I’ve never been so busy, I made the life altering decision to go back to college at 30 to get an engineering degree. I generally like math and I love building things and messing with electronics, it should be the perfect fit. But after starting at calc 2 and now doing 5 or 6 classes full time, working, and planning a wedding. I feel like I’m stretched thin.

I’ll get off of school and my brain feels like molasses. I’m medicated but I still feel like everyone is learning at twice the speed as me while I reread the question to make sure I actually understand the wording.

There’s some of you out there who are engineers, scientists, doctors with ADHD, who go out and do community stuff, go to the gym, live life and even socialize.

How? How do you do it? How do you keep up with such a constant schedule and try to understand new concepts every day on top of that? How do you not just curl into a ball and closing up into yourself to stop being overwhelmed?

I feel like I’m doing life on hard mode and it sucks

  • Windswept@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Have you looked into test taking accommodations? They should give you extra time in a distraction free environment for adhd.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Do you use flash cards? Anki got me through a lot of uni. Sorry I don’t have any stronger suggestions, lessening your overall work load and getting accommodations would have been my first suggestion. I guess the only other recommendation I could make is troubleshoot your sleep habits. My wife and my kid both have unmedicated ADHD and they really burn out fast on bad sleep.

        • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Yeah I’ve noticed if I stay up (sometimes I get too hot to sleep or my cat wakes me up to give her attention) I just cannot learn the next day.

          I’ve been looking at all these posts and I think the answer is definitely, “take a smaller course load next semester”

          Summarily, if I start doing at least 20 hours at work a week I qualify for food aid again, which would be nice to have some more grocery money

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I’d love to see you get better sleep and more food security. That’s going to be a game changer. Do your best for now and I hope you will reduce that course load.