Should I go through Formal Recruitment?

[AZTheta]

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but OP - have you been tested for a learning disability or something else that might be interfering with your ability to achieve academic success? From what you wrote, you're not progressing.

There might well be something else going on with you that you could investigate and address. School should be your first priority. To that end, find out what's preventing you from achieving.

I say this because I have had attention difficulties my entire life (although I was able to hyperfocus on studying and got great grades, because I learned to isolate myself). In hindsight, it would have been helpful had my attention span and distractibility gotten the medical support it needed. Even today I still struggle with impulsivity and focus, but I finally know how to do what needs to be done when it really counts.

A sorority should be pretty far down on your list. That's my opinion.

[MusicIsLifeMD]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but OP - have you been tested for a learning disability or something else that might be interfering with your ability to achieve academic success? From what you wrote, you're not progressing.

There might well be something else going on with you that you could investigate and address. School should be your first priority. To that end, find out what's preventing you from achieving.

I say this because I have had attention difficulties my entire life (although I was able to hyperfocus on studying and got great grades, because I learned to isolate myself). In hindsight, it would have been helpful had my attention span and distractibility gotten the medical support it needed. Even today I still struggle with impulsivity and focus, but I finally know how to do what needs to be done when it really counts.

A sorority should be pretty far down on your list. That's my opinion.

I haven't, actually. But I'm currently looking in to getting that done. I can't focus on many things anymore. I used to be an avid (YA Fiction) reader... like sit-in-one-place-while-reading-a-400+-page-book-from-start-to-finish... Heck, in 10th grade, I read the entire Breaking Dawn book in 6 hours flat... and that is 756 page book.

I can't even sit down and focus on a 3 page "story", much less a 400+ page book.

Joining a sorority, was down on my list. It wasn't even an option until a Fraternity brother who is a student at DSU said something about it. The school is small and, from what I gather, very Greek oriented. That's all that brought that to mind Which got me researching a lot about it, which lead to this forum, and this question.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but OP - have you been tested for a learning disability or something else that might be interfering with your ability to achieve academic success? From what you wrote, you're not progressing.

There might well be something else going on with you that you could investigate and address. School should be your first priority. To that end, find out what's preventing you from achieving.

I say this because I have had attention difficulties my entire life (although I was able to hyperfocus on studying and got great grades, because I learned to isolate myself). In hindsight, it would have been helpful had my attention span and distractibility gotten the medical support it needed. Even today I still struggle with impulsivity and focus, but I finally know how to do what needs to be done when it really counts.

A sorority should be pretty far down on your list. That's my opinion.

This is good advice. OP, I saw where you said that you were thinking of having yourself tested. I believe that scheduling the tests can take some time and then you have to wait for the results and an interpretation of the tests, so I would say get on it right away.

[PhiAlpha05]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but OP - have you been tested for a learning disability or something else that might be interfering with your ability to achieve academic success? From what you wrote, you're not progressing.
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I say this because I have had attention difficulties my entire life (although I was able to hyperfocus on studying and got great grades, because I learned to isolate myself). In hindsight, it would have been helpful had my attention span and distractibility gotten the medical support it needed.

This. My experience has been a lot like AZTheta's, to the point that I avoided taking potentially challenging classes in undergrad (that weren't required for my degree, anyway) or exploring subject areas that weren't ludicrously easy for me. I totally regret that now, especially since I had some leftover credits I could've used to broaden my experiences in these fields.

(While I am not a psychologist and am not qualified to diagnose the OP, one thing that strikes me--and convinces me that she's barking up the right tree with her seeking evaluations--is the fact that she comes off as quite intelligent in her writing, and most people with this particular disorder are very intelligent, some even geniuses, a number of my favorite composers among them. Just don't be like Beethoven and try to self-medicate with 60-beans-per-cup coffee...)