<p>im recently getting back my grades and they are nowhere near where I expected them to be.
two of my classes in which i expected As, they are turning up as Bs, while classes that I expected Bs are turning out to be Bs as well.
Basically it seems like I only have one A in my ochem lab course. (with 4 other Bs (+/-) in all 3 unit classes)
I’m actually premed and I think this semester’s gpa is going to give me a blow. (my last semester’s grades were mediocre, bit better than this year’s but still not the best-Im a freshman and going to be a sophomore after summer) If I want to continue in the premed tract, I should be getting perfect all As starting from next semester and on.
I don’t know why I’m writing this here, because I have nobody else to blame except for myself for my grades since I know I slacked off pretty much all year except for like two weeks near finals. and I obviously realized that cramming like that does NOT work in college. and also i should have turned one of the courses into P/NP option.
oh well. so basically, I guess I would like to say to the incoming freshmen to never slack off. I really realized this the hard way. I mean cramming method has always worked for me up to like… maybe first semester at cal? I mean I even crammed every single AP tests a day or few days before the tests and managed to get 4s and 5s and never failed any of them…
Just remember that the most important thing is keeping up the work and actually going to all the classes. Before I came here, I never realized how lazy I could be. I mean, I had a week when I went to only TWO of my classes and they were discussions.
Although I heard this “never slack off” stuff from so many people before and during my freshman year, I never really had this kind of revelation until I actually experienced the consequences myself. Hopefully me writing here will awaken some people who are about to enter four years of agonizing journey at cal. I mean, I do realize some ppl will continue to do what they did before college and slack off and try to cram later on like I did. Maybe people like them have to learn it the hard way like me.
well, I’ll stop rambling and good luck to you, incoming freshmen, as well as continuing berkeley students who I know are struggling or working their asses off to survive in this hell.
HOPEfully I still have a shot at some med schools with this kind of freshman gpa. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>thanks for reading my pointless babble. I just had to let this out somewhere.</p>