u/Glittering-Ad-1626

I need letters of recommendations for job searching, I need to finish group projects for my final classes, I need to network to get a damn job.

I want to just get a damn grade, go home, cry, and never talk to anyone again!

I’m so sick and tired of socializing. My battery has been in the red since the first week of the semester. I hate senior year after being quiet all 3 years.

It feels like I’m cramming for an exam but for networking. I have to do things to make my resume standout but in reality, I’m just an introverted loser who has nothing interesting.

I have no leadership skills and I don’t wanna be a leader, I just need money and insurance. But once I graduate, I’ll be overqualified and need to use my degree to get better paying job to pay off all my student debt so it feels like a trap to be a leader.

I’m tired. I’m just emotionally, physically, socially tired. I wanna quit. This sounds like a first world problem but lowkey how do I escape this success? It’s exhausting to keep up with. I wanna shut down and be quiet again

Ignore me. Just one of those dumb students that need to scream after a midterm.

God I fvckin hate these kind of classes where it’s only a midterm and final and the assignments are a tiny fraction of the grade!

I swear to god, I practiced and practiced and practiced all weekend.

Of course I expected the answers to be completely different but the approach is similar.

I was blasting through the exam first 15 minutes but stumbled on ONE question that’s gonna haunt me the rest of the semester, then it just fell apart in terms of keeping track of time.

I ended up just leaving an outline of my answer for the last two questions without finishing it. Of course the graders are gonna go “wtf is this sh*t?” but I hope I at least get partial credit for putting something down.

I didn’t have time to even go back and check my work.

I heard a lot of students saying they didn’t even finish the last question either. Seriously?! Does the professor not test his own exams for timing?!

Idk what I’m gonna do. I just have to do slightly better on the final and ace all the labs. I’m good with just passing. Man I don’t even care anymore. I’m defeated

There’s a research project my professor recommended I’d join, so I emailed the team asking if I could join and they said since it’s halfway through the semester they’re not sure whether I’ll have enough time to fully get onboard with the project.

Which I know is totally fair. The opportunity was presented to me not too long ago. I figured it’s probably too late to even bother trying but I still asked for the hell of it.

The team member still offered that I can attend their weekly meetings to learn about the different research that takes place, work updated, etc.

Should I even go? Idk it feels kinda weird that they’d even allow me to attend even if I might not be able to contribute. Has anyone been in a similar situation?

It’s hard. I’m tired. I wish transitioning from school to a job didn’t require me to ask for professional references, being involved in clubs and having experience in leadership roles.

Idk how students can skate by without having to network in someway. I wanna go back to being boring so I don’t have to talk to anyone.

I’m forced to fake it until I make it because my family depends on me to not waste their money and get a high paying job.

My older brother aspired to be a loser and not seek employment after graduating from his art school (no offense to art students, it’s just his problem), so now my family is pressuring me to not make his mistake and get a proper job to help support them and myself I suppose. Just knowing that makes me feel exhausted.

Why does growing up mean I have to talk to people? I wanna be ignored like a child again and have someone else talk for me. I have no reason to be shy anymore because I’m an adult. This sucks!