So let me get this straight. I’m in a group of 4. We agree to work on a presentation before thanksgiving so we can enjoy break. Break comes, I’ve worked on it, they haven’t. I ask them to do it, they say they will, they don’t. Since I left room for them to add stuff, I’m now sitting with a mostly unfinished presentation, that I then have to work on during break, despite the entire thing being something I could’ve done alone two weeks prior, when we said we’d do it.

Weekend comes, group members ask about the project, I let them know I got the slides in. They offer to present more slides to “make up” for not helping. They choose the hardest slides to “help”, so I have to then explain the slides to them, which they don’t understand because again, they didn’t do any of it and didn’t look at the material it’s on. Also, did I mention the presentation was today? So yeah, big surprise, they didn’t somehow become experts in a day or two and just floundered for most of our presentation time.

So to recap, I had to make all the slides for a group presentation because my group continually ghosts me. I had to then teach them the presentation material so they can feel like they’re contributing. And now today I had to watch them absolutely butcher the slides I made, that I could’ve done with no issue because I actually worked on the project and learned the material!

I’m just so tired. I easily spent 5 times as much time and effort on this as I would if I could just do it alone. Yeah I’m sure I could’ve communicated better, I could’ve talked to the teacher, whatever, but I don’t think that’s such a crazy flaw compared to literally contributing nothing to something you’re responsible for. I’m sick of getting screwed over by other people when I’m already having a hard time myself. I’m tired of teachers promoting these shitty presentation projects practically engineered to have this happen. I hate having to spare other people’s feelings and let them twist a knife in my back that they put there in the first place. I just want to quit.

I am a grad student that is currently teaching an undergrad lab, and I have seen a lot throughout this semester. So many students have such a laizzes-faire attitude about learning and education. So many students just don't do the work, say nothing, and then demand a chance to make up the work or wonder "how can I improve my grade" at the end of the semester. And this annoys me so much.

I understand that students are people first and students second, but there has to be some level of accountability. I understand that things come up and that students request extensions or have excused absences. I even give one extension per student per semester, BUT the one thing I say is that you have to put the extension request on my radar before the deadline barring a medical excuse.

Professors and TAs are willing to show students grace with extensions and make up work, but the request for that has to be in before the deadline. We understand your situation, but you need to come and talk to us and advocate for yourself.

A couple of years ago I wouldn't have been too shy about public speaking—or at least I'd have a good attitude about it despite being nervous—but I can tell that's changed for whatever reason. I think it's my self-esteem as I get older and the fact that I've lost my mind a little

Anyway, we had to present one short presentation for an end of semester project and I did awful. My actual presentation looked nice enough, but 400mg of caffeine, little sleep, and nerves didn't help me at all. I could feel my leg muscles shaking just holding me up there in the front of the class. It had to look pitiful. At least it's over.

hey y'all, just needed to get this out somewhere. so i'm a residence hall student leader at my college. The residents are so entirely disrespectful, rude and ignorant to me and the other student leaders. most of them being underclassmen acting this way toward upperclassmen. mocking, sending rude messages, refusing to engage, just being so totally disrespectful in such an uncalled-for way. it's so unfair to the other student leaders and i; we're all students just trying to make it here and i took on this job basically to have enough money to function this semester because i'm absolutely broke and my parents are already shelling out thousands paying off my loans before they accrue interest. i didn't ask for your attitude when all i'm trying to do is make your college experience and transition into college life slightly more fun and less stressful. by all means, feel free to not participate in the student programming, that's totally fine. but at least be grateful and try not to treat us like crap. you're not edgy and it's not "cool" to be so completely rude and standoffish to people only trying to help.

My mom is very controlling. She acts like it is out of love but it often gets inappropriate. To the point people assume I have a developmental disability and need a care giver.

I can't get my personal documents from her so can't get a drivers license. I also can't open a separate bank account and any time I save more than $2k she transfers the money into her account. As a result I haven't been able to move out.

She drives me to school and walks me to each class. She often insists on walking with linked arms, especially across streets. She. Will walk up to random groups of students and insist I introduce her to my friends. When I tell her those are strangers she gets upset and says I am being weird for not introducing her. The one time I tried to go in a double date with a nice guy from class and another couple my mom insisted on chaperoning us. No one would speak to me after that. I have earned a terrible reputation because of her.

I am trying to be independent of her but she has terrible breakdowns and becomes belligerent if I try to set boundaries. It should be noted that I pay my own tuition and pay for gas to drive me there. I would be independent if I could just get some form of ID.

