Well I'm very depressed.

Not that I wasn't already...

Anyways, I just figured out what my grades may be this semester, and they're going to be at an all-time low. In one of my classes, it's not even going to make the "average" mark. Even with my other three classes, my GPA will be horribly low. I mean really, really low. It won't even matter how well I do in my finals or my final projects.

I'm going to have a double shot of whiskey now, then I'm going to shudder in the corner and figure out what the hell I'm going to do. :(

Do you think you're in the right major?

But it's too late to change. I have one semester left.

Happened to me, and I couldn't go to the school anymore. I was in the wrong major, it was *horrible*.

But I went to another school, and graduated. And I'm still alive.

Of course, I'm on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, and I have only mentioned that at DU 289798792378 times in the past two days.

Tell you what, I won't make you chose between pie and cake today.;)

but let me tell you a little secret: in the real world, you're GPA doesn't mean shit. It's just a number. What counts is what you know and how well you can apply what you do know. So chin up, I got a D and a few C's but I still made it and found a good job. You can do it too!

Nobody has paid any attention to my thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4421770&mesg_id=4421770

Except, finally, the ever-gracious Heidi.

Whiskey is probably not going to help. I like the advice from Robin Hood "get up, move faster."

Important note - as long as you graduate with a good major, grades do not matter squat. I graduated with a 3.45 or something and I now work as a janitor, after a string of even worse jobs or no jobs, because I majored in math, instead of something valuable in this country, like marketing.

:yoiks:

I never went to college so I can't really say I totally understand what it is like, but one semester of bad grades is nothing to freak about.

Life throws a lot of curve-balls your way and the best thing to do is accept them and keep moving forward. Life isn't really as hard as people think, all you really have to do is breathe. I have found that when I hit some bullshit in life it makes me feel like I am being challenged and it makes me a better person for it.

Have your shots of whiskey, sulk a few minutes then get your ass up and move on. It will be fine.

I used to get depressed about things until one day I thought.. "Hell, I'm 25 (or whatever) and I am still here. Nothing that I ever bummed out about has stopped time from moving on". I'm 41 now and still getting shit in life, but I don't take it so hard.

Good luck to ya. :thumbsup:

It's been a few semesters.

I'm teetering on the 2.0 mark (cumulative), so after this semester, I'll be below a 2.0. I think I did get into the wrong major, but it's too late to change. I graduate after the spring (if I decide to even go back).

Do yourself a favor and reach deep down within yourself to finish. For most of us what your major was in college is immaterial to what job you get. Unless you're in a more vocational major like nursing or accounting or engineering your major won't matter in the job market. Your employment will depend on how you sell or don't sell yourself.

I know it's easier said than done, but just make the changes you need to make. College is cool, but it isn't everything.

As I said, I never got a chance to go because we didn't have money so I went right out into the workforce out of high school. I am an Electrical Engineer now and it was a blast getting there. I'm not trivializing how you feel, I am just saying that things get better and they can work themselves out.

My GPA dipped below 2.0 and I was put on academic probation. I survived. But yeah, it does suck.

I chalk my own personal failings in academia up to the fact that I'm easily bored in courses that I don't find intellectually stimulating. Boredom leads to laziness.

And yes, like you, I have only one semester left and am just now realizing that I picked the wrong major. But a degree is a degree. I don't think I'll be doing anything in the field of history, so it doesn't bother me too much.

Anyway, have your whiskey (Single Malt? Double? Bourbon?) and regroup.

I've been battling depressing for about a year (bad family issues), and let me tell you...if the class wasn't interesting, I didn't do it. Period.

I showed up for tests, barely passed them, failed some...

I wrote papers without interest.

The only thing I liked was writing poetry. And in that class I dominated.

But that was it.

I don't know what to say, coz you know what it's like.

:hug:

depression and disinterest.

I've been depressed ever since I came to college, so it's been a miserable four years. Most semesters here have been less-than-stellar.

I don't know what to do, but I do know that I dont' want to be here anymore. I'll try to finish my work by the end of this week, but it's going to be quick and crappy, but at least it'll be done. :shrug:

I'm working on a paper about Augustine and Boethius' view on time and fate....blech :puke:

I'm tempted to write:

"Some old dead white dudes said God was eternal. 'Das it."

So even an "A" on a final project won't be of that much help? It could be, and it would show a considerable turnaround between now and the day of the finals.

In the class I'm having problems in, I failed a test that was worth 20% of my grade. I've failed to turn-in two homework assignments (out of four) and homeworks are worth 30% of my grade.

So yeah.

What can you guys do to help? I dont know. I just needed a place to vent my frustrations. I'll gladly take any advice offered, though. :) :shrug:

alone, and probably not eating right. You will get through it. It is a rite of passage and a lot of us have been through it or worse. If you are interested (and perhaps you are not) in feeling a bit better, you might try a couple of realativly healthy meals, some fresh air and a bit of moderate excercize. (a multi vitamin wouldn't hurt.) See if that doesn't help a bit. If you are TRULY depressed and feeling hopeless, please see a counselor at your school. See more than one if the first are idiots (a lot are, it's not you)

I know you have a bunch of work piled up. Try to finish one or two simple taske - it will make you feel better to have something accomplished. Sitting around worrying about your GPA isn't going to help. As people have already mentioned GPA doesn't end up meaning a whole lot in the real world.

after this semester for the 83495739048573 time.

I hope they accept the letter. :( :scared:

Current events have affected the minds as well as the pocketbooks of most of us, so there are more than a few students struggling.

