| Many people with ADD find it very difficult to stick to a | | | | yourself a half hour of math (if you can concentrate |
| four-year program at college and to get their degrees. | | | | that long), a half hour of something you like to do, and |
| College can be hard for anyone when there are 5 | | | | then, back to math of another half hour. Or, if your |
| papers due all on the same day. But you have the | | | | attention span is only 15 minutes, start with math, move |
| added handicap of being easily bored and quickly | | | | to creative writing for 15 minutes, then art history for 15 |
| finding distraction. So, though it's no cakewalk for any | | | | minutes, and psychology 101 can make up the rest of |
| college student, getting your degree can be particularly | | | | your hour. Just keep doing this for as many hours as |
| hard when you have ADD. How can that be helped? | | | | you need to really get cranking with math. Or, you'll |
| Find a school that will work with you and your ADD. | | | | have to find a more flexible college. Some will allow |
| Most colleges require 15 credits to be classified as a | | | | you to design your own major, which is ideal for |
| full-time student, but most will also allow you to take | | | | people with ADD. That way, you'll be concentrating on |
| fewer credits, though you'll only be classified as | | | | subjects that you know you can enjoy and really put |
| part-time. If this isn't a tax issue for you or your | | | | your hyperfocus into gear and make it work for you. |
| parents, being a part-time student with fewer classes | | | | The whole thing should be about finding a college that's |
| to worry about may be a solution for you. Another | | | | right for you. If you're in school now and having a |
| solution would be to take fewer of the required | | | | terrible time at it, transfer to a school that understands |
| courses that you find it hard to deal with. Maybe take | | | | your ADD. That comes even before you look for the |
| one of those per semester, and fill your schedule with | | | | money because there are always scholarships that |
| classes that you do like. For instance, what if you | | | | you can employ. Yet, if you don't find the right school, |
| absolutely, positively have to take Algebra and Trig | | | | you may end up only hoping for a degree instead of |
| during your first semester, and find it very difficult to | | | | really earning one. |
| deal with math? One solution would be to take | | | | Tellman Knudson is a certified hypnotherapist and NLP |
| creative writing, art history, and psychology 101 or any | | | | practitioner, who has helped many of his clients to |
| other low-level class, or whatever classes appeal to | | | | cope with the symptoms of ADD. |
| you, as asides. When you're studying, be sure to give | | | | |