Recently, a lot of things have just seemed bland to me. Things that I used to enjoy can't seem to excite me as much as they used to. This is my second year in college (computer engineering major) and deeply dislike it. The programming class and the robotics team are fun, but everything else seems like it was specifically designed to increase displeasure. The classes are boring. People here are snobby. I rarely talk to anyone outside of my roommates. I thought college would be more... college-y. I thought there would have been more partying. Everyone built this place up as something fun, but all I've seen is constantly arrogant people and classes are either treat you like you are five years old or think you can process dozens of formula per month. Here is the real issue: How can I get out of the current bubble that I am in? I want to experience more. I want to know that I left college as a better person and not just with a stupid little paper that took five years and thousands of dollars to get. Every morning I wake up and think that I could be doing something better with my life. Something that makes me happy to be learning and pushes me just well enough. I used to love learning until I came to this place. My being here seems like a mistake, but there is the constant thought of needing a degree to live well that keeps me clinging on to my classes. I don't want to regret not living when I get older. How do I know that this place (more specifically, this college) is what is best for me? There could be a Great Perhaps out there and I would never know being stuck in my current status.
Well man I've always heard that college was supposed to be the funnest time of your life but it's also gonna be hard as well. I'm about to go to college soon but whenever I feel that kind of discouragement I always set out to motivate myself. Now how you do it depends on you, play a game or listen to music and vent like you're doing now, or you can talk to old friends of yours. All you need to know is that it was gonna be hard and some people are arrogant that's just how the world is but you can be the better person and ignore them and focus on you, you have a goal in life which means you must keep that goal in mind.
Well, college is not really fun. Loads of people tend to have the wrong idea about that, but everyone works really hard. Which is acceptable if you think of the amount of money/effort it took to get into college. Aaaaaaaaanyhow, trying not to get off-topic here... If you feel discouraged, you should try to find out why first. If it's because of the study itself, it might be harder to solve. If it's about the people at college, don't forget that there are more people on the world. You don't need to have friends in your class. Maybe a other class has nicer people around, and your old high school friends might be still good friends too.
