I'm a second year student... was originally a psych major, then art major and now back to psych. It took me a while but I've realized I absolutely love psychology. I know the jobs available for those only with a BA or BS is very limited in psychology, so I want to go further. I think it would be great to do research or even work in a clinical setting.
However, I really don't think I can cut it. I study as hard as I can but my grades aren't so great... right now I have about 72% average overall... Working my butt off in a biopsychology course and only have about 73 which I had to retake because I failed miserably the year before.. I had a really rough year where I was diagnosed with depression and put on medication, and by the time I started to feel better there was no time to improve my grades.. I was so depressed I wanted to drop out... But anyway, I don't think I have the time or the intelligence to bring up my marks. I don't think I'm not smart, but high school was so easy for me, and now I find myself struggling to get average grades after studying so hard my head hurts.
Does anyone have advice? I want to take a few years off once I get my Bachelor's to sort things out and get some work experience.. but I'm afraid I won't have the grades to pursue grad school anyway. I also don't even think bringing my marks up will help.. if there is any field I want to go in so far it is the biological side of psychology, but I have no science background (only took it up to grade 10 in high school), so my knowledge in biology and the other sciences is greatly lacking..
(Sorry for the long post... but any advice would be greatly appreciated)
However, I really don't think I can cut it. I study as hard as I can but my grades aren't so great... right now I have about 72% average overall... Working my butt off in a biopsychology course and only have about 73 which I had to retake because I failed miserably the year before.. I had a really rough year where I was diagnosed with depression and put on medication, and by the time I started to feel better there was no time to improve my grades.. I was so depressed I wanted to drop out... But anyway, I don't think I have the time or the intelligence to bring up my marks. I don't think I'm not smart, but high school was so easy for me, and now I find myself struggling to get average grades after studying so hard my head hurts.
Does anyone have advice? I want to take a few years off once I get my Bachelor's to sort things out and get some work experience.. but I'm afraid I won't have the grades to pursue grad school anyway. I also don't even think bringing my marks up will help.. if there is any field I want to go in so far it is the biological side of psychology, but I have no science background (only took it up to grade 10 in high school), so my knowledge in biology and the other sciences is greatly lacking..
(Sorry for the long post... but any advice would be greatly appreciated)