I'm in my last semester of my undergrad and I'm having some SERIOUS motivation issues. It's so hard to get anything done when all I can think of is what the hell I'm going to do after graduating!
Same boat as you man. Mind me asking what field of study you are currently in right now?
I'm also in my last year and while I have a pretty clear picture of what I want to do post graduation. I'm still having trouble finding any sort of motivation for school.
Glad I'm not the only one! I'm definitely at the point where I just don't care about school anymore, I just want to be finished.
I have some ideas about what I want to do after graduating, like traveling, grad school and what not, but its still all up in the air. Mostly I spend my days thinking of different things I want to do after Christmas instead of doing school work.
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Same boat as you man. Mind me asking what field of study you are currently in right now?
I'm doing a French degree... random, I know. Hoping to go into translation. What are you taking?
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I regret my decision to turn down a spot at Med school every day. After I declined my spot in second year because I didn't think I wanted to do it, I had no more drive and thus I didn't study and thus a severe decline in grades. While I do care about my grades, I feel like I could care less. I really do not know what to do after this year. Grad studies...? Work? Go on vacation? But I do need the money so vacation is kinda ruled out, and work? I don't want to work for $10 dollars an hour when in 5 years of hard work I can make a days worth in an hour.
Decisions, decisions.... I have a mid term and I can't even seem to focus on studying.
Ok one last random thought before I go study for about 10 minutes and then go to bed.
For no apparent reason I've had friends cancel plans on me in the last few days, only we never had plans to begin with.
First I called my friend who was going out for drinks with a coworker. Said she'd be home at like 830, was wondering if I wanted to chill and that she'd call me. I was busy with school but said sure because I may have been done by then.
Get a call at like 930, late enough I just assumed her previous plans went late, but I didn't care in the first place because it wasn't like we had plans anyways. She proceeds to apologize because she didn't want me to worry that she hadn't called or be mad at her for not calling. Seems kind of sincere but really just trumps up her own view of her self importance. I could give a rats ass if she called or didn't call. That isn't to say I wouldn't have minded hanging out but jesus, my life doesn't revolve around vague phone calls where we don't really make plans but say we may or may not hang out later if the opportunity arises.
Then my other friend says we should study for our midterm tomorrow. I'm not a huge fan of this but whatever, she needs the help more than I do given the fact that the subject matter is familiar to me and she's never even taken a history course before. (i've taken at least 5 and this one is only a second year course)
I call her tonight to ask what time we are going to meet up tomorrow. When I call her it is well after she gets off work. I intentionally wait to call because I don't want her to think I wanted to study and hope if I call late enough she'll also feel it isn't a good idea and not ask.
Funny part is that I got the pity act again. Different friend too. Like she's so sorry she has to cancel on me as if her presence studying would make or break my evening. Of course I was too nice to mention that I didn't want to study in the first place but whatever. Let her feel like her presence is what I live for.
I'm not so much mad, as annoyed. Since when did my chick friends think that their presence around me was all I lived for? Don't get me wrong I like hanging out with them but both conversations were beyond common courtesy. At no point, with either chick did I ever actually have plans and in both cases they asked ME to hang out with them and then called and acted like they were going to ruin my night by canceling on me. Like WTF?
I don't even know why it annoys me. I guess it is because they both seemed like the only reason they canceled plans we never had was because they think they both want to feed their egos for no reason and convince themselves I was sitting at home waiting by the phone until they called.
Ok one last random thought before I go study for about 10 minutes and then go to bed.
For no apparent reason I've had friends cancel plans on me in the last few days, only we never had plans to begin with.
First I called my friend who was going out for drinks with a coworker. Said she'd be home at like 830, was wondering if I wanted to chill and that she'd call me. I was busy with school but said sure because I may have been done by then.
