In short, I’m on academic suspension Fall 2016 but planning to go back to school. Please give me advice.
If you’d like to know more:
I had a purpose crisis and felt unmotivated to go to school (If this sounds familiar, please help!). Despite that, I kept going to school and it hadn’t occurred to me that I’d been going to school for two years straight even during the summer.
On top of that, I’m having trouble paying for school. I got through my first two years of college by going to a local community college and was able to pay it for myself. I transferred to a good university but the downside is that it’s a little more expensive. Half burn-out and half unmotivated with no purpose or direction, I got my first academic suspension almost immediately after I transferred. I wasn’t informed about overloading until after I was drowning in so many courses that didn’t interest me.
With hopes that someone out there can give me real constructive advice or if anyone has somehow gone through something similar (and survived), please answer these questions:
I've got all my cores or prerequisites finished and according to an advisor it's difficult to lift my GPA because I'd have to keep taking courses towards a major I realized I'm not remotely interested in. However, I can't change majors until I'm above academic probation. Is there anyway I can change my major with my GPA below 2.0? Should I just take random courses? (Do they realize that people pay for these courses?)
Any advice on making money or how you got to pay for tuition for a semester, while I have time to make money? What is the most convenient job, as a student, that I can be committed to?
Feel free to make me feel badly about myself. I probably need it, but I’d appreciate it more if you had something helpful to say.
That sounds like a foolish rule. And it sounds like you aren’t quite sure of it. I would check that perception with a person in the Registrar’s Office and/or the general catalog. If someone is having a lot of trouble with a path, letting them try an easier path makes sense.
What is your major?
You’ve taken some courses, I presume with some breadth in them. Does ANYTHING in (or out of) academics interest you?
@jjwinkle
Unfortunately, it’s a true rule and I’d have to bring up my GPA to a 2.0 which is above academic probation before I can even consider changing majors.
I get what you mean about taking some courses that at least interest me, that’s true… I guess I just felt like I had no more options.
Perhaps, the smart thing to do would be to take classes in the major of my choice and once I’ve lifted my GPA enough talk to a advisor to declare different major?
@Maz12
Yeah, I guess I’ll just have to take out student loans, as I’m not eligible for many scholarships and I’m interviewing for a higher paying part-time job. Unfortunately, I don’t think I want to change schools because I have a kind of dedication to this one that accepted me. I just want to represent but I messed up badly but appreciate the suggestion.
Purpose? No you need to find your passion. I am not a fan of math, but I hate seeing trash everywhere from littering, bodies of water suffocated from the putrid that has been forced upon it, and a lot of other things. So that is why I decided to pursue a degree in environmental engineering. Because I know, that with that degree I can make a difference every single day. So I have to put myself through an enormous amount of math classes and other very difficult or even maybe boring classes.
Find your passion. I would not recommend you continue to take classes and waste money until you are more sure with yourself. As far as raising GPA I would still hold off. At the end of the day it should be about efficiency if you want a specific degree. It’s not efficient to take a bunch a classes to raise GPA, which you are paying for either out of pocket or loans, and then have to end up taking more classes when you finally figure out what you want to do with your life.
Take some time off, work, save money, make a plan. If that’s not an option then I would take math and science classes, and maybe throw in a little sociology, or business management.
Who knows, school might not be for you.
Or maybe you’re an artiest
In any case, good luck with your adventures in Life.