/adoptions. </p>

<p>If there is a true ADD issue than it boils down to you following up on a diagnosis.</p>

<p>Glad to hear that the classes will transfer, at least in that sense it will be worth it.</p>

<p>Oh, and regarding tutors…if you need them perhaps the various departments will have a better group of candidates; but there is no guaranty that a tutor will be available for every course/major etc…</p>

<p>and living off campus freshman through junior year and then moving onto campus senior year usually isn’t realistic. Many campuses reserve on-campus housing for underclassmen…</p>

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<p>Hello, </p>

<p>I am in my first semester of my second year of college and am seriously hating it. I am a commuter at a very well known university and recently switched my major. Growing up, I would have never dreamed that I would ever contemplate quitting college. I was always one of the top students in my class and never really hated school before now. </p>

<p>Is it normal to feel like this? I wake up every morning and dread going to school. This is a side of me that I have never seen before and it’s really impacting me in a negative way. </p>

<p>Maybe this is just a temporary things that I need to push myself through or maybe college is just not right for me. I am completely unsure of what to do.</p>