u/Last-Gear-9861

Hi! I’m a 19 year old freshman who’s just finishing her first year, and long story short it went terribly.

I had to withdraw from classes last semester due to my mother needing help at home. Dad got arrested and she needed help around the house…second semester I returned full time on campus with a SAP warning due to low completion rate.

This semester I thought I could juggle both taking care of my family and classes…turns out I was horribly wrong. I’m ending with a 1.5 and little hope for the future.

I arranged an academic meeting with my advisor to get started on a SAP appeal that I already know I’ll need to write, but the kicker here is that even if it gets the okay, I’m unsure if I’ll even be able to have a chance to get my GPA up due to past due balances.

I didn’t get enough aid to cover this semester in the first place, which makes me unable to register for classes. And my GPA is too low to transfer anywhere else…which was my plan. I’m just feeling really lost right now, any advice is welcomed but please don’t be too mean about all of this.

I made a reddit account just to talk about this, because I’m really, really feeling like shit.

I’m a 19 year old freshman who’s just finishing up the second semester, and I did horribly. I’ll have to submit an appeal for financial aid, I can’t apply for classes next semester because of past due balances from not getting enough aid in the first place, and the degree I’m studying is one I’m passionless about.

My whole life has been banking on college. I’m smart, my whole /thing/ is being smart…but I’m not a good student. I wanted to major in animation, but instead I went with psychology.

I don’t know what to do. The best option I see for me is just biting the bullet and attending a community college to try and fix everything, but my mom says that I’m too “good” for that. I can’t even transfer to a cheaper school because my GPA is that low. I feel so directionless and hopeless.