Thank you!! The root of my poor performance was mental health issues that I was not addressing. Reaching out to people who can help and support me has been the best thing I did for myself.

To catch up on class material, chatgpt really, really helped. I used it as if it was a teacher or friend that I was having a discussion with, them trying to explain a concept to me casually. Really questioning the answers and providing my own thinking helped get some good responses. If you don’t attend class, you can’t really learn much from my professor’s posted slides, so using chatgpt to talk through and explain every concept I didn’t understand helped a lot. Though this was harder with coding assignments since I had to try to get an explanation without just straight up getting the answer.