This is a bit of a vent I need to get out. I have been to three different universities in my life and I can safely say that I don't care about my grades anymore.
All my life I have gotten bad grades. I was diagnosed with a couple of mental disabilities when I was a child. It was a daily routine to have parent-teacher meetings where they ask the same stupid questions "everyone else has improved, why havent you" or "why aren't you trying hard enough"?
School itself never really bothered me, I actually love to learn. It's people that make me feel crappy about myself that bothers me. Especially since the teachers' opinions about me are so closed tied to my grades that they forget that I'm a person with feelings. School is the reason why I have self-esteem issues. At one point I was even suicidal after I failed college the first time.
Often times the student psychologist and advisors are puzzled as to why I don't get good grades. I follow all of their advice like taking notes, going to class, asking for help. The fact that these grades don't represent the hard work I did makes me not care anymore.
However that doesn't mean I will stop learning. I believe that failure is essential to learning. But I hate that school and university punishes me for it.

My semester finally ended and suddenly I have 8hrs of time open in my days. I have time for hobbies, language learning, and time for luxury care, I even have time to work out. Suddenly all my health issues disappeared I was extremely anemic which caused me to lose a lot of blood and I was also depressed. And to add onto that, now I have tons of creative ideas and the world looks saturated again. Wtf... I don't think college is for me at all. (Junior:Health Science Student)

I feel like everyone is always doing better than me and I am always lost. I feel like people think I am stupid, especially when we do group projects. I end up not contributing as much as I should because I get anxious. I also won’t reach out for help too, and I am not doing as well as I want in my classes. Has anyone experienced this or have any advice?

I just want to study while not being subject to people's group conversations. I understand if you're doing a group project or something, as long as you keep it at a reasonable volume. But I'm so sick of people treating the library as a hangout spot with complete disregard for everyone else using it.

If you scroll down on my reddit page you'll find a post from me absolutely balling my eyes out about how tough college had been for me, my expectations, my let downs, and pressures. It was my first semester in college and my gpa then was a 2.1.

So many of you sent me supportive messages and commented words of encouragement, empathy, and your own experiences in similar shoes. Many of you even defending me from the meaner people in the comments too.

I just wanted to update and say, I'm finishing my third semester of college rightnow(yay finals week!) and entering my fourth. I'm set to graduate this spring, and I'm applying to the university I really want to transfer to. I've also figured out a more specific life plan and what I want to achieve while at university(i changed my mind on occupational therapy, I want to (try) to become a psychologist and get a Psy.D but then I have to get into grad school). So I won't bore you on all my aspirations for the upcoming years.

Rightnow it looks like my gpa is going to be inbetween a 3.2-3.3 depending on how finals go. I reflected upon how I did my work first semester, like many advised, and have become a mostly straight A student.

I wanted to come on here and say, that indeed it felt like the world was ending when I made that post crying in my bedroom. Everyone was right, there's always time to turn around and do better.

I just wanted to post this for anyone who might be finishing up their first semester of college, and their grades aren't how they hoped. Reflect, and see what you need to change to be better. It will become better. I believe in myself now, and I'll believe in you too(even if you don't believe in you rightnow).

TLDR: First semester of college i was sobbing about how my grades sucked and my classes sucked and everything sucked. People were nice, gave advice, etc. I reflected and turned things around and am now an almost straight A student only a year later. So I'm coming here to remind any struggling first semester college students, everything will be okay and work itself out. Even if rightnow it doesn't feel like it. I can also give any advice that I used myself if needed in the comments or dm.

I'm at a small community college taking classes for the game development transfer track. This semester went well, but it's possible I won't be able to move forward with it. There were only 5 total students in my class, including me. This was the only class for this course in this semester.

The professor mentioned that some students submitted little to no work the entire semester, which leads me to believe 1 of us is likely to fail. If there aren't enough students registered for the spring course, the college will cancel the class, and I will need to wait an entire year, until spring semester 2026, to attempt to register for it again. At this time, I only know of 2 people other than me that have registered. I think it's likely the college would cancel the class with only 3 people in it.

What am I even supposed to do if that happens? Lol.

I’m a premed attending a large T25 college on a full ride (I am very grateful and am lucky), but I feel so dreadful and empty here. This probably sounds irrational and stupid, but I really want to transfer to other schools.

