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Bored of School?
Is anyone else just so ready to leave school right now? Im so bored of going to school and sitting in lessons, its not that i dont enjoy what I'm studying...I do a lot of work at home I just cant stand being in school. Part of the reason is that Ive realised that my friends arent really true friends...i just cant wait to leave. The problem is that I keep missing days of school because I just cant face going in. But this is my most important year of school and I dont know how I can motivate myself to go? Im just feeling really low about it all at the moment and the only time I feel ok again is when I get home.
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yeah i know what you mean i just want to go to uni ! im sick of school. personally i would like to do my june exams now because i dont really need school to teach me it i'll teach myself 
...but ahh well its only a few more months before i leave..i guess we have to just stick with it for now
...but ahh well its only a few more months before i leave..i guess we have to just stick with it for now 
Yeah but Im just scared that I will choose the wrong friends again. I thought that my friends were true friends but it turned out that i picked poorly and its all been a waste of time.
Gosh, I know exactly what you mean. This time last year, I could barely bring myself to go into school everyday, everything just felt so staid and stuck and boring. Like you, I was also realising some home truths, especially about my friends. I felt so restless and kind of.... scratchy (lol!), like I had an itch somewhere and I just couldnt quite itch it.
Okay, I'm going to say, really, try to stick it out. Pick up a new hobby, try some new kind of sport or activtiy, join a new club, anything to make you feel a bit more like you're actually alive!! Take one day off school a week (I did this, and I know it sounds awful, but I think it actually helped me to survive through january and february), just so you feel a bit more like there is life actually outside of school.
Think of it this way. If you break up for study leave in may, thats three months (roughly) to go. With February half term and the Easter holidays included, thats about 2 and a half months. It's not that long!!! Stick it out, have fun/work in the summer, and look forward to Uni. But - remember to do some work!! Because without work, uni isn't an option. I used to bribe myself to work - half an hour of work = chocolate. Always an option
Okay, I'm going to say, really, try to stick it out. Pick up a new hobby, try some new kind of sport or activtiy, join a new club, anything to make you feel a bit more like you're actually alive!! Take one day off school a week (I did this, and I know it sounds awful, but I think it actually helped me to survive through january and february), just so you feel a bit more like there is life actually outside of school.
Think of it this way. If you break up for study leave in may, thats three months (roughly) to go. With February half term and the Easter holidays included, thats about 2 and a half months. It's not that long!!! Stick it out, have fun/work in the summer, and look forward to Uni. But - remember to do some work!! Because without work, uni isn't an option. I used to bribe myself to work - half an hour of work = chocolate. Always an option
Little Girl Red
I used to bribe myself to work - half an hour of work = chocolate. Always an option
Might work, depends what kind of person you are. If your like me you will find you can't bribe yourself with such things whether its doing something fun or eating chocolate.
I found that the only way to motivate myself was to do something for myself just to see if I could do it.
I'm the kind of person that really can't motivate myself by trying to get qualifications the only thing that does it for me is setting myself a target so I can feel good that I achieved something for myself rather than some meaningless grade on a bit of paper.
When it gets to the point where you're ticking off the days (it's now 157 until the end of my exams) then you konw it's bad! Seriously, if you've got a calander write down the days, and each time you tick a couple off you'll feel like it's one step closer to leaving.
And you've got an Oxford Medicine offer to make - go do yourself justice and work hard
And you've got an Oxford Medicine offer to make - go do yourself justice and work hard
I found sixth form stagnent at the end. I think everyone was ready for uni and the hanging round for the last few months at sixth form just ended up being a pain.
All the same, i'd been there for 7 years, so it was sad when I left, but stand down time was great fun.
Just try and knuckle down, like i've been telling myself for the last 3 weeks, if i can concentrate and work hard now, it'll set me up for good.
All the same, i'd been there for 7 years, so it was sad when I left, but stand down time was great fun.
Just try and knuckle down, like i've been telling myself for the last 3 weeks, if i can concentrate and work hard now, it'll set me up for good.
to everyone!I'm dying to leave - I've been at my school six years, and the worst part is that I spend more of my time there than I do at home with friends (I board), and I'm so fed up with it all. Much as I love my friends, seeing the same faces over and over again day after day gets tedious, and I just need to get out and meet some new, different people. Having lived with them for 6 years, I know them almost too well, and it makes life so difficult when we fall out and it's impossible to get away from each other.
As for the lessons, what they're teaching me is fine and I enjoy it for the most part, but going through the same routines everyday just makes me feel that I'm wasting a huge section of my life, even though I know it's unavoidable because I need the grades at the end of it all. But oh my God is it frustrating! VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE and right now, my life is completely flavourless.
