When I was little, everyone around me told me that I will one day grow up and become someone important in the world. Being so little, I never really understood what they were trying to tell me. Who was I going to be? What was I going to be when I grew up? How was I going to achieve my goals? And finally, the most important question, was I really going to succeed?
All this pressure from those around me caused me to have depression at a really young age, although I do know they never meant it all to turn into a serious case of depression. My depression started around elementary school which, looking back, really scares me now.
During high school nearly all my teachers would mention that college was going to be harder than high school. They would often go as far as to tell that to certain “misbehaved” kids that in order to scare them. I personally thought these “misbehaved” kids were actually very misunderstood. Teen years are a weird time change to kids, from children to adulthood. It takes a huge toll on people’s brains and how they choose to express their frustrations to the world.
The teachers and people around me did manage to scare me quite a bit.
When I graduated and had to move on to college, I imagined professors who would have not sympathy and respect for their student’s problems. I was proved wrong right from the start. The professors at my college were very understanding. They allowed us to turn things in late, responded to emails relatively fast, and often did not require attendance so long as we kept up with the class.
This to me was a big improvement from high school. No longer was I required to go to school five days a week. I could now choose my own schedule and decide what classes I wanted to take with my choice of professor and at my preferred time. Not only that, but I was also able to leave campus whenever I wanted and also walk out of classes in session if I chose to.
Homework, for me, was just the same level of difficulty as high school. I had far less homework than in high school. I also had relatively the same amount of essays due during the whole semester as I would in a semester of high school.
Everything that I was told about college was highly exaggerated. I like to think it was done to scare us into obeying/ listen to them in order to “get college-ready.” It was probably meant more for the “misbehaved” kids now that I think about it more.
Nonetheless, I think you should not worry too much about it. All you need to do is take and deep breath now and then Remember that things will all turn out good at the end of the day you just have to wait.
