I suck at school and I want to quit?!
Question: I started out really good with a 3.5 gpa
I messed my freshman year it brought down to a 3.222
My Sophomore year I brought it to a 3.230
But now I'm not doing well at all in any of my classes
I already know that I have a C+ in one
a B+ in another
a possible B in another
And an F
Which is going to bring my gpa down along the line of 2.0
I feel so stupid and incompetent and I feel like I am waisting my time in school
I can't say that i dont care because I do, since I am talking about it
I don't know what to do anymore....
Answers: I started out really good with a 3.5 gpa
I messed my freshman year it brought down to a 3.222
My Sophomore year I brought it to a 3.230
But now I'm not doing well at all in any of my classes
I already know that I have a C+ in one
a B+ in another
a possible B in another
And an F
Which is going to bring my gpa down along the line of 2.0
I feel so stupid and incompetent and I feel like I am waisting my time in school
I can't say that i dont care because I do, since I am talking about it
I don't know what to do anymore....
Do not quit.
Go outside and look at all the stupid people in the world. They all finished college.
And not only that, many of them also went to law school.
You do not have to be smart to go to college or finish.
But, I believe you are smart.
Only a smart person would be worried about this and thinking about this. So there you go. PLus, you started out doing well.
Find out if you can retake a course, do the give you the better grade. In my school they did! (LOTS of dumb kids in my school--we did not even make the list of the Top One Million Colleges in the Midwest).
I got really bad grades until my last two years. In fact, my grades were so bad that I took about 45 credits--about a year and half--after I could have graduated, just to get my GPA up high enough to go to law school!
Ha! I'm the world's smartest moron! They do not MAKE you graduate just because you can! They want the money. And you can keep getting grants and loans as long as you haven't GRADUATED yet--which is YOUR choice!!!
In theory, you could continue for ever and I hear that some people do.
So, don't drop out, stay LONGER!
Look around campus for people stupider than you are. Be nice to them, they are keeping your GPA up! And ask them how they're doing. Do not let them beat you. They wil graduate. Why not you?
You cannot possibley be as dumb as I am and I did it! Ha and I'm making pretty good money now even though I was at he bottom of a class of utter morons and true imbeciles! People used to laugh at me. Now I laugh at the world.
Life is a trick question. The things that seem important are only there to throw you off.
Keep your eye on the magician's OTHER hand!
The GPA is what they are waving around in one hand, and you're trying to follow that hand. Meanwhile, the other hand has the real trick. That one has happiness in it. They don't let you see it because it is so obvious!
It s not up to THEM whether you are happy.
They try to convince you that they have the key (the GPA or whatever) you need to be a success. BS! Bll Gates told Harvard to bite it, and he's happy. George Bush took his medium grades, so did Kennedy, and said, So what? I'm here for the same reason I went to summer camp. It's what people do.
But get the degree. Everyone has been tricked into thinking it's necessary. So it does make life easier. If you are a true pioneer you don't need it. But you're too young yet to start off with a handicap. Just so it.
Hey kid...hang in there. There are many of us who suck at school, and later on become successful doing other things. However, school is the foundation for success. Even though highschool is hard for you, you might rock in college...you need to get through this first though.
You should see if there is some afterschool tutoring available to you. Talk to your teachers and the school counselor. If you at least make an honest effort, you'll be fine.
Also, maybe there's something else going on in your life that is affecting you. Evaluate what's going on and talk about it with someone. Just don't give up and I promise it will pay off later. Things can ALWAYS get better. However, in order to see a change, you'll need to make one.
please dont give up. always try and finish what you start.
Turn the computer off and study.
Otherwise, quit school and get a dead-end job at Burger King.
if you quit now that means your a loser, if you dont wanna be a loser than keep trying. if you quit now you may not get a second chance. just study and study. people fail sometimes but thats life now. if you quit now you will be a hobo, and have a bad life. but if you keep going on you will have a good life with a family and also dont forget your dream. never ever give up just trust in your self
Girl or boy boo! what eva you are. I've always wondered why people go to school for 11 or 12 years just to quit. It's silly you put in too much time to quit now, and believe me no matter how bad you think your situation is there is always someone much worst off.
I'm taking this, as this is a serious question. So..DON'T QUIT!! From what I can tell you're in your 1st semester as a junior..what's changed? There's got to be something pulling you away from your school work..Begin on boosting your GPA by taking more easy classes or electives. On line courses worked for me! You can't do anything now days, without a degree! You're almost done, just hang in there! Just remember this..sometimes we have to do the things we don't want to do..to do the things we do!!
Good Luck!! :)
rehab is for quitters
Is it college or high school? If it's high school buckle down and ace your classes because you will NEED TO KNOW all that stuff for college. The more you know now, the less studying you will have to do in college. Try buying some of the Classics from a book store and reading them in your leisure time, perhaps during summer, especially Shakespeare. Go to a used book store and pick up used text books that the school bookstores would not buy back as they went to a new edition. Read those, science, math, English, whenever you get a chance in your spare time.
Oh, excuse me, you're in college. Still, you need to study things you know you will be tested on in your free time.
