<p>Basically…when you come to college no one cares about your self-esteem. It doesn’t matter how well you did in high school, you are on new grounds. </p>
<p>C’s and B’s here are not hard to get if you try hard. Sometimes people with natural aptitude for subjects will get these grades…it is pretty much guaranteed though that anyone who earned an A here was a hard worker if it’s in a STEM subject. Even if you’re trying your hardest and you’re pulling a C in one of the tough STEM classes here, that sucks if you’re trying to get into graduate school. If you’re hitting walls, you either find a way to knock them down, fail to do so, or just give up completely and switch majors. </p>
<p>I totally put my heart and soul into a problem set last week…I got a 55 on it. Although I cursed at this grade because it took me from a B to a C in the class overall, there’s nothing I can do about it other than do better on the next one and pray I kill the midterm.</p>
<p>Anything else at my college other than STEM it’s pretty easy to get an A and rarely do people ever get C’s if they did their work. C’s and below are most often a result of not doing anything or barely enough to pass. </p>
<p>C’s are terrible for your transcript. It will make you feel like crap when some questionable programs are posting higher average GPA’s than yours for graduate school.</p>