<p>Today I cried in front of my guidance counselor…I think it was the most embarassing thing I’ve ever done. </p>
<p>I’d had a bad morning and was already feeling really low…then, I found out I couldn’t take a class I really wanted to. I was willing to travel or take it at a CC, but there were just too many barriers. Then my counselor’s assistant remarked that I’d taken up too much of their time, and then I just snapped. I tried to apologize but it came out pretty garbled. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what to do now. She’s going to have to write my college recs next year…Have I ruined my relationship with her? I’ve got no idea what to do. :/</p>
<p>You didn’t ruin the relationship necessarily. The job duty of counselors is to deal with EVERY problem their teens have. They have been (should) trained in school to prepare with all sorts of situations.
The upside is that you tried to apologized. Continue with the initiative and maybe type up an apology email of what you wanted to say. You could try having another appointment to talk about life.
I hope you find some happiness this weekend.</p>
<p>I doubt it. They’ve seen a lot worse, I’m sure.</p>
<p>^ This. A kid who was sick at my school just puked on the guidance counselor today … can’t get much worse than that, hahaha!</p>
<p>Since when is crying something you should be sorry about? It is embarassing, yes. But it certaintly shouldn’t alter your guidance counselor’s perception of you. The thing that disturbs me the most was the assistant’s remark. They are paid to help students like you. I understand there were probably other students waiting, but the guidance office has a duty to help you to the best of its abilities. Even if things were running a little longer than they liked, it was still a rather brusque comment to make.</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad. I don’t really see the situation as being your fault. If you really have any sort of relationship with your counselor, it should remain intact after this.</p>
<p>Guidance counselors see it all. They’ve almost certainly seen the tears too. They probably won’t even remember when it comes times for recs.</p>
<p>Just my opinion-There’s nothing wrong with crying but it depends on the situation. Crying because you received a no over something as trivial as a class seems more like a temper tantrum than genuine grief. Also your big worry is about how it affects your Rec’s. Which is another sympton of immaturity. Again just my opinion.</p>
<p>I cried one time when I had a bad lesson with a music teacher … it was pretty embarrassing/bad. But it’s been a while now and my teacher and I get along fine now and she wrote a rec for me.</p>
<p>Thanks for your opinions guys…they’ve made me feel better. 
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<p>It wasn’t not getting the class that made me cry, it was the feeling that I was wasting their time…though the class already had me sad.</p>
<p>I’ll just leave this story here hoping it makes you feel a little better about it. This is possibly my most embarrassing moment ever…</p>
<p>So last year I was the only sophomore in my entire school in an AP class, which was very small and the only other students in the class were seniors who were just there to slack off (AP World with a VERY easy teacher). So the counselors decide to just skip my class when it comes time to register for the AP test because “everyone in that class took AP classes last year, they already know all about the forms!” Right? No. So I find out about the form the day it’s due, but I can’t turn it in because my parents have to write the check. So I go into the gc office and try to turn it in and the secretary is being very mean and telling me that I have to pay a $50 late fee and is just making me feel really stupid, so my eyes start to water. She goes “ohhh great…” Goes and gets 3 counselors and the VICE PRINCIPLE AND DEANS and forces me to sit down and they’re all staring at me so I start balling because at that point I was all worked up and couldn’t calm down. Then they called my parents and wouldn’t let me leave and I’m just sitting here sobbing so hard i can’t even talk trying to escape and I finally get out and go into the bathroom but they come in there and drag me back into the office in front of like 3 other people in the bathroom. I was so shaken up when they finally let me go back to class I started crying again when my friend asked what was wrong. All that over a late AP registration. Yeah I can never look those people in the eyes again and avoid going to the gc office at all costs…</p>
<p>I broke down randomly crying in front of my gc freshman year, fairly sure he thought I was crazy. It was at my scheduling meeting and I began crying at the prospect of taking a non-honors class, because as irrational as it is I hate easy. We all have our bad moments.</p>
<p>Been there, done that. My counselors and teachers have seen enough tears to fill a swimming pool. Hang in there, you’ll be fine.</p>