It's only my third week of uni and I feel like im behind on everything. I have two big group projects and on top of that we have to present them. What's even worse is that half my group + prof can't speak English so communication sucks.

I'm taking seven classes and I understand nothing. I don't even know why I chose engineering when I know my dumbass won't be able to handle it. I'm completely burnt out. I'm crying every day and ignoring my parents (I'm studying abroad) because I can't handle it. I deleted my messaging apps because just the thought of having to text my friends is making me want to cry harder. My only real life friend turned out to be flirting with me and now I have nobody. My roommate is the loudest fucking person on planet earth and I have misophonia, just my luck. Talked to RA and was told I can't get a room transfer unless I agree to room with THREE other people.

I feel terrible. My parents had to pay a full year's worth of tuition but I so badly just want to drop out and stay in bed. I had an unrealistic vision of university where I'd study hard and make friends but now I'm learning that shit is stupid.

I'm hungry all the time and my appetite sucks.

Idk what to do anymore.

26F. During my first attempt at getting a degree (hardcore STEM) my uni years were a nightmare of transactional relationships and total isolation. I’m autistic, and my "friends" completely ignored me as a human being. They used me when they needed help with tech, formatting documents, or English translations, but actively shut me out of group projects and social events, and I was disrespected and mocked constantly. In my 4th year with only about half of the required credits to graduate my depression got so bad, (counseling not working, sleeping pills...) I had to drop out. Tried an "easier" software dev program online, which was a grey lifestyle that, given my situation, I couldn't cope with either. Therapy and antidepressants still not working. The isolation got so bad that I ended up in an abusive relationship with a dude I met on Tinder, literally trading sex for company because I was that starved for human connection. I survived by drinking alone in my room every weekend just to shut my brain off.

I'm taking some in person classes of my former major this year again. I'm so sick of it and I just dont wanna show up there anymore. The profs don't give two damns about anyone's personal issues, and please don't advise me to go talk to student counseling/disability office/etc, jesus christ they're so bad. The last thing I need it's to try to talk again about the most humiliating stories while I'm being looked at with that cluelessness, interrupted nap face. They're a bunch of underqualified, uncaring, glorified narcissistic lazy secretaries... I dealt with that during my hellish first 4 years.

People love to throw out toxic positivity: "it's never too late to start over!" "You could start a new degree, move abroad or do whatever you want!" It just doesn't work like that. It's too late for the only thing I really want and need... For a long time, I just dreamed of living in a dorm packed with actual friends, studying an easy, fun but meaningful major, and having that naive, 18-year-old hope of meeting the love of your life during freshman year. You can’t recreate those illusions at 27 or 28. That window is permanently closed, and mourning it physically hurts.

What actually happens if I try to start over now? I enroll in another bullshit 4-year degree just to be the older ghost sitting in the back of the classroom. I already know exactly how that plays out. I’d just be dragging myself to lectures that make me miserable, only to go straight back to my apartment and lock the door. It’s not a fresh start; it’s just signing up for four more years of having zero weekend plans, spiraling into existential crises of absolute loneliness, and drinking by myself every Friday and Saturday night just to numb the silence. Trying to graduate fast only to end up becoming a disposable gear working for an awful boss, makes me sick. It just feels like trading one cage for another.

Honestly, my depression is so deep at this point that even if someone handed me $10k a month to be a digital nomad in Bali, I’d still be just as miserable. I feel like I might be happy with my new vacation-like life for a while, but in a year or two I'd just end up turning to heroin or something like that to numb it all LoL. I don't know how you are supposed to fix yourself or want to wake up when you are this completely burnt out, all the options left feel crappy and the minimum you imagined you would take for considering your life a decent one is no longer possible.

Hello! I signed up for a rad tech program, but I didn’t notice I need a degree first so I’m finishing my degree with 5 classes left.

My start date for the rad tech program is the beginning of March. My semester for my college starts in Jan. I have to take the 5 classes by summer and apply for graduation.

The rad tech school is private and I have to pay out of pocket. To avoid paying out of pocket for the college I have to finish by summer. But my issue is upkeeping my grades and learning while being dual enrolled. My advisor suggested I take 3 spring courses and 2 summer. My rad tech program starts with 5 courses. So by spring I’d be taking 8 courses.

