Would I Fit In?

tikiman53
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:15:45 +0000

Ugh, man, that is not good news. I mean, I don’t know if I spread myself too thin, if I simply can’t handle hard work, or if I just have crappy study habits. I’m not in the top 4% of my class, more like top 10%. But it’s not really like I have to work really hard to stay on top. It’s more that I have a lot of trouble with math and sometimes I can only start my homework at night. But now I’m kind of worried less about the atmosphere and more about the academic rigor. Initially, I assumed that I would just be able to handle it. But high school, by no means, was easy for me. While I was good in all my English and history classes with minimal effort, I thought it was pretty hard overall because of classes like AP Chem and AP Calculus.

Can anyone who is currently a student at Chicago talk about how they felt about the workload when they first started out, as well as how they felt about the workload in high school? And if anyone else has more comments about the social atmosphere, I’d love to hear about that too.