secondly, just because people have it worse than you doesn't mean you don't have a right to your feelings.
annnd just because the feelings aren't new doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be expert at coping with them. susie, i hear about students at u of m freaking out and feeling incompetent all of the time, so much to the fact that they even take semesters or full years off. i don't think it's you. i think it really just has to do with the immense pressure that some colleges (cough cough u of m) put on their students. i realize it's great to be the 'brightest and best' or whatever, but sometimes you can't please everybody, you know? you just can't.
so,
chill out, dude. i think you'll be fine. maybe try to assert yourself more? that seems to build up confidence. and yeah, i know, asserting yourself requires a certain amount of self-esteem to begin with but it goes in circles after a while.
You aren't alone. I feel just as academically inadequete, overwhelmed and generally crappy right now. School sucks sometimes. I am bombing two classes already : ). Yay. And sometimes it seems like I am the most average student ever and I don't understand how the majority of my class is doing way better than me. It seems like it would have been a way better idea to go to a school where I'd actually feel smart again. But instead I'm trying to get an orgo tutor right now and until then continuing to destroy my GPA! So don't worry, there are other people at UM who are feeling the same way. I even know a couple people who did take a semester off, like the person who commented before mentioned.
But we're going to make it! We will!! Things seem especially bad with exams. But I hope you have a good break and stop feeling so overwhelmed. School isn't THAT important, anyways. And I hope your exam went well. And if not, there's still time!
Be happy and don't think about school this weekend!
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secondly, just because people have it worse than you doesn't mean you don't have a right to your feelings.
annnd just because the feelings aren't new doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be expert at coping with them. susie, i hear about students at u of m freaking out and feeling incompetent all of the time, so much to the fact that they even take semesters or full years off. i don't think it's you. i think it really just has to do with the immense pressure that some colleges (cough cough u of m) put on their students. i realize it's great to be the 'brightest and best' or whatever, but sometimes you can't please everybody, you know? you just can't.
so,
chill out, dude. i think you'll be fine. maybe try to assert yourself more? that seems to build up confidence. and yeah, i know, asserting yourself requires a certain amount of self-esteem to begin with but it goes in circles after a while.
chin up.
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You aren't alone. I feel just as academically inadequete, overwhelmed and generally crappy right now. School sucks sometimes. I am bombing two classes already : ). Yay. And sometimes it seems like I am the most average student ever and I don't understand how the majority of my class is doing way better than me. It seems like it would have been a way better idea to go to a school where I'd actually feel smart again. But instead I'm trying to get an orgo tutor right now and until then continuing to destroy my GPA! So don't worry, there are other people at UM who are feeling the same way. I even know a couple people who did take a semester off, like the person who commented before mentioned.
But we're going to make it! We will!! Things seem especially bad with exams. But I hope you have a good break and stop feeling so overwhelmed. School isn't THAT important, anyways. And I hope your exam went well. And if not, there's still time!
Be happy and don't think about school this weekend!
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