Well next week begins my second semester of college and as with most people looking into the new year I hope it turns out better than the last. Sadly my slacking ways caught up with me in the end and my GPA suffered badly, but after weeded out those in my life who might have contributed to such poor grades and finding a new sense of direction I really feel as though this semester will have a better ending.
With this new semester I hope to bring my GPA to a 3.0 that way I will still be able to retain my HOPE scholarship. At first I was really disappointed in myself for letting this happen to my grades because there is no excuse for me not to have passed every single class. I had one English class, two Histories, a Philosophy course, and one Sociology. All in all not a lot of work for one semester.
Looking back on it what really messed me up was after the midpoint I got a little to confident in my grades and just stopped going to some of my classes. That REALLY messed me up because two of the classes did not have posted dates for their finals and by not going to class I missed the dates. In one of those classes I found out after the fact that just by missing the final alone you automatically fail the class, so whereas I could’ve took the final, failed, and get by with a C, now I just have an F for completely missing it.
Not so this semester. I now realize that although there is freedom in college in that you can do what you want, go when you want, and not be hassled by the teachers themselves it also means that you have to take responsibility for getting things done on time and being informed. My problem is that I assumed that even though I showed no initiative on my own to take the class seriously I still expected the professors to email me and keep in touch.. not so.
And by all means that is not their job to do so. If I want to be successful in college I need to finally do what I should have done years ago and start taking my studies seriously. I am used to just barely getting by, by why should I accept that when I KNOW I can achieve a whole lot better. So here’s to looking at Dean’s List at least by the end of my sophomore year!
