So I haven’t been going to class… I’m like 99% sure I’m going to fail. I’m only taking 3 classes this semester. I dropped my other class. Will I get kicked off living on campus during this semester? What is going to happen if I didn’t go to class and just failed all semester? I go to CMU. I’ve made up my mind that college here isnt for me but I wanna stay here the remainder of the year.
Midterms didn’t even happen yet and I have no idea what the situation is but I’m almost certain you can somehow pass the class if you start showing up again, unless your teacher has a specific attendance policy. You’re just wasting time and money not going to class regardless of what your plans are next year. Staying and failing isn’t any better than leaving-- it might be worse. Also, you could possibly end up liking it by may and want to come back next year and then what? You tanked your GPA for no reason. I doubt you’ll get kicked out of housing mid semester as long as you’re still paying, but your aid and scholarships can be reversed if you’re not longer considered a full time student.
Why aren’t you attending class? You need to turn this around. If you fail for not attending class, your grades will be WU (unofficial withdrawal). You will most likely owe the school money, if you are getting financial aid.
If you are not attending classes you won’t at CMU much longer. Minimally you will be placed on academic probation and will most likely loose your aid. You could possibly be academically dismissed. You will have scorched the eart, if you need to transfer (most likely you will), because you have a term of failing grades.
What do you mean by “you feel that your school is not there for you”?
What ever is going on with you, you need to speak with your parents and make an appointment at the counseling center .
If you are suffering from depression or are not feeling well talk to your parents, get the documentation needed from a health professional and get a medical withdrawal.
Is this real? And why in the Fin Aid forum? No, you can’t ditch school, but stay.
There’s a fundamental difference between a dorm room and a hotel room.
Here’s how hotels work: you decide how long you want to stay, and you pay per night. The managers of the hotel don’t really care about whether you’re in town for business or pleasure, as long as you pay the nightly fee and are not breaking any laws…
A dorm room, on the other hand, is totally different. The point behind a dorm room isn’t so you can tour the local area. The entire purpose behind a dorm room is to give you a place to live for the year while you’re attending classes at the school that runs the dorm.
When you stop attending those classes, you fail out. As a result, you get kicked out of both the college and the dorm.
As to what will happen… well, let’s start with the basics: money. Someone is paying a good $12,000 a year for you to dorm, in addition to the $25,000 or so tuition. Your thread doesn’t make it sound as though that someone is you; You may want to contact mom and dad now about working out a payment plan to return them the money you’re sleeping away. Working full time at minimum wage and taking into account the money they’ll take out in taxes and not taking a dime for yourself, it will take you close to 3 years to pay mom and dad back for the money they’ve invested in your little vacation.
Look, it’s not my money you’re blowing. But I’m willing to bet that your parents are sacrificing a lot to afford you this magnificent opportunity. And that if there were some real reason for your failure it would be a different matter. But “I haven’t been going to class” is going to be a tough sell.
If this is a mental health issue, you should be at the mental health office right now… as in don’t even finish this thread, just go. And in that case I apologize. But your post reads as though you’ve made up your mind that this particular college was a poor choice, so you’re simply opting out.
Will you get kicked out this week? Nope; they’ll give you the opportunity to pull your grades up by the end of the semester. So why don’t you take that opportunity and pass the three classes you’re taking? Get out of bed, go to class and pass? You were smart enough to get admitted; that typically means you’re smart enough to pass. Start by attending class.
May as well go start your McJob now. Good luck.
Time for someone to grow up!. Who’s paying for this? CMU is a world class institution. You have an incredible opportunity that few get. Don’t waste it. Making good decisions (like going to class) are all part of the maturing process. It’s OK to feel like you don’t want to. It’s not OK to not go.
If you truly don’t want to attend classes, take a yr off and get a full time job. Then continue to work while taking classes at a CC in something that interests you. Then apply to a full time program. It won’t be CMU so make sure you really want that change before you lose the opportunity you have.
You really should start attending classes regularly, especially if it’s causing you to fail your classes. Once in a while it might be okay to miss a class if you really need to miss class to get a homework assignment due the same day done and really need the extra time or are in any other circumstances where it’s worth it to just miss the class and make it up later, but you shouldn’t miss classes on a regular basis (especially if there’s any that are graded on attendance). Even if you don’t understand the material during lecture because the professor’s teaching style doesn’t work for you and/or you are just not understanding the content for some reason, just go anyways so that you can at least get exposure to the material so when you do extra studying on your own and/or go to tutoring/office hours it’ll be easier to learn the content then. I don’t know the reason why you aren’t attending classes, but whatever it is get it sorted out ASAP. It will also be a good idea to make up the work from the classes you missed. If your professors post lecture slides online, you can study those to help make up the classes you missed. You can also copy lecture notes from a friend if lecture slides aren’t posted online.