If you're in high school, go ahead and quit. The world needs more minimum wage slaves.
If you don't want to work at a gas station until you are 75, then buckle down, get some help and give it your all.
I would say that you need to find out what's causing the decline in your grades. Could it be that you're in a depression which is making it hard to concentrate on your studies?? Once you find out the reasons than you can do some thing about it and get your grades back up. If you quit what do you have?? What will you do with the next few years of your life??? It's not easy finding a decent job with out college. How will you take care of yourself?? These are things that you have to think about.
Did you by any chance notice the spread in your grades ? this is not sucking in school this is a matter of interest ! The B and B+ grades are classes that interest you and are therefore easier for you to concentrate on the F indicates that you have no interest or aptitude in that subject why not decide what you want to study and go with that don't be so depressed . Instead understand what it is you want from life and go for that !
just keep digging into it and things will change. anyway, if you are really working hard at it, than the grade shouldn't matter to you because you know you really worked hard. you are not stupid, did you know that collage material from 30 years ago is being taught in 11th grade now, the collages unreachable high standards are going even further up, and you are not the only one struggling.
Don't quit. You are not wasting your time.
You feel like you are wasting your time? What does that even mean? What else would you be doing with your "time"? Would your time be better spent at a job??? Of course not. Jobs are the real time waster. I could get so much done if I didn't have to spend so much time at my job. I'm only there for the money. Not because I think it's a good use of my time.
I like what Kevlar said. Actually, I know that guy (he works where I work) and he is in fact astonishingly stupid. He is probably the only person in the company who could not be trusted to sweep the floor without screwing it up. But he's not lying when he said he's rich. People like him and they pay him a lot of money everywhere he goes. He's like Gilligan--he solves problems by accident. Even though he's dumber than a bag of wool, when he's faced with a problem, he refuses to quit working on it. Most of the time he solves the problem by claiming that it is not in fact a problem at all.
Thomas Edison must have been the same way. He had no education after the third grade, so when he went to invent the lightbulb he really had no idea what was going to work and what wasn't. So he just kept trying this and that untl he found the right thing--tungsten. His arch rival of the day, Nicola Tesla, laughed at Edison when he was done and said that if Edison had bothered to do some figuring, he could have shortened the list of possibles considerably. But, Tesla did not invent the lightbulb. So how does he know.
As for bad grades for smart people, keep in mind that not everyone is even qualified to grade you. There are many dumb professors out there, and they won't always understand why your answer or your paper is a good one.
And the university itself is set up to approve or disapprove of people in one particular way. To have anyone tell you that you are not good at the game they invented is not a criticism. Even if everyone seems to be playing that game.
For now, you have to stick it out and finish--good grades or not. Eventually, you will find the game you like, the one you're good at, and will win at that game. You can't win at someone else's game, but you can finish, and then go invent your own.
You seem to be finishing your sophmore year or halfway though your junior year. You are half done or more. And the hard part--the required classes--should be mostly done with. IT gets easier and better and more fun from here. The saddest thing about people who drop out of college halfway through is that they already did the hard part, they already did the part that many people can't do. If you've come this far, you do have what it takes. So stop doubting and get on with it.
By the way, only dumb people never doubt themselves, and smart people often suffer from too much doubt, so right there I can tell you're a smart guy, and you should trudge on and get through it.
Also find something fun to do. Remember what they say about all work and no play.
And one more thing about grades: They are not fair and can't possibly be fair. Many stdent rely on tricks and tips and the key to being a good student and things like that . There are all kinds of boks out there about "How to Study" "How to Take a Test" and so on. The very existence f these books is an admission by the education industry that educational evaluation--grades--is not only unfair but a Trick to be learned. That so many students are learning these Tricks on how to be a student, rather than just learning math or chemistry or whatever, should be regarded as an extreme perversion of education, but it's not.
But everything is like that. Look at the football team. They get ready all summer for the first game, how? By PLAYING football? No. By lifting weights. By running. Doing situps. The most playing they do is practicing little pieces of playing--running drills. For more than 100 years now, football is not a test of one bunch of any old guys and another bunch of any old guys who show up on saturday and just play a game. Even pickup games of touch football in the park are not like this. It is a test one bunch of weightlifters-runners-etc. against another bunch, but on test day, the suddenly decide not to see who is better at running or lifting weights, but they play FOOTBALL instead! Bizzarre to say the least.
That's what college is. You are showing up on the field on saturday, after playing football all week with your frieds, when you should have been learning the TRICKS of football. You've been doing your math or history or philosophy all semester, and then you're out-played on test day by the students who've been practicing tricks. This is what I mean by plaing someone else's game. There's no shame in a B or a C or even an F, when the whole thing wasn't what they said it was to begin with.
Get through it and then play your own game. But it also might be a good idea to get one of thos little books on How to Be a Better College Student.
Your grades don't sound too bad to me. However, if you ever get near to getting an F again, I suggest you drop the course. You may be taking too many courses and that one is your toughest.
It's also okay to take a semester off from school and just work or go home. You may just need a break.
ask for help....get a tutor in the classes that you need
you loose 100% on all the shots you dnt take.