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>Exams: 75%
>Homework:25%

JUST
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>final: 40%
Why are professors so retarded?
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>>25028393
>final
>70%
>5 homework assignments for 6% each
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>>25028410

I've had classes where the final was 100% of the grade.

One had a 30 question final. We had 24 hours, and could do any 24 questions. We could only work on the final in the exam room, but could leave and return at any time for that 24 hours.

6 questions were traps and would take multiple hours to complete. The rest were expected to take slightly under an hour.
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>>25028506

couldnt you read a question, leave, google it, answer, repeat?
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>>25028506
what the fuck do you even study?
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>>25028506
>go home
>fap and look up answers/method to complete questions

what university is this
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>>25028540

This was pretty heavy math; Google was of little help. It was constructing proofs linking different conjectures. The problems built on each other as well, so you would have to use the answers from some of them to help you solve other problems.

The meta-problem was figuring out the order in which you needed to attack them .
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>expecting combination of multiple choice and short answer questions like last semester.

>100% long answer questions with no reference material.

I don't want to uni anymore
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>>25028393
>midterm 40%
>final 60%
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>>25028506
That's some Naruto-tier autism.
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>like my new school
>might not be allowed to continue
Apparently you had to apply for the second semester too and I didn't know that.
It wasn't like this at my old school.
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>final worth 20%
>must get an 80 on the final to pass the course regardless of your other exam and homework grades (i.e. you can make A's on all lecture exams and homework, but if you get a 79 on the final, you fail)
>fail any 2 classes and you are kicked out of the program indefinitely
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>>25028570
I am not (yet) at uni and even I know that their subject matter isn't easily googled high-school tier, you tardlet. Keep in mind that these people in just a few months are expected to autonomously market and apply their knowledge/abilities. Their finals are the quite literally the final proof that they are capable for that,
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>midterm 93%
>work: 60%
>final: probably gonna be around 90%
Can I get at least a C senpai?
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>>25028678

I hate this shit. what's the point then?
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>>25028506
Did anyone just stay until they were finished?
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>>25028393
I know that feel... and it's a first year subject...... Not only that, the exam is made up of three parts that you need to get 50% on each to pass.
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>>25028694
how many points are all those things worth?
or what percentage of your grade are they worth?
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>>25028675
Organize a meeting with student support and ask for help. Make sure to explain you're new to the place. Find their email on your schools webpage and email them ASAP. Good luck.
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>>25028729
This is the weighting family

How fucked am I, be brutally honest
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>>25028701
It's a ridiculous policy.
However, I think they are just trying to get us ready to pass the board exams.
But still, I hate it.
Every exam was comprehensive. So, each exam covered 20-30 chapters. We had 4 exams; one exam per day for 4 days. We basically had the night before to study for each exam.
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Sounds great OP, Id want classes that were 0% homework 100% final exam. That should really be the only thing that fucking matters.
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>>25028729
93% on the midterm earns you 23.25 points
a 60% on everything but the final and midterm gives you 24 points

that combined is 47.25

To pass with a D you need 36.5% on the final
For a C you need 65%
a B would require 93.6%
an A is not possible
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>>25028729
>>25028754
>>25028795

replied to myself on accident
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>>25028795
wew lads better study up boys.

Anyone want to help me with abstract syntax trees
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>class gives extra credit if you do volunteer work that's somewhat related to the class
>wake up early every Saturday to go volunteer at some place for 3 hours
>get grades back
>even if I got 0 extra credit and stayed home, my grade would have been no different

oh well, I got an A either way
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>>25028830
what about 'em
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>>25028836
How does this shit work

I have to write a profiler using it, but I can't understand the structure of the tree so where to put things into the tree
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For my degree

Assignments+Homework = 100% of grade
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>>25028744
Yeah I'll ask them but there's a big risk that they can't do anything thing.
All applications in my country are done at the same government website and they're pretty strict.
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>>25028858
yea well we cant all be government employees
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>>25028876
It's for construction management

Assignments are the most relatable thing to what you would be doing for a job.
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>>25028857
wew lad that looks fun
i'd say walk the tree looking for function definition syntax nodes
then insert function call syntax nodes as their first children to call into your profiler methods
i don't know the specifics of your setup so i can't really help you much beyond that
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>final: 15%
>have a 97 in the class
>didn't even show up for the test
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>>25028892
case in point


also isn't construction management community college curriculum? These threads are for real college students, get out dumbo
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>>25028907
You'll still get a B/B- m8
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>>25028895
>walk the tree looking for function definition syntax nodes
This is my main issue, how do I do this?

Do I check Tag for "function" or something?
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>>25028918
It's my senior year and I'm not going for a masters. GPA is completely meaningless.
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>>25028910
I go to University of Melbourne one of the best in the world and one of the best for a construction management degree.

