A: How’s your daughter doing in college?

B: She’s doing all right now, although she found a course especially challenging at the start of the semester, which was a blow on her confidence.

A: It’s quite normal. A lot of kids who are used to being the smartest student in high school are a little shell-shocked when they meet their match in college.

Note: This expression originated in the 1300s as “find one’s match,” but the alliterative meet was being used by the mid-1500s and has survived. It means “to encounter one’s equal or superior in ability, skill, etc., especially in a competitive setting.”