r/CollegeRant

So im taking and exam for my online precalc course and it is using Respondus. I already absolutely fucking despise it as it is invasive as hell and this professor decided to use it and make it have room checks which I am extremely uncomfortable with but I compromised and went to my hobby room to use it as I did mot want tk be in my bedroom and have it record anything in there. I open the exam get maybe 10 questions in and then the app just freezes and crashes. It closes and I of course cant open anything including the actual respondus app. I turn computer off and on again and apps open but I cant use or open within anything including task manager. Ctrl+alt+del just gives me the option to lock so I cant even hard restart or fully shut down. I ended up fully panicking over this and pulled the back of my laptop off and took my battery out which thankfully did fix this. I have seen issues where this didn’t fix it for other people and the idea that COULD have happened to me enrages me so much. Mind you my school doesnt even require respondus for anti cheating measure and have taken classes with proctorio which i actually don’t really mind. But respondus is horrible and is a crap program. Anyone having to use respondus should absolutely look for an alternative to use.

I might delete this because I am very embarrassed and know that I am dumb.

I will procrastinate so hard and it is awful. I used to be a great student with a 4.0 but the past year i brouhht it down to 3.5 and I have lost all care in the world about it. It might be mental health related idk but I noticed that I am severely struggling with procrastinating. I have one last day till my exam and I only now started studying. Ive locked myself in my room and refused to eat or drink until I study at least 3 chapters, but it is already 7 pm and I have done nothing. Now I just have a headache and I endedup falling asleep again.

I literally do nothing all day. I dont play video games, have no hobbies or friends, dont watch movies or shows or listen to music, I dont go outside. I eat the same exact two meals each day. I have entirely deprived myself of entertainment and surprise, why am I still procrastinating? Im so confused.

Its not like I hate studying, maybe I just dont understand anything and I dont even want to bother with it. I dont have the energy to try to use my brain and it is so annoying. It takes huge effort just to think. When I went in person Id go to tutoring but I still couldnt learn anything on my own.. now Im online and I cant bring myself to try. Im going to take a break next semester and sort out myself because Im going downhill but till then I need some advice.

I got a zero on a discussion board where my professor accused it of being 100 percent ai. I’m not sure how it got flagged for being 100 percent, I didn’t use ai? It was a short discussion board so maybe it didn’t have enough to work with? What do I do? I feel like I can’t defend myself with it being 100 percent, it makes me look bad. I know these checkers are inaccurate so maybe I could use that to build my case? It wasn’t even an important assignment though so do I just cut my losses?

Like, you mean to tell me that half the time I won't even be able to do anything because of a raging headache mimicking strokes and the other half I won't be able to concentrate because my stupid brain decided to not produce enough dopamine?????? Sure, great, love it. I mean it's not like I actually need to get a lot done or anything NO NOT AT ALLLLLLL.

And as if that's not enough, I started developing some stupid heart thingy that is causing a way too high heart rate in the midst of exam season. And I'm helping taking care of my granny (love her, but it's really stressful).

I mean at this point why did I think college is a good idea????

has anyone else had a class with weekly group projects? i've had a few classes like this before, and it's fine when your group members care and do their work. but this semester, i've been paired with unfortunately some of the most unmotivated people i've ever met. we have a group assignment due every saturday that all come together at the end of the semester for a huge presentation and paper. i actually think these assignments are interesting, but they require a lot of coordination and detail since each person's section connects to each other. i literally have to sit in the group chat and beg people to do their work, and even then, i can only get one person to join a zoom call or even reply to me every week. i then have to beg them in personal dm's to do their work on saturday's, and usually they send work that is honestly ai slop and often doesn't make sense (if they even do anything at all). and clearly we know this because our scores for these assignments have been poor. i tried to reach out to the professor for the second time now, but it's definitely a "you're an adult, work it out amongst yourselves" situation. i absolutely would, if i could ever get these people to communicate with me!

