The people saying you are being a pussy are a bunch of morons. Seriously, what kind of answer is that? It doesn’t provide any useful information. I do wonder if people would say those things if they were forced to meet in person. Plus I know plenty of people who went to “college” who either had a joke course load at McDonalds University and were super cocky about it because they did “well”, or had a really challenging curriculum and only did average. At the end of the day college is all about you getting the most out of it. And further, since some of the replies really ticked me off, the more energy you waste “being busy” in the sense of one taking on more and more work without free time, the less efficient they become and eventually burn out. Being busy is not a badge of honor if you waste your life and time doing stupid unnecessary shit. Everyone needs time to recharge - the body only has a finite amount of energy to expend in one day.
Anyway, here is the deal, you’ve got to figure out why you aren’t doing well:
If the subject matter is too hard or you find it uninteresting then it is better to reassess your educational (and career) path now rather than when you are a senior or after you got your degree and are working (like some people I know). Believe me, you do not want to end up in a situation where you felt like you took the wrong major or struggled through your major with a bunch of mediocre grades, leading to a mediocre job.
If you have too much going on in your life then you need to decide what you are willing to do without.
If you are being lazy, well that is just going to follow you everywhere in life. If it isn’t this particular subject that will be difficult, something else will come along that is also difficult that you’ll try to avoid. In most cases this will hurt you in the long run.
If you aren’t doing well because the class requires a skill set that you don’t have, then you need to figure out how to acquire that skill set or get help from someone. I am particularly terrible at memorization-type classes. One of my most difficult classes was a stupid economics elective because the professor required lots of memorization to take his tests. I know people who are hopeless when it comes to mathematics, on the flip side.
It might also be worthwhile to “learn how you learn” as cliché as that may sound. I have found that getting a good night sleep, taking breaks every hour or 2, and reading from the textbook/reference, while writing notes in the margins, assures me that I will learn whatever material comes my way. Lectures, forget it, I cant multi-task so listening and understanding simultaneously is out of the question. Some people have great visual memories, and others learn best by doing.