<p>i'm currently attending harpur school and i decided i'd start my college year with a light workload of just 3 classes. I was always a bit lazy in high school so I thought giving myself a lighter workload was the right way to go about it.. turns out it just made me lazier as i found myself not going to classes and skipping even test dates. As it turns out i got what i deserved, a .900 gpa for my first semester.</p>
<p>Yes! i know it's horrible
yes! i'm pretty much screwed...</p>
<p>There are a few things that you should probably know about me before saying it's completely impossible though.</p>
<p>without studying at all in high school i managed to get a 2150 on the SAT and a 33 on the ACT. (primarily the reason why binghamton accepted me because my gpa in high school was crap) so it's not like i'm completely retarded and that that was what was causing my horrible gpa but rather because i'm borderline retarded when it comes to punctuality.</p>
<p>what i want to know is... i guess...</p>
<p>1) should i stay in school or go to a community college considering i can at least get a 3.5 gpa which i'm pretty confident about getting.
2)will this decision effect my potential resume considering i can consistently get 3.5 gpa's from this point on?</p>
<p>explanations and sources are appreciated
one word "***?!" posts are not lol</p>
<p>btw i can stay in school as long as my cumulative gpa is above 2.0 so don't worry lol</p>
<p>Your success (or failure) with either plan will be determined by your actions.</p>
<p>Be honest with yourself. Are you disciplined enough at this point in time to put in the effort to succeed at Binghamton? If not, perhaps you should consider attending Community College for a couple of semesters in order to give you time to mature and bring up your gpa. </p>
<p>You obviously have natural intellect. However, it’ll go to waste unless you add to that ability some discipline, effort, and responsibility in applying the knowledge.</p>
<p>You need to decide which path you want to take.</p>
<p>thanks for replying but i was looking for something a little bit more specific to my problem. My parents have already inquired about all the topics you have brought up and I can confidently say that I can in fact bring my gpa up at least this much. When I said punctuality was my fault I really REALLY meant it was a fault seeing as how I only attended classes on test days and quiz days. I took the laziness bit a little too far I know lol.</p>
<p>but I really was looking for the answers to the two points i brought up if not mostly my 2nd question. I don’t really know how resumes and stuff work so I’m asking if going to a community college first will start me off on a clean slate or if none of that really matters so long as I show in binghamton that I must’ve just been absent my entire freshman year.</p>
<p>If you can manage a substantial upswing in your gpa from this point forward, this one flop of a semester shouldn’t hurt you too badly.</p>
<p>If you really feel that you’re ready to move on from here, buckle down, and earn a solid gpa at Binghamton, you might as well give it a shot. Go back to Binghamton for the Spring semester and use this as an opportunity to prove to yourself (and everyone else) that you deserve to be there. If you mess up the Spring semester, then go back home and continue at Community College.</p>
<p>This one bad semester will not destroy you. Just don’t let it happen again. :)</p>
<p>I say drop out and go to community college. You were too lazy to handle a light load of three classes first semester… The tougher course loads you would have in later semester will make you want to miss class and tests even more, since it will sometimes be so stressful and exhausting. </p>
<p>This will, without a doubt, affect your resume. A 0.9 is egregious. </p>
<p>My suggestion would be to talk to a Harpur advisor and get their opinion on the situation. They can probably offer you sound advice about your resume and the best decision for you at this point.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is your grades follow you for the rest of your life. Community college classes are just as straining as 4 year college classes given they are accredited by the same institutions. If you transfer your GPA will be whipped out and the only thing counted (if you got > C) is the credit itself. So if your not interested in going to graduate school then yeah, go to community college, do what you need to do and transfer back in.</p>
<p>If you do want to continue on, graduate schools (law, med and everything in between) will look at every single class from day one. For this reason if you are looking to attend a graduate school at some point I would drop out, get the partying and laziness out of you (I had to take a break until I was ready) so you can hit the floor running. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you have to be in school right now, just make sure you have a proper plan. Sometimes the best thing you can do in university is take a break.</p>
<p>I am wondering if anyone can give me some insight as to what I should do about my son, who is failing second semester freshman year at U Mass. He got a 2.8 first semester, but then told us of some pretty severe psychological problems that he said he’s had most of his life. He was hospitalized over Christmas break, put on medication and said he feels better. He has severe insomnia and medication doesn’t work for that. Because of the insomnia and laziness, he has missed a ton of second semester. He had to withdraw from one class and is probably failing another. Not sure whether I should have him take 2 online classes to catch up over summer, and I’m not sure if he should go back to college in the fall. His girlfriend will be a freshman at the same college next year, so I know he wants to keep going. I think they’ll let him back if he gets good grades in the summer classes. I am just worried that he’s going to keep failing and I’m co-signing all of these loans. Any advice?
Worried Mom</p>
<p>cmben – i’m not sure why you posted this in the binghamton forum. if you post it in the parents’ forum you are likely to get helpful advice. good luck to you and your son.</p>
<p>Yeah, wrong place for the post. What I can say is your son needs to take time off school. Just being honest, it is not his money to waste. I feel bad for anyone with a sleep disorder but at the end of the day college calls for a mature attitude to succeed and these grades will follow him for the rest of his life. I think personally if it was me or a relative of mine doing something similar, I know from first hand experience it would be best for them to take a break, not only for themselves but for the rest of the family as well.</p>
<p>There is no shame in taking a year off. Especially when you can start again new with a fresh attitude and actually accomplish what you need to, opposed to ruining your potential for graduate school or a strong career out of college.</p>