<p>Message to futurenyustudent:</p>
<p>Stop. Seriously. I was in a mindset similar to yours for my past 1.5 semesters (summer semester and fall semester) majoring in engineering/english with a pre-law focus and it started to eat away at me. Yes I worked my ass off and did really well (3.8), however as soon as classes started to get harder I realized things need to be taken into perspective before you lash out at yourself and fall into a perpetual cycle of depression and lethargy. Seriously if you get a test back and it isn’t what you feel you deserved, relax, take it all in, realize your mistakes, and perfect your study habits. Cramming information for 48 hours seriously deprives your mind of the ability to REASON, which is needed for taking college-level exams. You need to study to the point where you understand the material and can think your way through every problem, and if things don’t go well, so what? Go talk to the professor, check your results with the class average and don’t take it out on yourself and call yourself stupid. You can’t dwell on things that you can’t change, you can only prepare (intelligently) for what is in the future. If NYU doesn’t work out, there are plently of other good law schools that would happy to have someone who cares about their academics like you do.</p>
<p>For example, I just got a 76 on a diffeq exam last week and I was a little upset, but I took it with a calm mind, saw what I did wrong ( a lot of stupid things, not like I didn’t understand the process) and then later I found out that the class average was a 60, and bonus points will be awarded later in the semester. Problem solved. I learned to check my work more carefully and I won’t rule out my chances for an A in that class.</p>