What's the difference between an average person and someone in stem? Average person: this is how you get from point A to point B Stem person: this is how you get from point A to point A prime
Embarrassed? Dude, that's badass! Most people just end up going to college to defer adulthood and live off loans for a while while they figure things out. You made a conscious choice, that's way more challenging and way more inspiring IMO 😎
4th year comp sci major here going from summer break -> start of fall -> classes settle in, actually get going -> start of midterms -> end of midterms and just getting hit with this sense of like "what was i even doing before like my life was so easy" every 2 weeks lol
Wise beyond your years dude. Never figured you so chronologically young until you mentioned it. Your channel is gonna take off with the quality of your content.
...I don't have that problem at all. I never did. Counter perspective: I recognized that it was going to be a heavy workload. It was. Sometimes it got worse. I pre-prepped. I fed every ounce of my psyche daily. I wrestled with my ADHD on a second by second basis... But I never had the issue you're describing. Highschool was easy. College Stem was hard. I was never uncomfortable about the added struggle. I though I could take it on. I often barely managed to maintain grades and sanity... But I signed up for whatever and the numbers of hours worked were realistically communicated to me, though I did have to do some research to really grasp that. I did take it on. I paid myself what I needed to maintain and I accepted the cost, the requirements. There was, for me, no misapprehension about effort or stress. There was both. I just understood the numbers going in. Im very glad that you found a way to grow and get better. Good job. Awesome!
Love this perspective! Thank you so much for sharing. This is the mindset I wished I had going into uni... I think I went into it with way too much unearned confidence so I never planned like that. It's so cool to see all the different viewpoints in these comments, thanks for taking the time to tell your story :)
I've been studying personal growth in college for a couple years and the way we describe it is as follows. Comfort zone: where you can function easily. However, you'll get bored if you're here too long. Growth zone: outside your comfort zone where you are pushed to reach your limits and function at a higher level than you were at previously. Panic zone: beyond your limits where your brain shuts into flight or fight and you can no longer apply higher brain functions.
As a computer science & engineering student my advice to my fellow stem students is that you just have to keep going , as long as you are learning you will be fine , don't think about i used to study just this much or that much just keep studying and don't worry about anything else & you will be fine. Also never choose stem if you hate stem you will regret it you can only keep going if have love for stem or atleast don't get scared it
I am an Mtech Thermal Engineer since the last 5 hours (My final dissertation was today) and suddenly i got this video recommended 😅 Man I feel like I have escaped 2 years of pure hell. This was the hardest thing in my whole life and now the only thing imma gonna do is PARTYYYYYÝYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
@@mikes_channel I love your channel bro. Its weirdly soothing/satisfying to watch your channel AFTER I have completed my masters. Its a weird feeling of ''been there' and just a happiness that I have crossed that difficult path and am now free lol
Yo, another 3rd year mech engineering student here! Your stuff about discomfort and fear holding us back is probably THE most valuable thing to ingrain in our habits. I still struggle to make myself face the discomfort. The thoughts "It will be fine", and not wanting to go further than what is "enough" to be "fine", set me on the path for the minimum while I have goals that require a path with more diligence. So yeah, to anyone else trying to develop themselves in general: To make a change in yourself, you need to do something over a period of time. The amount that you change over this time is how consistently or frequently you try to improve. This is so hard to people like me. You will fear disappointment at your current state, and you will fear having to challenge it and be shot down every day you try. However, you must trust the process.
absolutely beautiful advice man! Really well said :) thanks so much for sharing. It really is a matter of trusting the process like you said. Good luck to you, and may we both graduate soon!😂
Just started back in school after miserably failing my first go round as a business major. Currently getting crushed by Ochem but trying to meet myself where I’m at and keep grinding away at it. No matter how badly you fail don’t beat yourself up but rather focus on the things in your control and be realistic about your current goals.
great advice! i totally relate and have been all over the place forging my own path. the main piece of advice i have is to not give up and find the missing or weak link and *start* from there. i watched a video where someone who was valedictorian and went to Caltech talked about how they had a math tutor growing up. it changed my perspective on tutoring and i found a math tutor for myself. working with her made me realize that i wasn't college ready in math yet. not anything she said, but just based off the content we were working through together. i had been struggling in my calc and physics classes but it never crossed my mind that the problem went back to k12 since i graduated with multiple honors and had taken advanced stem classes. my perspective has shifted so much since then. i felt embarrassed at first but i realized that it doesn't matter. if it's important to you, do what needs to be done to succeed.
