College Thread • Page 79

That's a little over the top lol. Just site yourself and say you've become an expert on the topic. A LEADING expert.

 

got my midterm tomorrow and I need at least a 42/50 to raise my grade to a B so that has me worried.

I also need to go schedule summer school and my fall classes today so wooo love the school.

 

I went back to his office and he doubled down on not giving me any points back. I'm taking this to the head of the math department (who also teaches the same course) because I'm curious if he would have done the same thing.

In other news, took a dynamics test today that could have went better. He gave us a sample exam and for one the problems he said "If I gave this kind of problem to the other sections the suicide rate would go up". And what do you know, that exact problem was on the exam.

 

Teachers love foreshadowing.

 

I got my academic timeline that projects I’ll be done by Fall 2021 with community college and I told my parents and they are both disappointed and are like “you can do it faster.”

It’s like I get it they finished college in 4 years with jobs and having me as a baby but I’m not the same. My last time around in school I overworked loaded myself and got burnt out and dropped out.

this time around I’m coming in with a full time job and a commitment to my degree but also taking it slowly so I can get the best grades possible.

I don’t know I’m just venting but it sucks they are trying to put more pressure on me when they shouldn’t.

 

not thrilled with my political science class. the teacher teaches it like it's dead poets society or some shit. We've had ONE assignment all semester, which was just graded and I got an 85% with zero feedback. The semester ends next month so my whole grade so far is this one assignment and I'm pissed.

 

he does! lol
first day of class he's like "I don't really have a syllabus, I just thought you guys could decide how things go".
OH YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T DO YOUR JOB?!?! AND I'M PAYING AMERICAN DOLLARS FOR THIS CLASS???

 

yeah you only get to do that if you're like a legendary academic and most of those people know that structure is important in a class lmao

 

A lot of business school teachers that come from the field don't follow a syllabus. Only 1 out of 10 of those doesn't make it feel like a waste of time and money however.

 

Errr not in college right now but I have a technical interview on Thursday for an immersive coding bootcamp. It would put me classes 9-5, m-f for 15 weeks

 

I got a 39/50 on so sad :(

 

possibility of a curve?

 

Head of the math department says it was excessive and he wouldn’t have taken off that many points but there is nothing he could do about it. He also looked at the rest of my exam and seemed surprised as to the methods my professor is teaching us to solve the problems. He was like “hm that’s interesting, I guess he could teach it to you that way, that isn’t how I’m teaching it though” lol I really should have taken this professor instead oh well

 

noooo he doesn’t do curves unfortunately.

 

that really sucks and I'm sorry to hear that. what are the odds he let's you look over the test w answers to see if he made any mistakes? seems like you only need one or two questions to get the points you need right?

 

oh no it’s a multiple choice test so I can’t really see him make any mistakes. I can just see what I got wrong which is what I will most likely do anyway.

 

what's everyone's major?

 

Nursing

 

It turns out the class average for the exam was between a 32/50 and 35/50. that somehow makes me feel a little better but also worse.

 

my major is history with using it to go into teaching.

 

Is there a specific history subject you're focusing on?

 

I'm an anthropology major, physics and psychology minor

 

that's quite the combo

 

I get that a lot. Although now that I switched my physics major to a minor (I realized that taking 4 physics classes a semester senior year would probably just make me miserable), people are usually a bit less confused by the combination