I got my final grades back and to say I'm disappointed is an understatement. I feel like the biggest failure the world has ever seen. I can't recover, I just can't. I'm angry and so so humiliated. Just the thought of school makes me want to cry. I used to love school and studying. Now I don't ever wanna think of school again. I hate it. It makes me feel inferior and so little. I used to be so good in school. I KNEW college would be hard. I guess im not smart, otherwise I never would've allowed myself to get these shitty results. Now I don't even have any redeeming qualities. I'm not interesting or smart anymore. Why bother going to college and killing myself at studying day and night until literally becoming sick when all I get is a stupid shitty mark? Like atp I don't even wanna show up lol it's fucking pointless. I fucking hate myself and I've never been this frustrated and embarrassed before.

I NEED a good gpa for grad school. It's not an option. But at this point I doubt I'll ever finish with even a 3.5. I'm so embarrassed... I can't stop crying. All my friends did so good and then there's me with my stupid shit ass gpa lol I hate my life. I feel like some common little idiot for falling into this trap and nearly failing a class. I just wanna hit myself in the head lol

Tldr : I got shitty ass results and now I don't even want to try to be better next semester. I've lost all my interest in school.

I (19M) started college at my local community college, a 2 year school. I chose what they call Behavioral Science: Psychology as my degree plan. So far, I'm not sure what I should do. I was interested in Psychology because I'm passionate about learning how people work and why they do what they do. Ideas and science behind it. So far, I feel like I've not learned anything I actually care about or will use in the future. I want to be a counselor, specifically a school counselor. At least, that's what I want out of this goal (Meaning, what I really want in life doesn't have much to do with college, which is acting). I've had one class that I really loved and felt taught me a lot but that's it. It feels like I'm wasting time.

All of this and also, I've heard terrible things about Psychology as a major, mainly being how lackluster it is for the job market. I'm not an overachiever (I'm lazy and tired) and don't want to really pursue my education further than a Bachelor's, at least right now. I'm wondering if I should change my major despite being so far in. Truthfully, I want to finish at this 2 year school (because I hate it) and then change my major when I transfer. Is this a good idea? I don't know what to do, my advisors are not helpful and truthfully I feel doomed.

Lastly, I have gone over every program my school offers and I can't pick a new one, which also bars me. I was thinking of just switching path to Human Services but, people keep suggesting Nursing. However, as I said, I'm not a hard-worker and I know a friend who's going through hell with her nursing classes.

Making and keeping friends is impossible. For years I tried every piece of advice , joining numerous clubs, going to events, cold approaching, therapy , finding hobbies, etc. yet Ive never been able to keep a friendship.

Always put myself out of the comfort zone just to get rejected or left behind while everyone else had fun and enjoyed their youth. Another five years wasted with only bitterness and regret. Just reminders of how much a social failure I am

TLDR: wasted my college years socially despite trying everything

Okay so I had a calc class this semester (dual enrolled in my last year of HS), and tbh I’d aced my other dual enrolled classes so I thought this would be easy.

Boy was I wrong lol, I got a 55 in the first quiz. Learned real quick I was not gonna be able to cruise through it. Starter using flash cards, doing dozens of practice problems per day, and it paid off!! I got an A :D

tl:dr: hard work pays off

My semester ended on the 12th and none of my final grades have been put in yet. Some of the classes on canvas disappeared before major grades could be put in, so I don’t really know what my grade will look like or the specific grades on those assignments. Is this normal? I guess I’m just used to grades from my other school being put in way sooner. I tried reaching to a professor, but I’m just getting automated emails stating that they won’t be checking their email. I don’t want to pester them given it is break so I guess I’ll assume everyone’s busy right now, but I’m a bit anxious since I need to maintain a 3.0.

Update: the registar got back to me and let me know grades will be posted the 1st!

1st post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/lBLNepNGWu

2nd post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/QDfUWzB3C4

So, I just had a meeting with my professor. She did look at my evidence and read the forensic analysis of my writings.

She is going to proceed with the misconduct report. She will not be withdrawing it and is still confident moving forward “based on my [her] extensive time and experience teaching” (keep in mind she only saw me for 30 minutes twice the entire semester and canceled all other meetings and her extensive experience that makes her a human AI detector that “just knows” is 6 years teaching as a visiting professor at differing institutions; only 2 of which AI has even existed for).I will be contacted by a committee after the start of the semester.

It was done over personal cell phone call, and I was not allowed to have an advisor present (heavily implied and prevented but not outright disallowed I guess). The email from her I mentioned at the end of my last post sounded vaguely threatening and said I’m not following the process correctly, I’m supposed to meet with her only first, and if I don’t she will consider said email our communication on the matter and move forward.