2:15 I felt this! I got so much anxiety considering stem at first so I decided to just take humss instead. I was afraid that my best, latter as you, won't be enough. I guess I was right, I saved my self from total breakdown and burnt out. But apart of me still wished then esp now that i should've pushed through, I guess I was feeling the need to improve... didnt know that at a time. Well explanation about improvement! Starting from now, all I can see is craving for improvement rather than fear!
Thank you for sharing your perspective and experience, it's important to hear that you are not alone and other people struggle too! Congrats with the 2000 subs! Love you Physics Foundations playlist and the whole "let's learn physics together" initiative. My experience in school: one giant imposter syndrome... 😱 Hopefully, it'll get better one day.
Thank TH-cam for recommending this video and thanks to you for making it. I am a polish student, living in Poland and I recently enrolled in local university for Computer Science and let's just say i am shocked by the sudden jump of difficulty compared to high school. "Surely the teachers will introduce us slowly to new concepts of mathematics and physics, surely" - 1 hour into the lecture idk what's going on. 3 days after classes started, i am considering to drop out or change majors. Your video made me realize that i am not alone and helped regain my hope in myself. Thank you
it's terrifying!! I had the same exact experience in engineering. There's a massive learning curve but give it 6 months and you're going to be a completely different person :) I know you've got this, you're already here and ready to work hard.. all that's left is the execution! I believe in you my friend!
When I began to fail the two computer science classes I was in senior year, that meant I couldn't go to school anymore since you can't get school loans after that. So my failing in any one class was a death sentence. I wish I had had the leeway to make a mistake. Good luck to all the young people, and God have mercy on you if you can only attend college with loans.
For me the struggle was jumping from a system where an "I don't care" attitude got you graduated (high school), to a place where the reality was that nobody would force me to do things anymore and that my life was in my own hands for the good and bad things that happened to me. I had a very relaxed high school life, laying in bed all day and getting F's and still passing because the professors didn't want to see me staying (I wasn't a bad person, they were just that good people), but then I became an international student and a stem major, and since then I've never known the life on a non-working student, and I think that it has helped me expand my limits over the time that I've been in university. But I can see how it can all go down the drain if you fall for the fear of it. I did, but managed to get back up before I quit (fortunately). It's really, really a struggle. Right now I'm in SGA, working another job, and taking 17 credits with 3 stem classes and I've never felt so busy. I am damn my near limits but still holding on. Thank you for sharing such insight with me (a viewer), and making me reflect on what is happening and that all the fear that I'm feeling is eventually going to be converted in confidence. Differently from you, I still haven't found what I want to do in life (my major was a random decision), and I fear everyday on what will happen after graduation but there is always hope that school will teach me what I love and what I hate. Even if relatively small, I do feel an empathetic connection with you and all the people here and I have to thank you for that. I really benefited from all of this. Looking forward to see this channel grow. Keep it up king, you are a giant among men, I can tell you that.
dude thats crazy!! Your words are so kind, it seriously made my week :) keep pushing, I know we are all absolutely rooting for you! Thanks for telling your story
While what you say is true in general, if there were better means of getting the job I want I wouldn't be in college in my STEM degree. It may as well be a fancy way of paying someone else for you to teach yourself anyway at least where I am at. If you have had any sports experience you might recognize what actual teaching is compared to giving a one hour talk then telling someone to do something else with no feedback. So while it's nice to see someone enthusiastic about teaching, don't become someone who glamorizes how colleges operate, they could be doing a lot better for the money we give them.
