Piss Poor Study Habits and a Desire to Learn

[Justin05]

I have being doing piss poor in college lately. And it is mainly b/c I am bored and feel my degree is quite useless(Psych major, English minor) No offense to anyone pursuing that.

I was wondering if any of are self-taught and self-made individuals outside of academia. I can teach myself and work far better w/ independent study then I do w/ sitting in class and watching someone sit behind a podium and read from a book I can buy or find the info on the internet and save the 500 bucks.

Perhaps IT field is a good place to become self taught or spanish. I would like to have a job that is creative/analytical/problem solving/versatile.

I have recently read Writer's Inc. It's this high school preperation for college but it has a really good idea in it. It points out how using a learning log can help one to retain material. And I have started doing this and it seems to work really well.

Too bad there isn't a clep test for everything. They only offer for the simple classes at my university.

I wonder if anyone who works in a field like carpentry read a bunch of books before apprenticing and used their logic to fake an understanding of things so they weren't thought of as stupid by fellow workers.

What jobs are out there that one can come to from being self taught? I started thinking and came up w/ translator, something w/ computers(maybe), espionage, independent inventor, writer, painter

[Snowflake]

Find something you enjoy studying, and stay in college.

You'll get more credit that way for your efforts.

I'm an engineering major, there's a lot you can learn on your own even for engineering, and I have the motivation to study (for the most part, been slacking off a lot lately).

[distraction tactics]

I have being doing piss poor in college lately. And it is mainly b/c I am bored and feel my degree is quite useless(Psych major, English minor) No offense to anyone pursuing that.

I was wondering if any of are self-taught and self-made individuals outside of academia. I can teach myself and work far better w/ independent study then I do w/ sitting in class and watching someone sit behind a podium and read from a book I can buy or find the info on the internet and save the 500 bucks.

Perhaps IT field is a good place to become self taught or spanish. I would like to have a job that is creative/analytical/problem solving/versatile.

I have recently read Writer's Inc. It's this high school preperation for college but it has a really good idea in it. It points out how using a learning log can help one to retain material. And I have started doing this and it seems to work really well.

Too bad there isn't a clep test for everything. They only offer for the simple classes at my university.

I wonder if anyone who works in a field like carpentry read a bunch of books before apprenticing and used their logic to fake an understanding of things so they weren't thought of as stupid by fellow workers.

What jobs are out there that one can come to from being self taught? I started thinking and came up w/ translator, something w/ computers(maybe), espionage, independent inventor, writer, painter

Many blue-collar 'careers' are learned by the seat of your pants. When you start getting into 'gold collar' trades like electrical construction, you'll need your journeyman's ticket.

If you're an INTP, my first response is to just stick it out. You may waste four years on a degree, but I just wasted four years in a shitty job (with no end in sight). Choose your preferred pile of shit and work with it.

[Justin05]

Thanks man, I dunno if I should change majors again I'm a 5 yr slack ass 2.4 GPA POS w/ no ambition for what I'm doing Favorite classes: art history, statistics, biology lab, physics

[cathmc]

I don't think you can possibly self teach translating. There's a lot more to it than knowing both languages. Esp. for simultaneous interpretation.
I knew a guy once who passed the bar exam without ever going to law school. Just bought the books and taught himself.
Why don't you look into online universities? Sort of a compromise between dropping out entirely, and continuing to waste away in a traditional academic setting that you hate. Teach yourself AND get the credits.

[Snowflake]

Favorite classes: art history, statistics, biology lab, physics

Art history??? EEEEEEEEEWWW

That's your problem right there!!

j/k :devil:

[Justin05]

Yes! Online university is the answer. Though, it seems illogical w/ a semester and a half left. But I have succeeded in botching my degree to a point of no return. So, yes, it is what I will do. And then I can go to grad school and continue my education and I can travel while doing it and live life and not have to attend class. The information age rocks. Although this pursuit may be more expensive but I am soon to be 24 and things become easier w/ Fasfa this way. Rock on. Thank you. You have single-handedly lead me into a new path.

[joft]

interesting. are online colleges cheap? are degrees from them worth a lot less de facto?

[de groz]

Hmm I would strongly consider doing uni externally. Hell I can't talk, I've started uni and haven't been to a single lecture for one of my subjects. I did a night's worth of a study the night before an exam and got a HD.

But the problem is, with doing it externally, apparently, is that you "miss the boat" on certain topics. Some things apparently are better discussed in class. I say apparently because this is what some lady from my uni told me after having not attended any classes for said subject.

I love reading and learning in my own time, but I think it's quite different to being lectured about it. Some lecturers are good with analogies as well. Depends I suppose. But face-to-face you also have the opportunity to ask more questions and gain a better understanding rather than trying to understand it all yourself.

Having said that, if you just want the paper at the end of it, stick with a credible uni, but one that offers your course externally.

[Nadiar]

Almost all jobs can be done with self teaching. The only ones that can't normally require the "Dr." Title in front of your name.

[Justin05]

Yes, that I will. I am the silent,dreamy, inventive, contemplative, likes to draw, drools looking at paper in class, easily distracted, abhors lecture, enjoys discussion w/ intellectual friends type. Though, I have taught myself a lot w/ drawing from going to class and I have a lot of great ideas while I was supposed to pay attention. Wonder if one misses that? Oh well, freedom rings, college lecture is no more suckahs.

[Nadiar]

BTW, you'll regret NOT going to college, but you'll never regret actually going to college.

[Master O]

Choose your preferred pile of shit and work with it.
That is truly profound!

All jobs are piles of shit - but some are dog shit, while others are CAT SHIT!. The idea (if you decide you must have a job) is to pick the pile that allows you the most freedom to do what you really want to at the end of the day.

For most that means getting a degree.

[Master O]

Art history??? EEEEEEEEEWWW

That's your problem right there!!

j/k :devil:
Steve Martin has a Ph.D in Art History.

[Justin05]

I thought Steve Martin was a college drop out?

[Justin05]

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