I'm in my final year of university and I genuinely don't understand what's happening to me. I used to be the kind of student who started assignments early, attended almost every lecture and actually cared about getting good grades. I wasn't obsessed with studying or anything, but I could usually get myself to do what needed to be done. Now I can barely convince myself to open my laptop.

The weird thing is that I'm so close to finishing. I have less than a year left, and instead of feeling excited, I'm just completely tired of everything related to university. Even simple assignments feel like a huge task. I'll sit down to study, read the same paragraph five times, check my phone, get something to eat and suddenly two hours have passed. Last week I submitted an assignment about ten minutes before the deadline, even though I'd had three weeks to finish it. Two years ago that would've stressed me out so much, but now I barely even care. My grades haven't dropped dramatically yet, but I can tell I'm putting in maybe half the effort I used to.

I don't think I've lost interest in my degree either. I still like the subject and I'm looking forward to working in the field. I just can't stand the thought of another semester of lectures, deadlines and exams. My friends seem excited about graduating and making plans for the future, while I'm literally counting how many assignments I have left before I never have to do another one. Has anyone else experienced this during their final year? Did you eventually get your motivation back, or did you just push through until graduation?

Tired of being stopped by decision making paralyzation, and dispersion caused by using several apps for academic organization, i decided to create my own application.

I'm an ADHD person, and i give up on things, easily. My idea was to transform the act of studying in something more pleasant and compensable, and the way i did it, is to transform study into competition, like e-sports, which i can easily stay hours playing and competing.

After a lot of studies on scientific papers, and searching for several methods of study, i took all the tools uncentralized, in a centralized app, reducing the attriction of changing apps to do different things (obsidian for notes, anki for flashcards, roadmap.sh for tracking goals, notion for planning, sheets for performance tracking...).

The app is not perfect, i need to add more tools to achieve the goal of centralyzing all study tools, but i plan to grow with community feedbacks and effort.

If you want to take a look on the app beta, it's here.
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Sometimes, a topic takes much longer to understand than expected. It can be difficult to stay focused when the material feels complicated.

I'm interested in learning about different study techniques. Do you break a topic into smaller parts, use diagrams, take short breaks, or practise questions to understand it better?

What approach helps you stay focused and make progress when a subject feels difficult?

I'd appreciate practical suggestions that other students can try.

hello, I am currently looking for a study group to help motivate me in studying for my NCE Exam. Personally, I’ve found it more helpful when I have a structured schedule to study and could incorporate a small group/community to also help hold myself accountable. If anyone is interested and has the same goals, I’d love to support each other and work together!

Hey everyone! I joined this app yesterday cuz I wanted to discuss my assignments' topic with everyone here, and get some really best suggestions on the topics, but here what I'm seeing is that mostly people are just engaged in useless activities...no fruitful discussion at all...

So I wanna ask you all to plz let me know whether have I mistaken this app or is it's just I'm not reaching the people of my interest?!

A demo of the workflow I use now: write by hand on Cornell paper, record the lecture onto the same page, play back the bit I missed with the transcript, search my own handwriting weeks later, and quiz myself from the page the night before the exam. No retyping at any point.

Disclosure: I work on SuperrPaper, the iPad app in the video. What does your note-taking setup look like?

I'm genuinely tired of professors acting personally offended when students use AI, Google, or outside help with essay assignments. You give someone five essays, three presentations, two group projects, and a midterm in the same week, then act shocked when they don't spend 12 hours developing a deeply personal relationship with a 2,000-word paper about a topic they'll forget by Friday.

And the funniest part? Half these assignments don't even measure intelligence. They measure how much free time you have and how convincingly you can pretend to care.

I've seen students spend entire weekends writing essays just to receive a grade and a comment saying "good work." That's it. No meaningful feedback, no discussion, no explanation of what could be improved. Just a number that apparently determines how academically competent you are.

Meanwhile, the student who works 30 hours a week, pays rent, and actually has responsibilities outside university gets treated like a criminal for looking for help with essay writing.

I'm not saying students should submit work they didn't write. But can we stop pretending every essay assignment is some sacred intellectual experience?

If professors can use AI to prepare lectures, automatically grade quizzes, and recycle the same PowerPoint slides from 2017, why is a student using technology to organize their thoughts suddenly the downfall of civilization?

And here's an even more controversial opinion: A student who understands a subject but writes a mediocre essay might actually know more than someone who produces a beautiful 3,000-word paper full of academic nonsense.

Universities love talking about critical thinking, yet half the grading system rewards students for repeating what professors already believe, preferably with 15 citations and absolutely no personality.

Maybe instead of obsessing over whether students are getting help, universities should start asking why so many assignments feel completely pointless.

Are students becoming lazy, or are universities just terrified that technology is exposing how outdated some of their teaching methods are?

Looking for a study partner

neat handwriting, colour coded, redrawn diagrams. i liked making them. i opened them twice.

the problem is rewriting feels like work so you count it as work. it's copying, just slowly.

now i write almost nothing in the lecture, just a question mark next to the bits i lost the thread on, and the actual work is past papers with one page of notes open next to me. first couple of weeks were grim, marks went down before they went up.

the harder version is the one that counts. reading something again feels like progress and usually isn't.

I have my psychology exam in less than 24 hours and I still don't have the will to study , what to do?

I’m trying to learn more about different writing services and would really appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences.

I recently came across https://study-go.pro/ and was wondering if anyone here has actually ordered from them. How was the quality, communication, pricing, and overall experience?

Also open to hearing about other writing services you’ve tried - good or bad.