so I only have one lab report left to write this semester but oh my god did they have to leave the most boring lab until the end? Blah blah blah chlorine disinfects water and then you have chloride ions and thank you for not giving me cholera but this is still incredibly uninteresting
the problem with having a lot of your mark determined by pre-exam stuff is you get to the end of the semester and go "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck okay I'll just study for like 2 weeks straight and the exam will be fine" but then whoops the exam is only 50% of your mark and fuuuuuuck you can't go back and fix your previous fuckups
Isn't 50% a lot? I consider the final to be a huge part of the grade if it's 30% or above. Man, I'd be pissed if my grade was more than 50% riding on a single test. I hate having that much riding on that little.
50% is the class with the least riding on the final for me
2 of them are 50%, one is 70% exam, and the other is up to 100% exam (it's either exam, or a weird 1:2 weighted average of exam and homework+midterm mark)
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edited May 2010
One of my courses I actually forgot about a test worth 10% of the mark, and put off doing the lab report because I had something bigger due, but I get to make up for it with an exam worth 50% of my mark, and composed entirely of 72 multiple choice questions.
it didn't help that I was sick for like all of the bio section the last year when 'science' was just one class
I have to walk past the sociology and law departments and shit when I go to maths, kinda depressing seeing how much higher the average level of attractiveness is there
oh well
*realises someone they've talked to in classes for the last 2 year is actually a girl*
nah it ain't that bad, I mean it's not like I'm doing computer science or anything
Still a couple weeks left of school. Guh. Every one of my classes this quarter are all riding the curve so no one knows what the hell their grade is and won't until we get our final grades in our transcripts.
So until the summer, I have several more homework assignments, I have to redo the entirety of my Comm Theory midterm and describe what/why I got stuff wrong so I can get a 10% chunk added to my final grade, 3 finals and a research presentation with a MATLAB example of the "zoom FFT" function.
Please tell me someone here knows something the zoom FFT function.
I realized this morning while listening to the "How to Think Like An Economist" speech for the fourth semester in a row, that arguing with people on the internet and all the time and effort I've wasted just trying to prove people wrong over stupid shit has actually been really useful for me and relating to my major.
That bothers me so much.
today I realized I shouldn't bother going to bio anymore since he posts the lecture slides and podcasts online
goodbye sitting through traffic twice and paying for parking!
It's something you do need to weigh up, and I don't know how much of a hassle transport is for you, but all else being equal it's better to go to the classes. You'll pay more attention and you can ask questions when you don't understand something.
today I realized I shouldn't bother going to bio anymore since he posts the lecture slides and podcasts online
goodbye sitting through traffic twice and paying for parking!
It's something you do need to weigh up, and I don't know how much of a hassle transport is for you, but all else being equal it's better to go to the classes. You'll pay more attention and you can ask questions when you don't understand something.
I'd probably pay more attention yes, but it's a 200+ person class and I've never really been one to ask questions. It's a freshman-level bio course that I'm taking as a senior because it's a gen-ed for engineers, so the content isn't really a problem. Just memorizing frustrating BS and looking over old multiple-choice exams.
I'll be going in for the review days and obviously exam days, but other than that it's not worth the extra hour of driving.
my advisor was completely wrong. one of my classes wont transfer and they calculate gpa differently,
so i wasted a semester and 2000 dollars retaking classes that were supposed to replace, but instead of replacing my grade like he said they would, it only raised my gpa .2 points. while my community college grade is still an entire point above the required, measly 2.0 I needed, the gpa they calculated is not
I don't know what to do, this was supposed to be a solution to not being homeless in three months and finally going back to school andi don't know what to do
my view of community college has changed, it's so not worth it,. i am such a fuckup, oh my god.
edit- im just gonna go freak out over here in the corner
Have you spoken to an advisor about this, Pillow, or is this the calculation given to you off of the school's student website to track your 'academic progress?' At my school, at least, the website's calculations are always, always wrong and when you go see an advisor they recalculate it the correct way.
