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[33girl]

If anything else, this post shows a piece of info I wish I would have had my freshman year:

DROP A CLASS IF IT SUCKS AND WILL DRAG YOUR GPA DOWN.

If you can't understand the teacher, drop the class!! If you have an 8 o'clock and can never get up that early, drop the class!

Everything doesn't have a prerequisite. Take some other general studies course you will need at some point.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If anything else, this post shows a piece of info I wish I would have had my freshman year:

DROP A CLASS IF IT SUCKS AND WILL DRAG YOUR GPA DOWN.

I wish I knew this as well. My first semester GPA sucked for this very reason. Schools should really find a way to make it known to every student that dropping a class is possible.

That being said, after my first semester, I took one class for a second time with a new professor (and did extremely well), and I worked my butt off to bring my GPA up. I know many people who were in the same position I was, and that first semester was a learning experience and a huge wake up call.

[MusicIsLifeMD]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If anything else, this post shows a piece of info I wish I would have had my freshman year:

DROP A CLASS IF IT SUCKS AND WILL DRAG YOUR GPA DOWN.

If you can't understand the teacher, drop the class!! If you have an 8 o'clock and can never get up that early, drop the class!

Everything doesn't have a prerequisite. Take some other general studies course you will need at some point.

Believe me, I wish I had dropped the two classes I failed last semester. It would have left me with a 2.6, which I could have brought up this semester. The crazy thing? I wasn't even registered for them until two of my courses were dropped for not having the right prerequisites and my mom telling me I needed to taken them because she couldn't condone me only taking a part-time load. They were classes I wasn't interested in, but were available.