I'm just here to vent tbh. I'm in one of the biggest & also hardest Pharmacy schools in my country & on a free scholarship & I'm in the 4th year with a cumulative grade of A- that I was hoping to maintain or bump up b4 I graduate but man is that s*** getting on my nerves....

It's always been difficult but I could work it out but the thing that's new to me is that this semester the start was delayed 2 weeks and the finals were actually brought forward 1 week without any changes to the quantity being taught while I expected them to cut 3 weeks' worth of material so basically I've had no room for a healthy, social life outside of uni that I sometimes just attend lectures so I can see other people without feeling the guilt of wasting time and I haven't seen my friends who aren't with me in uni for 3 months and somehow I'm still trailing compared to the plans...

This November/December push has really been weighing on my mental and physical health I had projects & practical lab exams that spanned 2 weeks ending this Tuesday then I start finals on 26/12 till the 24th of January so no Christmas break. Today I woke up with an illness and my first thought was "damn I have an exam in a day I can't be sick rn" This s*** isn't healthy at all but at the same time I don't wanna waste my GPA that I been raising for 4 years now and I feel like I might regret any drops later on so idk I'm between the devil & the deep blue sea here. Any advice? constructive ones pls

Just realise that in the end it doesn’t matter. We all live and we all die the same

Yeah man it sucks now but you just have to dig in and suffer. It’ll be worth it bro 🫡 You know there will be an end to it.. try to plan a trip for after it’s over so you can look forward to something.

yeah it's just I like to keep some form of motive on u know, feel like it would be boring if I give 0 s***s and also the field I'm in it's either you fail or you get a B+ minimum like I barely know anyone in here with a C or anything it's either they fail or they get As

this could do the trick

these uni problems wont hold a candle to s*** you'll be encountering on your job

and thats precisely why you shouldn't stress it

Pressure makes diamonds OP

I'd say take it easy cos you won't have as much free time in life after education. I wasted A LOT TIME in the past stressing after grades and I'm v rueful in the present time.

I know that and I've seen it on friends older than me but I usually don't stress it I would say I've been enjoying my uni life and having a lot of fun besides academia while pushing in the last month of each semester to get a good GPA but it's just this semester that has that time handicap on me that's made me stress so much and I predict that the next semester will have the same issue so idk whether I should in cave in and let the GPA dip or just thug that s*** out and keep stressing to keep my grades in A- territory

afaik your industry really cares about grades so if it's one of your last ones then I would prob thug it out. it'd probably worth it long-term. but I cant recommend it bc I dont know your situation. personally I never stressed about my grades like that and when I really had to put in hours I did it off the fact that I was chilling most of my time so I figured ill put in some effort when its really needed

its good that you vented though, consider physical exercise if you dont do that already; its often a good outlier for that body stress

Lies

If ur doing it right school should be much harder than your job

rare but not impossible

Ig it depends on circumstances. It's a whole different set of challenges between the two

way i look at it, there are certain kinds of 'projects' you're doing at the end of your semester for example so maybe once or a couple of times per year. think your thesis or your lab project or whatever

at your job you might be doing those same projects all the time; they'd require the same skills, but you wouldnt stress nearly as much about them

The difference is when ur learning new s*** it's generally harder than doing the same thing over and over

And what I do act more stupidly

all you gotta do is put the correct number of the correct type of pills into a bottle and hand it over to the customer man it can’t be that difficult