You need to just keep working while you can, because a break is coming soon. You are NOT alone and you will make it. Get some Tazo Zen tea and a few Red Bulls and push on...:donut:

Peace :)

I know it's not comforting nor is it cheering in any way, but hang on and walk this path through. My disinterest got me carried to interest at one point; and I'm totally sure you'll reach this point too. It's a matter of time, nothing else.

Like everybody else said, your GPA won't really matter all that much in a real world.

my GPA mattered this semester because next semester, my GPA won't be least a 2.0 GPA, I won't be able to get the loan I need to pay my bills. :(

i've been there, done that too. as for bills, unless they're for food, utilities or your car, screw 'em. if you don't have one already, get a part-time job, any part-time job will do as long as you can squeeze it around your classes & study time. you are too close to the end to give up now (wrong major or not). senioritis bites--i should know because i got it 3 times, high school, undergrad & law school. if necessary, apply for public benefits.

if possible, try to complete at least one of the assignments you didn't, talk to your prof (if you haven't already), ask if you can take an incomplete & finish up over the holidays, something! even assholes who insist they'd never make an exception sometimes will make an exception. use the "i won't be able to get a loan to buy food, i just need to get my gpa to 2.0, help please" angle. as my dad always told me "you don't get the discount unless you ask for it."

most prospective employers don't give a rip what your gpa is, except the fancy-dancy ones, but you don't want to work for them anyway. if they ask about your grades, tell them you worked on them, tried to identify the problems you were having & what strategies you came up with to overcome them.

i wish there was a magic word i could tell you that would make this all go away, but it does eventually. don't give in to it, or you'll kick yourself in the ass the rest of your life. if you have to, go back & get another degree after you finish this one.

dg

I appreciate it. :) :hi:

My major is geology, btw.

don't know much about that field. take heart in knowing at least you know more about rocks than i ever will. ;)

dg

Or is it that a lack of interest or of aptitude in the other subjects is demoralising you? I'm a bit puzzled really.

I could never get sufficiently interested in the Arts subjects I studied even to read the set books, though I never missed a lecture. But if I'd had an aptitude for science subjects, I wouldn't have had that problem, because there's only so much room for b-s and no more, whereas in the Arts, particularly literature, there actually fashions of thought in the fields of criticism.

When I was studying. T S Eliot was the man as regards Shakespearean criticism, and to my way of thinking he was too pusillanimous to have begun to critique Shakespeare - though his use of words in his poetry is sublime.

and I still may be, but there's this certain prof (one out of three profs for my major) who knows how to take the interest out of everything...plus his bad mood turns me off in the subject.

at school. I can't prostitute my mind even for a lever of power, such as a degree, by learning by rote the opinions of sometimes half-baked critics and citing them, as if they were not barmy, but quite plausible because respected authorities on the subject.

But with a science subject like geology, it should be quite different. You should say, "Beggar him! I'll try to keep awake during his lectures, but basically I'm going to try and rekindle my old interest in geology and do my own research and study". If you can find a colleague you can confer with, too, that would be wonderful. I really hope you do.

I'm sure it can be very gratifying studying and in some measure mastering a subject you love. I was entranced just listening to an Aussie mate of mine and his pals sitting round a wee blackboard in his home, discussing likely questions in upcoming exams, etc. I didn't understand a blamed word, but I'm an enthusiast, and if I hear other people enthusing about something, that's it. My brain goes out the windowm as I listen spellbound to stuff I can't undestand! Go Err! Give 'em hell! show'em what you're worth!

It looks like there's a few of us that have been there. I know that there's not a whole hell of a lot anyone here can do or say, but at least know that we are paying attention, thinking about you, and hoping that you'll pull through this one okay. :hug:

And lemme tell ya, it really doesn't matter.

Last job I had I worked with a woman who had gone to the same school I did, had a similar major, and had like a 3.75 GPA and she was working the same job I was.

I was also terribly depressed my last semester in school. My social life was a total disaster, I had no friends, I had no money, my roommates were assholes, and I just buckled down, did the work, and toughed it out.

It's one of those things where you look back on it a few years down the road and things that seemed like a big deal really don't matter much in the aftermath.

A geology degree will open a lot of doors, and even if you think you don't want to be a geologist, there's a lot of related careers open to you. Even getting a science degree period will open doors that you don't know are there.

Stick with it, and if you need to vent, we're here for you. :pals:

Yeah, my semester has sucked. I've been majorly depressed. My anxiety levels have gone through the roof. My agoraphobia has even gotten really bad. I don't even leave my apartment anymore unless I have to go to class.

I'll try to finish my work by the deadline. I don't think I will, but I'll try.

Thanks for being there, XemaSab. It means a lot. :hug: :pals:

I had to finally change my major to get excited about my classes. I started out in nursing and while I really thought I'd look cute in the hat and all, I just wasn't in the least bit interested in sciences. Or wiping private parts.

What classes are you taking? What's your Major?

And I'm taking a tectonics course (regretting it now), an advanced glacial geology course, drugs and human behavior, and intro to piano.

The tectonics course is giving me the most stress. :(

and will get my masters in Creative Writing, once I get my act together. You have to will yourself to see it through, and do what you love. I mean that. I labored as a Comp Sci major for almost three years, until my destiny was changed, and a pasion for literature was birthed in my soul. You just can't let it get you down, though.

Even if you want to be there. I made it through nursing school, but I had to constantly remind myself that it was a choice and I could quit if I wanted to. For some reason, that always made me feel better.

One way or another, you'll get through this. No one will give a rat's ass about your GPA 5 minutes after graduation.

This too shall pass... :hug: Hang in there!