Yes, I had trouble with French too; the last course I was required to take in it (a remedial course) we had an actual French teacher but he was a grad student and lousy teacher and went way too fast with we remedial students and gave us all D's and F's, etc.; we had to complain to the department head and get him canned.

I eventually switched to Spanish and now don't know either of them :-) I went to Switzerland 6 years ago and felt "safer" in the French portions than the German (even though my husband and I took a quick continuing ed German course before we went) but had a heck of a time when I was alone trying to buy a brush in a beauty supply sort of store (everything was formal/in glass cases and you had to be "helped" by a clerk) and, again, in a camera store where all I wanted was a "throw away" camera; they didn't know that concept/slang, LOL.

I was not into studying; had had foreign language problems from high school, etc. I guess, if I could do it all again, I wish I could have been more realistic and researched what I wanted to study/do, what I wanted school for when I made my decisions. I was pretty naive about the "real" world and my ideas of what I was going to be/do when I graduated were wholly unrealistic. I had been a history major and run into trouble and decided to be a diplomat instead, no clue that I had to have had straight A's and be attending a different school, that I couldn't just switch from French to Spanish and get good grades in Spanish and that would cancel out the crummy French, etc.

What do you want with this degree at this time? If you just want "a" degree, I'd take easier or at least more interesting-to-me courses in the subject areas I had to choose from. I did not take biology in high school until my senior year and then, only to avoid physics! At one point I got a "D" in biology because I just wasn't into it. I only got a "C" in botany in college, same reason.

I would not give up on school but I would fall back and regroup; maybe take some courses you don't "have" to but are interested in, etc. to see if you can't find something that you don't know about that might inspire you and not require botany or French :-) as part of their curriculum.