i'm a senior and i'm so close to the finish line, i'm so sad that most of my time in this class has been spent worrying about my grade because of other peoples lack of care. i mean, i get the value of group work for sure. i'm working 2 jobs right now that both require it. i just cannot stand courses that put this big of an emphasis on it. i've spent less time actually learning anything because of it.

i'm sure this all sounds very self centered but i just needed to get this off my chest :/

Hello friends. Last month I was laid off without warning. Like many before me and many after me, I am using this as a chance to better myself as to not fall onto hard times like that again. I am 27, turning 28 this June. I am currently weighing my options and think I have decided to get an apprenticeship as an Electrician. I’ve worked in HVAC, Plumbing, and with A few residential electricians and Electricians seem to end up the happiest of the bunch. Especially commercial. That being said, the Apprenticeships near me didn’t use to pay hardly anything and as a Single man without any Family to lean on, I couldn’t seem to take on that burden financially.

It seems however that that has since changed. They pay at least a decent enough starting wage and if I get a 2nd job, I can’t take be back to what I make now at my more laid back position. I have been giving out Purchase Orders for almost 8 years now total and the pay tends to top out around 55k-60k. This in comparison to some other people struggling nowadays seems to be a decent place to at least live and save a little, but I am looking to transition into more. It seemed that on my resume to most folks when I turned it in was that it was lacking for one of two things. I did not have a Journeyman Card or I didn’t have a degree. It hit me that in order to have a shot I needed these things. I’d like to be a project manager in a residential town and be home by 3-4 when all is said and done in 5 or so years. While having layers of stability. (Tons of Dosh)

Now we’re here today. My question to anyone who has or is pursuing a degree as well as an apprenticeship, how did you do it? If I can’t get into the apprenticeship I think I’ll be enrolling this fall. However, I’m being told by a few friends to just take financial hit and go into the apprenticeship as well as school but I’m worried it’s too much too fast. I finally have a few months safely saved again and have a current job but, I’m wondering how long do I keep my safe job before getting into all of this? I saw a program at a community college a few hours away that gives an Associate’s as well as 2,000 hours to your Journeyman Card for 2 years.

I think I hit a wall. I realized how close to homeless I really am and that nothing is permanent no matter how safe you feel. Even 6 months rent isn’t a ton if something happens. I never took the leap into an apprenticeship because I hadn’t met anyone who was happy in life with them. They all looked like it was so hard on them and at the end of the year, we had similar net worths due to HVAC getting laid off in down months here. I’m just trying to gauge where the world is headed for wholesale types who want to transition. Thanks for letting me rant and put my thoughts out there. Good luck to you.

Honest to god I've shot myself in the foot here. I'm struggling to claw my way back into understanding my math work, can barely keep my head up in orgo chem... All of that. I'm good at bio classes but all I want to be is done. I struggle to focus in my classes, to stay present, and it just hurts me and pisses me off.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to remedy this. I got better for a week or two and then bam, spring break fucked me up. How the hell is it easier to go to my job??? I hate my job but at least I get paid and when I go home, I'm done. No extra work needed. I feel I'm burning money, here. I pass and scrape by.

I kind of want to take a gap semester or something but at the same time I feel I'd just screw myself over at that point. I'm so tired of these classes. I just want to be done and get a career in my field. I don't want to be in chemistry classes, or computer science or physics. I just want to be DONE. I'm not even a senior and I'm suffering extreme senioritis.

…however it’s not even over. And I hate it. I hate one of my group projects (crashed out a couple of times on my teammates too..), I hate that i’m so behind, I hate that i don’t get much, I hate that im slow asf, I hate that i lost weight n gym progress, I hate that i have no discipline, hate that im not doing enough (the amount of times i wasted a full day of not completing a chapter/studying or assignments), I failed two midterms.., I cannot stick to a goal… At one point it gets really really frustrating. (Crashing out left and right, loosing patience, always tired..) I’m always talking down on myself, and i’m extremely disappointed, because i realize i got so much potential, but im really doing jack shit… Everyday i tell myself ‘ill do it for tomorrow’, but im just wasting precious time that could’ve kept me ahead..

