Motivation Problem

badgermonkey · 29 Dec 2006 at 15:32

Right, I'm at uni doing a course that I am enjoying immensely (Computer Games Development).

That problem is that although when I'm actually at uni I get the work done, now I'm home for Christmas, with 4 courseworks on the go, I just can't seem to find the motivation to finish them properly. I have no idea whatss wrong, but everytime I start I just quit halfway through and go do something else.

Is there any way I could try and overcome my motivation problems, since I WANT to do well on my course, and I still find it hard to sit down at home and work

badgermonkey · 29 Dec 2006 at 15:35

[noodle] said:
I have that trouble with my GCSE IT Project 2 - waaaaay too long, but probably not that long compared to what you're doing. I found the way to get through it is do half an hour of solid work on it, then five/ten minutes of something you enjoy, so you don't get bored of constant over-working.

Tried that, my 5-10 miinutes ends up in me not doing it again

badgermonkey · 29 Dec 2006 at 15:48

Rich_L said:
Just sit down and get it done!

If there are distractions, remove distractions. Go to your local library and do it there, or lock yourself away from the internet and get on with it

2 problems

Need to do most of it on my PC, due to the osftware and stuff I need to use.

So I cna't go to the library or block the internet

badgermonkey · 29 Dec 2006 at 17:37

Chris1712 said:
I Have this exact problem, only im not massively enjoying my Uni course. Computer Systems Engineering, its VERY heavy and intensive compared to all the other courses i've seen, which is annoying in itself. I find that i'm not motivated to do any work until the last possible moment when im motivated because of fear .

For instance, i to had four assignments in before christmas (greatful for that now!), all due in on tuesday the 12th of december, i started them sunday the 10th. Probably not the best of ideas but hey i got them done but it did involve 2 days at uni doing 0900-1930 (latest our labs with MARCO is open) and then a nother 4 or 5 hours at home. Mass effort but hey i got it done, but it was only because it was due in pretty damn soon.

My computer systems module is definately the heaviest.

Oh well... I guess I just gota sit down and plod through it.

I'm driving into the uni one or two days next week just to get some work done

badgermonkey · 30 Dec 2006 at 10:42

Chris1712 said:
What exactly are you doing? I'm sure theres plenty of help available on here it is a computing forum!

Coursework One - Design a minimod for BF1942. Some various stuff involved, but everytime i try and get my models ingame the BF1942 directory wipes them. Somehow. 29 times so far. And I'm following the lecturers instructions precisely

Coursework 2 - Some assembler language programming. Not too hard.

Coursework 3 - Some god awfully hard and complicated C++ questions.

Coursework 4 - Model and render (along with crudloads of documentation) a room that must include various items. Not hard, just having a hard time sorting out the lighting.

Coursework 5 - Maths questions. Easy

Coursework 6 - Make a game of 3 levels (the levels have various specifics) in Gamemaker. (www.gamemaker.nl)

There's a lot