She said she “would be happy” to meet with an advisor at a later stage, only after January 7th, but unless I met with her myself by the 31st she would proceed. Only to have her proceed anyway.

She is now claiming everything I did was AI. This is despite the fact I provided a forensic analysis including almost 40 of my works confirming I have a specific writing pattern and vocabulary that trigger high AI, even before AI existed.

Of course I don’t have proof for a 2-3 paragraph short answer essay about something I personally witnessed between a former coworker and HR from 6-7 years ago that I wrote about and stuff like that that required no sources nor research, I guess I could ask said coworker to verify the validity of my story, however, it would be pretty awkward to essentially be like ‘hey, remember in 2017 when we worked at ____ and everyone was racist as hell about your accent and Spanish being you’re first language? Well I did an assignment for human resource management based on it and need you to get involved or I lose $50k. Assignments were this or shorter. Apparently even my 2 sentence exam answer is AI. I’m done for I guess?

Edit:

I also realized a major mistake in my paper that might help. I have 2 pages talking about “qualitative” data… followed by listing all of the quantitative data, and vise versa. That’s not a pages long mistake an AI would do; completely mixing up the definition of qualitative vs quantitative and putting the wrong type of information under each.

It makes me wonder if she actually read it, or all of it, like she just claimed she did on the phone, in order to ‘just know’ because ‘experience teaching.’ The major definition mistakes where I confused my qualitative and quantitative data started on page 9.

Edit 2:

I specifically asked about doing an oral examination of my paper and class work to prove my knowledge and authorship. I offered to do it right now over the phone. She said no. I also offered to do it in person with nothing in front of me, not even notes, to prove I can do it with a guarantee I have nothing in front of me.

She said no that is not an opinion either. That wouldn’t be fair since the examination would still be based off of written work that I could study beforehand.

Edit 3:

I saw some comments that brought up a good point.

1. There are no hallucinated sources. All of my sources contain the ISBN or DOI, plus the links to get to them. Even my PDF sources I included the links to download. You can literally go from my reference page or bibliography straight to opening the source itself I used in just one click.

2. Many of these sources I got from Ebscohost through the school library on my student account.

Some professors are so mean and conceited. I don’t even think they see us as human sometimes. I feel like my efforts are diminished and my flaws are magnified. I’m not happy here.

I'm [22M] currently an undergrad research assistant at a new media art program. I've been helping my professor on various theater projects. It can be very casual and nice, I don't have many friends so I really appreciated this space. I actually could get up and work on a project without any stress about everyone hating me.

Now it's my senior year and i just want to be done. My ex girlfriend's old roommate (and my former friend) is now my coworker. Everyone loves them. They're so cliquey, always joking around when we're trying to work. And they just exclude me, when they have a conversation and I try to jump in I just get ignored.

They've gone so far as to laugh at a joke I made (while trying to join in) and then immediately turn around (literally) and continue playing off of it. I just wish we could go back to when they weren't here.

We're currently on this one project and it's just more of the same. I'm on break right now and I can't stop thinking about when we're all supposed to "go out for drinks" when this is over. I fucking hate that I can't enjoy this social element that I used to. I just dread this social outing and whenever I try to write I just get so demotivated.

Should I mention this to my professor? I don't want to cause drama or even ruin the people's reputation. I'm just tired of getting invited to these things I can't enjoy. I know it's probably best to just move on and not say anything, but we've been so personal in the past. I just feel like there's this wall now.

Relationship context: Freshman year I had a very serious relationship and it ended horribly. She hit me and ruined my relationships with all my current friends at the college. She said that I was sexually assaulting her, even though I tried my hardest to listen to her and discuss what we wanted to do. I would rub her clit too hard and I didn't know it hurt. I didn't know what I was fucking doing and I was begging her to be honest and let me know if I ever fucked up.

I'm an idiot I know. She told me that when she said stop she just meant to "chill out, but keep going" and I would. I'd go back after a minute or so, not realizing that it was painful, and she wouldn't say anything.

It was her first relationship (first everything), but it wasn't mine, so I would check in and try to make sure everything was fine. She would always say it was, and I believed her.

After having sex with more people I realize I shouldn't have believed her and broke it off much sooner. She was always saying I was doing fine and didn't cross any of her boundaries, I know the value of a genuine conversation too. I wasn't just asking for asking's sake, I wanted to hear how she was doing and if I could improve.

I had a huge mental breakdown after the breakup. She was constantly cutting herself, every second I wasn't with her she was going to commit suicide. Genuinely, I had to put so much effort into keeping her alive. When we broke up she begged for my dad's gun so she could kill herself. She texted me how she was going to crash her car when she was driving home.

