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Hi forum! I am hoping to find someone that could help me on the troubles I am getting as I work on my pre-med track...
I only recently started college after about a year and a half of being out of school. I am majoring in Chem, and started with Gen Chem 1. In high school, my grades were a little bit below average on all but Chemistry, my best class. I passed HS Chem with an 85, the highest in my class. However... being gone for so long has made me lose my edge... I flopped here and there at the beginning of Gen Chem 1, but eventually found some balance. I am now one of the top students in my class, probably the top student in my class, next to my friend.
However... I've been belly-flopping everywhere. This week, I did moderately mediocre because I got a persistent cold which didn't let me study. I somehow felt burnt out after the cold, which took another day of studying. I missed my prelab for the week, and had to copy from someone (which I didn't finish entirely, which my professor kicked me out for due to it being lab-day).
Suddenly, I don't feel like a top student. Suddenly, my aim seems so far off. Worst of all, I am only taking this one class, and yet I am losing balance every time. AND to top it all off! I am gunslinging at Johns Hopkins and NYU for future med schools (among others)! (don't ask, it's a personal goal)
I am able to manage this class.. I am learning things at a pretty quick pace. I am finding ways to perfect my work every now and then (though I kind of try to do it more often than every now and then). But... I don't know what to think. Seeing how much trouble I am going through for this one class, it kind of... seems like a ridiculous fantasy.
I only recently started college after about a year and a half of being out of school. I am majoring in Chem, and started with Gen Chem 1. In high school, my grades were a little bit below average on all but Chemistry, my best class. I passed HS Chem with an 85, the highest in my class. However... being gone for so long has made me lose my edge... I flopped here and there at the beginning of Gen Chem 1, but eventually found some balance. I am now one of the top students in my class, probably the top student in my class, next to my friend.
However... I've been belly-flopping everywhere. This week, I did moderately mediocre because I got a persistent cold which didn't let me study. I somehow felt burnt out after the cold, which took another day of studying. I missed my prelab for the week, and had to copy from someone (which I didn't finish entirely, which my professor kicked me out for due to it being lab-day).
Suddenly, I don't feel like a top student. Suddenly, my aim seems so far off. Worst of all, I am only taking this one class, and yet I am losing balance every time. AND to top it all off! I am gunslinging at Johns Hopkins and NYU for future med schools (among others)! (don't ask, it's a personal goal)
I am able to manage this class.. I am learning things at a pretty quick pace. I am finding ways to perfect my work every now and then (though I kind of try to do it more often than every now and then). But... I don't know what to think. Seeing how much trouble I am going through for this one class, it kind of... seems like a ridiculous fantasy.
So get your pompoms and get to doing a routine 
!!! 
I study as much as I do because I'm nervous I will fail (a more aggressive nervousness than passive)... and even then! I don't study as much as I should... I feel I should be studying far more. Not that that's what I'm hoping you guys to address because obviously it's up to me and I can definitely get a handle on that, sort of... I am just looking for reassurance of what chances look like for someone in my position. 
