Should I Drop This Class?

[donnydarkoIRL]

This thread reminds me of Hulk's Trenabol debate in that I think no matter what advice you are given, only you can truely decide and in reality our advice means very little.

What I will advise is for you to take your time in making the decision. Perhaps discussing it with an impartial friend may help.

You've already displayed good judgement by delaying your decision and not rashly dropping out of the class.
If you want a case study here you go:
I hate where my college is located. I hate the people oiin my course. I hate the lifestyle around my campus. I hate the City where the college is located and I hate being away from my girlfriend, my family, my friends my trainers and my home.
But the suffering is worth the reward. This time next year I will have one of the finest degrees Europe has to offer, and I can rise above all the muck that weighed me down when I was in college.

However were it another course, then I'd dump it like a shot, as I said only you can decide.

Good luck mate.

[leftylee]

I'm doing A-Level Psychology Bilbo, I'm currently revising stress and sources of stress etc, it's pretty interesting as it's a very in depth look towards it but there is a lot of notes to learn for the exam in June.

Mikkel_K Journalism has been mentioned to me as I got an A in English Literature at GCSE and currently take A-Level English and Media Studies so I could get onto a course pretty easy but it ain't something I'm interested in pursuing as a career. Once I finish my A-Levels I'm taking a GAP year (Summer 09) and then when I'm 19 I will decide whether to take flying lessons or join the police like my Dad (K9 Unit I would apply for once I've finished my probation years in the Police).

[leftylee]

I'm actually in Media Class now haha but the class is boring me so I'm on here.

[Kev]

I'm doing A-Level Psychology Bilbo, I'm currently revising stress and sources of stress etc, it's pretty interesting as it's a very in depth look towards it but there is a lot of notes to learn for the exam in June.

Mikkel_K Journalism has been mentioned to me as I got an A in English Literature at GCSE and currently take A-Level English and Media Studies so I could get onto a course pretty easy but it ain't something I'm interested in pursuing as a career. Once I finish my A-Levels I'm taking a GAP year (Summer 09) and then when I'm 19 I will decide whether to take flying lessons or join the police like my Dad (K9 Unit I would apply for once I've finished my probation years in the Police).

We talked about your A Level course a few weeks ago Lefty, remember! I did it oh God must be 13 years or so ago.

I enjoyed it, got all straight A's at A level and I do love writing.

@ Mikkel K

I'd love to do some kind of journalism but no sure how to go about it? Maybe I could start by writing a few articles for Saddo's

[leftylee]

We talked about your A Level course a few weeks ago Lefty, remember! I did it oh God must be 13 years or so ago.

I enjoyed it, got all straight A's at A level and I do love writing.

@ Mikkel K

I'd love to do some kind of journalism but no sure how to go about it? Maybe I could start by writing a few articles for Saddo's

Yea mate I remeber. I enjoy writing too, I just finished a monologue for English class on Kelly Pavlik and I got a B for it.

BTW in Media Class now there is some fukin hot brunette sitting next to me called Lauren, I've tuned the screen away to write this, she is fukin fine!!

[Kev]

Yea mate I remeber. I enjoy writing too, I just finished a monologue for English class on Kelly Pavlik and I got a B for it.

BTW in Media Class now there is some fukin hot brunette sitting next to me called Lauren, I've tuned the screen away to write this, she is fukin fine!!

lol, sometimes wish i was back in school again. True all the girls hated me, and the boys would post and bin me but it was still happy times

[leftylee]

lol, sometimes wish i was back in school again. True all the girls hated me, and the boys would post and bin me but it was still happy times

Serisouley that Lauren is fukin gourgeous, I'd plough her anyday haha. In Media none of my mates are in this class there all doing like Economics and shit so I hang out with her and damm I ain't complaining

[Sharla]

Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been specially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.

This book helped me a lot when I read it, he gives powerful meaning to life imo.

Great quote Bilbo! yeah online courses or writing would suit you very well I think. A lot of online courses are targeted at people who already work full time who want to get another qualification part time. So they don't demand a big workload. You could start taking one or two units as a hobby and then decide whether or not you want to complete the whole thing?

Lung damage must suck. I wouldn't give up on your physical fitness too easily though. You do exercise and you're relatively young. A lot a people do nothing and are suprised when they find out they're not fit and they blame it on getting old etc. You might be suprised by how much fitter you can be with just a little regular exercise within 5 years.

I know a few older people who took up exercise as pensioners who are much fitter than their peers now. Most of us know reformed smokers and overweight people who gradually turned their habits around and started exercise and became fit.

Even if you start behind others when you consider that most people do nothing regularly doing something 3 times a week might bring you up to their level more easily than you realise.

Real loosers are loosers because they don't care or can't be bothered and they usually don't know they're loosers. If you care and you make a little effort - even if you don't succeed all the time (because no one does) you're not a looser!

