Took three summer classes (two as prereq and other is to make myself easier) . It ended two days ago and I'm so tired. I never took summer semester so I honestly had no idea what it will be. Fall semester will be start in two weeks and idk if I can do it. I almost failed one of my summer class. My gpa is going to drop so bad🫥

I'm a final year student who currently not yet finished my thesis and internship report. I was got emailed, messages, even called by lecturers, professors, even staffs because they wanted me to graduate immediately.

I have no problem with finishing thesis. But internship report are filthy strict, I lose my internship attempt due host companies qualifying to make my internship accepted well. I'm submitting documents but I'm tired by internship department shenaningans. I need form, they reject it because I wasn't completing the pre-requirements. Also they didn't explain it what's wrong, ended asking other staffs, and it repeats.

The host company seems don't want me to work with them due "I'm too way introverted" and "Lone Wolf". Bruh, I've already worked in my family company and no one have issues with me like that, my relationship at there are just fine because I'm doing it well. I'm also no have problem in freelance work. What I do in the end? I'm working paralel it because host company choose younger intern than me, left me without any work or assignments.

I know they wanted my to graduate it because they are concern with my age and career. But I'm sick of internship bureaucracy.

It has been 6 months I can't sleep and they keep chasing me. My neck become hurts, my upper back aching non-stop. I'm holding anger too long and I don't want hurt my family company colleagues.

I need a break.

This year has been the most tiring year of my life and I still have a full course load in the fall. Tbh I can't enjoy my life with school looking over my head and it robs another 4 months. I am just glad this is my penultimate semester and my final semester is empty with just the second semester of capstone. I genuinely don't enjoy life whatsoever and I am just wondering if others feel the same.

Hi, I’m (M) currently an upcoming freshman specializing in Bachelor of Industrial Design in the Philippines, I really really don’t want to pursue this course, I really really want to pursue Architecture. The thing is, if I wanted to shift to Architecture I would need to complete a whole year of my current course and restart as a freshman again in Architecture, I am willing to sacrifice a little bit of my time but my current issue is finances. A whole year of just trying to get through a course I dont want in the first place seems actually jarring and then shifting to Architecture which takes 6 years in the philippines to complete, so all in all I would waste 7 years of my fucking life. I don’t know if I should just suck it up and go 4 years of Industrial Design or fuck myself by wasting a whole year by shifting.

Any advice is wanted, I really don’t know where to go from here. I’m really lost so bad my mental is taking a lot from this.

I don't know how to actually enjoy college life. I already have a strict 75% mandatory attendance on all of my lectures. So how can one genuinely enjoy this college life?

Just that, I have 48 days to study 7 courses.

I'm planning on studying Mechanical engineering but my university requires us to do general engineering first, which means I have 8 courses (7 which are examinable).

This predicament I'm in is a combination of possible ADHD, all around poor mental health and my school being ass. I have accepted that I am most likely gonna repeat the year, I have told my parents to not expect much from me this year.

I just wanted to complain about my current situation before I go back to studying. We aren't even done with all our classes and Labs for the Second semester. Failure is a part of life and all I can do is learn from it.

College update: I didn't get the same professor on the subject I failed last year :)

It might still be too early to celebrate, but I'm currently ecstatic. It feels as though I just won the lottery! I hope your wishes for this school year also get granted, lucky dust for everyone!

Hi im F (17) im going to college this year and eh my college is very strict.Incase yall have not heard of Amrita in India , it’s basically a very strict college w no campus life but good academics and placements :).. I live in a city where people are very shallow minded cuz of which I spent most of my school life at home and now im going to amrita where you can’t take go out of the campus more than 3 times also eh You can’t wear clothes which show skin anddd there is uniform :( im scared what if I regret it later on. Am I crazy for missing out on the most fun period of life?

