[ericwmontgomery]

Since I'm finally near the finish line of my college career, I'll throw my two cents in here.

When I started college, I lost interest in my classes very quickly; ended up dropping a lot of classes each semester and was just generally not being a very effective student. I turned it around by changing programs - I switched to a two-year degree program in an area I knew I was passionate about. I still had to take the odd class that wasn't related to my major, but actually having interesting classes for the most part made a major difference.

I finished that degree program, then decided the two year degree wasn't good enough and decided to go for my bachelors degree, which is what I'm finishing now. The downside of my approach to school is that I'm now older than just about everyone I'm taking classes with because I wasted so much of that time early on. Everyone my age is past the school and working on the career by now. But I'm glad that I'm finishing at all; making sure I was taking interesting classes made it possible to stick with it.

Good luck!