I think I screwed up...

College Life
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<p>This semester I decided to drop an elective I dislike (Introduction to Ceramics). I didn't go to the advising center to drop the course right away, but stopped attending class after the first week. The class meets weekly for a 4 hour session and I've missed 3 classes so far. Yesterday I finally went to fill out the form to drop it, but the advisor told me my scholarship requires at least 16 credits a semester and without ceramics I only have 14! It's too late to add another class, so now I can't drop ceramics. But I haven't gone to class or started any projects or handed work in. We're required to visit art galleries and write papers and I didn't do that either. Now I'm probably going to get a D in freaking ceramics! I'm a biochemistry major so ceramics is irrelevant, but the advisor kept babbling about how graduate and professional schools would care and I need to keep a 3.3 (B+) GPA each semester for my scholarship. </p>

<p>Now what? :( I don't think the professor will appreciate my sob story.</p>

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<p>all you can really do at this point is try to talk to the professor and sound convincing. try to make a deal to at least get a passing grade.</p>

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<p>Would you be able to change to a Pass/Fail grading scale?</p>

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<p>The audit deadline is usually later than the pass/fail.</p>

<p>If the pass/fail deadline passed (or not offered), see if you can designate the course as an audited class (where you only attend for credit). You won’t get a grade and you will get credit for the class.</p>