<p>Cs as a freshman at RPI used to be quite respectable. My husband’s business partner now (roommate then) averaged right around that, and I notice he’s doing just fine.</p>
<p>So the advice is:
*Stop drinking alcohol completely. You need every brain cell you’ve got at full readiness status.
*How can you bring your grades up? A talk with the tutoring center is in order. Develop a plan. Include study groups, scheduled study time, everything you can think of. Add in professors’ office hours. Start following it fanatically. Make sure your plan includes Friday afternoon and Friday night off, then starts up again at noon Saturday.
*Talk to the person you know who finds tests easy and is sailing through the same courses you’re struggling with. Ask this question: what method are you using to predict what’s going to be on the tests? Discuss the idea analytically.
*Many of the RPI frats have exam files dating back years. Can you get access to those?
*Put it out to your friends: you have to help me stay here.</p>
<p>Your parents won’t pull you out mid-semester as long as you’re actually passing. It just wastes too much money. So you have about 7 weeks to prove them wrong–midterms and finals. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>