How was your student life?

I don't know if that is only me or it's the time that changes. But as a student I feel like everything is so hard. I am studying abroad. Student life is something really exciting because you are working on future, aspiration but sometimes you are facing some really bad obstacles, life become more difficult and you think that it's endless. The struggle of a student life is really serious.

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I am happy to read that a student publishes that their life is hard because too many ignorant people bellow out that college is easy and what not - it isn't.

My student life was nothing but continuous, strenuous effort to pass courses and to improve my study method. All of my years spent at university were fully dedicated to studying and I only went out to a party or two in freshman year.. after that it was hardcore dedication - and it paid off.

Like you, I also had many moments of problems that seemed endless.. for example, trying to pass courses that just didn't sit with me (Statistics 101, Accounting,..) but I had to get all the help I could and I finally made it.

It's also safe to say that the majority - if not all of the students who focus on fun and entertainment, parties and what not are the ones that disappear after freshman year. This very problem happened at my university: 65% of students dropped out after the first year.. and it were the same 65% who went to fraternities and boozed themselves all the time.

Keep going, keep going, do your hardest best to make it.. and you'll make it. Take it from someone who - according to the uni statistics board - had a 0.5% chance of graduating, had professors mock him but graduated with honors anyway.