<p>All the talk about leaving HS for college seems so retarded now. Reading so many threads on how to survive in college, I'm really really scared now. I don't think I want to or even can shoulder the responsibilities of college. Getting 5's on AP's is totally different from college and it seems I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown before I even start college.
Should I just go to CC and become a nurse instead of going on to Med school and becoming the doctor that everyone seemingly wants me to become?</p>
<p>ok, sounds a little troll-ish to me..but transition into college life can be freaky. I know I'm scared. But thousands of kids do it every year and they're equally scared. I say give college a shot.</p>
<p>just let it flow, college will seem like home in no time.</p>
<p>it's really not that big of a deal. I was a lot more excited than I was scared. It's supposedly the best few years of your life, so why not try to enjoy it?</p>
<p>Go to college and give it a shot. You will probably be fine. There are plenty of other incoming freshmen with the same fears, and colleges care enough about retention to make sure that almost all of those freshmen will do okay there.</p>
<p>You may decide that you don't want to go to med school. You may decide to pursue grad school in the humanities. You may decide that you want to go to a community college and become a nurse. You may decide you want to take your second, third, and fourth semesters at a 2-year school and then transfer to finish a Bachelor's. You may decide you want to drop out and work and then maybe go back later. You may decide you want to transfer to a school that is more rigorous than the one you've chosen for this semester. All of these are perfectly good decisions for some people, and I doni't know whether you're one of those people.</p>
<p>But you don't know whether you're one of them either. You're just worried that you might not be one of the people for whom your current plans aren't a good fit. Don't give up on a 4-year school because you think you can't handle it before you even try. You'll always wonder.</p>
<p>Why don't you make a deal with yourself that you'll stick it out through December (there are some people who struggle at first but work things out during their first semesters), and then ask yourself what you really want to do in January?</p>