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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

College exams. Life after graduation has its own stresses but nothing was more stressful to me than having 6-7 exams coming up and having to spend so much time and effort preparing for stuff I don't care about that much.

At some point it got so bad I'd wake up a few times at night drenched in sweat a day before exams. Yeesh. I guess it was partly my fault for taking it too seriously but I couldn't switch that off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

School in general. It was so much work. Homework is torture, at least now once my day is finished I don't have to worry about it until the next morning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So few responsibilities while in school, though. I think about this often. I don't know how anyone stays on top of everything that needs doing as an adult. Work, bills, laundry, dishes, cleaning/tidying, cooking, meal planning, shopping, trash, recycling, healthy sleep,..... It's endless.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that you say it, actually highschool was pretty chill. I was living on my own in college, so it was your whole list, plus classes, plus homework, and that was the real hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes a lot of sense. I had an apartment when I was in grad school and I was working full time and commuting to school twice a week. That was a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In grad school I was working full time and only taking two subjects per semester. It was so much easier than a full study load—I actually enjoyed it and had a much higher GPA than my undergraduate degree.

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