I’ve never been so busy, I made the life altering decision to go back to college at 30 to get an engineering degree. I generally like math and I love building things and messing with electronics, it should be the perfect fit. But after starting at calc 2 and now doing 5 or 6 classes full time, working, and planning a wedding. I feel like I’m stretched thin.
I’ll get off of school and my brain feels like molasses. I’m medicated but I still feel like everyone is learning at twice the speed as me while I reread the question to make sure I actually understand the wording.
There’s some of you out there who are engineers, scientists, doctors with ADHD, who go out and do community stuff, go to the gym, live life and even socialize.
How? How do you do it? How do you keep up with such a constant schedule and try to understand new concepts every day on top of that? How do you not just curl into a ball and closing up into yourself to stop being overwhelmed?
I feel like I’m doing life on hard mode and it sucks
You’re into an extremely rigorous degree taking a full course load, working, and planning a wedding?
I don’t even have ADHD. I can push myself and focus all day, I can memorise without struggling much - at uni, I could draw you any given amino acid from memory, and that was for an elective. And I’m telling you, what you’re describing sounds like too much for me.
I’m working 14 hours a week and I haven’t actually started getting rigorous with the wedding yet, but to be honest, college alone is nearly too much, It feels like these kids are running circles around me and my mind just goes blank when taking tests, stuff that I sat down and did some serious study time for, with “aha” moments and everything just disappearing when I need it
Have you looked into test taking accommodations? They should give you extra time in a distraction free environment for adhd.
Yeah they help a little, but when you just haven’t retained the info enough there’s really not much you can do unfortunately
Do you use flash cards? Anki got me through a lot of uni. Sorry I don’t have any stronger suggestions, lessening your overall work load and getting accommodations would have been my first suggestion. I guess the only other recommendation I could make is troubleshoot your sleep habits. My wife and my kid both have unmedicated ADHD and they really burn out fast on bad sleep.