Can someone please help me?

skruzchkns
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:52:03 +0000

Figure out what you need to do to get back on track for the short term - if that’s transferring to a small non-research oriented school then so be it. Get your grades up as much as possible in the time you have left. Talk in person to every professor you can find. Convince one of them they need you in their lab until you find one that agrees, even if they are at a different school from the one you are actually attending. You don’t have any life plans outside of getting a PhD so you can work in a lab for a few years after you graduate to distance yourself from your grades. Fulfill your Starbucks destiny at night and volunteer in a lab during the day if no one will pay you right away. If getting a PhD is the only goal then you should be willing to do whatever it takes to get the experience and recommendations you need. If you need to take a semester or two off to decompress and get refocused, then that’s a better path than the one you’re on now.

The short version is: 1) Figure out what you need to accomplish to reach your goal. 2) Figure out how you can fulfill the items you identified. 3) Do it.