<p>I'm a community college student who is working hard to maintain a good GPA so that I can transfer next year. I did ok in high school (graduated with a 3.5 GPA), but my test scores were horrible. I decided to go to a CC for 1 year to save some money and to improve my chances of getting in my top choice. But lately i've been feeling like such a failure. I'm take a challenging course at Case Western via this program that my CC offers, because I found the material to be interesting and that it would look good on my transfer application. But I am really suffering in this class right now. Everybody else is so smart, and they just go through the course with breeze while I'm trying so hard to catch up but can't. They are the most intellectually gifted kids I've ever met in my life, and they're able to grasp the materials without even having to read it twice. They all have this "You're so dumb" attitude whenever I talk, which makes me scare to ask questions. The worst part is, I have a group presentation coming up and I don't want to teammates to get a bad grade due to my inability to follow up with them. </p>
<p>I feel like this is a big mistake. I should've known that I'm not smart enough to take on such a demanding course. I don't want to give up, I want to be able to get through this, but my intellectual capacity is so limited. I'm just worried that my grade in this class (a C) is going to hurt my chances of getting in a good university...</p>
<p>Sorry for the long rant. I'm just very stressed out at the moment.</p>
<p>Have you ever gone to the prof’s office hours to discuss your progress in the course? Sometimes just having something reworded a new way can make a world of difference. And don’t worry about how anyone else looks at you when you talk or ask questions. If they already knew everything, they wouldn’t be there. Get your money’s worth and get what you can from the course. If you’re transferring, the likelihood of you ever seeing them again is slim. </p>
<p>Some people learn visually, some need it written, some need hands-on experience…you just need to find your way of learning/studying, which could take some time. Expectations and workloads are different in college than high school, and can vary greatly between professors. Just utilize every resource you have, such as your prof, tutors, other classmates, etc.</p>
<p>Some people are built.
Some people run fast.
Some people are very socialable.
Some people are smart
Some people have to work harder at being smart.</p>
<p>The good news is the people that work more to pass a class actually many times learn more. Effort = Rewards.</p>
<p>If your selected major is too difficult then consider making a switch. but not before you do as NovaLynx suggested.</p>
<p>My professor doesn’t have office hours. He seems kind of bothered whenever someone asks a question, like he doesn’t have time to answer them or that he expects us to know the answers without his help. He is a nice person, but he just doesn’t seem so helpful. And I doubt if he’d want to spend time to help me since I’m so lost! My teammates are not very friendly either, they tend to talk to each other and ignore me when we’re in a discussion. I think they feel like I’m not up to their level, so there’s no point in discussing with me. I don’t know what to do. I want to bring my grade up to a B, but that seems so impossible now.</p>
<p>@gator4ever: This class is not a part of my major. In fact, it is far away from what I intend to major in. I’m just experimenting with different courses at the moment. I want to major in Art, and this class that I’m in is a Science class. I just thought that it would be a nice challenge and a resume-booster for when I transfer. but it turned out to be too big of a challenge for me, and it’s too late to back out…</p>
<p>If you are failing? Drop it like a bad cold.</p>
<p>If you feel you can make a C then stick with it.</p>
<p>@gator4ever: I think dropping this class would look really bad on my transcript though… I don’t want the colleges that I’m applying to see me as a person who can’t complete that she started… I’m trying to maintain a C, but I’d like to bring it up to a B if that’s even possible…</p>
<p>It’s not that you’re less intelligent than the people you’re doing the class with- they may be studying outside of class (which you wouldn’t see). Even if they’re not, it simply means you have to work harder, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. This may just not be your subject- some people do better in different fields than others. That’s why we don’t all major in engineering or philosophy. Different strokes for different folks and all that jazz:)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@Princessmahina: You’re right. I have to work a lot harder. I just hope that my hard work will pay off. This is definitely not my field. I went into it thinking that I can handle it when I clearly can’t. I overestimated my ability way too much. In the end, I’m more of an artsy person than a science-y one. I just wish I can be just as good as the kids in this class, so that I can get through this semester without bombing my GPA…</p>