A few days ago, I had some acquaintances of mine who are in the same class as I am. At one point, I asked them if they ever have a hard time paying attention to the lectures due to mind wandering. Most of their answers are more physiological such as not getting enough sleep or being hungry. 

Strangely, this feels completely different. For me, I always have the feel to do the best in the class, and my focus has always shifted away from the professor's lectures and more towards how am I going to get the grade I need out of the class. For years, I have developed this obsession to get straight A's in school as a means to gain a better learning outcome than I would normally do. These philosophical needs, despite not getting a lot of sleep or not eating enough until after school, do not even exist in my mind. Instead, it is always the big picture and smaller details that get in the way.

I want to know if there is a huge difference between the way students with Generalized Anxiety Disorder feel about their semester compared to students who normally go through college stress. I always felt different from other people because of how different I think and how chaotic my needs become. I am sure the Maslow pyramid would have explained a lot of my situation. Perhaps looking for a weird form of respect or self-image is the reason for such differences and might not be due to anxiety. However, I could be wrong about that. I thought this might be an interesting discussion because I needed to get some things off my chest while engaging on the topic some more.