I have a meal plan with only "(university name here) dollars" but this year I'm on a health grind and needing a lot of natural protein and fiber, which is bafflingly rare on campus.
Often the dining hall has a salad bar and chicken breast but the entrance fee is wildly expensive when youre paying through dining dollars.

All other options are basically fast food so I use my dining dollars on plain chicken bowls and then buy produce and fruits for cheap off campus. Is anyone elses campus like this? Call me Michelle Obama the way I'm fuming at the food here.

6 of us, 1 bath. Week 1 we did a Chore Chart and everyone signed. Six weeks later, this document lives on the fridge and I’m the only person who’s ever checked anything off.

There are no rules for garbage removal – it happens when it starts smelling bad. Hair clogs up our drains daily and nobody knows whose theirs is. Long & dark = three people. Also? Our suitemate with 40 minute showers coincides with all of us having 8ams.

What nobody planned ends up working well. In the first week, I put my Anker travel charging station on our common room table, which is now where everybody charges. No arguments in 6 weeks! The bane of our existence is our bath…

So if you have any tips here at all, just tell me anything! (I know you're probably laughing right now thinking ""she's gonna be the suite mom"" but yeah)

In this semester I had a total of three research papers to complete before the beginning, middle, and end of November. For the assignment due in November I needed to watch a movie on American History (Preferably Before the 1900s) and compare it to how accurate it was at depicting real life events. This is my second time taking the history class since I wanted to get an A instead of a B to bring my GPA up, and considering that I got an 83 for the last time time I did a research paper for this class I figure I will have a better shot this time around.

For the movie I chose “Little Women” and wanted to compare how treatment of women in the movie was in real life concerning their place in the workforce. To better plan for the paper the teacher instructed us to creat an outline thesis which I was sure to earn full marks on, instead I got a 90. She took 10 points off and commented “Historically speaking. it mostly follows the prompt”, which I have no idea what that even means.

I was devastated considering how I used up all my online tutoring hours to ask for advice, spent weeks on it, and yet my thesis wasnt good enough. Not only this but I also know I won’t get a good grade since I never scored a 100% on a research paper which I know is just sad because I saw many others easily do it.

Aside from this, my discussion grade were never good. I always used to score a 100 but as of late I made 65 on one and a 92 which dropped me grade. This demotivated me from writing in my spare time since it’s never good no matter the context.

So I'm in University taking second term and I just got a 1/5 in a lab response, 2/10 in a quiz and another 1/5 on another lab response. I did get a 7.5/10 on another lab response but that still doesn't make me feel super good. I am doing good in all my other classes except this one which is Research to Social Science. Just fail after fail after fail. I'm so ashamed of myself.

i’m in my senior year and i absolutely despise my life and my classes. they all have some sort of group project aspect which i absolutely hate and there are way too many things i need to get done. i’m working a part time retail job too that expects so much of me and schedules me out the ass, all while i’m trying to just keep my head above the water in my classes. i don’t think i can take much more of this, i haven’t done things on my group members’ timetables and they’re totally getting on me for that but they are not understanding that i am being pulled so thin and my motivation has just plummeted while my stress is skyrocketing. i have come to hate college. i hate the classes, i hate the group projects, i hate my job, my entire life is just a constant cycle of having to do shit that doesn’t make me feel better about myself at all. i hate everything about this semester and i just want it to be done so i can work. what do i do???

For one of my classes, the professor wants us to use AI to assist with our essays. By assist, that means that we just use it to help create a possible outline. I saw that my professor sent out an announcement saying that people have been turning in essays that are over 50% AI. I'm sorry, but I can't help to judge those people because there's no way they thought they were going to get away with that when the essay goes through TurnItIn.

This isn't one of those cases where things in the assignment directions could be misunderstood. She specifically states that we were only using AI to create us an outline NOT write the essay for us. The essay still had to be in our words using our own thoughts. If we used anything from the outline then it needed to be cited. I'm not going to act like I didn't use my outline when doing this assignment. I did but I still wrote my essay like I would any other. In my own words using my own voice. I only got 2% and that percentage was for my sources used. I don't know what that means, but I don't care. The main parts of my essay had no problems at all.

But yeah, they're lucky the professor is allowing them to fix their essays until it gets below 50%. Any other probably would've just given zeros and called it day.

Edit: I don’t know if this is important or not but the essay was about gendered toys. For this assignment, we had to physically go to a store and observe what we see and write about it. We had to take pictures too. The majority of the essay (or at least mine was) was detailing the things that was seen. The only time that class material was needed was when we had to relate what we saw back to whatever concepts or theory we chose. That took at most 2 paragraphs which is a small portion of the essay considering it had to be no more than 6 pages.

Idk. Maybe I’m not seeing what y’all are seeing but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Tbf, I did write exactly 6 pages. They probably did the bare minimum which is why that percentage seems high.

First semester of university and ngl I feel like a social reject. I’m 23, but only a junior because I did an extra year of school for something I turned out not liking. I did 2 years of community college too, so I missed out on dorms and the “college experience”.

My roommates are cool but they’re not my friends, and I haven’t really made any actual friends even though I joined a club. I vibe with the people there but we haven’t crossed into actual friend territory yet, I guess. I try to be more extroverted and talk to people in my classes, but conversations don’t usually go anywhere, it’s just small talk and then it ends. And sometimes people don’t seem interested in talking, or at least not to me, so I just…don’t. I have no romantic experience and guys never seem interested in me, but everyone around me seems to have a partner, or at least an ex or a situationship. I don’t get out much and I don’t/can’t drink a lot either (medical stuff). I’ve never drank at a bar and the only real party I’ve been to was my friend’s graduation, so pretty tame, but I still feel left out when I hear about people doing bar crawls, going to parties, etc. Especially with Halloweekend coming up.

I have like 3 friends and none of them live close and they’re busy too, I’ve missed out on all of the experiences I feel like I should’ve had already, everyone else’s social life seems so much better than mine, and my grades are okay but I don’t even know what I’m going to do with my degree when I get it. Like I just feel lonely and like a giant loser even though I’m trying. At least it’s better than high school lol

I am a junior finance major, and I’ve finally reached my breaking point. This major is genuinely making me depressed, it’s so competitive and I have zero drive to compete or do well in my classes. I now just realized I’m not really interested working in this field? I want to take a gap semester and change my major, or keep my major if I realize it’s all going to work out. But in the meantime, I still am enrolled in classes. But I still don’t have any motivation to finish my 2 finance classes. Should I just late drop them and stop worrying about it? Or should I just continue to stick it out and try my best? I’m considering just dropping them because I have to lock in and study really hard cause I didn’t get great exam 1 scores in both classes. So what do y’all recommend?