Hello,
I am new to these forums so please bear with me as I write my first post on my situation. Before my spring semester, I wanted to determine my problem areas that plagued me my first semester and recover properly.
Here's my situation:
I took 14 credits my first semester and received a 3.1 GPA. I got like 2 As, 1 B, 2 Cs, and a W (the W is because I kept sleeping in for an early college writing class that requires my participation and attendance, ended up dropping it because I wasn't being effective). The Bs and Cs are in 2 science courses and 1 mathematics course. I believe I didn't manage my time well enough, always ran out of time on the exams, still don't have good study methods, didn't understand/study material sufficiently, concerned myself with frivolous and dumb things, and became very stressed out which compiled and destroyed my psyche mentality towards the end.
I studied hard for my mathematics final but didn't do very well on it. I got really depressed after I calculated what I would receive for the course, a C+. Afterwards, I basically forgot in a way or was in shock of this fact to study for my other finals and ended up staying up all night to study for the other two science finals, one after the other. Easy to say, I didn't do very well on those final exams because I only studied something like 12 hours up to the exam. Got a B in one science course and a C+ in the other.
I hope I am not coming across as a pitiful pre-med who just started college in the deep-end. I am just looking for help as to how I can bounce back from this semester from those who may have gone and went through similar situations. I believe I can come back from this semester even if I am unaware of the DAMAGE my first semester has caused for my med admissions 3 yrs. down the line. Any advice, tips, etc. would be very much appreciated and I wish you all a very good cycle for those applying!
P.S. I am a first-year at Washington University in St. Louis
I am new to these forums so please bear with me as I write my first post on my situation. Before my spring semester, I wanted to determine my problem areas that plagued me my first semester and recover properly.
Here's my situation:
I took 14 credits my first semester and received a 3.1 GPA. I got like 2 As, 1 B, 2 Cs, and a W (the W is because I kept sleeping in for an early college writing class that requires my participation and attendance, ended up dropping it because I wasn't being effective). The Bs and Cs are in 2 science courses and 1 mathematics course. I believe I didn't manage my time well enough, always ran out of time on the exams, still don't have good study methods, didn't understand/study material sufficiently, concerned myself with frivolous and dumb things, and became very stressed out which compiled and destroyed my psyche mentality towards the end.
I studied hard for my mathematics final but didn't do very well on it. I got really depressed after I calculated what I would receive for the course, a C+. Afterwards, I basically forgot in a way or was in shock of this fact to study for my other finals and ended up staying up all night to study for the other two science finals, one after the other. Easy to say, I didn't do very well on those final exams because I only studied something like 12 hours up to the exam. Got a B in one science course and a C+ in the other.
I hope I am not coming across as a pitiful pre-med who just started college in the deep-end. I am just looking for help as to how I can bounce back from this semester from those who may have gone and went through similar situations. I believe I can come back from this semester even if I am unaware of the DAMAGE my first semester has caused for my med admissions 3 yrs. down the line. Any advice, tips, etc. would be very much appreciated and I wish you all a very good cycle for those applying!
P.S. I am a first-year at Washington University in St. Louis