Just failed out of College, time to join the Military

[SheWantTheD]

How many semesters were you put on academic probation?

Looks like I'm gonna fail 2 out of my four classes.

I think you gotta be on academic probation for like 4 semesters in a row before they kick you out for like a year.

I'm gonna spend part of my summer working my ass off on Calculus 2 and Chemistry. I only failed one class

last year though, rest were Cs because I didn't put in the necessary work plus one of the classes were hard as shyt.

I dropped one also last semester and didn't know I could sign up for a 1-2 credit course mid way into the semester.

No way in hell I'm gonna commit this kind of blunder again.

Like someone said, go to your dean or someone and beg like a motherfukka, that you will change your shyt up. Tell them that you will even take some kind of procrastination workshop or class.

 

[unit321]

Was on academic probation, had to get my gpa above a 2.0 by the end of this semester or they were going to kick me out for 1.5 years. Due to some crap that happened I ended up missing 3 weeks of class which caused me to fail my final exam. Barring a miracle my overall gpa is going to be at about 1.85 at the end of this semester.

Time to join the Marines, if they'll take me.

Have you thought of switching majors to something that would interest you more.
Read the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" It's about finding what kind of job/career suits your personality. Then, find a major that will help you get the job that suits you. Just as an example, you might like being an accountant, so you would switch to be an accounting major. Or maybe you might like being a lawyer. Then, there are several majors to take as an undergrad, but you would then try to get into law school.

 

[Reginald Noble]

Welcome to the dark side of STEM brehs

Unfortunately the stories of those who couldn't make it, they don't tell you about those.

You should know if you'll be ready for Engineering by the time you complete Junior year in HIGH SCHOOL Math/Science though. If you bad at Math AND Science it's usually a wrap. I would say only attend for Accounting or some soft shyt where you don't need to be good at ADVANCED math but you need to stick as closely to STEM as possible.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Welcome to the dark side of STEM brehs

Unfortunately the stories of those who couldn't make it, they don't tell you about those.

You should know if you'll be ready for Engineering by the time you complete Junior year in HIGH SCHOOL Math/Science though. If you bad at Math AND Science it's usually a wrap. I would say only attend for Accounting or some soft shyt where you don't need to be good at ADVANCED math but you need to stick as closely to STEM as possible.

Yep. At my school only 1/5 of students who enter the engineering program actually get a degree in engineering. You really have to sacrifice a lot of your time and life studying. I mean you can still have down time but you really really have to be on top of things. It's like you never feel you can study enough and you can't even really take a week or more off to just slack around. Heard someone in my circuits course last semester say they're switching to religious studies shyt is making dudes find God and shyt.

Anyone OP I wouldn't give up and I would eventually come back to it. The military might be a good fit and maybe you can pick it back up at another school while in the military. I'm a returning student after working and getting another degree previously. Working for a while in a stressful job definitely gave me a leg up on he amount of work I have to do with my degree and perhaps the military will give you the grit to get through it a second time around. A lot of high schools just coming in with all these AP courses and accolades out the ass are failing classes at my school when it comes to engineering. It's because highschool was relatively easy and they don't know how to operate when they're out in the world alone for the first time and have no one watching over their shoulder to make sure they're doing the amount of work necessary.


Though you did say you had some personal issues that occurred but I think that means even more you should come back around to it because it wasn't an issue of the work right?

 

[Reginald Noble]

Though you did say you had some personal issues that occurred but I think that means even more you should come back around to it because it wasn't an issue of the work right?

#1 reason Black and Latino students fail out compared to White students is these "personal issues" AKA baby momma drama, financial obligations to support relatives who guilt trip young people and can't pull their own weight so their kids can excel without a high burden (they already have enough of a burden with the student loans they have to take out) and being born behind the start line period with no advantages.