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For The High School Scholars Struggling In College

Not Everyone can live up to the expectations forever

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For The High School Scholars Struggling In College
Alexe Bowlby

High school was a breeze, homework was no big deal, and we didn't fret over tests or quizzes or even care about the difference between the two.

But now we're in college, the "big kid world", and it is a slap in the face. There are responsibilities we didn't know we would have, and things we thought would be a breeze stress us out for days. But why? We excelled in high school and everyone always told us things would just get easier here on out. Things aren't easy though, everything is hard and it is killing us because we've never struggled with school before.

All of our lives we heard that we were the smartest kids in school, and that academics will always come easy to us. If we scored less than perfect on an exam we would be depressed for days and just dwell in it. Our parents would yell or talk about how they know we can do much better because we have in the past. Our happiness was based off of our grades, the friends we made were other students who excelled because they understood us.

But when you get to college you make friends with people you have other interests in, your friendship isn't just based on academics. Some of your friends might have barely passed high school and are here as a last chance, while others have already completed several college courses and are flying through this with a breeze.

When classes roll around you feel confident in the beginning, because class has always been so easy for you. But the courses get harder and professors expect so much from you, and it's not as easy to get personal help in college so you start to get Bs. Nothing to freak about, but in one class you didn't study hard enough and you get a C on an exam. You think this is the end and now all your Bs slowly start rolling into Cs and you don't know how to get out of this funk. It's stress 24/7.

But I'm here to tell you that college is supposed to be harder than high school. You're supposed to be challenged because real life is going to challenge you. It's OK if you change your major and decide you couldn't handle the one you chose. Its OK. Not everything will be easy but you'll get through it. You can handle this. You are not stupid, you are just struggling.

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