I think I have ADD

[Hilltop Customs]

yea....when I'm trying to do boring, monotonous, repetitive homework I end up posting on AO a lot. Quick doctor, I need some Ritalin.

I probably accumulated around 30 posts tonight alone while reading this paper.


This post is a perfect example of what I'm talking about

[questionful]

I have something that I label as AD(H)D. So many genes control the brain, I guess I'm just an outlier, and I really can't do work. My whole life, since elementary school, I've had problems with homework. My grades went lower and lower in middle school, at the end of 9th grade I just stopped doing homework altogether, now my GPA is 1.42, even though I do really well on tests. My future looks like absolute ****, and though I know it is partly my fault, I believe the system sucks at taking the outlier into account. JKL;ASFKL;JADFSMK;LADFMKL;FK;LASF'KAF

"ADD" sucks.

[Hilltop Customs]

if you dont mind answering.....if you enjoy what you are doing, can you concentrate on it?

I cant do work that I dont like, I simply put it off to the absolute last second and finally the realization that "if I dont do this I'm F'd" takes over. I mean absolute last second.....staying up all night, doing meaningless stuff until 3 in the morning and then finally starting the work(when I have class in @ 8 in the morning the following day). I'm not talking about a few simple problems either, 20+ page case study to read with a 3+ page summary/response/recommendations.

Like right now.....1am, have ~1 out of the 20 pages read. I start reading get ~2 sentences in, and I forget what I'm reading and think about something else. Cycle will repeat itself no matter how much I try to eliminate my distractions.

But, if its something I'm interested in I can absorb it like a sponge.

(i didnt mean for this thread to be demeaning to people with the condition....if anyone wants, I'll delete it, just pm me......the thread was to make fun of myself and get me to read this, but it hasnt helped)

[maxama10]

Adderall here you come and then you can make a buck off all your friends too. Wait AO doesn't condone that kind of behavior nor do I

Sorry I know its a serious thing but I was being quite serious actually, although it sounds like I'm making light of your situation.

-Max

[maxama10]

Get reading your worthless bum I know you're smart you always post back good info to all of my threads. Could always get adderall though, Playboy had a good article on it but yeah tons of people take it but most are lazy who don't want to do work so they take addy and then it makes them want to so...

yeah goodluck and go do your homeowork even though I'm a hypocrite cause I entirely put off doing my math test tonight.

[Hilltop Customs]

I know a ton of people who use that crap to get through college.....I've never touched it, no need to. Can stay up for a few days at a time if I choose to....been able to do it since I was a little kid. Probably really unhealthy....oh well.


edit: forgot to say thanks for the encouragement....even though you did call me a bum lol

[Avianrave]

It can be seen as an advantage.

Think of it this way, your working memory is constantly filling up with new information. Try to spread your work into intervals of 5 or 10 min with some 5 or 10 min break. This will actually prevent you from cramming, and make studying much more meaningful. Every time you distract yourself, you have to relearn what you just did. The distraction purges all of the stuff your studying out of your working memory, so the material that you are working on will come from your long term memory. This will help build repetition, and the material will stick more then if you were just cramming.

So try to take your disadvantage, and turn it into an advantage.

BTW: If you already know what your doing and you just need to do your homework for effort, welcome aboard . Your ****ed.

[Hilltop Customs]

BTW: If you already know what your doing and you just need to do your homework for effort, welcome aboard . Your ****ed.

So true. I failed a 4 credit class 3 times because I knew what I was doing and just didnt do the work for grades......my thoughts on this: I came to college to learn something not be graded. If I'm not learning, I dont care about what grades I get. If its an irrivelant class, once again why do I care.

Oh and another thing that bothers me, when a class goes so slow(or is filled with completely useless info) that there is no option but to distract yourself for sanitiy.

I swear the only thing I learned in some classes is more efficient ways of doing sudokus.(some classes being most classes....I do a lot of sudokus)

[Avianrave]

Yeah, I have the lowest homework grade in calc (**** you online homework ), yet one of the higher quiz grades, and 20 points above the average on the midterm

As for chem, I have one of the higher lab, quiz, and test grades, but a 0 on online homework because the damn website won't even let me sign in.

I thought they would stop testing for effort after high school, but I got proven wrong. It's way to typical right now, saying "alright, if you can't learn the material, I'll just give you a good grade for trying."

[SCpoloRicker]

Public Service Announcement:

If you're not planning on going to graduate school, no one really cares about your grades in undergraduate work.

Now, if you are thinking about graduate work... then poor grades can and will come back and bite you in the rear end.

[Hilltop Customs]

just say no....to more school.

yea, after I realized I wasnt going to go further with my education, my grades took a steep nosedive....especially when I realized how much BS unrelated material I was going to be paying for.

[Sumthinwicked]

adhd and odd look it up and then put the 2 together it makes for fun LOL

[michbich]

I'm not as bad as you, but during exam periods, I find myself browsing AO and craigslist quite a bit.

[Avianrave]

It strikes again!

I cannot study Chemistry and German at the same time, unless I can find a German Chemistry book.

[Hilltop Customs]

Avianrave: missed your earlier post....I agree, when I came into college I thought it would be different(isnt that what they tell you in highschool? Thats what I was told) "high pressure, fast paced....blah blah blah" its slow paced with enough busy work you dont realize how little you are actually learning because your too busy spitting out BS to fill the requirements.

and then there is the arrogant professor who thinks they are too good to answer a simple question....the one who purposely uses wording to make students feel insignificant. This is they guy I feel like socking in the jaw...

I have fun when teacher evaluations come around....at first I was nice, now I'm honest....bad professors get horrible reviews, because it is what they deserve. It just sucks if you happen to have that same professor for 2 more classes the following semester...