<p>3.75!??!? Wow. D is at a 3.0 school, which is fine.Even the 3.5 would probably be fine, but a nail-biter. For us the problem hasn’t been the academics per se. It’s more about learning to live on on her own and manage her own life along with some depression that started at college. And how that affects the academics.</p>
<p>A 5X/week required class offered only at 7:30 am and she is a sleeper. Not remembering to actually go to the dining hall and eat, letting the blood sugar get so low that it is hard to get moving by the time you realize you are half-starved. Not carefully reading syllabi to really understand attendance policies and submission deadline times for documents submitted electronically. And waiting til the last minute to submit when computer jams up. Not taking lights /helmet on an evening bike ride so that an accident left her bruised and scraped for a couple of weeks. Not getting flu shot as mom repeatedly advised from a distance. And on and on. These are the hard things, not the actual course material. Not making needed doctor appts., etc. All this stuff interferes with the 4.0 that was so easy in HS. </p>
<p>A lot of kids don’t have any trouble with these ordinary life steps, are very mature and ready for everything. But that was not how things went freshman year for D. And I suppose I could have predicted that. Should’ve listened to the faint whispers in the back of my mind and kept her home, had her attend the flagship down the street while she took a couple more needed years to grow up. </p>