The University Thread

[Team THRT Drift]

Never have I had any amount of sheer unbridled rage within me in any point of my life until now.

Recapping back on what I said I was going to do:


Not only did I have one quiz for a 0%, I had TWO quizzes that were zeros.

I was there when she gave out the quiz and everything, but the reason why I have zeroes for them was:

"You didn't come to class by exactly 8:00. You may have come in time for the quiz to begin, but not when class started."

Never had I felt my heart drop down so hard.

It was never mentioned in the class syllabus that if you were barely late to class, even just one minute late to class, you get zero credit for any quizzes. And she just told me this.

Sure, I understand if you were 10 or so minutes late (quizzes would be done within 5 minutes or so, but a minute off from 8:00?

So now I don't even know what to do. I now have two failing classes because of this.

Screw that class.

so... just took my english exam...

failed..

grade=65... failed...

The only passing grade I was given was an attendance grade, and he couldn't even give me a 100 (I got a 93 but I told him to look at the records and I was not absent one. damn. day.)....

I dont know how it works but I would report that, that's just completely petty.

This. For both.

This is the month where blood pressure goes up to unusually high numbers.

Exam week or marks are revealed?

Either way, stay calm, stay focused. Study a bit, take a break, study a bit, take a break..

I mean 5 min break, not GTPlanet break.

 

[phillgt2002]

Exam week or marks are revealed?

Either way, stay calm, stay focused. Study a bit, take a break, study a bit, take a break..

I mean 5 min break, not GTPlanet break.

Dude, I'm knee deep in 🤬

I've failed three math tests in a row

Just zero energy to do anything. I'm not failing the class, but I know that whatever I do in the class right now will be crucial. I took my last test with a fever and felt like rolling around on the floor from stomach pains while doing it

Bad times in Phillip town. This month has been one of the worst I've had academically.

Still dealing with this sickness. I haven't been to the gym for a week due to me being sick..

Ugh.. I've spent $150 on food in the past weeks and none of that food was had with the girl in my class

****, I'm broken. I want this to be over. And to think I told myself that I wouldn't let school take a toll on me mentally. I try not to let it, but its just seeping its way back into my psyche. I think that may be the reason for the shortcomings of my grades.. Not giving enough ****s...

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Ugh.. I've spent $150 on food in the past weeks and none of that food was had with the girl in my class

Worry about you mate. She can wait. Get your 🤬 together first.

 

[phillgt2002]

Worry about you mate. She can wait. Get your 🤬 together first.

:/ I guess.

that edit

Don't blame you.

 

[Keef]

Math is too numbery. I've always had trouble with numbers for the sake of numbers. Calculus was mystifying until I learned how you can apply it to getting the most pizza per dollar.

All the engineers on my FSAE team think it's funny that I've never taken calculus in my entire life. Apparently every single math class they take requires it. Hell, I can't even remember the equation for relative bearing in an airplane which is basic addition. I have to say the phrase...

My Hot Red Balls Make Babies

MH+RB=MB

Magnetic Heading + Relative Bearing = Magnetic Bearing

That's what you need to know for the tests but I can't remember that crap. In the plane you just do what the needle tells you, no math required.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I've had lots of ups, a few downs, and a very, very long 8 year road...but I have reached terminus. Successfully defended my thesis on Thursday and graduated Sunday. 1 year of pre-college (community college) + 4 years of undergrad, 1 year off, and 2 years of graduate school....and I am now a Master of Architecture.

HAIL.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Alright. A few days ago, I reported to the school about what was going on with my English class and it's problems.

Still waiting on the end result.

In other news, professor from said class gave me THREE more zeros on assignments I have done.

The heck, professor?

 

[Swagger897]

So.... who wants to hear my final grade for English???

Alright I'll tell it anyways..

69.5 point... five....

I was gonna say something to him but I was given +27 extra credit points (well, three assignments worth 9 points max... that we had to do..) on one of my papers (the 50% one)... so this was me...

