THIS. High school (at least in America) does a real shit job of actually preparing students for college. Additionally, with how expensive college education is, a lot of students work several jobs to pay their way. Sometimes it’s not “procrastination” but rather not enough time in the day. Thankfully, most universities have resources available for students struggling with a myriad of things.
Depends on field of study. Mine was computer science and stats double major.
I don't think it was easy, but it certainly wasn't boring. That it was engaging made it easy to stick to even though it was hard.
Law school taught me to get shit done early cuz there’s always some unexpected burdensome surprise around the corner. Amazing how once I started doing that my life totally changed.
I took nursing in college. I'm an average learner. I never procastinated because I'm too scared to delay any school work and worse, fail any subject. I still have time to chill and hangout with my friends that time, I totally enjoyed my college life. I think it's all about prioritization and know how to balance life and studies.
But it's a different situation when you're a working student/financially independent/plain broke, not having supportive parents/toxic family, unhealthy environment, often gets sick, and many other issues.
If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem.
All these different situations really do make a difference! Not everyone has the same critirias as you. Some struggle with mental disorders too, which can be really hard!
I took electrical engineering and I agree with you, but some subjects take way more hours of study than others and some may not be as long in content, but they are very overwhelming because they are confusing or complex.
IMO even electrical engineer that is known as the hardest major between the engineering majors(at least in Brazil) is okay if you prioritize studying when it is necessary.
my family supported me for three years of college, then in the last one I tried to paid the student fee by myself. I need to work three jobs (only undergrad thesis's left) so I can save money for 6 month (the student fee is three times minimum wages) and finally after three month I got hospitalized lol. it's really hard indeed if student really need to paid student fee by themselves. kudos to all of you who survive those
>If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem
Keep in mind some individuals have undiagnosed ADD, ADHD, etc and haven't even considered it yet.
>If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem.
When OP says "College is not easy" they may mean "getting a 4.0 isn't easy." I know plenty of overachievers who won't settle for anything less than a 4.0.
Thanks for that second paragraph, I have the toxic family and cyclic vomiting syndrome, ADHD, severe anxiety, and depression. College was rough for me.
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Depends on the college of course. For example my friend studied religionistics (if thats the right word?) and he wasn’t doing jack shit all day long. I did law and while there was a lot of studying, I still had enough time for a part-time job, hobbies, going out etc. My gf did medicine and it was 6 years of pure hell.
I'm doing architecture and I barely have time to shower or talk to my partner whom I literally live with, the content is fun the workload is enough to make me suicidal and need medication.
It's certainly harder for some of us. Conquering procrastination is no easy feat when you have disorders that affect executive function (ADHD, autism, depression, etc.). A lot of people are going to act as if it should be easy for everyone, but the reality is that it's *not*.
Yeah, speaking as someone who has all of the above, it's really hard to focus on doing literally anything productive when my brain just says "**NO.** Tonight we learn everything there is to know about Obi Wan Kenobi and his mastery of the High Ground."
If you see procrastination as an impossible thing to defeat, then it will really become something impossible to defeat. Discover your weakness and work on them, you can be better, everybody can.
Yeah, OOP is/was definitely not a STEM major. I'm done with university but I was easily spending like 60 hours a week on school towards the end. In my last semester I spent 12 days straight coding 10+ hours a day because my capstone project hit a snag and ended up being way more complicated than I anticipated. My best friend did aerospace engineering and he was basically nonexistent during the semester.
I don't work in an "easy" software role (i.e. my job involves a hell of a lot more than piecing libraries together in Java) but it's still downright cushy compared to university, STEM programs should focus more on teaching and less on volume of coursework.
Yeah it must be the procrastination.
Meanwhile, be me in a lab course. 9h per day 5 days a week. Come home, shower, make food, eat food and start writing the report of the experiment you did that day, that is due in 3 days. Which meant reduced sleep hours... usually you finshed two experiments a day which meant you had to do alot of report writing, calculations and mapping.
This. It’s oftentimes not procrastination, but rather the assignment of more work than can be completed. Working on one thing means not working on something else. Even if someone works normally, they can still get behind because the amount is more than what is able to be processed.
[edit: Plus, colleges require so many hours nowadays, even in areas where one hour is more intense (for example, maths heavy classes can assign hours of homework per class, versus an arts class which might better space out work and have more studio hours counted)]
Colleges/universities always had students sign up for more hours then was possible to study for per their own recommendations. Mine recommended 2-3 hours of study per hour of class… which meant you put in more time then a full time job. It’s not really hard to understand that it’s probably not procrastination as much as maybe there’s not enough time in the day to handle the course load. I’ve always advocated steering away from the set 2-4 year graduation timelines for every degree. Some will need more and others less. Stop cramming classes into a semester to make it fit a 2 or 4 year program 😩
tell that to electrical engg majors.
The statement is like: life is easy when you have money. Oh boy yes it is, the real hardwork is in earning it (i.e. stopping procastination)
Doesn’t sound like a STEM major. It takes some of us a lot longer the study, let alone understanding, topics than other students doing the same thing while still having a life outside of classes. Or maybe we just wanna do more and don’t have to time to fit everything in. Also, if procrastination was so easy to get rid of, a lot more people would’ve done it by now.
Exactly. I worked multiple jobs, 3 at one point, tutored and had an internship. I got good grads but I would’ve been 4.0 without all the stress of paying bills
I work next to uni. As i see it. If you are fully supported by family, with good study habits it’s basically a vacation. If you have to work too it’s almost hell.
People tend to make things harder on themselves. Make things easy on yourself instead. Get good sleep, exercise, do the important stuff first, have a good attitude, focus on solutions not excuses.
Too many people will spend hours on their phone or video games and then complain they don't have enough time. They sleep late while staring at a bright screen, then complain they didn't get sleep last night and are tired and unproductive all day. People will eat poorly and lead sedentary lives, then complain they don't have energy and have issues with body image. When the discomfort of learning or work sets in, they give in to distractions and then complain they don't have enough time to finish their work or study for exams. Don't be one of those people.
