I am glad you feel that way....that you are willing to work hard at your undergrad at a state school.

My H (ex by separation now) had an attitude problem with going to a state university (which is where I met him back in the 1970's. He was constantly bragging about how high his IQ was.....but he didn't put any effort into the classes he didn't like.....he was a computer science major & he thought he was smarted than all the professors that he didn't care for & wouldn't put any work into those classes. I thought he was a complete looser because of his attitude & then he graduated with a whopping 2.5 gpa. He had been working for Bank of America while going through college & he expected them to OWE him a position in their programming department of the bank. When they told him they didn't want him because his GPA wasn't high enough he got so pissy about it......really ticked me off & I was ready to dump him because of his attitude.......unfortunately I didn't but my attitude toward him set ouf marriage off on definitely a wrong foot that never got corrected because his attitude never changed. He wouldn't go back to that state university to get his masters besides, he had so much to do to make his GPA acceptable for grad school, he lost even more interest with doing anything to improve his situation. He got so annoyed, he refused to look for work during that summer after we got married. It wasn't until I QUIT my part time job which I was using to pay for my college that he finally decided to get off his @$$ & go find a job.

After I finally left him 5 years ago, I mentioned what I felt was a lot of the problems that went into the failure of our marriage. We were both talking to my psychologist......& my husband's comment about having bad grades was because he wasn't inspired to do better because he had really wanted to go to Cal Tech & because he didn't get to go there, he didn't care about doing well in college because the univ he went to wasn't "good enough". Funny thing was that his younger brother went to the same state university & he not only excelled, but he got an intern position that took him far, he went back & got his masters from that same school, & even ended up being an assistant director at one of the power companies in California.

His younger brother put him to shame......you get out of a school what you put into it & you get out of your education even more what you put into it.

I am so glad to hear that you are not taking the same pathetic attitude that my husband did when he wanted to go to a very prestigious university out of high school but couldn't get it either even though he had the high grades in high school.

Keep up your attitude of excelling in the state school so that you can go to a wonderful univ for your post grad work.

You may not know the direction of your interest right now, but as you go through more courses, you will find what you want your focus to be.

Wishing you the very best of luck & skills to get through this along with a very positive attitude & you will do very well.

If you ever think of blowing off the state school for your undergrad, I want you to think back on this post & realize what a looser my husband was & that you don't want to be anything like that.

Wishing you the best with your education & a very positive attitude.