{"id":19250,"date":"2022-05-13T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19250"},"modified":"2022-05-13T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T19:41:34","slug":"why-am-i-so-bad-at-my-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/13\/why-am-i-so-bad-at-my-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I so bad at my major?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw051222-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw051222-4.jpg\" alt=\"Why am I so bad at my major?\" class=\"wp-image-19242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw051222-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw051222-4-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why am I so bad at my major?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible reasons: 1) you really aren&#8217;t and are being too hard on yourself, 2) In your major, you take higher level classes than in other areas, so they will, of course, be more challenging, and\/or 3) related to #2, there are certain objectively difficult concepts\/hurdles in any discipline that must be understood to advance. You may be on the way to doing this. If you struggle too much, maybe chat with your major advisor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible reasons: 1) you really aren&#8217;t and are being too hard on yourself, 2) In your major, you take higher level classes than in other areas, so they will, of course, be more challenging, and\/or 3) related to #2, there are certain objectively difficult concepts\/hurdles in any discipline that must be understood to advance. You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/13\/why-am-i-so-bad-at-my-major\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why am I so bad at my major?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}