Edward Nibbles
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- Posted: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:45:22 +0000
I have a chemistry exam Thursday night. I've been studying my a** off since the professor started lecturing on the material, but it seems like too much to absorb. I've also been doing problem after problem, day after day. I get about 60% of them correct by myself, the rest I either get wrong or have to give up and look at the book. Yesterday and today, I've just felt like I've hit a wall.
Things seem to be making less sense the more I work, and I can't remember things that the tutor (at the school's tutoring center, where I pretty much live) just explained to me.
Today the tutor was walking me through a problem, and I literally got stuck on something like 2+3x = 0 or some super easy s**t. I teared up and had to leave before I broke down crying. I'm freaking 21 years old, for God's sake, and I'm crying over a small part of a problem I should have been able to do easily since middle school. This was after 4 hours of studying for this damn test without eating anything, because I'm way too nervous.
I know this is happening because I'm getting so worked up and tiring myself out, but I don't know how to not do that. I've been studying for weeks, and I feel like it's for nothing, which makes me feel like I'm nothing. I just... urgh.
I had cancer like two years ago and this is how I felt when I got chemo brain; can't make heads or tails of anything during the normal course of a day. But that feeling hasn't gone away completely since then, and it only gets worse when I'm stressed. Does anyone else have this problem?
Things seem to be making less sense the more I work, and I can't remember things that the tutor (at the school's tutoring center, where I pretty much live) just explained to me.
Today the tutor was walking me through a problem, and I literally got stuck on something like 2+3x = 0 or some super easy s**t. I teared up and had to leave before I broke down crying. I'm freaking 21 years old, for God's sake, and I'm crying over a small part of a problem I should have been able to do easily since middle school. This was after 4 hours of studying for this damn test without eating anything, because I'm way too nervous.
I know this is happening because I'm getting so worked up and tiring myself out, but I don't know how to not do that. I've been studying for weeks, and I feel like it's for nothing, which makes me feel like I'm nothing. I just... urgh.
I had cancer like two years ago and this is how I felt when I got chemo brain; can't make heads or tails of anything during the normal course of a day. But that feeling hasn't gone away completely since then, and it only gets worse when I'm stressed. Does anyone else have this problem?