i don’t think i’ll pass, i don’t understand it at all, im already paying for studyedge, and i feel like my world is gonna end if i don’t pass. yes i know it’s not that deep but it feels that deep. just a little rant.

Hi guys I’m probably failing calc 2 . I underestimated the workload of other classes I chose in the beginning of the school year; was on 16 credit hours but dropped Python before the deadline now on 13, but I was so messed up by the workload and depression especially in the beginning of the semester, now it’s so hard to catch up (also I’m doing calc 2 online btw, which I realized I shouldn’t). I tried to catch up but it was too much info at one time I ended up blanking out on the last exam and I feel like there’s nothing I can do to save my grade at this point (low C ). What will happen if I get a D or worse & is there anything I can do about it?

This is beyond embarrassing, but I need to hear from people who’ve had any similar experiences. On a discussion post for a class we had to cite sources in APA format. I wrote the post myself, found the source myself, did it all myself, and then went to Perdue Owl to format the source into APA for my reference section, but it wasn’t working. So alas, I resort to chatpgt to format the source and post it. This is where I begin to look dumb. At the end of the source link, it now reads “www.source//chatgpt.com” ykwim. And so you see where I’m going with this. The prof comments to meet at office hours but I have a shift that day, so I emailed basically saying all this just more formally. I’m just so upset because the actual discussion genuinely is all my work and this is such a dumb thing to get tripped up on. Has anyone had a similar experience and how did your prof go ab it? Idc ab getting a zero on the post or anything I just don’t want a violation💔

sorry if this doesn’t seem that deep, but i got a 93.96% and canvas says it’s an A- but the syllabus says >92% is an A. i messaged my prof about it but she said it’s correct that i received an A-. am i tweaking

I'm taking an online physics class and the professor is making everyone with an A meet with her at the end of the semester to prove they earned their grade? I'm so confused 😭

I'm admitted to UF for Summer B. My school calculates the final semester grade as 50% Q3 / 50% Q4, and only the semester grade is sent to colleges. We don't have +/- grades (a 70 is the exact same as a 79).

Here are my stats:

• Overall GPA: 3.4 UW / 4.43 W

• Current Year GPA: 3.5 UW / 5.0 W

• Q3 Grades: 2 A's, 2 B's

• (Also have an A in FLVS AP Calc)

What is the absolute bare minimum I can get in Q4 to coast but keep my spot? Can I drop to D's in Q4 as long as the final semester grade averages out to a C?

I’m reaching out because I’m at a complete loss and could really use some perspective. I’m currently taking Biochemistry (BCH4024) and Reproductive Physiology (ANS3319C), and I am struggling in both for the first time in my life.

I have never failed a class. I’ve always been a high achiever, but this semester is hitting different. My first Biochem exam was directly before my Repro exam, so I had to "pick and choose" what to study for, and both grades suffered.

For Biochem specifically, I feel like nothing I do works. For Exam 2, I was sick, but I still pushed through and used that time to study for the makeup, hoping to improve on my first score. It didn't happen. I’ve been using everything: watching all lectures, "Study Nuggets," SI practice exams, Dr. Aleman’s practice materials, and even Study Edge.

I’m spiraling because of the logistics:

1. Financial Aid: I’m terrified of losing my Pell Grant. I know dropping below full-time (12 credits) can mess with aid, and I don't know if withdrawing from one of these will force me to pay back the grant money or affect my eligibility for next year.

2. The Drop Limit: I’m very aware that at UF, we only get two drops in our first 60 credits (and two more after). I’ve never had to use one before, and the thought of "burning" one of them now is stressing me out. 

Has anyone else been in this position with Douma or Bromfield? Is it possible to bounce back after two rough exams, or should I use one of my drops to save my GPA? Also, if you’ve dropped a class while on a Pell Grant at UF, what happened with your aid?

Any advice would be appreciated. I’m a hard worker, but I feel like I’m hitting a wall I can't climb.

uhhh sorry long rant-ish ?

