Feeling hopeless about college

Student Lounge College Life
1

<p>Hi my name is Dan, this is my first post, so bear with me please.</p>

<p>I just got kicked out of my community college Aging, Dying And Death class for having too many absences. This semester I'm taking 12 credit hours, which is now 6 because of the two classes I have dropped because of a few reasons. </p>

<p>With my other class, I just stopped going because it is once a week and there is a quiz every week. I missed one class, and ended up just not going to any because I knew there was going to be a quiz that week which led to a chain reaction of me feeling like I shouldn't attend. Needless to say I dropped both of those classes.</p>

<p>My community college GPA is awful, and thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach. I have withdrawn from more classes than I have finished. I screwed up my first semester with 3 F's and a C, and then decided to take a semester off. I went back the next semesters and pulled a 3.1, which is good by my standards. I then took a summer class where I ended up not caring and received 2 F's for the classes I was taking. </p>

<p>Now to the current, I am currently taking 6 credit hours, where I know I am doing decent in both classes. I know I can come back from 5 F's and 4 W's, because I've heard stories about doing it before. I know I need to buckle down and I need a reality check ASAP, because all of this money is going to waste. I just cannot find the motivation. I feel like being at a community college is a waste of time, therefore I end up not putting in much effort and screwing myself over. Please, someone help give me a reality check before I screw up even more. Please.</p>

2

<p>I’ll be honest: this post seems like another ■■■■■.</p>

<p>However, in the unlikely case that you aren’t trolling, seek a counselor.</p>

3

<p>1) I agree with ‘seek a counselor’</p>

<p>2) even cheaper and in fact more profitable: work a crappy minimum wage job for a few months, one that only requires a GED. you’ll hopefully see why you want college/vocational education.</p>

<p>3) try to at least do well in the classes you’re still taking.</p>

4

<p>Rio bravo makes a good point, but heres a better one. YOu want a real way to wake up and smell the flowers? Go out and find a true and through MANUAL LABOR job. Roofing, landscaping heck try ditch digging. More so during the summer months to get the real feeling of work. Its a world you will never know if you get an education. </p>

<p>Also, if you are so un focused and un happy with Community college, then why even go or enroll? Your parents make you? You know its the right thing but cant mustard the balls to pass?</p>

<p>Buck up soldier, or get used to roofing in July, or ditch digging in August.</p>