<p>What's up CC? I sure as hell never thought I would be signing up to a forum about academics but here I am! This is my inaugural post and I do not want to waste any time here. On to the topic! I have a craptacular GPA of 1.9504534595843584357 unweighted and 2.03545435453 weighted, obviously I'm not heading for any Ivy league school. Now let me start off by saying that I'm definitely more than capable of a 3.0 GPA, in fact, I have better test scores than most of those darn kids with 3.5's. </p>
<p>I guess during my early years I was demotivated with academics. My mother is an RN (Registered) and works three jobs to barely maintain this 2 room apartment. She was a straight-A student all through her career, even in college. Needless to say, school for 15 year old Brian seemed like a waste of time.</p>
<p>After a while I realized that education is a privilege and I should take advantage of it. The only thing was that "after a while" really meant the last two years of my college. Oops. So I am now recovering English 1 & 2, being quite disgusted with how easy the class was and how lazy I was actually being in 9th grade. I'm going to finish English 1 with an A this time, trust me I guarantee it. And I will be able to move on to English 2. My issue here is I think my time is up.</p>
<p>You see I am about to be a senior with a pitiful 2.0-1.9, and I have a serious relationship I would like to pursue while studying overseas. Q.Q I have 1 year to inch my butt towards 2.5 or 3.0 or everything is down toilet. Can I do it or is it time to down-size my hopes? The academic gods have punished me!</p>