I’m in a very similar situation to yours! I’m also a rising CS freshman, and I’m also bringing a ton of credit from high school (2/3rds of an associate’s degree). However, taking a class in a given subject tends to actually reduce my intrinsic interest in it. I think this could be downstream of my low agreableness making me less accepting to knowledge I feel is externally imposed, or maybe that I end up associating the stress / drudgery of exams and assignments with the subject matter.
To echo River, I’m probably just going to use my credit to get my degree earlier, or at the very least eliminate gen-eds so that I have more time to work on projects of my own choosing. I transferred from a normal American public school to a public STEM magnet school. If you’re coming from a relatively low-workload high school, you might be surprised at the change in emotional valence that accompanies an increased workload. I definitely was.
I’m in a very similar situation to yours! I’m also a rising CS freshman, and I’m also bringing a ton of credit from high school (2/3rds of an associate’s degree). However, taking a class in a given subject tends to actually reduce my intrinsic interest in it. I think this could be downstream of my low agreableness making me less accepting to knowledge I feel is externally imposed, or maybe that I end up associating the stress / drudgery of exams and assignments with the subject matter.
To echo River, I’m probably just going to use my credit to get my degree earlier, or at the very least eliminate gen-eds so that I have more time to work on projects of my own choosing. I transferred from a normal American public school to a public STEM magnet school. If you’re coming from a relatively low-workload high school, you might be surprised at the change in emotional valence that accompanies an increased workload. I definitely was.