Has anyone ever FAILED a class before?

Be upset but don't let it get you down for to long, brush yourself off and take it again. You already have a huge advantage begin that you took it before.

I have retaken a class again just to get a better grade and because I didn't really feel like I had a good understanding of it. At my school the class will remain on your official transcripts but it won't be used for you GPA and it will show it was retaken, the adviser said it doesn't effect a thing but they have to keep records of everything, especially when you are paying for school.

So if I go look at my unofficial transcripts at my current school it will show I retook Microbiology, I got a C the first time. Only the second time is counted in my GPA.

For my transcripts that were transferred in though, they only transferred in the retake and it doesn't show anything about it being retaken, only on that schools transcripts. If that makes sense.

Anyway, I wouldn't beat myself up over it. Chemistry isn't the easiest of classes, it isn't as if you failed some easy bs class.

BTW if you are getting financial aide at all you might run into a problem since they usually require a C or above, BUT if you run into a problem talk to your advisers at school, usually it's not hard to get a "warning" if you can tell them a cause, whether it be first time stress, home stuff or whatever. I think they just want you to acknowledge where the problem lies so you can better handle it next time. My friend just told them her husband was making her life miserable at home because he didn't want her back in school and they allowed her to keep her grants and put her on academic probation until the next semester.