I just want to make a short edit here...

In one of my accounting classes, we literally had to take two tests over the same content, so we had 18 tests for nine chapters. They were full length tests, one was in the school's online website, the other was in the software we had to purchase.

There was so much work to be done, and under my circumstances, there was no way I could pass the class. I had a 51% average going in to take the final and made an 86% on it (not bad for studying that morning [only that morning because I knew I had no chance]). Not much done to the grade, only went up to a 53%.

Yesterday was officially the last day of classes, and when final grades were to be entered. I just got back to my house now (the one with Internet) and checked my grades. History I made a 98% on the final and passed with a B+, English.... ya.... My first accounting class, 90 something, and the hopeless chance accounting class, a 77%.

The instructor went in and took out about four tests I couldn't get to finish, and about two quiz grades as well. I'm pretty sure I have a bald spot on the side of my head now. Not because of anger, but because of pure shock.

I was so down for the past month because I realized no matter how long I stayed at the school extra to try and finish, there was no way I could pass all my classes. The next accounting class I need for prerequisites is taught only in the summer, and if I failed the accounting class I'd have to wait almost a year (well, ya a year) before I could progress on any further. My arms right now have this tired feeling on weightlessness typing this because I'm partially ecstatic that she passed me, but also I don't have to tell my parents I failed that class... (we're working on getting Internet down there though. The only corp. that offers it is AT&T, and the fastest speed they got is 1 mb/s... but the ping is like low 20's so that's the good thing...)

 

[Team THRT Drift]

I 🤬 up....




So many emotions swept through.... all in under a minute.

I found myself hyperventilating and on the verge of tears.

Now I'm on the verge of having a mental breakdown/collapse knowing I have to look my father in the eyes and witness a look of disappointment that will shatter my world.








I need to be alone.








I need a break.

 

[Swagger897]

I 🤬 up....




So many emotions swept through.... all in under a minute.

I found myself hyperventilating and on the verge of tears.

Now I'm on the verge of having a mental breakdown/collapse knowing I have to look my father in the eyes and witness a look of disappointment that will shatter my world.








I need to be alone.








I need a break.

Don't worry.... I'm gonna take the class again during the summer, but this time online with a better (well, less harsh) instructor. That was my problem... Going from one campus to another and not knowing which instructor i should've picked.

If there are other instructors then I'd pick them over what you just did, unless it really wasn't their fault. But sometimes having a different teacher helps...

 

[Team THRT Drift]

I knew more about Chem and Calc walking into them than walking out.

I don't know what it is about this 🤬 Uni but my brain shuts down and becomes a blank slate for these 🤬 professors to fill with confusion.

You know when you take a simple test like grammar that has you questioning your knowledge again?

That feeling of uncertainty? Yeah, that was me for the entire year.

I knew everything there was and yet when these slow profs ask the class a question such as "What is sine of pi/2?" or I find myself second guessing....

I don't know if its the pace, or the damn atmosphere, but it doesn't sit well with me.


As a person who got A's in Calc and Chem, to be coming out with D's for both in Uni, something's going on...

 

[Grandea GTR]

Talked with the dean of English only to be disappointed at the end result.

I was told that he wasn't able to help me out that much, so I am not to expect that much of a change in my grade for my English II class, which means that only a smidge of my grade would only be improved.

Well, so much for that.

 

[Swagger897]

So I just wanted to make sure the grades stayed as they were....

Well, all but one changed... and it makes me want to kill the man even more (Not really for you NSA spies...)
English asshat went back in and added one point to a test, which brought my grade up from 69.5, to 69.55.... Yup, a whole hundredth of a point and I would've passed the class...

 

[Keef]

Unfortunately you graduated from the wrong school but congrats nonetheless.

 

[Swagger897]

Unfortunately you graduated from the wrong school but congrats nonetheless.

lol... was waiting for a Buckeye to say that..

