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Hi,
I decided to post here instead of DO or Pre-dental (my two main interests) because I feel like there are better responses here. If this is offensive, please let me know and I will promptly remove. I just wanted more feedback and I found this forum to provide great advice (not to negate the others) so I hope there is no offense taken.
I am currently taking:
Biology 102 (second half of general biology) with lab
Physics (introductory physics) 201 with lab
Organic Chemistry (first semester) with lab.
In the beginning, everyone around me was telling me that it's completely do-able and won't be hard if I can hack the time management. I created an hour by hour schedule and plotted out time to study. However, I find that I am literally drowning every single week. In the very first week I spoke to my organic professor and sought advice on if I should keep this class schedule and she was telling me it's manageable and I could do it if I worked hard. Likewise, the second and third week when I was feeling overwhelmed my other professor's gave similar responses. I ended up quitting my full-time job in order to fully dedicate my time to these classes. However, I am still performing badly. Even when I try to organize my time I find that basically s*@t happens (sorry for cursing) and I'm never as prepared as I need to be. I feel as if for example it would take an average person 8 hours to study it would take me 16 and I don't have time to be prepared for these classes. I basically survive day to day getting through the day, there's no time for me to prepare for the next lecture or re-write my notes etc.
On all of my first exam's I failed every single one. In the 40's on every single one which was gruesome. Luckily I could drop an orgo exam. After that I decided before the next exams I would make sure to attend all optional student instructor (SI) sessions and try to prepare as much as possible. I have been attending SI's 3x a week even often being the only student there. I thought I would be in a better place for the Exam 2's however in class today for organic the instructor gave us practice problems and I wasn't able to start it right away without looking at my notes and she said "If you guys do not know how to begin this problems at this point in the game, I feel really sorry for you". Of course I had to be the one who didn't know how to start.
Then I attended the Biology SI where she gave us a practice exam and I also didn't do well and the SI instructor said "Dude how do you not know these? These are so easy just memorize them, your course load isn't even that hard. Quit being lazy and suck it up."
The thing is...I'm trying. I really am, I just feel overwhelmed. I have the Biology exam tomorrow and the Orgo Exam Thursday. The last day to drop classes is October 26 however I already have about 8 W's on my transcript (4 from an advisor screw up) but the other 4 just by my own fault. They were in important pre-requisite classes so I really think I am knocking myself out of the game.
Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!
I decided to post here instead of DO or Pre-dental (my two main interests) because I feel like there are better responses here. If this is offensive, please let me know and I will promptly remove. I just wanted more feedback and I found this forum to provide great advice (not to negate the others) so I hope there is no offense taken.
I am currently taking:
Biology 102 (second half of general biology) with lab
Physics (introductory physics) 201 with lab
Organic Chemistry (first semester) with lab.
In the beginning, everyone around me was telling me that it's completely do-able and won't be hard if I can hack the time management. I created an hour by hour schedule and plotted out time to study. However, I find that I am literally drowning every single week. In the very first week I spoke to my organic professor and sought advice on if I should keep this class schedule and she was telling me it's manageable and I could do it if I worked hard. Likewise, the second and third week when I was feeling overwhelmed my other professor's gave similar responses. I ended up quitting my full-time job in order to fully dedicate my time to these classes. However, I am still performing badly. Even when I try to organize my time I find that basically s*@t happens (sorry for cursing) and I'm never as prepared as I need to be. I feel as if for example it would take an average person 8 hours to study it would take me 16 and I don't have time to be prepared for these classes. I basically survive day to day getting through the day, there's no time for me to prepare for the next lecture or re-write my notes etc.
On all of my first exam's I failed every single one. In the 40's on every single one which was gruesome. Luckily I could drop an orgo exam. After that I decided before the next exams I would make sure to attend all optional student instructor (SI) sessions and try to prepare as much as possible. I have been attending SI's 3x a week even often being the only student there. I thought I would be in a better place for the Exam 2's however in class today for organic the instructor gave us practice problems and I wasn't able to start it right away without looking at my notes and she said "If you guys do not know how to begin this problems at this point in the game, I feel really sorry for you". Of course I had to be the one who didn't know how to start.
Then I attended the Biology SI where she gave us a practice exam and I also didn't do well and the SI instructor said "Dude how do you not know these? These are so easy just memorize them, your course load isn't even that hard. Quit being lazy and suck it up."
The thing is...I'm trying. I really am, I just feel overwhelmed. I have the Biology exam tomorrow and the Orgo Exam Thursday. The last day to drop classes is October 26 however I already have about 8 W's on my transcript (4 from an advisor screw up) but the other 4 just by my own fault. They were in important pre-requisite classes so I really think I am knocking myself out of the game.
Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!