Bashed in the Head with Freedom

I wish high school could have prepared me better for university life because being a college student is really not so simple.  We finally have all the time in the world, all the courses we could possibly want to take, and all the decisions a bunch of us (I assume) are not 100% ready to make.  I'm glad we have a core curriculum.  Otherwise, I really wouldn't know what to do.

Angel has stressed to a bunch of us over and over that college is our one opportunity in life to take risks we normally wouldn't be able to take.  But how can we when we have so much work to do?  I'm swamped in the enormous amount of reading and writing my professors expect me to do. I've never read this much in my entire life.  I don't even know sometimes if I can read; it gets that bad.  All the words just tend to flow together so that I can barely get any information out of it...I skim almost everything because I can't afford to spend the time to make sure I understand everything completely.  And yet the alternative isn't so easy either-SCIENCE.  Actually, I was sorta kicked out of science by Professor Faltynek since I really wasn't doing so well at it.

And then come relationships.  The freedom to have the best-and the worst-feelings, experiences, everything.  No wonder college is typically a madhouse.

Not that freedom should be taken away from us.  Freedom is a good thing, especially if you realize the responsibilities you maintain.  But sometimes it just really hurts my head, what with my extremely active imagination which can play out sequences of a variety of events that could potentially happen.  It gets scary sometimes too.  The expectations of college students are high, and the stress they produce is anything but low.