So, over the past few weeks, I've slowly come to realize what I've been denying to myself for years now: I am a lazy piece of shit. Like if there was an embodiment of sloth it'd probably be me.
Now let me explain: Ever since elementary school, I've seen many psychologists for various reasons, and all of them came to the same conclusion: I was a gifted child. We're not talking boy-genius level here, but basically I've always had a good head on my shoulders and I can learn things pretty quickly(I was pretty much fluent in english by the time I was 11-12 thanks to VIDEO GAMES for example) if I put my heart into it.
Thing is, that also means I can get passable grades without much effort. I realized this about halfway through high school, and took advantage of it, since by the time I did I'd also stopped being a shy fat kid with no gutso whatsoever and started neglecting my studies in favor of doing all the stupid shit you do when you're near the end of your high school years.
I paid for this in full when college sign-ups came around and my grade average wasn't high enough to get into the course I wanted(Multimedia integration, its basically a course where you learn how to program (lots of)code and webpages(THIS IS A GIANT PAIN IN THE ASS AND ANYONE WHO GENUINELY ENJOYS DEBUGGING JAVASCRIPT CODE IS
NOT HUMAN OK), use programs like flash, photoshop, illustrator, soundbooth, etc) and I got stuck taking another one that was basically High school but with math replaced with philosophy.
I stayed in this course for a year and half until I switched to a slightly better one, and this allowed me to get more motivated and I guess I got good enough grades to get in MI since they called me to ask if I was still interested during the summer.
After I got in I thought it'd be all sunshine and rainbows, but thanks to my old habits I managed to fuck myself over once again. Thing is, it got worse than that, I actually started to feel like maybe getting in that course was a bad choice after all, and that I'd never be good at all that stuff, until Chris, my Animation teacher(also the best I've ever had) made me realize that no, I don't suck one bit, I'm just really lazy. Like when I look at my grades I realize that I have 75%+ in most of my homework/exams and the reason why my grades aren't as good as I'd like them to be is because I turned some of them way late or just plain didn't do them(the latter weren't worth much though, nothing more than 5%. The reason I didn't do them was because I slept in class a whole lot near the beginning of the semester since I hadn't completely adapted to my new sleep schedule yet and I missed the memo I guess). What really triggered all this was when he told the class about our latest assignment, which took me around 9 hours to complete, would count as a bonus, because in his two classes, only THREE students actually finished it, myself included :awesome:. He also said that it might've been too hard to give such an assignment to beginners, and that they would only have to finish 1/6 of it.
Normally I would be pissed that I'd missed the easy way out, but working on all this made me improve
drastically and I'll be damned if I don't feel awesome and superior to everyone else now.
But anyways, now that I realize all this, I think its time for me to change all that. I want to be rid of that stupid fucking laziness before it actually fucks up my life for real. Because seriously when I look at all the time I've wasted on whatever instead of being productive I really loathe myself and I feel like a goddamn gradeschool student who doesn't know how to prioritize shit. But I guess I'll have to "grow up" too, just like dad. Speaking of him he's out in the boonies at some rehab center for 3 weeks so I'll be able to get some peace & quiet for a bit.
But yeah that's why I'm taking a break from most things internet until my semester ends, which should be around the 20th or so. All I really have left are a couple of assignments/labs and the obvious finals. While I'm only in danger of failing one of my five classes(which is not gonna happen you have my word for it), all these things I didn't do really brought my grades below the class average in most of them and well I really need to make the most of the time I have left if I want to have kickass grades by the end of the semester.
Anyways, that post's long enough as it is and I haven't gotten much sleep this week so I'm gonna go to bed now. I'll probably be on AIM/msn from time to time but don't expect to see me around much for at least the next two weeks. See you guys later!
-A moron fag who can't learn how to focus and study properly