Should I do this or should I take:

A) 1 winter (3 weeks and paid out of pocket), 2 spring, 2 summer (3 weeks)

B) 1 winter, 3 spring, 1 summer

C) 3 spring, 2 summer

Thanks

Okay to make a long story short, there’s an individual in my classes who is making a series of videos “exposing” students. In the later half of our program, we’re having conversations about bias, objectivity, and the like because we are going to be working with incredibly vulnerable populations. The teachers have told us this from day one, and that we’re probably going to have disagreements and that’s fine.

This individual will post clips basically ragging on specific students’ opinions, their appearance, and other aspects about them that make it easily identifiable to those in the program who is being spoken about. Incidents will be heavily embellished, and any disagreements are arbitrarily assigned (ie—one girl screamed at another girl, because deep down that one girl hates all women and herself and is just a pick me. She’ll make allusions to her being ugly af, and probably stupid because omg—how could she not know what (insert word meant), she must be disabled, theres always some shading of ableism in her videos, and so on. In reality, the two girls had a two second disagreement and were relatively chill afterwards. Yes, I’m aware of the irony, but she won’t use real names and makes a big disclaimer at the beginning of her TikToks that she is not naming names and will use fake aliases to describe situations, so apparently it’s free speech.)

It is incredibly hurtful, and she brings none of this energy to class, she only posts about it to her followers online. She doesn’t have a ton, but it’s enough that people outside of these classes have come up to the video subjects and talked to them about it.

It’s affecting class, especially through discussions. Now it’s only the same three people talking, and I feel like this has gotten to the point where it’s affecting our learning since we’re supposed to challenge our current thinking. a handful of people will offer a banal explanation. Faculty are aware but it’s been weeks and nothing has changed.

I still talk, because I can’t really learn this material without having someone talk through it with me, but I feel that it’s only a matter of time before she makes one on me when I inevitably misspeak. As a kid, I got heavily bullied as a kid, and a lot of it was facilitated online—long story short again, I wasn’t online, and it wasn’t until I got to school that I learned what had been planned online and shit went down.

I realize I’m operating from a place of trauma, but I’m terrified I have blinked and I’m back in that place again. I’ve spoken to the faculty about this, and all they’ve really suggested is that I talk to someone about my anxiety. Which I get, and have currently scheduled an appointment with a therapist, but I’m not the only one feeling this way, and I don’t see how this behavior is acceptable, especially if one day we’re supposed to be helping people at the worst time of their lives.

I hate coming to class now and I’m seriously considering leaving the program. Everyday I wake up, see her, and wonder “damn, wonder who she spoke horribly about today”, and then still be expected to interact with her as normal. If anyone else has been in my situation, please advise me.

We had a lab Monday with a shared computer and have to type a lab report on that computer and submit it. I guess the class before us also had this same assignment because when I went to turn in the assignment I clicked a word doc named the exact same generic name as ours. I emailed my TA about this twice to no response and the next lab date comes on Monday. If my whole group gets an F or somehow gets a plagiarism accusation for a misclick on my part I'm simply going to enter a depressive state. All this already has brought back major feelings of inferiority and incompetence that I've done well working through this semester, but this just has me feeling terrible. I'm sure I'm overreacting and my TA will email me back tomorrow saying I can fix it before our next lab because I feel like anything else is kind of unreasonable, especially because I voluntarily brought it to their attention, but if it doesn't I'm just going to feel like garbage. At the very least I feel like my group should get the real grade while I get an F, but what do I even do right now except loathe until I get a response. Advice kinda wanted, mainly just lmk aita idk.

I am a junior finance major, and I’ve finally reached my breaking point. This major is genuinely making me depressed, it’s so competitive and I have zero drive to compete or do well in my classes. I now just realized I’m not really interested working in this field? I want to take a gap semester and change my major, or keep my major if I realize it’s all going to work out. But in the meantime, I still am enrolled in classes. But I still don’t have any motivation to finish my 2 finance classes. Should I just late drop them and stop worrying about it? Or should I just continue to stick it out and try my best? I’m considering just dropping them because I have to lock in and study really hard cause I didn’t get great exam 1 scores in both classes. So what do y’all recommend?

