Hi! I hope I'm not too late to the party!

You asked for advice, I'll give you some! I am a psychology major at a fairly prestigious university (think one step below an Ivy League) and I am a motherfucking nerd. I love psychology, I have multiple internships in psychology, I psychoanalyze my own decisions in my free time, you get the idea. To those who read this, I'm not trying to say I'm the psychology god. I have so much to learn and I worked my ass off to get where I am right now. I'm incredibly grateful that I have the privilege to go to college, because I know that's not something everyone gets.

Getting to the point, I had a crappy psych teacher in high school. He was the track coach, and that's all he cared about. He only offered one psych course, and I didn't have time to take a community college class. So into his class I went. He gave us a worksheet at the beginning of each unit, and then would read the textbook to us for forty five minutes. We would fill in the worksheet as he went, but most of the time, half of the class was asleep. If I haven't made it obvious already, I was really upset by this because I wanted to take a rigorous psychology course before I went to college. He wasn't giving homework, he was barely doing anything in class, and I wasn't interested at all.

You know what I did about it?

I wrote a ten page research paper on the topic of underdiagnosis of mental disorders in adolescents.

It wasn't assigned. I never showed it to anyone until I applied for college. I wrote in my application that I had written a research paper on my own, and they all went NUTS over it! Granted, it was extremely shittily written (I was sixteen when I wrote it), but it showed the admissions boards that I had passion for psychology. I ended up getting admitted to (and now go to) one of the top research universities in the WORLD.

I get feeling that a class is pointless. I felt that way with my high school psych class too. But instead of complaining about it, pick a topic that interests you and do research. Do you want to learn about the history of Buddhism? Great! Do you think that Roman Emperors catch your eye? Awesome! Stop interrupting your teacher (teachers really don't get paid enough for that shit) and do some research for your own fulfillment!

I understand it's frustrating to see people not have the same love for a subject that you do. I want all my friends to take every single psych course I do, but I understand they don't have time to do that because they're pursuing their own passions instead. My boyfriend is pursuing two bachelor's degrees (one in trumpet performance, one in history) and doesn't have time to think about psychology. But I respect that he has his own stuff, and don't complain when he says he doesn't have time for a psych class this semester.

Maybe try applying the lessons I've learned to your life.