The Struggle is Real

Caroline DePhillips

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May 26, 2017
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Right now I feel like saying the typical teenager saying about high school…”I’m so done with school.” School has me stressed out every way a person can be stressed out. A lot of the time I just want to lay down, curl up in a ball, and cry because the stress is all just too much. I cannot juggle around ten different things at once. School is starting to make my head pound like crazy.

College is something I am not ready for. I cannot deal with the stress of high school. Trying to deal with college is going to feel impossible for me. When it starts to get closer to the end of the nine weeks and school year that is when I am stressed out the most. All these tests that I have going on is messing with my head. I cannot remember anything for any of my classes anymore.

I am very stressed out today specifically because of tests and homework. My parents have very high expectations for me with school. That gets on my very last nerves. I have classes where I have no idea what is going on in them. I have a class that is pretty hard for me to wrap my head around. They think that because they got straight A’s in theses classes when they were in high school that I am going to too. I am constantly trying to live up to my parents expectations. But now I am done with doing that. I am not the teenager they think I am. I cannot do the things they were exceptionally good at in school.

There is a time were a lot of high school students will say, “I am so done with school.” I am at that point where I could say that every day of the week. This being close to the end of the nine weeks and very close to the end of the school year gives me even more stress than my classes are giving me.