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<blockquote data-quote="gtmike" data-source="post: 270788" data-attributes="member: 1143"><p>Freshman chem class had a teacher that had never taught intro chem to freshman. First test I got a 49 and got a very high A. Later, that would be normal, but it was quite an intro to the school.</p><p></p><p>Calc II I had a German professor and Greek TA and nobody I knew to go to to help me learn anything about it. I still don't know what an eigenvalue or eigenvector is and I hate dealing with matrix stuff because I wasn't able to learn it. I got a B and have no clue about Calc II.</p><p></p><p>Had an A in CS (Scheme) and lost it in the final exam. It was my last of four (Chem, CS, Calc II, History) and I didn't even review it a single time, I was so ready to be done.</p><p></p><p>0 credit for part of my CS (Java) program when I spelled the method name wrong - "occurences" instead of "occurrences." I don't think I've spelled it wrong since.</p><p></p><p>Stayed up all night finishing a DSP lab. Fell asleep in the morning and got to class 20 minutes late. Automatic -30 pts.</p><p></p><p>Got the phone dialer working for DSP and called my parents in the middle of the night by accident.</p><p></p><p>So proud of my anti-aliasing results in DSP and ended up getting a 60 or something on it - ended up I didn't do it correctly but the pictures looked good enough to me.</p><p></p><p>MSE2001 was the one I can't believe I even took. I skipped it or read the paper when I did go to class. It was so dry and boring and I finished the class without having a clue about anything related to MSE. That's the one I have dreams about because it always felt surreal going to the tests because I felt like I knew nothing.</p><p></p><p>Had Circuits (ECE2040) and the exams you would just circle your final answer, no work counted for anything. When there was a minute left I went back and circled my answers. One problem had two answers. I circled one correctly but the other I mistakenly circled a mid-point step - the right answer was right below it. I tried to show it to the professor and he wouldn't even look at the page. Got a 0 for the problem. The class average was a 33 before the final but there were two guys that would always get 80s and 90s on everything. That was my last semester in CmpE/EE. Somehow I had a 3.4 so as bad as I felt like I was doing, apparently most people were doing even worse. Transferred to IE and, honestly, it was a joke. But I just didn't enjoy anything about CmpE/EE and felt like I wasn't smart enough to have a career in it.</p><p>I still think about the "you would have crashed the space shuttle" answer to every unforgiving grading decision. Now that I don't suffer from it anymore, I agree, but it sucks at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gtmike, post: 270788, member: 1143"] Freshman chem class had a teacher that had never taught intro chem to freshman. First test I got a 49 and got a very high A. Later, that would be normal, but it was quite an intro to the school. Calc II I had a German professor and Greek TA and nobody I knew to go to to help me learn anything about it. I still don't know what an eigenvalue or eigenvector is and I hate dealing with matrix stuff because I wasn't able to learn it. I got a B and have no clue about Calc II. Had an A in CS (Scheme) and lost it in the final exam. It was my last of four (Chem, CS, Calc II, History) and I didn't even review it a single time, I was so ready to be done. 0 credit for part of my CS (Java) program when I spelled the method name wrong - "occurences" instead of "occurrences." I don't think I've spelled it wrong since. Stayed up all night finishing a DSP lab. Fell asleep in the morning and got to class 20 minutes late. Automatic -30 pts. Got the phone dialer working for DSP and called my parents in the middle of the night by accident. So proud of my anti-aliasing results in DSP and ended up getting a 60 or something on it - ended up I didn't do it correctly but the pictures looked good enough to me. MSE2001 was the one I can't believe I even took. I skipped it or read the paper when I did go to class. It was so dry and boring and I finished the class without having a clue about anything related to MSE. That's the one I have dreams about because it always felt surreal going to the tests because I felt like I knew nothing. Had Circuits (ECE2040) and the exams you would just circle your final answer, no work counted for anything. When there was a minute left I went back and circled my answers. One problem had two answers. I circled one correctly but the other I mistakenly circled a mid-point step - the right answer was right below it. I tried to show it to the professor and he wouldn't even look at the page. Got a 0 for the problem. The class average was a 33 before the final but there were two guys that would always get 80s and 90s on everything. That was my last semester in CmpE/EE. Somehow I had a 3.4 so as bad as I felt like I was doing, apparently most people were doing even worse. Transferred to IE and, honestly, it was a joke. But I just didn't enjoy anything about CmpE/EE and felt like I wasn't smart enough to have a career in it. I still think about the "you would have crashed the space shuttle" answer to every unforgiving grading decision. Now that I don't suffer from it anymore, I agree, but it sucks at the time. [/QUOTE]
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