r/BackToCollege

Currently I am in my second year in community college. My first year was a “I‘m Just Happy to be Here” Still doing well in all my classes , but definitely getting irritated on a few things.

1. Discussion Boards- STOP! Every week I have to write a paragraph about a topic and then respond to a classmate. Now I have to interact with these kids. I have to wait for them to post on the board. Nobody does the assignment until 30 minutes until it’s due at midnight. My grade depending on these kids is lame.

2. Tutoring Center- At my college there’s a tutoring center to help students with their school work. Cool beans, So what are the qualifications to be a tutor? To have good grades…… that’s it. My Professors are telling me if I go there I’ll get extra credit. I go and the tutors don’t know shit. They just read what’s on Google. I have good grades! I can’t tutor anybody.

3. “A Workshop Day” I go to class to do homework for said class. If you aren’t going to teach me anything today just don't have class. I can do my assignments at home.

I'm a little overwhelmed, but I seem to be in a pretty decent place financially. My husband was in the military, so I have a few benefits that help out well in terms of paying for school. I'm 25 and the last time I went to school, it was community college in 2019-2020.

I'm going back, but online. I'm supposed to be doing a BA in criminal justice. Luckily, the 25 credits that I earned in community college seem to be transferring to the school I'm going to attend soon.

I haven't done anything academic in... a while. How do you get back into the swing of things? Studying? Note taking? How have things changed, in a general sense, since I've been in school?

I was a decent student when I was in school, but I'm entirely out of practice. I'm so worried about it, I've looked into things I can do now so I don't get so burnt out when I actually do start. I might also just be worried and now I'm overcomplicating things, but I have to ask.