<p>New reader here needing some advice.. I went to a private school all my life and graduated from there as well. Everything felt easy, as I breezed through all my classes without a lick of studying. Definitely was overconfident about everything, and this carried for quite a while, even into my college years. I applied to all the good colleges around the area and got into UCI with a 3.8~ GPA out of high school in 2008. Could have done a lot better if I had studied, but that's beside the point. Again, I breezed through a quarter of my freshman year, feeling like college was gonna be a breeze once again. But of course it got progressively harder and I dug myself deeper and deeper into a hole, and by the time winter quarter of sophomore year hit, I was looking at a 2.4 GPA, on probation, ready to be kicked out of the engineering college. Halfway through that Winter Quarter, I was already failing most of my classes by just not attending. Advised by a counselor there, I withdrew and decided to step it up at a CC. But when I went to a CC, my attitude persisted and I still slacked off and withdrew from/failed most of my classes. Now, with this awful record, I want to start fresh.. Not exactly possible when your record is this blemished, but I want to try. Gonna try to make an appointment with counselors as much as I can within the next few months, but I would like some preliminary advice from those who are willing to give it. I want to reapply this fall if at all possible. Anybody who was stuck in a similar situation with some words of guidance I would greatly appreciate. As of now, I am working as a pharmacy technician and ultimately, my goal is to go to pharmacy school.</p>
<p>I'm new here so I don't really know where I'd post this, but I'm sure people on here are receptive enough.</p>
<p>Thank you all in advance!</p>