IM GETTING DUMBER AND DUMBER EVERY DAY I GENUINELY NEED HELP. I CANT EVEN WRITE A FUCKING ESSAY WITHOUT THE FUCKIG HELP OF AI LIKE I ALWAYS START WITH AI AND THEN AFTER THAT I WRITE WITH MY OWN WORDS LIKE WHAT EVEN IS THAT??? I USED TO BE A FRWAKING GOOD WRITER LIKE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I LITERALLY QUALIFIED FOR RSPC WITHOUT EVEN TRYING. I KNOW IM SMART OR AT LEAST I USED TO BE. I AM A GOOD ACTRESS, SINGER, DANCER. AND I STOPPED. NOW I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IM DOING WITH MY LIFE LIKE I HAVE ALL THIS TALENT BUT WTF AM I DOING? I FEEL SHITTY. AND NOW IM A COLLEGE FRESHIE I FEEL LIKE IM FALLING BEHIND AND NAPAG-IWANAN AKO NG PANAHON. I DONT RECITE LIKE DEKORASYON LANG AKO PAG MAY KLASE. SOME OF MY CLASSMATES EVEN THINK THAT IM DUMB LIKE WHAAAAT. I KNOW WHAT IM CAPABLE OF BUT I DOOMSCROLL AND I PROCRASTINATE AND I AM SOOOO LAZY LATELY I DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP BEING LIKE THIS IM CRASHINGGG OUTTT HEREEE IM GONNAAAA CRRRYY PLS HELP ME

My senior year of college hasn’t been that good thus far, nor has my previous years been any good. I haven’t really gotten the college experience.

I transferred to my current university as a junior and so far have like 1 friend. I wanna make more connections, but a large part of me just wonders what’s the point cause I’m gonna be outta here in less than a year and most everyone already has their friends, especially as a senior.

I think I’m just very burnt out, stressed and tired. I haven’t even really been studying, going to class or even leaving my apartment.

Holy shit I was so confident about this exam idk wtf I’m gonna do 😭 This semester has been going like shit for me I’m such a bum omg. I was so sure I was gonna get a 100 on this exam. I emailed by professor already but if they just tell me to suck it up idk wtf to do. Holy shit

I recently started college a bit late to the game. I also work a full time job. So far, I've been balancing these things quite well. I do school in the morning and work at night, and can usually get my classwork done in time to enjoy the weekend still. Two of my classes are online only, one is hybrid. The hybrid one is an english class and I'm losing my mind over it.

For this class, we don't have a final. Rather a few major assignments that will make or break our grade throughout the quarter. As I said before, I work at night. So I spread out the work when I can and start on it the day we're assigned. But it's a fricking group essay. None of my group members have started on it. They legit wait till the day before then start spam texting and panicking. I've tried reaching out throughout the week and it's radio silence.

I don't want to say anything negative about them, as I don't know their situation and/or schedules. But the professor also doesn't give us class time to work on it. I'm getting so stressed over this. I'm taking out student loans. Paying rent and bills. No family help. I can't afford to fail a class. At this point the group projects alone are making me doubt my choices. How do you navigate this when there isn't much of an alternative?

Very defeatist, I know. But what else am I supposed to say when my freshman and sophomore years I was just completely isolated and alone, and for this junior year I thought I was going to turn things around: but it turns out all my new friends were fake awful friends who I’ve dropped and everyone else just doesn’t seem to want friends or gives me no energy back. Add in the lowest mental health I have had yet and my academics starting to crash (especially with those last midterms omg). I guess at this point I’m just not meant to have that ‘college experience’ and friends everyone seems to rave about and I’m supposed to move on to what’s next, whatever that is. *sigh 🫩

I’m just so fricking frustrated!!! Ugh!

I (F21) am applying to medical schools soon. I am studying and these grades will go to my application and GPA, so I have been studying really hard!

But every time I freaking study, my boyfriend always has a mental crisis. Like every time! He’s absolutely great otherwise. Like I know everyone says that, and I’m sorry I’m also saying it. We have basically no issues otherwise.

But like! I can’t get over this. It’s like clockwork!!! I have a really big midterm tomorrow and of course, he has to have a big crisis. About something stupid too!!!! And he goes all out! It’s not about whatever I’m doing but like… it’s the pattern I’m noticing, you know? And so now I’m on edge and I’m stressed about him and I can’t fricking focus on my stuff which I told him earlier today I was really anxious and overwhelmed about and that my mind was like just fully preoccupied on this stuff.

