Author Topic: should I switch majors? (now with possible health issues)  (Read 4800 times)

Okay, so like I said, I met with the associate dean and he told me that I couldn't switch classes unless a health issue came up, so I wanted to discuss something that's been happening for the past couple of days that I think is becoming an issue.

For like the past couple of days I've had classes that start at 9am, which is not early for most people, me included. Problem is, I have so much work to do at night, and with the lack of a tutor in Thermodynamics, I spend several hours working on that alone, without much progress. I end up unable to even pull myself out of bed 15 minutes before class starts, which is why I set up two alarms ten minutes apart from each other. I thought it would fix it, but it's done nothing, so I've ended up sleeping until noon and missing almost all my classes. This includes the stuff that really counts.

I thought that it was just a problem with getting work done late at night, but yesterday night all I did was a small questionnaire and studying for a test and I still couldn't get out of bed, this time at 10am, which is not early at all. I don't know what's going on here. Should I talk with student health?
« Last Edit: October 31, 2017, 08:31:05 PM by Tactical Nuke »

no, that’s called not getting sleep. you’re not going to get a doctor to recommend anything besides sleep more. at this point your best bet is to just keep what you’ve been doing and complaining about stuff so much that the school gets tired of hearing it so they just let you switch out (probably won’t happen)

make some friends in the class and study with them, join an engineering club in campus

no, that’s called not getting sleep. you’re not going to get a doctor to recommend anything besides sleep more.

I thought this too, but I just had one of those nights again (this is the third time in a row now) and I'm starting to think it's more serious then that. I finished my work earlier than usual, and I went to bed. I try for at least six hours a night, which is lower than for most people, but seriously, in college there's no way you're getting eight unless you just solely do work non-stop during the week, which would be just as intolerable for me as what's happening now. Basically, I got into bed in time, but I spent a literal hour tossing and turning about how I was failing practically every course minus two and thinking about my strategy to make it up. I woke up today at 2:30pm, barely able to get up off of my back.

I'm going to go to the health department about this. I hope you're right though, and it's just a thing with not getting enough sleep.

get some over the counter sleep meds and maybe cut out more of your free time. stress will keep you up at night so you need to mitigate it even if you’re gonna hate your life. dont be me and regret it afterwards

also ya definitely talk to an academic advising counselor, not just the engineering dean. and just because your college doesnt specifically have a course on acoustics engineering doesnt mean what you learn will be irrelevant towards that field