The University Thread

All of mine, except Chem, use slides. Two of them are well versed in their field.

My chem prof writes on the board and boasts about being the only prof that uses fat chalk.
 
All of mine, except Chem, use slides. Two of them are well versed in their field.

My chem prof writes on the board and boasts about being the only prof that uses fat chalk.
Warp back to Bio last semester.

Teacher talks about everything withing the slide, says that exam is over slides.
Studied slides,
Exam day, exam is literally over the book.

Made a 26.

Feels man
 
Warp back to Bio last semester.

Teacher talks about everything withing the slide, says that exam is over slides.
Studied slides,
Exam day, exam is literally over the book.

Made a 26.

Feels man


The opposite happened to me over Bio. Got 31 :grumpy:


I'll see how I do on my finals. Otherwise I'm moving to a new Uni and starting my year again.

Or change major to Kinesiology or take up an easy major and complete the pre requisites for Med School.
 
We're designing houses for final projects in architecture studio. The requirements call for a structure with three separate spaces and another space to link the three spaces. The structure doesn't have to be somewhere you actually live; it can just be a personal space. Of course, as any car person would want, my house will be for my cars. It will have two separate garages, one for Porsches and the other for Fords, as well as a lounge area and a workshop. We've built several sketch models out of chipboard (basically thin cardboard), and I've drawn a possible floor plan layout. We then selected one of the simple models to be adapted to a building.

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The lounge will serve as the area to link the Ford garage, Porsche garage, and workshop, which will be upstairs. On one end of the lounge will lie an elevator large enough to fit a car on so you can get them up to the workshop. There will also be two garage door openings for each of the garages.
 
I finally figured out why my books were so stupidly overpriced compared to the price that I was quoted. The college literally sold me a textbook for a class that I'm not even taking. I'm taking business management, and they sold me a Human Resources book instead despite seeing my book list.

That book they erroneously sold me costs $240 whereas the book I actually need for this class is more like $30. I get that such a screw up could happen if the bookstore was busy, but my brother and I were the only two people in there that were not staff members. Smooth going, guy that sold me my books. You had one job.
 
I finally figured out why my books were so stupidly overpriced compared to the price that I was quoted. The college literally sold me a textbook for a class that I'm not even taking. I'm taking business management, and they sold me a Human Resources book instead despite seeing my book list.

That book they erroneously sold me costs $240 whereas the book I actually need for this class is more like $30. I get that such a screw up could happen if the bookstore was busy, but my brother and I were the only two people in there that were not staff members. Smooth going, guy that sold me my books. You had one job.
Renting books are your best choice unless your class requires the access code for online software.
 
Renting books are your best choice unless your class requires the access code for online software.
Baker College doesn't do that though because they change the books all the time. Half the classes use custom books specifically made for Baker's classes. For us, it's either buy a book, go without it, or hope for an access code. Thankfully, most of the e-books with can be bought separately from the book (which is nice because they stopped selling the book itself -go figure, lucky me).
 
Baker College doesn't do that though because they change the books all the time. Half the classes use custom books specifically made for Baker's classes. For us, it's either buy a book, go without it, or hope for an access code. Thankfully, most of the e-books with can be bought separately from the book (which is nice because they stopped selling the book itself -go figure, lucky me).
Same here, but not as many classes have their own custom books. Generally the previous version is still the same as the current but formatted differently.

Another thing to look into is book buy-back. Buying a used book at my school and then taking it back for them to buy generally means zero spent. But what I do is buy books from ebay and then take them to my school and let them buy it back, giving me money...
 
I finally figured out why my books were so stupidly overpriced compared to the price that I was quoted. The college literally sold me a textbook for a class that I'm not even taking. I'm taking business management, and they sold me a Human Resources book instead despite seeing my book list.

That book they erroneously sold me costs $240 whereas the book I actually need for this class is more like $30. I get that such a screw up could happen if the bookstore was busy, but my brother and I were the only two people in there that were not staff members. Smooth going, guy that sold me my books. You had one job.

Torrents. Try to find your books online. If you can't find them online, then buy a used one. If you can't find a used book, or need an access code for a software, you would buy a new book.

Most of my classes use an external software that requires an access code... so I don't have a choice either.



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Just had a Chem midterm today. Almost aced it..... I got all of them except for question two. Couldn't make out the redox reactions in the first part. Since I didn't have the reactions, I couldn't do part b, c, d, or e....

6 points gone.

Near the end of the exam, I just stopped, counted up the total amount of points you could get, and what I would get, assuming everything was right, which I'm certain of.

So, a grand total of 30 points. Minus 6, 24.

24/30 = 80%

Here, an 80% is an A- *blew my mind when I came here*.


So, not bad....
 
