Lost. Where to go from here?

Hi yall,

*fair warning this might be a bit of a rant*

I'm a Junior at the Kelley School of Business not in any workshops graduating early after this summer semester. I was aiming for Investment Banking when I first started college, GPA was on par and I was attending a lot of events but once coronavirus hit and school went online my motivation plummeted. I fell into a bit of a rut. Depressed smoking weed in my room all day and doing the bare minimum to just get by. I realized I had undiagnosed ADHD last semester and my grades have gotten much better since we are in person however I am still sitting at a 3.2 GPA with no internship experience and only a couple of years of a no-name insurance sales firm under my belt. I don't even know what I want to do in the field anymore. Plan was to get CFP because I can convert my insurance clients but I hate sales and had to drink before every meeting. I never want to go through that again in my life. I have no idea what my options could be now because my GPA is so low and my school is not very high ranking if you're not in a workshop. What options do I really have anymore with my stats and how can I recover?

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What are your plans for this summer? 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I have none so far besides classes and if I don't come up with an alternative plan to study for my CFP. This is why I sort of posted this thread. I'm just starting to get back up on my feet and wanted to know what general direction I could go in. 

 
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