<p>D is happy - freshman at Wake - I do know it took her the greater part of 6 weeks to get over the homesickness and get into the groove of college life . She experienced all of the normal freshman angst and I am happy to report she is a Demon Deacon and loving it!!!</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance but what is a "Demon Deacon"? :P</p>
<p>My D loves UPenn and Philadelphia</p>
<p>adconard:</p>
<p>Here is a brief history of the Demon Deacons. We learned this two years ago when my son applied there. :)</p>
<p>I like my school. Everybody seems really nice and helpful there. I used to be shy and scared about asking people for help, but the teachers and tutors and counselors at my school make me feel like it's okay to ask them for anything I need. Not all of them, but most of them. I am very tired from all of the homework, but since I am getting all the help I need and am learning, I am happy. :)</p>
<p>I don't know a single unhappy student at my school!</p>
<p>I'm happy.</p>
<p>I'm also busy :o</p>
<p>Wow, looks like everyone here is happy about college. I personally hate it, abhor it, despise it with all my heart. I keep thinking about high school and the good old days I had back then. I miss high school terribly. Many times, I really just feel like and think a bout blowing the entire campus and everybody in it to %^@#. </p>
<p>I feel so stupid here in college and I just don't feel like doing any work. I think I'm still in my summer mode where all I did was just sleep, eat, watch T.V and play videogames. I hate the fact that the quizzes and homework count for almost nothing and that the exams count as everything. I'm getting poor grades and I feel very dumb and hopeless. Right before I entered college, I felt so confident entering as a computer engineering major with a full scholarship. A month later, I've switched to undecided and I really think I'm going to lose my scholarship by the end of this semester due to my GPA just plummeting because I'll most likely just fail Calculus and Chemistry. : (</p>
<p>I loved physics and pre-calculus in my senior year of high school, in fact, I did very well in my science and math classes in college. But now, I just don't feel like studying for my calculus and chemistry exams in college and I keep racking up poor grades yet I'm doing very well in my english and sociology classes. How did this change happen to me so darn rapidly!? </p>
<p>I don't feel like making friends here nor joining any clubs, I just don't feel like being involved in campus life at all, I have no social life period.. I'm actually pretty anti-social and its very, very hard for me to make friends and I'm upset to have lost some familiar faces I knew back in high school. But yet, I don't feel upset at all by being all alone in my apartment room. I've actually been a loner most of my life. I'm mostly depressed about my grades, what major I'll pick, how well I'll do in college and what I'm going to do for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>Sorry if I've depressed anyone or put a damper on the mood, but the fact is, I hate college, I am totally miserable here, it feels like a prison to me. Everywhere I go at my campus, all I see are happy college students who hated high school and just love college and are so delighting about being there and I just keep thinking are there any other people like me and what is wrong with me to be so different from them and all of you guys that are happy to be in college?</p>
<p>uschica,</p>
<p>O RLY?</p>
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I'm happy.</p>
<p>I'm also busy.
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What, for some people that's not the same thing? ;)</p>
<p>I am definitely happy now (as a senior). I was one stressed-out little chicken first term freshman year... it's hard for high-achieving high school students to go to college and suddenly be "average".</p>
<p>rahulnirmal -- Have you talked to your advisor? Someone at student health? anyone? Lots of people who enjoyed high school hate starting over in college making friends, establishing a sense of "home", facing some tough competition for the first time, managing their time. But you seem to be going through some extreme changes and sound very isolated. And, you sound genuinely baffled about why you feel the way you do. I'd really suggest going to the student counseling center and talking to someone there. You don't have to feel as unhappy and confused as you seem to feel, and talking about it might help.</p>
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I don't feel like making friends here nor joining any clubs, I just don't feel like being involved in campus life at all, I have no social life period.. I'm actually pretty anti-social and its very, very hard for me to make friends and I'm upset to have lost some familiar faces I knew back in high school. But yet, I don't feel upset at all by being all alone in my apartment room. I've actually been a loner most of my life.
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<p>I feel your pain. One day I'm ready to try once more to maybe get more of a social life for a change but never end up doing so. Then the next time I feel like just sitting in my room all night and not socializing at all because I feel like I won't get anything accomplished anyway.</p>
<p>I've got a 4.0 GPA right now and in my 5th semester of school but I've pretty much missed out on a lot of the social aspects here on campus so far. Every day I try to talk to more and more people and I just feel like something just isn't right. Don't really know what that something is. Some days I will feel perfectly fine and just have a kind of hopeful attitude about it all. The next day I get depressed because I will be sitting in the coffee shop just chilling out and I hear all kinds of annoying conversations going on around me (people are such ***<em>s these days, you shouldn't cheat on your boyfriend when he is out risking his life in Iraq, *</em> is wrong with you you stupid *****).</p>
<p>Anyway, it's one of those off days for me. Maybe I will feel better for the rest of the week. But right now, I feel your pain rahulnirmal2000 (on the social aspects).</p>
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But you seem to be going through some extreme changes and sound very isolated. And, you sound genuinely baffled about why you feel the way you do. I'd really suggest going to the student counseling center and talking to someone there. You don't have to feel as unhappy and confused as you seem to feel, and talking about it might help.
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<p>As much as I hate the idea, I think I might need to go too.</p>