Post Thanksgiving Blues

Almostlaunched
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:47:09 +0000

Thank you for all of your responses. I can say that my son is not a partier at all so this does not have any bearing on his situation. He is in an honors’/engineering student dorm at UD although he is not enrolled as an honor student. His feeling is that everyone is so much smarter than he is and he does not measure up. I think living in the honors dorm is beneficial because you have kids that really work and succeed.

He has found the ratemyprofessor sight and has looked at this extensively because he has signed up for a microeconomics class for the winter session.

Our feeling is that he should have tried to help himself more to help him improve his grades. He didn’t meet with his professors to let them know he was confused or lost. I do believe he will pass his courses, but he is struggling. I am just not sure that it is the curriculum or the work that he doesn’t like, and I don’t think he really knows the answer to this either.

He has also had several physical trials since leaving for college and has recently been diagnosed with anemia. I think since august he has been healthy a total of 3 weeks. I don’t know what impact these physical issues have played into this situation either.