Messed up severely first semester of college

[SneadAGs]

FUUUUUUU

I have no excuse for this, and I don't want sympathy. Before you pull the "you're wasting your parent's money" card, I'm paying for my own tuition with loans.

I fukked around all semester, mainly because I was so used to BSing my way through highschool. I drank every night, smoked weed almost as often. Damn it was fun. By midterms I realized things weren't working out so well but I continued to fukk around like a dumbass. I would seriously check my exam schedule just to find out that I had an exam the day before and the prof wouldn't let me make it up. I finished the semester with a .615 GPA (strong idiot is strong).

I check my student portal page this morning and feces gets authentic. I knew I had fukked up, but it didn't set in until I realized I had a "Former Student" tab on that page where it used to say "Student".

FUUUU

I'm not hopeless, it just really opened my eyes to the real world. A swift kick in the ass. I have grade exclusions that I can use to pull my GPA up a little bit, it'll bring it up to a 1.25, however I need a 2.0 to get into any major. I'll have to submit an appeal and hope they let me in. If not then I have officially failed out of Texas A&M in one semester..


Any other miscers have troubles/stories like this of their first semester of college?

[anonymous]

.615.... how the hell? I mean seriously OP, first semester how hard could it be haha? I could probably smoke and drink every night, never study, and still finish with atleast a 2.0.

Anyways though you dun goofed. You should just retake all your classes next semester. Texas A&M doesn't give you academic probation?

lol i ****ed up freshman year too but me ****ing up meant a cumulative 3.00 gpa.

[cmurray]

nope, i did awesome first year in college

[SneadAGs]

.615.... how the hell? I mean seriously OP, first semester how hard could it be haha? I could probably smoke and drink every night, never study, and still finish with atleast a 2.0.

Anyways though you dun goofed. You should just retake all your classes next semester. Texas A&M doesn't give you academic probation?

Yeah I failed pretty much everything. I could give an excuse for each class and try to justify it, but it's just a waste of time.

I'm going to retake a few of them, completely avoid a couple, and take an easy class here or there to help with my GPA. If, and I sincerely mean if, I get back into A&M next semester I will be on academic probation until my cumulative GPA is a 2.0. As far as I understand I have one semester to do it in too, so next semester I need ~3.0 to clean up all this bullshiit.

[JTraining]

"Drunk, fat and stupid is no way to go through life son"

"Consider yourself now on double secret probation"

I am dissapoint

[Enlightenment]

best thing to happen to you

don't waste 3 years of your life and lots of money for a worthless piece of paper

[anonymous]

Yeah I failed pretty much everything. I could give an excuse for each class and try to justify it, but it's just a waste of time.

I'm going to retake a few of them, completely avoid a couple, and take an easy class here or there to help with my GPA. If, and I sincerely mean if, I get back into A&M next semester I will be on academic probation until my cumulative GPA is a 2.0. As far as I understand I have one semester to do it in too, so next semester I need ~3.0 to clean up all this bullshiit.

set your sights high man. get as high of GPA as you can. You put yourself in a **** situation but you could still fix it. Also, idk about your school but at my school if you retake a class the previous grade you got in that class no longer counts towards your gpa. That could help you a lot.

[Pr3y]

Hey man ittl be ok. You need to understand that you ****ed up huge, and never let it happen again. Theres another way for you to get a major, you just gotta work smart, find it, and don't make the same mistake again.

[iDo5Kz]

I had to drop 1 class my first year but I passed all the others

[Lunchbox1989]

You mad I over studied for my exams and finished the semester with an 80?

[krott5333]

[SneadAGs]

best thing to happen to you

don't waste 3 years of your life and lots of money for a worthless piece of paper

This could damn well be the best thing to happen to me, however if I get back in it won't be a waste of my time and money.

I'm not getting a fukking geology degree. You get as much out of college as you put in. Slide by with a 2.0 in a geology degree and I'd end up a fukking geology teacher. Bust ass and get a solid engineering or business degree, intern, and it's not a waste of time.

[Bannister11]

.615

dude post a screenshot of your grades, will rep

[Volcomstone3784]

That is really messed up OP I'm sorry to hear but that is weird that they just drop you because most universities like mine put you on probation first before you can get dropped because everyone has a bad semester every now and then but you'll bounce back just focus and work hard

[Janzza]

experience > some piece of paper

[Lunchbox1989]

This could damn well be the best thing to happen to me, however if I get back in it won't be a waste of my time and money.