This was exactly my experience through school. Started right out of high school with dreams of doing my 4 year civil degree, then doing a film program and using civil as my backup career. Stuggled through and after 5 years failed out. Felt worthless, went into a depression, and then was diagnosed with adhd. After a year off to go traveling, i went back part time and 11 years after i graduated high school i finished my software engineering degree doing part time school and part time work. Now im a manager/designer at a software company. The year off i took i used to go travelling and forced myself to push into my discomfort. Forced myself to meet new people and make friends dispite being a lifetime introvert that hated parties and drinking. Through that experience, i've been able to recognize that discomfort you get when facing new challenges and train myself to lean into it instead of shy away. That has led to some of the best memories, experiences, and stories of my life.
Although I agree that your description of the STEM experience is common, I don't believe it is or has to be universal. For me at least, there hasn't been a time in my college career where I've not given enough effort to succeed (I'm a 4th year biomedical and mechanical engineering majors). I think there's really 2 main skills that you need in order to place the appropriate amount of effort into any class. The first is obvious and that's being good at estimating how much time assignments will take and being good at getting yourself to work on them. This can be difficult for sure, but it's something that comes with time and practice. The second is being good at knowing when you understand something. If you can genuinely quiz your own understanding of material then you can focus on what to study and study it until you genuinely know it.
So true. I always was asked the question of what I wanted to be when I grow up but I was failed to answer or just blanked. Until I reached my last year in highschool which i rushed and just picked computer eng. Because i like tech and computers lol. First semester was brutal I had a 1.8 at the same time I was building my fundamental in most of my courses including math, physics, and tech in general, I was basically stupid which I felt and belittled myself alot. I pushed Through and sat everyday for hours on end to teach myself the basics. Now I can proudly say the I deserve to be an engineer or just at least say that I'm smart or competent. Honestly my point is you can't be dumber than I was 😂. You can do it, there will be hard times but never give up and keep going.
Im a freshman in the second half of my first semester right now. I am a STEM major at a tiny school (pre health) and lots of the classes are weed outs. I had to drop chem to retake in summer and even just the bio class im in is so hard. Thank you so much for making this video, it really motivates me to keep going.
@@Maryacar2024 i believe in you!! The winners are the stubborn ones who stick around. Not the ones who are the smartest or make it look the easiest. ;)
Felt like you were talking directly to me, lol. I’m a struggling junior comp sci major with a physics minor too. I appreciate this video a lot, thank you and best of luck on your studies! We got this!!!
For me... is such a strange feeling, because highschool was so much more difficult because of all the different classes I hated. Now that i am in college, loving all the content from stem, I dont feel that the burden is that bad. Yes, my grades went from an average 8,5 to 7,5 with a lot more variation than before, but it was easier to sit and study
Hey lads, Currently a communications engineer major in my foundation semester and in all honesty the most difficult part for me are the assignments. I am barely studying just enough to be able to solve my assignments and it feels like im studying 24/7 lol. I enjoyed this video a lot though!
This is teaching me that I don’t actually have it very bad grade wise. My problem is what I knew all along which is hard to explain or maybe just convince other people that it exists. Me 9th grade: 3.7 ( easy) 10th grade: 3.7 ( dropped out of AP class) 11th grade: 3.7 ( Major meltdown, banned from 2 classes) 12th grade: 3.7 ( passed AP class) 1st year: 3.5 ( easy) 2nd year:3.5 ( hospitalized, missed whole year) 3rd year: 3.5 ( took half course load) 4th year: 3.5 ( took half course load) 5th year: 2.7 ( dropped out in spring, Materials Science) 6th year: did not reapply 7th year: did not reapply 8th year: reapplied ( computer science) 9th year: 3.0 ( requested accommodations) 10th year: dropped out ( housing issue) My theory is that because I don’t learn what’s appropriate when I’m expected to, my state of mind randomly pinballs between expectation levels, which make the odds of bad behavior consistently increase over the time I spend at any organization recreational, educational, employment, or family. This is backed up by both statistical and functional mathematical models. The plot of meltdowns over the years looks like the Sydney opera house. Many of them resulted in me being banned.
