dead time genuinely makes me want to kill myself
for context, I’m a high school senior who takes all her classes at the local community college. my advisors won’t eve listen to me, so by the time I graduate, I’ll have 70+ hours of college credit and at least 30 hrs won’t be applicable to my degree (electrical engineering). When I brought up graduating early, one of them fucking scoffed in my face?!! like this is your fault for making me take more seat time than the state required and now I have to take random electives 😭 I have two jobs, and almost had my Tuesdays/Thursday completely clear so that my j1 could schedule me more than 10 hrs a week, but my hs advisor changed it up on me at the last second. All the unstructured time that I can’t fill meaningfully because of stupid scheduling makes me so depressed. I didn’t have j2 last semester so maybe that’ll make it better, but it is so fucking disheartening. I have that single 8 am on t/th (work needed me to come in at 6/7:30 am if I wanted more shifts), so I guess I’ll try to get a volunteering gig, but it really doesn’t fix the root cause. For context, I could still graduate at the semester mark and start working FT at this point, but I’m trying to score a fellowship from the uni I’m attending next year and graduating early has the potential to ruin that. I also didn’t quit j1 despite low hours because they pay very competitively and could accommodate me going on leave for academic programs during summer. I know some people won’t think this belong on this sub but like, why are advisors so bad at their job and refuse to listen to you 😭😭
Posted Jul 30, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC