I’m going to be a sophomore in the fall. I’m very upset with my gpa. My first semester I had a 3.2. Then my second semester ended and it was a 2.4. Overall my gpa is now a 2.8. My second semester had a lot more reading and writing which I hated and I just kept procrastinating. Next semester, I’ll have a lot more non-reading/writing classes that count towards my major(business marketing).
@QueenX I suggest you don’t procrastinate if you want to get a higher GPA. If you succeeded in procrastinating in high school, it won’t work in college. College classes meet less frequently in the week compared to high school so you have to study longer than you did for classes in high school. There are less assignments and tests in college compared to high school so doing poorly on just one of them can affect your grade by a lot. That’s why you have the extra time you didn’t get in high school to spend more time studying for those tests and working on those assignments. I think that all this free time you get in college is extremely dangerous if you don’t know how to manage your time well. I suggest prioritizing tasks that are more important and completing those first. Study first even if you absolutely hate the class and save the relaxing for later. It’s so much better to relax knowing you completed your assignment than to relax knowing you have an assignment to complete. I like going with the mindset of work hard, play hard. Hopefully, you’ll do better in sophomore year since you said you have more non-reading and writing classes.
You need to step it up next year. Use the resources your college provides.
@QueenX - it happens and it’s not unusual but you do need to buckle down and find ways to address the issues you know you have. College classes are harder and the independance of college life requires you to develop different skills than those that got you through high school. I got C s as a freshman, B s as a sophomore and A as a junior but it took a lot of work.