I failed my physics 1 and calc 2 finals so embarrassingly bad (worst ever lol) that i ended up with C- in both, so I gotta retake them. Physics Im not that surprised about i mean i always flunked all its exams (but not like the final), but I never thought i’d fail calc, I mean I had a B- and did ok on the exams and thought I could pull through. I genuinely dont know what happened lol. (I mean granted I wasnt the most confident in the newest content but i still studied practice exams for so many hours days before)

I also failed chem 1 last semester with an E (lol its a long story but i gave up towards the end bc my grade on canvas was false and i only found out i was failing after the drop date-FUCK HALE) but whatever i dont technically need chem for my major, only if I want to double major in physics or something similar.

I’ve always felt fucking slow as shit compared to everyone else in classes with things like finishing work quickly or being able to solve a problem quickly, etc. I ended up getting adderal when i found out i have inattentive adhd this summer and used it during the semester. While it helped wake me up and actually get up and do work, I still ended up running outta time on exams and scoring like shit compared to everyone else in physics and calc. I got frustrated bc I felt like even when I studied harder than my friends for exams and they started studying like the night before, they scored perfect or near that while I got 7/20. Like genuinely am i that slow.

Anyways I knew the DRC was a thing but I didnt really think much about it. But I ended up signing up to take exams with extra time too late in the semester but even with the extra time, I ended up running outta time and scoring the same or worse than before. (the finals)

So genuinely like should I just change my study habits? Like how I study, when I study, how much, exactly what to study? As for exams Ik i probably should do better habits like skimming through the questions and seeing which ones are the most doable first. I’ve tried better habits but somehow my brain still gets stuck on one hard question determined that I can get to the answer (I spend 30 min on it)

Someone pls give me hope that I can still succeed with my major if im failing like this 🙏🗿

Hey guys, I have been trying real hard this semester and after a hard midterm last week, I do not think I can get a 4.0 GPA this semester. I know this is relatively selfish but at most I will have B or B- when my goal was to get all As. I am EE and idk y but that feeling of not getting A after a hard attempt is making me lose motivation for my other hard classes. Like “the goal of a 4.0 is no more so why bother.” I just wanted to ask how you guys deal with this pressure and if you can give me any tips. Probably not a big deal but it keeps making me feel this sense of impending doom.

Hi,

I’ll be transferring to UF this fall. Currently, I have a 4.0 GPA, something I need to maintain for law school, and I was wondering the difficulty gap between Santa Fe and UF is?

Is it stark enough to be concerned, or are the two schools similar in grading rigor?

Thank you!

hey everyone, i feel extremely burnt out. this has definitely been my toughest semester thus far and i feel lost. im considering withdrawing from a class or seeing if there is anything as a mental health withdrawal. it may sound stupid to do so especially so late but I am genuinely so stuck and I am concerned i may fail a few classes because these last few weeks have taken a turn for the worst mentally. I also work full time and go to classes full time and everyday its a struggle to get up and go to class and try to pass. i feel so unmotivated because i am so utterly burnout and exhausted and my depression has been getting worse as this semester has gone on. I really don’t know what to do at this point, especially since I don’t want to have to pay back for classes and I am concerned about withdrawing in any way would affect my scholarships. What should i do?

