I am a senior meteorology major at Virginia Tech (graduating in May 2027). I have loved the program, but for personal reasons and situations out of my control, I don't feel like I have been as invested in my studies as I would have liked. I have done ok; some research, volunteering for NWS, and my GPA is 3.88. I had to do this degree in 3 years because I had a different highly unrelated major before.

I really wanted to move on to research in grad school, but I feel like I am not as good of a student as I should have been. I have gotten high Bs - low As on dynamic and synoptic exams, which is lower than most of my peers. I feel like a true candidate for grad school should be getting nearly 100s on all tests.

I am just struggling with confidence.…