Does anyone else resent our education system for the negative impact it’s had on your mental health? I recently decided to go back to school at 28. I would say I love learning and I was always a good student, but I have crippling anxiety about not being fast enough to get all my work done and I hate the climate of being hyper-assessed. It’s so hard to learn when I’m constantly being scrutinized and tested and expected to perform calculations and extremely fast. And to know my future is dependent on speed and memorization (2 things I struggle with and that anxiety makes harder). I KNOW im smart; I just can’t figure out how to be successful in an academic environment structured this way.