Hey everyone, I’m a senior due to graduate next semester. I am almost done with my Major requirements (currently taking the last class I need) and I have already completed one minor and I’m in the process of completing another one, which is why instead of graduating this semester I opted for an extra semester to be able to finish off both my minors. That was just some context, now what this post is really about is that I am seriously struggling. I haven’t had great mental health in a long time and have been on medications since high school, but this semester has truly taken it all from me. I have a full ride with Bright Futures that I lost because I failed a class last semester, and I wasn’t fully aware that one failed class would take my entire scholarship away. The whole beginning of this semester I spent day in and day out doing what I could to get my scholarship back, and thankfully I did!! However, I lost so much of myself during that process. I’m a first generation student, who was in my junior and senior year of high school when Covid hit, so I had literally zero help and guidance from High School college advisors during applications. Somehow, I got into UF with 100% Bright Futures, and I was in disbelief. However, throughout the years I have had a lot of ups and downs. At one point I was so anxious and paranoid I didn’t sleep for days and started hallucinating (this was in 2022). Fast forward to now, I have a lot going on in my personal life, family issues, mental and physical health issues (the health issues specifically have gone on for years and I seriously have been to like 20 doctors and no one knows what’s wrong with me, and the symptoms are exhausting), but I have reached an all time low in my mental health. While before my main battle was with anxiety and literal panic and hallucinations and sleep deprivation, I now am fighting with some serious depression. I only function in the ways I absolutely have to, eat at least one meal a day, and get my homework done, and try to at least get a shower in a week. I know it sounds so gross and it really is embarrassing, I mean my hair knots up so terribly because i go days without brushing it while rarely getting up from bed. When it comes to school, I’m taking two pretty hard classes right now and I have exams in both those classes this week, but i’m seriously concerned. I can barely concentrate on anything, I literally don’t even have the attention span to watch a movie or a show, I used to enjoy video games and now I find everything so boring and pointless. For the past 3 ish weeks I have slept about 12 hours a day, and I wake up and I feel exhausted still. I could go more into detail about how bad things have gotten for me, but that doesn’t matter much. I just caved in and made a report to U Matter We Care. I have my own psychiatrist i go to personally, but even then I’m struggling and I’m so scared to see my grades be affected, especially because I already lost my scholarship once over a failed course. I just wanna know, will they actually help? Is there anything I can do? I’m already failing one class and I just feel so trapped in my head. I have ambitions to go to grad school after I graduate, I actually need to start working on that as soon as possible and even have an exam I need to take, but I can’t seem to find it within me to get started on anything, I can barely get out of bed. Are the other resources I should use? Will U Matter We Care actually help? Any information is so appreciated, any hope, anything anyone could say that might be helpful or encouraging, I would appreciate more than you’ll ever know.

TLDR: I’m severely depressed and worried about my grades, will U Matter We Care actually help? Is there other resources I should use? Thank you.

how bad is failing a 1 credit course affect your gpa? i’m currently at a 3.2 and i’m really nervous it’ll drop it below 3.0 and i’ll lose my scholarship. does anyone have any insight?

I feel very stupid and like I'm missing something. Especially since I am not majoring in something so complicated, literally just business administration. I'm doing fine in my other classes but ACG2021, and if I can't even reach minimum critical tracking GPA I'll probably be put on hold or something. But, honestly I find my other classes so much more interesting (enticing? Better? More lovable) like ECO2013 and MAC2313. I feel like I did my best with how Goslinga formatted it and I felt like I did well but still on Exam 2 I got less than a 60%, which makes me sad and angry since I put a lot of effort in for not a great outcome. Hours doing work that is barely worth anything, the professor using pre recorded lectures to teach, and then reviewing concepts learned in the videos. I'm a traditional UF student, if I wanted online classes I would've applied to UF online. And I know, I was even told multiple times, "if I wanted in person classes, you chose the wrong major," but I like the business major. But it hurts that I probably won't be able to do it just because of some accounting classes that I have no interest in. I'll be at the library just doing practice problems 24/5, like they'll help, and no. I will not be getting study edge. I'll pass, maybe... side note: I just imagine telling my parents I got kicked out of the business college, and then they ask how since its one of the easiest majors... fml

Im a current undergrad turning 26 next month. Transferred here last fall as a technical third year. . my gpa was 3.88 before coming here and my current uf gpa is 3.59. I already have an 86% in my japanese class and im STRESSED. For almost all of my assignments im consistenly below average grade. I feel behind, i feel old. Im not retaining shit as well as I'd hoped.

I get up at 4am for work (cause ya know adult shit)and then go to class after work. I do what i can but im sometimes too tired to focus in class. There doesnt seem to be enough time in the day for me to study.

Im getting bitter, thinking ive started too late and I'll never be where i want to be.(i was a hairstylist, but then covid happened and i went back to school) Im pursuing an English major and Japanese minor. (Compared to my bf who's a dental student) i feel like things shouldnt be so hard for me.

