I find it hard to find motivation to do school work

[u/DarkPotatoKing7]

I'm on my third year of college on a four year degree program. I'm so close to graduating but now I'm too lazy to do anything. Before my goal was to graduate, but now even then graduating doesn't seem to be important anymore.

Right now it feels like to me that there's no point in even graduating anymore, and it's just a waste of time. To put into context soon I will be undergoing a summer internship on a company (the internship is a requirement for graduation). The thing is, once you've interned at a company you're pretty much ready to work full time. I've heard of people who have stopped finishing college either completely or temporarily because they found work much more exciting and rewarding than going to school.

It feels like I'm no longer learning anything useful at school anymore. According to some graduates before me, most of the stuff you need to know to work in the industry are the basics that were taught during the first or second year of the degree program. The rest of the skills you'd need will be learned through experience by actually doing work.

With all of this considered, it feels like finishing college is a waste of time. I imagine that the one year I'd spend on my fourth year would be wasted, why spend one more year just to finish a degree when I can start working earlier and thus start gaining more work experience earlier?

A lot of the school work is too repetitive. Most of the things I learn are things that I'm not interested on or I think I wouldn't need once I get working. I also feel that some of the requirements are just mechanical, that you just have to put effort on to finish it, but I'm not learning anything from it.

For example, in one of our classes our main output is to make a website. I've had experience making websites before so to me the task is trivial. I could probably finish it in just a 2 day hackathon. However, because it's too easy I don't feel like I'm learning anything. I already know what to do, so to me the task only requires me to type a lot of letters and symbols continuously for a long time. It's all mechanical and no actual thinking required, thus it makes it hard for me to start it. The only thing that motivates me to actually finish something is the deadline, which because of how easy it is for me, I usually just start doing hours before the deadline. This process pretty much just keeps repeating until the next deadline and so on, I no longer see any reason why I should be doing this.

This example also applies to other school requirements in general, I no longer see any purpose of why I'm even doing schoolwork. I'm not particularly struggling to learn the lessons, I have really low standards set for my grades (just pass the course) so it's pretty easy to achieve them. I could end up just fine if I just study a bit and do all of the school requirements, but because of lack of motivation I'm struggling to even start doing simple things, even homework that would require less than 10 minutes to complete.

I'm a college student who's almost gonna graduate, but I've lost my motivation to even do the simple things. How do I fix myself?

[u/fukamundo]

I am in the same boat as you. I'm on my last semester and can't wait to get it all over with, yet I still am procrastinating. It's probably at its worst state ever. I think the only way to fix ourselves is to just do it because there really is no point in waiting.