Failing First Quarter of Freshman Year

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<p>I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I study really hard completing the homework and continue to practice a bit more, but it seems to never be enough. For these past midterms, the grading have been severely hard. In my pre-calculus class, if I did the steps correctly on the midterm, I get partial points. But if I get a wrong number in a step, but continue to do it correctly, I won't get any points after that. Along with my first quarter of general chemistry, if I were to get an answer wrong on the multiple choice, I would lose 1 point. </p>

<p>Now, I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like a huge failure with these midterms that are less than the average, and I think it's too late to withdraw from them now. I'm wasting my parent's money and worried about my future. I was hoping to get out there in a scientific field and become something like a computer scientist or a pharmacist in order to repay that debt I owe and repay my parents, but now I feel like a complete failure. </p>

<p>Should I retake the classes again for the winter quarter...? Should I just drop out from the University of Washington and go into a local community college? I feel so horrible. My grades are going to look majorly bad this first quarter and I feel like I have let my parents down. I don't even know what to do anymore for the next quarter... I can't take a higher level math or chemistry class with a low G.P.A. that I might be getting soon... I still have finals coming up for the both of them, but I don't think I may be able to get 100%...</p>

<p>I commute from home, so getting help is pretty difficult when I have to take the bus back and forth, wasting my time which could be used for studying. I don't know what to tell my parents. They're strict, and they won't accept failure... especially when I have failed completely bad.</p>

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<p>You need to seek out the academic counseling at your school - you need to diagnose what’s going on. If you are studying very hard and your work ethic is good, then there’s something conceptually about these classes that is tripping you up. </p>

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<p>I’ll try :frowning: Though, I’m a bit nervous that I might not get the answer I need. When I think of counselors, I think of my high school counselors who weren’t as helpful as I thought. Sometimes I had an “awkward” quiet moment with my counselor and then I stopped going to my high school counselors later on.</p>

<p>I still did pretty good in high school though, I mainly went to them for academic help and suggestions, but they didn’t help me as much. Though I’ll try to go to my academic counselor.</p>

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<p>The academic counselors in college are different - for one, you are literally paying for that service, so you should take full advantage of that. I think that academic support programs are far more comprehensive and effective than high school academic support programs. </p>

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<p>Hey there, fellow Husky first-year here. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk. </p>

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<p>Alright. Well I scheduled an appointment with the adviser. Though, I’m a bit nervous about what to ask or say. I don’t know if I might be like the typical “I’m not doing well in classes student and not sure what to do from this moment,” and they might give the typical response. I feel like I might be asking for their help about resources and where I can go for help and how I can do better, and hopefully they’ll elaborate on it and give me some great advice.</p>

<p>What do I do when I first meet them? Would I just simply state out my problem?</p>

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<p>It is okay to start with “I’m not doing well in classes student and not sure what to do from this moment.”
Also be ready to tell them how you are studying, if you have gone to the professor’s office hours.
They will let you know what services are available to you.</p>