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2016-03-21 16:25:36 Post No. 16942167
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2016-03-21 16:25:36
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How do I take myself more seriously while I'm at community college?
Some background: I finished high school in the top 20% of my class (3.7 GPA), I made Eagle in the Boy Scouts, scored 30 on the ACT, and kept up with my hobbies on the side (rock climbing and running mostly).
I started feeling really insecure about college (I chose a state school FAR out of state) just because of a lot of "crash and burn" stories, and sure enough that became a self fulfilling prophecy and after 2.5 years at that school I realized I was wasting too much time, money and reputation because I was failing class after class after class. In that period, there were a few times where I hit it out of the park, but for the most part I was horribly depressed and lonely to the point where I couldn't bother attending class or doing homework.
In December I moved back in with my parents and started community college, and I've been doing MUCH better. I'm probably making straight As this semester and I have a part time gig set up at a really great employer starting soon. I'm also not depressed anymore, without any prozac or therapy.
However, I still have this huge block from taking myself seriously. Some day I'd like to be a researcher (probably a planetary scientist, but I'm not married to any single idea), and I just have this notion of "scientists and smart people don't flunk out of school or attend community colleges."
How the hell do I stop myself from thinking like that?
