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I had started my first year of college this past August for the Fall semester. I'm in a program to prove I'm worthy of going to this particular university as the four years of high school, I just messed around. The program requires you to have a 2.0GPA and passing all classes. The year was going good, really good in fact. That is up until the end, the last month really. I was passing all but 2 classes. I was taking 5 in total. The 2 classes were, a transition class from high school to college and the other, an intro to computers class. I didn't know how to do a couple modules for the intro class and for the transition class, there was an assignment to do kind of like a ted talk for 5 minutes in front of the class. I can't and will not do anything that involves talking in front of people. Unless of course it's for a job. By then, of course, I'd hopefully move on from this stage of nervousness when in front of people. I get sweaty, red, and start to stutter horribly. Common, I know. Anyways, I refused to do it and it hurt me. I talked to the professor but said it had to be done and the way he wanted it to be done, in front of others. He said it was a zero of course as my chance to do it in front of the class was over, he had already moved on to the next student. That's what he had said. That was a way to show the difference between whats required in college vs high school. I can only understand and accept his way of doing things. I can’t get mad or upset.
it's how he want's it done. I tired getting help on the module but everyone I asked (perhaps, 8 people) either didn't know how or I didn't understand the way they had explained how to solve the module. Out of the 8, yes, 1 was the teacher. I ended up with a 70% in intro and 60% in transition class. This was a week before finals. I had talked to the program director and she told me to talk to the professors and see what they could do and to try my best, the best I could on the final exams.
for the two classes. Unfortunately, the final exam for the transition class, after talking to him again, was in fact the quote unquote "ted talk." The intro to computers teacher said I can just try and do good on the exam as he had closed all the modules so I couldn't go back and do them. The time to go back and do them was over. I, of course, bombed the exam for intro to computers. Yes, as you could imagine. So, I ended with a 55% in intro to computers and 60% in intro to computers.
The final exams were 20% and the score was already added, well, subtracted from my overall score in transition class. Within that last week of finals, the director had scheduled an appointment so me and her could talk to see if I'd be eligible to come back for the Spring. She said that I had the GPA but not the passing of all the classes. She said that there was nothing she could do as break was to start in a couple of days and most of the teachers had already left for break.
She also claimed that would of been my last option anyway, to pass the final exams. She then said she was to let me go and that I couldn't come back for the Spring semester. I did in fact study and try my hardest on the finals. I would technically go back for the Spring semester tomorrow but obviously can't. I have yet to tell my parents and didn't plan on it but I don't know what else to do. I don't have much money. It's not like I could really pack my bags and go anywhere if this was to go wro
wrong. Perhaps I could live in my car? I don't know. Regardless of that nonsense, how might I be able to go about this and what can I look for as options if they kick me out? In the event they do, of course. I'm 19 (turned last May). Thanks so so so so much
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- AmarettaLv 71 year agoFavorite Answer
You made a choice not to do one of the required elements for your transition class. You basically skipped the final because, "I can't and will not do anything that involves talking in front of people." You seem to think you will magically develop that ability to talk in front of a group as you get older. It doesn't work that way. You learn to get over your fears by doing the things that scare you. Practice takes away that fear. Being unable to do a presentation in front of a group can literally cost you your job someday; the time to practice that skill is now when the stakes are lower. It sounds like you have already been cut from the program. So now you go home, face your parents and figure out what you're going to do next with your life. Perhaps you can start over again next fall at a different school.
- Spock (rhp)Lv 71 year ago
please see the academic counseling people at your school. there may be programs specifically intended for people who get flustered talking in front of groups. [it is not uncommon.]
