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Making it to graduation isn't always easy. Grades slip, tuition bills get out of hand, and you might not always follow your school's rules. Over on Reddit's AskReddit, former students told the stories of how they got expelled from college.

Some were expelled for their grades.

1. "Apparently you can get kicked out for not showing up to class and failing everything. Who knew?!" - PatchesWpg

2. "My GPA dropped below the competitive level for the engineering school at my college. I was given the option of transferring to a different school (they recommended I go into the humanities) or be expelled. Well, thankfully I had a job from the previous summer that was willing to hire me on full time before this happened, so I took the expulsion and went to work full time." - treboR_the_Great

3. "I went to college right after high school and didn't really have direction as to what I wanted to pursue for a career. I started to not care about school about three or four semesters in and stopped putting in effort. I decided I would rather work my job, drink with friends, and play my favorite video games. My grades tanked, and then I stopped going to finals and failed many courses. My university finally gave me a warning and then dismissed me." - jiggity_gee

4. "I lived and worked 40 mins away from school... I scheduled all my classes at seven to 11am. It was hard to get up at five and drive into school and pay attention in a 1000-seat lecture hall. So I started to stay at the frat house and blow off my classes. The first semester I got a 0.0. The next, I got a .33 (one D!) I wasn't the only one expelled from school that year... me and four other guys [in my frat] were competing for the lowest GPA." - yuckypants

Some were expelled while struggling with their health.

5. "I ended up slipping on ice and fracturing my femur, my humerus and two fingers on ice outside my apartment. I spent three weeks in the hospital during that time recovering and doing PT. My apartment was 30 minutes away from campus, and since I couldn't drive, afford cabs, or have public transit, I ended up failing everything." - BillyBoy_1

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6. "I was expelled back in my fourth year of college. I've dealt with social anxiety since childhood and it came to a head in my third year when I was having panic attacks frequently. I got help, but by then it was too late for my grades because I had been barely passing classes by the skin of my teeth. I was a fourth year comp sci major who didn't know how to program. At all. I tried to get back on the horse after going through therapy for my anxiety, but I felt so defeated that my grades slipped further into the hole I had dug for myself. I think the quarter I got kicked out I had 2 Fs, 2 Ds and a C." - TigersMilkTea

7. "I'm bipolar. I rocked college and got straight As while I was manic as shit sleeping three hours a night for several years, drinking, drugs, partying, and all that. Then I curled up in a dark hole and cried for several months and couldn't even wake up enough to go to any of my classes. I got academic probation and told my advisors I had no idea what was happening to me. This wasn't the real me. I managed to pull off another year of straight As and little to no sleep. Then I crashed again and did nothing but sleep for months on end. This time, I got kicked out completely." - Obidicut

This person had to leave school because her dad didn't pay her tuition.

8. "My father never paid the tuition that he said he did. I got kicked out of my dorm and barred from registering for the second semester's classes due to outstanding debts. I couldn't afford to settle the debt on my own dime in order to not get kicked out. It was pretty embarrassing to explain to my sorority why I had to drop out a week before the end of the pledging cycle, to explain to the pep band why I couldn't travel with them anymore, explain to my roommate why there was a notice of eviction taped to our dorm room door. She ended up having to lie for me to the campus police when they came to make sure all my stuff was moved out. (She said some of it was hers since I had nowhere else for it to go). I moved into my boyfriend's dorm for the remainder of that semester, thinking it would all get figured out over the summer and I'd be back next year. Never made it back." - Theriskyclick

This guy got expelled when he started failing classes after his mom died.

9. "I did very well in high school. My mom died unexpectedly the fifth week of my freshman year. I got back to school after being home for two and a half weeks and none of my professors gave a shit except my ROTC cadre. Failed every class except ROTC and French (got a D, but Ds get degrees right?) and during my academic hearing after the first semester, they literally laughed at me when I told them the reason for my poor performance was the the weeks I missed due to my mom's passing. After I wasn't able to raise my gpa to a 2.0 after the second semester (which was my fault - I lacked a will to be there and was pretty depressed), I was expelled. Lost my scholarship. And couldn't talk to my mom about it." - btowns1127

Some went up against their school's conservative policies.

10. "For being off-campus with a member of the opposite sex without proper supervision. No, seriously." - Fainer

11. "I was expelled from Bob Jones University for being off-campus unsupervised with the opposite sex. Joke's on them, I was 99 percent lesbian in college." - Steampunkettes

Some just broke school rules.

11. "Installing bitcoin miners on all the computers in a video editing lab." - jzsean

Hannah Orenstein the assistant features editor at Seventeen.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram!

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