At college it might not be obvious that you have access to authoritative people. In high school, your teachers probably offered you help on a daily basis. They talked to you individually, noticed when you were having trouble getting started on a problem, that kind of thing. In college, classes can be bigger, so your professors probably won’t do that. In a class of 100 people, it just isn’t practical for a professor to catch someone and say “So, Nina, how did you get on with yesterday’s work?” Because of this, it’s easy to feel distanced from your professors, and to get the impression that
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