[Kev]

Great quote Bilbo! yeah noline courses or writing would suit you very well I think. A lot of online courses are targeted at people who already work full time who want to get another qualification part time. So they don't demand a big workload. You could start taking one or two units as a hobby and then decide whether or not you want to complete the whole thing?

Lung damage must suck. I wouldn't give up on your physical fitness too easily though. You do exercise and you're relatively young. A lot a people do nothing and are suprised when they find out they're not fit and they blame it on getting old etc. You might be suprised by how much fitter you can be with just a little regular exercise within 5 years.

I know a few older people who took up exercise as pensioners who are much fitter now than their peers now. Most of us know reformed smokers and overweight people who gradually turned their habits around and started exercise and became fit.

Even if you start behind others when you consider that most people do nothing regularly doing something 3 times a week might bring you up to their level more easily than you realise.

Real loosers are loosers because they don't care or can't be bothered and they usually don't know they're loosers. If you care and you make a little effort - even if you don't succeed all the time (because no one does) you're not a looser!

Yay Sharla says I'm not a complete loser I feel better now

Haha just kidding. Actually I feel pretty positive again now. I've been ill with flu for the past three weeks and was starting to get down about it. All my six months of training seemed to be going to waste but I'm picking myself up again now.

Have you ever 'The Road Less Travelled'? That's the book I quoted.

It's sooooo good, I ended up having to buy 5 copies because my friends kept stealing my copy and never bringing them back. It was written in the late 70's but it's an amazing book, I've read all of Peck's books.

Later in life he went a bit OTT and started calling God a 'She' which turned me off but his early work is incredibly powerful.

I should definitely study psychology. I got an A for A level and virtually everyone I ever meet tells me I should be a counseller or psychologist just after talking to me for an hour or so.

The trouble is I'm intelligent and have a nice manner with people I guess, but I'm not stable. I can't commit to anything and generally just subconsciously fuck my life up at every possibility.

I need to force myself out of my comfort zones. All my mates are getting married, kids, good jobs and their own houses and I'm renting from a mate, single and jobless.

My mate came around tonight with his fiancee uninvited to drop their wedding invite around and I was sitting in my boxers in front of my laptop eating a curry with a pile of dirty washing on the floor which I had started sorting through a couple hours before but got distracted.

It's moments like that that I realise I need to buck up!

[Sharla]

I've never read the book but since it has such rave reviews maybe I should look into it. I'm not insulted by him calling God a she .

Seriously if having a pile of dirty washing on the floor, getting distracted easily and feeling unfit after being sick for a few weeks is you're evidence for being a looser I'm not convinced!

I often have put a load of washing on and then have to re-wash it because I leave it in the machine too long and it starts to smell!

We all feel unfit when we've had a few weeks off for whatever reason but trust me you'll feel your fitness return within a few weeks. You won't be starting again - your body is not as unfit as it feels after a break - it just likes to winge . Happens to me too when I can't train properly for a little while.

[brucelee]

I'm in complete remission now thanks, have been six years. I don't worry about it coming back any more but I have been left with health problems, most notably lung damage which will probably cause me problems later in life. My biggest problem coming to terms with it has been that I feel useless.

Like you I wasted most of my youth and then when I got cancer it just kind of took away any possibilities of sorting myself out. Now I don't work, can't have kids, and am physically sickly and weak, hence my self image has become fucked which makes me struggle to motivate myself. I don't think anyone judges me, but I judge myself and I judge myself to be a complete loser lol.

I also really enjoy coming on here. It's quite cathartic sharing with people you'll likely never meet so have no worry about them accepting or rejecting you. And as most users tend to stick around a long time you can end up getting to know some people really well.

I think I will look at trying to go back to uni, or maybe doing an Open University course over a longer period if I don't feel up to the stress of too much work.

I got straight A's in my A Levels and to not do anything with my life is just a real waste.

It sounds like you've managed to keep a lid on your emotions thus far and remain focused on doing what life requires of you which is admirable.

There's another user on here who lost their dad but longer ago and it amazes me how people cope.

In a funny way though nothing unites us more to each other than shared sufferings and most of the best people I have ever met have tragic stories to tell. A friend of mine's girlfriend lost her mum and dad in a car crash, and just hearing the story makes you instinctively want to just hold her and hug her.

One of my favourite books, by M.Scot Peck, 'The Road Less Travelled' begins simply with the words 'Life is difficult'.

I'll quote what he says got it's my favourite opening in any book.

Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been specially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.

This book helped me a lot when I read it, he gives powerful meaning to life imo.

Thanks for sharing your life to us Bilbo. Thank you for that wonderful quote.You just don't know how I've appreciated what I have despite its bleakness because of that quote you have just shared.

What about starting a thread of things we should thank for today? I guess I'll have to start it. See you there guys!!!

[Douglas]

S The class is pretty damn easy for a 3rd yr. course, and I've already paid for it.

That should be enough reason right there.