The breakup was when she hit me, as well as smashing a glass of water. Since then she's posted my name and called me an abuser. She's texted my only remaining friends and told them to drop me. Kept trying to interact with my mom and tell her about "everything I've done".

I've learned what I can from the situation, but I'm just surrounded by reminders at school. It creeps into my personal and artistic life too, I want to work on these projects and enjoy this work setting. But seeing her old roommates just brings me back.

I just feel their eyes just burning into me, I know they've all talked about it at this point.

Here's to college, best years of our lives. I just wish I took a gap year so I didn't meet any of these people. I have absolutely no friends at my college, only horrible memories. The only person I hang out with is my girlfriend, I fucking hate it here.

Unnecessary power play with a clique on a campus regarding a friend who was alone for a couple of months before I bumped into them. He overheard a bunch of light haired guys at the corner of the computer room they were going to tell staff my friend had sexually harrassed one of their girlfriends to get people like him kicked out because they don't think he belongs there. This was months ago though. Then I tried sharing advice on how to deal with something like that on this subreddit earlier and around three on this subreddit thought I was talking about myself and attempted to jump me in the comments.

I'm personally about to graduate so I feel it's out of my hands with how staff help people like my Asian friend idk. I feel emotionally tired how if someone tries to speak up for someone else you get accused of being their aggressor and just as bad as the person being victimised, so you both deserved to get kicked out?? What kind of reasoning is that?

But that happens more often than you think because the actual aggressors keep to themselves apparently and are level-headed about it, but do not give people like my friend any peace of mind. Those guys will choose to linger there, but my friend alone cannot speak up about why that makes him feel bad because he cannot put it to words why something like that upsets him. Because I hear this argument a lot: he should keep to himself. I might think so too. And I should keep to myself by not speaking about this at all. I can describe that group harrassing him because I passed by them moving next to the corner of the book room (not a library, it's a small corner with some small bookshelves/magazines one can go over) next to the cafeteria while my friend was just there one time before I had to head to class. Barely anyone was at the cafeteria but there were enough for others to talk to each other, but those guys were noticeable enough from the corner of where my friend was I know they know my friend can hear them.

And if they saw me talk to him, as someone that only recently started talking to people in-campus and not just my friends in the city who don't go to my college, should I be concerned about what happens? I'm graduating soon, so I feel the sooner I'm done the better. But what about people like my friend? And yes, I do know what a complaint form is... but my ability to describe those people are quite faded by this point as I'm just trying to get through and prepare for the "exhibition week" for my solo thesis project and my friend seems to not know how to accurately describe that clique either. And no clue of their names either. But they do know his.

...I can just write pre-emptively to staff that the guy might end up getting accused of something serious by a group of people that attend campus who don't like people "that look like him" because that's what my friend says. But I don't think I'd like to get involved any further since I'm about to graduate. I'm also not comfortable sharing any more information about myself or my friend here because that's often just a quick way to derail why I'm sharing this which is that:

There's lot of people like my friend here I've come across in my life and often times people just sit there and watch it happen. Does one have to look like my friend to speak up or be his friend? I kinda feel sorry for the guy. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I graduated earlier and never met that guy at all. Just a college rant.

ETA the TLDR i forgot: i am struggling to afford food when at school due to my college's wack ass food accessibility and i don't know if i can handle another semester like this

hi there! i'm sharing here because i just want to get this off my chest. it's something that has been affecting me for a while now. i am adding in a trigger warning for disordered eating because nothing about this is ok or normal and it could be upsetting.

i am a first generation, low-income freshman and will be heading back to school in a week, and i am honestly really nervous. my meal plan is incredibly generous (unlimited at the two dining halls on campus and one meal swap per day), but i am really nervous about being able to eat.

i am an autistic student with restrictive eating and a food allergy (ginger); it's hard for me to find food that i can eat without feeling horrible. there is one dining hall that i go to all the time near my dorm that is actually decent but it closes at 10pm. on the other hand, there is another dining hall on the complete other side of campus that has horrible food and has a history with food poisoning that closes at midnight. there is also a little market by dining hall #1 that is open until 1am; this'll be discussed later.

i have two night labs weekly that'll run really late, making dining hall #1 near impossible to eat at. the shuttles on campus can be especially unreliable at night, so it isn't particularly safe for me to go to dining hall #2. my college campus is relatively safe, but it is in a city. when i get up by dining hall #1 to see if there are any meals in the market, there are typically little to none left that qualify for my meal swap or don't contain my allergen and that leaves me to pay for food with dining dollars (we are allotted an amount we choose each semester) or out of pocket (not an option for me, especially since i am out of a job at the moment). you can probably see the issue by now.

