What no one told me about ADHD in college

I slept through a midterm in my first semester of college. Why? Because the pressure of staying up late studying and waking up at 8 a.m. for classes had finally defeated me. The stringent due dates in all of my classes left me with no time for rest. And I couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed.

In college, I was deeply unhappy. I wasn’t sure I wanted to be there, but something about…