(Parents) 30 years ago, when my parents were my age, applying to college was a simpler process. They applied to one maybe two schools and they got in. The college experience was also much different, if you worked hard, your hard work would pay off in the end. As a biology student at UCSD however, this is no longer the case. Whether you fail or succeed is not longer just a product of your work ethic. It is fully dependent on your relative failure or success to the thousands of other students.
(Bio students) As biology students at UCSD, most of you know the feeling, the feeling of getting owned on a chemistry, genetics, or molecular biology midterm. After studying all night, confident you know the material, only to walk out of the test feeling defeated, confused, and angry. The effects of an impacted major can be felt in every class and after every test and what used to be failing grades, below 50%, are now B’s and B+’s. Hard work and effort are no longer enough to succeed in college, but rather how you compare to the ever increasing amount of fellow students.
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