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Ok so here's the deal, fandomsecrets.

So last semester was a clusterfuck and the semester before wasn't much better. I had a lot of change and emotional moments (moving twice, getting a new job, coming out of the closet, having internet on my phone which was DISTRACTING) going on in my life, and in addition I was taking organic chemistry which. . .sucked the life force out of me in addition to working in a lab that. . .sucked the life out of me. I ended up changing my major to a similar, but less difficult one.

I took the summer as an opportunity to slow down, take three easy online classes, and take long road trips with my family and. . .I'm thinking of next semester and just not getting excited about it. Last summer I was so excited at the prospect of taking science classes and doing sciency things and this summer I just get an anxious ball of anxiousness thinking about going back to take them in the fall. I liked science my whole life, especially biology, but now I am just a giant ball of DNW and I don't really know how to change that.

Have you ever lost interest in something important that you loved? What did you do?

Edited 2013-06-24 02:00 (UTC)

Have you considered taking a semester or year off? Get a job, take out some of the stress, and then get back into school when you're more mentally ready and able.

That's how I handled college stress and DNW attitude. I took a semester off and it really did help.

Taking a semester off is not an option. I would die, and I have a job lined up for next semester that I love that is school related.

Thank you though <3

...yeah, this is often a bad idea. There's no guarantee you can make it back.

"Just a break" might turn into "no degree, guaranteed retail forever."

I haven't had this happy to me yet, but it made me think of Cal Newport's idea of "deep procrastination", if this helps.

http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/02/16/the-danger-of-deep-procratination/
http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/07/15/how-to-cure-deep-procrastination/

I'm like tearing up, this is exactly what happened to me.

I'm glad it's accurate, and I hope you find a way out of it! That blog and the same author's books are really some of most intelligent writing on education and careers I've ever read, and a lot of his ideas have helped me make positive changes in my student life.

Also, obviously the word "happy" in my original comment was supposed to be "happen" :P

Well shit. That, coupled with general depression, might explain why I haven't been able to write my thesis for about two years now even after actually finishing all of the relevant study work. The crazy thing is: I know that if I really work on it, I would be capeable of writing the whole thing in under two weeks. Yet I can't find the energy to actually start...

Okay, well, first of all, I don't think you should do anything drastic, at least not immediately. The thing is, there's a couple different things that could be going on here, you know? It's possible that you've just lost interest in your major - people change over your time, maybe it just doesn't have the same pull for you that it used to. It's possible that you're having an existential crisis of sorts, wondering why you're doing all this and trying to find your motivation and your identity. And it's also possible that you still kind of associate all the crappy, nerve-wracking things that happened last year with your coursework and with science, and so you expect it to be bad. I don't know. It could even be all three.

So I guess the thing to do is go back to school, take it a little easier, take your classes, and see if you can find a way to enjoy science when you don't have so much stress and craziness going on (hopefully), or try to figure out whether it really is just something you're not interested in anymore. And if it's the latter, well, go from there.

I'm sure you'll work it out either way, though. It'll all work out. Good luck! You can do it!

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