Thomas,
I'm sure Pete will offer up some sound advice.
But, i'd like you to go to: www.braingym.com
Please purchase Brain Gym for children & Brain Gym for teachers. You need to do some repatterning. I am almost 100% sure if you do the very simple exercises, you'll notice real improvement. Paul mentions cross crawling in PhRing, but there's alot more. They have an 800 number & will send you the books right away. In fact i just ordered 2 more books from them today. I promise you that you will not be disappointed in these 2 books. Your brain will be soooo happy 
Please make it a point to notice all the other things that are mentioned in the PhRing course. Please learn how to mindmap. This is also mentioned in the PhRing course, but you have to discipline yourself to learn it. It is a fantastic technique.........i mean FANTASTIC. Buy Tony Buzan's Use Both Sides of Your Brain & Make the Most of Your Mind. If you can, buy or study his MindMap Book.
So much valuable info is presented in the PhRing Home Study Course in addition to PhRing. Everyone wants to just read like the wind, like Pete.....but it takes practice. At the same time there's lots of valuable techniques you can be doing simultaneous w/ your practice & learning of PhRing.
You are in college & you like literature---This means you are intelligent. There is a lot of help out there for you. Just keep yourself motivated till you start to enjoy some successes. Just keep in mind that it will eventually snowball for you.
