u/Starshine-66

I feel so lost right now I don’t know what to do.

I’m currently in my second year at a community college nearing towards the end of finishing up my general education. For context, I went back to college because my parents especially my mom wanted me to. I’ve been in and out of college for years. I first attended straight out of high school but I didn’t last long because at the time I was doing very poorly and I had no idea what I wanted to do. The second time it was the same, I felt lost and I wasn’t doing so great so I left. Some time went by and I didn’t go back till now. The issue is that I still don’t know what I want to do. I’ve gone back and forth with different ideas but I haven’t been able to stick with anything. Also mentally I haven’t doing so well. It’s been really hard for me to feel motivated and do my work especially this semester. I’m currently struggling with one of my classes and I’m worried that I’m going to fail. I was doing well up until now, this class has just been hard for me. I feel bad because I’m 24 and I still have no clue what I want to do with my life. I question if going back to college a third time was even the right thing to do.

I currently have business administration down as my choice as I didn’t know what else to choose but now I don’t know how I feel about it. I did look through the rest of the degrees and certificates offered and I found a couple of certs related to logistics. I did find one that seems kind of interesting to me and it’s not very long either though considering that I’ve already been in college for two years and that I’m pretty much done with my general ed I don’t know if it’s even worth switching from my original plan to go for a certificate instead. I just feel like at this point I have no choice but to stick with my plan to transfer and get my bachelors since I’m already this far. Plus I feel like backing out to go for a certificate would disappoint my parents. My parents aren’t paying for my schooling but they have always wanted me to go and graduate. I just feel like a failure and it’s been making me feel horrible. I don’t know if I should just suck it up finish what I have left at CC and transfer to get the bachelors or stop to get a certificate and leave. There have been moments where I asked myself if college is even for me or if perhaps I just need more help and motivation to keep going. Has anyone here felt this way? If so what advice would you give?

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u/Starshine-66 — 12 hours ago

I revised my essay but my grade didn’t change at all.

I feel very unmotivated at the moment for some context I’m currently struggling with my English class. I have a 65% and I’ve been doing what I can to hopefully get it a bit higher. Our professor allows us to revise our essays so that’s what I did. I revised our most recent essay since I got a low score on it. I followed his feedback and I added more information. I spent a good amount of time making sure I fixed what I did wrong last time and I felt like it was better this time so I resubmitted it again and highlighted what I changed since he told us to do that. Almost immediately I get an email saying that my essay had been graded. I was nervous but I was hoping I did better and that my grade had gone up a bit. When I looked my grade was the exact same. Originally I got a 130/200 on my essay which I know is terrible but when I looked again it was the same. I was confused so I went to see if my professor had left me any feedback but there was nothing at all. Now I feel horrible because I worry that I will not pass this class or that I’ll be stuck with a D. I was truly hoping that by revising my essay it would help but my grade didn’t change at all. I didn’t even get any feedback as to what I did wrong this time or what happened. I planned to revise a second essay as well but now I have very little motivation to do so after this. I don’t know what to do.

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u/Starshine-66 — 4 days ago