<p>This is so unfortunate but I didn't pass like my 2nd class now at berkeley. And it's the reason I chose to double major. It wasn't my fault, the professor was just horrible and my friend felt the same as well but she ended up passing. : [ Is there anything I can do? </p>
<p>this is my SECOND grade below a C. I think I'm ruined if I ever want to use my degree for grad school or future endeavors. f.ck. i hate this wt.f</p>
<p>Party less next semester.</p>
<p>It’s not because of the partying. This school just sucks.</p>
<p>But I love Berkeley!</p>
<p>Change your study habits, or study more; I’ve noticed that people will often tell you that they don’t do s<strong><em>, but they’re liars and/or insecure people. You just need to sit the f</em></strong> down, pull out your book and start thinking. I find myself thinking about 3x times as much as I actually do any of the work I have (or I go to OH). You don’t move on until you understand well enough each concept and if it takes more than, say, 2 hours to understand something, just go to OH. When you do better, you will do better in general (psychologically).</p>
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<p>+1 blahblah, truer words have never been spoken.</p>
<p>Also read my rants in previous threads on studying smart instead of just studying hard, optimal learning, etc.</p>
<p>Idk why I came to college. Actually I do. but I just keep forgetting lol god i hate the academics here. i want to drop out but still like be with my friends here and be a part of clubs. i wish it could be like that.</p>
<p>Um, well, as the point of college is. You know, school, that’s quite unlikely.</p>
<p>If you do feel Cal is too hard for you though, you -can- drop out, go to a community college, and then transfer somewhere you may like more later. (And no, community college is not horrible, I went to community college and if you look up good teachers you can have amazing classes.) Though, the same is true for Cal- just look up the teachers on ratemyprofessor beforehand, it’s not a 100 percent accurate summary but it’s a good start.</p>
<p>Also, you should probably drop one of your majors and just make it a minor, since obviously the coursework is too much for you :/</p>
<p>if you don’t like berkeley you will hate community college dude. ccc’s have no money and plenty of crazy incompetent administrators. they have almost no classes, and no one cares if you attended one or not. </p>
<p>if you hate the school, that is why you are getting bad grades. teachers will pick up on that immediately. find programs you like, and stick to those classes. if you can’t find ANYTHING that you like at Cal, you are going to be miserable at another school dude. berkeley has so many more cool classes and programs than other schools. if you like music, study music. if you like science, study science. if you like art, study art. just study something you like. don’t drop out of Cal. just get through it and do whatever you want later after you graduate. good luck dude.</p>
<p>I don’t actually hate it haha I really love it and it’s the best place I’ve ever been at in my life (emotionally too : ] ) but I hate the academic part of it and the way they grade. that’s all. Anyway, I need to figure stuff out quickly.</p>
<p>I’ve taken CC classes as well. And it’s not so bad, the environment for me at CC is better because I feel like everyone is just thriving here except me and then i get discouraged lol </p>
<p>and yeah i usually use those professor websites but i got effed over in this one class and i really wish i had dropped it.</p>
<p>It’s better to have a D/F so you can retake it. Having so many Cs can drag your GPA down!</p>
<p>Nearly all colleges emphasize the academic part and they pretty much grade like UC Berkeley. Also, I am sure that there is not a college or university in the country that does not have its share of horrible professors who somehow got hired and then somehow got tenure. You are certain to run into at least one during four years of college, all of us have, and you just have to make the best of the situation.</p>
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<p>I see this as an attitude problem. Whenever you don’t pass a class, it falls into a few scenarios:</p>
<p>1.) You did not perform up to the academic standards of the class.
2.) Professor was grading too harshly/unfairly.
3.) Life circumstances interfered.</p>
<p>For #1, it’s your fault for taking a class that’s too difficult (and not dropping) or not studying enough. For #2, which is a very rare case, that’s what the dean is for. For #3, it still makes sense to retake the class since you didn’t really learn all the material due to the interference; you can probably get a W if the effect on GPA was truly bad.</p>
<p>I’ve failed two classes in my four years, retook them, and still graduated on time with both a major + minor. It’s OK to fail a class. Just understand what happened and do what’s necessary to remedy it. This may even include a change of plans, such as changing majors or even dropping out of college.</p>
<p>Hi excel, did failing the course make it difficult for you to apply to any internship/jobs/grade school? I didn’t so well my first semester, but I’ve straighten things out and managed a close 3.8 GPA this semester. Will internships/grad school take into consideration of improvement? Or do they not care and toss your application aside b/c of a failed class :/? Thanks!</p>
<p>If you really want an internship, get a girlfriend whose parents or relatives work in a company or the industry that you’re interested in and it’s a done deal.</p>
<p>I’m really not kidding about what I just said since getting internships through connections is indeed much more common than brute-force applying and interviewing.</p>
<p>^I’ve heard many people say that and it’s true.</p>
<p>But as a word of encouragement for people who don’t have connections, I got an summer internship after my freshman year with only a 3.25 GPA at the time (EECS major so the major might matter since software jobs are quite plentiful)</p>
<p>But I have heard that business majors have a ton of competition for internships and connections play a large role in many of them finding internships.</p>
<p>The world is much less opportunistic place outside of EECS for a regular joe… even for other engineering majors.</p>
<p>wow thanks for all the advice everyone!</p>
<p>@pixel, if you don’t mind doing an unpaid internship, then that can be fairly easy to get. Or use berkeley’s internship program over the summer, i think that’s guarenteed if u have over a 2.0 I believe.</p>
<p>That being said, do most people get PAID Internships?? cus i’m doing an unpaid one right now and my friend is making bank at hers. I just did it for the resume but if there are other ways, i’d much rather do that.</p>
<p>Also, WOW IM SO GLAD U TOLD US THAT EXCELBLUE. lol did u go to grad school or did u just work afterwards? I might continue and I don’t know if i’ll get into a grad school with my horrible science grades.</p>
<p>Also, is a class from List A required on here? it doesn’t say so for the human bio track but is it a typo…? [FAQ</a> | Curriculum](<a href=“http://ib.berkeley.edu/undergrad/major/faq.php]FAQ”>IB Major FAQ | Integrative Biology)</p>
<p>@Berkle, really? There’s a guranteed program for internships?</p>
<p>Yeah! Of course! Haha here’s the site: [Global</a> Internships Program | Berkeley Summer Sessions](<a href=“http://summer.berkeley.edu/globalinternships]Global”>Berkeley Global Internships | UCB Study Abroad)</p>
<p>but I guess the catch is you have to pay for it…but if money isn’t a problem, then go for it. Also another catch haha is that there’s an online course portion to it (which also kinda brought my gpa down cus im dumb and didn’t put in the effort that I should’ve but it’s almost an easy A i would say.</p>