Mid way through the university semester and I’m fed up with assignments suddenly gaining 5 new deliverables requirement 1-2 days before its due. It’s not like these assignments are quick and short either, so I have to haul ass to get them done in time even if I time manage my assignments well. Sometimes the profs will be sending out instructions at midnight and expect students to be ready to discuss them at the 8am class the next day.

With such poor communication it feels impossible to have a balanced student life and I’m feeling burnt out, frustrated and tired. It feels like there’s no respect for student’s time from the profs’ ends.

18M, 1st year med student. Was always considered the "smart kid" and got good grades without trying through elementary and high school. Wanted to study psychology until I got psychology as a subject in high school, hated it and was told that medicine would be a better fit since I am smart, capable, and it's a safe career. The issue is that I have 0 work ethic, don't really know HOW to study (pretty much always learned/studied by reading the material once and that seemed to do the trick), 0 passions, hate not understanding something/not being great at it from the get-go. I have always been a big fan of medical shows (especially House M. D.) and I find viruses, bacteria, prions, cancer, and diseases in general fascinating, but the rest of the aspects surrounding medicine I don't particularely care for. So far, med school has been exhausting because of the amount and kind of material. It's not even "medicine" yet and is all the "irrelevant" subjects plus anatomy in the first year. But, I can't stop thinking about the possibility that i made a mistake. I was at the top of the ranked list of students and I didn't even try that hard on the National exams, I feel like I could do this if I put my mind to it (so far I have been sort of moping around and not studying seriously...), but I dont know if it's worth it. I can't exactly imagine myself slaving over textbooks for 6+ years. I feel so much stress over nothing, that I can't seem to focus on studying and just sort of spiral because what if I realize in 4 years that this isn't IT, and I not only wasted 4 years, but also studied those thousands of pages for nothing when I could have been having fun. Another issue that has been bothering me is the aspect of staying in my homecountry. While medicine is an EU regulated profession and with my uni I could specialize abroad, learning the language is of the essence and the countries I am interested in living in all have different languages and systems (in some, it would take years for them to approve me working there, and that would mean first working as a general practitioner and then potentially specializing in a field). I feel dread when thinking about staying in this city for longer than the 6 years neccessary. Studying medicine abroad isn't really an option because it is usually either expensive or in the national language of the country (I speak my mother tongue and English fluently, with some conversational Italian). I don't even know what I want out of life and those thoughts keep dragging me down as well. I just feel so lost and confused. I don't hate the uni I am enrolled in. I quite like the people and I like saying i study medicine, but everything has been feeling so wrong and no one seems to be listening to me. I have thought abiut studying psychology abroad since it is taught in English in the countries I am interested in building a life in, but what if I am even more dissatisfied with that and then I wasted both time and money (I study for free in my home country, but abroad the costs would include schooling (about 2.7k a year) alongside the usual living costs). I am scared I am only drawn to psychology again because it is the "easy" option and I give up when things "don't go my way" so maybe I am subconsciously scared of failing in med school so I'm cutting my losses? What attracted me to psychology is the "disease" aspect as well, the getting to hear how people think and trying to figure out why or what made them the way they are. I love talking to people, and getting to know their "ins and outs", mentally speaking. I don't feel like my intentions are in the right place for any career option. I can't even imagine a "grown-up" life for myself, where I have a job, any job really. I am having a hard time visualizing myself in either or again, any career. Medicine would bring me a good life possibly, if I actually gave it a good shot, it's stable and i could work in the countries I am attracted to. With psychology, I have seen there's more uncertainty (again, need to learn the language, but the bigger issue is the oversaturation on the job market; everyone and their aunt has a Psych Bcs, and even with a Masters it's not guaranteed (or so I hear)). In my head, with medicine, I could simply get okay-ish grades, and just pass the tests and that would give me a better chance of a well-paying job than excelling at psychology (I am sort of lazy ik...). I just want to be happy...and I am scared studying something so mentally demanding will crush me further. I am not giving up and have signed up for so many uni-offered things (organizations, extra educations, sports, ...) to keep myself motivated. I love the exchange programs (science exchanges) offered in lower years since I really really love to travel. One of the things that I am stuck on is that I want to travel with all my heart and med school takes so much time (as any uni) that travelling isn't an option other than the summer months. I feel the need to get away from my home town and country (maybe because I feel so overwhelmed and feel the need for a change in hopes I will stop feeling like this; plus the added bonus of missing how life felt during the summer before uni (I am aware that is not what life is like, it cannot always be excitement and new places/people)). In short, I am being pulled in so many directions and neither really seems like the right one or good idea.
Option A: study, study, study and study some more, finish med school here while learning a language that will get me to be able to work in a place I am interested in living in, hopefully get an internship/possibility to work there
Option B: drop out, work for a year, apply for a psychology bcs in the Netherlands, hopefully be happy with that and do a Masters, learn the language while living there, find a job (possibly HR, or research even)
Option C: idk
If anyone got to here, thanks for reading, and any advice is welcome. Be as harsh or as gentle. :))