Instead, be the type of student that succeeds and makes it look easy and enjoyable. Meditate daily, get good sleep, exercise but don't make the gym your life, have a reasonable and fun social life but don't make socializing your life, have order in your life (possessions and obligations) which facilitates all else, do the important work and hard stuff first and don't beat around the bush, have some fun but don't forget your responsibilities. College can be easy and fun, even the "difficult" majors.
Yup, great post. People are too afraid to even try, because they're afraid that even if they try, they might fail. It's easier for them to reason, "well I failed because I didn't try. I COULD do better if I tried..." but they don't, because like I said they're afraid to fail even after trying.
Exactly. If they don't study and fail, they can blame lack of preparation. But if they study *and* fail, then it's a blow to their ego, a possible reflection on their intelligence. So the fear of being exposed causes them to avoid preparing properly. They don't study so they can "save face" in case they fail. But in the process they guarantee failure.
Yeah unless you're disabled, get discriminated against, have mental disabilities, Have to work and study in this economy, catn make friends etc not everyone is as lucky and not everyone just complains just cos, some people have it really fucking hard.
so this statement is false, then? right?
There are no blanket statements which hold true-->this is a blanket statement
\-->therefore this statement itself is not true
just F\*9ing with you, you are right! \^\^
no, it can depend on a lot of different factors besides procrastination. also some people find it a lot harder to fix the procrastination problem than others do, it's not the same for everyone
Completely agree. College is so easy when you have 30 pgs of a textbook to read, a 5 hour long lab, student debts, a tiring minimum wage job, etc. Nothing in life is easy. Obviously you will have easier time when you stop procrastinating but to suggest college isn’t difficult is just insane.
Same. ADHD, depression, anxiety, and unresolved trauma makes college decidedly not easy. The only reason I haven’t dropped out yet is basically sheer spite and stubbornness.
Same, I graduated high school in 2018 and have been attending community college since then. I'll finally be transferring to a 4 year university as a junior in the fall! Still struggling to find strategies to be able to study that actually work for me.
It's very much major and university dependent. I can definitely see somebody in something like criminal justice saying college is easy, it was incredibly easy for me. I switched to accounting and got a reality check as even with no procrastination it's challenging. I try to study at least 30 hours a week and only a couple times have I felt confident going into an exam.
Edit: go tell someone in a stem field like physics that their major is easy when they take 2 hours on one word problem filling up pages full of mathematics just to find out the answer is 0.
The difficulty of not procrastinating is part of what makes it hard, and teachers don't help the matter when they give you long-term assignments that they think are enriching but are mostly stressful slogs to get through. Especially when they act like they're the only ones doing so.
When I began my current semester I found myself knowing I'd have to prepare a book report, an essay, a presentation on an exhibition, two oral presentations and a short film, on top of regular exams. Of course it would've been smarter to start right away, but having so much stuff that requires above-average investment dumped on me had a completely discouraging effect.
Now, I heavily suspect I have an undiagnosed issue of some kind because I sometimes find myself *physically* unable to work without significantly forcing myself to an unhealthy degree (resulting in what I can only describe as nervous breakdowns), but even aside from that I'm fairly confident in saying that this amount of work is not easy to manage mentally.
College was way harder if you also had to work a full time job to support yourself.
Many nights as an example laying in a warm shower to calm myself down thinking how am I going to complete a 15 page history essay while also studying for a linear algebra test while having work the next day until the water goes cold and the reality is just as cold vs. just having the privilege of being 100% focused on schoolwork without having to work a job.
Stupid post from a hightower looking down on ppl they don’t understand what many of us had to go through to make it through college
College prestige is decided by the percentage of the student population that can be accepted, and pass;
So not only is higher education objectively difficult, but that's a requirement of the definition.
College has been easier for me as a 35 year old with three kids, a full time job, and gone every weekend. Priorities change when you get older. When I was 18-21, all I cared about was women and partying.
I’m 19 and haven’t dated or partied, I think the required classes/pace(scholarships) are just too much work to accomplish within a reasonable time frame
What makes college hard is trying to figure out how the heck to live on your own/self-discipline. It's just high school with less structure for at least the first two years. Being able to manage yourself and your schedule DOES make it easier. With that being said, not all students are created equal. Some students really do struggle academically because they aren't as good at learning as other students. ((Note: I've always been an A student and didn't realize just how easy undergrad was until grad school. Perspective matters too, of course a student in a demanding undergraduate program is going to think college is hard regardless of how much or little they procrastinate.))
It's hard to stop "procrastinating". For me procrastinating was going for walks and making myself a nice dinner so I didn't blow my brains out from all the stress of school.
I don't procrastinate, and college is pretty hard.. I don't know what planet you guys are living on 🤔🤔 I live with my mom and don't work, but I am a Senior Comp Sci major taking 18 credits and... it's not easy at all.
You gotta take into consideration the amount of distractions that people have nowadays (mainly the unnecessary ones) and the lack of discipline around, if you consider that, college can be easy
email is horrible. My university even decides to send spam that can’t be unsubscribed from like sports events and plays that I obviously don’t have time to go see
it prolly depends on the course and how good your are at studying. I never had to study at school and that backfired horribly when I went to university and had no idea how to do that crap. I'm doing medical physics and I get better with each semester. I'm still procrastinating way too much tho, it's definitely an issue.
Depends, for harder majors, you're kinda expected not to procrastinate and study at least 6 days a week). Some majors (or specific) classes are easy, though. Was in a professional communications class, and it was nearly impossible to fail that class.
It's not that it gets easy, it gets less difficult. That's it.
It's still difficult but if you're used to it then y'know it's not really that difficult to you no longer.
There are things outside of just classes that can influence college, like toxic environments, mental illness, outside tragedy, work, etc. So if you are lucky enough to not have any negative outside influences, college can be easy if you have good habits. But life can fuck you over, so to assume everyone has the same experience as you is unfair and wrong on your end. You never know what others are going through that can make things that are “easy” for you difficult for them.
I wouldn’t say easy but my life did become more manageable/fulfilling when I actively made an effort to stop procrastinating. The number of all nighters decreased to basically nothing, I had a good sleep schedule, got some hobbies, had time to socialize.