This video kinda makes me feel bad. I dropped out at 15 and recently started attending college. As a computer science major in my second year, I’m not struggling at all and that worries me. I’m either A) not doing what I’m supposed to be doing and I just don’t realize it yet or B) not prepared for the other shoe to drop
My only issue in STEM was time. If I wanted an A or B in my class, I knew exactly how much work and time I needed to out in so I seldom struggled. But I suddenly landed my dream job before even graduating and I have less and less time
honestly really needed to hear this, taking Calc 2 and physics and I feel like a loser for going from doing super good in high school to getting 70s (can’t have for my major). I realized that even though I’m studying, I’m studying in the same way I always have that just doesn’t work anymore.
Hey! I love the videos man. Do you have any books you could recommend that could help me touch up on my algebra/calculus? I would love to go back to school but i definitely need to touch up on the basics before i even attempt it.
What's the difference between an average person and someone in stem?
Average person: this is how you get from point A to point B
Stem person: this is how you get from point A to point A prime
Hehehehehe
I’m embarrassed to say that I’m 31 and going through this in my first year of undergrad 😬
Embarrassed? Dude, that's badass! Most people just end up going to college to defer adulthood and live off loans for a while while they figure things out. You made a conscious choice, that's way more challenging and way more inspiring IMO 😎
That sounds awesome though
Why brother? You are bettering yourself, your families life, and your future generations 👍🏼🙏🏼
4th year comp sci major here
going from
summer break -> start of fall -> classes settle in, actually get going -> start of midterms -> end of midterms
and just getting hit with this sense of like "what was i even doing before like my life was so easy" every 2 weeks lol
Wise beyond your years dude. Never figured you so chronologically young until you mentioned it. Your channel is gonna take off with the quality of your content.
Only thanks to people like you Ted!!
...I don't have that problem at all. I never did.
Counter perspective: I recognized that it was going to be a heavy workload. It was. Sometimes it got worse. I pre-prepped. I fed every ounce of my psyche daily. I wrestled with my ADHD on a second by second basis...
But I never had the issue you're describing. Highschool was easy. College Stem was hard. I was never uncomfortable about the added struggle. I though I could take it on. I often barely managed to maintain grades and sanity... But I signed up for whatever and the numbers of hours worked were realistically communicated to me, though I did have to do some research to really grasp that. I did take it on. I paid myself what I needed to maintain and I accepted the cost, the requirements.
There was, for me, no misapprehension about effort or stress. There was both. I just understood the numbers going in.
Im very glad that you found a way to grow and get better. Good job. Awesome!
Love this perspective! Thank you so much for sharing. This is the mindset I wished I had going into uni... I think I went into it with way too much unearned confidence so I never planned like that.
It's so cool to see all the different viewpoints in these comments, thanks for taking the time to tell your story :)
I've been studying personal growth in college for a couple years and the way we describe it is as follows.
Comfort zone: where you can function easily. However, you'll get bored if you're here too long.
Growth zone: outside your comfort zone where you are pushed to reach your limits and function at a higher level than you were at previously.
Panic zone: beyond your limits where your brain shuts into flight or fight and you can no longer apply higher brain functions.
I absolutely LOVE this. Do you mind if I pin your comment?
As a computer science & engineering student my advice to my fellow stem students is that you just have to keep going , as long as you are learning you will be fine , don't think about i used to study just this much or that much just keep studying and don't worry about anything else & you will be fine.
Also never choose stem if you hate stem you will regret it you can only keep going if have love for stem or atleast don't get scared it
I am an Mtech Thermal Engineer since the last 5 hours (My final dissertation was today) and suddenly i got this video recommended 😅
Man I feel like I have escaped 2 years of pure hell. This was the hardest thing in my whole life and now the only thing imma gonna do is PARTYYYYYÝYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Let's GOOO!! CONGRATS!!! 🎉
@@mikes_channel I love your channel bro. Its weirdly soothing/satisfying to watch your channel AFTER I have completed my masters. Its a weird feeling of ''been there' and just a happiness that I have crossed that difficult path and am now free lol
Yo, another 3rd year mech engineering student here! Your stuff about discomfort and fear holding us back is probably THE most valuable thing to ingrain in our habits.
