<p>I need a 3.0 GPA or above this year to get into engineering and so far it's going horrible. I've missed numerous morning classes because I oversleep (roommate doesn't wake up early) and got 0's on homeworks that were due that day and I got sick and completely missed this math quiz we had this monday and got a 0. </p>
<p>I can change this next week and start sleeping early but idk if it'll save me. I've probably left the worst impressions for my teachers this really sucks I need a 3.0 gpa so bad I can still save myself right? I've got alot of time?</p>
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<li>IPOD, IPhone or Computer Alarm Clock.</li>
<li>Make a Health Center appointment, and take some multivitamins, eat breakfast (sandwich) daily with a piece of fruit/juice and some coffee or water. Oatmeal, Bagel, whatever.</li>
<li> Go to your professors and let them know what’s going on with the illness and ask if you can make up the quiz.</li>
<li> Go to the tutoring sessions for the full YEAR and learn HOW to study; it’s different than high school and it will get tougher.</li>
<li> No late-night parties.<br></li>
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<p>You can still save yourself. Use an alarm clock. Put it far away from you. If your roommate complains, tell them it’s necessary and to deal with it. </p>
<p>You are doing better than most people because usually we see “I got put on academic probation what do I do?” </p>
<p>You are least are recognizing you have an issue.</p>
<p>1) How late are you going to bed?
2) Can you get an additional alarm clock? Get someone to call you?
3) Talk to your professor about what is happening and what you are doing about it. Make sure you do the homework and you get notes from the classes you miss.
4) You should have time to get things up. Homework and quizzes only count so much.</p>
<p>Over the weekend I’m just going to buy some fruits and put it in my fridge and have those for breakfast and maybe a bag of bagels and cream cheese and stuff. </p>
<p>I don’t do parties but sometimes I’m up at 2AM because I play video games with my roommate and the guys across from us but I told them I’m not doing that anymore (I thought it’d be fine because my first class is at 10 but I keep sleeping through some how…). </p>
<p>I will use the alarm clock on my phone, I was just hesitant to do so because I didn’t want to wake up my roommate. I need to find a way to put it really close to me because if it’s not close enough it won’t be loud enough and I’ll just sleep through it. Sadly I got stuck with the top bunk bed because I was second to the room so I don’t know where to put it. uuuurgh this is so frustrating I’d be fine for college if I just knew how to sleep and wake up!!! </p>
<p>Your first class is at 10 and you cant get up by 9-7 hours of sleep to make it to class even a few minutes late. Your priorities need to change.</p>
<p>For your alarm clock or phone, you can get a little shelf or caddy to hook onto the side of your top bunk, or use command hooks to hook the alarm clock to the wall next to your bed. </p>
<p>It’s nice of you to worry about waking your roommate, but really you need to be woken in the morning for class, and your roommate should expect that you will need to set an alarm. (Or course if you wake before the alarm, you can shut it off to avoid waking your roommate.)</p>
<p>Talk to your profs of the classes you have missed. Let them know that you care about the class and your grades, and you were having trouble getting up in the morning, but you’re going to do something about that, and also that you were sick. Make sure you do the work you missed even if you won’t get credit for it, to avoid falling behind. Math is a cumulative subject and you need to keep up.</p>
<p>You have plenty of time to salvage the semester. You’re in good shape for realizing after only a couple of weeks that thinks need to change. Figure out the logistics of waking up, talk to your profs, and you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Set a few different alarms! I always set at least two just in case I fall back asleep. When the second one goes off, you’ll know that you need to get going since it was the second alarm you heard that morning. </p>
<p>As for catching up, just buckle down and study like crazy. Go see your professors during their office hours and explain what happened, ask for help on the concepts you missed, make friends in class and study together in the library, leave your room when your roommate is playing video games so that you can get some work done; do whatever it is you have to do. </p>
<p>Also, do you have a planner? I find that it helps to write down everything you need to do. That serves as a visual reminder of all the stuff looming and you feel more satisfied as you check stuff off your list. </p>
<p>Your roommate will have to learn to deal. It is not your responsibility to make sure he doesn’t have to be woken up by your alarm clock at 9:00 a.m. (or whenever you have to set it to get to class on time). Also, if you find you’re having a hard time falling asleep with him playing video games till all hours, you have to let him know that his late-night video gaming is keeping you awake. Maybe he and the guys across the hall can play in their room instead.</p>
<p>You have plenty of time to salvage your grades! At least you care about your grades and you want to do better, which is a very good sign. You will be fine!</p>
<p>I leave my cell phone about a foot from my head, and make sure vibrate is on as well as the ringer.</p>
<p>Also, if you were sick, you can at least tell the professor and see if you can make up the quiz.</p>
<p>Reach out to your professors and it will be more likely you will straighten up (because you’ll have talked to them and that will make you remember to do better).</p>
<p>And you are worried about waking your roommate up at 9 am? Maybe he can take the top bunk if he wants to sleep in! I am a late riser, but anyone getting up at 7 am or later at college should be fine. </p>
<p>And don’t give up video games completely, just not daily. If you deprive yourself too much you will be miserable. Try to play games that you can pop into for a half-hour, not those that lead to 4, 6, or 8 hour sessions.</p>
<p>The first thing you should do is stop making excuses. All of these problems have fairly easy solutions, and you realized that you’re having problems early enough that it likely won’t affect you that much.</p>
<p>Get a little shelf (or something similar) that the you can hook onto the side of your bed for your phone. If you have a problem with turning off your alarm and then falling back asleep it might be even better to be on the top bunk so that you have to get out of bed to turn off your alarm. Turn up your ringer so that you hear it. Tell yoy roommate that you have to set an alarm because you’ve been oversleeping. Get them ear plugs if it’s an issue, but your class really isn’t that early in the morning. It’s not unreasonable for you to want to set an alarm. Set two, if you have trouble getting up. If you can’t get up with an alarm, then have a friend or family member who wakes up early call you in the morning until you get into the habit of waking up.</p>
<p>Set yourself a bedtime, if you have to, and stick to it. Put an alarm on your phone to remind you. Play video games on the weekends or on nights when you don’t have to get up early in the morning. You presumably slept and woke up when you were in high school–how did you manage that if you can’t do so now?</p>
<p>If you get sick, then tell your professors and ask if there’s anything you can do to make it up. You may need to bring documentation. Some professors have some mechanism in the class to make up for illnesses or the occasional absence (like dropping the lowest quiz score), some will let another quiz be worth twice as much, and some professors won’t do anything if you can’t document it with a doctor’s note or anything. But you never know until you ask, and it’s always good to know what the policies are ahead of time. If it was a serious illnesses, you may be able to work with professors to make it up. If it was just a cold, it may be more difficult. The sooner after the absence you do this, the better.</p>