Posted by utopizen on October 19, 2004, at 21:21:45
In reply to Re: Thank you for your kind words, posted by hawkeye on October 18, 2004, at 18:18:17
As someone with a 1.6 GPA and a senior undergrad, please be advised it's important to seriously consider now whether you should have your doc talk to your dean and arrange for a voluntary semester break, with medical excusal from the W's, because come finals week if you haven't been able to keep up you will be in a fetal position, not having slept for like 3 nights, and be on so much Adderall out of desperation to complete papers while having had no sleep you will get three incompletes, get depressed over them to the point of them turning into F's... ok, so maybe I'm personalizing a bit... lol... but seriously, don't assume you'll be able to coast by. If you can't keep up with the work now, you won't be fit for finals week, and you will go crazy. It's not worth it.
Take the semester off if you feel you're not on track by this point-- now's the time to make the call, not finals week or something. And keep up hope, but don't depend on hope to lift you out of depression and let you finish work and cram for finals after weeks of being behind.
take care!
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