Profs, grades, and shafts

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gtee91 said:
How about Dr Moad ? He was better than Su...sort of
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So, was it Dr. Su, Sue, Soo, or Sou? I never met the man, but his influence almost flunked me out that first year. I was on academic warning, but passed (barely) all math, chem, and physics courses. But it was close.
 
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4shotB said:
Totally agree about not getting in today! I just retired from my second career (high school teaching). I have taught a few kids who were accepted and/or attending GT. These are the kind of students who were thinking (or perhaps their parents were) about their secondary education in elementary school. I didn't even start thinking about that until maybe my junior year of HS.

I always tell the ones who are discouraged about not getting in that I only got in bc I was in state, the population was 60% of what it is now, and I was only competing with males to get in, which cut the competition in half again. It was truly a different world back then. I can recall though our FB team having incredible G/W/G uniforms and no uniform debates. Imagine that if you can or will,
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Same for me. When did you attend ? I was ‘68 to ‘72
 
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stinger78 said:
So, was it Dr. Su, Sue, Soo, or Sou? I never met the man, but his influence almost flunked me out that first year. I was on academic warning, but passed (barely) all math, chem, and physics courses. But it was close.
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stinger78 said:
I was told that if you get a Physics prof whose name started with a W (Wiley, Wike, or Woodward) that you were OK. That said, Wike shafted me out of an A and I told him so to his face.
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After I got back to Tech from my four year hiatus, I was a lot more aggressive with my professors on grades. Six times professors shafted me on a grade and I made sure they knew it.

Once, my Simulation professor gave me a B when I had 89.95 with a 100 on his cumulative final. A final that I was the only person to have a perfect score because i was the only one to get one of the answers correct. Even the professor was wrong on the answer. I had to show him my answer was correct after I initially received an 88 on the final. He then gave me a B saying 90 was an A. I told him I had a 90. He said, No, I had an 89.95. I said, yes, 90 is an A, not 90.00. I went to the Dean and they refused to fix it even though his syllabus showed I should have received an A.

The other egregious one was Thermo Dynamics. I had the second best grade in the class with a 78. The best grade in the class was 81. The rest of the class were all in the 50s or lower. On the final, I got the highest grade, a 85. The class average for the final was only 33. No curve on the final. Only two people passed the class. I got a C and the other student got a B. Everyone else got a D or F. He curved up the bottom of the class, but not for the two of us at the top. The spread of grades for those receiving D's was almost as large as the gap between my C and the highest D grade, but the gap between the B and my C was 15 times smaller than me and the lowest D.
 
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After I got back to Tech from my four year hiatus, I was a lot more aggressive with my professors on grades. Six times professors shafted me on a grade and I made sure they knew it.

Once, my Simulation professor gave me a B when I had 89.95 with a 100 on his cumulative final. A final that I was the only person to have a perfect score because i was the only one to get one of the answers correct. Even the professor was wrong on the answer. I had to show him my answer was correct after I initially received an 88 on the final. He then gave me a B saying 90 was an A. I told him I had a 90. He said, No, I had an 89.95. I said, yes, 90 is an A, not 90.00. I went to the Dean and they refused to fix it even though his syllabus showed I should have received an A.

The other egregious one was Thermo Dynamics. I had the second best grade in the class with a 78. The best grade in the class was 81. The rest of the class were all in the 50s or lower. On the final, I got the highest grade, a 85. The class average was only 33. No curvevon the final. Only two people passed the class. I got a C and the other student got a B. Everyone else got a D or F. He curved up the bottom of the class, but not for the two of us at the top.
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In this case, I had a borderline A/B heading into my Physics final. Studied my butt off to get the A on the final and the course, and felt good walking out afterward. Grade report came out with a B. I went by to see my exam and saw an 81 on my paper, which I didn’t believe. So I sat in the prof’s office and went over it. I found one marked wrong that was actually right, and another that I computed the answer but forgot to double it to get total distance - a math mistake (this prof had said all quarter that we would get part credit if we just made a math mistake). He acknowledged the first one, and changed my grade to 89. I asked about the math mistake and part credit, and that 2-3 more points would give me a 91/92 and thus an A.
His reply: I’ll change your grade on the test but not for the course.
My response: That sounds like a shaft to me.
His reply: I’ve never heard that said about me.
My parting shot: If the shoe fits, wear it!
I turned and walked out of his office and made Dean’s list 4 of the next 5 quarters.
SMH.
 
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stinger78 said:
I was told that if you get a Physics prof whose name started with a W (Wiley, Wike, or Woodward) that you were OK. That said, Wike shafted me out of an A and I told him so to his face.
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Bro, I don't think you can correctly use the term "shaft" and "an A" in the same sentence. Seriously. That is or was a "first world problem" for some? many? most? of us. ;)
 
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AugustaSwarm said:
It was def bods for me too. the PTSD never goes away...
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Mine was thermo dynamics. We had a Chinese prof and I never understood a word he said in class, his English was pretty poor. If it wasn't for the Word files we had at the fraternity house and the fact he used the same final exam year after year, I may have never passed that class.
 
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Okay, IM story. Yeah, yeah...you'll like it.

I was in a senior level management class with Prof. Adler one day when he said, "All things occur through management." I raised my hand and said, "Dr. Adler, that's an argument for the existence of God." He said, "Thank you for paying attention, Carson."

Over the next week or so, we discussed the components of management: Planning, Organizing & Controlling. Another light bulb went on in my head, so I stopped by his office after class.

"Dr. Adler, POC is an argument for the Trinity. Planning was the role of the Father, Organizing was done by the Son, and Controlling is work of the Holy Spirit."

There was a brief pause, then he looked me in the eye and said, "Well, Carson, I'm not sure I would be prepared to go that far."

I didn't realize until later that he was Jewish. True story. And I did get an A in the class. ;)
 
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Randy Carson said:
Okay, IM story. Yeah, yeah...you'll like it.

I was in a senior level management class with Prof. Adler one day when he said, "All things occur through management." I raised my hand and said, "Dr. Adler, that's an argument for the existence of God." He said, "Thank you for paying attention, Carson."

Over the next week or so, we discussed the components of management: Planning, Organizing & Controlling. Another light bulb went on in my head, so I stopped by his office after class.

"Dr. Adler, POC is an argument for the Trinity. Planning was the role of the Father, Organizing was done by the Son, and Controlling is work of the Holy Spirit."

There was a brief pause, then he looked me in the eye and said, "Well, Carson, I'm not sure I would be prepared to go that far."

I didn't realize until later that he was Jewish. True story. And I did get an A in the class. ;)
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Dr. Adler embraced Christ later in his life. He told me once that POC is a model of the Trinity. I loved to talk to him. RIP, Dr. Phil!
 
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