I [18m] struggling to find something positive to wake up for in university.

I am going into my 2nd year of university to get my engineering degree in one of the most competitive/demanding undergrad programs in North America (top5 arguable - top10 without question). The other eng. degrees at my university are factually easier hence why we get a more friendly curve and the admission averages are very different too - I'm not making this up to make myself seem better. It's a 9am-6pm of lectures, tutorials, ect with an hour break for food (the times can vary a little). The remainder of my time is spent studying, scrapping whatever time I can find for needs such as eating and cleaning. I feel stuck in this cycle with nothing to look forward to over the summer or school year since I'm constantly working in one way or another with 6hours of sleep on average.

I should add, there are some percent of students in my program who do tons of extra-curricular but they were wise enough to study much harder than me and get ahead than people like me, who got by on smarts alone with the remainder of my team being spent on tv shows in high school.

I know some of this seems like a rabble, but I don't have many friends, the people in my program who I see most during the day are on a similar boat as me in the sense they are studying too for the most part or on the grind working on some other side project/club. Feel overwhelmed but more importantly trapped in this cycle of no social interactions beyond the basics with my roommate.

I'm looking for advice, and mainly made this post after realizing that for the first time in my educational career I do not want school to start again since it's just the same thing day in and out where I feel time flies by the amount of repetitiveness in my life. I have an end goal of grad school, but I know that should be more friendly from what I've heard relative to my current program.

TLDR: in very demanding undergrad program, going into 2nd year. Unable to find some meaning or value since everyday is the exact same for 8 months with the summer being similar with just work. My social life is literally 3 streaks on snapchat (no BS).

Submitted July 28, 2019 at 11:31PM

I am going into my 2nd year of university to get my engineering degree in one of the most competitive/demanding undergrad programs in North America (top5 arguable - top10 without question). The other eng. degrees at my university are factually easier hence why we get a more friendly curve and the admission averages are very different too - I'm not making this up to make myself seem better. It's a 9am-6pm of lectures, tutorials, ect with an hour break for food (the times can vary a little). The remainder of my time is spent studying, scrapping whatever time I can find for needs such as eating and cleaning. I feel stuck in this cycle with nothing to look forward to over the summer or school year since I'm constantly working in one way or another with 6hours of sleep on average.I should add, there are some percent of students in my program who do tons of extra-curricular but they were wise enough to study much harder than me and get ahead than people like me, who got by on smarts alone with the remainder of my team being spent on tv shows in high school.I know some of this seems like a rabble, but I don't have many friends, the people in my program who I see most during the day are on a similar boat as me in the sense they are studying too for the most part or on the grind working on some other side project/club. Feel overwhelmed but more importantly trapped in this cycle of no social interactions beyond the basics with my roommate.I'm looking for advice, and mainly made this post after realizing that for the first time in my educational career I do not want school to start again since it's just the same thing day in and out where I feel time flies by the amount of repetitiveness in my life. I have an end goal of grad school, but I know that should be more friendly from what I've heard relative to my current program.TLDR: in very demanding undergrad program, going into 2nd year. Unable to find some meaning or value since everyday is the exact same for 8 months with the summer being similar with just work. My social life is literally 3 streaks on snapchat (no BS).