Yup, I've seen similar papers to this before
was in basically the same situation myself
I found university very difficult because of the change in emphasis
all the way thru school it was all about being rewarded for being smart
get to university, and BAM, it's all about working hard
it took me probably 2 years to adjust, where my brother who never did well in school, and had to work hard to scrape by did very well in university (that was almost harder than not being successful right off the bat
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