why am I even in college?

LegacyUser

so, i'm in my final year in college and I just seem to be slipping further and further behind my peers in class. I read quite an amount of the texts given, i attend all lectures and I really thought I was doing well until I received our first piece of submitted work back two days ago. we were all told that we were averaging around the B mark and when I got my work back and it was waaaaaaaaaaaaay beneath said B. I feel crap now . Like a really small fish in a really big pond and I am about to get eaten. I don't know what to do, I am intelligent enough and this shouldn't be so hard. The degree path I'm studying in is a very competitive degree and even as careers go, it will be tough but I just feel like I don't have an edge over everybody. I know I'm venting but does anyone have even the slightest idea of what to do?

Overheal

Pull it together?

You dont get to Final Year by acting the tit. You're there because you earned the right. Like in previous years, you're constantly asked to Step Up your game.

I would speak with the lecturer who announced this average. Maybe it was a bluff to get everyone to cop on or maybe you have slipped up badly somewhere - either way getting depressed about it doesnt help you an iota. Nip it in the bud and find out how you need to proceed.

Speak to the lecturer. I'm not saying you should imply your grade wasn't fair, but just explain that you expected to do better, and ask what it is you're doing wrong. I can't believe I went through all of undergrad without approaching the staff and asking for advice. It's not about intelligence, it's about essay skills and you can learn a lot of them. Just nobody bothered to tell me and I never plucked up the courage to go and ask. I was getting marks in the low 2:2 area, and I am and always have been a 1st class/high 2:1 student in every other way, so I shouldn't have just accepted it. A couple of lowish essay grades actually ended up costing me a First in the end and I still kick myself thinking about it. They generally want to help you and they want you to do well, and if you approach them in a calm and mature way they will probably respond in a positive manner.

Rantan

stick with it, thats the only advice I can give you. Sounds like you have worked well up to now, kee the head down and the year will fly. Do not compare yourself to others...you are probably just tired from the effort you have made to now and see no end, one year is nothing. Do not even contemplate quitting. Leave now you have nothing, no education, no future, no job, stick this year out and the economy will be starting to pick up again in a year or two, you will be in a great position and this will be a distant memory, trust me.

I bummed out for the last year of my degree, finished up with a pass BA, not worth a p*ss, no post grad - 12 years later with impending redundancy not a day passes that I dont regret not knuckling down and working for my last year, getting a good degree and going on to an MA or further education.

This is a hard time, stick with it, go out get pissed, relax and good luck.