I still struggle to make myself face the discomfort. The thoughts "It will be fine", and not wanting to go further than what is "enough" to be "fine", set me on the path for the minimum while I have goals that require a path with more diligence.
So yeah, to anyone else trying to develop themselves in general: To make a change in yourself, you need to do something over a period of time. The amount that you change over this time is how consistently or frequently you try to improve. This is so hard to people like me. You will fear disappointment at your current state, and you will fear having to challenge it and be shot down every day you try. However, you must trust the process.
absolutely beautiful advice man! Really well said :) thanks so much for sharing. It really is a matter of trusting the process like you said.
Good luck to you, and may we both graduate soon!😂
Just started back in school after miserably failing my first go round as a business major. Currently getting crushed by Ochem but trying to meet myself where I’m at and keep grinding away at it. No matter how badly you fail don’t beat yourself up but rather focus on the things in your control and be realistic about your current goals.
@connorhall8463 badass!! Keep crushing it man. History rewards the persistent among us.
great advice! i totally relate and have been all over the place forging my own path. the main piece of advice i have is to not give up and find the missing or weak link and *start* from there.
i watched a video where someone who was valedictorian and went to Caltech talked about how they had a math tutor growing up. it changed my perspective on tutoring and i found a math tutor for myself. working with her made me realize that i wasn't college ready in math yet. not anything she said, but just based off the content we were working through together. i had been struggling in my calc and physics classes but it never crossed my mind that the problem went back to k12 since i graduated with multiple honors and had taken advanced stem classes.
my perspective has shifted so much since then. i felt embarrassed at first but i realized that it doesn't matter. if it's important to you, do what needs to be done to succeed.
2:15 I felt this! I got so much anxiety considering stem at first so I decided to just take humss instead. I was afraid that my best, latter as you, won't be enough. I guess I was right, I saved my self from total breakdown and burnt out.
But apart of me still wished then esp now that i should've pushed through, I guess I was feeling the need to improve... didnt know that at a time.
Well explanation about improvement! Starting from now, all I can see is craving for improvement rather than fear!
Thank you for sharing your perspective and experience, it's important to hear that you are not alone and other people struggle too! Congrats with the 2000 subs! Love you Physics Foundations playlist and the whole "let's learn physics together" initiative. My experience in school: one giant imposter syndrome... 😱 Hopefully, it'll get better one day.
I'm not in STEM but this video really resonated with me :) thanks for sharing
1:00 If you pinch the top, you can easily rotate it by moving your fingers as if you were rolling a cigarette (move them back and forth).
I love you oh my god
life changing
@@mikes_channel
Glad I helped :) Thanks for your content!
I forgot to add: you may need to move your hands around a bit at an angle if the opening is small.
Thank TH-cam for recommending this video and thanks to you for making it. I am a polish student, living in Poland and I recently enrolled in local university for Computer Science and let's just say i am shocked by the sudden jump of difficulty compared to high school.
"Surely the teachers will introduce us slowly to new concepts of mathematics and physics, surely" - 1 hour into the lecture idk what's going on. 3 days after classes started, i am considering to drop out or change majors.
Your video made me realize that i am not alone and helped regain my hope in myself. Thank you
it's terrifying!! I had the same exact experience in engineering. There's a massive learning curve but give it 6 months and you're going to be a completely different person :)
I know you've got this, you're already here and ready to work hard.. all that's left is the execution! I believe in you my friend!
Hey mike. This is the first video of yours that I’ve watched and I thought you were just really genuine. Thanks.
Amazing video brother, very relatable. You definitely helped me realize a couple things. Keep it up.