i plan on signing up for my campus's food bank and, hell, maybe even consider looking into food stamps since i can't handle starving anymore. i have been eating well at home and i don't think i can handle a repeat of last semester; it got so bad to a point where i started stealing food to try and get by. it was never a lot (a small thing of cheese, maybe an apple juice, etc) and i haven't been caught (i've had to do it for years atp so i've gotten uncomfortably good at it) but istg the meal swap never covers any healthy food. there was one night where the only things i could afford on my meal swap was five small bags of cheetos and a thing of apple juice; that isn't a dinner.

i know this is just talking to a void, but i'm just so frustrated. i know i am so lucky to go to school and i already feel bad for my mom having to take loans out for me to go to college; i don't want to have to ask her for money for dinner twice+ a week as well. being hungry so often affects my concentration and i'm trying my best to ignore it. finding jobs on campus has been near impossible at this point in the year and, despite applying at multiple places in the city as well, nothing has come back. i just could use a hug and some food 🥲

I don't have any friends in my major or my minor. I've never studied with anyone except myself (unless you count people asking for hw answers). And worst of all, I feel like I'm wasting my college experience by failing to get close to anyone within my discipline.

Tbf I'm not completely failing in life. I have a decent internship + I have OK grades. It just feels like I'm going through university alone.

On top of regular course work every degree at my school requires completion of some internship. Every grad school I'm interested in mentions "activism" and "being involved in the community" where best candidates are concerned. I don't work for free, the principle offends me. Even my high school required me to do 80 hours of community service, which was an utter waste of my time. I swear most people who say they're as involved in the community as their school wants them to be are liars.

I got a C in Calculus and I’m lowkey nervous now. For context, I am a Biology major, and I would like to go to medical school some day. I’m worried that seeing a C in my first semester of college on my application would put me at a large disadvantage, since pre-meds are notoriously careful to get the best grades possible.

The rest of my classes I did well in, with A’s in both English and Bio and, though my final grade for Chemistry isn’t posted yet, I am certain it’s going to be an A, too. Without Chem, my GPA is a 3.47. When Chem is added, I expect this to jump to about a 3.6. I know this is decent for college, but I was really hoping I would do better.

I’m just worried that this trend would continue into my future semesters, with me getting similar grades or, worse, with my grades deteriorating further. I’m even considering retaking Calculus, but I’m worried that on the second try I would do equally bad. My one blessing is that I only had to take Calc I, so I probably won’t have to worry about it ever again. The experience just shook me up because most of my other classes were kind of a cakewalk.

How is that fair at all? It's 25% of the entire grade.

How the fuck am I supposed to control what the rest of the class is doing during my presentation?

Anyone here struggle with fear of failure and perfectionism to the point where when they would open a textbook or worked on homework and got to a difficult or boring topic/question, they would feel a lot of intense anxiety from feeling dumb due to not getting it right or for struggling and then immediately go into avoidance by playing video games or browsing social media? It kind of looks like procrastination.

Without going into detail, I was a former engineering student in college, experienced the above issue particularly when i was taking the calculus-based physics courses and calculus together and i screwed up my GPA so badly that I had to change majors. I ended graduating with the new major which was kind of not too difficult. Now, I am starting college again trying to pursue engineering again, mainly because I need the degree for my career. But, I have not resolved the above issue…and engineering is not easy at all for me, so failure is possible.

I just heard from my mom that one of my younger cousins is graduating college before me. A lot of my younger cousins are graduating before me.

I’m 26 now and I have one more year left but I could’ve been graduating last year if only I didn’t fuck up so badly with math courses.

I’m pretty sure my major isn’t that hard, I’m just stupid. I’m majoring in IT and I still have to take a lot of math courses.

Math was never my strong suit yet I applied for IT anyway cuz I enjoyed coding and hoped it could potentially lead me to careers somewhere adjacent in tech like software development, data science, etc.

But anyway, I just suck so bad at math. I failed discrete math 3 times now. I have to retake it and that’s pushed my graduation back another semester. It’s really hurting me mentally. I study so hard and then I see the finals always looking so different from what was in the homework and study guides. It’s like you need to just be talented to pass. I hear students taking that class say they never needed ti study and that they guessed and they still passed. Yet I studied and walk away feeling somewhat confident that I did everything I could and still fail miserably.

I hate myself. Idk why I’m even trying at this point. I just can’t see myself graduating. I feel like I’m destined to be a drop out despite me wanting to graduate so badly.

I’m trying to stay focused and not care about other people and their success but it’s so frustrating.

My story is basically simple, through highschool I was a meh student, severe ADHD, learning to manage it on my own was rough and still learning, C’s in most my core classes, bolstered by early and late period elective As, took a few college classes. Graduated at 17 with a 3.0 and 3 college credits, applied to a few in state and a few out of state colleges.

