<p>I have just starting my sophomore year and I am already beginning to feel the stress that I had all freshman year. I have a very hard time relax when I am at college. I can't enjoy hangout or going and doing something not school related because I just stress so much about school work. I feel like instead of doing something else I should be rereading chapters, or working more problems. I have a 4.0 and I feel a lot of pressure that I must maintain it for the next 3 years. Has anyone else felt like this and learned to relax a little and be ok with not having a perfect GPA?</p>
<p>Drinking helps.</p>
<p>try smoking. seriously, it helps.</p>
<p>You really don’t need a perfect GPA. The majority of people don’t have one. And your GPA stops mattering within like two years of graduating anyway.</p>
<p>If you don’t drink or smoke now, don’t start doing it. Please.</p>
<p>You just need to chill out and stop stressing over having a 4.0. You’ll drive yourself nuts and won’t be able to enjoy college if you are fixated on maintaining a perfect GPA. </p>
<p>You don’t need to have a perfect GPA. Try to keep yourself busy with a hobby or activity.</p>
<p>Try making time to work out at the fitness center 3 or 4 times a week. It really will help you to release the stress.</p>
<p>^Perfect advice. That’s what I was going to say.</p>
<p>Try smoking a little bit. It will mellow you out.</p>
<p>These morons who suggest smoking likely have no idea what a pack of cigarettes cost.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone is recommending that he smokes some cancer sticks.</p>
<p>I see now.</p>
<p>Way to go, Van. That was funny.</p>
<p>College students are crazy about smoking these days. It’s their own trendy political movement. Smoking cigarettes… Not so much. It seems to be on the way out. :(</p>
<p>So sayeth the one with ‘tobacco’ in his name. I’m 23 and can barely understand half the crap people talk about these days.</p>
<p>I’m a smoker’s rights advocate and a chocolate addict.</p>
<p>he could be going to school in some place like South Carolina where they’re cheap</p>
<p>collegekid…I am wondering if your standard to maintain a perfect GPA is the result of your cultural expectation to achieve perfection. It is very difficult for American students to understand the stresses that foreign born students have when studying in the USA even for those who are first generation. It is difficult to maintain the perfect GPA in college but I am not sure if I or anyone could actually tell you anything that will help you to relax. If someone has had that drilled into their head since they were old enough to talk than it can’t be changed by a few postings here on a forum. You will need to do some thinking and consider your motivation for working so hard with the idea that you are not able to enjoy any free time. I can say one thing regarding this, American employers will want to see that you can get along with others and have something more to offer than just your strong GPA. Try to think about what drives you to the point that a high GPA is the only source of gratification for you? Is it important to you to have more balance in your life through friendships, activities, and service? Do you think that you could gain anything through adding some of these things to your life rather than just focusing on one aspect of it?</p>