Context, second year, working full time and school full time — heavy course load (I really underestimated those course loads). On paper everything seems perfect (35 hours, 4 courses, and room for study — it’s all i do: School and work). I can carve time to do work, i don’t do a demanding job — not at all, i can sleep less, but why tf am i not rolling? jus that question alone pisses me off — so much…

its stupid, but not i get even more frustrated when i see others having their ducks in a row, even when ik no one has it perfectly.

Im jus venting… n im tired, n done, n idk.. everything/everyone pisses me off (its not them, it’s me. i know it).

I’m a final year student (undergraduate), with just a few months left before graduation and now I just have to finish my thesis. The problem is, I am having a very hard time focusing and actually doing it. I keep procrastinating and telling myself I’ll do it later but now I only have 2 months left and I am freaking out since I feel like I am not even halfway finished (I’m an engineering student so it takes time to design something, order components, build the thing, and test if it even works or I have to redo the thing again).

I have always been a procrastinator since I can remember and my grades have been good so I didn’t really see it as a problem until now, I genuinely am afraid that my results will not be good and it will bring my entire grade down. I am also kinda a perfectionist so I feel like I need the best result and since I feel like this thesis is so hard I keep delaying it cause I’m afraid I’ll do bad on it, it’s worth 6 credits and failing it means I won’t graduate.

I really don’t like this major, the only reason I stayed was because of my grades and it’s too late now to switch majors, so my grades need to be perfect… It’s the only thing I feel like I achieved during this study program.

Since my progress have been delayed as from the beginning (I wasted 2 months already), I keep thinking if I delay it more and do this or that tomorrow when I have the motivation, I can do it better but I always just end up not doing it at all. Now when the deadline is getting near I am afraid to even continue since I feel like I’m too late already…

It’s not like I have 0 progress, it’s just like I only spend very little time on it and keep making a list of what to do and just not doing the to-do list. I also did have meetings with my advisor but it has been 2 weeks from my last meeting since I keep avoiding this topic (I was supposed to have a meeting with him 2 weeks ago to submit the final design of my thing but I keep delaying it since I just can’t get myself to finalize the thing).

Since it’s a hard project, I keep thinking I don’t understand it enough to actually WORK on it and just keep studying it, and the more I study the topic the more problems I find and it’s even harder to continue. So now I’m just struggling to get my pace back, stuck with countless problems that I overanalyzed and to-do lists that I’m trying to bring myself to do.

Sorry for the long rant, I just hope by writing everything out I can finally start taking accountability and start doing what I need to do.

currently a Jr. in h.s. applying to schools in the fall. was interested in finance but i’m thinking it may be a field that may become obsolete w/in the next 5 yrs due to AI. i’ve always done well in biology. i also have an interest that field. however, w/the research funding cuts, there are very few bio careers that can make a lot of money. i’m thinking of going into biology on the pre-med track. however, the amt. of debt acquired after so many years of school, seems overwhelming. has anyone else thought about the limited career paths that may not be thriving w/in the next 5-10 yrs due to AI

I'm a current second year premed, but I'm very math/physics/orgo brained. I can intuit pretty damn well on physics, orgo, and math exams, but if you give me a list to memorize, you'll be highly disappointed.

My orgo 2 prof sat down with me when I was struggling to memorize all of the reduction/oxidation reagants (did not do super hot on that orgo exam which was just a whole ass battery of memorizing reagants that did oxidation etc., but I had enough buffer from the logical exams that I have a 96 right now.). She says biochem is a lot of memorization, so I might struggle quite a bit.

For the other orgo exams where memorizing is not only not needed but discouraged, I can literally see the dipoles and see how the attack occurs even if I've literally never seen the mechanism before. It's hard to describe exactly what occurs in my brain, but I can literally use principles I learned earlier and extrapolate new rules from it to solve a problem.

I'm horrified.

I'm so nervous that all I'm carrying into the firefight that is med school is just some pretty high-end reasoning skills that honestly came pretty naturally to me.

What do I do?