<p>I needed somewhere to type my frustration and share my despair.</p>
<p>Well, I'm finally done with Junior year. I can gladly say I worked my butt off and pushed myself studying, reading, doing homework, and just plain trying. Grades were sent a couple days ago and I'm still sad and frustrated at myself. </p>
<p>I don't know what went wrong. I tried so hard this semester and my grades went plummeting. I really tried so hard, and no matter how hard I try I end up with the same result. Everything is mounting up from pressure to get good grades to go to a good school to get a great career and start making money. My parents pressuring me to go to a great school, college apps looming, and I can't take it anymore.</p>
<p>It's just all too much. I feel stupid and useless while other kids are cruising through high school, worry free and get impeccable grades. I know I'm not dumb, but there seems to no use in trying. The more I try, the more it gets worse. </p>
<p>I'm disappointed in myself. I know I can do better, but it's too late. Junior year is over.
My ACT score was great, but my grades are just disappointing for myself, because I know I have more in me ... Whatever. Thanks for reading and I hope I'm not the only one out here.</p>
<p>/rant</p>
<p>I know how you feel. It seems like everyone on this forum has a 4.0 GPA and perfect SAT scores, when I have to work so hard for lower stats. My advice is just don’t give up! Think of second semester senior year, when college apps will be sent, no more standardized testing, and you finally get to enjoy school without the added pressure.</p>
<p>Mom here. First of all, junior year is traditionally the hardest year of high school, so don’t feel badly if your grades weren’t quite as good as other years. I’d be willing to bet that what’s “disappointing” to you, most kids would be very happy to get.</p>
<p>Secondly, the kids who post on CC are FAR from typical. Very few kids are “cruising through high school worry free and getting impeccable grades.” Among my own kids and nieces and nephews and all of their friends, I don’t know a single kid in real life like that. You say your ACT score is great, so you’re obviously smart and really, you’ll be fine. Everything will work out, and you’ll really, really be fine.</p>
<p>Take a deep breath, stop thinking about grades for a while, have some fun this summer and get some perspective. And stop reading the crazy threads on CC where kids are ready to jump off bridges because they got an A-, or a 2360 on their SATs. Those kids have more problems than they even know. Adulthood is not going to be easy for them.</p>
<p>But if you’re still feeling badly and “useless” after a few weeks, please talk to an adult about it; you might be seriously depressed.</p>
<p>Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. I should really stop poking my head through some of these threads where all I see are 4.3 UW and 2360 SAT. </p>
<p>I needed this thanks everyone. You don’t know how comforting those words are to me. You might have just made my day or maybe the rest of my high school career. </p>
<p>And thanks for mentioning second semester senior year. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry you feel that way, though I am sure you’re not stupid and certainly not useless! But in case it helps you to know, I was one of those kids with pretty excellent grades and it was not at all “worry free” for me, nor did I cruise through high school. Even if kids seem like it’s effortless for them to get good grades, for most of them I’m pretty sure that’s not true. Try not to beat yourself up over this. You are much more than your grades.</p>
<p>This makes me think of a “new graduate” calendar that somebody gave me when I got my first job out of college. The first page said “Rude Awakening Number One: Nobody cares what your GPA was.”</p>
<p>It’s true. Grades might seem important now, but in the long run, they just aren’t.</p>