I'm seriously scared of what will happen if I can't get into a decent college. I study so fucking hard, staying up all night and writing so many notes that my pens run out of ink as I'm writing. I literally stayed up until nine am a few months ago, my friends were laughing thinking I was doing it for fun but I was seriously just reading textbooks and burning my eyes out with a computer screen. It's not even my family pushing me, they don't care about education like I do. I just have this need to be someone who doesn't have a minimum wage job, someone decently educated. This year was so difficult, even though I worked extremely hard, I got two C grades in the first semester. I've never gotten a fucking C in my life before this. My first two years of high school were A grades and like one B grade. I had a good transcript and now it's fucking ruined.
And no matter how hard I work there's always something I can't do. I don't need to be exceptional at everything, but with all my study and practice I feel like I should be doing a lot better. The worst is math. I've always been terrible at it, luckily my mom is great at math and has always helped me. But I just feel so fucking stupid because this is the one subject I can't get a good handle on. It's so discouraging. Sometimes I just want to quit and not give a fuck but I can't. I have to succeed in life. I'd rather be dead than not make something of myself. Honestly. And my parents are no help at all. I understand they don't want to pay for college, they just aren't that type of parent. Which I accepted a long time ago. Besides, paying for it myself gives me more initiative to do well. But the constant asking "are you sure you want to go to college" or "maybe you shouldn't" just because they were successful without going to an actual college doesn't mean I am the same. And honestly I don't think they believe I'll be able to do it.
I know this isn't healthy, the amount of classes I have, and the urge to get an A on every assignment. And every time I get something lower than that I think about it so much that it literally eats me up inside and I can't let it go. My teachers get annoyed because I'm constantly asking for quiz retakes even if I only got one or two questions wrong. And when I had to go in for my finals and my finals administrator told me the grade I got for US History, I was asking if there was a mistake and literally about to cry and she looked so fucking weirded out. And everyone thinks I'm fucking overreacting or something but I'm not. I have to do well, when I don't I just convince myself how fucking worthless and stupid I am, especially when I try as hard as I can. It makes me feel like a fucking idiot. I can honestly say that I can't see my life continuing if I can't get into a good college. And that thought worries me. I wish I had someone to talk to, but there's no one. I don't want to worry my s/o or my friends either. I just keep everything bottled up. It feels like I'm going to explode.