Advice/Reassurance?

blueiguana
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:30:15 +0000

You sound like a mature young person who has received some great advise. I won’t try to add to that.

I will touch on one small thing. You mention no longer being the ‘golden child’. You may find, in an odd way that this actually takes pressure off and turns out to be a good thing. When you are a great student, however not necessarily expected to be #1 or #2 in your class ALL the time, you can forgive yourself the times when you are human, take a few classes for the joy of it (as was wonderfully suggested), without the fear of keeping up the image that everyone else has placed upon you. Focus on your education for the learning, and what matters to you. If you do this, the grades will come.

Take advantage of this time to simply be you…the exceptional you. Not the you everyone else expects.