Its sad, it really is.
-I admit I was a little harsh, but it just blows my mind how people can waste such a good opportunity at an education. Just pissing all that money down the drain. Do you think if the $10,000 you are spending was right in front of you disappearing everyday you sat you lazy ass in bed that you would have gotten up out of bed and gone?
just tell them the reason you didn't go to class .. the truth no depression excuse because that may land you in a counselor's office. If it is your first semester of College say that you will find that the proffessor is more human then you may think. Trust me, they probabley went to college and were under the same pressure as you. and the excuse about being addicted to online poker/sports betting and the bribery may get him in trouble expeled or worse yet police intervention/counseling
not as big of a deal as you might think, just talk to your advisor tell the truth on why you did not go or some story about the pressure you felt like you were under most professors will let you do some last min ec and take the finals and maybe pass with a 70-75 D or C grade at least thats what my roomate got away with 2 years ago
You sound like a fucking asshole. In fact, many times you sound like you are an asshole.
Know what your problem with this post is? You suffer from the fundamental attribution error. If someone does something wrong or makes a mistake in life, you automatically attribute it to the person, as if that is the only reason the mistakes happen, it's always the persons fault. How about maybe considering the situation? Maybe he's going through some tough shit?
Naaaaaaa, instead Kruser needs to jump in here and tell the guy to kill himself and what a loser and bla bla bla. Asshole.
And in a second post to address the original posters questions...
It's really not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be. I concur with most everyone else that says you need to man up and go talk to your profs IN PERSON, none of that e-mail stuff. This will be a good life lesson for you to have to face the music and take the heat. Don't lie like all these other people are telling you to do, just be honest with them and see if there is any way you can get out of the semester with a 2.0.
Chances are you won't be able to, not a huge deal you only messed up 1 semester of college, you wouldn't believe how many people have done the same thing as you and turned everything around. The next important thing to do is WITHDRAW before the withdrawal deadline, like someone else said instead of having all F's you will have all W's which is much much much better. Whenever someone is looking back on your transcripts you can say that is was just a tough semester for you for personal reasons instead of trying to explain why you got all F's.
good luck, but seriously, man up.
It's really not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be. I concur with most everyone else that says you need to man up and go talk to your profs IN PERSON, none of that e-mail stuff. This will be a good life lesson for you to have to face the music and take the heat. Don't lie like all these other people are telling you to do, just be honest with them and see if there is any way you can get out of the semester with a 2.0.
Chances are you won't be able to, not a huge deal you only messed up 1 semester of college, you wouldn't believe how many people have done the same thing as you and turned everything around. The next important thing to do is WITHDRAW before the withdrawal deadline, like someone else said instead of having all F's you will have all W's which is much much much better. Whenever someone is looking back on your transcripts you can say that is was just a tough semester for you for personal reasons instead of trying to explain why you got all F's.
good luck, but seriously, man up.
I'm not sure if this is like your school, but if we get a D here, the only thing we can do with it is retake the course and then average the second grade with the D. If you're in the D range, I'd recommend failing the class on purpose so when you take it a second time, you can just get a whole new grade for the class. Then again, not every school does this but just suggesting if yours does.
Yea, it hurts your pocket, but the GPA barely recovers from D's if you're looking for graduate school. And the best you can do a 2nd time is a C+.
Yea, it hurts your pocket, but the GPA barely recovers from D's if you're looking for graduate school. And the best you can do a 2nd time is a C+.
Dude, this is a fucking internet posting forum. . .I could really care less what the fuck you say about me for real. As I said after I made the post that what I said was harsh and a little uncalled for, but it still doens't change the way I feel about this shit.
Are you serious right now that you are sticking up for a kid who is throwing away a great opportunity to get an education and make something of himself? I have seen this a ton of times with different students, I know of may 1 per 10 that actually end up finishing school and they finish it with GPAs of 2.0's. Just pissing money straight down their leg. Its pathetic to not be able to motivate yourself enough to do just a little hardwork to acheive a goal.
Sorry I have no sympathy for people like this, and personally I don't see how anyone else could either.
Kruser - this isn't 1935. Everyone can get an education now if they want to. College tuition with instate for a FULL TIME student is around $1500 dollars. Pop on another $500 for books. If you can't afford that straight up they have payment plans and student loans.
If you can't afford or don't have time to be a FT student you can go part time at a commuity college. Work days, a couple classes at night or weekend classes, you can pop in 9 credits a sememster and w/ summer semester you'll have a BA in 5 years.
Then theres online classes. Every college you can sign up and do your classes online in your free time. I'm not talking University of Pheonix bullshit, I'm talking great schools.
However, if you're paying straight up and a student out of state like my sister did you're up your ass at a school like NYU blowing 20 grand for 5 months that's your choice.
Anyone who says they can't get a degree now a days is LAZY. SIMPLE AS THAT.
This guy fucked up, this isn't a new story. This happens to I'd say at least 10% of college students. If you can't catch up, I'd tell your parents, chaulk it up as a loss and get prepared to work your ass off this summer in your classes. You can make a semester up. if you can't afford it at your regular college, hit it up at CC and then transfer your credits back over. You also sound like a student who would be better served going to CC anyways as you can live at home and your parents will make sure you get to class and there is less distraction then the dorm room living (TRUST ME, I KNOW ALL ABOUT LIVING ON CAMPUS).
States such as Florida it's auto transfer after you get your AA to a state school like FSU UCF USF UF ETC ETC ETC, I'm sure it's the same in other states.
1. Make an appointment with shrink.
2. Tell them you can't get out of bed, sleep all day, can't eat, thoughts of death. Cry a lot at appointment.
3. Get note from said shrink when you are diagnosed with depressive disorder.
4. Take note to professors.
5. Get "Incomplete" grade in courses and make arrangements to make up work within next several months.
2. Tell them you can't get out of bed, sleep all day, can't eat, thoughts of death. Cry a lot at appointment.
3. Get note from said shrink when you are diagnosed with depressive disorder.
4. Take note to professors.
5. Get "Incomplete" grade in courses and make arrangements to make up work within next several months.
this guy i know thorton melon once sent his secratary marge sweetwater to his economics class to take notes....and he ended missing alot of classes and he had to take a huge test from all his classes to prove he acually learned what was taught....he also ended up snapping his college's diving team losing streak by doing a very dificult/impossible dive named the triple lindy.;...oh yeah and he kurt vonager to do his astrony term paper....it all worked out for him....