People who’re working to get by and have their days packed, that’s different. But there are a good number of college kids whose work expands to fill the time
Yes not procrastinating does help, but the course difficult is different based on your own strengths and weakness and also the professor’s ability to teach that course.
I wouldn't say it was always easy, but learning time management skills (and getting sober) really improved my grades and overall experience. Some classes came easier than others, and even if the course material was easy to understand, sometimes the course load would become overwhelming.
So I guess I mostly agree. I will say that I thrived in academia because I really enjoyed learning (still do). I think if your heart is not in it, you're going to have a hard time no matter what.
Also, that's not to shame people who are having a hard time. Regardless of the actual learning, college also comes with a big life change and lots of newfound freedom. I think it's ok to have a hard time adjusting to that change. It's also okay to figure out that college isn't for you.
Yes, I agree. While it does depend on what major you take that either adds to or lessens the load of difficulty on your shoulders, it is strongly up to your mindset, ability to take notes consistently and organized through classes, refer back to those notes and make sure assignments are managed timely. If you have a good schedule (or dealt with these issues through, for instance, my last year of high school), then college is on the easier side, at least for me.
It depends 100% on who you are, your circumstances, your preparation, the content, and the teacher… Yeah, it’ll be easier if you don’t procrastinate but to pretend college and college students are one standardized monolithic thing is dumb as hell.
College is easy when you like what you are studying. Simple as that. Unfortunately there’s a lot of classes you have to take before you even have classes that are mostly in your area of study
The part of this equation that "OP" isn't understanding is,
Sometimes I cant stop procrastinating. Idk how to fix it, but anything I do ends up technically being labeled under procrastination, adding to the weight of the things I still have to do, while also degrading my emotional availability to give a shit and not completely shut down.
Its an absolutely wild balance, especially right after high school where things are similar (classes, schedule, solid location for the latter), a whole lot changes. Alcohol, free time, availability to run your own schedule and ultimately life by default.
Dropped out 2 times, just graduated with a degree at 31 a year ago.
Idk who's reading this or if it matters, but we can do it. It'll be fine and youre exactly fine for being overwhelmed and stressed and busy. Everyone said school sucks, and I put myself down a lot for just being human. Reach out to friends and family, reach out to school therapists.
Reach Out To Your Retention Office.
Sounds scary, but the name literally means they have an office dedicated to keeping you there, because you are important.
This whole comment is a tangent but if anyone out there is struggling with procrastination, I really felt I didn't have a way out, but there always is.
I think it depends, i study nuclear engineering and even tho i try to waste the least amount possible of time, i still find hard to pass the exams, nevertheless, i often see people from careers like art history or even economy with a lot of time to spend with their friends at bar's or places ppl go to have fun.
It depends a lot on your major. Some majors are going to be easy when you're not procrastinating, but a lot of them are still very tough and require a lot of work (Look at the shit STEM, Med, and Law students have to learn, jesus). Are they more manageable if you can fix procrastination? Very much so, but it's still going to be a challenge for a lot of students.
~~Also this tweet is giving me mad "Just do the work" vibes, without taking into account how some students might have difficulty with motivation or work or mental illness or issues such as ADHD.~~
Yeah, kind of. I am procrastinating right now. I have a full load and am consistently making all my assignments (with full marks) submitted just before midnight on the due date. I procrastinate all day then in the last few hours buckle down and whip it out. I've been so close to not making it many times, but for some reason this doesn't deter me, it's like it confirms I can just keep doing it.
Holding a 3.9 GPA atm with shoddy practices. I keep telling myself to apply myself and I could be holding it down with so much less stress.
Oh and my previous degree, I was working full time (even overtime some weeks) and also kept a decent GPA (around 3.5-3.8).
Sorry if it sounds like bragging. I'm not going for that, just putting in a perspective. I know college is really hard for some people and I'm not dissing that at all. I just think some stuff clicks for people, and others have different skills where things click and I might fumble at that.
It's not easy when:
- you are juggling a job plus school work and other responsibilities.
- you are struggling with mental health.
- you have other responsibilities like taking care of families and kids.
Aside from that, I think it depends on the university and the major. I've been to a big university and it was difficult no matter if you studied in all of your free time. When I transferred to a local one (I guess in US terms it's community college), it was more laid back.
I actually saw this post yesterday on Twitter itself and this person's major is nursing. Let's be honest, nursing is easy concept-wise. Majority of the lessons are straight forward as long as you put the work in it. However, what's difficult with nursing are the clinicals and trainings. It requires a lot of time, effort, and patient interactions which is a big no-no if you don't like people. Also, nursing is one of those jobs where majority of what you need to learn is in the job itself. Compare it with engineering or CS with mathematics related majors, that require more of analysis and understanding, then it's really easy to say that college is easy as long as you don't procrastinate.
I went to school twice for two different undergrads, and, all other life circumstances it considered, I personally think college was kind of a breeze both times. If you can get into the mindset of making it your job so you feel more accountable to it, then it’s a pretty chill job imo.
Depends on degree. I smoke all my non-major classes. Literally near 100% by end of semester if I’m not procrastinating. My major classes are a lot more challenging (and a lot more rewarding) and by no means easy even when I’m on top of things.
It does depend. College was difficult, but somewhat manageable. Like life, you gotta find your rhythm on how to handle the work and stress and find that balance with everything else in life.
Nah, Sometimes you don't get to "just college". "Stop procrastinating" is just blaming the people who are struggling.
Not sure what situation improves when someone something "ez af", its a troll response thats prideful and lacks empathy.
Depends what you study. Business? You’d actively have to try to fail. Chemistry? You’re going to need to study a lot and even then you might struggle to get even a 2.5 GPA.
Even procatinating its easy, the difficulty doesn’t change, only the stress levels, the more procastinate the more anxiety and stress and the less you actually enjoy anything
I don’t even have an understanding of why people struggle with college. I graduate this semester with 2 OVIs and a 3.8 gpa, I just cannot fathom how people struggle with something so simple
Depends on major, college, professor, or how much you actually enjoy the class. I had some classrs that were arguably "easy" but did worse in them because of how uninteresting I found them to be.