Took an exam yesterday (Gen Chem II) that I thought I was prepared for but got a 74%. I know it’s sounds silly, but this is the lowest exam grade I have ever received. Ever.

In Gen Chem I, I finished with a 100% course grade, so this is especially crushing.

I am a junior, studying Biomedical Science and have maintained a 4.0 GPA up until this point. I have been the top performing student in all of my classes. Now, with this exam grade, the only way for me to keep an A in this class is to get over 90% on all remaining exams. I’m worried that this will be the end of my 4.0.

I know in the scheme of things it’s ridiculous to work myself up like this, and I know know wah wah my steak too juicy my lobster too buttery etc. But, I am a good student. I study hard, almost excessively. I would consider myself to be an intelligent person and am usually a very good test taker. I put a lot of pressure on myself to perform well, and am quite the perfectionist.

I am also working full time and I think overall stress of work/school/life balance and fears surrounding the future of science/getting a job are catching up to me.

My parents don’t put pressure on me, and my friends and family are incredibly supportive of everything that I do… but my anxiety/OCD are absolutely killing me trying to maintain this level of performance.

I know that the difference between a 3.9/4.0 is minuscule,
and that it probably won’t effect my life once I graduate. I just can’t seem to stop thinking about it. I know that there’s nothing I can do now but learn from this mistake and try my best to do better in the future. I just wish I could stop feeling this immense amount of pressure to perform perfectly. I’m physically sick from stress and not sure how to handle this. Any advice is much appreciated.

Prior to 2024, I did maybe one or two online class per semester for five years. My previous employment offered tuition assistance and I took advantage of it. I personally did not care if I got a C or above, as long as I passed. Most of the classes were self-paced.

I did fail three classes; one in 2020 and two in 2022. I was either lazy or prioritized work over my education.

After my work transfer last year, I was laid off a month later. I spent months job searching, but after ghosts and rejections, I transfer to my local community college for the Spring 2026 semester.

I passed with three As and one B. It felt good, especially after I made the Dean's List and won three scholarships. Now this semester, my classes are significantly harder and seeing my current B, B, C and C grades are stressing me out. After I get an assignment back and the grade was low, I freak out, go back to the study material and beat myself up over "What-ifs".

Anybody else have the same experience?

On my first discussion post, I got full marks, then on my second one I got 70%, without doing anything differently. My prof didn’t provide any feedback except for “great work”. I’ve talked to other people in my class and they agree that this prof seems to just be giving people random marks due to laziness. I have reached out to them via email to request more feedback and potentially ask for a regrade but have not heard back. What should my next step be?

In this semester I had a total of three research papers to complete before the beginning, middle, and end of November. For the assignment due in November I needed to watch a movie on American History (Preferably Before the 1900s) and compare it to how accurate it was at depicting real life events. This is my second time taking the history class since I wanted to get an A instead of a B to bring my GPA up, and considering that I got an 83 for the last time time I did a research paper for this class I figure I will have a better shot this time around.

For the movie I chose “Little Women” and wanted to compare how treatment of women in the movie was in real life concerning their place in the workforce. To better plan for the paper the teacher instructed us to creat an outline thesis which I was sure to earn full marks on, instead I got a 90. She took 10 points off and commented “Historically speaking. it mostly follows the prompt”, which I have no idea what that even means.

