I have gotten 2 D’s in college and those are the only 2 D’s I have ever gotten or will ever get.
Shit happens when you get burnt out. I went into overdrive mode and was taking stupid amounts of classes and work.
I’m a CS major at Georgia Tech. I’ve never failed a class because I’m not irresponsible. I did get a D in my first semester though, I hadn’t adapted to college life and didn’t realize I could withdraw from classes =p
Second half of my freshman year, I fucked off and spent most of my time smoking weed and drinking for a semester… and failed or got “Incomplete” for all 5 of the classes I was taking. I was taking bowling… and failed it because I never went. That’s how much of a fuckup I was. With the exception of one studio art class, (I was in school for and graduated with a degree in graphic design), the rest of them were low tier GE classes.
Got my ass in gear the next semester and the rest of college to make up for it, but my GPA never recovered so I had to graduate with like a 2.9 or something like that.
i mean no doubt, but he referred to someone taking orgo and stats…if you’re pre-med or chemistry you’re only taking simple stats and maybe some sort of regression class. but yeah, stats theory was fucking rape.
Lost a few friends to that class. Just stopped seeing them cause it took up their entire lives.
Wow, you guys make Organic Chemistry sound like the Seven Circles Of Hell!
I only took chemistry in high school, and for me it just seemed to boil down into another math course more than anything. Never really caught my attention though.
I don’t know, I don’t think organic is that horrific. I like it because there’s not as much math as Chem 1 and 2. So far everything has required work but not ‘omg rape’ level stuff, imo
None. You have to really try to fail a class, to fail in college.
qft
I’ve heard horror stories about part 2 of probability theory at my school. fuck that.
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I’ve heard horror stories about part 2 of probability theory at my school. fuck that.
I failed a 3 credit physics course my sophmore year in college. Took it again the next semester and got a B+. That was the lowest point in my academics but it helped push me to try harder for the rest of my classes.
High-school chem is figuring out what equation you need and doing some simple algebra. O-chem is nowhere near that easy. That said high-school hardly prepares you for college imo. It took me a year (and two dropped classes, good thing my school is very lenient on freshman) to adjust to the much heavier workload of college. There’s a reason why it happens, and not just because the material is harder. 1-hour sessions in HS have a completely different format. It goes like this:
- The teacher explains the material.
- The students apply the material in class through guided examples
- The students walk out of the room fully understanding what was just presented (or maybe after 20-30 min of HW)
In college:
- The teacher presents the material.
- Test on Friday GLHF!
What makes the difference in college is if you put the time in to apply the material that the profs throw at you. That means going to TA sessions, reading BEFORE lecture so you don’t get overwhelmed, doing dat HW regardless of it being graded, and not expecting to get an A just by going to class.
I failed a math class twice. It’s always been hard for me to grasp. Luckily I found a Math program at school that essentially let me teach myself, and take tests when I wanted to. I passed it easily, and learned a lot.
I had gotten a D on one of my classes right after I applied for transfer to one of the University of California campuses. I told the UC people that I was gonna retake that course immediately the following quarter. I still got accepted to 3 out of 4 of my choices for UC and my single back up.
O chem is real pain at the university i graduated from. There’s this one prof that literally fails the entire class. Furthermore, the department had to ask that prof to pass some people, because the department could not afford to let the students retake the course.
I notice that students at universities struggle like no tomorrow on calculus (mostly the 2nd course with integrals and stuff) and it’s mostly because the course does not fit their major. It seems a lot of universities don’t offer the dumbed down version of calculus for non-science majors and pre-med majors. The junior college I went to offered applied calculus (watered down version), but instructors hated teaching it. Some even petitioned to get rid of it.
Although I did have help from some people I knew in college, I can say that 95% of the classes, I learned the material myself. I went to a “commuter college.” Although I did have a lot of friends during college, I didn’t lean on them for support for classes. I’m too independent to do that and I came out graduating Cum Laude. You can definitely pass a class if you learn the material yourself. Maybe not you, but other people can.
i took a difficult courseload (in my opinion) in the one or two semesters of college i had (u of minnesota). failed a nanotechnology course. couldn’t put effort into the paper or researching.
was dozing off in classes and stuff anyway. and driving into the city to school every day and back.
that was 10 years ago. took a sabbatical and never came back = dropped out. then slacked off, got labeled mentally ill, still slacking off.
forgot pretty much everything i learned in college / high school. now i’m kind of a mystical thinker. dunno why. drugs or mental illness or uncommon insight or madness.
shrug.