Should I drop this class? Also, other concerns.
Hi. I am a Corporate Financial Management major.
As for the first matter of business, I need help deciding to drop this class. Allow me to explain.
Since my GPA was low, I was working hard to bring it up with the semesters I have left. I switched majors, suffered from financial hardship, worked, and had other troubles going on (won't go in to details, but I made a mistake, and I am learning from it.) Anyway, after working to pay for my tuition and other things going on, I crashed, burned and almost dropped out. Long story short, I decided I wanted to succeed, and really started trying to get good grades. Currently, I have a 2.8 accumulative, and I was coming off my strongest semester yet, with a 3.1 on the semester.
I started off this semester strong, and something happened. I didn't come out of vacation mode, lost motivation, and currently I am scheduled to talk to a counselor about my problems, and hopefully get back on track. Luckily, my first round of tests, I only failed one, calc.
Now keep in mind, I am taking 15 credit hours this semester, including a humanities class that has 4 credit hours, and an accounting class which is challenging. I failed my fist calc test, and I am having trouble keeping up. I could drop it, receive a WD on my trascript, (Never withdrew from a class.) and focus on my other classes, which are kinda difficult, especially accounting, and get good grades in those classes, as opposed to having 3 C's, because I poured all this time in to calc, because I stared off in the hole, only to get a C. I am trying to bring my GPA up, not be average, and in that class, I am not doing that well, and I am doing about average in my accounting class. It will put me behind slightly, but regardless, I have about 2.5 years until I graduate. I am also going through this funk, and I just think maybe I am taking too many classes. Any suggestions? I have not passed the WD date, I have about 2 weeks to decide.
On the other matter, I feel this immense pressure. I want to obviously graduate, and get a good job, but advisers and such make me feel like it's nearly impossible by my standards. According to them, I need to have at least a 3.0 GPA, I need to also join organizations, or else I might just be sitting on my ass with a degree because everyone looks at my low GPA and passes. No one cares that I am working my way through college, paying out of pocket to go, just that I need to achieve these accolades, or it's always going to be an uphill battle. This makes me feel like I am almost wasting my time. What's the point of working hard, at this point, my GPA may never be above 3.0. That's another reason I might drop this class, I can't afford to get a C.
Thoughts?
Posted Feb 25, 2016, 1:48 AM UTC