Please Help, I Messed Up My First Semester

College Confidential Community
1

Hey there,

I’m a current freshman. I failed two classes my first semester and I had D’s in the 3 classes I passed. My GPA is a .59. It’s solely because of lack of motivation, I want to start my career instead of being in school and I honestly don’t know what to do. I have classes set for next semester and I getting a 4.0 next semester pulls me out of my academic warning, but even then, I still don’t want to be in school.
I want to start a photography company and I already have a lot of the groundwork done. One of my friends who is currently in college actually is my partner and we’re doing all of this together. I just need a studio space and there’s one that I found that I love and I really just want to move out of my parent’s house and start working towards that goal.

My parents don’t understand this. They don’t get that I don’t like school and they think I’m doing a lot better than I have been because I’ve kept this from them.
I am set for next semester, I have classes and the second half of living in my dorm but I really don’t want to go back. I want to start living the live that I worked hard to build last semester when I messed up my academic career because I’m much more motivated to do that than go sit in four classes and pray I do well to not get kicked out of school.

Please help

2

It seems like a huge waste of time and money to be at college when you are not motivated to succeed. As a parent, I would not want to fund that endeavor. See if your parents would agree to let you take a gap year to start your business and see how things go – you may be successful and if not it may give you motivation to succeed in college.

3

That’s what I am hoping for. I would even consider getting my Associates or maybe even a Bachelors online so I can do both but focus on my business. I just don’t know how to propose it to them, I have to withdraw from my current classes by January 29th in order to not pay for them. The nearly 100k they’re spending on my education could be used elsewhere, even if I don’t directly get to see it.