Your explanation is crisp like chips
When I began to fail the two computer science classes I was in senior year, that meant I couldn't go to school anymore since you can't get school loans after that. So my failing in any one class was a death sentence. I wish I had had the leeway to make a mistake. Good luck to all the young people, and God have mercy on you if you can only attend college with loans.
For me the struggle was jumping from a system where an "I don't care" attitude got you graduated (high school), to a place where the reality was that nobody would force me to do things anymore and that my life was in my own hands for the good and bad things that happened to me.
I had a very relaxed high school life, laying in bed all day and getting F's and still passing because the professors didn't want to see me staying (I wasn't a bad person, they were just that good people),
but then I became an international student and a stem major, and since then I've never known the life on a non-working student, and I think that it has helped me expand my limits over the time that I've been in university.
But I can see how it can all go down the drain if you fall for the fear of it. I did, but managed to get back up before I quit (fortunately). It's really, really a struggle. Right now I'm in SGA, working another job, and taking 17 credits with 3 stem classes and I've never felt so busy. I am damn my near limits but still holding on.
Thank you for sharing such insight with me (a viewer), and making me reflect on what is happening and that all the fear that I'm feeling is eventually going to be converted in confidence. Differently from you, I still haven't found what I want to do in life (my major was a random decision), and I fear everyday on what will happen after graduation but there is always hope that school will teach me what I love and what I hate.
Even if relatively small, I do feel an empathetic connection with you and all the people here and I have to thank you for that. I really benefited from all of this. Looking forward to see this channel grow.
Keep it up king, you are a giant among men, I can tell you that.
dude thats crazy!! Your words are so kind, it seriously made my week :) keep pushing, I know we are all absolutely rooting for you! Thanks for telling your story
Thanks so much for this. I needed it.
I'm really glad, you got this! It's a shared trauma lmao.. you'll come out so much better for it though :)
While what you say is true in general, if there were better means of getting the job I want I wouldn't be in college in my STEM degree. It may as well be a fancy way of paying someone else for you to teach yourself anyway at least where I am at. If you have had any sports experience you might recognize what actual teaching is compared to giving a one hour talk then telling someone to do something else with no feedback. So while it's nice to see someone enthusiastic about teaching, don't become someone who glamorizes how colleges operate, they could be doing a lot better for the money we give them.
This was exactly my experience through school. Started right out of high school with dreams of doing my 4 year civil degree, then doing a film program and using civil as my backup career. Stuggled through and after 5 years failed out. Felt worthless, went into a depression, and then was diagnosed with adhd. After a year off to go traveling, i went back part time and 11 years after i graduated high school i finished my software engineering degree doing part time school and part time work. Now im a manager/designer at a software company.
The year off i took i used to go travelling and forced myself to push into my discomfort. Forced myself to meet new people and make friends dispite being a lifetime introvert that hated parties and drinking. Through that experience, i've been able to recognize that discomfort you get when facing new challenges and train myself to lean into it instead of shy away. That has led to some of the best memories, experiences, and stories of my life.
Although I agree that your description of the STEM experience is common, I don't believe it is or has to be universal. For me at least, there hasn't been a time in my college career where I've not given enough effort to succeed (I'm a 4th year biomedical and mechanical engineering majors). I think there's really 2 main skills that you need in order to place the appropriate amount of effort into any class. The first is obvious and that's being good at estimating how much time assignments will take and being good at getting yourself to work on them. This can be difficult for sure, but it's something that comes with time and practice. The second is being good at knowing when you understand something. If you can genuinely quiz your own understanding of material then you can focus on what to study and study it until you genuinely know it.
So true. I always was asked the question of what I wanted to be when I grow up but I was failed to answer or just blanked. Until I reached my last year in highschool which i rushed and just picked computer eng. Because i like tech and computers lol. First semester was brutal I had a 1.8 at the same time I was building my fundamental in most of my courses including math, physics, and tech in general, I was basically stupid which I felt and belittled myself alot. I pushed Through and sat everyday for hours on end to teach myself the basics. Now I can proudly say the I deserve to be an engineer or just at least say that I'm smart or competent. Honestly my point is you can't be dumber than I was 😂. You can do it, there will be hard times but never give up and keep going.