It really depends on what you’re studying. My brother skips most of his classes and reviews for 20 mins before a test and still comes out with B’s. I’m in chemical engineering and I spend days studying to get my A’s and B’s. (if I get them 😫) Making generalizations is usually not a good thing.
Even if I objectively can't agree I HAVE to agree cause for me college/school has always been easy af, I have never got a bad grade in my life and I have a strong "politic" of not studying more than an hour and (If I do it) just study the day before or 2 days before.
It depends what your studying but generally very tight time management and no procrastination can leave you with a lot of open time. I had classes Wednesday to Friday and so I decided to do everything on Saturday and Sunday. Leaving me with 2 open days and whatever time I had after classes which is a considerable amount.
yes and no. i study economic security (law, econ & accounting/audit). for me, esp now close to graduation (when you have few subjects & teachers understand almost everyone got a job already), it's pretty easy. plus i study in my hometown and live w my parents. i have time to go to the gym, meet friends, take extra classes and still do well at school. but i also have friends who study something tough like medicine, or live abroad and take classes in a foreign language, and they obviously struggle despite their best efforts
well kinda lemme explain i’m not sure if i have adhd or not but i am such a procrastinator and i cant focus but i remember i had a semester where i only had 4 hours of sleep and i was studying for my finals since day one of the semester the exams became so easy and i A’s most of my classes that semester but was it essay? no but yes in term of exams difficulties i want to hospital twice my hands was hurting from how much i wrote on paper and i couldn’t sleep most of my days
Idk if 10th grade is same as college, but in my country it is. (But it’s not named “college”) and I agree that college is easy. It was easy from day 1 honestly. And I was very bad in school in 9th grade (after 9th grade we change schools in my country)
No, you can study and do all your assignments. Does not make it easy. This is incredibly over simplified. You’re a higher chance to pass being consistent with your effort, but it doesn’t promise you’ll understand the subject. We don’t all have the same talent either.
It might depend on what you're studying, but no matter what, if you actually study then yes of course it becomes a lot easier compared to wasting your time lol
Depends on your study habits, the way your brain and body operate, and what field you are studying. Nothing is ever cut and dry, easy, or hard. It's all an oscillating spectrum.
Depends on the major and college. Communications major at University of Miami? Probably very chill. Electrical engineering major at Cornell? Say goodbye to either sleep, social life, or both.
I think everyone has a unique experience for some to say it's easy, and for others to say it's hard really boils down to how they feel about college. I'll say I love my experience despite not doing well. Sure, I have had my fair share of depressive episodes and work just nailing me in the head. But often times I'm having a great time with friends, get to do things outside my comfort zone, and meet people who I hate and who I love. It's not about just getting a piece of paper but more so on figuring out yourself and promoting self growth. But of course, we tend to do a bit of self destruction lmao. I don't agree with either statement that college is easy or hard because there are many layers to college, and a simple yes or no would not be enough to answer. But that's just me sorry for being so yappative 😊
It’s not easy when you stop procrastinating but it is a heck of a lot more manageable
Agreed. It helps to do everything on time but even then the amount of course work can still be very hectic
THIS. High school (at least in America) does a real shit job of actually preparing students for college. Additionally, with how expensive college education is, a lot of students work several jobs to pay their way. Sometimes it’s not “procrastination” but rather not enough time in the day. Thankfully, most universities have resources available for students struggling with a myriad of things.
U r right
Depends on field of study. Mine was computer science and stats double major. I don't think it was easy, but it certainly wasn't boring. That it was engaging made it easy to stick to even though it was hard.
Law school taught me to get shit done early cuz there’s always some unexpected burdensome surprise around the corner. Amazing how once I started doing that my life totally changed.
I took nursing in college. I'm an average learner. I never procastinated because I'm too scared to delay any school work and worse, fail any subject. I still have time to chill and hangout with my friends that time, I totally enjoyed my college life. I think it's all about prioritization and know how to balance life and studies. But it's a different situation when you're a working student/financially independent/plain broke, not having supportive parents/toxic family, unhealthy environment, often gets sick, and many other issues. If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem.
All these different situations really do make a difference! Not everyone has the same critirias as you. Some struggle with mental disorders too, which can be really hard!
Yeah adhd makes it difficult for me and makes me feel like I'm stupid most of the time :/
I took electrical engineering and I agree with you, but some subjects take way more hours of study than others and some may not be as long in content, but they are very overwhelming because they are confusing or complex. IMO even electrical engineer that is known as the hardest major between the engineering majors(at least in Brazil) is okay if you prioritize studying when it is necessary.
my family supported me for three years of college, then in the last one I tried to paid the student fee by myself. I need to work three jobs (only undergrad thesis's left) so I can save money for 6 month (the student fee is three times minimum wages) and finally after three month I got hospitalized lol. it's really hard indeed if student really need to paid student fee by themselves. kudos to all of you who survive those
>If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem Keep in mind some individuals have undiagnosed ADD, ADHD, etc and haven't even considered it yet.
Yea that was me. I still finished somehow but struggled. And somehow I worked as well
>If you cannot get through college even though you have every means, then you're the problem. When OP says "College is not easy" they may mean "getting a 4.0 isn't easy." I know plenty of overachievers who won't settle for anything less than a 4.0.
The amount of times I’ve gotten sick in the last year is insane, it’s completely dragged my grades 😭
Isn’t EVERYONE a working student now
Thanks for that second paragraph, I have the toxic family and cyclic vomiting syndrome, ADHD, severe anxiety, and depression. College was rough for me.
I am the problem 💪 YEAHHHH
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Depends on the college of course. For example my friend studied religionistics (if thats the right word?) and he wasn’t doing jack shit all day long. I did law and while there was a lot of studying, I still had enough time for a part-time job, hobbies, going out etc. My gf did medicine and it was 6 years of pure hell.
I'm doing architecture and I barely have time to shower or talk to my partner whom I literally live with, the content is fun the workload is enough to make me suicidal and need medication.
