<p>I just had orientation and got my schedule and now it's starting to hit me. I am incredibly nervous and a little scared of what's to come. My biggest issue here is that I was never the best student in high school. There were always the smart kids I knew that breezed through the work load and I had to work much harder just to keep up my grades. Also I didn't do very much my first two years, I got mostly B's and C's and cared very little about school.</p>
<p>Junior and senior year I really buckled down and took all the AP sciences available and I managed to raise my GPA a little bit. However there were always the smarter kids who just seemed to process the information more easily and get better grades. I studied, took notes and though it paid off in the end. I am afraid I won't be able to handle the college workload.</p>
<p>Most kids at my orientation all had SAT scores well above 1900 and some over 2100, I was nowhere near that and many talked about how easy HS was for them and how little work they needed to do. </p>
<p>I'm taking a pretty heavy pre-med schedule and though I plan to work hard I just don't know if I'm capable of it due to my previous history. Does HS success have any relation to college success? How well did you do your first year?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. Worrying can only mess with your grades. Pick up a hobby or two.</p>
<p>I learned really early not to judge peoples’ intelligences. There are just far too many variables, such as previous experience, temperament, work habits, ethnicity, and economic situation.</p>
<p>Dude. Chill out. Don’t let other people intimidate you. Don’t let other people’s performances affect your own. You’re your own person. Who cares how they did on the SATs. That doesn’t even concern you. If you really don’t think you belong wherever you are, then I pity you. That’s a pathetic mindset to have right now. You have this opportunity available to you so just take it all in, take a deep breath, relax, and do all the work that is necessary and a little bit extra. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>If you have a standard, typical freshman schedule for your first semester you should be fine. If you took on a rigorous workload that is unnecessary then you need to cut it down so that you can adjust in the course of this transition. It’s your first time. Live a little. If you come up short, try again. If you work hard and do okay, appreciate it.</p>
<p>Many people who you think are smart, aren’t as smart as you think they are.</p>
<p>Cboe…I can’t say I don’t feel like I belong there, I worked hard to get in and am excited about it. =] </p>
<p>Though I can’t say i’m totally okay your posts and that link helped a ton, i’m just gonna try and relax what happens will happen I suppose. Thanks alot guys.</p>
<p>Some advice I was given at orientation is go to class, build a relationship with your professors, join study groups, get a mentor, get tutoring, and go to discussions/seminars. If you do all this, you should be fine. If you really feel like you’re not going to keep up academically then definitely find some reliable people to study with. Also does your college have some kind of deal where they put you in the same classes with the same group of people so the classes will be a little bit easier? If they do then definitely take advantage of that because you know you will always have 5-10 people you can go to for help that have the same classes as you. Other than that just know that anything can be accomplished if you try your best.</p>