So I checked my grades this morning and I got an F in speech taking my GPA from a 3.8 to a 3.2!! I (Think) am in phi theta kappa and that is the lowest you can go before getting kicked out. :'(
I took speech last year though. I got an incomplete because I never took the final because of reasons. Anyways I went to take the final and I thought I would have at least gotten a C because I did really good in speech. Like REALLY GOOD! What do I do? I feel like a failure.
This really hurts cuz in high school I was failing miserably and everyone thought I was lazy. I wasn't lazy I have learning disabilities and wasn't getting the proper help. So getting this F kinda took me back to that time and made me feel awful and worthless. Help?
You could go to your teacher, tell him about the learning disability and situation, and ask if there is any way you could change the F somehow. He might say 'no.' But it's worth a shot. Normally, I wasn't one of those uptight nerdy students who hounded teachers about grades, but once in college, I calculated that I was just really on the border of getting an A. We had A, B, etc. with no minuses, and the grade knocked me out of the deans list, so I thought, why not? I asked the lecturer about it, and he gave me some extra-credit assignment to do (like problems in the office to do, not some big deal) and bumped my grade up. But they didn't retroactively put me on the dean's list.
You know what? Grades in school don't matter that much. I mean, you should try to do the best with what you got. And if you are a junior or senior especially, grades do help you get into college and might help with certain scholarships. But if you don't have a 4.0, getting one bad grade may not hurt you that bad. The people who do admissions at college will probably figure there is some story behind the speech grade, like, oh this kid is smart, but can't do public speaking. You could work the story about getting the F into your college admission essay. At least you'd have a topic.
I think you'd also benefit from really meditating on things the word of God says, like about being fearfully and wonderfully made, and learn to find your self worth in the fact that God created you and loves you so much, instead of your accomplishments. It's good to accomplish great things, but if you fail at something, that doesn't make you any less valuable. Why would it? That doesn't even make sense. What about kids in your school who can't get math or Spanish or whatever, and get F's. Are they worth less than you because you have a good GPA? I am pretty sure you don't think like that about other people. Why think that way about yourself? If you hadn't taken speech class and had taken drama instead and gotten an A, would you be worth more? Getting your sense of identity in Christ and your sense of self worth straightened out is probably more important for your future than your grade in speech class.