where there's a will, there's a way, grasshopper .....

First thing you need to do is to go to disabled student services at your school. They should be able to help keep you from getting into acedamic trouble (in the short run) while you deal with seeing a doctor.

At one point in time, doctors would consider diagnosing an adult with ADD, but times are changing so talk to a doctor and be prepared to get second or third opinions.

Often the differences in learning associated with ADHD don't really affect performance in a school until the material becomes challenging enough for the ADHD to impact performance. I'm one who's hesitant to even call ADHD a disorder, as it seems, at least in my case, to come with as many gifts as there are deficits. I tend to think of it as a difference. But let's face it, most schools are not exactly structured to accommodate this particular difference.

See if you can actually get evaluated by psycho educational testing rather than just telling a shrink your life story. They've gotten really good at identifying ADHD through psycho educational testing, and there are a lot of opportunities for misdiagnosis without it. For example, the manic phase of type 2 bipolar (that's the kind where you don't typically wind up walking down the street naked talking to god) looks exactly like ADHD, and would qualify as ADHD. The best diagnosis is one that combines psycho educational testing with talking to a good shrink.

hmm... your story brings back memories. I think engineering by itself is a hard career to follow which i myself struggle with. The only way i made it through was with... inspiration i guess. In freshmen year i was ready to change majors, at that time to me it seemed that it was not worth it to study like that while other people studied less and eventually would get pay more than me. anyways oneday i got to talking to a junior and he explained to me everything, that in order to make it through you must like engineering and that it is hard and he told me not to give up. he told me that i am going feel like droping out and giving up. i was shocked how does he know how i feel? and i told him that was how i exactly felt and he said that most engineering students feel like that. but in your case i am guessing you can't afford to get any c's and must keep a gpa of 3.0 and higher. that is hard but it is possible. So what does this have to do ADD... obviously nothing but i did write a research paper on this back in my junior year in my psychology class. And i like to think of it as an obstacle that your brain unconsciously puts on you. and i think that is my advice to you think of this "disease" as an obstacle and that it is only an obstacle. Don't go into medication cause all medication has side affects which might make it even worse.-- it is only an obstacle if you can make it an obstacle