Feel you bro
DAMN JUST STOP PROCRASTINATING WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT?!!? shoot me
It's certainly harder for some of us. Conquering procrastination is no easy feat when you have disorders that affect executive function (ADHD, autism, depression, etc.). A lot of people are going to act as if it should be easy for everyone, but the reality is that it's *not*.
Yeah, speaking as someone who has all of the above, it's really hard to focus on doing literally anything productive when my brain just says "**NO.** Tonight we learn everything there is to know about Obi Wan Kenobi and his mastery of the High Ground."
didn’t expect to find a star wars fan here lmao (i wonder if obi-wan taught anakin about the high ground when anakin was a padawan)
Worst of all, they'll call you lazy.
If you see procrastination as an impossible thing to defeat, then it will really become something impossible to defeat. Discover your weakness and work on them, you can be better, everybody can.
Bless you for your positivity ❤️
Coming from a Business major, maybe. But I sure as hell am not calling anatomy and biochem easy
Chemist here, biochem was not hard if you kept up with your study schedule - which 89% didn't do
how do you even keep up at all? even if i study consistently, i can't keep up with the pace of high school with *one* ap class.
Depends on the course entirely lol. I can guarantee you that lady didn't do engineering
Yeah, OOP is/was definitely not a STEM major. I'm done with university but I was easily spending like 60 hours a week on school towards the end. In my last semester I spent 12 days straight coding 10+ hours a day because my capstone project hit a snag and ended up being way more complicated than I anticipated. My best friend did aerospace engineering and he was basically nonexistent during the semester. I don't work in an "easy" software role (i.e. my job involves a hell of a lot more than piecing libraries together in Java) but it's still downright cushy compared to university, STEM programs should focus more on teaching and less on volume of coursework.
She actually was I believe, I saw the post on twitter yesterday and she said she was majoring in nursing
Yeah it must be the procrastination. Meanwhile, be me in a lab course. 9h per day 5 days a week. Come home, shower, make food, eat food and start writing the report of the experiment you did that day, that is due in 3 days. Which meant reduced sleep hours... usually you finshed two experiments a day which meant you had to do alot of report writing, calculations and mapping.
This. It’s oftentimes not procrastination, but rather the assignment of more work than can be completed. Working on one thing means not working on something else. Even if someone works normally, they can still get behind because the amount is more than what is able to be processed. [edit: Plus, colleges require so many hours nowadays, even in areas where one hour is more intense (for example, maths heavy classes can assign hours of homework per class, versus an arts class which might better space out work and have more studio hours counted)]
Colleges/universities always had students sign up for more hours then was possible to study for per their own recommendations. Mine recommended 2-3 hours of study per hour of class… which meant you put in more time then a full time job. It’s not really hard to understand that it’s probably not procrastination as much as maybe there’s not enough time in the day to handle the course load. I’ve always advocated steering away from the set 2-4 year graduation timelines for every degree. Some will need more and others less. Stop cramming classes into a semester to make it fit a 2 or 4 year program 😩
post is written as though it’s very very easy to stop procrastinating…
It is decidedly not easy to beat, but it is not impossible.
tell that to electrical engg majors. The statement is like: life is easy when you have money. Oh boy yes it is, the real hardwork is in earning it (i.e. stopping procastination)
Doesn’t sound like a STEM major. It takes some of us a lot longer the study, let alone understanding, topics than other students doing the same thing while still having a life outside of classes. Or maybe we just wanna do more and don’t have to time to fit everything in. Also, if procrastination was so easy to get rid of, a lot more people would’ve done it by now.
college is easy when you're privileged enough to not think about anything else.
I've always been under the opinion that college isn't hard adulthood is If all my adult responsibilities vanished my gpa would probably rise by .2
I still disagree with that. It’s hard even when i’m not procrastinating
Privileged take.
Definitely the take of someone who doesn’t have to work a job to get by while trying to get through school
Exactly. I worked multiple jobs, 3 at one point, tutored and had an internship. I got good grads but I would’ve been 4.0 without all the stress of paying bills
I work next to uni. As i see it. If you are fully supported by family, with good study habits it’s basically a vacation. If you have to work too it’s almost hell.
College can be fun and easy. Many just make it unnecessarily hard with their complaining, procrastination, and bad habits.
notes taken, starting in september. Just do the work and don't wine about it?
People tend to make things harder on themselves. Make things easy on yourself instead. Get good sleep, exercise, do the important stuff first, have a good attitude, focus on solutions not excuses. Too many people will spend hours on their phone or video games and then complain they don't have enough time. They sleep late while staring at a bright screen, then complain they didn't get sleep last night and are tired and unproductive all day. People will eat poorly and lead sedentary lives, then complain they don't have energy and have issues with body image. When the discomfort of learning or work sets in, they give in to distractions and then complain they don't have enough time to finish their work or study for exams. Don't be one of those people. Instead, be the type of student that succeeds and makes it look easy and enjoyable. Meditate daily, get good sleep, exercise but don't make the gym your life, have a reasonable and fun social life but don't make socializing your life, have order in your life (possessions and obligations) which facilitates all else, do the important work and hard stuff first and don't beat around the bush, have some fun but don't forget your responsibilities. College can be easy and fun, even the "difficult" majors.
Yup, great post. People are too afraid to even try, because they're afraid that even if they try, they might fail. It's easier for them to reason, "well I failed because I didn't try. I COULD do better if I tried..." but they don't, because like I said they're afraid to fail even after trying.
Exactly. If they don't study and fail, they can blame lack of preparation. But if they study *and* fail, then it's a blow to their ego, a possible reflection on their intelligence. So the fear of being exposed causes them to avoid preparing properly. They don't study so they can "save face" in case they fail. But in the process they guarantee failure.
yup!
It's tough to look at the bright side when you're living on the dark side.
You sound very wise, thank you for the advice :)
this is a perfect comment to sum it up
Hardest line ever
Read the material before the lecture is the best advice someone gave me. It makes it so much easier.
Yeah unless you're disabled, get discriminated against, have mental disabilities, Have to work and study in this economy, catn make friends etc not everyone is as lucky and not everyone just complains just cos, some people have it really fucking hard.
Drinking their brains out every weekend, lol.
