Should I go through Formal Recruitment?

[Xidelt]

Oh, where to start......

First off, edit your post. You have given way too much personal info so that you could easily be recognized.

Second, take responsibility for your academic shortcomings. Quit blaming everyone and everything else. While family emergencies happen and your personal life can hamper your schoolwork, the one constant factor in all of your school stuff is you.

Pledge the library, the writing center, and the academic resource center on campus. Even if you qualified for rush or to receive a bid, balancing the time and commitment of a sorority would only further remove you from academics. You need strong study and time management skills before you get involved in anything on campus, greek or not. A sorority is not a magic fix for poor study skills or few friends.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Second, take responsibility for your academic shortcomings. Quit blaming everyone and everything else. While family emergencies happen and your personal life can hamper your schoolwork, the one constant factor in all of your school stuff is you.

This!

If you learn nothing else in college, please learn to at least take responsibility for your actions. It's one thing to have a bad semester because of a family issue, or to have a professor that doesn't mesh well with you and your style of learning. However, your GPA isn't just bad.. it's abysmal. That isn't due to anything else except the fact that you're simply not trying. Don't try and sugarcoat it. And don't act like you need a group of people around you in order to study well.

Figure out school and try to raise your GPA. Worry about a sorority only after you do that.

[MusicIsLifeMD]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Oh, where to start......

First off, edit your post. You have given way too much personal info so that you could easily be recognized.

Second, take responsibility for your academic shortcomings. Quit blaming everyone and everything else. While family emergencies happen and your personal life can hamper your schoolwork, the one constant factor in all of your school stuff is you.

Pledge the library, the writing center, and the academic resource center on campus. Even if you qualified for rush or to receive a bid, balancing the time and commitment of a sorority would only further remove you from academics. You need strong study and time management skills before you get involved in anything on campus, greek or not. A sorority is not a magic fix for poor study skills or few friends.

So what would you suggest removing, exactly?

I know that I've messed up, and let personal problems affect my school work. I don't think that that is ever going to change... it's just my personality. I stress too much about the things that are not as important as the things I don't stress for. I was raised in a household where homework and studying time was not given. Once I got home from school, it was time to clean... no exceptions.

My senior year was my best year in high school, due to having a part-time babysitting job. When I have a lot of commitments, I know how to spend my time wisely. But when I'm not doing anything other than school I'm not. That's why I think joining a sorority would be good for me. It won't allow me to have all the time in the world to slack off.

If I had just dropped all the classes that counted last semester, my GPA problem wouldn't be an issue. But, of course, it is now.

Thank you!