Get a call at like 930, late enough I just assumed her previous plans went late, but I didn't care in the first place because it wasn't like we had plans anyways. She proceeds to apologize because she didn't want me to worry that she hadn't called or be mad at her for not calling. Seems kind of sincere but really just trumps up her own view of her self importance. I could give a rats ass if she called or didn't call. That isn't to say I wouldn't have minded hanging out but jesus, my life doesn't revolve around vague phone calls where we don't really make plans but say we may or may not hang out later if the opportunity arises.
Then my other friend says we should study for our midterm tomorrow. I'm not a huge fan of this but whatever, she needs the help more than I do given the fact that the subject matter is familiar to me and she's never even taken a history course before. (i've taken at least 5 and this one is only a second year course)
I call her tonight to ask what time we are going to meet up tomorrow. When I call her it is well after she gets off work. I intentionally wait to call because I don't want her to think I wanted to study and hope if I call late enough she'll also feel it isn't a good idea and not ask.
Funny part is that I got the pity act again. Different friend too. Like she's so sorry she has to cancel on me as if her presence studying would make or break my evening. Of course I was too nice to mention that I didn't want to study in the first place but whatever. Let her feel like her presence is what I live for.
I'm not so much mad, as annoyed. Since when did my chick friends think that their presence around me was all I lived for? Don't get me wrong I like hanging out with them but both conversations were beyond common courtesy. At no point, with either chick did I ever actually have plans and in both cases they asked ME to hang out with them and then called and acted like they were going to ruin my night by canceling on me. Like WTF?
I don't even know why it annoys me. I guess it is because they both seemed like the only reason they canceled plans we never had was because they think they both want to feed their egos for no reason and convince themselves I was sitting at home waiting by the phone until they called.
I hate pity. Especially fake pity.
I don't know, maybe it was one of those "you had to hear it yourself" type instances, but the way it reads is that both girls just politely apologized for cancelling plans.
All that stuff you said about the girls and their pity for you and their inflated sense of self importance was just kind of weird, and it seems like you're just reading way too much into them apologizing for cancelling. But again, that's without me knowing any of you, so maybe there was more to it?
12 hours ago my roomate was having a nice dinner with her parents. At midnight i answer a phone call from her frantic mother that her father has been rushed to the hospital due to a stroke. My roomate of course started freaking out so i go with her to the hospital. It's now almost 6 am, i just got home and her father that was perfectly normal less than 12 hours ago is now laying in the hospital with a 3cm diameter inoperable brain bleed and is on life support.
My roomate and her mother now have to decide when to take him off life support.
What a horrible decision for a wife and a daughter to have to make. Life is way too frickin short
12 hours ago my roomate was having a nice dinner with her parents. At midnight i answer a phone call from her frantic mother that her father has been rushed to the hospital due to a stroke. My roomate of course started freaking out so i go with her to the hospital. It's now almost 6 am, i just got home and her father that was perfectly normal less than 12 hours ago is now laying in the hospital with a 3cm diameter inoperable brain bleed and is on life support.
My roomate and her mother now have to decide when to take him off life support.
What a horrible decision for a wife and a daughter to have to make. Life is way too frickin short
It certainly reminds you how life can turn in a second. It's very sad and shocking. All the best to your friend and you.
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12 hours ago my roomate was having a nice dinner with her parents. At midnight i answer a phone call from her frantic mother that her father has been rushed to the hospital due to a stroke. My roomate of course started freaking out so i go with her to the hospital. It's now almost 6 am, i just got home and her father that was perfectly normal less than 12 hours ago is now laying in the hospital with a 3cm diameter inoperable brain bleed and is on life support.
My roomate and her mother now have to decide when to take him off life support.
What a horrible decision for a wife and a daughter to have to make. Life is way too frickin short
Absolutely.
Kind of makes you think about mortality. It kind of makes you want to live life fullest right now, but that is hard to do when you need to think about tomorrow as well.
It is things like this and Kerotosis' father passing (my condolences, btw) that kind of put personal worries in perspective; when people you know are dealing with serious life and death issues it kind of makes the fact that I <insert personal whining here> a lot less important.
Good on you for supporting your friend EC.
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