 

[phillgt2002]

I knew more about Chem and Calc walking into them than walking out.

I don't know what it is about this 🤬 Uni but my brain shuts down and becomes a blank slate for these 🤬 professors to fill with confusion.

You know when you take a simple test like grammar that has you questioning your knowledge again?

That feeling of uncertainty? Yeah, that was me for the entire year.

I knew everything there was and yet when these slow profs ask the class a question such as "What is sine of pi/2?" or I find myself second guessing....

I don't know if its the pace, or the damn atmosphere, but it doesn't sit well with me.


As a person who got A's in Calc and Chem, to be coming out with D's for both in Uni, something's going on...

You drank the Kool Aid, didn't you?

Just read the bit above a few minutes ago.
What happened?

 

[Team THRT Drift]

You drank the Kool Aid, didn't you?

Yes I drank the preverbial Kool Aid.

Just read the bit above a few minutes ago.
What happened?

Received my final exam marks.... then heart rate went up, emotions took over, and I broke... well, almost.

 

[Swagger897]

Received my final exam marks.... then heart rate went up, emotions took over, and I broke... well, almost.

How many classes did you attempt/pass?

 

[Team THRT Drift]

How many classes did you attempt/pass?

So far I passed all... just not with the grades I wanted. Now I'm worried about my GPA.

Took 8.

 

[Swagger897]

So far I passed all... just not with the grades I wanted. Now I'm worried about my GPA.

Took 8.

HOLY CRAP! EIGHT CLASSES? ARE YOU MAD!

 

[Team THRT Drift]

HOLY CRAP! EIGHT CLASSES? ARE YOU MAD!

It's the whole year...

Three of them are just a continuation from one level to the other.

 

[Swagger897]

It's the whole year...

Three of them are just a continuation from one level to the other.

ahh okay.... makes a lot more sense now.

edit: what was your gpa after the fall semester?

 

[Team THRT Drift]

ahh okay.... makes a lot more sense now.

edit: what was your gpa after the fall semester?

Don't know...

Too lazy and down to calculate it myself. I'll just look at the entire year.




Edit

 

[Swagger897]

Don't know...

Too lazy and down to calculate it myself. I'll just look at the entire year.




Edit

I think my school shows it right after classes are finished in their degree planner...

edit:
they do... and looking at my english class, it looks like somehow I passed it...???
I'll have to talk to an adviser about this though. Last semester I got a 4.0, now it's down to a 3.32 or .23.... not good imo...

 

[Team THRT Drift]

I think my school shows it right after classes are finished in their degree planner...

edit:
they do... and looking at my english class, it looks like somehow I passed it...???
I'll have to talk to an adviser about this though. Last semester I got a 4.0, now it's down to a 3.32 or .23.... not good imo...

How many classes were you taking?

 

[Grandea GTR]

HOLY CRAP! EIGHT CLASSES? ARE YOU MAD!

Eight classes aren't that bad. It's once you get to twelve classes, though.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Eight classes aren't that bad. It's once you get to twelve classes, though.

I starter with 12... thinking I could one up my
parents from their Uni days...


Never again....

 

[Grandea GTR]

I starter with 12... thinking I could one up my
parents from their Uni days...


Never again....

I have to do 12 classes because Asian parents.

Joking.

But it is really tough to convince my parents to have less classes for next year.

 

[phillgt2002]

I have to do 12 classes because Asian parents.

Joking.

But it is really tough to convince my parents to have less classes for next year.

Your parents shouldn't have any control over that.

Take what you can or too much will take a toll mentally and physically. In colleges, your parents can't even get your grades without your permission. Sometimes I ask my parents what they want for their birthday and they say "Good grades from you". Let them know that you're going to college for yourself and not them.

 

[Swagger897]

How many classes were you taking?

8 as well, four per semester.
My only issue is that I didn't have Internet at my house, so all my work needed to be done at the school, which is also a thirty minute drive from my house....