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Article #50: ADD: Getting Through College With The Least Stress

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






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