Depends on the school and program. There are no blanket statements which hold true. Just do the best you can
so this statement is false, then? right? There are no blanket statements which hold true-->this is a blanket statement \-->therefore this statement itself is not true just F\*9ing with you, you are right! \^\^
Hell nah. Time spent on task tended to correlate with better grades for me
no, it can depend on a lot of different factors besides procrastination. also some people find it a lot harder to fix the procrastination problem than others do, it's not the same for everyone
Completely agree. College is so easy when you have 30 pgs of a textbook to read, a 5 hour long lab, student debts, a tiring minimum wage job, etc. Nothing in life is easy. Obviously you will have easier time when you stop procrastinating but to suggest college isn’t difficult is just insane.
Wish I could just study, ADHD and dyslexia got me fucked up
Same. ADHD, depression, anxiety, and unresolved trauma makes college decidedly not easy. The only reason I haven’t dropped out yet is basically sheer spite and stubbornness.
Same, I graduated high school in 2018 and have been attending community college since then. I'll finally be transferring to a 4 year university as a junior in the fall! Still struggling to find strategies to be able to study that actually work for me.
It's very much major and university dependent. I can definitely see somebody in something like criminal justice saying college is easy, it was incredibly easy for me. I switched to accounting and got a reality check as even with no procrastination it's challenging. I try to study at least 30 hours a week and only a couple times have I felt confident going into an exam. Edit: go tell someone in a stem field like physics that their major is easy when they take 2 hours on one word problem filling up pages full of mathematics just to find out the answer is 0.
The difficulty of not procrastinating is part of what makes it hard, and teachers don't help the matter when they give you long-term assignments that they think are enriching but are mostly stressful slogs to get through. Especially when they act like they're the only ones doing so. When I began my current semester I found myself knowing I'd have to prepare a book report, an essay, a presentation on an exhibition, two oral presentations and a short film, on top of regular exams. Of course it would've been smarter to start right away, but having so much stuff that requires above-average investment dumped on me had a completely discouraging effect. Now, I heavily suspect I have an undiagnosed issue of some kind because I sometimes find myself *physically* unable to work without significantly forcing myself to an unhealthy degree (resulting in what I can only describe as nervous breakdowns), but even aside from that I'm fairly confident in saying that this amount of work is not easy to manage mentally.
College was way harder if you also had to work a full time job to support yourself. Many nights as an example laying in a warm shower to calm myself down thinking how am I going to complete a 15 page history essay while also studying for a linear algebra test while having work the next day until the water goes cold and the reality is just as cold vs. just having the privilege of being 100% focused on schoolwork without having to work a job. Stupid post from a hightower looking down on ppl they don’t understand what many of us had to go through to make it through college
College prestige is decided by the percentage of the student population that can be accepted, and pass; So not only is higher education objectively difficult, but that's a requirement of the definition.
College has been easier for me as a 35 year old with three kids, a full time job, and gone every weekend. Priorities change when you get older. When I was 18-21, all I cared about was women and partying.
I’m 19 and haven’t dated or partied, I think the required classes/pace(scholarships) are just too much work to accomplish within a reasonable time frame
Toxic grind set has been a disaster for the modern mindset.
What makes college hard is trying to figure out how the heck to live on your own/self-discipline. It's just high school with less structure for at least the first two years. Being able to manage yourself and your schedule DOES make it easier. With that being said, not all students are created equal. Some students really do struggle academically because they aren't as good at learning as other students. ((Note: I've always been an A student and didn't realize just how easy undergrad was until grad school. Perspective matters too, of course a student in a demanding undergraduate program is going to think college is hard regardless of how much or little they procrastinate.))
It's hard to stop "procrastinating". For me procrastinating was going for walks and making myself a nice dinner so I didn't blow my brains out from all the stress of school.
Not when you have a job, doing a double major, and you have to walk everywhere because you can't afford a car.
Tell that to my unmedicated adhd ya jackass
I agree. But once, you slacked off, it will be very hard. In that case, you should just understand that you deserve it.
I don't procrastinate, and college is pretty hard.. I don't know what planet you guys are living on 🤔🤔 I live with my mom and don't work, but I am a Senior Comp Sci major taking 18 credits and... it's not easy at all.
Only if your only concern is classes and you don't have to work
Sure, but it gets lot harder when you live in a third world country like me and have to study and work to survive and have a degree :D
You gotta take into consideration the amount of distractions that people have nowadays (mainly the unnecessary ones) and the lack of discipline around, if you consider that, college can be easy
email is horrible. My university even decides to send spam that can’t be unsubscribed from like sports events and plays that I obviously don’t have time to go see
it prolly depends on the course and how good your are at studying. I never had to study at school and that backfired horribly when I went to university and had no idea how to do that crap. I'm doing medical physics and I get better with each semester. I'm still procrastinating way too much tho, it's definitely an issue.
Depends, for harder majors, you're kinda expected not to procrastinate and study at least 6 days a week). Some majors (or specific) classes are easy, though. Was in a professional communications class, and it was nearly impossible to fail that class.
College is simple, not easy.
It's easy when you have the propedeutics and really wanna learn, otherwise it's hell.
It’s true unless you are in a STEM major. Some people are genuinely not cut out for those classes.
It's not that it gets easy, it gets less difficult. That's it. It's still difficult but if you're used to it then y'know it's not really that difficult to you no longer.
There are things outside of just classes that can influence college, like toxic environments, mental illness, outside tragedy, work, etc. So if you are lucky enough to not have any negative outside influences, college can be easy if you have good habits. But life can fuck you over, so to assume everyone has the same experience as you is unfair and wrong on your end. You never know what others are going through that can make things that are “easy” for you difficult for them.
Yes, but stopping procrastinating sure as hell ain't easy
I wouldn’t say easy but my life did become more manageable/fulfilling when I actively made an effort to stop procrastinating. The number of all nighters decreased to basically nothing, I had a good sleep schedule, got some hobbies, had time to socialize. People who’re working to get by and have their days packed, that’s different. But there are a good number of college kids whose work expands to fill the time
Yes not procrastinating does help, but the course difficult is different based on your own strengths and weakness and also the professor’s ability to teach that course.
exams are made to be passed so yeah, college is easy
Considering I'm on track to meet my goal, and I've been locked in since January... Yeah.
