I just got put on Academic suspension
I just finished my sophomore year with a 1.87 GPA, and I’m officially on academic suspension, but I can’t tell anybody in my family. My parents pay my rent because I go to college, and I don’t even know how to bring this up to them. I’m from an African immigrant family, and if you know, you know.
My first two years of college made me realize that I chose the wrong major. I’m literally suffocating. I went into health sciences and was majoring in neuroscience. I hate everything about it. The biology, the chemistry, everything. I can’t stand it, and I need to change my major. That’s one thing I’ve realized, and I might have realized it late because switching majors is not really a conversation we have in my family.
I need advice because I genuinely don’t know what to do next. I don’t think I can tell my parents. I’m planning on just working throughout this year, going through the appeal process, and seeing if I can switch to a major I’ll actually enjoy. At this point, I don’t care anymore about pursuing medicine. I don’t think I can do anything related to the medical field. It’s not for me, and trying to force myself to continue down this path is affecting my mental health.
Something important about me is that I graduated high school with a GPA of 3.8. I had never really had bad grades throughout school. I was a straight A student, and my worst grades were always Bs. This is my first time experiencing academic failure, and having that happen in college has been really difficult for me