Also keep in mind that you still have time to turn things around. For one of my classes I was sure I was not going to pass because I was not retaining material during lecture at all and had a hard time finding enough time to do the homework due to the work load from my other classes, but at the second half of the semester I really tried harder and ended up with a decent grade. It’s not too late to pass your classes, especially this early in the semester. You just got to put more effort into them.
As far as whether you’ll be kicked off living on campus and what else is going to happen if you fail your classes, I recommend you look at your housing contract and your school website for answers. Although I’m pretty sure your grades aren’t final until the end of the semester, so I doubt doing badly in your classes this semester will cause you to be kicked out in the middle of the semester. Talking to an advisor is a good idea too.
If you got into CMU, then you must have significant academic abilities.
You are wasting your abilities, and you are wasting an opportunity that many students dream of.
I was one of the many who were rejected from CMU, it still is my dream college. The thought of someone throwing that opportunity is awful. Thousands of tears were shed from people like me, while you get to live our dream.
I honestly question if you are even American if not a ■■■■■, CMU has a very high international student population. Consisting of a lot of rich foreigners. if I had to guess you do not have to pay much to go to that school or parents pay for it all.
You will be the one who will have to admit to why you failed out of college. Those grades will follow you to any US institution. I have overcame a lot at my college, it is not CMU worthy but I am at a closely related school in the area. And half of the stuff i went through was because my school is sick of dealing with students who act like you, do not care about their grades. So unless you have mommy or daddy giving you a job have fun making it in the job market.
OP, do you know if it’s a mental health thing, or an executive function thing, or just plain not wanting to go, or what?
CMU, eh? That’s the school I flunked out of myself, back in the day (some decades ago), and for the same reason—not being mature enough to recognize the importance of going to class.
And this means that I can tell you from experience that it’s possible to recover from flunking out of college (no, @yourmomma, it doesn’t automatically guarantee a McJob), but it’s expensive, it’s stressful, you end up losing a couple years in the process, and there’s no guarantee you’ll successfully pull out of it. If you can avoid flunking out, I strongly encourage you to do so.
So: First thing, start going to class. If it’s a mental health thing, then yeah, go to counseling, but also just go to class. Talk to your professors, or at least your TAs—they have office hours, this is part of what they’re there for—and don’t make any excuses, but frankly admit that you’ve messed up and find out what you need to do to get back on track (and be ready to accept being told it’s too late to). If CMU is still like it was when I was there a lot of classes are graded on a true curve, so you’ve already put yourself behind the 8-ball—so prepare to work harder than you ever have to this point to pull out of your spiral. Also, consider whether you really belong at CMU, and whether you’d be better served by transferring somewhere else.
But really, don’t waste any more time. At this point it’s on you to actually act.
What on earth does the OP’s nationality have to do with anything?
Likewise, he or she didn’t take “your” spot at CMU. It wasn’t a head to head competition.The OP was chosen because, for whatever reason, the adcom saw something in his or her application that warranted acceptance. Likewise, the “half the stuff” you went through has absolutely nothing to do with the OP.
Yes, the OP may need to see someone at the mental health center. Yes, he or she is wasting both a precious opportunity and an awful lot of money by choosing not to attend class.
But those are HIS OR HER issues, not yours. Please don’t take the OP’s issues so very personally-- they have absolutely nothing to do with you and your own problems.
CMU? Carnegie Mellon or Central Michigan???
Going to class is a regular obligation in college. Going to work is a regular obligation in adulthood. These obligations are neither universally fun nor interesting but usually pretty good. Even if you end up flipping burgers, you will have to show up for your shift. There is no way to successfully fulfill either obligation without showing upon. Drop classes as permissible and really attend and attend to remaining classes. Life is so much more satisfying when you behave like Caesar’s wife.
Talk to the resources at your school. Your adviser to see if you can withdraw instead of getting F’s (saves your GPA).
You will still have to pay some tuition and room/board, but you won’t hit your GPA. But then you would have to leave campus. Talk to the counseling center about whatever specific issues you are having.