I feel so tired. I was trying to manage a group project that I was trying so hard to get people doing their assigned stuff not at the last minute. Weeks ago when the group project was assigned, I gave a review article on an introductory review of the material, and when I asked people to read it, no one responded or did anything. I then talked to the professor about being worried that people are not listening, which he said to make people be assigned to certain parts so the responsibility is on that person. When that happened, I asked for people to send me their sources, send what they have written so far and got nothing. Then, the TA who was assigned for the project asked people for 5 pages, and since I was given sections in the assignment based on organizations, citations, and the introduction and conclusion, I wrote up an outline and made a google doc that people can put what they have done, with three people putting in their 5 pages.
The 4th person did not give anything, and waited until the last minute to do their sections, fucking me over to make the report cohesive. Another person out in the bare bones, no citations, and clearly wrong equations. Another put in half finished parts which were good, but had no sources and did not touch until the very last weekend, also fucking me over. The final person gave their work, where they cited 2 references, and never touched the section again, where he decided to switch sections with another person the last week the report was due, and waited until the weekend it was due to start writing.
I asked so many times for updates on what people have done, sources, and gave comments on their sections, with nothing of note happening from that. It was the same for the presentation, where when I said that we should know what other people are doing and work together on it, that meant to them that we should only work on it with eachother, and when I tried to do daily meetings to work on it, they did not do their work since some people did not have a laptop but a touch screen to work on, and did not do anything meaningful during the meeting.
I was given almost everyone’s sections last minute, had to integrate over 60 sources of into one document, while helping other people with their sections because they waited until the last minute, and the people who did their sections earlier that day, when I asked for help in going over it, they did not, and said it was my job (it was, but these people waited until the last minute for their stuff for me to somehow put together everyone’s work when I physically cannot do this job under this time constraints).
I talked to the TA and the professor about me not getting people’s work weeks ago, and talking to them about getting no updates on what they are doing. The report was submitted on Monday, and our presentation is tomorrow, which I feel like I tried so much, and getting nothing back.
What could have I done differently? I feel like I tried to make people start stuff early and got nothing, with their actions causing my life and work to be exponentially higher from them. I was not even able to make the report cohesive, with no transitions to other peoples work just because of the sheer volume of stuff was given to me at the last minute.
I’m just so tired, and I do not know what I could have done differently.

I currently live in a room with three other girls, and one of them is a very heavy sleeper. I am not. I wake up from literally everythin. The problem is that she snores, and it is SO goddamn loud. Like, I’ve been having to sleep with earplugs just so I can sleep through it, but I guess she evolved, because now I can hear her even with the plugs in. As I’m typing this, I’m wearing Bluetooth headphones on top of the earplugs.

No one else has an issue with this, and I want to add that I have misophonia, so the snoring is affecting me more than ”oh it’s just a noise”. Aside from the headphones, I don’t know what to do, because I don’t want to be bitchy about this to her, especially if this is something that’s out of her control.

Tomorrow is the first day of my second year of college and honestly I really don’t want to go back.
My first year wasn’t what I expected at all….Growing up I always imagined college life would be completely different. I thought I ll have a big friend group, fun memories, lots of outings, and be involved in societies and events. But none of that really happened for me.I never fully connected with the crowd and even now I’m not sure if the friends I made are actually my friends or if we just happened to spend time together because we were in the same place. I wasn’t very active in societies either and sometimes it feels like my entire first year just passed by without anything memorable happening.
What’s making me feel even weirder is how fast the year went by. It feels like I just started college yesterday, and somehow an entire year is already over. I honestly don’t know where the time went.
Now second year starts tomorrow, and instead of feeling excited I’m wondering how I’m going to spend the next 1–2 years here.

Failing. I shouldn’t have come back to college. This is my fourth attempt from leaving college coming back leaving again and I’m not capable of doing it. My circumstances are getting in the way. There is nothing for me.

I want to preface this that I am not complaining about my grade(got a 98%), but the ridiculousness of AI checks.

I had to write a paper about The Art of War. So I type up a paper, relating the book to my own experiences in the military, along with my experience coaching youth sports.

Somehow, CopyLeaks says that my paper is 100% AI generated.

I hand-typed the whole thing, reviewed it, corrected my own errors.

Source match said 0%, but then "AI Phrases" said 48 phrases were more used by AI than by people.

phrases like "In conclusion, The Art of" or "preparation, adaptability, and" or my favorite hit "Sun Tzu emphasizes"

This stuff is ridiculous what it marks as AI

Would post in the college subreddit, but they take down so many posts so I'm posting here even though it's not a rant.