I'm not getting a fukking geology degree. You get as much out of college as you put in. Slide by with a 2.0 in a geology degree and I'd end up a fukking geology teacher. Bust ass and get a solid engineering or business degree, intern, and it's not a waste of time.

This. You made a mistake, but, you can obviously correct it. You realised you ****ed up, which, obviously, is the most important part. I ****ed up my first semester as well. To be honest, it scared me straight; the thought of my profs thinking I am an idiot provided great motivation to do better.

[tchalldaway]

You mad I over studied for my exams and finished the semester with an 80?

overstudied? lol all that hard work for a 80%.
learn to study *******

[Lunchbox1989]

experience > some piece of paper

Haha. I assume your not educated? You are retarded. Unless you wanna be a manager at a retail store, how do you acquire the skills to master your skill set?

[SneadAGs]

That is really messed up OP I'm sorry to hear but that is weird that they just drop you because most universities like mine put you on probation first before you can get dropped because everyone has a bad semester every now and then but you'll bounce back just focus and work hard

My grades were bad enough to fail out of my major (Economics) and not high enough to get into any major the school offers. I can appeal and pretty much interview to get back into a major, but if that doesn't go through I can't study at that university without a major.

Which would mean community college for me.

[Lunchbox1989]

overstudied? lol all that hard work for a 80%.
learn to study *******

Depends what classes bra.

[anonymous]

experience > some piece of paper

good luck getting that experience without that piece of paper or atleast while you're not pursuing it. I mean if you really wanna work your way up from the bottom but not everyone is even capable of that.

[SneadAGs]

This. You made a mistake, but, you can obviously correct it. You realised you ****ed up, which, obviously, is the most important part. I ****ed up my first semester as well. To be honest, it scared me straight; the thought of my profs thinking I am an idiot provided great motivation to do better.

I'm pretty much scared straight right now. If I get back in I'll definitely have an academics first mind set. It's not so much the thought of my profs thinking I'm an idiot that motivates me, but when my friends talk about how bad their semester was when they made a 2.8, it's just embarrassing as hell.

Seriously. A .615.

Who the fukk. Makes a fukking. .615.

That's just pathetic, and if I don't get back in next semester I really don't deserve to be there anyways.

[Lunchbox1989]

good luck getting that experience without that piece of paper or atleast while you're not pursuing it. I mean if you really wanna work your way up from the bottom but not everyone is even capable of that.

Once again, it depends what you wanna do. The majority of people who say that are those very people who were two retarded to get "that piece of paper".

[tchalldaway]

Depends what classes bra.

well.....what classes phgt, in b4 you r a political science student and love to write papers all day, *******ry.

[anonymous]

Once again, it depends what you wanna do. The majority of people who say that are those very people who were two retarded to get "that piece of paper".

haha thats what i meant pretty much. There's a rare few who can manage to get by on purely their intellectual genius but most can't and need a diploma. But ya I think a lot of people use that as an excuse.

[anonymous]

Also OP I like how you have the school you just flunked out of in your profile pic and sig lol.

[Lunchbox1989]

I'm pretty much scared straight right now. If I get back in I'll definitely have an academics first mind set. It's not so much the thought of my profs thinking I'm an idiot that motivates me, but when my friends talk about how bad their semester was when they made a 2.8, it's just embarrassing as hell.

Seriously. A .615.

Who the fukk. Makes a fukking. .615.

That's just pathetic, and if I don't get back in next semester I really don't deserve to be there anyways.

True. Turns out, partying and slacking isn't as cool as it was in highschool. With regards to your interview, just be honest. Don't be like, during the semester, all 8 of my Grandmas died before every exam.

[Gunin4twohunded]

I feel embarrassed FOR you.

[Dipman00]

.615 GPA and 140lbs

Damn you are a failure

[SneadAGs]

True. Turns out, partying and slacking isn't as cool as it was in highschool. With regards to your interview, just be honest. Don't be like, during the semester, all 8 of my Grandmas died before every exam.

I had no intentions of giving some bullshiit excuse. I'm gunna man up and just tell them exactly why I failed, and what my intentions are for next semester provided they keep me enrolled. If it's not good enough for them I belong else where.