Self-Destructed my first quarter at university

[failing pre med]

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Transferred from community college with a 3.6 GPA. There was room for a lot of improvement over my community college days and I was hoping to do better here. Instead, I've compeltely sabotaged myself in my first quarter. I'm taking calculus, general chem II and intro to ethics. I'm doing well in math but failing the other two courses. I've been out-of-focus due to personal problems, indecision and constant self-doubt about what I'm doing. I fell behind in the first few weeks and just never really got with it. I got caught plagiarizing on a paper worth 20% of my grade in ethics (it was the inadvertent/sloppy type of plagiarism, i.e taking fragments of text from wikipedia without citing them), then pretty much gave up and quit the course - after the withdrawl date. The chemistry failure is heartbreaking because I like that course and tried hard, but froze up and bombed both mid-terms hard due largely to axiety. I could have passed both courses, but got frustrated over what could have been Cs and instead turned them into Ds/Fs. These issues are correctable, and I can do better in the future, but this quarter makes things really bad for me.. I would just prefert to withdrawl for the quarter and start over fresh, but since it's my first quarter here I would lose my registaration for summer and fall. So I have no choice but to take the lousy grades and lousy GPA if I want to stay here. It sucks, I'm demoralized, and I feel tempted to give up. If I quit now I'll never get back into this school. Anyone else ever gone through anything like this and recovered?

 

[blaithnaid]

Just finish the semester, light your grade report on fire, and sit back and watch it burn.

Once it's done, it's done.

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for the test anxiety: can you get provisions to take exams in a quiet space? even if just for a while?

personal problems: are you sure they're dealt with? do you have support?

So you tanked. It happens. The important thing to be sure you've figured out why and fixedit before you start another run of courses, especially BCPM.

 

[476515678234896]

calm down...retake the F's later. Transfer to an easier school if you need but make sure that you retake them for A's. Try to do your best this semester, ride it out, and fight each battle at a time. Take an easy next term with fluff classes and low units...just to get you back into the game w/ some confidence of a 4.0.

people have gotten into medical school w/ way worse.

best of luck!

 

[Alcibiades]

people have gotten into medical school with plagiarism issues? i highly doubt that.

 

[Danlee07]

Well if you can withdraw, i'd still do it.

losing summer + fall isn't that bad; you'd be saving yourself from C/D/Fs, and you can turn the break into meaningful extracurricular time with a certification class (phlebotomy, EMT) to get a clinical experience job, which is something i wish i had time for...

 

[GH253]

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[murfettie]

is the plagiarism reported to the dean and marked as academic dishonesty?
if the answer is yes, you are pretty screwed.
if the answer is no, and your professor just gave you a 0 on the assignment, you should really thank god for your good fortune.

 

[failing pre med]

nothing was reported, just flunked the paper

 

[blaithnaid]

people have gotten into medical school with plagiarism issues? i highly doubt that.

Edit was after/while posting, I think.

And yes, because they lie. Premeds are scummy people as a whole, if you take away the meagre context of their rationale.

Which isn't to say they get any better in medicine proper.


You need to redo ethics, post-haste. Really. Cheating on an ethics paper? Everything else can wait.

 

[murfettie]

nothing was reported, just flunked the paper

Thank god for your good fortunes......

You can come back from this with time.
I'm sorry this really suck.
I transferred as well, and it isn't easy.
Look at yourself honestly, try another major, another school. give yourself some time to adjust, don't be too ambitious the first semester/quarter.