How I went from failing 7 classes to graduating with honors In College (My Story)
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2022
- My name is Clarissa Guillen, I'm a first-generation, low-income college graduate who once lost all of her academic scholarships, failed out of a bio major, got told to her face she wasn't smart enough to get into medical school, and eventually helped myself graduate with honors from a rigorous nursing program while working full time.
This is the story of how I went from failing 7 classes to graduating with honors in College.
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I just failed a class, and I very much needed this video. I’m still heartbroken about it because it’s my first year and I feel like I failed my parents because I’m the oldest of my siblings so I feel I have to be a role model for them. I’m so disappointed in my self.
Sammmeee!!! Only child in my family in uni and failed first sem. Packing my shit to move out the dorm rn 😮💨. Lost my scholarship and I feel like shit seeing my friends have passed and move on. It's not over yet, we learn from our mistakes and do better🥹🫶🏼
@@hinatauzumaki8832Amen :(
I've failed first year and I don't know what to do
@@ejikeokoyefranklin2897 Did you fail both semesters?
literally same
Truly a video I needed to see at this time. No one truly knows what is going in someone’s life to make them fail in school. Literally, no one fails because they just want to. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom ❤
Of course! My mission is to show every college woman that succeeding is never about their intelligence, life circumstances or worth. It’s possible and sometimes shit happens. It means nothing about whether or not you get to achieve your goal. Of course you do, we just need to make sure you’re fully equipped and supported to. I’m so glad you were guided to this video 😘
I’m about to cry, I’ve failed 4 college classes the shame and embarrassment is very bad, especially facing your college advisor, I really really want to go back and try again and get a degree, but I’m so afraid and ashamed, this story gives me so much hope ❤️
I am so glad that you found this video and that it is giving you so much hope. When you go back, remember me because I would love to support you through it.
This is the motivational video I was looking for. Back in highschool, I was also a good student and enjoyed studying. Now, I'm on my second year at uni and about to fail two courses. Despite I have my family support and the fact that I'm financially stable, I feel like something is missing because I don't have the motivation to study I had when I was in highschool. As you said, I think my problem is that I haven't found a good way to study and balance my life with uni. Sometimes when I have to study for an exam, I want to do everything but studying, and I'm not really sure about how to motivate me. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and pieces of advices with us, you're really strong and optimistic.
Of course. You are the reason I share videos like this. I feel like succeeding in college is made to be so complicated and it’s not. We just have to be taught how to do it.
She needs to take a breath
Venting and my own story Below:
I'm actually in community college. Low income, first gen. Back in high school and middle school top of my class but college is just a beast. I took summer courses for a headstart and aced them with flying colors but as of the Fall Semester of 2022, I'm failing my major in computer science. It's really broken me and I'm especially scared of telling my mom. I'm slowly coming to terms (as a perfectionist), that it's ok and it's the cards that I'm dealing with. Just to not give up on my degree and try not to believe it's the end of the world. I'm not dumb or anything, I just need the right space, people, and mentality. This video pretty much proves it, and dang I'm sorry that the academic counselor said that. It sounds so unprofessional to just shoot those dreams down like that and not recommend anything, but I'm glad you stood your ground and found something you enjoy!
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me!
We make our failures mean so much about us. My hope is that more college students understand that succeeding is a set of skills you have to be taught.
Fucking same! I'm literally failing my game development 2 class right now. I feel like a fucking idiot 😭.
@@TechReviewTom I’m also failing 2 classes rn and I’m so stressed 😩🙁
I’m in the same situation as you.. graduated high school with a 3.8 GPA, all a’s with a couple of b+’s.. now I’m in my first semester of community college in hopes of transferring to a university. I’m scared to tell my parents that I’ve dropped two classes and received a d in biology but am ready to succeed next semester. How are you doing now?
How are you doing now?
If makes you feel better, I got 49.7 in a curse I needed 50 to pass, I feel bad with myself right now, but I know that everything has a solution and I just need to keeping up and learned about my mistakes, hopefully you can do it as well ❤
This was my first semester in collage, i stared taking 6 classes since they gave me labs for my bio major, i failed a math class i was really sure i was going to pass and i was really disappointed and sad about it, i stared thinking that i wasn't going to be capable anymore, but now i feel motivation by this videp
keep going. never give up. trust me! and trust the process
@@LiLi-bl2vp thank you🥰❤️❤️God bless you
I really needed this I failed and it’s honestly my fault I procrastinated and tried to submit my assignments all at the last minute I feel embarrassed exhausted and awful I wish I would’ve done something better my parents are disappointed and I feel disappointed I’ve never cried harder I hate telling my parents that I failed my classes I was online this school year which honestly never works for me so imma go back to public school. But after see this video I now understand that this is just a hiccup and things can’t get worse
I was overwhelmed with the amount of work I put myself through. Starting a new job, transferring from a different university and starting without any help just relying on faith. I did most of my work on a desktop and it was so hard. I didn’t have the capacity.