I felt a bit uneasy but my family pushed me to go to a nice out of state school that my brother was at, I checked and it had the best stats out of all the colleges I applied at, so I sent it and moved across the country.

School started out alright but isolation really got to me, stopped going to lectures, started sleeping 10+ hours a day, and procrastinated on homework till the last second I could possibly turn it in (doesn’t usually work) I aced all my engineering and Math Exams, and most projects, however that wasn’t enough, barely failed my Chem class, likely failed my English class (I already did it in highschool but thought it would be an easy A), and ended with a D in my EGR102 class

I’m on winter break now and questioning where I should go from here, I might be eligible for academic probation soon. I have an academic plan and am registered for next semester but really just wanna come home and be closer to my support network (Girlfriend lives here, close friends too).

Way I see it, my options are

Do good second semester, transfer to in state school with worse stats (I think this is best, cause a depressed 1.9 at a better school is still worse than a 3.0 at a worse school job wise, dad hates this idea because he believes I will be distracted by friends and nature nearby)

Do good second semester, stay in program, tough it out (idk I might get better?, I worry I might be cooked in my current program)

Do bad second semester, transfer to in state community college (parents don’t want me living at home so I’d likely have to find an expensive apartment somewhere and work more)

Do bad second semester, transfer to out of state community college and live with brother (parents want this, I hate this idea)

I don’t really know where I should go, I’m thinking of a gap year after this spring semester so I have time to figure it out more, and build some good habits , but I don’t want to delay my education too long as my girlfriend and I want to get a place together after we graduate and she’s a year older but also failed first year so we’re similar spots academically

Ok so for the past many years of my life I’ve set my mind to wanting to pursue law. People will go on to ask “what kind” and I give them a few examples, tell them something along the lines of “corporate” or “PI”. I definitely gravitate more toward PI or civil. I used to find deep interest in criminal though, due to how much I loved the idea of putting criminals in jail/prison. Now fast forward to my present and recent past. Since last year, my first year of college spent in cc, i enrolled in the pathway to law program (pre-law). And it wasn’t much for the events or get-togethers, but my counselor gave the course list that I needed to follow to fulfill the course reqs for certificates. I haven’t been the best student tbh, and I’m definitely one of those kids who says “college isn’t for me”. It was never school isn’t for me, it’s just that now with college respectively, I find these classes and most of the professors I’ve had to bear with—unbearable. I hate most of it! One of the ptl courses I took (for the most part, was relevant) was Intro to Law:Paralegal or something of that name. I loved it! The class was insightful and useful, on top of that, my professor was terrific. But as I’ve gone on with school as history major, I’ve still had to take the unexpected classes. Lately, I’ve felt like quitting law and just sticking to History. Knowing that I still won’t feel accomplished or satisfied with my life I’ve been struggling to make these choices. Right now, I’m on the edge though, and this is bc I always see someone who’s a law student of some sort online and it makes me jealous, to say the least. It’s just like being on the edge; there’s the current path which I don’t have hope for, but then there’s my ultimate “dream” which I would do anything for. Now if you were to ask if I have a plan b—since I’m a history major, I have considered being open to becoming a researcher. I’d definitely do something there. And then on the other hand as ill-suited as this may sound, I’ve always felt drawn to playing with music, so I’d see myself going to dj classes in the near future. I love music, but to be clear, this is not what I wanna take on as a “career”. I thought ideally I’d do it as a side hustle and for fun. And I wanna be honest half of the reason why I wanted to get into law was bc of the pay. I’d consider maybe becoming a paralegal but I don’t know too much about the success stats as of now. What should I do?

I'm just so burnout from college and I don't really love my new college. I transfered from a CC to the local university which doubled my commute time as I learned this past fall. I got all A's this semester not a 4.0 however due to grading scales which annoys me to all hell.

After the fall semster however I realized I needed to live closer to the college. My commute is roughly 40 minutes and with snowbirds and traffic due to apartments being built left and right that commute is now almost an hour on a good day. Not to mention my college offers very few online class options, which my CC had plenty of for classes like chemistry and calculus, and the course times feel very bizarre. Lot of 8ams or 3pm classes for my major which very little in-between. So I'm moving into the dorms next week and to be honest I'm super nervous about it, more then I probably should be for a junior. I was homeschooled, mostly online classes, so being away from my family for long periods of time is super new to me. I also got a new kitten in October as well after my cat of 15 years passed away so there's that too. I'm just at the point where I can't even get a full night sleep and I wake up having a panic attack. I just can't get over all of it.

I do plan on staying at home over the weekends and such so I'm treating it as just a place to sleep more then everything but I'm just super unhappy. I also will be one credit short of keeping my transfer scholarship meaning Ill have to take a summer class which i did not want to do (I'll be at 29 credits I need to take 30 in one year to retain my scholarship)I've been taking summer classes the last two or three summers now and wanted to use this summer for interships/voulteering/work/etc

My goal is graduate school so I know I just have to pay my dues before I reach that next step and maybe even work before grad school (vet school) but I just feel like I'm drowning.