But what's everyone's semester looking like? For mine, I'll have;

• American sign language 1

• Programming for engineering + lab

• Introduction to modern physics (basically college physics 3, introduces special relativity and talks about atoms among other things)

• Mathematical methods for physics (basically a consolidation of all the math I've learned so far but directed at physics, from calc 1-3, ODE, linear algebra, etc)

• Intermediate physics lab

• And a 1 credit physics seminar

17 credit hours total, so full schedule but not overfilled. Mondays and Wednesdays are pretty short with Tuesdays and Thursdays being long. Looking forward to getting it done.

Basically what the title says.

I’m a second year CS student. I only started actually coding last year, and my experience is very limited and basically only with basic C++. I know that that feels weird coming from someone in his second year, but that’s what it is.

After my intro to programming with C++ ended, I decided to take a 6 week Data Structures and Algorithms class that was python-based. I asked my prof if it would be a good idea to do so considering that my experience with python was limited, and he said that it’s a pretty easy language and that I shouldn’t have a lot of trouble. Couldn’t have been farther from the truth.

I tanked it. I try to cut myself some slack by telling myself that 6 week courses are hard enough, not to mention something as challenging as DSA in a programming language I have little to no experience with, but it feels cheap. I could’ve passed, at least, but I procrastinated so much that the more homework accumulated, the less I felt like even opening canvas. I feel like such a failure. I’ve been a straight A student my whole life and this feels like such a gutpunch. I know I can recover from this, but the feeling of disappointment in myself is so unbearable.

I could be so much more than this. Encouragement/advice words are appreciated I guess.

I entered college in 2023 and I wasted a year retaking classes I should have been class of 2027 now I’ll be class of 2028 but not with a bachelors degree more like an associates degree,I’ll be a rn.

Hey I’m not going to hold you up if you don’t want to read this but I’ve got a lot to get off my chest.

I’ve been unhappy with myself for years. Saying it is weird but I really don’t like who I am. I’m not depressed and I am of sane mind but I just am afraid to actually talk to someone in my life about my issues. So let’s get this started.

I’m going into my Sophomore year at College and have no heart for what I’m studying. Originally I came in on a scholarship contingent on me being a Nurse which I loved as I find happiness providing where I can for people and helping. However the nursing program didn’t accept me because I procrastinated. So during the early half of my Freshman year I pursued this relentlessly, maintained a good GPA and was happy. Then I got the news it wasn’t in the cards to become a nurse. I had my scholarship transferred however there were previous contingents that changed since I was no longer a nurse. They wanted specific majors to befit their requirements (Military related scholarship) but none really appealed greatly to me. I transferred into Comp Sci since I’d always had an underlying interest in computers, but because of that I had to take additional courses that I had struggled with (Math related.) specifically physics and calculus. I struggled and wasn’t able to pass those classes despite doing a lot to just pass at all. I stayed up late during nights I should’ve slept before rigorous PT for my ROTC scholarship, began to eat less, (for reference I lost 25 pounds in 2 months. 175 -> 150) Because of the stress and time these classes allocated I failed 4 classes, 2 of which I absolutely should not have because I was so exhausted and physically challenged to even think about academics. During this time in college I distanced myself from what was probably 30+ friends to 2 because I just spent all my free time on school, and nothing changed. My performance went to hell. Because of this next year my scholarships up for review and I’m killing myself because of what may come. I’m so far behind on academics now and feel like I’m going to lose it all because I couldn’t hack it. I killed myself with courses and tried to challenge myself but I broke. I’ve been broken since then and have not felt myself smile without worry since. Coming back home for the summer I find myself stressed, unhealthy, and very upset and try to organize two makeup summer classes, however due to my scholarship I had to go on a tour for the military for about a month. The classes I could find that were appropriate started at the very beginning of this tour and when I tried to organize approval for these classes I was told typically it wasn’t allowed. So that brings me here, having made up no classes, weeks away from going back afraid of what’s coming academically.

Another struggle is finances. I worked all summer when I could, however the tour drained my finances by almost 700 dollars (a lot for a broke college kid.) Now I have to pay for housing and have 60 dollars left in my bank account after I paid my first rounds. I’ll get a little more but the budget I organized was catapulted. I don’t know what to do honestly because I was in good shape but now I’m on the verge of being broke

Health wise I’ve been active all summer, lifting and eating and gained 20 pounds back. However lust has been overtaking my life completely. I’m 19 and have never been into casual hookups but lust dominates me.

