How do you stay motivated? I find myself in college just very bored. My classes are Spanish 2, Calculus 3, Physics: Electricity and Magnetism, Computer Science: Discrete Mathematics, and Computer Engineering: Digital Design. Spanish, I basically know everything from high school, and it's a complete waste of my time. Calculus 3 seemed rather useless for most of the semester; however I was starting to understand the underlying principles the other day. The class is basically very difficult as well; I got a 95 on the first exam, then an 80 on the second, and I have absolutely no idea how I did on the exam I took just yesterday. Then there is Physics which has been a complete ball buster ever since I got into college. It's completely different than what we did in high school and just takes every ounce of energy out of me. I can't do the homework on my own most of the time, and it makes me feel very stupid. Computer Science as with all computer science classes I have taken in my life is really easy, likely because it's a low level class. Then Computer Engineering, the exams are simple; however the circuits I have to design are sometimes difficult.

I don't know what all of this means. I seem to have been struggling a lot these last two semesters. I ended up getting all A's in my classes last semester though. I just feel that the whole college experience is pointless for a major like computer science when programming is all about practice and actually writing things. Classes like Calculus 3 and Physics take away from this practice because they are difficult and most likely would be failed if the appropriate amount of time was not put in.

I feel I could be learning a lot more practical programming on my own and a lot of these classes are distractions. Should I just say screw it and learn on my own and whatever happens in those classes happens? Should I try to get straight A's and look good on paper and learn about things that aren't interesting or useful to me? Should I just drop out completely and call it a day? How much would that affect my chances of finding a job as a programmer? Should I switch majors even though I am good at the computer science classes but struggle with the other stuff like Calculus 3 and Physics?

Has anyone else had this experience? How do you stay motivated?

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Kay: Thanks! Hmm... if I am so mature looking now though, why are you pinching my cheeks?! o_0

NO! I use semi-colons all the time in my writing! I would die in your class! =(

Hmm... did I do something wrong?

You're all so funny. Heheh!

I feel I need to be posting more at this place:

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Stealing my name there?

And I agree with you, it sucks! It's just an annoyance to me.

He is awesome! I am so glad he won! Change will be coming soon!

From what I could read I won:

Most Helpful Member
Most Unique Coder

Is this really true or is the text so foggy, I am delusional? If this is really true, thanks.

Oh by the way, Poison Ivy is really really hot. I love the 1997 Batman and Robin movie a lot because Uma Thurman plays her in it. Oh my God, she is so hot!

I go to school on the 25th (see my intro thread).

I leave for college on Monday. So enjoy your time with me, it will be very short lived. I am going to be very active around the campus and begin applying myself like crazy and try to live up to the potential everyone tells me I have. I will be seeing a lot less of all you and probably won't even be on MSN much anymore.

Believe it or not, there are some really obscure ones out there. For me:

I like Poison Ivy and Mister Freeze the best because you don't hear a lot about them yet they are known. They are also pretty unique. So can you name all the villains and who are your favorite batman villains? Oh by the way there are more Batman villains than what wikipedia lists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Batman_villains. One of the other ones would be King Tut.