Student Anxiety Quotes

I wasn't really comfortable going to college.

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.

If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone. They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't I have enough?'

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.