<p>I'm extremely sorry for the rant but it seems that I'm heading for a nervous breakdown and putting my thoughts into words may help delay that a little longer. </p>
<p>God I'm freaking reduced to a whimpering pile of nothing. I started out from high school with a stellar gpa, recs etc. and got into a decent university (UIUC). First semester went pretty bad with a 3.2 gpa but I consoled myself that the classes I took were upper level classes that were way more challenging and exciting than the intro stuff that makes you relive high school in my case. But after starting the second semester happily enough, I think I'm not meant to be a doctor. Bio and psych are the two fields I thought I was good at, I suck at math and physics based stuff but history, bio and psych I was happy with. Now my microbio class is kicking my arse and my chem class gives me nightmares. I get maybe 4 hours of sleep or less during the week and maybe 10 each on the weekends yet despite all this I'm stuck with C's in all my classes which is way worse than last semester, I had to drop my pysch classes to stop hurting my gpa and may take some other blow off courses. I've had it I want to help people and even just freaking work for free I don't want money and I thought I had the willpower and caliber to become a surgeon but its not working. I freaking give up, f*** college and everything to hell. I feel that I have no other options left, there is no other career I'm interested in. I'm thinking of just dropping out and stop wasting my parents money, enrolling in community college and flip burgers (if that's even possible in this economy.) WHAT SHOULD I DO? Since listening to myself has gotten me nowhere I wanna ask everyone on here. I think I'd be awesome at nursing or its allied fields, should I try that? While I know nursing is no cake walk its requirements are way less stringent than the ones for med school. Or should I take the PCAT and apply for pharm school? I never considered that as an option so please enlighten me about the in's and outs of the process, please. Idk if there is anything left to do with my life, I feel like a waste of space and hate to think how disappointed my parents will be. I thought I was smart, I really did but I guess I'm dumber than the average joe. FML.</p>