Final grades will be posted on WIN any day now. If you earned an A, you’ll get into your dream medical school! If you ended up with a C, you’re destined to live in your parents’ basement! Right..? Wrong.
A dissapointing grade isn’t the end of the world, even though it may feel like it in the moment you click “Spring 2014” on WIN. Here are some things to keep in mind if you’ve gotten a grade lower than you’d like for this semester…
1. Realize that everyone’s gotten a less than ideal grade atleast once in their lives. You’re only human.
2. Take a deep breathe. Repeat. Calm down. Your grades are just a letter on a page. Your experience and what you actually learned in the class is what you’ll take with you and use to sell yourself at job interviews.
3. Remember the Real Housewives of Atlanta episode when Porsha Stewart thought the Underground Railroad was a real train. Don’t you feel smarter already?!
4. Don’t think your parents will hate you forever. Tell them the truth about your grade. Hiding it from them will just heighten stress and anxiety.
5. You’ve probably got icecream in the fridge. Go get yourself some icecream. Chocolate works too.
6. Read this Smosh article, “8 Celebrities Who Were Bad Students” and see that your favorite people weren’t necessarily the ones who got the most As.
7. Get off Social Media. We’ve all got that annoying friend who posts a Facebook status about the super high GPA he or she got this semester. Ain’t nobody wanna see that.
8. Don’t hold back your tears. If you need to cry, cry. But realize that crying won’t change the grade. You will recover from this and so will your GPA!
9. HEY, YOU STILL PASSED A SEMESTER AT WAKE FOREST! It’s really not an easy thing to do…