I know how you are feeling.

You feel overwhelmed. You feel like no matter how much you try on everything, it is not good enough. You feel like you are slowly drowning. You feel like you do not know what to do anymore.

I am here to tell you that you are not the only one in this boat. I am in that same boat right now.

I am not going to lie, what you are feeling is everything I have been feeling this semester and more. There are times where I just want to quit college and throw three years of this in the drain. There are also times where I wanted to switch my major (once again) because of how bad I am stressing out in my classes and how bad I am struggling right now.

But let me tell you.

You are going to make it through all of this.

No matter how many times I feel overwhelmed, defeated, or slowly drowning, I tell myself that I am not a failure. One thing that I continue to remind myself, even up to now, is that I am doing great and that if I was not, I would not be where I am.

If that does not help, it is okay to speak to someone about how you feel. I do it all the time and it helps out so much.

Just talking to someone just helps you clear out everything you are feeling and you can just let it all out. Having someone there to listen to you and be there while you are going through calms you down and it makes you feel better after you let all that frustration out (or at least to me).

While you are at it, breathe.

You may think this is sill but it is not.

While we are stressing out over everything, we do not take the chance and just breathe. Stop what you are doing or stressing out over and do that. Just releasing all of that makes you feel like a new person. It makes you more relaxed than what you were before.

I just want to tell all of you that you can make it through.

Just know that no matter how much you struggle now, it will pay off at the end when you get your degree.

Continue to put the effort in everything you do and know that it is okay to feel like this. You are not alone.