Just failed my first major subject, how do I move on from this?
I’m currently a second year legal management student on my last semester for the year. I never had any failed subjects (major or minor subs) and have always been doing well academically so I never had to worry about dropping a class to fit it into my schedule or worry over the classes I won’t be able to take with my friends.
I just got all of my grades back and saw that I had failed one of my major subjects for this semester, this genuinely broke me and I’ve been crying over it for the past three days. I already spoke with my professor and asked him if there was anything else he could do but he told me there was nothing he could do to raise my grade to at least pass the subject. I simply accepted it and tried to swallow that pill.
In my uni, we don’t have summer classes, so I’ll have to retake the subject next semester in my third year and I might have to drop a class to make it fit into my schedule.
Everything has been too much and I know I’m not the first person to fail a class in uni, or the first person to fail a class in my course, but it still stings that all of my friends passed all our classes for this sem except for me… I’ve always been used to doing well in academics so this one hit me way too hard and I feel like I’m falling behind…
And this is also to say, there is no harm or anything bad about retaking a subject and being an irregular student, but I guess I just didn’t think i would be placed into that position as well… since I have prided myself in prioritizing my studies :((
Any advice on how to move on from this and continue forward?