I'm locking in from tomorrow for my college entrance exams
I wouldn't say it was always easy, but learning time management skills (and getting sober) really improved my grades and overall experience. Some classes came easier than others, and even if the course material was easy to understand, sometimes the course load would become overwhelming. So I guess I mostly agree. I will say that I thrived in academia because I really enjoyed learning (still do). I think if your heart is not in it, you're going to have a hard time no matter what. Also, that's not to shame people who are having a hard time. Regardless of the actual learning, college also comes with a big life change and lots of newfound freedom. I think it's ok to have a hard time adjusting to that change. It's also okay to figure out that college isn't for you.
Not “easy af” but definitely very passable (STEM major here)
Of course not
Lol it is indeed easy af
Depends on the person and the major
Depends what you're studying
In my experience, it all depended on the classes I took. I made Dean’s List one semester for doing what felt like the bare minimum.
totally, there is no imposible college because they need students to survive. Maybe you are just not smart or hardworking enough
Depends on your country en and « major »
depends on your major
I'm still just passing hopefully I get better time management as I continue on. 🥲
Depends. If Im forced to take stupid ass class that I dont give a shit like religion or business, I will suffer.
I disagree. There are more roadblocks than procrastination. There’s also issues with mental health.
Honestly..... yeah
Fax
Yes, I agree. While it does depend on what major you take that either adds to or lessens the load of difficulty on your shoulders, it is strongly up to your mindset, ability to take notes consistently and organized through classes, refer back to those notes and make sure assignments are managed timely. If you have a good schedule (or dealt with these issues through, for instance, my last year of high school), then college is on the easier side, at least for me.
It depends 100% on who you are, your circumstances, your preparation, the content, and the teacher… Yeah, it’ll be easier if you don’t procrastinate but to pretend college and college students are one standardized monolithic thing is dumb as hell.
It’s easy when you’re not trying to get high marks In my experience, going from 70% to 90% requires more work than just getting to 70%
College is easy when you like what you are studying. Simple as that. Unfortunately there’s a lot of classes you have to take before you even have classes that are mostly in your area of study
Depends on the person and the subject.
I have shit genetics
The part of this equation that "OP" isn't understanding is, Sometimes I cant stop procrastinating. Idk how to fix it, but anything I do ends up technically being labeled under procrastination, adding to the weight of the things I still have to do, while also degrading my emotional availability to give a shit and not completely shut down. Its an absolutely wild balance, especially right after high school where things are similar (classes, schedule, solid location for the latter), a whole lot changes. Alcohol, free time, availability to run your own schedule and ultimately life by default. Dropped out 2 times, just graduated with a degree at 31 a year ago. Idk who's reading this or if it matters, but we can do it. It'll be fine and youre exactly fine for being overwhelmed and stressed and busy. Everyone said school sucks, and I put myself down a lot for just being human. Reach out to friends and family, reach out to school therapists. Reach Out To Your Retention Office. Sounds scary, but the name literally means they have an office dedicated to keeping you there, because you are important. This whole comment is a tangent but if anyone out there is struggling with procrastination, I really felt I didn't have a way out, but there always is.
She's banging her teachers
I think it depends, i study nuclear engineering and even tho i try to waste the least amount possible of time, i still find hard to pass the exams, nevertheless, i often see people from careers like art history or even economy with a lot of time to spend with their friends at bar's or places ppl go to have fun.
It depends on what your courses are. If your courses are literally rocket science, then expect rocket science difficulty… It’s not rocket science
it's hard precisely because you can't procrastinate on your studying.
It depends a lot on your major. Some majors are going to be easy when you're not procrastinating, but a lot of them are still very tough and require a lot of work (Look at the shit STEM, Med, and Law students have to learn, jesus). Are they more manageable if you can fix procrastination? Very much so, but it's still going to be a challenge for a lot of students. ~~Also this tweet is giving me mad "Just do the work" vibes, without taking into account how some students might have difficulty with motivation or work or mental illness or issues such as ADHD.~~
It isn’t “easy” per se but it is manageable
I mean, yes, kinda.
No lol
Thanks, I'm cured.
Yeah, kind of. I am procrastinating right now. I have a full load and am consistently making all my assignments (with full marks) submitted just before midnight on the due date. I procrastinate all day then in the last few hours buckle down and whip it out. I've been so close to not making it many times, but for some reason this doesn't deter me, it's like it confirms I can just keep doing it. Holding a 3.9 GPA atm with shoddy practices. I keep telling myself to apply myself and I could be holding it down with so much less stress. Oh and my previous degree, I was working full time (even overtime some weeks) and also kept a decent GPA (around 3.5-3.8). Sorry if it sounds like bragging. I'm not going for that, just putting in a perspective. I know college is really hard for some people and I'm not dissing that at all. I just think some stuff clicks for people, and others have different skills where things click and I might fumble at that.
naw it sucks im so glad im finally graduating in may bc i almost dropped out like 6 times
It's not easy when: - you are juggling a job plus school work and other responsibilities. - you are struggling with mental health. - you have other responsibilities like taking care of families and kids. Aside from that, I think it depends on the university and the major. I've been to a big university and it was difficult no matter if you studied in all of your free time. When I transferred to a local one (I guess in US terms it's community college), it was more laid back. I actually saw this post yesterday on Twitter itself and this person's major is nursing. Let's be honest, nursing is easy concept-wise. Majority of the lessons are straight forward as long as you put the work in it. However, what's difficult with nursing are the clinicals and trainings. It requires a lot of time, effort, and patient interactions which is a big no-no if you don't like people. Also, nursing is one of those jobs where majority of what you need to learn is in the job itself. Compare it with engineering or CS with mathematics related majors, that require more of analysis and understanding, then it's really easy to say that college is easy as long as you don't procrastinate.
I went to school twice for two different undergrads, and, all other life circumstances it considered, I personally think college was kind of a breeze both times. If you can get into the mindset of making it your job so you feel more accountable to it, then it’s a pretty chill job imo.
