u/FunYogurtcloset5794

I’ve been homeschooled/online schooled since 6th grade and I’m graduating next month. I literally have 0 friends and I’m honestly terrified but also excited for university. My siblings keep telling me to try making friends during the first week because apparently most freshmen are all looking for friends too, but I feel so behind compared to everyone else.

I pretty much cheated my way through online school because my parents never really cared if I was actually learning anything I was the only one of my siblings who did online schooled because I unfortunately was entering middle school when they hit their crazy religious moment in life. I’m genuinely embarrassed by how much I don’t know. I can barely do basic math and I honestly don’t even understand how studying works because I never had to do it properly before.

I’m also gonna be living at home while going to university which makes me feel even more nervous because I already feel like I missed out on so much. I keep thinking I’m gonna fail all my classes and everyone’s gonna realize how dumb I am.

Did anyone else go into college/university feeling completely unprepared like this? I can’t help but fear for what will happen if I’m unable to do school like everyone else. My biggest fear is not getting a degree and being able to get a job.

I’m about to take my permit test and honestly driving or getting my license was never something I really cared about. It just didn’t feel important to me before.

But recently my best friend finally got hers after like 2 years of trying. She failed her permit over 10 times and barely practiced at first, but what finally helped her was just using the official DMV handbook and going over the sample questions until she could get them all right. She said once she did that she went and passed like 2 days later.

Now my parents are really pushing me to get mine and I don’t even have an ID yet so it’s kind of making everything harder.

Is the DMV book actually the best way to study or are there better ways? I’m kinda stressed about failing now.