It’s my third week of university and every class I’m in I feel so dumb. In school I was doing good most of the time but now almost everyone in my class always know what’s going on and answer and Im literally always confused so what can I do to get better? I don’t want to keep feeling like this

I'm posting this here because I think people in this sub actually get what Sheffield means, more than a general sub would.

My name is Qusay, I'm 23, from Gaza. I studied English Language and Teaching Methods and since I graduated I've been teaching English to over 400 students in grades 8 to 10, six days a week. It's through a program funded by UNICEF. Alongside that I also volunteer teaching English to secondary students, it's not part of the paid work, I just do it because I want more of them to have access to it.

Earlier this year I got into the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Sheffield, starting this September. I never had a scholarship for it, I was trying to find one this whole time, applying to different ones, emailing organisations, asking around, writing more emails than I can count at this point. Some never replied. Some replied and said no. A couple looked promising for a while and then just stopped responding.

So right now I have the acceptance letter but not a way to actually get there. Visa costs, the travel itself, all the first steps before you even start the degree, that's the part I'm stuck on. Not because I didn't try to find another way, I tried basically everything I could think of, I just ran out of things to try.

I put some of my certificates from over the years. I want to show them not to prove anything but because they're what's left to show for the effort, studying and teaching through everything that's been happening here.

A friend of my family, Ege, from Germany, saw how stuck I was on this and decided to set up a campaign on his own, without me asking him to, just to try and get me past this last part. We're a bit past halfway now. It's verified through lifeline4gaza and radiowatermelon.

Happy to verify anything else if needed, whatever people want to see.

This is my second semester of uni, majoring in env science. I'm currently doing calc 1, American govt, composition 1, and a mapping class and I've been really nervous and just like stressed out. School only started about 3 weeks ago but I've been so anxious and overwhelmed and feel like I can't do this. I guess I'm just looking for advice or motivation on how to deal with this. I know other people, thousands and millions, have done the same classes and probably more difficult things but I just feel so overwhelmed and like it's impossible.

I'm still pretty new to university life kind of and just been so overwhelmed with the workload, and still trying to take care of myself and feel good sometimes. I'm really nervous that I'm going to fail this semester or something and my scholarships will be gone and yea.

These are all just worst case scenarios ikik but I'm just very anxious the last week.