(If this thread is in the improper section a mod can feel free to move it. It’s my first post here so please excuse me if it seems a bit rambling.)
I’m a Sophomore English major with a concentration in creative writing. I attend a commuter school (not a community college) and commute a total of probably 20 hours a week from my current place of residence (the circumstances behind this I’ll touch upon shortly). Basically, I expect that realistically I’m going to flunk this semester. I’ve had pretty good grades in the past (throughout middle and high school, and freshman year as well); in the unusual instance in which I got something below a B minus it was always a C plus. My GPA as of the end of last year was something around a 2.8. I was hoping to get it up to at least a 3 by the end of the semester. Looks like I’m gonna have to defer that a bit. However, there were a number of extra-curricular factors that seriously infringed upon my ability to deliver my assignments (even attend classes some days) this semester and I guess it all kinda accumulated in a sort of snowball effect.
Right off the bat I was off to a pretty bad start. I was kicked out of my previous home (I was living with my grandmother) two weeks prior to when classes started and most of the first couple weeks of the school year were devoted to me moving my stuff into my dad’s house. I didn’t have any time to get any accommodations or check in with professors. Furthermore, a lot of petty, dramatic family drama bullshit was perpetuated which I don’t really care to get into; this is already beginning to sound like a sob story and for that I apologize. Needless to say, all these factors coinciding make up the current situation I’m in.
To be fair, a big part of this shit was my doing. People have said that I’m very knowledgeable (not to toot my own horn here) but I’ve noticed that I’m, for lack of better words, a lazy fuck (a lot of the time). I’m looking to overcome it and push myself and seek out resources so that next semester will run more smoothly. I’ll admit that I probably have an executive functioning issue, which was sort of aggravated by all the circumstances that went down this semester. I’ve emailed professors and all that but anything I do at this point will not make me pass. I’m not trying to sound all defeatist so much as just being realistic.
I have a huge number of concerns that are spinning around in my head, and proposed “solutions” (more like damage control at this point). I’m primarily concerned with how my failure is going to affect my standing with the university. I’ve been told that my financial aid will be severed (how so?) and that usually people are put on what’s called academic probation. Will I be able to even continue at that university? How do I breach the issue with dad, if at all? He’s gonna be infuriated!
As for my ideas, I’ve considered things ranging from transferring schools to taking next semester off to picking up Aderall to help me break through my admittedly horrendous study habits. I’m not really sure what to do at this point. I’m kinda stuck, to put it lightly.
I would like to apologize if this post was rambling, long-winded and / or boring. I feel as if it necessary give out all the context and background necessary to fully describe what’s going on. Also please forgive me if I sound oblivious with regard to some of the resources and stuff that most college people take for granted. I find that I’m often the last to know about stuff that other people were informed of, but that’s me whining again.
If you guys can make sense of this and offer me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks all.