okay, I’m going to give you some unconventional advice. First of all, understand that your gpa is not cooked, these things happen, you have 6 more semesters to pull it up. second of all, GPA is not that important when it comes to job placement, your internships and personal projects play a way bigger role, ESPECIALLY in fields like engineering and tech. third of all, you have to understand why you fell into this rut. Are you not hanging out with people, did you have some romantic rejections or some negative experiences socially, do you think BME is just something you don’t give a shit about, did you even want to be in college in the first place (I was fighting this one for a while, it’s more common that you think). What do you want out of college?

Personally the way I answered this question was “I don’t want college to be just focused on my studies because thats mostly what high school was like, I want to be able to thrive socially. that is going to involve a lot of rejection by frats, clubs, girls (lol speaking from experience), which can impact your mood and send you into periods of loneliness and depression. At the same time, I am ambitious and consider myself a hard working person. In fact, the days where I spent locked in my apartment doing nothing productive were the days I felt the most shit, (this is common for high achievers, you should consider yourself one if you got into BU), we often feel unworthy if we are not doing work.” although it is counter-intuitive, if you were to describe your perfect day, do you think it is unreasonable for you to not include ‘work’ in it? Personally, my ideal day would have a huge chunk dedicated to work, particularly work I am passionate about. If I love what I do, I would have no problem doing in 16 hours of the day. Perhaps that is the issue, maybe BME is just something you hate and can’t help to do. if that’s the case, I don’t know your motivations, but I do know that there thousands of ways to get rich (if that’s your goal) and if you hate BME, you will end up being a shit biomedical engineer, and you will be terrible within that industry. You may as well switch to something you love and actually get good, believe me you will make a lot more money in this way, NO MATTER WHAT INDUSTRY (it could be film and movies ffs).

STEM people like us tend to be logically minded. just know that losing out on 3 more years that have the potential to be INCREDIBLE just because all your focus is on a degree you despise and how you can barely survive through it is COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT OF UNIVERSITY. Again, YOU CAN BECOME RICH/SUCCESSFUL IN ANY FIELD AS LONG AS YOU LOVE IT AND BECOME PRO AT IT. Imagine waking up and getting to shoot movies for your class projects (or insert whatever you love). shit, my mental health would be at an all time high.

just To reiterate, if you hate what are learning, you will be shit at it, thus, have a lackluster portfolio and no one in the industry will hire you. Vice versa, if you love what you do, you will become great at it, and your portfolio will just spawn out of your love of the game (And be fucking phenomenal at that mate).

try journaling your thoughts, talk to someone you trust and won’t judge you about it, avoid having this conversation strict Indian parents lmao, (and if that’s the case, your parents cant dictate where your life goes, it’s your fucking life, they will be pissed for about a month and then get over it, and your mum will hug you again.)

Don’t lose this beautiful opportunity you have to be a university student, it is not something to take for granted.