I’m pushing through. Thank you for this video.
You are so welcome. Succeeding in college truly is just actually being taught how to.
Going through something similar. I had been an honors student all through high and middle school. Now as a sophomore in college I am realizing I am not prepared at all. But I got this summer to watch your videos and work on myself. Thank you
You are so welcome
I relate so much with your comment because I am in the same boat as well....
Hey any update? Did the summer time help you come back stronger? What did you do if I may ask
I also failed my 1st year and it wasnt even science based when 19. 😔. I also dropped or stopped my transition year nursing courses at 26 because of another loss that affected my mind. I wish I stayed at age 19, I could have been in law school and graduated... I was not believing in myself and my decisions, and that ruined me, rooted in abuse and historical traumas my family experiences.
Okay, I am going into second year Nursing at age 32 and doing pharmacology and dosage calculations. I failed my first human anatomy physiology course at 39% ended at 70%(I worked my asss offf). I got the average of 77% overall... Couple 85% and 80%, I got lucky and got one 95% (I lucked out). But I want to raise my 77% overall average to 90%. So, 13% I need to work on this. Raise up my final grade in every class. I can perform a 80% when functioning at what I would call my best. So how do I raise the bar on what I think is my "best". In the mind the best is like "all you got". So now we out here strategizing dreaming beyond our minds limitations. I hope I can do it.
I want to go to med school or law school or do graduate school(nurse practitioner).
One thing having a chokehold on me is my addiction to workingout and my body image and im older. I feel my mind is losing its sharpness. To be active is to keep my mind sharp at this age. Now to balance that. Its time to stop abusing myself and challenge myself in honor of those lost and not here today.
Listen-I was never a honors student. My behaviour never matched because I was homeless as a teen and mother really was abusive. Lost 2 brothers to addictions.
I have a cousin who I am so proud of in med school but was raised up not in turmoil. So I know I could hace it in me. Can I still win with so many Ls and hits I've taken. Praying.
Thank you for this. I am currently struggling. I failed my first semester at college then decide to “take the semester off” now I’m trying to go back to community college. Sometimes it’s really hard to know where to go and how to start, I’m 19 at the moment I really just hope I can preserve my way through
I really like how you lift up students that are struggling in school and giving the hope. Most people look at students that have honors and have never struggled in school. They like to praise those types of people instead of looking at the ones that are struggling.
From Failing Classes to Graduating with Honors (Ep. 68) Here you go Carissa this is the podcast that was assigned to our class.
Thank you! It makes me so happy to learn this. Thank you for telling me.
No problem!
Based on the comments and your video, I can see that I am not alone in this world. We all have similar feelings and It is motivational to keep up in a world of inequality. I did not have a good education in high school, and I got a scholarship in a rich people university in Brazil and I just feel so out of place. I compare myself to people who have different backstories and higher income and parental supporting, I just feel so unmotivated by seeing teachers that came from the same reality of those rich people telling me that I should switch my graduation course. Computer Science is definitely not an easy patch to go through but I am not going to give up even though I may fail at some classes. Thank you for sharing your story with us, and I am happy that you are okay now. I cannot wait to feel the same!
Thank you SO much for this video! You have no idea how much I needed to hear this!!!!
In my third year and this is what I am experiencing right now. I was always a straight-A student but in my junior year I was having an academic flop era and I just wanted to change my major from engineering to psych because it had reached a point that its affecting my relationship with myself. This is why I am even here scrolling for ways to help me. Thanks for the video I saw myself in your story and I am willing to graduate with this engineering degree.
Thank you for this. I'm a bit too overwhelmed to write much, but I'm thankful to hear you share your experience because I'm in this now too. Hearing I'm not alone in this gives me some courage to pull myself out of this despair. Sure I've got the resilience to get through all the traumatic things I'm still experiencing, but it's not enough to just survive. I'm going to be courageous enough to carry myself out of this.
ilyyyy hope u still doing well, inspiring us daily fr blesses
Thank you for this, I started off my college career very rough. Even my advisors made me feel discouraged. Been going really hard and doing really well recently and been wondering if it’s too late for me, but this gives me a lot of hope for the future of my education
Thank you. I know I’ll have a story similar to this. I found this video because I’ve been grasping at air for some support from the people around me. I don’t think anyone truly believes in me except for me, and maybe with good reason. So it’s on me, and you’ve helped me feel empowered to take control of my own situation.
