I mean that seriously, not rhetorically. If you are here only to satisfy someone else's expectations, and not to achieve something satisfying for yourself, you're going to have a tough time.
College is an awful lot of work just to satisfy someone else.
It's a lot of work no matter how you look at it, but if the work is instrumental to something YOU want to achieve, you're going to have a much easier time picking yourself up when you fall on your face, or when you get bored or tired. Now imagine doing the same thing in order to prepare for a big party you're throwing for your best friend, or in order to move into the new office you just got in your big promotion. That's because the task has become instrumental for your own goal. Somehow, even cleaning windows can be satisfying if the purpose has something to do with goals that are meaningful to you. Click to go back to What it all boils down to.