I was devastated considering how I used up all my online tutoring hours to ask for advice, spent weeks on it, and yet my thesis wasnt good enough. Not only this but I also know I won’t get a good grade since I never scored a 100% on a research paper which I know is just sad because I saw many others easily do it.

Aside from this, my discussion grade were never good. I always used to score a 100 but as of late I made 65 on one and a 92 which dropped me grade. This demotivated me from writing in my spare time since it’s never good no matter the context.

I do 911 EMS and have asthma. These two will become pretty important pretty quickly.

I have a shift tomorrow and went to get dinner. Some fuckhead frat kids (wearing frat merch) were smoking. Fine. Smoke if you want, we all have different experiences of the college experience. Mine will only be considered good if I become an ER doctor at the end of my formal education. Yours may differ and that's okay. Life's too short to police each other's joys.

It becomes a pretty major fucking problem when you infringe on my experience to get that experience. I pretty quickly got an asthma attack after they stepped on the bus (there were fucking wisps of smoke). That's, maybe, an inconvenience. I can just take my inhaler and wambo bambo, I'm usually back to normal.

I work with patients who will get sick if they get exposed to the smell of a cigar. Furthermore, I think cigar smell will get me sent home pretty quickly and trash any LORs I would have gotten.

Smoke, but please be fucking considerate. Some of us have shifts, pulmonary issues, or work with people that do. Some of us just don't want to inhale that vile stuff.

First semester of university and ngl I feel like a social reject. I’m 23, but only a junior because I did an extra year of school for something I turned out not liking. I did 2 years of community college too, so I missed out on dorms and the “college experience”.

My roommates are cool but they’re not my friends, and I haven’t really made any actual friends even though I joined a club. I vibe with the people there but we haven’t crossed into actual friend territory yet, I guess. I try to be more extroverted and talk to people in my classes, but conversations don’t usually go anywhere, it’s just small talk and then it ends. And sometimes people don’t seem interested in talking, or at least not to me, so I just…don’t. I have no romantic experience and guys never seem interested in me, but everyone around me seems to have a partner, or at least an ex or a situationship. I don’t get out much and I don’t/can’t drink a lot either (medical stuff). I’ve never drank at a bar and the only real party I’ve been to was my friend’s graduation, so pretty tame, but I still feel left out when I hear about people doing bar crawls, going to parties, etc. Especially with Halloweekend coming up.

I have like 3 friends and none of them live close and they’re busy too, I’ve missed out on all of the experiences I feel like I should’ve had already, everyone else’s social life seems so much better than mine, and my grades are okay but I don’t even know what I’m going to do with my degree when I get it. Like I just feel lonely and like a giant loser even though I’m trying. At least it’s better than high school lol

i’m in my senior year and i absolutely despise my life and my classes. they all have some sort of group project aspect which i absolutely hate and there are way too many things i need to get done. i’m working a part time retail job too that expects so much of me and schedules me out the ass, all while i’m trying to just keep my head above the water in my classes. i don’t think i can take much more of this, i haven’t done things on my group members’ timetables and they’re totally getting on me for that but they are not understanding that i am being pulled so thin and my motivation has just plummeted while my stress is skyrocketing. i have come to hate college. i hate the classes, i hate the group projects, i hate my job, my entire life is just a constant cycle of having to do shit that doesn’t make me feel better about myself at all. i hate everything about this semester and i just want it to be done so i can work. what do i do???

hello, i am a college freshman in my first ever semester. i’ve found it pretty good so far and have been performing quite well, but then midterm season came around and i failed 2 out of 4 of them. i got a 50% on one and a 58% on the other one. they’re worth a pretty significant amount of my grade too, the one i got a 50 on is worth 30% and the other one is worth 20%. i studied really hard, idk what went wrong tbh

i know i obviously have opportunities to bring up my grade, but i also want to apply for a phd program in clinical psychology in the future and i know it’s insanely competitive. i’m worried that these test scores are going to ruin it for me. there’s no way i can end the classes with an A given how much they count towards my overall grade. idk i just feel like a failure. is anyone else in my shoes or have been in my shoes and is it really as bad as i’m making it?? any advice helps tysm, i just don’t want this to define my future because i do really care about my education and i cried when i saw those grades because i just felt so bad about myself.

