My first semester at college I was enrolled at a university, and I did pretty well. Got okay but not bad grades, and then the next semester I moved in with my father and decided to go to a cheaper, community college.
It was such a change, and apparently I didn’t get the memo enough. Instead of doing most of the work in class and having the rest as homework, all of the classes I took notes and did everything else at home unless it was exam day. I’ve got a bad attention span, so it was difficult. Also I don’t like asking for help and keep everything to my self so I was suffering in silence.
Then, I got a job. I needed the money, but that just added to my problems. Now, instead of doing my homework at night, I went to work 4-5 days out of the week. And it was all just straight downhill from there. I couldn’t get myself to try, I was so burnt out of everything and I ended up failing all of the classes besides one.
So now my GPA is a 1.82, which isn’t enough to put me on probation, but it is enough to stop financial aid from coming in.
I really fucked myself over. Luckily I have this summer to take a breather, I haven’t had one in a couple years given I went to basic training and AIT the last couple summers for the Army Reserves during high school.
I’m really worried I’m not gonna be able to fix this, I know it’s possible but I’ve got to figure out how.
Tl;dr I failed some classes and now I’ve fucked my GPA over.
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I have no advice to give you. All I can do is wish you good luck. I hope you pull through man.
It isn’t the end of the world, but it will be tougher than before. You will have to figure out how to pay for the loss financial aid. If you put your mind to it and have discipline you can do it.
My first year of college right after high school ended me with a GPA very close to yours. I took a few years working retail jobs after that and grew up a lot. Not everyone is mature enough right out of high school to go straight into college.
All that to say I did go back and wound up graduating with with honors so it is possible.
Some quick tips.
Make yourself sit up front if in person as it forces you to pay attention.
Find a group of people to study and get together with for homework assignments. Usually we met like 30m before class to just talk about class or whatever else we got going on.