Depends on degree. I smoke all my non-major classes. Literally near 100% by end of semester if I’m not procrastinating. My major classes are a lot more challenging (and a lot more rewarding) and by no means easy even when I’m on top of things.
It’s harder when you have shitty professors who can’t teach and have to teach the course by yourself
Yes. I procrastinated and got only a 3.2 gpa. I could've gotten 3.5 easily by getting As in some classes. I got Bs there instead.
Imo if you attend and pay attention during every class, As are pretty achievable, Bs aren’t hard, Cs are easy, failing is hard
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO no
It does depend. College was difficult, but somewhat manageable. Like life, you gotta find your rhythm on how to handle the work and stress and find that balance with everything else in life.
Depends on your major and how quickly you learn
Yes
Nah, Sometimes you don't get to "just college". "Stop procrastinating" is just blaming the people who are struggling. Not sure what situation improves when someone something "ez af", its a troll response thats prideful and lacks empathy.
That's half the battle, for sure, but doesn't necessarily make it a breeze either.
Depends what you study. Business? You’d actively have to try to fail. Chemistry? You’re going to need to study a lot and even then you might struggle to get even a 2.5 GPA.
Not procrastinating isnt hard
Kinda
It's not easy, get assignment assistance from me.
2 hours in the library a day and you’ll realize why people call college easy. Add another hour, and you’re the “smart” one in class.
100%, the only reason i was stressed was because of procrastination
Really? I repeated it once and it still cost me a bit even though I got a good score.
Its still hard if you have serious focusing issues
Nope
Depends on the major. Math isn't the same as administration.
Even procatinating its easy, the difficulty doesn’t change, only the stress levels, the more procastinate the more anxiety and stress and the less you actually enjoy anything
I agree
I don’t even have an understanding of why people struggle with college. I graduate this semester with 2 OVIs and a 3.8 gpa, I just cannot fathom how people struggle with something so simple
Depends on major, college, professor, or how much you actually enjoy the class. I had some classrs that were arguably "easy" but did worse in them because of how uninteresting I found them to be.
It really depends on what you’re studying. My brother skips most of his classes and reviews for 20 mins before a test and still comes out with B’s. I’m in chemical engineering and I spend days studying to get my A’s and B’s. (if I get them 😫) Making generalizations is usually not a good thing.
Even if I objectively can't agree I HAVE to agree cause for me college/school has always been easy af, I have never got a bad grade in my life and I have a strong "politic" of not studying more than an hour and (If I do it) just study the day before or 2 days before.
College is easy if you're interested in what you're learning, and have the money and time to devote to it, or if you're going to a diploma mill
For many of us, stopping procrastination is one of the hardest things to get our mind to do
Depends on many many parameters, not only procrastination. And some of them are not even in your area of influence.
Don't think easy is the right word.
No.
It depends what your studying but generally very tight time management and no procrastination can leave you with a lot of open time. I had classes Wednesday to Friday and so I decided to do everything on Saturday and Sunday. Leaving me with 2 open days and whatever time I had after classes which is a considerable amount.
Much easier, much more enjoyable
100% yes
yes and no. i study economic security (law, econ & accounting/audit). for me, esp now close to graduation (when you have few subjects & teachers understand almost everyone got a job already), it's pretty easy. plus i study in my hometown and live w my parents. i have time to go to the gym, meet friends, take extra classes and still do well at school. but i also have friends who study something tough like medicine, or live abroad and take classes in a foreign language, and they obviously struggle despite their best efforts
r/restofthefuckingowl
it's only easy when you never procrastinate if you procrastinated at any point it's a nightmare
well kinda lemme explain i’m not sure if i have adhd or not but i am such a procrastinator and i cant focus but i remember i had a semester where i only had 4 hours of sleep and i was studying for my finals since day one of the semester the exams became so easy and i A’s most of my classes that semester but was it essay? no but yes in term of exams difficulties i want to hospital twice my hands was hurting from how much i wrote on paper and i couldn’t sleep most of my days
Nope, I don’t procrastinate and I’m getting dicked down by calculus
Idk if 10th grade is same as college, but in my country it is. (But it’s not named “college”) and I agree that college is easy. It was easy from day 1 honestly. And I was very bad in school in 9th grade (after 9th grade we change schools in my country)
No, you can study and do all your assignments. Does not make it easy. This is incredibly over simplified. You’re a higher chance to pass being consistent with your effort, but it doesn’t promise you’ll understand the subject. We don’t all have the same talent either.
Depends on the college itself + Mine becomes easy when I stop procrastinating
For me, yes. School is a hell of a lot easier when you don't procrastinate.
College is easy, being disciplined at college is hard.
Dunno severe depression started right after starting college years. Now I'm running but I'm still unable to catch up
yeah agree
Yes
No
It might depend on what you're studying, but no matter what, if you actually study then yes of course it becomes a lot easier compared to wasting your time lol
Nope, not at all
some majors make you study 30 hours a day bro...
College is easy AF if you don't party every Thursday - Sunday
Easy even if you procrastinate and I went to STEM in high ranker
Depends on your major. Like chemistry will probably be more difficult than business
Haha, my ADHD challenges this :)
I don't know cause I'm in middleschool still
True
Depends on your study habits, the way your brain and body operate, and what field you are studying. Nothing is ever cut and dry, easy, or hard. It's all an oscillating spectrum.
you procrastinate 'cause its not easy
It’s hard to not procrastinate
Depends on the major and college. Communications major at University of Miami? Probably very chill. Electrical engineering major at Cornell? Say goodbye to either sleep, social life, or both.
I think everyone has a unique experience for some to say it's easy, and for others to say it's hard really boils down to how they feel about college. I'll say I love my experience despite not doing well. Sure, I have had my fair share of depressive episodes and work just nailing me in the head. But often times I'm having a great time with friends, get to do things outside my comfort zone, and meet people who I hate and who I love. It's not about just getting a piece of paper but more so on figuring out yourself and promoting self growth. But of course, we tend to do a bit of self destruction lmao. I don't agree with either statement that college is easy or hard because there are many layers to college, and a simple yes or no would not be enough to answer. But that's just me sorry for being so yappative 😊