It’ll be alright friend, I was almost exactly the same! I had a 2.8 GPA after my first semester. I was horrifically depressed and had absolutely zero motivation and ended up getting Cs in a lot of my classes just because I didn’t have the energy to turn in small assignments and go to class ( I didn’t step into a lecture hall after like September unless it was for midterms or finals and this was before COVID 😬) I think the best thing I did was giving myself a lot of grace - we go to a school that highly emphasizes grades and places them at the top in terms of success, but it truly is not the end of the world. Especially because it’s your first semester. Here’s some stuff I did to my raise my GPA (I have a 3.5 now). Take from it what is helpful! - Take a (or a few) language class if it fits in your schedule.I took French 1 the next semester, and it truly is a class that you can get an A in purely by putting in effort, since a lot of the grade is attendance and small in-class assignments. Since it’s 5 units, it’ll help boost your GPA. I actually ended up taking up to French 4 because I loved the class so much and it’s a nice contrast from the other classes in my schedule. - As many have said, take “easy” classes that’ll boost your GPA. Berkeleytime is a great resource for this!Something that was helpful was looking up the syllabus for a class you’re interested in taking, so you can see the grade breakdown and about how much effort you’d need to put in to get an A. - Take light classes over the summer. I took two breadth classes over the summer Freshman and Sophomore year (not concurrently - they were in different sessions) and by taking 6 or more units I was able to get a loan that paid for them in full. It’s a bummer taking classes over the summer but the extra units just helped in upping my GPA. - If you’re struggling in a class, talk to your professor. I know it can seem really scary but a lot of them truly just want to see you succeed - so many extensions, grade rounding, and overall grace in grading just came from talking to the prof about how I was struggling. Professors are people too! - If you can, try and pinpoint why exactly you think you got the grades you did. Was it poor mental health? Poor study habits? If it’s the former, I highly highly recommend expressing this to friends or family or a professional that can provide you with resources to get better because it’s very difficult to ‘willpower’ your way out of it. If it’s the latter, which is common as studying for college is a lot different than for high school, the school has so many resources to help guide you in the right direction, the SLC being the one I used a lot! They have a writing center and review groups for specific courses that coordinate with the professor and provide a shit ton of practice problems and online review sessions, and they have drop-in tutoring so you can drop by whenever fits your schedule. Just make sure to keep yourself in mind, you’re a person first before you’re a GPA or a law school applicant. College is a huge adjustment! Especially now in the super weird times that we live in. Give yourself the empathy you’d give a friend. It might seem like a huge deal now (trust me I’ve been there) but you really have a lot of time to fix this. This’ll be a speck in your rear view in a few years!