What do I do?
Hi Everyone (first off thanks for taking the time to even read this let alone reply; Sorry it's long),
I'm in a tough spot right now... I'm a second year Biology student at a UC and I have no idea what to do.
To put it simply I've done really atrocious in terms of grades these past 3 quarters & it seems like this quarter is going to turn out the same way.
At this point I wish I could cite reasons/excuses/explanations on why/how this has happened (I was a straight A student in high school, IB, AP, Honors, Salutatorian, etc.) but the truth is not exactly sure except that I'm the problem. It might be due in part to my difficulty adjusting, another part may be that I'm just incredibly dumb, I don't study hard enough, I'm immensely stupid, my family's driving me crazy (I commute), I have poor time management/planning skills and a really bad internet addiction, my lack of motivation: I don't try hard enough, my lack of self control: I'm really impulsive, and etc... I mean I've tried tutors, and solo... I don't have much volunteer experience; I just started volunteering at the hospital a couple months ago.
Bottom line: I have a 3.170 right now (it's going to go down for sure this quarter);
just science & math it's 3.073 (I've gotten B/B- in Calculus and 2B-/C+ in Chem)
At first, I was just going to retake Calculus & GChem at a JC over the coming summer & thought everything would be fine.
BUT right now I'm taking Genetics, Organic Chem+ Lab and the thing is it's starting to dawn me that I'm probably going to get a C (best case scenario) or worse in Organic Chemistry and Genetics.
Aside from kicking me out of the Biology major, that's definitely going to ruin my chances of going anywhere for med school... my question to you guys then is should I stay at UCI & try to fix my grades here or are my grades a clear indicator that I need to back track, head back to a JC, figure out what's wrong with me & do things differently? Would med schools reject me if I went from a UC to a JC then back (or somewhere else)? I mean, I'm wasting *A LOT* of money to get pathetically awful low grades that won't get me anywhere... What do you think? Any insight would be helpful.
Thank you in advance & please please be nice I'm very unstable & depressed right now...
Hi Everyone (first off thanks for taking the time to even read this let alone reply; Sorry it's long),
I'm in a tough spot right now... I'm a second year Biology student at a UC and I have no idea what to do.
To put it simply I've done really atrocious in terms of grades these past 3 quarters & it seems like this quarter is going to turn out the same way.
At this point I wish I could cite reasons/excuses/explanations on why/how this has happened (I was a straight A student in high school, IB, AP, Honors, Salutatorian, etc.) but the truth is not exactly sure except that I'm the problem. It might be due in part to my difficulty adjusting, another part may be that I'm just incredibly dumb, I don't study hard enough, I'm immensely stupid, my family's driving me crazy (I commute), I have poor time management/planning skills and a really bad internet addiction, my lack of motivation: I don't try hard enough, my lack of self control: I'm really impulsive, and etc... I mean I've tried tutors, and solo... I don't have much volunteer experience; I just started volunteering at the hospital a couple months ago.
Bottom line: I have a 3.170 right now (it's going to go down for sure this quarter);
just science & math it's 3.073 (I've gotten B/B- in Calculus and 2B-/C+ in Chem)
At first, I was just going to retake Calculus & GChem at a JC over the coming summer & thought everything would be fine.
BUT right now I'm taking Genetics, Organic Chem+ Lab and the thing is it's starting to dawn me that I'm probably going to get a C (best case scenario) or worse in Organic Chemistry and Genetics.
Aside from kicking me out of the Biology major, that's definitely going to ruin my chances of going anywhere for med school... my question to you guys then is should I stay at UCI & try to fix my grades here or are my grades a clear indicator that I need to back track, head back to a JC, figure out what's wrong with me & do things differently? Would med schools reject me if I went from a UC to a JC then back (or somewhere else)? I mean, I'm wasting *A LOT* of money to get pathetically awful low grades that won't get me anywhere... What do you think? Any insight would be helpful.
Thank you in advance & please please be nice I'm very unstable & depressed right now...