Ignorance?

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Any of you screw yourselves over when you started college because of ignorance? I went to community college out of high school and did completely horrible, with seemingly no real knowledge of the consequence. I mean, obviously I knew an F was bad and an A was good, and I knew how to calculate GPA. But, for example, it never fazed me that a W would be seen as bad, since to stupid me it just seemed like what you did if you were doing bad in a course. I took a random course there in my second semester, didn't like it, and dropped it. 5 years later when I decide to go to pharmacy school and actually look at what real academic excellence is all about, I realized the "do's" and "do-not's" of academia. Going to CC without a clear cut major or goal contributed to this too. I took calc 1 and just stopped showing up for class around the beginning of the semester, thinking that they would "get the picture" and drop me from the course. Yeah, I'll admit that was an extremely stupid decision even as an ignorant fool. I just had the high school mentality where I had a guidance counselor and teachers who took attendance who would actually do something if I stopped showing up. Actually, I really don't know how to explain that away, it was just dumber than dumb, lol.

This isn't some kind of pity thread, rather something to look back on and maybe laugh at how stupid you might have been when you started this road to pharmacy. I look at myself now, married and at a 4-year university making A's in upper level classes, and it's literally like two different people over a span of 6 years.

 

[KMIMSM]

this very much pertains to me!
what is your overall gpa?
i started off with Ds, Fs, and Cs. Then realized pharmacy is what I want to be, and I realized I had to get 3.5 and higher to be competitive and managed to pull in As and Bs.
But man was i dumber than rocks. Glad I pulled togehther before too much damage was done. I had to take so many classes to make up for the cs ds and fs!

 

[joh0472]

My first semester of school my speech professor went on and on about how he flunked out of college with a 0.8 gpa but then went back and got his Ph.D. He told us we could retake classes and that would fix our gpa if we needed. Sometimes I hate teachers.

 

[Moni526]

Any of you screw yourselves over when you started college because of ignorance? I went to community college out of high school and did completely horrible, with seemingly no real knowledge of the consequence. I mean, obviously I knew an F was bad and an A was good, and I knew how to calculate GPA. But, for example, it never fazed me that a W would be seen as bad, since to stupid me it just seemed like what you did if you were doing bad in a course. I took a random course there in my second semester, didn't like it, and dropped it. 5 years later when I decide to go to pharmacy school and actually look at what real academic excellence is all about, I realized the "do's" and "do-not's" of academia. Going to CC without a clear cut major or goal contributed to this too. I took calc 1 and just stopped showing up for class around the beginning of the semester, thinking that they would "get the picture" and drop me from the course. Yeah, I'll admit that was an extremely stupid decision even as an ignorant fool. I just had the high school mentality where I had a guidance counselor and teachers who took attendance who would actually do something if I stopped showing up. Actually, I really don't know how to explain that away, it was just dumber than dumb, lol.

This isn't some kind of pity thread, rather something to look back on and maybe laugh at how stupid you might have been when you started this road to pharmacy. I look at myself now, married and at a 4-year university making A's in upper level classes, and it's literally like two different people over a span of 6 years.

I screwed myself over by not working so hard in college right out of high school, which made my GPA drop, and now I am struggling!