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I just failed a mandatory university class (update: I failed another one as well!))

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    Darkness MundusDarkness Mundus Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I'm pretty sure I would have a heart attack if I got a C.

    Next semester is not going to be good times.

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    The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I'm pretty sure I would have a heart attack if I got a C.

    Next semester is not going to be good times.

    Man, seriously, if you can only get distinctions and above

    then don't change a god damn thing

    you fear the christ out of that C

    because if you stay D and above, then you are doing an amazing thing, and you should stick to that

    the better part of my bourse is the physical side, the wooden, the plastic, the carbon fibre models.

    you pick them up and you can see the difference. Some of them are just amazing

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    well I just quit my job to focus on college, yet here I am on the forums

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Seriously, you should be doing kegstands and dateraping freshman ladies, brah

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    me or TBH?

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    You, FAQ. This is a second chance at college and leaving behind the real world! Carpe beerbong! Wooooo

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I am doing contract work while trying to find a real job

    I get tons of interviews, they all say the interviews went really well afterwards, but I never get any offers

    I keep losing out to people with double my experience (I am a software designer) because of all the layoffs that have occurred recently

    My contract here is almost up and then I am SCREWED

    hooray

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    i feel like failing is very hard to do
    i could put in almost 0 effort and still get at least a C+ / B-

    you have to actively put in less than a minimal amount of effort to fail, like not handing shit in or whatever

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    DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    So why can't you just make up the classes in Summer?

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    i feel like failing is very hard to do
    i could put in almost 0 effort and still get at least a C+ / B-

    you have to actively put in less than a minimal amount of effort to fail, like not handing shit in or whatever

    what are you studying

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    aah, failure, my favorite pastime

    I failed at everything I've ever tried to do, from school to career to romance

    not one success in 21 years of life

    I present to you that I, I.H.N.I.W.T.R., am the saddest thing

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    The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    FAQ wrote: »
    i feel like failing is very hard to do
    i could put in almost 0 effort and still get at least a C+ / B-

    you have to actively put in less than a minimal amount of effort to fail, like not handing shit in or whatever

    what are you studying

    I don't think he's in college or university

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    suddenly feeling alot better about myself

    I knew there was a reason we kept you around IHNWRTSRSD

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    yuh huh i'm a senior in uni
    studying applied math also econ, though this year i'm taking a lot of humanities courses for fun

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    FAQ wrote: »
    suddenly feeling alot better about myself

    I knew there was a reason we kept you around IHNWRTSRSD

    at least I know I can always succeed at failing

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I have a degree in applied maths

    you find it that easy fair play to you

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I mean not easy, just, I dunno, failing seems hard, what with grading curves and things of that nature

    But I dunno

    Go applied maths, the best major

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    As7As7 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I once had to retake a class I failed. I felt terrible till I redid it and wound up with a B+.

    Boosted the hell out of my GPA, too.

    It won't seem like such a big deal after.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    my friends gf, with whom I have quite a....cold relationship with took mass comm and would complain about it constantly

    "Oh man I had to do like TWO HOURS of homework over the weekend how INSANE is that?"

    "Hey my music exam was REALLY HARD. We were only allowed to listen to about 5 seconds of a song and then had to identify it! There was like 20 songs!"

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I do over two hours of homework per class per day.

    I'd kill her.

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    The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    man I couldnt recognize 20 songs if I could only hear 5 seconds unless they very specifically catered ti my tastes

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I don't think they do grading on a curve here, but I could be completely wrong

    I didn't major in applied maths, it was the only thing I studied, but man quantumn mechanics and fluid dynamics and things of that ilk I found quite tricky.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I do over two hours of homework per class per day.

    I'd kill her.

    Yeah

    Yeah

    I was the kind of student that would slack off and then realize how much I was paying for this shit and then spend 3 days straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep to catch up.

    Repeat, repeat, repeat

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    FAQ wrote: »
    I don't think they do grading on a curve here, but I could be completely wrong

    I didn't major in applied maths, it was the only thing I studied, but man quantumn mechanics and fluid dynamics and things of that ilk I found quite tricky.

    Yeah, no, it's hard as shit

    PDEs was a motherfucker

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    I do over two hours of homework per class per day.

    I'd kill her.

    Yeah

    Yeah

    I was the kind of student that would slack off and then realize how much I was paying for this shit and then spend 3 days straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep to catch up.

    Repeat, repeat, repeat

    That's what I do!!!!

    Just recently I haven't done work for like 12 days, except a tiny bit, now I am totally fucked!

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    DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I feel like when you actually pace yourself a little and do some of the work when you're supposed to, getting at least a C should be no problem.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I feel like when you actually pace yourself a little and do some of the work when you're supposed to, getting at least a C should be no problem.

    See, that's all I was saying

    I wasn't saying doing well in school is so easy

    I was saying that not failing isn't that much of a task

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    TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I will not be getting a 4.0 this semester. Yay freshman year!

    Overall it's not like I'm doing horribly though.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    My freshman first semester was Linear Algebra, Intermediate Mechanics, C++, Database Structures and Introduction to Psychology

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    babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I start school in january. I'm super pumped but since I should really have done this 10-12 years ago it may cause some economic stress at my house.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Looking back at things I should have stuck with Computer Science/Physics

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I feel like when you actually pace yourself a little and do some of the work when you're supposed to, getting at least a C should be no problem.

    See, that's all I was saying

    I wasn't saying doing well in school is so easy

    I was saying that not failing isn't that much of a task

    well that is the ideal way, I thought you meant you did literally nothing and maybe crammed in a few days,

    which I thought was pretty impresive. Not that it was the most difficult subject in the world or anything

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    Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    I had mandatory 3 hour physics labs every Monday starting at 8 am

    Those were fun

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    Not to burst your bubble, but in the really real world you have to get up and get to work by 8 like every day or they frown at you.

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    I had mandatory 3 hour physics labs every Monday starting at 8 am

    Those were fun

    Followed by a 2 hour recitation to go over all the assigned homework for the week. I don't miss that part of college at all.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    aah, failure, my favorite pastime

    I failed at everything I've ever tried to do, from school to career to romance

    not one success in 21 years of life

    I present to you that I, I.H.N.I.W.T.R., am the saddest thing

    Pssh. You're only 21, it's still way to early to decide if anything you've done is a failure yet or not. That's like saying "this cake I am baking is a failure" when I'm only at the deciding what sort of cake to make and starting to write a shopping list stage.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    Not to burst your bubble, but in the really real world you have to get up and get to work by 8 like every day or they frown at you.

    Depends where you work and what you are doing

    God I loved flexible hours.

    Work 7.5 hours a day however the hell you want as long as you are present in all meetings and deadlines.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    Not to burst your bubble, but in the really real world you have to get up and get to work by 8 like every day or they frown at you.

    Most tech people I know go to work at like 10.

    It's different for different industries.

    However when I worked at a firm I was in work by 7 and left by 7.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    im currently just barely passing my calculus course but its at 8 AM on tuesdays and thursdays and i can never get up in time for it

    pretty much relying on the final (it can be worth up to 100% of my mark) but i gotta get to class

    Not to burst your bubble, but in the really real world you have to get up and get to work by 8 like every day or they frown at you.

    Most tech people I know go to work at like 10.

    It's different for different industries.

    However when I worked at a firm I was in work by 7 and left by 7.

    Yeah, the agency I worked for I started around 10am.

    But then...they went into liquidation so...uh...

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