I am a first year uni student, and I am already halfway throught the first semester. I originally majored in computer science and minored in finance but after the few weeks of doing some of my computer science papers I was already questioning my choice for a major. And after failing all my midterms I decided to just go all out on finance, after talking to a course coordinator.
But even as of now I have come to a conclusion that no matter matter what I major in, if they have a exam or not, no matter how close an exam is and no matter how much help I get from tutors I cannot study at all. Ofc there have been times where I was able to force myself to open up my laptop and start doing some math equations for example but I always end up just giving up when a question that I cannot solve, then go to youtube or hop on the game until its time to go to bed.
I would also say that one of my reasons is from past habits like for example during highschool I was the sorta guy to just pass and I was happy with that and spend the rest of my time either working out, playing games, and doing Jiu Jitsu. And now that I am in Uni everything is taught at a much faster pace I cant keep up, meaning most of the time I go to lectures not understanding anything at all, and when it comes to like assignments/quizzes and things like that it is very easy for me to have ai help me. But I know that is wrong but sometimes I feel like I have no choice.
During my midterm break we were encouraged to put studying first, but of course I ended up just playing games and enjoying life outside of uni. As for some of my midterms they allowed us a cheatsheet and I thought that I could just put as much information in there as possible I should be sweet. And as you figured I didnt do much after that. After recieving my marks from the midterms back I got the lowest scores that I have ever seen in a very long time. And that for a while motivated me to try and do better, so I went and got some advise from all the third years that I knew and most of them encouraged me to treat Uni like a 9 to 5 which worked for a couple days and tbh I just spend most of that time catching up on assignments and not really studying if you get me? but as of now, finals are creeping up I still dont know how to study and I am still very behind.
Whenever I get free time instead of using that free time to study or get something done uni wise, I always find myslef doing something else like cooking, cleaning my flat, doing the laundry etc. Just leaving study dead last on the list and by that time I have done everything else Its already late at night then I just quickly just do an assignment that is due but never really put in the time to study. Then I end up just postponing it to the next day which has been the routine eversince I started uni. And even if I get everything done while there is still a lot of time for me to study I always seem to reject the fact that I need to study and so I find something else to do, for example go for a walk, hit the gym, and even ask my mates to hang out. Completly ignoring the fact that I have too study.
I also feel like I am the only one like this and whenever I ask my other friends who are at uni they seem to be acing everything and getting easy 95% to 100% on everything and whenever I talk to them about studying they often alwasy tell me the same thing that they put in 60 hours a week just studying and I just sit there going wtf. I always ask for advise from others on this subject of "studying" and go all through the internet trying to find a solution, but at the end of the day I cannot seem understand the simple task of actually studying. Its almost like I am ignoring it on purpose or its something that I dont deem to be important(Its Important).
Sorry about my rambling but that is my current situation at uni and I thought maybe giving reddit a go and asking for help may help me figure out what to do.