How To Be a Student
How To Be a Student
The Queen's Journal
1. Overcoming Inadequate Feelings as a First-Year Student
8 minutes Posted Sep 20, 2020 at 1:40 pm.
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"One month into my first year at Queen’s, I wanted to drop out and go home.

There wasn’t anything wrong with Queen’s. In fact, it was the opposite: there was something wrong with me—or so I told myself. Early in the year, I decided that I was wholly inadequate and unqualified to be a Queen’s student, that I was a simpleton destined to toil away in mediocrity for the rest of my life, and that I would never thrive at this university because everyone else was better than me."

In the first episode of How To Be a Student, AMS President Jared Den Otter reads former Journal Assistant News Editor Luca Danetta's postscript, "Overcoming inadequate feelings as a first-year student."

Host: Claudia Rupnik

Producer: Lauren Thomas

Executive Producers: Raechel Huizinga & Matt Scace