Im a freshman in the second half of my first semester right now. I am a STEM major at a tiny school (pre health) and lots of the classes are weed outs. I had to drop chem to retake in summer and even just the bio class im in is so hard. Thank you so much for making this video, it really motivates me to keep going.
@@Maryacar2024 i believe in you!! The winners are the stubborn ones who stick around. Not the ones who are the smartest or make it look the easiest. ;)
@@mikes_channel thank you so much!
Felt like you were talking directly to me, lol. I’m a struggling junior comp sci major with a physics minor too. I appreciate this video a lot, thank you and best of luck on your studies! We got this!!!
For me... is such a strange feeling, because highschool was so much more difficult because of all the different classes I hated. Now that i am in college, loving all the content from stem, I dont feel that the burden is that bad. Yes, my grades went from an average 8,5 to 7,5 with a lot more variation than before, but it was easier to sit and study
Needed this thank you!
thank /you/ for watching! Couldn't do it without ya :) You got this btw. School is hard but there is nothing more rewarding on the planet
Hey lads, Currently a communications engineer major in my foundation semester and in all honesty the most difficult part for me are the assignments. I am barely studying just enough to be able to solve my assignments and it feels like im studying 24/7 lol. I enjoyed this video a lot though!
This is teaching me that I don’t actually have it very bad grade wise. My problem is what I knew all along which is hard to explain or maybe just convince other people that it exists.
Me
9th grade: 3.7 ( easy)
10th grade: 3.7 ( dropped out of AP class)
11th grade: 3.7 ( Major meltdown, banned from 2 classes)
12th grade: 3.7 ( passed AP class)
1st year: 3.5 ( easy)
2nd year:3.5 ( hospitalized, missed whole year)
3rd year: 3.5 ( took half course load)
4th year: 3.5 ( took half course load)
5th year: 2.7 ( dropped out in spring, Materials Science)
6th year: did not reapply
7th year: did not reapply
8th year: reapplied ( computer science)
9th year: 3.0 ( requested accommodations)
10th year: dropped out ( housing issue)
My theory is that because I don’t learn what’s appropriate when I’m expected to, my state of mind randomly pinballs between expectation levels, which make the odds of bad behavior consistently increase over the time I spend at any organization recreational, educational, employment, or family. This is backed up by both statistical and functional mathematical models. The plot of meltdowns over the years looks like the Sydney opera house. Many of them resulted in me being banned.
This video kinda makes me feel bad.
I dropped out at 15 and recently started attending college. As a computer science major in my second year, I’m not struggling at all and that worries me.
I’m either A) not doing what I’m supposed to be doing and I just don’t realize it yet or
B) not prepared for the other shoe to drop
My only issue in STEM was time. If I wanted an A or B in my class, I knew exactly how much work and time I needed to out in so I seldom struggled. But I suddenly landed my dream job before even graduating and I have less and less time
Finish the work you started ...
honestly really needed to hear this, taking Calc 2 and physics and I feel like a loser for going from doing super good in high school to getting 70s (can’t have for my major). I realized that even though I’m studying, I’m studying in the same way I always have that just doesn’t work anymore.
Veery relatable, but thankfully I’m a few weeks from graduation
@@eduardotijerina958 proud of u🫡
Thank you man
Hey! I love the videos man. Do you have any books you could recommend that could help me touch up on my algebra/calculus? I would love to go back to school but i definitely need to touch up on the basics before i even attempt it.
No, it won't break me, because I was too poor to go to college to begin with.
Teach meeee please be my saviour i can't find anyone who can help me in maths and science where can i dm you
How are you doing now?
@CapybaraHunter187 who are you
@@dishu.2128 just someone who watched this video too? I’m asking you how you’re doing because you said you’re struggling with math and science
@@CapybaraHunter187 I m not fine help meeee