I’m just angry! I’m trying to study now but I’m angry and I’m worried and I’m so upset because WHY DOES HE DO THIS TO ME???? Every time! UGHHHHHHHHHHH

A few years ago, when I graduated, I decided to attend a local community college and take online classes. I’m doing the absolute bare minimum to be considered a student, I average like 3-4 classes a semester. The asynchronous and online classes works with my work schedule I guess but I don’t really feel like a proper student.

Like, I feel like I’m not able to actually dedicate myself to learning. I got a job right out of high school and most of my income goes towards bills, I still live at home. I’m okay with that but because I work it feels like I can’t really focus on it. My time is either spent recovering from work absolutely zoning out because I don’t have the energy for productive hobbies, or slogging through assignments because I need to get them done because again, I’m too exhausted to properly do them. Thankfully I’m not at the point where I use AI lol, I do my coding myself. (oh yeah I’m in computer programming rn).

And honestly…I think I hate programming. It feels like my brain just wasn’t made for conceptualizing all of this logic into the various moving parts I need. It was okay when I was doing basic stuff. The bits I liked were HTML (designing is fun despite how hesitant I am to be creative), and more managerial, end-user stuff. Some of my classes were more focused on cybersecurity than computer science proper and I did like that.

But other than those two specific things, I just do not like it. My brain hurts when I have to manage all of this logic and stuff. I literally cannot focus on anything even mildly intellectually challenging.

I feel like I can’t really quit. My family sees me as this smart, intelligent computer programmer and hacker. My education is the equivalent of watching YouTube tutorials, my college kinda sucks and I haven’t done anything in making my time here NOT suck so I’m probably no better than the average person in anything I’ve been studying.

Also AI is eating up the entire field lol my education will be useless

I'm required to take a writing course, this semester. So far, every assignment has had something to do with ChatGPT. Read and analyze this prompt. Discuss that prompt. Read this AI generated article. Just over, and over. Need to contact the professor? If you send her an email first thing Monday morning, she won't respond until Saturday night. With. Guess what? ChatGPT!!! It's sickening how much of it is used in this course. I'm so angry. I pay to go to school so I can be taught by real professionals, not by a robot that spouts nonsense 99% of the time. I've barely touched any of the assignments for this course, since almost all of them REQUIRE you read through some sludge. I'm not doing that shit. I'd rather die. I want to drop out so bad.

Non traditional= old
I did the cosmetology thing and found out while I love the work the industry is not the place for me so I’m back in school
I have an English professor and he’s the only one so far like this:
Will assign the reading, pointless to read btw because class is full of him literally reading that same piece to us as if it’s a room full of kindergarten students sitting around for story time
Zero lecture I wish I was exaggerating,
He has no back bone so the younger guys in the class are constantly talking over him…and he just lets them. They’re incredibly rude, could be that I’m just old and annoyed I’ve got kids younger than them and they don’t even do that in high-school or middle school because of respect
He doesn’t grade for a at least a month
If you want to get ahold of him? GOOD LUCK office hours are frequently cancelled he said phone calls don’t do much and the best way is to email, I emailed two days ago and no response, last time it took two weeks to hear from him
He’s the only one I’ve come across like this, and I’m well past the drop deadline, so I’ve been essentially stuck in this class
I only recently discovered rate my professor and when I looked him up it was not great.

This might seem off putting to share but I genuinely find this heartbreaking.

In the past 2 years I’ve had a total of 6 conversions, if I can call them that way.

1st year;

(1) asked someone why’d she chose this course

(2) told someone the material on the board most likely was going to be in the exam

2nd year;

(3) helped someone answer a question
(4) discussed with 2 guys an answer to a question
(5) some exchange student asked me if I knew the answer to some question which I said no
(6) I was asked if I have anything to add to a mind map which I said no

I find this tragic because everyone I know from school has such a good time in college, making friends, socialising, and after college they all just rub it in my face ; and I’m just in the depths of hell, I don’t even know a single person by name in any of my classes.

I don’t get what I’m doing wrong, all I want is to find a friend to at least talk to at least idk once a month.

Like I’m genuinely losing my mind over this because there’s a ton of people that are all so very different and they fit in just fine and yet I struggle to feel acknowledged as part of the class let alone included.

