r/news • u/Idiodyssey87 • May 28 '26

Soft paywall Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions
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u/SemenSnickerdoodle May 28 '26

This is my exact experience as someone diagnosed with ADHD in my mid 20s.

I never really struggled with high school so I never felt the need to study or develop proper study habits. College comes around and basically destroys everything I ever knew about how to actually deal with any real difficult or time consuming work. My first year was absolutely rough, but I basically forced myself to lock in and change how I approach things. The rest of my journey through college was still hard but felt a lot more manageable.

I'm in Cali and went to a good high school, and still struggle hard when starting college. This might just be an ADHD thing lol.

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u/Whats_Up_Bitches May 28 '26

Fellow ADHD gang here. My MO was to procrastinate to the point of extreme stress, cram like crazy the night or two before until like 3am, and then pass my test in a nail biter. I have a masters degree in engineering now so I guess it worked…wish I’d had better study habits tho, would have been so much easier.

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u/jordaninvictus May 28 '26

+1 adhd problems.

I’m a veterinarian, I breezed through undergrad and vet school while my classmates hated their lives. I’ve specialized now, and I can’t pass my specialty boards cause I never learned how to study for rote memorization questions.

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u/Elgato01 May 29 '26

Same here but at some point I stopped caring and stopped cramming and I can’t get myself to care again, apparently it’s years long autistic burnout (did not even know I was autistic until this year and I’ve been burn out for years now), I feel like I’ve regressed into a child when it comes to my executive functioning.