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.

yeah, i can study my ass off for an hour or two, forget what i studied and then remember it when i need to.

have direction too. im in my third year of going to a community college, but i havent picked a major yet. ive dropped a few of the classes ive taken, im not even sure how many credits i have. i think ive decided ill major in business management, and stick with working at grocery stores, and working my way to the top.

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Originally Posted by Lethal G

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.

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dude our stories are identical. i had a 1.98 exactly last year and this year i have damn near straight A's. you just have to figure out that there is a magic key to college and that is knowing what is expected of you. you dont have to do hella work but you need to do well on exams.

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have direction too. im in my third year of going to a community college, but i havent picked a major yet. ive dropped a few of the classes ive taken, im not even sure how many credits i have. i think ive decided ill major in business management, and stick with working at grocery stores, and working my way to the top.

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Haha exactly I have changed majors 3 times and have finally gone back to English. I figure it would open the most doors for me considering I'm still not sure what career I would like. I would be able to get a visa to live in Germany or maybe even the Netherlands (here I come amsterdam) for a few years teaching english. Decent way to get ouf this country.


I noticed on facebook the other day my major was listed as Finance and Marketing. I never even actually declared that major or taken a class twords it... It was just what I thought I wanted to do when I created the account.

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Originally Posted by JaggedEdge

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:

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sorry mate im not to sure about us colleges and what not but......so if your grades drop abit they call your parents???

isnt that abit harsh?

i mean cmon so what if your not as good as everyone else..........does that mean your in trouble? that sucks.


"oh no johnny's grade droped by 1 mark CALL THE POLICE! TAKE HIM DOWN!



i might be way off here it just seems abit harsh u know

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Originally Posted by chisme

sorry mate im not to sure about us colleges and what not but......so if your grades drop abit they call your parents???

isnt that abit harsh?

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A lot of colleges and universities in the US have some sort of probation period, usually a semester, they will put you on if your GPA drops below a 2.0. Whoever pays the university's bills and recieves statements and stuff will get the letter for the probation period, etc. So if your parents pay for your college and their mailing address is the one used, yep.. they sure will find out.

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Originally Posted by chisme

sorry mate im not to sure about us colleges and what not but......so if your grades drop abit they call your parents???

isnt that abit harsh?

i mean cmon so what if your not as good as everyone else..........does that mean your in trouble? that sucks.


"oh no johnny's grade droped by 1 mark CALL THE POLICE! TAKE HIM DOWN!



i might be way off here it just seems abit harsh u know

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No man, but my school sends you letters for everything. If your overall GPA drops below a certain amount you get placed on academic (If I spelled that wrong that would be very ironic) propbation. I think you have a certain amount of time to get your GPA up before they give you the boot. They send a letter out saying you are about to fail out of college (I think all that happens at a 1.5, so not very high standards.) You could just change your adress to where you live, but i never bothered to do that. I never get anyting important.

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Originally Posted by JaggedEdge

No man, but my school sends you letters for everything. If your overall GPA drops below a certain amount you get placed on academic (If I spelled that wrong that would be very ironic) propbation. I think you have a certain amount of time to get your GPA up before they give you the boot. They send a letter out saying you are about to fail out of college (I think all that happens at a 1.5, so not very high standards.) You could just change your adress to where you live, but i never bothered to do that. I never get anyting important.

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thats harsh.


where i am its like i go to clas you learn ...you take the test.....you get whatever

you just get what you get.

man i wouldnt fit in in the us

The US babies everyone, it's kind of sad. My college is a lot like a highschool. They take attendence by policy, but most professors don't care. They actually had a bill through the uni's congress proposing a ban on cell phones on campus. WTF? There would have been riots. They also mismanage money just like most highschools do. It works for me though. I need a boot in my ass from my mom still sometimes. I'm natuarlly an unmotivated person and still need someone to bitch at me to get my shit together.

I honestly don't disagree with it if the parents are paying the tuition. They do have a right to know how they are spending there money.

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Originally Posted by chisme

thats harsh.


where i am its like i go to clas you learn ...you take the test.....you get whatever

you just get what you get.

man i wouldnt fit in in the us

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thats why that system is better than ours, it places an emphasis on actually learning whereas ours the sole emphasis is on the grade and they dont care if you go away with no new knowledge.

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

I agree, get the best grades you can your first year and even the second year b/c it only gets tougher, alot tougher! once you reach the upper level division classes things start to suck. i will be graduating in may of next year and cant wait!

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

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yes, that is because a lot universities are far far more concerned with getting the money than kids learning, that is one thing being at college has taught me more anything

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

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Haha, yeah mine accepts pretty much anybody. The freshman class usually seems to make up about 40% of the entire schools population. Most of the professors are understanding at the school I go to and usually will not fail someone in biology if they are an english major and just trying to get their required bio 101 out the way. That is assuming you show up to class and turn in what is expected of you when it is due.

They fucked me with math though. They show professors names for every other class but the math classes. My first semester I had the best math professor who taught me I actually earned and A in that class and have never made an A in math in my life. Now when you register though the have a TBA for all the Math professors. I have dropped the class 2 times now because I got stuck with some dick who can't teach. I'm sorry, but as a college student I should have the right to choose which professor I want to take. :mad:

I had a bad problem with a calculus professor too... It was a combination of several factors; He was about 70, a German who had been living in Argentina like FOREVER so you can only imaging the accent when he was speaking English, he mumbled in the way that really old people do, and when he was writing out equations on the overhead projector his handwriting was so bad as to be totally illegible.. he should have just handed things over to his TA.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

I had a bad problem with a calculus professor too... It was a combination of several factors; He was about 70, a German who had been living in Argentina like FOREVER so you can only imaging the accent when he was speaking English, he mumbled in the way that really old people do, and when he was writing out equations on the overhead projector his handwriting was so bad as to be totally illegible.. he should have just handed things over to his TA.

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Haha, I had a buisness class like that. The guy was a graduate student from Africa. He had been in America for about 4 years now and his accent was so strong I couldn't understand anything. He would write the important things on the board but no one could read his hand writing. Finally I went up to him after class and asked him if he would man making a few power points or handouts with just an out line of what we were going over, he did and I passed easily. Really chill guy, I actually liked him once I was able to understand what was going on in the class. He had a lot of interessting stories.

It always seems with people like that you can understand the stories that have nothing to do with the class, but have no clue what they said when they are going over what will be on an exam.