I don't take school seriously

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I don't take school seriously. I know I should but I don't work hard in homework assignments and frequently turn stuff in late (and I don't even care! This is what's terrible). Sometimes I don't even DO the homework. I listen attentively in class and participate quite a bit and enjoy the classes but I just don't take the work seriously and won't do it. It has to be laziness. I'm not even a delinquent rebel type who is like all "ohh, school is such a fake faggot. I'm not succumbing to the system". I like my classes because I love discussions and the interesting ideas teachers introduce, but homework is just something I don't bother with.

Sometimes I even arrive late to school and skip classes (not too often though. It's an occasional occurrence) because I haven't studied sufficiently for the test that day or finished the major essay that is due. Failure may be inevitable in my adult life in the future if I don't start to take life more seriously. This is what I am worried about.

But it's just that "school" and "life" seem two separate things for me. Usually I take real work seriously because it has some significance and tangible consequence but isn't school work the same thing? Isn't it basically a "job" in which the "salary" is a good university and therefore a straighter future? School makes sense to me. I don't condemn the system because I see its point, but I'm so anxious to actually enter the "real world and do something "meaningful" that I've just mentally skipped over "school".

Every afternoon after I arrive home, I immediately open some HTML/CSS web coding and programming tutorials because I see a greater significance in these things. They're also very interesting and I can see myself working on them of my own free will. The result is that my homework is almost never completed.

This mentality won't help me when I actually DO enter the real world, though. In life there will always be things I dread to do, but which are necessary. This is why I'm worried. How do I overcome this apathetic and unmotivated state of mind??

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  • yoyoyou
    13 years ago

    youre just a normal teenager dude. i feel that way and so do all of my friends.

    a few of my classes i actually like, but most of them are just bullshit stuff you never even use in real life. ive skipped class before too, and a lot of times i dont even do my homework.

    basically i think school is just babysitting for teenagers. if we didnt have a place like that to go everyday, we'd all go insane. but most of the stuff they teach you is pointless.

    just make sure that you get good enough grades to get into a decent college.

    but dont worry about feel apathetic about school. my dad was the biggest slacker back in high school, and he went to a junior college, and now he's a director at a big office, and he reached that point mostly based on his social skills. there are more things important than just schoolwork. having good social skills, doing things you like, being a normal teeanger... those things are important too.

    dont worry.

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  • FlyingSheilds
    14 years ago

    When life gets this tough, no one can help you, except your friends and family. When they can't, you can only help yourself...

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  • FlyingSheilds
    14 years ago

    But really, what I'd suggest is to volunteer. Try random stuff and find something you like. Make school not your only life. If it is you better love homework.

    You don't have to drop out. Why not do both?

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  • Kotit007
    14 years ago

    Well I don't know if it's normal, but I am the same way. I really do enjoy the concept of school, but the way we're forced into believing this idea that massive paperwork input computes to knowledge and success is BULL SHIT.
    I thought about it the other day and I decided that one day I'd like to open up a school where knowledge wasn't based in excessive classwork and papers and all of that nonsense. There has to be a different way to learn. Shouldn't the shit we learn be applied to our lives, all of it.

    I mean I could say that perpetual laziness could account for me not doing my work, but as of late I have tried a little harder doing these trivial tasks and my grades have been reflecting it.

    I'm mentally in the real world as well.

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  • anabolic19
    14 years ago

    i was the exact same way in school in fact i was alot worse my overall attendence was 32%% thats for the whole time at school not just 1 year

    I missed almost every lesson i never did my homework

    but you will leave school with shit grades but grades mean nothing in the real world
    your telt all your school and college life that your working career depends on the grades you achieve and my friend it is bullshit most employers dont give a fuck about them they mean nothing you getting grades only means you can climb higher on the education level so good grades equals good college good college equals good university good university equals same job as some one who never went to college or university

    so just enjoy your life do what you want because thats what lifes all about

    never just live to work because lifes to short for that shit

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  • CountryRoads
    13 years ago

    Lazy.
    Try to do well so you can go to a good college and take computer programming classes.

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  • Thatguy777
    13 years ago

    Fuck
    School!

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  • sherry
    13 years ago

    I think schools give WAY too much homework.

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  • Star1778
    14 years ago

    Are you talking about highschool? I never took a day in highschool seriously. It was really nothing more than a social event, where I could talk to my friends, find out where the parties will be this weekend, find a girlfriend, bum cigarettes, score some drugs and find ways to dress in such a way that made the administration upset.

    College, thought.. A different story. I knew what I wanted in life by then. So, I actually tried.

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  • dadawawa
    14 years ago

    dont think school is tough now...... in the future youll be in tougher challenges if your being lazy....

    have you ever think about the future? what would happen to you? where you will be?

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  • FlyingSheilds
    14 years ago

    The only year that counts at all it Grade twelve. For the rest you can screw around :D

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