I’m bored and have 30 hours of A-level Work to do, Help pls

Hi, I finished my GCSEs a couple months ago and have had a massive holiday to do tons of cool stuff but I’ve found myself feeling more bored and down than when I was actually doing the exams. It feels like since prom and my trip abroad everything has just been going downhill. I have so much work I could be doing in my free time but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Each day I sleep in, get ready, eat, watch Netflix and then go to bed late. I’m in a constant cycle which I want to get out of so I can be productive but I can’t seem to escape it. If anyone has some tips/advice that would be amazing because I feel like I’m becoming increasingly antisocial and irritable as my depressive state continues to go on. Thank you so much and sorry for the rant, I really needed to get this out of my system.

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Reply 1

a.willow

hey i feel you! honestly i've started hating the summer for this exact reason. i had planned on doing so many things in this summer before uni starts but it feels like i've done basically nothing, but we do still have time! i remember the summer before my a-levels, i put off my transition work till literally the last week. what i ended up doing was getting noise cancelling headphones and finding one song to put on repeat till i finished it.

other, perhaps less dysfunctional strategies i've found useful are splitting things up and just making a start, even if its something really small. also to use as much scaffolding as you need, because it honestly doesn't matter about "cheating" at this stage - if you heavily reference something, just reference it using harvard referencing or sm and you're golden. my big hurdle is not knowing where or how to start, so overcoming that will probably help you. setting a schedule might also be of use, the way i like to do it is write on a calender what (small) tasks i need to do per day, so that im not facing down a huge list of jobs that all seem unapproachable. good luck and i hope this helped! let me know if you'd like any other advice or tips <3

Reply 2

H-nC0

Original post by a.willow

hey i feel you! honestly i've started hating the summer for this exact reason. i had planned on doing so many things in this summer before uni starts but it feels like i've done basically nothing, but we do still have time! i remember the summer before my a-levels, i put off my transition work till literally the last week. what i ended up doing was getting noise cancelling headphones and finding one song to put on repeat till i finished it.
other, perhaps less dysfunctional strategies i've found useful are splitting things up and just making a start, even if its something really small. also to use as much scaffolding as you need, because it honestly doesn't matter about "cheating" at this stage - if you heavily reference something, just reference it using harvard referencing or sm and you're golden. my big hurdle is not knowing where or how to start, so overcoming that will probably help you. setting a schedule might also be of use, the way i like to do it is write on a calender what (small) tasks i need to do per day, so that im not facing down a huge list of jobs that all seem unapproachable. good luck and i hope this helped! let me know if you'd like any other advice or tips <3

Thank you so much that’s such great advice! Do I need to be referencing, the work I had set didn’t explicitly say? I’ve never done it before so I just wondered.

Reply 3

a.willow

Original post by H-nC0

Thank you so much that’s such great advice! Do I need to be referencing, the work I had set didn’t explicitly say? I’ve never done it before so I just wondered.

you're welcome!
i'd say its still good practice to reference, and you can use this generator (https://www.mybib.com/tools/harvard-referencing-generator) to just plug your links in and get what you need really quickly, and it shows 1. initiative and 2. an appreciation for the academics, in my experience in college they'll ask you to reference whenever you use resources to research practicals, experiments etc, so there's no harm in doing it!
if you don't have the links to anything you used though, don't worry about it - if they aren't specifically asking for it, they won't penalise either 🙂