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I'm in college now, entering my final year studying mathematics. I've been assigned summer work with someone in my department. However, he's left the country for his vacation and has left me an assignment which I haven't got too much work done on over the past couple of months. This came just after a disastrous final week in my exams where I got a spell of headaches, stopped working and bombed three papers which brought me down from a first to scraping a 2:1. I quickly got stuck on the assignment and have done a bit about it but not that much. Been having a lot of dreams about my grades, about the assignment, about my lack of success with women (which is another issue altogether) for the past two months. I was made to attend my first maths conference, which was a stressful experience in itself but worthwhile, but otherwise I haven't left the house much or done much work.

That's about it.

i dont want to sound off with you, but are you venting, do you want feedback. or a little more bluntly...what was your question/point?

you sound like a stressed kid at exam times.

i still have dreams about failing exams at uni.

felt obliged to respond but wasnt sure how to...it was an open ended intro.

Exam time is over for me for another year. I guess I could use some advice on how to get out of this vague funk I'm in. But I see a bunch of threads with one reply or no replies, so I feel like it would be an unreasonable expectation to have.

yeah when i was on summer break i used to sleep in, wake up check the mail and go back to bed.
it isnt uncommon to get a little melancholic or depressed especially with a change in structure or routine, which is what universit/school is good at providing...no template to follow, we tend to get drawn inwards, introversions and as you describe become funked out.
i really think it is a necessary compensatory adaptation most AS need but are not aware they need it, i call it decompress time.
you want out of it, but your mind is saying...no no stay here, i need to re-charge.
dont fight it man.
unwind, relax, funk out, and recharge for the september semester.
hope this helps.