Work your ass off your first year at college.

For all of you kids that will be heading to college soon, let me give you some advice. Make sure you make good grades that first year. You can go out every night, I did, but make sure you do what you have to do.

My first semester in college I made a 3.5 GPA and my second semester I made a 3.2.

Took the next year off and went back this semester. Well I really fucked up this semester and only passed one class. I ended up with a 0.79 GPA or something to that extent and my cummlitive gpa is at 2.00.

Talk about a lesson. One point lower and I would be on probation and all kinds of other shit. Now I'm at a 2.0 and can still hope to graduate with a GPA close to if not even a 3.0.

The moral of this story is this. Get as high a GPA as you can that first year, so if for some reason you completely lose motivation for a short time you won't completely screw up your GPA and may escape with out getting placed on probation and having a letter sent home to your mom.

I'm really happy right now, I've been so stressed out lately worrying and now I see it isn't has bad as I thought it was and come next semester I can hit the books again and get the hell out of school. ;)

I hope I get some weed tonight I really need to celebrate, this is a huge load of my chest. :rastabong:

that is really good advice. i made the mistake of not taking it having to work my ass off my second year just to get off probation. ill have probly a 3.3 or 3.2 this sem. well actually i wont, ill have 2 as 2 bs and one f. so whatever that gets. nonetheless ill be off probation. take his advice, its good.

Jagged Edge is right. I've seen plenty of freshmen crash and burn the first semester because they just don't show up to class, much less do the work- then they have to play catch up the next semester, and be on probation, etc. If is so much better to focus right up front, get it figured out, work out a system of time management, and then you can do well - which is the point, isn't it?

i want to be a botanist, im good at science. what majors should i take to insure that i get into that field of study?

botany would be my guess

well duh, i mean something else that could help me out big time

well you should probably look this up somewhere but id say biology i guess, but i really cant think of anything that could help you become a botanist more than botany

what field of science would genetic manipulation be under? biology maybe?

Truer words have never been spoken. :thumbsup:

Trust me.. kick ass your first couple years in college. THEY ARE THE EASIEST. Of course, your priorities need to be somewhat in order; you can't just get by with not studying and drinking every night, unless you're extremely smart.

My first year I made a 3.5 overall... went out 3-4 nights a week. Motivation problems DO happen.. shit happens and sometimes grades slip. I should be graduating college in 2 weeks, but due to circumstances I couldn't help this semester, I gotta take 2 classes over next semester.. pushing back my graduation til May and lowering my GPA as well. It sucks, but I'm glad my GPA is decent enough this won't put a HUGE dent in my average before graduating. I plan to make straight A's next. :D

I would give the same advice. My first year at college, I didn't do very well (my GPA first semester was a 1.98, and a 2.6 the second). I was constantly lazy and unmotivated (and, to think, this was BEFORE I started smoking pot). Well, the next year I decided to buckle down and study harder. I ended up with a GPA of 3.2 the first semester and a 3.6 the second semester (and this is about the time I started smoking pot regularly...take that, amotivational syndrome! :stoned:).

I just got done with my first semester of my third year today. Overall, I did fairly well (although not as well as what I would have liked). My official grades aren't in, but I know the average for this semester will be around a 2.8 .

Good luck next semester, JE.