graduate college with honors

So, I had a pretty rough semester and received bad grades for it. I came to the conclusion that I picked the wrong college and have been miserable ever since and let this affect my grades. I’m determined to do well by pulling my grades up for the remaining semester, then transferring back to the local community college and out to a school I actually want to be at. I know this is not going to be easy, but I am determined to finish my second semester well at my current college and continue on with great grades at my next college.

Let me preface this by saying I was an absolutely TERRIBLE student in high school, and the GPA I graduated with is in no way a reflection of my intelligence. I was much more interested in playing music and a certain herb than I was in applying myself to my studies. It also didn’t help that I spent all of junior high and high school rebelling against what I saw as an unfair system—a system that focused on trivialities, rewarded unintelligent suck-ups for jumping through the hoops, celebrated and encouraged mediocrity, and let genuinely bright kids fall through the cracks.

By the end of my senior year of high school, I had grown up quite a bit and while I still held (and still do hold, actually) those beliefs, I came to peace with the knowledge that working with the system is often a necessary evil, and that there can be a certain smug satisfaction in knowing that you’re using it to your advantage.

My first year of college was academically more successful than any school year of my life, and while my GPA is solid, it’s nowhere near what I want it to be, or what it could be. Graduating with honors is something I need to do to accomplish goals later in my life, but it’s also about redeeming myself for a lot of mistakes I made when I was younger, and outwardly having something to be proud of and to show for everything great that’s in my head.

got a month to go, this semester’s grades should determine if my gpa will rest above a 3.7 or not. looks like i’ll know soon enough.

Because I can. I will not let anything stop. This has always been a dream and I hope to see its completion.

I’ve signed up for a women’s liberation club, become active in a couple causes (making ribbons for domestic violence awareness month) and I’ve talked to one of the women I work with about volunteering and she agreed to help me sign-up. Also, I’m volunteering to tutor in our college’s writing center. All of things will show up as volunteer hours and I’m assured they’ll look fabulous on transcripts. I’m crossing my fingers for scholarship money to Wayne State, Kendal or CMU!

I found out that I will be able to graduate from the Honors College using the two Honors Upper-Division computer science classes I have already taken, even though I changed my major to biology. Yay! All that’s left is an Honors Interdisciplinary seminar. I signed up for some art class seminar thingy that’s from like 5:30-8:15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yeah, the time sucks, but hopefully it will be fun. It’s supposed to be stuff with 3D art. I loved 3D art in high school! :)

Other than that, still working on the cum laude aspect of graduating with honors…

I’ll need about a 3.8 GPA for cum laude. Currently about 3.5… probably less after this semester. I’m gonna have to get A LOT of A’s in the next 2.5 years, which will be tough considering I just changed my major and I’ll have a lot of hard classes crammed into each semester.

I should be able to graduate from the honors college, though. For my new major, they don’t specify which “Honors Upper-Division” courses I need to take. I’ve already taken the two that were required for my other major. Hopefully they’ll take it. If they do, I only need to take an interdisciplinary seminar and I get to graduate from the Honors College! Woo!

I slacked off in high school, but still got okay grades. I did amazingly well on the ACT, so I was immediately accepted into the Honors program at my college.

However, the transition to college was hard for me at first. I went through problems with depression and drugs. I lost motivation and dropped out for awhile. I went back, but then took another break because I couldn’t stop procrastinating.

That was all a long time ago, but now that my life is back in order and I actually have confidence with myself, I want to get back into the Honors program, and I want to show that I am worth it.

Right now I have only two more semesters left, and my GPA is 0.23 points away from Honors qualifications. It’s hard making up for so many bad grades in the beginning, but I know I can do it. It’s even harder that I’m taking 20 hours of classes, working 32 hours, and trying to maintain somewhat of a social life.

I’m going to prove to everyone – and myself – that regardless of who I was in the past, I am still Honors material. It’s going to feel great.

i WILL graduate with honors. no matter what it takes. :D

I am currently attending college in SC to become a teacher. When I first transfered to this school I cut out the gpa requirements from my school’s catalog and taped it inside of my daily planner so I could look at it everyday. I WILL graduate Magna Cum Laude.