I've found this to be the case especially with transfer grades and replacement grades.
I called the uni and they showed me how I could go to my cc's transcript and calculate it the way they did. He was really friendly and showed me where the grade differed exactly, and gave me a website so I can now check which courses from that school won't transfer. Even the way they calculated it, I only needed a few decimal points!
I'm done freaking out now, so yeah, it'll be ok. I'm just not good with plans. I'll get it right next time.
I have been such a worthless piece of shit today. I got out of my apartment to go somewhere else to study but my allergies hit me so hard I went home and then I completely failed to start studying. Fuck.
I still have a few hours left of the day, lets see if I can get some reading done.
I miss school. It actually gave me a reason to feel like I was productive.
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Haven't had a class in 3-4 years. I start Spanish Intermediate 1 tonight at a local community college.
My life is about to be the show Community. I am the Jeff Winger only instead of a fake bachelors, I stopped 4 credits away (but really a 4th level language requirement) in 2006.
I hope my study group has some good characters in it.
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2 of them are 50%, one is 70% exam, and the other is up to 100% exam (it's either exam, or a weird 1:2 weighted average of exam and homework+midterm mark)
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wasn't great but I'm glad it's over
next up: critical reading paper on Indigenous Australians
after that: evaluation post on our community work project
after that: integrated practice critical reflection paper
and finally: social policy critical analysis paper
I think
I think that's it
there's a good chance I'm missing something
wait no I fucking don't, I only have one less homework than usual. shit.
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Oh my fucking acrobat is a terrible piece of software.
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figuratively
bio was the only science course I failed anything in at high school, fuckin hate bio
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line up. gotta put up these velvet ropes
I have to walk past the sociology and law departments and shit when I go to maths, kinda depressing seeing how much higher the average level of attractiveness is there
oh well
*realises someone they've talked to in classes for the last 2 year is actually a girl*
nah it ain't that bad, I mean it's not like I'm doing computer science or anything
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it rarely works out well, except for chemistry which I can usually do in about half an hour - an hour (homework not lab reports)
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So until the summer, I have several more homework assignments, I have to redo the entirety of my Comm Theory midterm and describe what/why I got stuff wrong so I can get a 10% chunk added to my final grade, 3 finals and a research presentation with a MATLAB example of the "zoom FFT" function.
Please tell me someone here knows something the zoom FFT function.
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goodbye sitting through traffic twice and paying for parking!
Now I just have to wait for the grades, which is a bit nerve wracking. But boy, is it good to be able to relax for a bit.
That bothers me so much.
It's something you do need to weigh up, and I don't know how much of a hassle transport is for you, but all else being equal it's better to go to the classes. You'll pay more attention and you can ask questions when you don't understand something.
I'd probably pay more attention yes, but it's a 200+ person class and I've never really been one to ask questions. It's a freshman-level bio course that I'm taking as a senior because it's a gen-ed for engineers, so the content isn't really a problem. Just memorizing frustrating BS and looking over old multiple-choice exams.
I'll be going in for the review days and obviously exam days, but other than that it's not worth the extra hour of driving.
Thanks for your concern though!
so i wasted a semester and 2000 dollars retaking classes that were supposed to replace, but instead of replacing my grade like he said they would, it only raised my gpa .2 points. while my community college grade is still an entire point above the required, measly 2.0 I needed, the gpa they calculated is not
I don't know what to do, this was supposed to be a solution to not being homeless in three months and finally going back to school andi don't know what to do
my view of community college has changed, it's so not worth it,. i am such a fuckup, oh my god.
edit- im just gonna go freak out over here in the corner
I've found this to be the case especially with transfer grades and replacement grades.
So maybe it'll be okay?
I'm done freaking out now, so yeah, it'll be ok. I'm just not good with plans. I'll get it right next time.
I still have a few hours left of the day, lets see if I can get some reading done.
My life is about to be the show Community. I am the Jeff Winger only instead of a fake bachelors, I stopped 4 credits away (but really a 4th level language requirement) in 2006.
I hope my study group has some good characters in it.