<p>I need some advice. I am at my fourth semester at my university. I started very strong, but now I'm find myself drowning. My grades are on the 'meh' side of ok. A's and B's as of right now. But recent bad performance indicates that at least two of those B's will go down to C's. In any case, I am now a week away from finals and I feel myself burned out. I have less and less energy to study and I can't get myself to care about my classes anymore. There is a very probably chance I will lose my scholarship and the prospect terrifies me. I understand the consequences, but I just can't find the energy to looking at material that is just a bunch of gibberish to me. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Take it one day at a time. Get plenty of sleep, eat well and get some exercise (even if it is just a walk outside). Organize study groups with others in your classes. Even if you prefer to study alone, studying with others will help keep you motivated and help you to get through the material. Good luck.</p>
<p>I agree study groups can be beneficial if people have the right attitude. The problem I have run into is that either my study partners don’t show up or they just turn into “complaint groups” where no one understands the material so they just sit around and complain about how useless the material is. Neither situation helps me and that is always the situation I find myself in. It really seems like a hopeless situation.</p>
<p>Just study for the final, talk to other students who taken that class a semester before you and ask for tips. Don’t just give up and try to find excuses as why you won’t study. Look online on forums or yahoo answers if your confused, people will give help if you ask.</p>
<p>What are the terms of your scholarship? Is the req’d GPA “per semester” or is it cum for the year?</p>
<p>jrr24601: Just because I ask doesn’t mean it makes any more sense to me. I’m sorry that my situation seems like “finding excuses” to you. Unfortunately for me it’s reality.</p>
<p>Mom2collegekids: My scholarship requires me to complete 30 hours every year with a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Find a tutor - have you tried that yet? Maybe something formal through the school - but also seek out informal mentors/tutors among upper classmen. Talk to your counselor and get advice and build more connections. Do not give up. Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>It seems a bit pointless for me to get a tutor this late in the game, but I guess it’s worth a shot.</p>
<p>If you do in fact fall below the required GPA, your school may have an appeals process that will allow you to keep your scholarship if you can demonstrate that you know where you went wrong and offer a remedial plan for the future. But your low energy and lack of interest in your classes suggest that there’s something more going on here than an ordinary sophomore slump or poor study habits. Regardless of how your grades end up, you may want to consider taking a leave of absence for a semester so you can figure out why your attitude toward school has turned negative and whether you should consider other options. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>It’s not so much school in general, but specific classes. If I could just focus on classes that actually have relevance to my major I wouldn’t mind as much, but as with most schools mine requires a ridiculous science requirement for business majors which I can’t stand. Logically it’s obvious I just need to buck up and get over it, but no matter how hard I try to I just find myself trapped in a vicious cycle of catastrophizing that just wastes time. “If I quit school I won’t be stressed about classes, but then I’ll be stressed because I’ll be a bum the rest of my life. What kind of opportunities await a college drop out?”</p>
<p>I am the eternal optimist - and my optimism has dug me out of many a hole. Is the attitude negative due to the situation or the situation results of the attitude? One key concept can derail an entire semester of class. And maybe it is not too late to regroup. Talk to your teachers with B’s and ask them where you stand and what they recommend.</p>
<p>You might want to visit student health services and talk to them about the whole burned out, no energy, don’t care thing. Some schools will let you take incompletes and take the finals at the end of summer.</p>
<p>If your scholarship is renewed for next school year, do everything you can to keep your gpa above 3.5 next year. Take the hardest required classes, science classes or whatever for your business major at a cc in this summer that you can get transfer credit for at your main school. (Assuming here that your cc grades will not affect your main school’s gpa, but will be accepted as passing credit.) Study your school’s bulletin to be sure to take the easiest possible courses. Try to take take only three hard classes each semester and fill the other six credits with the easy grading electives you can find. Find out the easiest grading professors for each class. Try to build a buffer your junior year for your gpa for upper-level classes, as classes will probably be more difficult sr years and bring down your gpa. Pretty much everything you do since freshman year and before should have been designed to meet minimum requirements for your degree while maintaining the scholarship. If you somehow can get 3.5+ cumulative gpa going into junior year, maybe even take nothing but easy classes your first semester of jr year to build a buffer. Is your scholarship renewed annually or by semester?— if annually take easy classes to get to end of jr year with 3.5+, thereby locking up your scholarship for sr. year. Then take most difficult classes with scholarship sr year and-- if you don’t meet all your grad requirements because you did not take required courses-- take the remaining ones in the summer or fall after your eighth semester on your own dime. Might be worth it paying for that extra semester yourself, depending on how big the scholarship you are trying to maintain is worth if you can keep the money coming in for eight semesters.</p>