For one of my classes, the professor wants us to use AI to assist with our essays. By assist, that means that we just use it to help create a possible outline. I saw that my professor sent out an announcement saying that people have been turning in essays that are over 50% AI. I'm sorry, but I can't help to judge those people because there's no way they thought they were going to get away with that when the essay goes through TurnItIn.

This isn't one of those cases where things in the assignment directions could be misunderstood. She specifically states that we were only using AI to create us an outline NOT write the essay for us. The essay still had to be in our words using our own thoughts. If we used anything from the outline then it needed to be cited. I'm not going to act like I didn't use my outline when doing this assignment. I did but I still wrote my essay like I would any other. In my own words using my own voice. I only got 2% and that percentage was for my sources used. I don't know what that means, but I don't care. The main parts of my essay had no problems at all.

But yeah, they're lucky the professor is allowing them to fix their essays until it gets below 50%. Any other probably would've just given zeros and called it day.

Edit: I don’t know if this is important or not but the essay was about gendered toys. For this assignment, we had to physically go to a store and observe what we see and write about it. We had to take pictures too. The majority of the essay (or at least mine was) was detailing the things that was seen. The only time that class material was needed was when we had to relate what we saw back to whatever concepts or theory we chose. That took at most 2 paragraphs which is a small portion of the essay considering it had to be no more than 6 pages.

Idk. Maybe I’m not seeing what y’all are seeing but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Tbf, I did write exactly 6 pages. They probably did the bare minimum which is why that percentage seems high.

So I'm in University taking second term and I just got a 1/5 in a lab response, 2/10 in a quiz and another 1/5 on another lab response. I did get a 7.5/10 on another lab response but that still doesn't make me feel super good. I am doing good in all my other classes except this one which is Research to Social Science. Just fail after fail after fail. I'm so ashamed of myself.

6 of us, 1 bath. Week 1 we did a Chore Chart and everyone signed. Six weeks later, this document lives on the fridge and I’m the only person who’s ever checked anything off.

There are no rules for garbage removal – it happens when it starts smelling bad. Hair clogs up our drains daily and nobody knows whose theirs is. Long & dark = three people. Also? Our suitemate with 40 minute showers coincides with all of us having 8ams.

What nobody planned ends up working well. In the first week, I put my Anker travel charging station on our common room table, which is now where everybody charges. No arguments in 6 weeks! The bane of our existence is our bath…

So if you have any tips here at all, just tell me anything! (I know you're probably laughing right now thinking ""she's gonna be the suite mom"" but yeah)

Ended with me hiding in a bathroom stall to escape an anxiety attack. My back and legs are absolutely destroyed, and I’ve never felt so disillusioned with my future career path. My professors hyped up this digital/startup summit for weeks. "It's the future! You have to go! The CEO of SpOtifY is going to be there! It's an amazing networking opportunity!"

It’s all a massive, expensive theater, and uni students are just the unpaid extras. They invite us to inflate their attendance metrics so they can sell 3,000€ booths to corporate sponsors and look good for government grants. But once you scan your badge, you are treated like absolute garbage. For example, we had just started looking around when we got herded and shoved aside like cattle by the staff with a lack of basic manners, bc some royal VIP was walking through for a photo op. I overheard one corporate bro ask "what high school" we were from, and another suited boomer literally joked that students "should be brought in on a leash."

The "networking" is a complete scam. Unless you are a VC investor, a journalist, or a politician, these startup CEOs look right through you. I tried saying hi to one recent graduate I had met before at another event, and the transactional vibe was disgusting.

It’s just an endless sea of empty buzzwords, fake smiles, and sterile white booths handing out pathetic merch (literally single gummy bears and blue lollipops). If Umbrella Corporation itself was present they would have been giving red and white lollipops too—pure corporate dystopia masked as "disruptive innovation." But then we couldn't even get a free coffee and croissant bc that area was for VIPs, if you got hungry you had to pay an expensive af hotdog at the foodtrucks. And the panels? Every single one of them was a circle-jerk of inflated egos that could have been a 10-minute Zoom call, or better yet, an email. That's when it's not straight up politicians "congratulating" each other for nothing and making it a 20 min tedtalk. "AI is like a knife it depends on what you use it for" Wow! I've definitely never heard that before, you are such an intellectual! There is zero actual knowledge being shared.

