Drakkith said:
Fear is perfectly natural and most people experience some level of fear when dealing with major life events like this. The important thing is to not let your fear control you. Acknowledge your fear but don't let it overwhelm and control you. If you need to, talk to a counselor or someone else who is trained in this area and can help you deal with your transition between high school and college.
Sleepiness is usually a sign that you're not getting enough sleep. This is extremely common. I don't know how much you're getting, but if it's not at least 7-8 hours then it's almost certainly not enough. If you are getting about this much sleep then I recommend trying to get another hour every night and possibly seeing a doctor, as there are many things which could cause sleepiness.
First and foremost, you haven't completely screwed up your senior year. Your marks are lower than you'd like, but this is a far cry from "screwed". An average mark of B is still a good score and shows that you made a solid effort, even though you may have had a few problems. Just keep trying hard in college and you should do fine.
I'd bet that most people who had high marks in high school and are now "barely scraping by" in college are probably taking a large number of courses and are overloading themselves with schoolwork. Either that or they have a hard time transitioning from high school to college, where you are fully independent person that has to run everything in your own life. That transition is hard for some people. Just think of all the people who party hard instead of study hard.
Thank you so much for your advice! Now that I think about it, I do get 7-8 hours of sleep, except it doesn't feel like enough, and I think the carb filled diet I've had for some months now, is also to blame for my sleepiness. I guess I didn't completely screw up, I just wish I could start senior year over again :/ As for the study habits, now that you point it out, last semester I didn't do any course but English, really, because there were around 3 assignments due a week, and English is my weakness + bad time management. I had physics, advanced functions, and philosophy that same semester, so it was not a fun semester.
This semester is a lot lighter due to my spare. I have calculus, chemistry, and biology. Except, other than calculus, or the thermochem unit in chemistry, everything bores me. I also don't really know how to study. For calculus I just do the example problems and review tests online as well as in the textbook, same with the math based units in chemistry, but other than that, I don't know how to memorize, or have what I've learnt, stick (our bio teacher was talking about how it takes 10hrs of sleep to "copy" information from shortterm to long term memory, maybe that hs something to do with this :p).
Thanks for mentioning the uni workload! I was planning on not taking summer school after first year at uni, but if I dont, i'll have :
1 full year physics course (F/W)
1 Astronomy course (W)
Calculus 1 (F)
Calculus 2 (W)
Linear Algebra (F)
CS (W)
Chem 1 (F)
Chem 2 (W)
Teaching course (F)
+3hrs of commuting/day +astronomy club at the university (and probably a martial arts)
If i can, I'm thinking of moving linear algebra to the summer and a chem course, and i'll take a second year astro course -not sure if this is a good idea or just as bad as taking it all in the regular year ?