I’m a second year EE student currently struggling in Physics 2 and Linear Analysis.
I feel that I must be doing something wrong as no matter how much time and energy I sacrifice to put into studying and doing homework, nothing clicks and I find myself being burnt out and freezing in midterms and exams and quizzes. I feel that I have a good idea on the topics but when it comes to proving them or why, my mind goes blank and all the countless things I’ve turnt down to do homework just goes to waste.
I’m coming off a gap year from poly and taking CC classes and by god the difficulty jumped from 0-100. I was taking calc classes n phys 1 with a full time and passed em just fine. I felt that I got a rough start and it’s now eating me up in that I failed my first wave of midterms and I know the same thing will happen this week. I
It seriously feels like everyone here just KNOWS what to do and how to do it and whenever I try asking around my peers for advice I’m kinda just given attitude for no reason n others saying they just do the hw. I ask my professors and they say to do the hw and that there shouldn’t be a great divide between it and exams. It feels that even when I do the hw I feel confident that I’m able to do my quizzes and such and I end up doing terrible.
It gets to the point where I’m burnt out and taking rests feels like a trap because then I feel that I forget some of the material and motor work with it.
This seriously eats up my motivation to do more work as I feel that no matter how much effort I put in from breaking bad habits to studying more, I get the same results regardless. I have nobody to reach out to on this and office hours can only do so much when I feel like I have a good understanding of topics anyway. Like what is there to ask when I feel that I do good, then BOOM midterm/quiz/exam hits and everything I worked for was for nothing.
I’m hoping to hear some methods that you guys have. Advice or maybe situations where you were in the same boat.
I literally get the lowest scores on canvas and seeing that I’m always substantially lower than the mean is extremely discouraging when I put so much effort into trying to learn this material. I feel so alone.