Quote:I'm 20 and I was a computer/electrical engineer major. I was into my third year and I had a year and a half to go.
Then 1 day as I am doing my programming homework and figuring out what the hell was wrong with my code,
I thought to myself 'spoon, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life.'
So I changed majors and now I am a proud music (vocal) education major. The point is do what you want to do in life. Cause its your life don't let anyone hold you back.
it was kind of my fault. ive been taking focalin (an adhd medication) to help with my homework on occasion. it really worked great. made me focused on my homework, and id always get good grades. but wee couldnt get any focalin. so wee decided, "oh, lets get adderall, its still an adhd medication, itll do the same thing". unfortunately its not.
Spoiler for backstory:
so i started taking focalin to help me with my psychology homework. ive done it twice. both times, i got 4+ days of work in around 3 hours, and got the highest grade in the class. the irony here is, both of these homework assignments were for my final project. it was a paper on ADHD medication lol. i learned why this happened while i wrote my paper, but just realized it now. focalin is a new drug, using a new stimulant, dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride. adderall is an older one, and still uses methylphenidate, an amphetamine. this means that focalin works better, and gives focus and productivity, whereas adderall just made us happy, jittery, and have a lot of action.
instead of super productive, were all just really happy and have too much action, now eisen is on EP, and hyper focused on that, while im super active messing with songbird. the definition of a fail? i think not, its just a (welcome) unexpected outcome.
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28/04/2010 04:08 AM
LumpiaWarrior
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Quote:I'm 20 and I was a computer/electrical engineer major. I was into my third year and I had a year and a half to go.
Then 1 day as I am doing my programming homework and figuring out what the hell was wrong with my code,
I thought to myself 'spoon, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life.'
So I changed majors and now I am a proud music (vocal) education major. The point is do what you want to do in life. Cause its your life don't let anyone hold you back.
Quote:I'm 20 and I was a computer/electrical engineer major. I was into my third year and I had a year and a half to go.
Then 1 day as I am doing my programming homework and figuring out what the hell was wrong with my code,
I thought to myself 'spoon, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life.'
So I changed majors and now I am a proud music (vocal) education major. The point is do what you want to do in life. Cause its your life don't let anyone hold you back.
Quote:I'm 20 and I was a computer/electrical engineer major. I was into my third year and I had a year and a half to go.
Then 1 day as I am doing my programming homework and figuring out what the hell was wrong with my code,
I thought to myself 'spoon, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life.'
So I changed majors and now I am a proud music (vocal) education major. The point is do what you want to do in life. Cause its your life don't let anyone hold you back.
Adderall has it's up and downs. Same with any ADHD meds. Adderall, releases in your body all at once unlike focalin/ritalin (unless its a 30mg or 15mg XR capsule with the little beads/balls, theses are time released. but the beads can be broken and ruins the time release) and can and will make you feel jittery, loss of apatite wide awake, dry mouth, increase in heartbeat, bite down and grind your teeth and can be easily abused as many of my friends (and I sometimes to) take adderall and other amphetamine/Lis/dexamfetamine can be used to stay up all night/drink all night/just to speed. I have ALOT of friends who take adderall before class or work and are able to enjoy work/class and get spoon done because amphetamine makes you speed much like coke or meth and releases dopamine (the happy/feel good chemical in your brain)
my beef with amphetamine is that it is highly addictive and alot of my friends have problems with it (is it a problem when your looking for it everyday?) and if abused will lead to depression (if you have the drug or not)
Look at it this way. if anyone here has done coke before they will know that your only going to speed as hard as you will off your first line.... same deal with adderall and similar drugs, you'll take more looking for that same high, so you take more and your not at satisfied as you were with that 1st one. and makes you. sad. and make you use more.. in no way am i saying EPeople have/will have problems with amphetamine. im just saying, the drug has it's pros and cons and i have watched some of my friends ruin there life's over it.
oh. and i also disagree with anyone under the age of 16 taking this med. The people and doctors who give this drug to kids are fudgeing retarded! The people who give this drug to kids are the same people that have never used it themselves, and only know what it does/ how it make you feel based on what they read. I say to them "You take this drug, then you tell me if you think an 8 year old kid should be on this"
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28/04/2010 09:08 AM
LumpiaWarrior
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Quote:I'm 20 and I was a computer/electrical engineer major. I was into my third year and I had a year and a half to go.
Then 1 day as I am doing my programming homework and figuring out what the hell was wrong with my code,
I thought to myself 'spoon, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life.'
So I changed majors and now I am a proud music (vocal) education major. The point is do what you want to do in life. Cause its your life don't let anyone hold you back.
<Myth0s> i love boys
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I Go To Earth When Mars Is Boring.
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¿ʞɔпɟ əɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ I was first EPerson to have upside down title.
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