I didn't do so well this semester...

JoshuaGuit
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:43:48 +0000

I don’t have much to say about employers, you should make an appointment to meet with your advisor and talk with him/her about it.

Generally if your GPA goes down it is your own fault. Sure finals/tests may be hard, but if it is a reflection on the professor than the entire class will have a low average rather than only you (or a few other people). When this is the case, the class is curved up more to make up for the fact that everyone did crappy. If this didn’t happen, you likely dropped the ball and didn’t study enough/didn’t study the correct way.

The stupid thing about GPA is that a B is a 3.0 and a B- is a 2.66. Normally when you hear that you got a B you’d be happy, but that isn’t reflective in the numerical GPA. The one “C” isn’t what kills you, it’s however many B’s and B-'s you get.

My advice is to buckle down and study more. Each semester gets harder but you adapt and work harder. Don’t compare yourself to the kid who got a 1.7GPA and eventually got a 3.5 when he graduated. It isn’t realistic to think that you will be getting a 4.0 each (or any) semester.