It’s not that I’m pessimistic or that I’m not trying to enjoy it here. I appreciate all the good aspects of this college. But at the same time, I know I will never truly be happy because I am simply not the fit for this type of college. There is only so much making friends and joining clubs can do :( I’ve never imagined I’d go to this type of college and truly I chose it bc of the scholarship, although my parents were prepared to pay for most if not all of my college tuition.

I’ve tried not to even consider transferring as an option, but it’s been a semester and I feel so sad. I think I just need someone to tell me to suck it up and how selfish this is or if I should actually consider transferring at all.

Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with me? Why did i forget it? I fucked up the group project and now my best friend won’t trust me anymore. Fuck Mercury retrograde. Edit: thank god this shit isn’t graded because i would have killed myself/hj(ofc)

In high school I was quiet I never asked questions at all nor did I really seek to push myself with honor classes or IB classes, I didn’t even think about how tricky it would be to get into goal colleges until summer before senior year. I always said I wanted to be an architect, I underestimated the portfolio portion in college applications. The thing is I had drawings from the drafting classes I took in high school but I didn’t think they’d help I figured they would want some complex drawing or something which I was completely intimidated by. I didn’t think to ask my drafting teacher for help with applying. I ended up switching to IT for in the application and was ultimately rejected, same thing happened with another state school I applied too, I did the mistake and I settled with a smaller state school which was a 80% acceptance rate majoring in Information technology, I honestly think I should’ve been more rational & maybe went to community college and grown a bit there. I’m now a sophomore and the lack of interest I have in my major is very big but I’m complacent with it I mean I’m passing and learning as I go maybe not as advanced as other students but I’m learning as well, coding is still new to me. This is just a rant because not a month goes by I don’t think about going back in time with the maturity I have now and making things right academically.

Its ridiculous how students have to fight the monster of burnout and also the stress that comes up with during end year exams. Am so down right now and also meditating how to excel in my upcoming exams badly. This is getting out of hand, how do you guys navigate through this hell honestly?

2D design class, prerequisite for a whole bunch of other classes. I thought that this project was my final, because it's sort of a culmination of everything we've learned this semester so far. It's not. My final is going to be a written test. This is just the final project, which is due at the end of class Tuesday. I totally misunderstood that, which is on me frankly.

My grade is a B- currently, and this project is worth I believe 15% of my final grade, so it's totally gonna tank if i do a bad enough job on this. I'm trying REALLY hard to get out of my first semester without any C grades or below so my grades look good for transfer schools, and I may very well have just fucked myself. It's 1am, and I cannot for the life of me sleep.

Title basically. I know this kind of post is super unoriginal and repetitive but I need to say something before it keeps eating away at me. Hopefully I can get some advice from others who experienced this as well.

I suffer from a few disabilities and disorders that make simple tasks very overwhelming and time consuming - namely depression, anxiety, OCD, and autism. Even these have consequences, such as eating disorders and insomnia. I have trouble eating, trouble sleeping, and trouble concentrating on what I need to do.

That being said, the state of my school doesn’t help. They recently switched from 16 week classes to 8 week classes, meaning the content is twice as condensed. Besides that, school is only 4 days a week. That means there’s at most 32 days of class time.

Yes, I have accommodations for extended time, but it doesn’t help much. By the time I finish something, there’s 2 more things to do. It’s like a never ending battle.

We are going on week 7 and I still have things unfinished from week 3. I don’t know if it’s still even worth it to try - if my professors will still accept a grade - and I’m honestly too anxious to ask.

If you don’t understand, please refrain from “suck it up, you did this to yourself” type comments, as these disabilities / disorders are rather out of my control and such comments are rather unhelpful.

Tl;dr I’m suffering academically, physically, and mentally from rigorous college courses and need advice to stay motivated.

I went to community college for a few years then I transferred to a University close to where I loved back in 2019. I was there for a semester and a half before covid happened and all classes went online. I had tried to join a frat but didn't like the pledging process and ended up quitting. My school is known as a commuter school but I didn't think it'd be all that bad when it came to a social life. Even when classes became in person people still stayed home because a lot of classes were a hybrid of online and in person. When I tried to join some clubs discord servers I find that they are pretty dead and clubs don't do much events. They mainly do an event or two and that's pretty much it.

I ended up graduating but it feels like I missed the boat on an important aspect of college. Now with how hard the job market is it feels like my time in college was a huge waste in a lot of ways. I really hope things get better soon because right now I'm regretting every major life decision I've ever made.