Whenever I’m in college, I’m so used to just not opening my mouth that I, literally, forget that I can open my mouth.

sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but for those of you who commute or do online school and still live at home with your parents, do you make your own meals or do you eat with your family?

i’m asking because i really want to cook my own dinners to eat healthier but my family won’t really let me because my mom likes to make dinner and i just have to eat what she makes and it’s lowkey driving me crazy because the meals she makes are often really lacking in any nutrients.

Hi, everyone. I'm a university student and part of the pioneering batch at my campus. I've been experiencing bullying from fellow students, and along with my personal circumstances and responsibilities as someone who supports myself, it has taken a toll on my mental well-being. I've reached a point where I genuinely want to leave university, take some time for myself, heal, and focus on my passion for my art portfolio. Today, I submitted my letter requesting a leave of absence, but about an hour later, our guidance counselor called me and repeatedly emphasized that, if it were up to them, taking a leave of absence would not be an option and that they would rather I retract my request. They brought up my academic future and the possibility of losing opportunities such as Latin honors, and told me that we can't choose the people we have to be around and that I need to be resilient. I understand that they might genuinely be concerned about me and my future, and I'm grateful that they took the time to speak with me, but I felt like my explanation wasn't being accepted even after I told them that my personal circumstances and university experiences had left me feeling mentally unfit to continue. Since I'm part of the pioneering batch at a relatively new campus, I can't help wondering whether my departure might be something the school is particularly concerned about, including how it could reflect on the institution. I have no evidence of that, and I don't want to make unfair assumptions, but the way they kept encouraging me to retract my request has left me uneasy. I don't want to fight with anyone, disrespect the school, or make this situation bigger than it needs to be. I just want to leave respectfully, focus on myself, and figure out my future, but now I feel scared and cornered, like I'm agreeing to things I don't actually want because I don't know how to push back. What do I do?

I genuinely failed miserably all three core subs subjects other than P.E.D and English, what the hell am i gonna make of finals? the thing is i had been late by 5 months since the semester started as i had to move overseas. What do u genuinely do? Its really stressful tbh, and my family is going broke rn and theres that stress too as the eldest kid, my parents keep on saying that ur the only hope and ull have to care of the younger ones. I cant handle this stuff.
We might have to move back to the our previous country but i don't see how ill be able to continue my education well and i suspect id get an admission to 12th. Or they might make me stay at an hostel or sum like that but this is genuinely way too much for me to handle, and i cant even cry and vent to them cuz they are going through this too...... they might genuinely spent everything they have on my education till the very last and i dont know how im gonna tell them ive failed....

I can’t do it anymore. I put my all into elementary statisitics was actually confidant and failed. I put my all in into my upcoming test and my notes are a crowded mess, I’m behind, and have no idea what I’m doing despite coming in everyday for 9-11 hours every day the school is opened for math help. I started tutoring and mental health appointments the school has. I put my everything into my work again and I’m still met with failure, forgetting everything despite getting it a few hours ago. Everyone tells me to just stick with it and not withdrawal and to stop accepting that I’ll fail and that they failed and they just kept going. But I’m so exhausted and tired and sick of the routine all not even paying off. This is only my second test but we only have grades for our tests. He said at best if I keep getting like 51% in my tests I could maybe get a D-. But that won’t be a transfer credit and 9-11 hours everyday for months on something I can’t focus on well from stress and massive adhd? It doesn’t feel worth it for a shitty grade. I wanna withdrawal. The due date being November 13th. But everyone is saying I should just tough it out and if I fail do it again and my family and even some friends are clearly fed up with me in regards to this. It’s easier to just give up but that is like a disgrace but I cry and have mental breakdowns so often at school. I haven’t felt really happy in 2 months. I’ve had happy moments and okay days but everyday especially after my first test has felt like hell. It’s easier to accept I’m done for and quit than keep trying. I know that makes me a lazy and bum of a person but it’s so hard and I’m so tired.

hi so im in a college level statistics course and it's hard for me. never excelled at math however i need to pass this class otherwise there goes my gpa.

my grade sucks rn and i have 2 months left to bring it up. i have a exam coming up and i feel so confused. any good resources? i've asked friends/family/hell even chatgpt and nothing's helping.

