academic pressure

I could always do better, work better, get better. But there comes a time when our overwhelming dissatisfaction reaps the failure of our highest duty as people… to just live.

If these traditions revolve around stressing about a point here or there, it tells us that being a Bear means living an anxious academic life.

I knew I couldn’t feed my hunger for instant success without putting my wellness in jeopardy. Instead, I crafted a semester-long 5-part plan to resist my appetite for perfection

The academic expectations I had put on myself during A Levels were so intense that I developed a nasty streak of perfectionism. So much that, at times, it became brutal to my self-worth.