TLDR: feeling burnt out and full of anxiety with moving into dorms for the first time.

Edit: wanted to add I'm a biology major but I'm sort of behind. Had to take Physics first before o chem so I'm probably going to have to stay an extra semester because pre reqs and such. Oh the pains of transferring in after all the classes are full

I've recently switched my major from environmental science to anthropology and the way everyone's perception of me has changed is scary and sad. My whole family has started treating me like I'm stupid because I did not want to pursue a stem major. They've stopped mentioning me in conversation (when before they would brag constantly), they've stopped asking about my schooling, they've stopped any acknowledgment that I'm even in college. Even though my course load has actually gotten heavier, everyone seems to think less of me and what i'm capable of. I took 17 credit hours last semester, this semester is taking 20. Yet I'm now expected to go full time at my job because i'll have more time. Sure I might have a little bit more but i'm taking a whole additional class, it isn't going to be that big of a difference. The worst part of all: my path hasn't even really changed! I was pre law from the beginning! Idk, maybe i'm being dramatic but it stings to watch the people in my life decide i'm an idiot for not being a stem major.

I didn't know it was this bad until I looked at my unofficial community college transcript. I have taken over 20 classes and only passed 4 of them. Needless to say I feel absolutely crappy about it. This has been over the course of like 7 or 8 years, i'm currently 28. The cycle is I get really motivated, plan everything out, do really well the first few weeks and then absolutely nothing. Fall behind and just give up.

I will say I have had my share of health issues (mentally and physically) which did make it really difficult as I also have to work to live. I realized that's no excuse and I've really been diving deep into my bad habits and how to counteract them. Here I am pretty motivated again to try again, however, am I completely screwed?
Is my transcript ruined beyond repair? Should I just try to realize that schooling isn't for me? Really need some advice here.

I'm a double major in political science and biology, and it's weird. The track I've laid out for myself has been pretty clear to me ever since I got to college. I chose political science as my major when I was in seventh grade. I am now in college in the same U.S. state I grew up in, and it's still all going smoothly.

My university requires political science majors to take a minor or second major: I chose to double major in biology. It made sense to me. But to everyone else, it seems like it's such an alien thing. They are two opposites. Two different worlds. They don't mix often. And that is entirely true! You can fully invest yourself in one and not touch the other at all, ever, and I do have interests in each independent of the other: my biology focus is on wildlife conservation and I have a specific love and focus on herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians, where I have a special interest in Ohio River Valley snakes). For political science, my interests are vaster: intergovernmental relations in the U.S., the function and history of the federal bureaucracy (how agencies interact with one another, in what ways they can interact, the history of how they've been able to interact, how agencies can be managed, etc), how republican and authoritarian regimes come about and transition between one another, and U.S. electoral history.

For a career, I'm a bit all over the place, but conservation policy is involved in some way, shape, or form for everything. I've had the immense privilege of meeting people involved in several partisan campaigns from 2018, 2020, and the 2021 Georgia runoffs, as well as office heads within federal departments, scholarship (e.g. Truman, Fulbright, Gilman) advisers, and other university personnel, and when I lay it all out, they come to the same conclusion as me: my track is abundantly clear and makes sense.

When I tried to search online for people who have taken any kind of similar approach to me, I've not ever really found much. In university, I definitely feel unique: most of our political science majors pick up professional legal studies (formerly paralegal studies), international affairs, philosophy, economics, business administration, etc. But I see a whole other underappreciated world.

To anyone like me out there, and to anyone who takes that same leap of faith and searches for someone with a similar story: go you. Go us. I hope that someday, whether it be next month or next decade, someone who had that same isolation as me in choosing their field finds this and knows that it's a normal and good choice.

Anyways, rant over, anyone who wants to give feedback or unsolicited advice is always welcome to, just wanted to get rid of this like weird feeling that's built up from my degree being an invisible gem.

I just got my score back for one of my classes, and I am absolutely baffled. I got an A on every single exam, I didn't miss a single class, and my overall grade for the homework was an 95. So my final grade should be pretty good, right? Wrong.

My professor also graded this thing called "AAA Final Grade" and I only got a 50/100. This is dropping my final grade from an 90 to a 62.

I scoured the syllabus trying to find out what this "AAA Final Grade" is, but couldn't find a single mention of it. I emailed my professor, but considering it's christmas eve, I'm not expecting to hear back anytime soon.

I can't find any info about this online. Does anyone have any clue as to what this might be?

