This semester, I felt, started off strong.

I was on the ball. Things were going right for once. I was enjoying school and everything had a good balance.

Then something happened. I don’t really know just what happened, but it happened fast and brought this sweet, sweet taste of potential academic success down the drain. Perhaps it was the stress? The large amounts of commitments with extra curricular activities? I don’t know.

But in the end, what started off as an alright semester turned into one which I need to seriously look at what I’m doing. Of the three courses I’m taking, I did best in JAPN 100 with a B. Everything else? I did terrible.

After talking with Nancy, one of our advisors in CS, I’ve had a pretty significant wakeup call. My upper division CGPA is approaching 2.0. If that dips below 2, I will not be able to graduate with a BSc in Computing Science. And of course, my overall CGPA isn’t looking that pretty either. It’s not as low, but it’s gradually getting there and once that happens, I have one semester left to redeem myself out of academic probation and then I’m RTW-ed.

So I’m starting to tread on some dangerous ground now. I’ve been strongly advised to take out time from the extracurriculars to go and study more, as well as focus. My problem is that I just know exactly what I need to change, but the focus to make these changes are not there, nor is the motivation.

This should be a good wakeup call to get my stuff together and get myself out of this academic rut once and for all.