I Feel Disconnected In College

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's possible that Sydney is unhappy at college because she's following the wrong dream. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Sydney, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What's up? How are you? So I so I wanted to talk to you about, I'm currently a junior in college.
0:25.6	And for like the past two years, my school is very party, party focused and it's very football
0:32.1	focused.
0:33.1	And so for the past two years, I've been like trying to get myself to go to everything and I've joined clubs and I've
0:39.2	I have a job and like I've been like trying to do everything in the culture to like it but I've
0:46.9	been very depressed I'm sorry I don't understand that you've been trying to do everything why in
0:51.8	the hell would you be doing that? I don't even understand that.
0:55.8	Help me explain.
0:56.7	I was in college for four years.
0:58.6	I didn't sign up for everything.
1:00.0	What are you talking about?
1:01.9	Well, I don't sign up for everything,
1:03.3	but I just try to do things to fill my day
1:06.2	and make me more involved.
1:09.1	In what?
1:10.2	Involved in the partying? Involved in football? That's what you want to be
1:14.3	involved in? Well, that's my, that's my issues. I'm like getting tired of it. But I recently, I've been
1:22.3	shifting over to doing things like with my church and doing things more involved in my major. And I'm still like
1:28.8	not really fulfilled. And I was thinking about maybe switching the online school. Did somebody tell
1:35.3	you that every part of your life is going to feel fulfilling? Does somebody tell you that?
1:41.1	Or that it should feel fulfilled? Well, that's a fib. It isn't a matter of being fulfilled.
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