Can someone please help me?

strudelle
Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:04:35 +0000

In all honesty, you do sound like a brat. You’re looking for excuses to explain away your failings and to continue to wallow in your self pity. You’re only a sophomore. The vast majority of grad programs are far more concerned with your last 60 credit hours of work than your first couple years.

I messed up a couple classes earlier this year and ended up with a 2.5. But I worked my ass off and got straight A’s for the next two semesters and now I have a 3.6. If I keep working hard, I will graduate with a 3.8. It’s not a 4.0, but that combined with all my other experience will probably get me into a PhD program.

The answer to your question “can someone please help me” is “no.” You have to help yourself. If you don’t put in the work, make a real attempt to succeed in school, pull your grades up, or start getting involved in research then you won’t succeed in academia. If you DO stop whining and start doing these things, then you will. You are the one that controls that. The idea of a PhD might sound really great, but if you aren’t willing to put in years of hard work then you will not get one and you don’t deserve to. If you can’t do the work in undergrad, there is pm way you will get a PhD.

Ditch the attitude, see a counselor because you sound depressed and that will only hold you back from succeeding in the future. You need to take care of your mental health and your outlook just as much as you need to put more work into school.