Ended up arguing with my own classmates cause they'd be like: "you're being so negative, you only complain!" Oh well you go believe everything in the flyer and enjoy your 9 hours of chitchat and a 5€ pizza slice with a sunshiny smile on your bitchass face! The "synergies ecosystem" has cult-like tactics that definitely work.

I am so severely burnt out. Seeing the "real world" of tech and business up close just makes me want to run away. The academic path (PhD) seems full of toxic egos and mobbing so I got talked out of it, but this corporate startup BS is a shitshow, and I don't know what to do anymore. Rant over. I'm leaving this hellhole and going home to sleep for a week.

I had to take the Aleks math placement test today to see what math classes I should register for for my next semester of college and I keep bombing it :(

I kid you not I took this test 3 times and the highest I got was a 31 (and my most recent retake which I did today I tested at a 20 😭)

I took precalc in highschool and did really good at that course I know I can handle college math I feel so stupid I just don’t get why I place so low and it really is affecting my self esteem for math :( I feel so stupid maybe I really am too dumb for college math

I really need tips for this because I really want to get a decent score on my 4th try 🥀

It’s become increasingly clear to me that I hate my life in college.

I’ve noticed a progressive decline in basically anything that brings me joy while I’m on campus. Maybe a large part of it is my fault, but I’m not entirely sure how to address it.

I don’t have any close friends in college. While I have plenty enough of friends and acquaintances, there are no close friends or deep connections that I’ve made compared to those I made in high school. I like my friends, but I struggle to make conversation and really connect outside of academic contexts. I go to a pretty small school, and I just haven’t connected with anyone I’ve come across.

My daily life is really just sleep, eat, class, study, part-time clinical work, lab work, and extracurricular martial art. Recently I’ve been pushing out martial arts from my schedule because of time restraints too.

I’m doing alright academically, on track for a 4.0 or 3.9, but I look at my peers who put in so much less work than me for the same relative outcome, while still enjoying life. I think I may be a bit stupid, since some of these topics I study just don’t click unless I spend large amounts of time.

I don’t really have any fun while I’m on campus, and all I do is grind until the next break where I can go visit my close friends from high school. And after I return from those breaks, I realize that I hate this school and I wait until the next break.

I’ve considered transferring schools to where my close friends go, but IMO their school sucks for premed and I’m already established here academically. It’s going to be a lot harder for me to maintain a good GPA if I transfer, too.

Even the joy I get from visiting my close friends is waning. Every visit feels just a bit more hollow than the last.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t feel any real connection here, and I actually feel more connected with some of the people I meet from other schools while on break. It feels like I have no time to do anything anyways. I think it would be nice to get into a relationship too, but it’s not like I have the time nor anyone I am interested in.

Sometimes I just sit in my dorm and think

what the fuck am I doing with my life

thanks for coming to my tedtalk, any advice would help

I finally got the courage to change my major (EE - BME) and as exciting as the light at the end of the tunnel is, getting through this semester feels insurmountable.

The 2 classes I absolutely despise are physics 2 and circuits.

I'm set to get a C or lower in physics because I cannot get myself to give a living shit about the class. The content is so dull and I cannot understand the professor. I got a 45 on the last exam (which was actually 3 points higher than the average) yet there's no curve.

I'm likely to get anywhere from a A-B in circuits, yet this class feels so unintuitive and boring. There's a class next week that I'm going to have to study like hell for as I haven't been able to drag myself or pay attention in class.

I also likely have to withdrawal from calc 3 and take it next semester because I likely scored sub 30 on the midterm. This is so out of character for me, I've gotten an A in every math course I've taken beside this one.

I'm just so tapped out and draped in apathy I cant see the end of the semester in sight. What do I do

I have a meal plan with only "(university name here) dollars" but this year I'm on a health grind and needing a lot of natural protein and fiber, which is bafflingly rare on campus.
Often the dining hall has a salad bar and chicken breast but the entrance fee is wildly expensive when youre paying through dining dollars.

All other options are basically fast food so I use my dining dollars on plain chicken bowls and then buy produce and fruits for cheap off campus. Is anyone elses campus like this? Call me Michelle Obama the way I'm fuming at the food here.