(Ok, rant over...)
onlylittleme
Is anyone else just so ready to leave school right now? Im so bored of going to school and sitting in lessons, its not that i dont enjoy what I'm studying...I do a lot of work at home I just cant stand being in school. Part of the reason is that Ive realised that my friends arent really true friends...i just cant wait to leave. The problem is that I keep missing days of school because I just cant face going in. But this is my most important year of school and I dont know how I can motivate myself to go? Im just feeling really low about it all at the moment and the only time I feel ok again is when I get home.
whoaa this is exactly how i feel right now!!! however i'm not really feeling down, it's just that i can't stand school anymore. too much work, too many cliques, too much drama. it feels like it's just not worth it. lol i've been to school twice since christmas hols have ended.
if you tell your school how your feeling they might let you do 50:50 home:school. its not like your doing it because of being lazy and if you really make out like you want to leave if you cant then they might be more willing to especially seeing as your a straight A student and going to oxford. your a good stat for them at the end of the day!
onlylittleme
Is anyone else just so ready to leave school right now? Im so bored of going to school and sitting in lessons, its not that i dont enjoy what I'm studying...I do a lot of work at home I just cant stand being in school. Part of the reason is that Ive realised that my friends arent really true friends...i just cant wait to leave. The problem is that I keep missing days of school because I just cant face going in. But this is my most important year of school and I dont know how I can motivate myself to go? Im just feeling really low about it all at the moment and the only time I feel ok again is when I get home.
I think everyone goes through that kind of school burn-out at some point, whatever you choose for A-levels it's a very tough 2 years. You should stick with it though because the last few months seriously fly by, before you know it you'll be sitting exams and breaking up for summer (it's worth carrying on just for the amazing feeling of walking out of your last exam
) My reward after each exam was being able to go home and watch Euro 2004 all evening, don't know if you're a football fan but you'll have the world cup, lucky begger. But honestly, I'm sure you've worked really hard to get this far, and it'd be crazy to throw it all away now just because you can't be bothered. Hope everything goes well
A friend of mine just sorted out an agreement with school that means she officially only has to come in for psych lessons and any theory lessons for textiles and art. However, with the latter two it is now up to her really.
I'm counting down the days to tell the truth.
I'm counting down the days to tell the truth.
I LOVE school......no, I'm not a nerd. I don't like the homework...but I like the friends.
onlylittleme
Is anyone else just so ready to leave school right now? Im so bored of going to school and sitting in lessons, its not that i dont enjoy what I'm studying...I do a lot of work at home I just cant stand being in school. Part of the reason is that Ive realised that my friends arent really true friends...i just cant wait to leave. The problem is that I keep missing days of school because I just cant face going in. But this is my most important year of school and I dont know how I can motivate myself to go? Im just feeling really low about it all at the moment and the only time I feel ok again is when I get home.
Honey I feel exactly the same at the moment-I haven't been into college for the past two days-I hate it!!! But, I quite happily sat at the dining room table a did a huge dent of work. However-neither of us can really teach ourselves A-levels so we need to get of our backsides and just do it-for the last sixth months just slog it so we have a future!!!!
What's keeping me sane is that by september-because I've done the work and been to college, I will focusing on the one subject I love to do-law and then there's the whole meeting new people thing. Seriously, I don't really have any close friends at college-more good mates if you know what I mean since all my friends bar a few have gone of to uni
(I'm a third year). I'm trying to be more outgoing at the moment but in the end we're all going our seperate ways!What's also helped is planning the super long summer holidays we're going to haveeee!!!!!
Hope you feel better
Ruthx
I felt the same last year. I was sick of everything. I couldn't wait to leave.
BUT - try not to put much pressure on leaving. There's a temptation to think "oh I can't wait to get to uni, everything will be so much better." If you think like that it's easy to get disappointed.
BUT - try not to put much pressure on leaving. There's a temptation to think "oh I can't wait to get to uni, everything will be so much better." If you think like that it's easy to get disappointed.
I've spent the past week on work experience and I'm gonna miss it. Theyve offered me a placement when I leave school.. i couldn't drop out yet, I need my A levels as a safety blanket lol. I want to go into art... I've got the grades to do something more 'academic' but art and computers are my thing soo yeah I'm doing what I'm happy with. Just think of 6th form as a transition to uni, thats what I'm trying to do- don't really want to be in 6th form atm but it has to be done! It's a good opportunity I guess and it's only 2 years in comparison to your whole life!
onlylittleme
Is anyone else just so ready to leave school right now? Im so bored of going to school and sitting in lessons, its not that i dont enjoy what I'm studying...I do a lot of work at home I just cant stand being in school. Part of the reason is that Ive realised that my friends arent really true friends...i just cant wait to leave. The problem is that I keep missing days of school because I just cant face going in. But this is my most important year of school and I dont know how I can motivate myself to go? Im just feeling really low about it all at the moment and the only time I feel ok again is when I get home.
I came online this afternoon to start a thread saying EXACTLY what you have said! But theres no point now cos you got there before me
I know exactly how you feel though. It's not that I'm not motivated in my studies, I am, and I have offers from all the univeristies I want to go to, but I just can't face going to school half the time. I too have also realised my 'friends' aren't really true friends (well most of them), and I just can't find the motivation to go into school every day. The thing is, I get much more work done by going through it myself at home, and the only thing that makes me go into school at the moment is bio and chem practicals and getting my work marked.
So yeah, any ideas for motivation in this thread would help quite a few people I think!
i found that when i left school i suddenly made loads of new mates and realised what a bunch a losers (bar 2) most of my so called mates were. I had a year out and that was the happiest year year of my life to be honest even though i just worked all through it. Im actually less happy now im at uni which is werid.
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