Getting over a hard post-bac semester

[Spikebd]

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I just finished another postbac semester and didn't do so hot. I'm all the way done with Ochem 1 and 2 and got a B and a B- respectively. I did well in the labs though! Haha. I have taken two biology classes so far (Bio 101 and Cell Bio) and gotten A's in both of them, and an A- in Gen Chem. I still have one more gen chem (bioanalytical chem) semester to go, and I have physics also. So there's still time to improve my postbac GPA and get it around 3.65-3.7

To others who have gone through postbacs and didn't get all A's, how do you recover from a down semester? Ochem is pretty rough. I still have 16 more credits to go in my postbac, and just may take biochem to try and show some more improvement.

And despite the poor Ochem grades im still going to be a TA this spring semester for Ochem 1.

 

[FutureDrB]

I just finished another postbac semester and didn't do so hot. I'm all the way done with Ochem 1 and 2 and got a B and a B- respectively. I did well in the labs though! Haha. I have taken two biology classes so far (Bio 101 and Cell Bio) and gotten A's in both of them, and an A- in Gen Chem. I still have one more gen chem (bioanalytical chem) semester to go, and I have physics also. So there's still time to improve my postbac GPA and get it around 3.65-3.7

To others who have gone through postbacs and didn't get all A's, how do you recover from a down semester? Ochem is pretty rough. I still have 16 more credits to go in my postbac, and just may take biochem to try and show some more improvement.

And despite the poor Ochem grades im still going to be a TA this spring semester for Ochem 1.

You're complaining about B's in Orgo 1 & 2 and the rest A's?! Come on now... While I understand the drive to excel, you certainly don't NEED straight-As and you certainly don't need to be down on yourself about those grades. Keep up the good work!

 

[scarshapedstar]

My postbac semesters were 3.75, 4.0, 3.75. I was one Physical Biochemistry 🙂scared🙂 exam question away from a second 4.0 🙁

But it was good enough! I'd say do whatever you can to manage one 4.0 semester to show you can do it. Obviously getting A's is always a brilliant plan... now a lot of people on here complain bitterly about Gen Chem 2, but those are often the same people who say Orgo is a cake walk. So you might do very well there. And Physics I... practice makes perfect, quite frankly, buckle down. Maybe you can get another bio elective since that's your best subject?

 

[Spikebd]

Yes, I have been doing well in Bio. I'm only enrolled in Genetics and Bioanalytical Chem this next semester so I really want to focus on getting A's in both of those and the labs as well. Then I'm taking summer school physics. I think I'm setting myself up well for A's. Yea I guess I just need to take a short winter break and then get back after it and not stress about the last semester. Maybe while I apply in 2012 I can take biochem and and upper division Bio elective like immunology or physiology.