<p>I have a 3.5 GPA and made the Dean’s List twice and on great standing. However, this semester’s workload has really taken a toll on me. I just can’t keep up. I am so behind pace that in one class I submitted not 1 but all 3 essays past the due date, which penalized my grade.</p>
<p>In another one of my classes, the one I might allow myself to fail, I am extremely behind. Even though other issues contributed to this, I can’t stay it’s not my fault. My instructor puts his lectures online, and there’s no attendance policy, so I stopped going to his class. My plan was to catch up and listen to all the lectures in one day - but that never happened. Procrastination got the best of me, and here I am, finals week, far behind.</p>
<p>It is currently 4 AM and I have a test in this class at 8 AM. I don’t know any of the material. My plan was to study and cram all night. But then, as if that wasn’t enough, I discovered a homework assignment in the same class due online by 8. And right then, I knew I was screwed. It was 2 AM at this point, and there was no way I could finish a homework assignment, then study/cram for a test by 8 AM.</p>
<p>So while I have worked with close deadlines before, and have always pulled through, I realize this is just too much. I wrote an email to tell him how stupid it was to have the HW and a test on the same morning now allowing study time. I have decided it’s probably best to allow myself to fail the course, which would disappoint me but also relieve me a lot of pressure. I can just re-take it in the Spring and be a lot more prepared this time around.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts?</p>