The End of the Semester Blues!!!!!!

See one thing is for sure all college students are happy that the semester is coming to an end, but what about those students that haven’t don so well!?!? Although it has been a truly great semester for me, I have heard people I know say all too many times that they are failing a class, and desperately want to drop a course. Well, what do they do in cases such as these, when they are trying hard not to affect their GPA?

First off, I don’t know what the school would suggest for them to do, but I know what I wouldn’t do in a case like this. I wouldn’t drop out for sure, because we will have our bad and good semesters. I wouldn’t take more then one extremely difficult class at a time, and I would try to take classes that I enjoy as well as those that are necessary; the point of electives. As someone that allowed her advisor to tell her to drop the semester, I would definitely not rely on one suggestion, even if it is from someone who is supposed to be helping you; unfortunately a job is just a job to some, and your well being is of no real concern!

See if you could work it out, ask your advisor (if worthy), or see another advisor and have them tally up your anticipated grades and see what your GPA for the semester may be. That way you can see if it would hurt you really bad, or if you would have the opportunity to salvage your GPA in the upcoming semester. Sometimes we freak out unnecessarily, and we are not rational when our heads are turning in every which direction. Now, this is coming from someone who has been there and done that. I have had the advisor that told me to quit and now I have the advisor that has my best interest at heart. So before you give up, and take the worst way out, whether it be dropping the class or dropping out – remember that for every person that will screw you over there are two people who won’t!!!!!!!