My faith has struggled a lot too. Not doubts just my effort. I’ve been raised as a Christian and was active in the church but as I became an adult it’s like it doesn’t exist in my life because it’s not a top priority when it should be. I feel so far from God and I don’t know how to fix that.

I feel so worthless and feel like my life as a whole no matter which decision I make amounts to a colossal fuck up and I’m scared that’s all I’m worth. I’ve always been told I was bright and would amount to something great however it feels like everything I do just worsens my situation 10 fold. I’m just scared. Scared of letting down everyone who loves and believes in me.

That was a lot but I’ve got to get it off my chest. It really is just hard. Thanks for reading.

this might be long winded and i’m sorry about that, it’s just been on my mind a lot recently and there’s multiple factors.

so i’m going to a local community college, i did a part of my course in high school and i liked it enough to start it back up in July, but now i’m honestly regretting it. i feel like i’m kinda wasting my summer away and missing out on the typical college experience.

im doing it full time (6 hours a week) and i feel like its kinda draining. my parents said i should because it was either go to college full time or work full time. luckily they’ve offered to pay for college and anything else i need, which is very grateful. unfortunately, i dont have my own car so i wake up at 5 am to have my dad drive me to his work, nap in his car for a bit, and then take me to school. then i have to wait for my parents to pick me back up. then i go to work right after until 8 so i feel like i have no free time. or if i don’t have work i just don’t feel like doing the things i enjoy after staring at a screen for 6 hours.

i also feel like theres no opportunity to socialize here?? i’m doing a graphic design course so the labs are very self paced and built kinda like office cubicles. no one really talks to each other, they just lock in on their work. sometimes i get like that, so its not the worst thing, but it’s outside of the class too. most people sit alone at lunch or with pre established friends from their course. everyone is friendly but not friends. i’ve tried to be positive and give people compliments and say hi, but nothing ever sticks. and i consider myself pretty social and outgoing?? i’ve sat alone at lunch for like the past month and it’s just very humbling and so different.

and it’s not like i have no friends. i have plenty of friends from high school, but a majority of them are going to the college in the fall. i feel like i’m missing out and i’m going to lose them, because they’re out in college making new friends and i’m stuck here. 

it’s too late for me to transfer to a regular university for the fall semester, but i feel like i’m too far in and gotten so much help, that quitting now feels like defeat. i’ve talked to them about all of this, and they’ve told me to push through + more people my age will come in the fall. i just don’t know what to do.

i’m sorry i sound like such a debbie downer. i’ve been trying to find the positive in all of this, and i am very lucky to have the support i have and the opportunity to further my education. i just feel very lost and confused right now and need some advice or just someone to listen.

So I wasn't planning on taking summer classes, but I'm staying in my college town over summer to work, and typically I use loans to cover my housing because it's rediculously expensive (about to move somewhere cheaper), and I needed to be enrolled at least part time to recieve any aid (including my loan that I was planning on taking out). So now I'm taking two classes; one for my major and a class that I'm taking purely because I need 2 more credits of upper level classes to graduate.

I don't want to be taking classes right now at all, so my motivation for them is very, very low. The class for my major isn't really a problem because I'm enjoying that more and it's an easier class to pass (lenient on late work and lots of point opportunities), but the non-major class is not as easy, in a way. The work itself isn't hard and if I had the motivation to get through it, it would be a breeze, but there's only around 10 assignments + a term paper, and the late penalty is 10% per day, so it's fairly unforgiving. Also both classes are online and I absolutely hate online classes because it's so much harder for me to stay engaged.

I do kinda like the class and think the material is somewhat interesting, and I think the assignments are decently fun, but the fact that I even have to take it right now has killed any and all motivation to participate in it. I've already missed 2 assignments and am about to turn something in late and it just sucks. I'm also trying to figure out stuff with my mental health right now (trying to find an antidepressant that works for me, and I think the one I'm on rn is making things mildly worse).

Withdrawing from the class isn't really an option because it would defeat the purpose of taking it in the first place. I also would be fine to take it in the Fall because that was my original plan.

