Hello guys, I have a pretty HUGE problem. Im currently enrolled at Hofstra University and am a freshmen. We finished our first semester about a month ago and my GPA was finally released; I received a 0.66. I am not kidding, I honestly wish I was. Throughout high school I was always the smart kid, had a lot of honors and AP classes and had no problem with theme whatsoever, I graduated High School with a 3.6 GPA and felt well prepared for college. Mind you I live in a pretty strict house where I barely went out during the weekends to go party with friends who held parties and such. As soon as my parents left the school on move in day, freedom was around me, I was surprised at the fact that I could sleep whenever i wanted to, Do whatever I wanted to, etc. I now realize that the whole freedom that college has given me got to my head pretty heavily and I came in with a disappointing attitude and have realized my mistake and plan to come in even harder this next semester coming up. I don’t know I feel very doomed at this point that my GPA won’t be up there as it was in High School for me. Any suggestions ?
I would suggest to meet with your academic advisors and come up with a plan…time to learn how to balance real life adulting and school… good luck…
Seek counseling because if you don’t grow up you will be kicked out of Hofstra at the end of this semester.
Many students have a slump first semester due to the freedom but a 0.66 GPA indicates that you went off the deep end.
well you already wrecked tons of opportunities unless you can somehow get the college to take this semester off your gpa. Say you were mentally ill or something.
I recommend reading this page, starting with the dismissal heading - https://bulletin.hofstra.edu/content.php?catoid=53&navoid=3090 You are up against the wall here. This semester’s GPA will need to come up to at least a 2.0, possibly higher, to avoid being dismissed from the university at the end of this semester. Talk to your advisor asap.
I would talk to your academic advisor and I would seek out counseling.
All you can do now is work hard, re-prioritize your life and start to move that GPA up.
Will do, I decided to lay back a little this semester and take a bit more easier classes so that I can hopefully get straight A’s on
The good news is that 1) you have the aptitude to do well in college and 2) you also realize that you screwed up pretty badly due to your lack of self-discipline. So there’s hope.
Your problem is not easy/hard classes, but self-discipline. You have to make it very clear to yourself that if you don’t ditch whatever is getting in the way of your studies and start managing your time properly, you’ll regret it in a big way later. Set yourself a strict schedule, focus, drop any “friends” who are just wanting to “hang out” instead of study, and come back with vengeance. Find a buddy/friend who will get on your case. You’ve still got a shot, which is great! But don’t mess it up. You’re not a failure. You just fell down and now you’re going to get back up and run like hell to the finish line.
Make sure you’ve done the math and you know how many credits you need to take this semester and how many As you’ll need to get your GPA above 2.0 and stay in school, so there are no surprises come the end of the spring semester. Make a plan and stick to it.
Don’t blow off ANY assignment, quiz, test, etc. Absolutely every point counts for you from now on. You can’t afford to just get through a class or just miss getting the next higher grade. At the first sign of problems in a class, get help - don’t wait and hope it gets better. Agree with above, you have the ability but not the self-discipline yet. Sounds like you realize you’ve dug yourself a big hole, just realize it’s going to take longer to get out of it than it took to get in it.
Good luck
Wait - I just did the math on the .66. Could you clarify - did you do well in say 1 class and flunk the rest or were they all D/F ? Something to consider is that those classes are pretty much all going to need to be retaken in order to get credit for them. What is your school’s policy on how grades work in a class that’s being retaken? Figure out how that’s going to work when you play with numbers to get you to the 2.0 threshold to not only stay in school this year but in the future.
Being an adult is a double edged sword. You have freedom and choices you never had. But when you select those choices they all come with some type of consequence and outcome. It looks like you did not choose well.
Make different choices. Treat college like a job. Leave your dorm for the day and don’t come back until after dinner. In between classes find a place to study or to get your work done.
Choose one day of the week to allow yourself to go to parties or socialize and protect the other days. Choose one day of the week to take care of personal things–Dr’s appointments, laundry, cleaning your room. And so on and so on.
Guarding and blocking off your time to get things done actually gives you MORE freedom and more time. Be deliberate with your planning and studying-passing grades are not an incidental thing.
You were laid back in the fall semester to the point of unconsciousness, sounds like you are heading for more failure.
There is no way you did not know you were failing all of your classes over the course of your first semester. Tests, quizzes, home work assignments, etc. - you had some interim warnings. If you did not set up meetings with academic counselors prior to winter break, take every available moment now to do so.
At this point, see if you can still drop any failed classes and retake them another time. And consider - maybe you need to change your major focus. While your first year classes are likely core curriculum, take a look and see if lack of interest or specific course difficulty is contributing to this.
Not sure how you spent your time, but it seems the partying atmosphere got a hold of you. At this point, you need to go cold turkey and lay off the “fun stuff”, and like a previous poster said, treat this like a job going forward. Don’t blow it again.