Feeling Anxious/Depressed Lately

orchdork7810
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:06:20 +0000

Haha, yea, it seems like for people that put academics as our highest priority, our social life suffers! And another thing I forgot to mention, although the courses do get harder, it can overall get a little easier after the first year. Freshman year is filled with way too many weedout classes and just the overall adjustment to college vs. high school work can make it more difficult than the higher level courses you’re going to have to take.

It’s different for everyone but I know especially in my case (engineering major at the 9th best program in the country), the first semester was such a ***** academic wise simply because I had no idea how to fit my high school studying habits to college efficiently. It got better my second semester and even better my sophomore year even though the classes were significantly harder. Just things like learning how I learned the best (which also involved implementing a arbitrary highlighting system to all my notes but somehow works surprisingly well!).

The main thing is not to be too hard on yourself and as bad as it sounds, to try to have a more positive attitude towards everything and not to dwell on things that put you in a mood like this. Welcome to college. It’s not like the movies at all, because otherwise, all those college movies filled with drinking and partying all the time with the occasional lecture scene would instead be filled with students locking themselves in their dorms orthe library if they want a good GPA and no one would want to go to college. Most people don’t care about academics at all in college and it tends to follow them and bite them in the ass in the end. The fact that you’re priority is on school instead of trivial things like the aforementioned college parties every night will help you out in the end! Just keep on going! :)