Hi Everyone, new member here and I come asking for advice.
My first year of college, I screwed up big time! However I had realized what my mistakes were and had planned to do things differently my second year. However fate would have a different plan for me, in the form of one of the most horrible creatures to ever exist - bed bugs. The summer after my first year, bed bugs started to invade our home. At first slowly, but by the end of the summer it had reached epidemic levels. I could not sleep during night time at all. I kid you not, these are some of the most horrid creatures to ever appear on the face of the planet. After that summer, I was in pretty **** shape
. Not being able to sleep at night does this to you. It ruins your schedule, your life, everything. I could not lie down for more than half an hour without itching bite marks that made me look like a fallout survivor. However second year soon started, and things didn't get any better. I was still physically exhausted from that summer, and moving to the dorms didn't help out too much. I was still constantly tired which led to bad grades. Moreover bed bugs a couple months later started appearing on the university campus, most notably in the dorms Add this in to all the other factors, and this led me to doing relatively poor in my second year also, though not as bad as first year. Now I'm a third year, in pretty crap shape, and I come asking for advice.
My GPA right now is a 2.6 I'm working on improving this, but it can only go up so far. I have began to look into options of what I could do i.e. postbac, SMP, retaking classes and so forth. I have not taken the MCAT's yet, however I have completed most of the core science classes with the bad grades, though I'm taking more science classes. I have started volunteering in a hospital, am looking to get into research (I know its really late) and am active in a few student clubs. In addition I have started to work this past summer.
Now I come asking what would be the best option for me. I honestly feel as if the bedbugs had never happened i.e. had I been able to get proper rest, I would have been in much better shape mentally and been able to perform a lot better my second year. I'm not sure if the adcoms would take that into consideration though. I understand what my mistakes were and am truly working to improve, however I feel as if my poor first year along with the events of the second year has derailed me What would you guys advice?
My first year of college, I screwed up big time! However I had realized what my mistakes were and had planned to do things differently my second year. However fate would have a different plan for me, in the form of one of the most horrible creatures to ever exist - bed bugs. The summer after my first year, bed bugs started to invade our home. At first slowly, but by the end of the summer it had reached epidemic levels. I could not sleep during night time at all. I kid you not, these are some of the most horrid creatures to ever appear on the face of the planet. After that summer, I was in pretty **** shape
. Not being able to sleep at night does this to you. It ruins your schedule, your life, everything. I could not lie down for more than half an hour without itching bite marks that made me look like a fallout survivor. However second year soon started, and things didn't get any better. I was still physically exhausted from that summer, and moving to the dorms didn't help out too much. I was still constantly tired which led to bad grades. Moreover bed bugs a couple months later started appearing on the university campus, most notably in the dorms Add this in to all the other factors, and this led me to doing relatively poor in my second year also, though not as bad as first year. Now I'm a third year, in pretty crap shape, and I come asking for advice. My GPA right now is a 2.6 I'm working on improving this, but it can only go up so far. I have began to look into options of what I could do i.e. postbac, SMP, retaking classes and so forth. I have not taken the MCAT's yet, however I have completed most of the core science classes with the bad grades, though I'm taking more science classes. I have started volunteering in a hospital, am looking to get into research (I know its really late) and am active in a few student clubs. In addition I have started to work this past summer.
Now I come asking what would be the best option for me. I honestly feel as if the bedbugs had never happened i.e. had I been able to get proper rest, I would have been in much better shape mentally and been able to perform a lot better my second year. I'm not sure if the adcoms would take that into consideration though. I understand what my mistakes were and am truly working to improve, however I feel as if my poor first year along with the events of the second year has derailed me
What would you guys advice?
