Today, in an attempt to get some guidance from my college advisor, I emailed her, saying I was contemplating going to another school because I felt so helpless about my GPA, and was sure I wouldn't get my major. I asked for advice on raising it. She gave me instructions on how to drop out. FML
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Today, my high school guidance counselor tried to convince me NOT to go to college, mainly because it's been so long since someone from my high school went to college, that she got rid of all the college information she used to have. FML
Today, I applied for college graduation. Turns out my advisor screwed me over and now I'm 1 credit hour short of getting my degree. Now I have to wait another semester and pay $3,500 just to take a one hour class on Bowling so that I can graduate. FML
Today, I got a letter confirming I had dropped out of college. I received this letter shortly after completing the 10th essay I had finished this week as a result of me deciding to finally apply myself to my schoolwork. Turns out that while dropping a class, I checked Drop All instead of Drop 1. FML
Today, I received an email from my professor informing me that if I missed another class, I'd be dropped from the course. I have field experience to complete tomorrow as part of my major. I emailed her two weeks ago to let her know, and we're excused by the dean. She doesn't care. FML
Today, my aunt asked me to change my major to a program I’m not interested in so her depressed son, my cousin, could have a study buddy. I’m in my last year of university and have been accepted to a master’s program. FML
Today, I asked to change my major at the college I'm transferring to in the fall. Instead of letting me change my major, they withdrew my acceptance. FML
Today, I dropped out of college and moved back home to help my mom take care of my younger siblings after our father's death. My mom yelled at me and scolded me and lectured me for throwing my life away, and said this was the last thing she ever wanted me to do. I thought she needed help. FML
Today, I went to see my guidance counselor. I was supposed to hear from my college about a scholarship by October 3rd. I was worried since it was already the 2nd so I went to talk to her. She never turned in my nomination. Goodbye $80,000 scholarship. FML
Today, I was supposed to have my advising appointment for my next semester of college. When I got to campus, it was windy and raining so heavily that my clothes were sopping wet within a minute of stepping out of my car. My advisor didn't show up. FML
Today, after dropping a class for the first time ever in college in order to focus on raising my grades, I failed the test that I dropped another course to study for. By not finishing on time. After 3 days of studying. FML
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DocBastard 38
Don't listen to her, and don't scream and Yale. Be as strong as an Ox,ford the stream, but don't go jumping off a Cambridge. You can be as rich as a a Duke or as famous as a Princeton, but getting good grades isn't that Harvard. Just study hard and eat a good meal, something like Brown Rice with Cornell.
RachelCamille 0
Maybe you should have been more direct. If you said you wanted to go to another school then thats probably what she took it as. If you just wanted more advice then just say that you need some advice.
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alyssa0921 0
hehe good one
wackywillie54 0
if you want to ask something just ask it don't be indirect and all hurt when they give you the answer you didn't want if you asked with an innuendo
calvin10 0
Study or drop out!! Another school won't do the trick..
alsjhegd 0
well she give good advice. why do people ask for how to raise their gpa or grades hahah its such a stupid questiom. do all your homework, study, try hard. there go dumbass. and why would you switch schools because of gpa. stupid
stevenmx86 7
That's an obvious attention grab I'd I've ever seen one... Kind of pathetic.. You should be happy, she obviously thinks you're making the right choice...
Sammara 0
1. Even if something bad happened, there's not really an excuse for a super low GPA. You'd be better off withdraw/passing in the event of an emergency than simply letting things slide. Or, if you're like most people I know with low GPAs, partying is not more important than classes. 2. Most advisers have very, very limited time and some of them were not interested in being advisers in the first place. (Some are wonderful, of course.) Chances are, yours skimmed your email, noted the part about considering dropping out, and answered that. You need to generally be very to the point with them. If you didn't want advice on how to drop out, you shouldn't have mentioned you were considering it. If your's is normally wonderful...take it personally, take the hint. If you haven't really had contact with your's before, or if your's is usually kind of all over the place, then don't take it personally and just pull your GPA up by things like studying and getting a tutor.
Amajean 7
What are your interests? Have you tried any career testing? The Myers-Briggs and Strong Interest Inventory are the ones my old college used. Advisors typically suck so blow it off
justintime66451 2
I can relate to this one :(
zarrah_fml 0
Either you meant to say "high school guidance counselor" or a LOT of people are misunderstanding including you, OP. Your college advisor is supposed to help you figure out your major/focus and get you signed up for the classes you need. So you've already been accepted to this college and emailed your COLLEGE advisor for help, right? A college advisor does not help high school students with advice on how to raise your high school GPA. You told the college advisor that you were contemplating going to another school. Therefore OF COURSE she gave you instructions on how to drop out of the college!! People are thinking that you mean your high school guidance counselor told you to drop out of high school and I don't think that's what happened. In that case there is NO FML here at all and I don't see how you think anything about this is anybody's fault but your own.
stevenmx86 7
Some advice on raising your gpa, do your ******* work and study...