Not cut out for college?

Vehicle
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:13:26 +0000

I had the same problem when I entered college for the first time directly after high school. It didn’t help that I was also battling clinical depression, but I was also not ready to take on the responsibility of a college setting. I stopped going my second semester and decided to live on my own for a while until I had the ambition to go back to school.

One of your problems may be insufficient time management, study skills, and planning skills. College is so different from high school. I got excellent grades in high school because there wasn’t a real need for access studying, planning, and knowing how to prioritize my work. Since I’ve been living on my own, I’ve learned a lot of life skills that helped me succeed in college once I enrolled after two years of being out of school.

Confidence is also key to succession in higher education. Do you feel good about what you are studying? If you don’t believe in your own abilities then it makes it excruciatingly hard to portray them in your performance.

I’m not sure if you covered this but do you have intrinsic motivation to go to school? One of my biggest problems was that I enrolled in college simply for the fact that it was the
“right thing to do.” Once I had a reason to be there, I found that studying and keeping on task was much easier.