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PANEL 1:
— When I go to college … there will be lots of brand new challenges!
LABELS: “independence!” “NEW experiences!” “NEW place to live!” “NEW friends and classmates!” “NEW cultures!” “NEW lifestyle!” “NEW ways of thinking!” “NEW classmates!” “NEW environment!”
PANEL 2:
— uhhhh …
LABELS: “NEW isolation and loneliness!” “NEW inadequacy of study skills” “access to drugs and alcohol!” “social demands!” “NEW lack of support from previous friends and family!” “NEW higher level of competition!” “NEW need for self-reliance!” “NEW money problems!” “NEW goals to STRESS over!” “NEW homesickness!” “NEW identity problems”
PANEL 3:
SFX: CRASH
PANEL 4:
— Wow. Okay. This is a lot to deal with. Hope there’s nothing else.
SFX: BEEP BEEP BEEP
— What’s that sound?
LABEL: ACTUAL COURSE WORK
— When I go to college … there will be lots of brand new challenges!
LABELS: “independence!” “NEW experiences!” “NEW place to live!” “NEW friends and classmates!” “NEW cultures!” “NEW lifestyle!” “NEW ways of thinking!” “NEW classmates!” “NEW environment!”
PANEL 2:
— uhhhh …
LABELS: “NEW isolation and loneliness!” “NEW inadequacy of study skills” “access to drugs and alcohol!” “social demands!” “NEW lack of support from previous friends and family!” “NEW higher level of competition!” “NEW need for self-reliance!” “NEW money problems!” “NEW goals to STRESS over!” “NEW homesickness!” “NEW identity problems”
PANEL 3:
SFX: CRASH
PANEL 4:
— Wow. Okay. This is a lot to deal with. Hope there’s nothing else.
SFX: BEEP BEEP BEEP
— What’s that sound?
LABEL: ACTUAL COURSE WORK
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Oh man, too true. We take our shit with us wherever we go. College is a tough time. Junior High is worse! Thanks for another good one, Clay.
This brings back memories. I dropped out of college 3 times due to my illness before I gave up on it. Another dream that turned to shit thanks to depression.
Thank you, Clay
At least you survived it, as I did. A friend of mine did not.
Important take-away lesson: You are not your grades. Don’t let other people decide who you are or who you should be. No one can ever measure up to everyone else’s expectations.
Paula fuck
Way too real there
This is perfect.
All too true. Of course there should also be a stack of boxes for the stuff we take with us to college (and everywhere else). Bad relationships, the ghosts of bad relationships, insecurities, and so on.
I survived my last year in college by telling my teachers flat out that I was gong to have a nervous breakdown and it was 50-50 I’d graduate first, ten years later I’m maybe half recovered from the experience.
Owwwwwwwww.
Or, four panels that explain why I ended up with a couple of associate’s degrees at the community college instead.
I can agree, I am from the UK and when the work comes the struggle becomes a lifestyle
I have aspergers, so depression comes natural to me
I cried so much before my first day in college.