getting worse grades in 2nd year of uni

This post is more of a rant, but my grades have been consistently low across all my coursework. Obviously the second year is more difficult, but I didn't expect such a big drop. I have a friend who has been using AI to help them with their coursework which means they have been achieving better grades than me. I mean I guess I should be happy to be getting these grades based on my own effort, however I need higher grades if I want to enroll on a specific program I want. It means my friend will be able to get onto it with ease, which was what I always wanted. Yes, maybe I should've put in more effort to get the grades, I can't go back now though. All I have left is exams, which will most likely be harder than the coursework, so my grades will be even worse. I just feel like I've already failed on all the goals I had. Then seeing someone I call my friend who didn't work as intensely to reach those goals is a bit upsetting. I wanted to find a placement which I couldn't achieve either meant that I really wanted to be able to get onto the extra program. I don't know how to process it all I guess. I mean I don't want to be annoyed at people for doing something I can't.

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Dunnig Kruger

Send an anonymous tip to your lecturers that your friend has been using AI.

Discuss with your lecturers what you need to do to bump your grades up. And then go ahead and do it.

Have a Plan B, C, D, E and F for in case you don't get on to that specific program. Life has a way of making Plans B to E work out better than Plan A would have done.