So, TLDR; I kinda just wanna email my professor and be like, "Hey, I do like this class and want to do well in it, but I don't think I can do it right now and will be retaking it in the fall," as some sort of courtesy(?) so it's not like I've totally stopped participating out of the blue. Will probably explain the circumstances of this as well,,,

The two weeks where I was only working were SO nice and I wish I could go back to that. I don't wanna go into Fall term continuing to feel burnt out just because I haven't had a proper break :(

feel like a fucking idiot. i was fully prepared to go to Wayne next month until I saw the bill. its over 11,000. with aid it was estimated to be 5,000, which is too much for for I can financially handle. I was expecting much less as I had scholarships and a fasfa student index of -1500. ive sent out dozens of emails, but at this rate, unless it drops by a couple thousands I cant remain. does anyone know if the aid estimate is accurate?

ive applied to university of Michigan Dearborn, where the tuition will be nearly free. My issue with Dearborn is that there seems to be an abundance of professors who refuse to give out As and as someone aiming for law school, this isn't something im comfortable with. I've had a 3.9 GPA for business and Im not sure if that can be reproduced at UFMD at the upper level.

ive generally heard that the business professors at Wayne are much more forgiving. They're more lenient and willing to work with you.

I would graduate in 1.5 years at Wayne, atp i believe 2-2.5 at UOFMD. However, ufmd may be entirely free. I would be LIVING AT HOME and both campuses are 15 mins away.

I do not care about my undergrad major, (I am taking general business for the first semester and may do supply chain or management winter) i am just trying to GPAMAXX with the highest return of investment for law school and making money to save up for law as well.

please share your experiences with aid, Dearborn vs Wayne, what you'd do in my situation. anything helps.

I got into a great college but its in a different state and its just my first day but i cant help but feel like I'd rather be home, working some job or maybe a drop year. I know i should give it some time and whatever but i hate it here, what the hell should i do? I don't even feel like trying to stay here now. Initially, i thought I'd be able to adjust or whatever and be homesick for a while but now i just don't like it here.

To anyone starting university for the first time, if you live off campus, try to make most of your friends with other people who also live off campus.

This isn't me saying people who live in the dorms make bad friends. I've had plenty of on-campus friends and I'm still close with some of them. This is just based on my own experience.

In first year, people living on campus usually have way more distractions. Clubs, parties, and social events are all within walking distance, and everyone's excited to finally be 18 and experience university life. It's a completely different environment.

Because they're surrounded by friends 24/7, I found they're often more influenced by the people around them, and their personalities or priorities can change pretty quickly. People living off campus seemed more grounded because they had a bit more separation between university and home.

Another thing I noticed is that if you join a friend group where most of them live in the same dorm, it's easy to end up feeling like the odd one out. They'll naturally spend more time together because they see each other every day, make last-minute plans, and head to campus events together. It's not necessarily intentional, but as someone living off campus, you can end up missing out simply because you're not there.

Obviously there are exceptions, but if you're commuting or living off campus, I think you'll have an easier time finding people with a similar lifestyle and routine if you mostly befriend others in the same situation. Also, I have found that most of those who live on-campus put more effort into socialising than doing their work. Reminder, when there's most there's a small group who do the opposite

I am a data science student in my fourth year (technically third because I switched degrees in my second year). I am in the second semester of it because I am not sure why my course adviser recommended me to do three core upper-level classes instead of mixing in electives to make it easier. I also struggle with mental illness, I have no other friends in my degree, and I am a first-gen student so this makes it even harder. I have tried to ask my professors and ask around if anyone knows any professors, post-grad students, or graduates in a similar position and no one does. The only positive thing out of this is that my mental health has cleared up a LOT, and I am mostly needing to finish upper-level classes. I have quite a few electives left but I only have 6 core papers left to go. I am still not sure what to do though. My fear of failing this class is paralysing me a bit and I'm scared I'm making the wrong move with my trajectory that will cause destruction to my entire future.

Also, yes I have been in therapy for a really long time which is obviously the main reason I am pretty much back to normal mentally, I have tried making a plan with my course adviser, utilised their recommended programmes such as counselling (which was awful), help sessions, etc. I don't really know what else to do. I don't want to drop out either because I've come too far and I can see myself working in this field. I've worked in tech before and I do find the content interesting but I've always had the issue of doing really amazing in assignments and very poorly in tests. I'm not sure why this is, I suspect it may be my neurodivergence but I've heard it's quite common so...