How should I best deal with this?

[MoonFace2]

My friend is going to hammer me about her college course not going as well as she’d hoped. Every time something goes wrong, she acts like it’s the end of the world; and I’m dreading talking to her tonight. She tends to cry over the phone and get mad if you don’t say the right thing at the right time. Yet she’s generally a good friend.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Tell her the truth: this is a repeating pattern of behavior with her to the point you dread speaking to her. You understand and appreciate that she trusts you enough to vent like this, but it is becoming emotionally exhausting for you and you are not in a place to do this over such a long period of time. If she really is crying about this course at any given opportunity, if it’s really causing her that much stress, she should drop the course and try again when she’s better prepared for it mentally and physically. If the only reason she’s still going is because she has your support, then she needs to stop because you are running out of the energy needed to support her.

[talentedclock]

Usually I just tune out and repeat "yeah" or "uh huh" every time there's a pause.

You do have to be kind of careful though because occasionally people will catch on so you'll have to be ready with an "oh no!" in those instances.

[ohsheeT]

Tell her to give it a chance it's only her first semester and she's only going to get out of it what she puts into it

[Iron_Man]

Be patient If you have problems you’ll go to her