Do you have any morning classes? I won't take anything before 9:30, and even that's on the early side for me. If you're a night owl, you can maybe try sleeping earlier, but you won't perform your best in the mornings, and that could be an added stressor.
If Journalism is just an elective, or a requirement that can be postponed, I would definitely drop it if you don't like it. It sounds like you have enough stress as it is, and toiling with a course and/or professor you don't like won't help.
I hate how some courses are say, once a year only in the fall. And then they decide to put other required courses at the same time! Or that one required course I need to take that's always around 8 in the morning.... Hopefully I'll be able to take it at a more reasonable hour before I graduate!
As for being worried about your audition, I'd say, just do your best. It sounds like something you're interested in, and I doubt you'd be horrible. I think you'll do just fine. And if you're not accepted for the role you auditioned for, there will always be other plays. A friend of mine auditioned for a leading role: when they asked her to sing, my jaw nearly dropped, she was that amazing. And a good actor! They ended up turning her down for that role and offering her a lesser one... I can't imagine why. They did ask her if she'd ever been in love before, and she said no, and I swear if that was the reason they didn't cast her in that role....
Basically, I'm saying if you try and don't succeed in getting the role you want, that doesn't automatically mean you weren't good enough. You could have been great, but in the end they could only choose one person, and you weren't the lucky one then. Or maybe you will be the lucky one!
Do you exercise at all, even if it's only a half hour walk? Watch your caffeine intake? Are you drinking regular tea, or herbal or green tea? Do you do things in bed other than sleep, like use a laptop? Try associating your bed only with sleep if that's the case.
College is definitely overwhelming at times: just try to take it day by day. If you find yourself worrying about what you'll be doing 4 years from now, tell yourself you'll think about it 4 years from now. It sounds like you're doing all the right things, and you've got at least your mom around for support. And as you said, it was the first day. You've got a few months ahead of you. Even if you feel it's not starting off great, you've got time to make things up.
Hope I helped some.
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