I’m a fourth-year student and have been struggling with my academic life since my first term. I’ve failed and withdrawn from so many courses that I feel depressed every time I think about it. I’ve retaken 4 courses three times each to pass and probably 2-3 courses withdrawn. I feel bad for not graduating on time with my peers, but now I just live with that fact.

I got diagnosed with ADHD about 3 months ago after a talk with a psychiatrist about my failing academic performance which they recommended me to get a medical check. Having access to meds, I feel a bit better with my condition as they gets me more control of my executive function. I really want to work like normal students, but my executive dysfunction is so much of a hindrance that it’s preventing me to pass courses most of the time.

How do I recover from this failing streak? Anyone want to share their story? I want to hear it from you.

Bro I feel so bad for using ChatGPT to do my Engineering homework, BUT WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN THIS MAN DOESN'T TEACH???? THIS DUDE SITS IN FRONT OF THE CLASS MUMBLING ABOUT RANDOM CONCEPTS OF ENGINEERING THAT AREN'T TIED TOGETHER AND JUMPS AROUND BETWEEN MATH CONCEPTS... BC NO WAY SHOULD I BE SITTING THROUGH YOUR 2.5 HOUR LECTURE CLASS WHERE YOU BARELY TALK ABOUT VECTORS ONLY TO HAVE TO WATCH 2 HOURS OF KHAN ACADEMY VIDEOS THAT YOU POST ON BLACKBOARD IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE THE HOMEWORK LIKE WHAT IS THIS???? i hate this class bro

tldr; I want the freedom and experiences of college, but I don't know if I'll be able to get it.

yes, I'm going to sound so damn superficial but I don't care. I'm just so frustrated and stressed at this point.

my dumbass slacked off throughout high school and I didn't start thinking about college until the end of junior year. now, a few months into senior year, I stand with confusion, a 3.3 GPA, and a strong urge to leave everything I know.

i want to move out asap. I need space and a clean slate. I've shared a room and bed with my mother for the past 10 years, and I want to grow and experience things as a young adult. i want to go to parties and have a new reputation (I'm tired of being seen as the "innocent weird girl" among my peers). i want to showcase my talents and meet new people.

so, the closest thing to moving out right now is going to a college with dorms. the thing is...lack of funds. my mom didn't put much towards savings for reasons I don't know. I'm trying to bust my ass on getting scholarships and shit, but a lot of websites are sketchy and I don't know where to go. i don't want to get into crippling debt.

I'm going to be so mad seeing all my friends going to college parties and making a name for themselves in academic clubs, and having a dorm, roommate or not. whereas I'll be in the same home, same strict rules, with the same lack of street smarts.

This is mostly venting/telling my story but any advice would be appreciated.

I went to a community college, got my associates, then transferred to a university for my bachelor's in 2022. When I moved there, I was about 8k in medical debt, couldn't find a job paying over 11/hour so I started working full time to keep up with everything. I was really struggling mentally and financially. My mom got diagnosed with cancer, I got sexually assaulted, I failed all of my classes that fall. The next spring I did well in all of my classes because I ignored everything that happened and just pushed forward.

The next fall I had to do a SAP appeal for the previous fall semester, and it was approved. But I failed all but one class that semester. Everything from the previous year caught up to me. I was insanely burnt out working full time and taking full time classes. My mental health was really bad as I hadn't processed anything about the last year, I just kept trying to push forward. I couldn't keep up with anything and I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder. I got dismissed from the college and met with the dean to get reinstated.

I had a really good conversation with the dean about everything, and got reinstated with plans to take spring of 2024 off and come back in fall of 24. But the college didn't approve my SAP appeal for fall of 2024, stating that I couldn't use the same reason for academic failure as my previous SAP appeal.

I really want to go back to school in January. I planned on only taking two classes to get myself back into the flow of things, but without my financial aid I still can't afford these two classes. I'm going to call and ask what a payment plan would look like but I'm scared of working so much I fail my classes again since this feels like my last shot at my bachelors. I'm already not going to get my bachelor's until I'm 25. I can try to submit another SAP appeal but I don't know how to change my reasoning. I went from having a 4.0 to academic dismissal. I don't know how to come back from it at this rate and I'm getting scared I'll never get out of poverty.

TL;DR

Got academically dismissed, then reinstated, still struggling financially to go back to school

I transferred into my current university a couple years ago. In one of classes is when I first got a show of “Whitney”

Shes a bit arrogant. Questions/challenges the professor during lectures. Worst of all, bossy in group projects.

