Sorry in advance if this is all over the place. Just needed to get it all out.
First time posting here: second year in STEM (biomedical sciences) and everything is so difficult. Safe to say I’m feeling burnt out and exhausted.
This year has been so hard. I’m just now wrapping up a crazy long in vivo dosing study (102 days, dosing twice daily AM and PM), taking three classes, putting data together to start going to conferences, and then there’s all the other experiments and lab and personal life stuff I have to take care of. I just feel so overwhelmed.
One of my professors sent me an email saying I’ll need a 102% on his final to finish his class with a B. So I immediately sent a message to my PI asking if we could meet this week to talk it over. I think that email was the breaking point for me. I’ve done really well on all of my courses so far, but I feel like a failure for scraping together a C in this class. And I feel so embarrassed and ashamed to admit it to my PI.
I’m so tired every day. I’m starting to feel like I’m not cut out to finish this program, and it’s such a sucky feeling because I really do want to. Just kind of feel like a failure lately. Does it ever get better? Would appreciate advice/opinions.