Bad semester, discouraging. How to bounce back? January 5, 2013
9:54 PM   Subscribe  So after reaching the unpleasant
realization that even if I get a 4.0 this semester, my GPA won't
be as high as it was before my horrible Semester Of 2012. I am a
Junior and planning to apply to med school after a gap year, so
now is REALLY not the time to hit a downward trend. I had a
string of grades lower than I usually perform to, and I am SO
discouraged right now. I know it's my fault and I take full
responsibility...  But how can I bounce back? I'm so discouraged
that I find it hard to be motivated. Like I'm stuck in a bit of
a funk. I felt horrible (about unrelated things to academics)
halfway through last semester, and I did have this sense all
throughout last semester that this was not a good time for me.
The thing is, I don't handle failure well, and I don't like the
fact that my GPA seems to have been irreparably damaged by last
semester.  What bothers me the most is that I could have gotten
A's in classes where I