Started at a community college, transferred to a 4 year state university, I'm supposed to graduate May 2025. Everything with this 4 year university has been a nightmare since the moment I signed up. Basically my transfer counselor decided to calculate my transfer "by hand" (her words btw), and miscalculated what I needed to transfer by 3 courses (11 whole credit hours). This was back in 2022, it was hell to get sorted. I had to take extra summer classes and jump through a bunch of other hoops. Basically I had three extra semesters added onto my degree plan (summer semesters) to graduate on time and keep my job.

I'm finally in my senior year, despite working as a software engineer while doing in-person classes, I've maintained a 3.8 GPA, something I'm very proud of. I thought all of this bullshit was behind me, but I got an email December 3rd that they're changing the hours Physics is offered. They offer one physics 1 course and they changed the hours to conflict with my senior year required comp sci course. Best part is I've already taken Physics 1, they just didn't count it so I have to take it again for whatever fucking reason. Already came to terms with that, that's why its in my last semester.

Upon receiving this email, I immediately contacted my advisor. She sets me up with another state university who is offering the course online. I double check with registrar, financial aid, and academic advising; everything checks out, it will count for the class credit, counts me as fully enrolled with home school, and is covered by my aid. I literally have an email saying that it is covered by my aid. I finally get billed for the class today (started the class yesterday, already completed some assignments), and send it to my home school and they're refusing to cover it now, even though they promised me and I paid the application fee for the new school and everything.

So I have to unenroll and drop the course. But thing is, they can't find a replacement physics course offered online that doesn't cost 4k out of pocket. Now they're telling me that they're going to push back my graduation and lose all my financial aid because they can't find a replacement physics course and even taking an elective would lose my financial aid due to being "not a degree requirement".

I have no clue what to do. I've been on and off crying all day. I've been on at least 50 different phone calls and sent countless emails. There's nothing I can do. I worked so fucking hard, I'm 14k in debt, and they want more from me. They still want more money. They're fucking bloodletting me for everything I don't even own yet. It doesn't matter how hard you try. How many fucking A's I get, how many scholarships and grants I receive, how much financial aid I have, it doesn't matter that I have 4 years of professional experience in the field when graduating, I'm never gonna fucking graduate until I've sold my god damn soul to them. I worked so fucking hard for *this*, for going into debt I'll never fucking repay. My options are stay in the class and conjure 4k out of no where or take federal loans not through my school. Or I can drop and owe my college 10k in loans. I can't do this shit anymore, I'm not even a person, I'm just a fucking number to beat money out of till I die.

TLDR: College last minute changed a course's hours, causing it to conflict with my other classes in my final semester, and is now pushing back my graduation date and forcing me to pay out of pocket.

Hi! I’m junior at UF majoring in Informations Systems. I honestly don’t like this degree at all - never did. Only chose it because my parents told me to do something useful and I was running out of time, so I chose what seems to be the most adaptable and easiest degree. I’m not really into computers. I’m autistic and not in the smart way. I have a speech disorder so talking is incredibly difficult and I really dislike being around and interacting with others because if those two things.

I recently got a job at a store doing fulfillment, and I honestly like it. It’s minimum wage ($15) so not it’d a livable wage. This is the first job I’ve has since high school, and it’s been really illuminating since I’ve finally realized how much I hate interacting with people. Even when it’s a customer asking for soemthing I just want tell them to leave me alone. Or if a coworker tries small talk, I don’t know what to say. Lately I’ve just been thinking and the way things are I don’t think I’ll ever be successful in an ISOM role… like ever. I honestly think this is soemthing no amount of therapy can change, because I know autistic people who can mask, but I am physically unable to do so because of my speech disorder. I guess I can learn SQL and python later… but I struggled learning them both in the past. Either way it’s not something I’m really invested in if I’m honest. I’m just scared because I don’t want to work a dead end job, but at the same time it’s the only kind of thing that doesn’t make me burn out immediately. My grades aren’t good (3.62 GPA) so idk what I’m going to do with my life. I’m not particularly book or street smart. I’ve considered library work but the bar for entry seems really high, and again im worried my speech disorder might hinder me. The only reason I got hired at my recent position is because they needed anyone with a pulse to do the job and it had a high turnover.

Hello. Here is the link to my previous post. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/MH3NkiNJBp

I wish I had a good update, or really any sort of update. So I find myself in need of further advice.

I was given a 3-day timeframe to respond and request a pre-trial meeting with my professor. After using my allotted timeframe to get my ducks in a row, I sent a meeting request.

I also sent a paper explaining myself with the proof I mentioned in my previous post and then some. A kind redditor with a professional academic background in AI detection offered to do a forensic analysis of my works and writing style. I sent him almost 40 of my works, dating from 2020 through the very paper in question, and was able to get an analysis and report to send to her. I also offered to submit previous writing samples directly to her, as well as offered for her to give me an oral examination about my paper to prove my research and authorship.

