<p>I'm a senior in high school and I feel stressed out a LOT. It's partly because of the multitude of activities and hard classes I'm in, but I feel like a good portion of it is just pressure put on me by my parents. They just got done yelling at me for wanting to take the SAT's one last time. I tried to explain to them that my 2120 that I got last time is not high enough for Princeton, but they complained that it wouldn't matter because all the time I would spend studying for it I would miss too many scholarships that I couldn't pay for it anyways. Who does this??? I mean seriously, who gets mad at their kid for wanting higher SAT scores for wanting to get into PRINCETON? And after I post this I am going to work on scholarships.</p>
<p>The point of this post is do all you college students feel less stress? I mean, I know classes are going to be hard and all, but I seriously think I would be less stressed out in a far away college like Princeton, even if it is super hard. I think I can handle the hard part, just not parents breathing down my neck if I went to UF or Rollins.</p>
<p>It's not that I don't love my parents, I mean I really do and I would miss them, but I think I would function better away in college. Can anyone help me assess my feelings here? I would really like to know if anyone felt the way I did and how their college experience is going and whether or not my desire to get away from my loving parents is justified.</p>
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hey just got done yelling at me for wanting to take the SAT's one last time.
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lol, my parents are exactly the same. my scores were nowhere near what I wanted, but they were not going to let me retake. they said they were fine. (actually my dad was still mad that I took it twice).</p>
<p>I'm just assuming that a lot of the the stress will go away in college. (at least the parent part should).</p>
<p>stress in college depends on what you want out of college. Many people come to college, just want to pass through a degree and get a half-decent job at the end of it all. They are the ones with little or no stress. Some are premed, prelaw, predent...and for them there is A LOT of stress cause they not only have to keep high gpa's, but they have to do so me EC's like research or internships. Others, have to workstudy which is also hard because work takes up a lot of time and is very stressful. Im not tryin to scare you but the stress will never go away in life unless your purpose in life is to be stressfree and party. And the stress you feel is greater cause in college most classes don't have free-bee points like homework etc. You have to take two midterms and a final and there's your grade. And trust me there is MUCH more material (even if you come from a good HS and took all AP's) and the material is harder.</p>
<p>My first year was much less stress than this one (2nd year). It really depends on if you have alot of friends/a significant other that takes up a serious amount of your study time, AND if you are really involved in your campus organizations, AND if you're taking hard classes, AND if your parents are still breathing down your neck.</p>
<p>I don't think it's any less stressful, but it is a different kind of stress. There's less stress coming from dealing with your parents. Classes become more stressful. It is a given that some weeks will be easy and some will be absolute hell. It's some sort of law that everything for every class happens in the same two weeks. And that happens every few weeks during the semester. Then there's stress from living with a roommate (I'd like to throw mine out the window at the moment), stress from dealing with things you might not have had to deal with at home (3 tests tomorrow and just realized you ran out of clean clothes? Have to throw laundry into that schedule too), stress from getting sick and having to take care of yourself, and so many other things (can you tell it's been a pretty crappy week?).
And yes, some parents continue to breathe down your neck while you're away, no matter how far away you are. Luckily my parents have been awesome, but I do know people who are still dealing with hover parents, and those parents are now thousands of miles away.
But college is what you make of it. You have to find a way to destress. For me it's going to the hockey games and screaming and cheering until I'm hoarse. I really get into it. Sometimes they cause more stress, but they at least let me focus on something different for awhile.</p>