College is supposed to be hard, don't get me wrong, but it is even harder when you're a STEM major.

1. Labs and lectures never match up

Your lab teacher is always 1 or 2 lectures ahead of the actual lecture class so when they ask you questions about the labs you have no idea what they are talking about.

2. Studying for the recommended 3-4 hours a day

Fitting in classes, homework, sleeping, eating, social life, AND the study time they recommend is almost impossible.

3. Taking general science classes with obvious non-science majors

After the first exam in your giant lecture hall, the average test score is a 55%. That's the moment you know that not everyone in your class was cut out for general plant biology to fulfill their science requirement.

4. Realizing you aren't the smartest kid in school anymore

Even though the class average is a 55%, the highest test grade was a 94% and you know that it wasn't you.

5. Taking 4 million pre-reqs

Plant biology, animal biology, ecology, microbiology, genetics, general chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and more.

6. Having to memorize thousands of facts

Even in general plant biology you have to learn that NAD+ is reduced to NADH at the same time that the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase, turns the molecule isocitrate into alpha-ketaglutarate.

7. Dying after your finals

Putting all those facts you memorized into one exam that's determining 20% of your grade.

8. But still having to remember all the information for the next exam

You think you're done, but college is not like high school. Your knowledge actually has to build off of everything you've learned. Crazy right?

9. Not knowing what you want to do with your life

The hardest part of being a STEM major (or honestly any major), is that there are so many things you can go into and it's super hard to pick one.