Being gay and studying..

Put Up a Poll for you, dude

 

I think it's just my general lack of motivation that keeps me from studying. Nothing to do with girls.

 

Oh, and yeah, I seriously doubt a person's sexuality inhibits any study performance xD It's my own laziness and inability to study that causes me not to study xD

 

Keeping everything bottled makes alot of stess,it really eats at me academicaly

 

Was kinda funny timing...me finally coming out to myself in my last semester...Most classes it didn't matter as I could actually pay attention. But, in one of my boring classes I spent most of my time mulling over the gayness. (Didn't help that the guy in front of me was especially hot!)

In other classes, it just made me jump out of my skin at any mention of homosexuality or anything even slightly related to it.

 

Well, Im out to my favorite english prof. It definitely helps my work ethic in her class. I have always tended to soar in classes with a teacher i like. And the same goes for ones i like. I almost failed one computer class that i was actually really good at because my teacher was so...dry. But thats not so much to do with being out, thats just one of the reasons i like her.

But yea, being out in general has not changed much of anything for me school wise. The two things dont directly affect each other. My work habits have gotten better with age, and that kind of mirrors my coming out, but i think thats a coincidence.

 

I put no, and I had to put closet answer cause I'm not out to everyone at school yet.

 

Yeah, I agree with this. Spring semester, my school performance definitely suffered, and I know there were patches of poor performance before that whenever I was particularly preoccupied with it. I knew my classes were important but I had trouble thinking about anything other than, "Do I really like girls that way? Am I bisexual? Am I a lesbian? Do I just want to be those girls, or be friends with them, or do I actually want to be with them? ... Oh god I'm going to have to tell my parents." And that sort of thing. And it distracted me big time.

Once I looked myself in the mirror and said, "I'm queer," and knew it to be true and accepted it and felt that giddy, overwhelming happiness of feeling right? Yeah, totally stopped having problems with being preoccupied with questioning my sexuality in class. =P I started this semester out to myself and my family and I had a far, far better time.

So being queer didn't affect my study habits, but questioning myself did!

 

my gay-ness causes me to day dream about hot guys instead of talking, studying, thinking, contributing lol the list goes on...

 

I'm out, and yes, my performance has suffered. Partially because being out and more open is stressful (with homophobia, and family acceptance), as well as the fact that I feel kinda lonely being (or seeming like) the only lesbian my age in this city.

Whereas when I was in the closet, I was denying it so I didn't tell people and therefore didn't have homophobia, social issues really.

 

same. and my friends talking to me about it and trying to get me to come out doesn't really help

 

I think being gay actually makes you smarter. look at leonardo da vinci, he was bisexual if I remeber correctly.

 

Not really, I really don't need to study, never have. But other than that, its my own procrastination and laziness that keeps me from doing home projects and homework. But sometimes, things regarding my sexuality can put me in a really bad mood and not make me wanna do anything but i dont think that counts because anything can put me in a bad enough mood to not make me wanna do anything