Community college for now but will get a chance to transfer soon.
LSU, Texas State, or USC/UCLA cant decide!!!
My first chem professor did this and I wasn’t even a chem major. You miss one part of the problem you miss the entire 15-20 points. I failed her class 3 times.
My second chem professor asked me to stay at the school and be on the student research team for nano chemistry. Figure that shit out.
One thing I have learned though: If you don’t like the place or you just can’t get through it no matter how hard you try, with tutoring, help, extra credit, whatever and it’s just not clicking or working, look into a different school. I made the mistake of going back to my first school (Duquesne) and I’m struggling through everything while at the other school I went to (Pitt), I was on Dean’s list and eligible for honors programs and all that. I failed out of Duq the first time around and went back because of ego like “Kick me out I’m comin back to kick ass” and it was the same as before.
Okay, before people get all up on my case about failing people… I fail people when they deserve to fail. Weed out courses are not courses that test you’re intelligence, they test your drive and your willingness to put in the work. If someone is genuinely struggling with the material and they come to me during office hours and they are working their rear off and they’re not majoring in Econ, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt. For those who don’t understand who these types of programs work, when you’re the new prof on campus, you get to teach the intro courses and make sure the people who move up the course ladder are teachable by the professors who have been there longer and get to teach what they want.
95% of people I’ve failed are the people who don’t ask questions, don’t come to class, do poorly on tests and wonder why when they ‘study’ all night before. The other 5% are cheaters who immediately fail. I grade on 60%D 70%C 80%B 90%A ratio, but someone needs to take these students and make sure they are ready to put in the work for the rest of their collegiate career. I don’t believe the course is that difficult. From the people who come to class based on survey responses (which are anonymous), I get extremely high marks from my students on the fairness of the course and the material, but really, I’m surprised that people are upset at the idea of a weed out course and that I fail on average 7 out of 40 students when you know for a fact in freshman courses attendance after the first three weeks drops to about 60% per class.
Say whatever you want about any field of study, its not something you learn through osmosis. I’ve had students who never came to class, could read the book, come in pass the tests and go home. But they are the overwhelming exception.
I wish I went to a black school. I went to UV mutha fuggen “AYE”
University of Virginia - Charlottesville.
Lol, yea man. All of this. Engineering FTW!!!
Any engineering class seems like a weed out course, cause I have friends say cs 101 was hard, but then I found calculus to be uber difficult.
finishing up at GMU this winter. Doesn’t have a fucking football team though so I might do one more year at VATech just so I can play. I don’t give a damn about the extra money.
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V-tech.
Jus playin. Heard V-tech is just as boring as UVa. At least ya’ll got a great football team and engineering school