Thank you for this! I’m going through the same thing now. This is my last semester and it’s going to be the most difficult by far. Advisors can be tough, mine has honestly said things that made me completely question all my goals (at times even change them). I also worked full time most of school because I needed the money but I have cut my hours in order to succeed in this semester.
This is excellent! I decided to go back to college to finish my degree and even after being accepted back into the program I was confident. I came here to this video and was overwhelming encouraged because i have a very similar story. I have a trauma history leadning to a 1.9 gpa in high school and a 2.0 in college. But i remembered at one point i was on The honor roll and that version of me still exists. I just finished my first semester back in school with a 3.7 term GPA and i made the deans list. Thank you foe all your doing for these women you arw making an impact. Thank you so much for this video it has played a huge roll in building my confidence and inspiring me to be a straight A student! ❤ You can always begin again and this time were going to finish!
Thank you so much for this video! Such great encouragement.
You are so welcome. Tell me about you, what landed you on this video?
thank you so much i really needed this, you have no idea.
You are so welcome.
It’s possible to succeed exactly the way you want when you’re shown how 😘
Amazing, amazing story! I’m hearing a lot of perseverance. Thank you for sharing this information!
Thank you! Of course, I know my story will help someone else keep going.
Glory To God🙏🏾❤️ - Thank you for sharing your story! This was filled with meat and truth. I’m glad you overcame🤎.!!!
Thank you so much!! I am glad I overcame too. 🙏
This all happening to me right now,for me I’m in foreign country (US) I failed my classes last 3 semester they gave me a change to retake those 3 classes but I’m still failing. Most of time is I don’t have money to go to class since International student I have to attend my class face to face. I could deal with it well. Now am scared I’m not sure since last time they told me if I fail again I will be suspended from classes and have to go back home to Africa. I’m really depressed.
May God bless you
Thank you for the video I needed this. I'm an international student that is studying in a new language that I didn't know much before coming to university and now I'm failing my first semester in computer science because I didn't understand what they were teaching. I was like you in high school one of the best in the class and when I went to uni in Slovenia I saw that soo many people were better than me, that they were thriving, but I struggled with the easiest topic, now I sit in my room thinking I could've done better if I studied more. Thank you for your wisdom and I wish you the best of luck.
I am so happy this video gave you exactly what you needed. That was my intention. We're all capable sometimes we just need to be reminded and supported through it.
Same boat❤
you don’t know how much i needed this video thank you so much 💗
I'm so happy. I created this video for women just like you.
This is tremendous!
Thank You!
Thank you so much for this video!
You are so welcome!
I really needed this❤️… I was literally about to drop out.
I’m so happy RUclips placed this video in front of you exactly when you needed it.
What are you struggling with the most right now in your classes?
Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. It's my first semester and it's been so stressful. I accepted that I'm going to change majors because i found my purpose and what satisfies me but it's still difficult to see everyone succeeding. I sometimes feel like there's something wrong with me. I'm just trying my best. Thank you for your words. It's warms my heart to know that I'm not the only one and that there's someone who was able to overcome it ❤
Of course, I am so glad this made you feel like you're not the only one. You're not. It's just built into the academic culture to never talk about failing so it seems like everyone else is succeeding.
The only reason why you;re not is because no one ever taught you how.
Very inspiring
i also have immigrant parents and i also want to major in biology, im interested in being an obgyn, a physician, or a nurse. yet i am in my sophomore year of highschool and i have 3 D's, and 1 F, two C's and one B+. i am also devastated because i am failing my biomedical class and i always wanted to go to an ivy league or a UC, but i know now that the chance of that happening is very low. anyways, i really appreciate this ideo, i will be taking two classes online this summer and i plan to lock in this summer with my grades and start studying for the SAT. ill probably go to CC and transfer to a good school after 2 years, i think. This video really helped me and made me realize im not alone. Thank you so much.
you're amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. ♥ The amount of similarities I see in your story to mine is so so encouraging for me. I've been in college for so long as a Biology major, I'm waiting to check a grade that I absolutely need for me to graduate in 5 days and I'm so nervous, but I believe in God and have faith!! 🙏🏾God bless you and all your future endeavors.
I GRADUATED 17 DAYS AGO!!!! Glory to GOD! ❤❤❤ I'm so so so so so thankful omg. And thank you again for this video girl! It helped me stay calm in my storm of anxiety and waiting for my test results, you have no idea!
You are such a inspiration! I am in Rhode island and yes the schools are terrible.
Thank you! Where in RI?
@@sherocksatcollege I grew up in providence, I live in east providence right now. I came across your youtube because my nursing school shared your podcast interview for my assignment.
@@tenekahall1617 how wild is that? Which nursing school are you attending. I went to CCRI! Oh my gosh. You have to tell me the podcast they assigned and also what the assignment was 😂
Math is a killer for me I will try this to see if it helps, I failed first semester already by 2 points.
