I had similar feelings when I was in high school. I was never very motivated because I lost interest in the mundane tasks of high school work very quickly.
However, after spending two years in community college, my attitude towards education has changed. I've found college to be much more engaging. You have the freedom to explore your own interests and take classes with more interesting teachers and classmates with similar interests.
Nonetheless, I think it is important to be disciplined. Sometimes you have to go through mundane work to get to the interesting stuff. Over the years as I got older, I have learned to be more disciplined and as a result, I have been able to transfer to a good research university, witch opened many doors of opprotunity. It also allowed for much more interesting work than while studying at community college and high school.
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Its because nowadays west coast univiersities are just as good as the Ivy League -- especially in the sciences.
I had similar feelings when I was in high school. I was never very motivated because I lost interest in the mundane tasks of high school work very quickly. However, after spending two years in community college, my attitude towards education has changed. I've found college to be much more engaging. You have the freedom to explore your own interests and take classes with more interesting teachers and classmates with similar interests. Nonetheless, I think it is important to be disciplined. Sometimes you have to go through mundane work to get to the interesting stuff. Over the years as I got older, I have learned to be more disciplined and as a result, I have been able to transfer to a good research university, witch opened many doors of opprotunity. It also allowed for much more interesting work than while studying at community college and high school.