Weve had a few courses together but this current one, I just chose not to interact with her. During a previous class, she called me out about an experience I shared from the field (Im an adult student) and she couldn’t believe that the industry is what I stated, even after the professor said to everyone, the situation isnt the same for everyone industry.

So this course we had to form a group and the way this professor said is to choose people to group with by the intro discussion we had to write on Canvas. Our group was formed until Whitney sent a message to our group that she will be in ours.

I set up the initial brainstorming meet up. I asked the group if they were working or had worked, what were their skillsets just kind of a basic knowledge of where the members of the group were in life.

Whitney comes in and begins to tell us, what we will be doing our project on due to her skillset and industry shes in. I interjected and said, everyone presents an idea and will be voted on. She got upset and left messages in the group chat of how busy she is and waiting only delays the project, blah blah blah. I had set a deadline and made a meeting before the deadline to get final vote. I guess Whitney had been talking with the other members of the group and voted for her idea. No problem, less work I suppose until she had presented all the initial work upfront. Once again no problem less work…until I had noticed an issue and stated some of it will have to be reconfigured due to the instructions of the assignment.

Whitney blew up and said she would present it to the instructor to get it approved. Well the instructor did respond to all of us and basically told Whitney her idea wasnt going to work. Our group had another meeting and said lets review the other ideas again and well choose. In the end, we combined mine and another’s idea. We worked on it together and set the assignment in. Meanwhile Whitney claimed if it wasn’t for “her sacrifice” to “take the first hit” we wouldn’t have known what to do.

Hopefully this is my last course we have together

TL;DR: frustrating experiences with a classmate named Whitney, who is arrogant and bossy in group projects. Attempted to dominate the project by insisting on her idea and dismissing input from others. After her proposal was rejected by the professor, the group collaboratively chose a different approach, leading to tension with Whitney, who claimed her initial work was essential to the group's success.

i’m going to because i’m not gonna stop going to school. it’s just so horrible.

my roommates bully me bc i don’t spend enough time with them because im doing homework. my hw isn’t too hard aside from math that ive always struggled with, its just more time consuming than anything. and its extra time consuming bc of my adhd, even when im on my meds. i feel like they’d be more forgiving if they knew i have adhd (which i may get accommodations for) but its so hard opening up about that.

i’m gonna see if i can get a new roommate or change rooms though because being there makes me feel horrible, even when everyone is asleep. like im fucking sorry that i’m doing homework. if i didn’t want to do homework i wouldn’t be in fuckin college.

i didn’t do any work over break because im so fucking mentally exhausted but it doesn’t really matter bc i’ve been stressing out about it the entire time.

i have two more weeks of school and then im on christmas break. it’s gonna be the longest two weeks of my life because i have so much fucking homework and midterms and shit. i don’t wanna fucking go back. i hate how im living.

i tell them i have work and they don’t give a fuck. part of me just wants to fucking scream at them to fuck off but that’ll make me the bad guy.

i fucking hate this shit. i hope i can get into another room.

post I made

I got a 100% on that paper!! F those students who didn’t want to share the lecture notes on an intro to history class. I’m 90% confident they did ignore me because 2 days later people were asking other questions and students immediately answer. What I did to help myself was asking my professor for her added script on those PowerPoints so I got well information to add and it honestly saved me.

I was actually very transparent with her, I did take my notes, and I told her my challenges and that I actually really wanted to do well on this paper and that I’d try my hardest. She understood and was very caring to me.

Because of my experience and even some people comments on the post i made, I have very little faith in big lecture classes or students in general. There’s a good few but it seems like people really want college to be hunger games.

For future classes, I’m going to immediately start talking with someone and form a relationship to help each other out. I like helping people especially cause it’s difficult but it’s sad some people won’t do the same. Everyone is at different levels when they enter and there is absolutely no compassion for that.

In the end of the day, close mouths don’t get fed, always ask for help. I’m learning to advocate for myself even more than I thought I did.

To the people who said something like “people pay for that class, your fault for missing even when you were sick” don’t be the person on your college subreddit posting or commenting how people should just stay home when this is exactly why they don’t want to miss.

