I have always been bright but now I am failing miserably, panicking at every exam and making my professors cringe. Today, as usual, I panicked and looked like I didn't even follow the lectures during an oral exam and when I told the professor I would like to do the exam again he told me "I don't know what ambitions you might have, you are mediocre at best, like many other students as you've seen". Shit this hit hard, I mean fine I'm mediocre but the way he said it was worse than if he just told me I suck, because it's like it's up to me to have some decency and quit. Why does it have to be like that? I feel embarrassed to continue studying and suck ass and just be around people who think I'm a dumbass. I'm studying physics by the way.