Do you feel like people sharing their positive experiences/achievements is helpful in times of difficulty? I personally see two side: on one side there is the "light at the end of the tunnel argument", seeing people overcoming difficulty gives hope On the other side when I am feeling particularly down seeing other people manage what I can't manage can send me in a downward spiral because I feel like I can't overcome a problem that everybody else can. Not sharing positive experiences creates an echo-chamber that selects only negative thoughts though, and that is particularly unhealthy. What do you all think?

I am really struggling with the first semester of physics bsc. I think I could somehow manage if I studied consistently but I have done almost nothing for weeks. Throughout school I have never been able to go home, do my homework and enjoy the rest of the day. I just procrastinated until the very last moment and until I was anxious enough. Even during the matura, I sometimes started studying the morning of the final tests because I couldn’t bring myself to do it sooner. This is a pattern I want to get rid of for years now. I feel like I tried everything: deleting social media/games, changing my environment, going to libraries or public places, making to-do lists and deadlines for myself, studying with others to keep myself motivated, getting up early, etc. Nothing really worked for more than a couple of days. When I see the effort others put in to keep up with the lectures, it stresses me out so much that it becomes even harder for me to start studying. I don’t want to believe that it is too late for me in this semester yet but how can I actually build routines and stick to them? Does anyone know that feeling or a strategy to cope with this problem that has worked for them?

My first semester of compsci and I already feel like I’ll fumble. Was trying to work on the algorithms and data structures bonus programming exercise today but have no clue how to solve the second problem. It’s a small thing in the grand schemes and bonuses can only help you but I feel like it reflects how much I’ve been struggling to keep up with the subjects. I still have until midnight but I don’t have any more ideas, and everyone just seems to perform so well and manage their time effortlessly. I barely do anything at home besides the bare minimum, so I doubt I’m studying enough. It just all feels so awful 😞 like time and money is being wasted on me just so that I might fail the first semester and have to redo. I also feel like one of the only people who dislikes using gen ai, and combined with other factors I haven’t made any friends, so it’s like one lonely struggle through the course only to be crushed by the boulder I’m rolling uphill. I’m considering if uni counseling can help alleviate some of this, but I’ll have to see some other time. I wonder if someone like me even has the chance to catch up again.

I’m in my first semester of physics bsc. I wanted to ask if it’s normal to spend 2-3 hours on one question in Analysis? Meaning not just looking at the solution but effectively trying to understand every step of the proof. It takes me so long to finish an exercise and i don’t know if im doing something wrong. Obviously I learn something at the end but in the next paper it’s the same thing again, every question looks like something I’ve never seen before it’s impossible to solve it without having seen something like it before. Anyone has the same issue?

Im slowly but surely falling behind on everything, one lecture at a time, my mind is focused on everything but studying and i cant get myself to do the exercises and they are so hard anyways, I cant do them without help even if i thought i understood everything or know the answer or whatever.. my brain has refused to keep working and i dont think ill be able to keep up and pass anymore... and the thing is i used to love math, i used to love studying and learning new things and doing exercises and finding proofs and stuff and now its just dull and dead and i wonder whats the point of doing anything at all

This is my first semester doing bsc math and i feel like the biggest idiot. I was on top of my class in the beginning and was answering everything the prof asked etc. i even belonged to the people who corrected their TAs and their profs and i was just basically being super cocky. My bad habits got ahead of me and i havent even finished one single assignment (i‘m super lazy). I started skipping classes and i cant seem to keep up anymore. I feel like i messed up my studies for good and that i already failed and should give up by now. I have never even submitted an assignment for linear algebra or analysis and all the future assignments seem to follow up the stuff that was being „taught“ in the older assignments that i didnt do. I feel like a loser. I dont even know how to write a single proof and i dont know how to even start doing those assignments. I am really starting to doubt my capabilities and i feel like its destined for me to fail my first semester… how can i keep up? What can i do? How can a lazy person like me become good again? How and when does everyone find the time to do all the assignments for this week and the upcoming week aswell? How is that possible?