Edit: yeah some ppl probably didn’t take notes too. And I was right how some ppl don’t care cause I could see the stats on the lowest score and it was 0, aka did not submit anything. And literally 2hrs before the deadline someone asked how to start the paper/if the professor ever went over it (she did multiple times)

This isn’t news to anyone, but why tf can’t we get rid of irrelevant courses? I’m a CS student and have to take everything from geography to health and nutrition 💩 that’s my single biggest gripe about school. I want to spend my time digging into the math and algorithms, I don’t mind the tertiary classes and info on the history of computers etc., at least that’s relevant. Every time I wrap up a course and get back to my degree plan I see so many more useless courses I audibly groan. I know the reason technicality is the money and finaid, but ffs why not just replace them with pertinent stuff? I haven’t worked out in ages and reading about carbs isn’t going to convince me lol if I could barricade myself in front of my computer forever and shrivel into a pale dirty goblin I would. I don’t think outside of influencers most programmers disagree with that sentiment either. In no way does learning about the american civil war have an impact on my future and idgaf about the names of dead colonizers. I don’t want half of the debt I’m taking on to go to this crap

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So you’re telling me that:

A bunch of random kids who have NEVER lived on their own, have never fully paid any housing bills, have never taken out loans, are all suddenly being cramped into a random building? And you’re telling me there’s 3 people per room, who’ve never interacted with each other before now? But, they trust each other enough to live with each other?

And you’re also telling me that some of these random kids are hundreds of miles away from their parents and literally took a PLANE to get HERE?! And that they only see their family during the holidays?! You’re telling me this college is now their 2nd home? This random building in the middle of nowhere is their TEMPORARY RESIDENCE?

Oh and it doesn’t end there, apparently there are Greek societies that have activities that you gotta pay $10K to participate in per semester. And oh boy, they’re super weird too. Like you’re telling me 20 people share a home? You’re also telling me that they regularly party and get blackout drunk? They do this while studying somehow?!

And the entire student body shares a cafeteria, gym, and the entire town could be centered around that college?

As a community college student, I understood it in high school, but now I can’t comprehend the existence of it. I just go to work, school, and then home. You’re telling me while I’m just a random commuting student, that there are people going to what pretty much is a study summer camp for a whole semester? Seems cool, but like, it doesn’t feel like it actually exists.

TLDR: Weird and stupid community college student reflects on how strange university life is when you really think about it.

I am a pre law major and am currently majoring in biology. I wanted to get a 'useful' degree in case I don't get into law school, so I can have a solid backup. As of late, I've realized how absolutely miserable I am. I don't care about my major, I don't want to do the work associated with it. It's certainly not for me. As such, I want to change my major. I want to major in social work or anthropology (disconnected things I know). I feel like such a failure and an idiot for even considering it. I know there isn't anything wrong with majoring in humanities, it's a noble and worthwhile pursuit, but my whole life i've been told the only worthy work is in stem. I don't know how to get over this and just be okay with who I am and what I want to do. I don't want to disappoint my parents.

Hello all! Unfortunately for me life was going too good for too long and now everything that needs to be dealt with is happening all at once. This fafsa problem is just one of multiple since I go back to classes and finals on Monday.

Anyways a little bit of short back story. Me and my mom had a "fall out"(violence was involved) about two or almost 3 years ago I think(only think cause when I think about it my mind shuts off, ya know, the whole blocking trauma situation). I didn't talk to her for a while(like no contact at all) the year of the incident and once I did talk to her it was basically to grovel and get her to do her part of the fafsa stuff.

Last year when the gov switched everything we had some tension around the time of fafsa and it made it hard to get her to input her information, but she did it eventually. Earlier this year the incident was Unfortunately revisited and words were said to where we had not talked since April. It was only recently like a few months ago that she started talking to me again ish. More so her just randomly saying good morning. Or a how are you text. I know this is her attempt at reconnecting but with the trauma of the situation and the complete lack of accountability and disregarding of it, due to who I know she is I can't get myself to try to reconnect without feeling scared.

I tried to file my fafsa already without parent information but they sent it back and told me something was wrong and I know the process that I have to take to make sure I can do fafsa by myself but it requires a couple of things I don't think I can obtain like a letter from a family member proving what I say about the situation is true, which I can't do because she basically isolated me from the family.

I guess my main concern is like her efforts to talk to me ruining my chances of fulfilling my fafsa information out because I have scholarships I can't lose because of this situation. Last time we talked about fafsa she point blank stated she would not help me and I'm tired and scared of trying to fix the situation just for it to be held against me a few month later and I'm scared ill lose what I've been working so hard for already over this stupid situation.

If anyone has any advice please let me know I'm desperate. And if more clarification is needed let me know too, I know sometimes I'm not very concise or clear.