Thank you soooo much for sharing, we should all help one another from our past failures, I needed this. I have been failing most classes almost every semester, I took time off for Spring 2023 classes to work on me to becoming a better student.
My story: I'm 16 and am juggling high school and community college while being a full year athlete and this quarter I am failing my college classes after having to go to Nationals for cheer, and breaking up with my long term boyfriend who was mentally abusive and toxic. My parents somehow have access to my college account and can see my grades so they've punished me by taking my tv, pc, phone, and friends away so I can focus only on school. They also have threatened sending me to my abusive father's house (my parents are divorced) or boarding school. They said if I don't pass my classes this quarter (which ends this month) then they would send me back to highschool which forces me to not be able to graduate with my class. I am overwhelmed and have basically given up at this point. I'm sharing my story because maybe someone is going through the same thing and also feels alone, or maybe someone has advice for me. Idk, just thought it'd be nice to get out :)
edit: I am a really good daughter, I don't vape or sneak out or do things I'm not supposed to. I do my chores and I listen to my parents and I rarely give them attitude, the one thing that makes me imperfect to my parents is the fact that I'm not booksmart and no one can change that.
edit 2: I am currently looking at 16 missing assignments in just my journalism class. btw - my stepdad doesn't let me choose my own classes which could be a huge reason I am failing... I don't understand journalism and in fact hate it.
So sorry to hear this. Have you tried telling your stepdad you don't want to study the course?
Hello, I would love to talk with you privately to help. Do you have any social media?
well, i am at the "7 classes failed" fase :')
Fr real 😅😅😅😅
Wow! Thank you for the Cal Newport reference.
Nice video. What lipstick are you wearing?
My daughters in University and I’m looking for help in whatever here I can get help so if you can help her but I live in Canada she had tens Toronto University and she’s so depressed every time she take an exam
I would love to help. Email me and we will set up a time to chat you, me and your daughter hello@sherocksatcollege.com
@@sherocksatcollege Good night thank you for getting back to me I am trying to login because I need your help also I’m going back to school in January and I need to be a better student but I’m trying to your email and it’s not working can you find another way that I can contact you at how can I log into your classes
If you want to enroll into Educated the link is sherocksatcollege.com/educated
Here is my email again: hello@sherocksatcollege.com
What happen if you pass 7 out of 10 classes will I still pass
Wow , imagine an advisor being that callous . That is horrible . I’m sorry that happened to you 😢😢😢
In hindsight: I genuinely think in her head she just wanted me to succeed and didn’t think it would be on that major. Like she thought she was sparing me.
@@sherocksatcollege I feel like that was the enemy but it overall worked for your good . I understand . I be ready to defend people when I see they don’t deserve a certain energy . But it’s interesting because I went to my school and my advisor was laughing at me tryna tell me jay I could or could not do so I went around her and made a decision so thank you for your video because it helped prepare me for her energy
Good night can you help me and my daughter
so motvational
What happens if I fail 1 paper out of 10 in my second attempt at completing university 😢
I'm in desperate need of help.
I'm in my 3rd year 2nd semester of economics(4 year course) with 6 failed classes.
Do tou think you can help me, please?😢
I likely can. Schedule a consultation call work me sherocksatcollege.com/consultcall
The best thing is something called Quizlet.. College is an open book exam these days. Back in the 80s and 90s it was a nightmare. Piece of cake these days.
It shows that you don’t have to use the race card to graduate. It’s called hard work and determinTion
Atlest you were in the USA what about those who are not in the US
We definitely have certain priveledges
Over it not trying again
Is there anyway I can talk to you about my story?
of course! sherocksatcollege.com/consultcall
That is the link to my call calendar.
Wish I could talk to you in private without paying
Try to tell that to someone with severe adhd...
I work with a lot of women in college with ADHD. We don't see it through the lens of it being a limitation but rather it's giving us the blueprint for how your brain works and we work WITH the ADHD rather than seeing it as something we have to overcome.
@@sherocksatcollege I dont know about them but i personally cant even brush my teeth
Im sorry so you inflated your GPA? You 're not one if the academic elites sorry.
I know. I’m not trying to be. 😉
@@sherocksatcollege I understand so I do take back what I said. I have been in a situation where I retook classes after already establishing a profile of straight As. They were due to time constraints more than anything. But I was at least at Cs and Bs at the time of withdrawal. I am myself concerned how people will perceive me retaking five classes in my four years transferred at uni and that's with already passing everything. I have accomplishments to back up what I have done. I am in the top 10 percent and a member of PKP.
@@W81Researcherway to toot your horn, and honey everything isn't about you.