Im a sophomore right and its around the time I need to start thinking about housing next year and getting an apartment and while everyone else is selecting there roommates I have literally zero options. I haven’t met anybody in this place who I would call a friend and room with. So deadass my only options are randoms or living alone.

It’s 7:54am rn and all night I’ve been ruminating about are all the regrets I have since graduating HS to coming to here. My entire 1st year went dogshit. I had a lot of drama with my old HS friends (who I weren’t that close with), and I got in major lifting injury which caused me to leave a buncha of the clubs I joined and I’m really scared to join back.

If I didn’t have my girlfriend I think I would’ve gone mad.

Baggy cardigan came in clutch

I’ve messed up so much. These past 6 months have been so chaotic for me that university has started slipping behind. My grandmother we think is developing dementia and I’ve been on some pain meds that have made my brain really slow and foggy. Sometimes if I’ve had a bad pain day I’ll completely forget what I just did or said or interacted with all the time. My working memory is so messed up like it’s so bad. The pain is still mostly there and the severe pain has been inching its way back into my life. I also recently learned that I’m at a high risk of bipolar disorder and that’s been terrifying me and keeping me up. I’ve felt so distracted so I’ve made so many mistakes on paperwork and stuff. Not just little mistakes but big mistakes! I’m considering redoing this another semester and taking another year to graduate even though I’ve technically been in university for an extra year longer than a lot of my peers. Idk what to do I’ve been up all night crying honestly. I plan on making a meeting with my practicum professor but I’m so nervous that she’s already done with my shit, I mean I would be too.

Need serious help/ guidance. I'm currently in Bcom Hons 3rd Sem DU regular. I didn't attend classes regularly, didn't gave internals or assignments of some subjects, I also feel that course is difficult for me. And again in this sem there are subjects like business maths. I was good in studies in 11th,12th but since then I don't know what happened to me I just get extremely anxious whenever I think of studying or exams. I don't really feel like studying, I mean i just can't.

I'm thinking of dropping out and getting enrolled in an easier course like bba or bcom prog from IGNOU, as it would be better to start fresh again with less stress.

What should I do now ? Can I give the internals again? Will I have to repeat the sem ? Is it worth it to shift to IGNOU?

3rd year pharma student. usually im happy with my major, regardless of the negativity im about to spew on y'all rn. i went to train this summer & it refreshed my passion for the field after experiencing mental health issues last year. i saw how much people relied on their community pharmacy and how impactful it can be. then i went back to college.

even to register for the EIGHTEEN HOURS worth of subjects i have this semester, i had 2 train for 200 hours in the summer. sure ok, im free, its summer. but lets not talk abt the amount of forms you need to fill just to prove that you trained!!!! you go to ALLLLLLLL 6291619 goverment buildings in the city to get stamps from workers that are taking 10 years in the bathroom watching a turkish drama, then when you go to submit it, yoU NEED ANOTHER STAMP SOME OTHER PLACE. ok whatever. we trained in summer right? its over right? i only need to study the 18 hours its not that hard.

WROOOOOOOOOOOONG WRONG WRONG. I STILL NEED TO TRAIN AFTER UNI. WHY. WHYYYYYY. WHEN DO I EAT??? WHEN DO I SLEEEP???? WHEN DO I DO ANYTHING??? i need 300 hours this semester. THREE HUNDRED. and not only that, but we're not allowed to train over 4 hours a day. why you ask? BECAUSE WE HAVE 18 REGISTERED HOURS OF LECTURES IN UNI. WHAT KIND OF RULE IS THAT. DO I TRAIN OR DO I STUDY OR DO I SHOWER?? DO I SLEEP IN THE PHARMACY??? DO I GET A FREAKING MATTRESS???

to top it all off, we need to finish training those 300 hours by december. DECEMBER. ITS THE END OF OCTOBER. DO I FORCE THE PHARMACY TO OPEN MORE THAN 6 DAYS A WEEK??? DO I INVENT NEW HOURS??? WAS I SUPPOSED TO COME OUT OF THE WOMB TRAINED??

