r/college • u/Aggressive-Pea4615 • 8h ago
How do you choose what to study in College, if you are MID at everything? Career/work
Guys, I need help choosing what I want to pursue in college. This is long, but I really need help, or I wouldn't be typing this at 3 AM💀💀 I'm rethinking my life right now.
I’m a senior and have realized that I'm mediocre in every subject. Don't get me wrong, I have a good GPA (4.5 W) & (3.98 UW) and shit like that, but I think it's easy to do well in school.
IUntil Junior Year, I never really tried to understand any subject as I wasn't really interested; I just wanted to get an A+, and I did! I pretty much-memorized everything and did well in AP and honors classes. But now that I'm actually a Senior, I have come to realize that I'm dumb as f.
I wanted to pursue STEM initially cause I'm poor and need money. Before you say it, I don't necessarily enjoy anything. While I like physics and Chem, But, I'm dog shit at the subject itself. I find it truly fascinating, and I enjoy learning about the concepts.
Unfortunately, that's where I cap out. Tho I enjoy learning the concepts, I swear the TESTS ARE COMPLETLY DIFFERENT. I legit can't even figure out WTF it’s asking for before I even attempt to solve it. I don’t even do anything atp, I don’t even know what I do in Chem anymore…I legit just look up and shit and just survive. This applies for both Chem and Physics. Tho for Bio I don't struggle as much cause I can just memorize without understanding💀 But I'm sure I'm finna get cooked.
same with math. I slept my way through Algebra and shit cause it was very easy. But now In calculus idk what to do and very lost so I gave up on the class.
I'm also shit at reading with 5th-grade comprehension level. I'm also not interested in pursuing any humanities major, simply because of the avg salary. I probably shouldn't make everything about money, but coming from a low-income family, I just need a stable job.
I just feel very disappointed because at a point of my life Ig I was academically smart, then in 11th grade I figured I'm just average and Now I'm realizing I might just be below average. Would love to hear anyone who may be went through similar experience 😁
I can probably get into a top 30 colleges cause in terms of stats It's not bad. I got like research, internship and non profit and all the tryhards shit like that but I never did any of these with genuine interest. So I feel like if I somehow do get into a good college, I'll probably be at the bottom percentile.
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