College is stressful, as any student in their right mind will admit. Balancing classes, clubs, internships, and other extracurriculars is difficult, to say the least. I don't blame anyone for being stressed out about school because stress is just a coping mechanism and it's the natural thing to do when you feel overwhelmed.
However, I would rather not stress about grades and my schoolwork. Yes, of course I get frustrated and upset when I don't get the grade I wanted or worked for weeks on a paper that didn't reach my professor's standards, but I don't see grades as the most important part of my life. I want to be able to go to school to learn new material and discover new things, not waste away in the library, trying to memorize diagrams from my biology book. I am not trying to offend anyone, so please don't take this article as a jab at anyone. I really admire my friends who want to go into the pre-health professionals, I honestly admire them a lot and want them to succeed. Take pre-med students for example- who wouldn't want their future doctor to be working their butt off at all hours in the library? That just goes to show how committed they are to their future career and how much they want to succeed.
I want to succeed, but I also want to live my life outside of school. I want to smell the roses, watch the birds flying in the sky; I want to notice the small things that are around me everyday. I don't want to injure my mental state by stressing about school and how that bad grade on a chemistry test might affect my life forever. I just don't like to stress. I do anyway, but it makes me feel better knowing that everyone is in the same boat as me, and I try to go to sleep knowing that the best days in my life are still yet to come.
So, I suppose the takeaway from this article is: "every little thing is gonna be alright", taken from the wise words of Bob Marley. Enjoy your life and remember why you started and why you want to continue.