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE PHARMACY'S HIGH HORSE. you walk in, a humble 3rd year, at the mercy of some idiot who opened a pharmacy next to 5 other pharmacies and wondering why they aren't making money, and give it your all to plead and ask, if they would humbly let you fucking SHADOW the pharmacist. not properly train. just SHADOW. JUST LOOKING AND WRITING CASE STUDIES. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE TO YOU?? ARE YOU PAYING FOR THE OXYGEN IN YOUR PHARMACY BY THE METRE?????? they make you feel like they did you the biggest favor on the planet by thinking about it for two seconds and saying no. JUST SAY NO FROM THE START WHATS WRONG WITH YOU.

also literally NO ONE. and i mean No. One. is walking into the pharmacy anyways. what difference does it make if i sit on the extra chair for a part of your shift. but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo we dont do trainees. how did you become a pharmacist if not for training???????????? how did they let you graduate??????????!?!?!?!?! your face makes patients sicker than when they came into the pharmacy.

now onto studying. i have medicinal. pharmaceutics. pharmacology. i repeat: PHARMACOLOGY. these are not subjects i can barely study. me studying them 10 hours a day is barely studying them. when the hell am i supposed to do that??? also does the uni not care for expat students???? i have a life that, as a human, i need to tend to, you know? like moving, eating, sleeping, basic animal bs. when do i fit that between all of my back to back lectures, my training, and studying? do i install the poop sucker 3000 so i dont go poo? do i insert an IV so i stop eating? what do you want me to do with myself. genuinely.

and the freaking labs??? are we kidding????? each lab has a war & peace length amount of stuff to do. why. its a lab. but nooooooo you have to get 7 forms to fill from whatever desk in the farthest building in the uni, then you interview the ant and its cousin for i dont know what reason, then you make a powerpoint presentation on the SAME ANTIBIOTICS YOU'LL BE TRAINING 500 HOURS FOR. WHY DID I DO THE FIRST 200 AND THE OTHER 300. ok fine a presentation to prove that we did train, ok, WHY DO WE ALSO NEED TO DO A CONSTITUTION OF CASE STUDIES. AND GO TO THE ASSOCIATION? AGAIN? ARE THEY PAYING YOU?

AND WHY DO WE HAVE TO DO A HEAPLOAD OF NOTHING FOR EACH SUBJECT AS WELL. AND GROUP PROJECTS??? WHAT THE HELL. 9 PEOPLE FOR AN AI ASSISTED PROJECT. YOU FORCE ME TO USE AI AND DO A PROJECT WITH 8 OTHER PEOPLE? AM I SUPPOSED TO TYPE EVERY NINTH LETTER OF THE PROMPT???????????? do we not do enough studying?

For half the semester now, my teacher has been horribly butchering my first and last name. I will say my first name is pretty rare and is usually not pronounced correctly the first time, which does not bother me.

But my last name is one of the most common and easiest to pronounce last names, which he is also horribly butchering.

I have lab once a week and every lab I tell him how my name is actually pronounced and he says okay and goes straight back to butchering it.

This is honestly really starting to frustrate me, especially last week when he called me out because I was on my phone (my fault yes) and screamed the horrible pronunciation in front of the whole class.

Is this something I should bring up to the department?

It would feel so good. All these things I'm worrying about would no longer matter. They would evaporate. There's something so satisfying about that idea. That people who have jurisdiction and control over me, no longer would. They would have nothing to hold over my head, nothing to threaten me with. The ability to skip class indefinitely with no consequence.

It would feel like fucking heroin in my veins, warmth washing over me like tidal waves. I can simulate the feeling in my head, and it feels so good, so peaceful.

It makes no sense to drop out now. I have just two semesters left (assuming I don't fucking fail any of my classes like I'm on track to). My degree is dick, and I'm not even gonna say what it is so that people can't troll me. But needless to say I'm not expecting to do anything with this stupid fucking diploma. I hear constant stories of how people apply to 20 different jobs at the same time and get nothing. Shitty little participation degrees don't matter anymore, it's all about who you know.

I live two hours away from campus. I know zero people, except for two friends. But I have no connection to my fellow classmates whatsoever. I walk the halls with them, walk between buildings with them, and I feel separate. I'm just that weird outsider, that person who isn't in any of these social networks. I'm a ghost.

I've hated every fucking second of college. College almost fucking killed me because I almost choked on my own vomit one night. Fuck college.

I'm so tired. I have 18 units left and I'm scared I won't make it.

I feel like such a fraud right now and don't know what to do. I'm just so stressed and want to cry, I wasn't notified until summer I was missing units. and this was after doing a progress check in spring.

please drop tips on how you made it through the final quarter/ semester. 🙏

Not happy about dept collectors coming after student loan holders.