<p>How are your grades “F - or C if everything went right”? Does your school not give out Ds?</p>
<p>You can end up on academic probation for a term and still get a good job. One fluke semester this early in your college career is unlikely to permanently screw you. And plenty of places will never ask about your GPA.</p>
<p>It might, however, hurt you for internships, especially for next summer since you won’t have had a chance to recover. In my experience, internships were much more likely to care about grades than full-time jobs.</p>
<p>But if you struggled this much in this semester, do you think you will be able to maintain a 3.5 in future semesters? Do you have the understanding of the foundational material (like calculus) that you will need to succeed in upper-level classes?</p>