How my GPA went from a 1.5 to a 3.7
As the second semester of my second year begins, I took a good look at my transcript from this year and my last and saw some BIG changes, and after I got thinking about it, there were bigger changes than just my GPA; let me explain.
My first year of university I set out as a science student, thinking I was headed towards a 3yr. BSC in Biochemistry and BOY WAS I WRONG. In high school, I’d ignored all my strengths and focused on sciences, which to be honest wasn’t my shining point in academia. When I applied for direct entry into the science faculty I got in due to my high GPA (thank you social sciences) and started my first year chock-full of science classes, physics, chemistry, cell biology and a & p; not to mention the labs that go along with it. After just one month of school I was failing and not in the cute “i only got 70% on my midterm” failing, I had gotten less than 40% on not one but two midterms that semester. It took a lot out of me, I would skip school because I hated it so much, wouldn't study, my social life and mental health began to take huge tolls on me, and I was suffocating. When finals season rolled around I had to bust my butt off to get C’s and D’s in my science courses, and then it dawned on me that I was in the wrong faculty.
For years in my high school career I’ve been told there's no money in the Arts. Making arts degrees seem like less work and less of an accomplishment and I let those fake ideas get to my head and want to prove something to myself and the surrounding people, that I could do those science classes and be one of the smart kids. It’s once I stopped stereotyping Arts degrees that I really became who I needed to be and started enjoying studying.
Don’t get me wrong, science degrees are tough to get through, but that doesn’t make the arts any easier. They both require dedication and practice and hard work, and the whole “there’s no money in the arts” facade is completely false.
This year I enrolled in a degree that I’m actually interested in and passionate about, studying language and how it works makes me want to get up and go to class, my entire life is better because of it. I go to the gym, I’ve started to eat healthier, take control of my sleep schedule, I’m volunteering and living such a happy and fulfilling life. I wouldn’t be here if I just followed my passions, my GPA change is enough to show that.
I guess this story isn’t like a lot of the others, I’m not an aspiring doctor or lawyer or anything else that society deems fancy or higher in status, I’m going to study speech pathology, maybe get a PhD in Speech and Language Disorders because guess what, that's what I love doing and what you love is never going to put you on the wrong path.
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