Brehs, I Completely Bombed This Semester.....Badly

[SEX!!]

I'm a sophomore and this semester I completely bombed pretty much all my classes this year

As the semester is ending this week I realized how much I actually didn't do and what my grades are gonna look like as I haven't gotten them yet. I might've passed 1 class out of the 6 I took this year.

A bunch of shyt played the part in me doing so poorly this semester but it really all boiled down to me not caring. I got so used to doing the bare minimum in school and still passing, but this semester was definitely a wake up call for me.

I never really cared for school much since I found a lot of the work in high school/middle school not to be productive and useless but college really is a whole different ball game. There's many reasons that I want to stay in school as well. I have a job at home that pays well for my age but I could do better with a degree and more experience.

I realize that next semester or while on break that I need to either find something that motivates me to do better or to dropout which damn near isn't an option. I might have to take a semester or two off after this one. I feel so defeated realizing that I failed like this. But this really did open my eyes on what to do next semester.


I say all that to ask this: Has anybody ever bounced back from a shytty semester/year in college????

 

[Hades]

What classes did you fail?

Why did you take six instead of four or five?

Who is paying your college?

 

[TRFG]

yeah, I transferred and it was the best thing ever

 

[Audemar]

it really all boiled down to me not caring.

Welcome to the club, b.

I got so used to doing the bare minimum in school and still passing

I might have to take a semester or two off after this one.

Strictly from a numbers perspective, people who do this rarely come back.

I say all that to ask this: Has anybody ever bounced back from a shytty semester/year in college????

What's your major?

 

[Doobie Doo]

Now move to Atlanta and start your rap career.

 

[SheWantTheD]

Definitely breh. This happened to me in a similar way. In high school and community college I got straight A's without studying. School had never been a challenge to me. I just showed up to class, paid attention and took notes.

When I transferred to a four year University and change my major to Computer Science from Business, I had to put in THAT work!. Plus your grades are dependent upon your two midterm and final grades. If you do poor on one, you are most likely screwed.I only failed one class my first semester, but I barely passed another and dropped one. I had to change my own mentality and create good habits of getting up early, studying before class, reading ahead up on material etc.

Community college was a joke, it was like a continuation of high school. Show up, pay attention, take notes. I skimmed over the notes once before a test and got A's. Can't do that in midterms where A LOT of information is on there. Plus Finals are culminations of everything you learned throughout the semester.

I had to take that shyt seriously and study everyday. Mind you I commute from home, so I don't feel like staying on campus all day, and at home I ain't gon study. I had the same mentality you did. School was useless to me and I didn't want to go to college for debt reasons. My dad paid for college when I was at community college so that was an incentive for me to go.

Best advice is for you to take a semester off. Not only did you basically waste a semester, you also wasted a semester worth of tuition, room & board if you live at school, books etc. You gotta find what you are passionate about and motivate yourself. Take 1 or 2 hard classes and the rest easy. You gotta really use the semester you aren't going to college to evaluate your life, what you want to do, work on procrastination etc.

If you don't, when you go back to school you will end up back at square one. Procrastinating and getting bad grades. Also find someone who can hold you accountable, get an advisor that checks in on you every week or two weeks to see if you are caught up with your work, doing well on assignments and exams, etc.

I don't know how your school works but they will most likely put you on academic probation if you fail 5 out of your 6 classes. If you don't bring your GPA up next semester, you may get kicked out of school.

 

[SEX!!]

What classes did you fail?

Why did you take six instead of four or five?

Who is paying your college?

too many, they weren't even hard classes if that's why you asked

credit reasons, that's usually the average amount of classes you take a semester to pass here

mom, grandmother and myself

 

[ignorethis]

I dropped out my sophomore year, passed 1 class out of 8. Now I'm back in school, just finished with 3 As and a B today.

Breh if you don't care chill out and figure it out, you probably on academic probation, don't force going to school before you're rededicated and get suspended. That's what I did and ultimately led to me dropping out for 4 years.

 

[SEX!!]

Welcome to the club, b.



Strictly from a numbers perspective, people who do this rarely come back.

What's your major?

mass communications

 

[Hades]

too many, they weren't even hard classes if that's why you asked

credit reasons, that's usually the average amount of classes you take a semester to pass here

mom, grandmother and myself

What is the credit requirement for full time? I thought that twelve was the standard.

I would be so tight that I wasted all that time and money.

 

[SmokyQuartz]

Definitely breh. This happened to me in a similar way. In high school and community college I got straight A's without studying. School had never been a challenge to me. I just showed up to class, paid attention and took notes.

When I transferred to a four year University and change my major to Computer Science from Business, I had to put in THAT work!. Plus your grades are dependent upon your two midterm and final grades. If you do poor on one, you are most likely screwed.I only failed one class my first semester, but I barely passed another and dropped one. I had to change my own mentality and create good habits of getting up early, studying before class, reading ahead up on material etc.

Community college was a joke, it was like a continuation of high school. Show up, pay attention, take notes. I skimmed over the notes once before a test and got A's. Can't do that in midterms where A LOT of information is on there. Plus Finals are culminations of everything you learned throughout the semester.

I had to take that shyt seriously and study everyday. Mind you I commute from home, so I don't feel like staying on campus all day, and at home I ain't gon study. I had the same mentality you did. School was useless to me and I didn't want to go to college for debt reasons. My dad paid for college when I was at community college so that was an incentive for me to go.

Best advice is for you to take a semester off. Not only did you basically waste a semester, you also wasted a semester worth of tuition, room & board if you live at school, books etc. You gotta find what you are passionate about and motivate yourself. Take 1 or 2 hard classes and the rest easy. You gotta really use the semester you aren't going to college to evaluate your life, what you want to do, work on procrastination etc.

If you don't, when you go back to school you will end up back at square one. Procrastinating and getting bad grades. Also find someone who can hold you accountable, get an advisor that checks in on you every week or two weeks to see if you are caught up with your work, doing well on assignments and exams, etc.

I don't know how your school works but they will most likely put you on academic probation if you fail 5 out of your 6 classes. If you don't bring your GPA up next semester, you may get kicked out of school.

Nikka how?

 

[SheWantTheD]

Nikka how?

Information came naturally to me and if I paid attention in class, it stuck in my head I guess.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i worked 1 to 3 jobs my entire college career...30 hours a week.
i was an arts / graphics major so studio classes were 3 hour but we only got one credit hour for it.

i would wake up confused, go to a class or my job on the wrong day.
my professors got used to it and told me that i could stay in that day's class and miss my scheduled class.
my jobs would look at me like "why the fukk are you here? it's tuesday, orbital..."
i was also partying rather hard.

my gpa was not impressive but i never failed a class.

i just couldn't see myself going back home and facing my parents as a college dropout.

get your shyt together and realize that you are lucky as fukk to have the opportunity to get a college education in america.
there is someone your age in another part of the world who may not live another day because of any number of reasons.

get your head out of your ass and at least try.

 

[Colin X]

Retake them classes next semester/in the summer and you'll be straight doggy

 

[SEX!!]

What is the credit requirement for full time? I thought that twelve was the standard.

I would be so tight that I wasted all that time and money.

15 credits a semester, you need 120 to graduate