I am at that point of frustration. My english class is pure hell. :banghead:

So whenever you are at the process of doing a draft for a specific essay, you have to sign up for a time to have a one on one conference with the instructor. If you are late, even just a minute late, someone can take your spot. What makes it even worse is that that one conference counts towards your entire weeks worth of attendance of that class (5 absences causes your class to be dropped, no matter what, I now have 4 thanks to someone taking my spot). :grumpy:

Another assignment is that you have to go the colleges discussion board for that class and post something about the story. She never tells us about these, and when they will pop up, so you are left to look every single day whenever it pops up. I missed one of the discussion assignment by one day, so I posted my comment on there. I got no credit for it whatsoever. :mad:

Is it bad to drop a class? Like does it affect your transcript in a major way? :nervous:

Also, I have another hard as hell history exam today. I better do well on that. :indiff:
 
I am at that point of frustration. My english class is pure hell. :banghead:

So whenever you are at the process of doing a draft for a specific essay, you have to sign up for a time to have a one on one conference with the instructor. If you are late, even just a minute late, someone can take your spot. What makes it even worse is that that one conference counts towards your entire weeks worth of attendance of that class (5 absences causes your class to be dropped, no matter what, I now have 4 thanks to someone taking my spot). :grumpy:

Another assignment is that you have to go the colleges discussion board for that class and post something about the story. She never tells us about these, and when they will pop up, so you are left to look every single day whenever it pops up. I missed one of the discussion assignment by one day, so I posted my comment on there. I got no credit for it whatsoever. :mad:

Is it bad to drop a class? Like does it affect your transcript in a major way? :nervous:

Also, I have another hard as hell history exam today. I better do well on that. :indiff:
There is nothing wrong with dropping a class or two, but don't make it a habit. If you start dropping tons of classes, colleges will look at your ability to take a full school schedule.

If you don't think you'll pass it, you can drop it, or you can take a D in the class or whatever and do grade alleviation.
 
If I remember well, grade alleviation is available if you get worse than a C in a course. If you do get that, you're able to take the class again to fix the grade. I think it differs from college to college, so I'd find out at your college if I were you since they most likely have different policies. I'm sure they have different routes you can take as apposed to dropping the class in whole and taking a withdrawal "W" on your transcript.
 
1 week and 1 day from now I give my dissertation proposal to my lecturers. Wow uni went fast.
Good luck.

I still have a long time until I'm done college.. I just found out that a-lot of my classes will not be transferable to University, so I'll have to make up those semesters. I feel cheated out of my time. I've been so stressed out about this.
 
Good luck.

I still have a long time until I'm done college.. I just found out that a-lot of my classes will not be transferable to University, so I'll have to make up those semesters. I feel cheated out of my time. I've been so stressed out about this.
Oh damn...

Non-transferable because of your grades, or because the Uni doesn't recognize the course?

If it's the latter, then that's BS. MAJOR BS.


Also, this week I've got two finals and another one on Monday. I was supposed to write my Bio final today, thankfully there was another date to write the exam which is in May :grumpy:.

I still gotta finish a paper which is due Saturday night. Can you believe this; I got a 🤬 paper to write on exam week. Whatever, she cancelled the final so that's that.
 
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They don't recognize some of the courses. I'm so stressed about this.
What the actual 🤬?!

If the majority of Universities don't recognize the courses then why make you go through them?!?!

I understand trying to siphon as much money from students as possible, but to actually make them waste their time?!?!



I hate administrations like that.


My Uni did that to me... when I enrolled in first year, I had to retake most of my highschool courses in Uni because "they lost my transcripts and it's too late to resend them as the year has begun". All I got was Psychology, and even Psych they only gave me 3 out 6 credits. Also threatening me with the fact that if I take a Psych class, I lose all of those credits.
 
Virtually nothing from my college will transfer anywhere because it's a private college. It really sucks since I've been thinking about transferring to somewhere else. I might as well wait though since I'm close to graduation.

Speaking of college, I have a class with an E-book. Not a big deal, but the college biffed and didn't give me a place to actually register the book. They also want virtually everything to be BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) but won't actually update the absolutely horrible IT infrastructure.
 
Being a freshman in college, what happens if you have an "F" in one class? Is it extremely detrimental to your official transcript?
 
Being a freshman in college, what happens if you have an "F" in one class? Is it extremely detrimental to your official transcript?
Yes, but try to retake the class.

Either do that or drop it. Your GPA will be crippled.

Doesn't matter what grade you're in in college, if they see a bad grade, it's a bad grade, and it'll look like crap. Even with my C average, my transcript looks like a nightmare.

My GPA could be 2.5, but it's 2.26. Got a D in my drawing class. Lame teacher is the cause for that.
 
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Yes, but try to retake the class.

Either do that or drop it. Your GPA will be crippled.

Doesn't matter what grade you're in in college, if they see a bad grade, it's a bad grade, and it'll look like crap. Even with my C average, my transcript looks like a nightmare.

My GPA could be 2.5, but it's 2.26. Got a D in my drawing class. Lame teacher is the cause for that.

Yeah, because I missed the drop date by one day (I was never notified about these in my campus), so I am planning to retake the class this summer (with a different teacher, bad teacher is bad).
 
You're telling me? What were the grades like?
I still have two weeks left but one is a 42 because I haven't been able to complete the work (it's a big technical school so I live at my other house which doesn't have Internet), one is a 63 (the same literature teacher if you have read my previous posts of him) the other a 78 (because he doesn't know how to take out the mid-term grade which we never had so it's entered as a zero against my grade)...

So yeah... strolling off a 4.0 from last semester to this one which I'm now shooting for at least a 2.7-3.0 is pathetic...
 
one is a 63 (the same literature teacher if you have read my previous posts of him)

Yeah that asshat...

the other a 78 (because he doesn't know how to take out the mid-term grade which we never had so it's entered as a zero against my grade)...

-_-

Please tell me you took this up with someone at a higher level.




As for me, well... this is my Hail Mary attempt. I'm trying to study my behind off for these upcoming finals.

Bio isn't going so well, Chem isn't going so well, Calc isn't going so well, Physics isn't going so well...

Anthropology is going to be the only class that will keep me afloat.. that is, if I do that damn assignment by Saturday night, which is also the same time I have my Physics final...


Yay.....
 
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