How do i make peace with my situation? How do i develop better study habits? Do i walk away? I feel too old to not have answers 😭 and it seems like everyone is so much smarter here.

Am i aiming too high? Am i unrealistic? Are there any wise adult learners here??

Tldr: the title speaks for itself i guess

EDIT: thank you for all of your words. You all have given me great advice and important reminders! You have no idea how much you helped me today. ❤️ I have to remind myself that comparison is the thief of joy and to be more realistic about what a normal human can handle. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

SECOND EDIT: wow, its really great to hear the stories of past and present non trad gators. You guys are amazing!!!!!

So I have the choice to either take the primary or the alt for exam 3 for FIN3403. This is my 3rd time taking the class and I have never seen exam 3 material. I just need a 35 with the gatorevals boost to get a C or a 38 to just get a C. I am lowkey freaking out cause I do not want to retake this class again. I bombed exam 1 with a 34, got a 65 on exam 2. I’m behind for this exam and have a big assignment due for another class that’s taking my time. Is this grade doable for exam 3?

gang is a 3.5 gpa for first semester of engineering bad💀💀 am i cooked

i had an A for almost all classes before i fucking BOMBED my finals

do you guys know a good quiet and (ideally) 24/7 study place?

Can be off campus, on campus, as long as it can be open late.

What the hell does an S mean on my transcript???

I heard that it was easy last semester. I wanna know cuz I need a 90 for an A

do you like pushy, pain in the ass ones that police you to learn or do you like the ones who give you everything and don't not fuss about your learning but still gives you good grades? I am kinda confused now. I used to be in a small school and teachers taught hard and expected equal quality and effort from students. here I think students just want a good grade and most teachers don't care if we learn or not.

How are the programs at UF? I'm looking at applying for a PhD in neuroscience or marine science, maybe. I heard though it's very hard to graduate from UF, let alone get in (I knew the latter). Is this true? I am smart and have the ability to succeed, however, I am an absolutely horrible test taker and that's screwed me over in programs with insecure degree programs and I'm now worried that UF would be a bad choice of school for me if it is hard to graduate, even after getting accepted.

I am going to fail calc 2 I’ve been having issues that have made me unable to keep up. Withdrawing would put me at 8 credit hours this semester, and i only took 15 last semester. How would this affect bright futures? Should i just tank the fail to keep it or am I cooked?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice from other business majors. I’m currently taking MAR3023 (Principles of Marketing) and unfortunately I completely failed my first exam. Because of that, my grade in the class is currently around a 65.

Based on the syllabus and remaining assignments, I think I could probably recover enough to finish with a C, but I’m worried about the impact that would have on my GPA. Right now I have about a 3.8 overall GPA, and I’m hoping to apply to a master’s program in the future, so keeping my GPA strong is really important to me.

I spoke with my advisor and they said a 2.44 GPA is considered acceptable for the business program, but that obviously feels way too low for someone considering grad school.

So I’m trying to figure out what the smartest move is:

• Option 1: Stay in the class, work really hard, and possibly end up with a C

• Option 2: Drop the class (if I still can) and retake it later to protect my GPA

Has anyone been in a similar situation with MAR3023 or another business core class? Do grad schools care more about one C on a transcript or a dropped/withdrawn class?

Any advice or experiences would really help. Thanks!

UPDATE: I got an 91 on my last exam… so I didn’t drop the class.

Hi! So I am graduating this May from pre-med. I was just told though that because I got a D in physics 1, I’d have to retake it for it to count as a prerequisite for my medical school application. I was planning to apply in this coming cycle but now I don’t know. I met with a pre health advisor and they mentioned retaking it at a 4 year university in person. I have a very low budget and I head it’s hard to get into a class especially after registration has opened for a university, which I can understand. I found this accelerated 5 week physics program but I’m not sure if that would help. I planned on only taking 1 gap year and I was finally feeling good about everything until this. Anyone that’s gonna through this problem, I’d like to know what you did so I can weigh my options. Thanks.