Incoming Freshman Biochemistry B.S
Currently, I’m an incoming freshman pursing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry. To get to the point, I feel unprepared.
For background information, I come from an extremely small town with my high school consisting of less than 500 people. We offer limited Dual-Enrollment classes, and we have no AP classes. I have taken every DE class available, aside from the college algebra because it was not listed as a class I needed to take in college (I did take the class, I just will not receive the college credit for it). The classes at my high school are extremely easy, our teachers did not necessarily spoon feed us the class, but it was not difficult if you did the bare minimum in class. So this is my experience with education so far, and about how challenging it has been so far.
I’ve heard time and time again that “People do this everyday”. Yet, I cannot help but feel I will get to college and crash. It’s easy to tell myself I will have the discipline to study, but what if the information is genuinely impossible for me to retain. Does it really boil down to a matter of my own work ethic? Or should I seriously consider how difficult this major will be? I am not an idiot, I have never failed a class and even though my high-school may let a dog graduate, I never thought I was behind. Any advice on my mindset or the major is appreciated. I hope at least someone else has had this case of “imposter syndrome”, and felt they were too dumb for their major.