It has been a week and complete radio silence. This professor did not confirm the meeting time and has not responded to anything period, not even to confirm she received my letter and report.

A little background on my professor and this class might be pertinent. I took this class as an independent study because it is a requirement to graduate, and I could not make the only available class period for it work. It had a start time of 8 am, and I live a 45 minute commute away. I couldn’t make the class because I had to drop my kids off at school before leaving town, and the earliest I can drop them off allowed by their school is 7:40 am.

Part of being approved for taking the class in an independent study format was a requirement that the professor and I had to meet for at least 30 minutes once a week to go over my progress and the next week’s study and expectations. These meeting very rarely happened.

The first week, the professor was a no call no show. I waited outside her office 24 minutes before sending her an email that I had waited this long but had other obligations to attend to now. If she had shown up at that point we wouldn’t have been able to hold the meeting anyway anymore. We then had 2 meetings. Then every other meeting was canceled on her end. We were supposed to meet every Wednesday at 11 am, and without fail about 10 minutes before every meeting I would receive an email canceling it and that she didn’t feel this week’s meeting was necessary. It would also take an average of a couple days to respond, and up to a couple weeks to grade anything I submitted.

As you can imagine, I’ve gone from upset to livid. She was so quick on the draw to report me before ever even speaking to me. She didn’t even follow the required format from the dean of students to get my independent study approved, therefore never actually got to know me or my work ethic before doing so. And according to the report, it was NOT turnitin she even used. She used two generic free ones she found off Google.

And now she is right back to ignoring me. How do you drop a bomb like this on a student, especially a student that has two small children and has to deal with this sickening pit and possibly loss of future while holding it together for their Christmas… then sleep just fine at night and think it’s fine to wait out the clock on the grade appeal deadlines.

I need advice on who I should go to. I think I need to get my advisors involved for sure. But would filing a formal complaint about this professor and my whole experience with this independent study course in general come back to bite me? Is that something I should wait to do or mention until after my integrity report appeal, even with that appeal going absolutely no where? I can provide email proof of her consistently flaking, not showing up, canceling last minute, etc.

I also think that at this point I obviously need to send my appeal to someone over her head, but who would you recommend?

UPDATE:

I received an email late tonight stating she will meet with me Thursday or Friday. I am going to set the meeting, however, I do not feel comfortable going into a meeting alone at this point. I am going to ask my advisor for times that fit their schedule ( I’m a double major and have 2 advisers as well as a third advisor from my start before declaring any majors that I never dropped from advising.)

Now before anyone tells me my GPA is high and I shouldn’t feel bummed out, I am aiming for medicine so I need a high GPA. I got an A+ and three As this term but one class, which wasn’t even that difficult, I got a B+ in. I was hoping for at least an A- but idk why I screwed it up so badly. My GPA for the term went from a 4.0 to a 3.86 and I hate how one class can do that. To add salt in the wound this is the fourth time I almost get a 4.0 but one class ruins it (although I did get a 4.0 my first term so at least I have one). It just seems like I always get so close but never actually reach what I want. Anyways that’s all thanks for listening

why do some of yall (mostly freshman) really concerned of a A- dropping your 4.0 a tenth of a point? Do your parents get upset and take away your cellphones or does it hurt your chances of getting a job after you graduate?

Im a big fan of C’s get degrees but Im also not competing for a masters program either (current employer will pay for any place I choose). I also know most employers don’t care about GPA. Not one time in my entire working life has an employer asked or denied me a job because of it. I did super struggled finishing my 1st degree (shout out to the kid I paid to do my calc hmwk)

Seriously not saying to have care but also not stress about that tenth of a point. Life is too short. Look forgo the perfect 4.0, do some internships (because most of us already working will know who has zero experience and yall will get the crap work) or maybe do 2 yrs of school and then do a year of work to see if you actually like your degree plan. Its sad to read how alot of you say your degrees are useless or its not what you thought it would be. Im sure your pocket would thank you too.

I had trouble the past semester more than I did with other semesters and I ended up barely passing most of my classes. I really struggled with turning in work on time and both the medical professionals on campus and counselors I talked to told me to seek accommodations for my ADHD and Autism. I nearly had a panic attack at the thought of dropping out and that is something I just don't want to do if I can control it. I feel like an extremely bad person for what I've done and currently am seeking advice for what I can do to make sure that I can be better. I would be letting down both my family and roommates if this situation would ever come to happen. I kindly ask for help on how someone like me can be smart enough to pass college? Thank you in advance for reading.

I genuinely don’t understand why they can’t just let an A be an A😅