>construction management community college curriculum

Are you sure you are not in community college? Do you even know what construction management is?

Look at any building around you.
Who the fuck do you think managed the construction of that?
See that large building? You think some tradesman built that? Or someone with an education getting paid 6 figures?
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>>25028929
I mean you could've gotten an A with a 50% on the final. And since you got such a high class grade with so little motivation im just trying to figure why not just take the damn thing
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>>25028957
Because there's no point to taking it. I still get my degree either way and employers don't care about your GPA.
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>>25028925
nigga i don't fuckin know, it's your assignment
if i had to guess i'd say yeah, something like that
have you tried running their AST generator and just printing everything it outputs?
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>>25028943
the only thing you'll be managing the construction of is your cuckshed after i steal your bitch with my 300k a year starting job with a degree in math
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>>25028393
that's the best layout though, means you can balls up the homework and still save your skin.

continuous assessment requires continuous success, which is much harder than giving a single period your all.
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>>25028778

It's the worst method of examination. High school level it's fine, but at uni you're not engaging with the material in a genuine way, you're just regurgitating answers on to a page. Essaya and projects allow you to actually engage with what you've learned and go beyond the slides and seminar work.
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>>25029073
this
i'm studying abroad and in europe they typically only grade the final exam and don't give homework
i don't think i've learned jack shit this semester
i'm just gonna cram for the final and hope i do well and then forget everything
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>>25028907

Surprised there isn't a rule that you have to at least pass each part
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>>25029005
>do stem
>guaranteed six-figure salary
I hope to god people still aren't falling for this.
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>>25029043
For me it works best if I do it during the whole course. Partly because it's more difficult for me to sit all day for a few days , partly because every studied hour is worth more if you study throughout the course and read in connection to the lectures but mostly because sitting all day for a few days is almost never enough for any of my courses. There's just too much shit you need to know.
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>dropping out and moving out of state anyway
>do my final presentation on why college is a scam
>red pill this neckbeard who is failing all his classes to unironically drop out
>ace the presentation too

shit was so cash, too bad im failing 75% of my classes because I didnt buy the textbooks
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>tfw just submitted a really really shit piece of coursework

Just fuck my final grade up senpai
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Hey what are all you robots studying at uni? Everyone talks about how shit their classes are but never mention their actual classes t b h
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>>25029197
IT AT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
DROPPING OUT IN TWO DAYS
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>>25029227
Lmao what's your backup plan?
>inb4 becoming NEET
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>>25029240
im a foreigner, going to move back to my home country and work for a few months and apply for real uni.
Computer science.
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>>25028622
Knew it. Fellow Math major here, only in Math do you get these kinds of problems and exams. Only in Math do you get problems that the internet is no help with
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>>25029103
In my European country you usually have one exam and one or a few assignments or projects.
In the assignments you can just pass or fail and to pass the course you have to pass both the exam and assignments and if you pass it's only the exam that decides which passing grade you get.
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I have my last final later today and then I'll have my MBA. I should be studying, but ehh. I have a 99% average on the other tests in the class.
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>>25029279
coming from the american system i have to say i really don't like it
although i'm sure the reverse would be just as bad if not worse
my home college typically assigns something like 3 or 4 hours of homework a day in total
homework + assignments + projects is usually about 30% of your grade
finals are four hours long and usually make up 70% of your grade or so
our classes are also only an hour or two long, but we have them three or four days a week
as opposed to here where they're three hours once or twice a week
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>really want to get a good grade in this module because it's related to your dream career
>group project is 20% of your grade
>have to teach yourself the basics of functional programming after only learning about OOP
>half of your group don't know what they're doing, turn up to meetings late, don't even go to labs, etc
>the guy who picked the topic barely even understood the assignment until a few days ago

JUST
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>>25028983

they'll choose the guy with the highest GPA between 2 people with the same degree.
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>>25029549
wrong
they'll choose the guy with the most experience
which will be me
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>>25029549
>>25029554

Both wrong, they will choose the woman or minority
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why dont we all just drop out
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>>25029557
they would, but there are no women in the software industry
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>Tfw presentation in a few hours
>Tfw have no idea what the fuck to say
>Tfw will probably freeze up and completely forget what to say

I hate presentations they are anti robot pro normie
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>>25028393
It's way better to have test oriented courses dude
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>>25029197
It's a program which divides into business, economics or finance but you don't choose until in the second year.
Right now i have macroeconomics but i've fallen behind a bit since i had to retake the exam in management which i failed earlier this fall and had to spend all my time on that.
I really disliked that course.
I got my results for the first statistics course today and i finally got the highest possible grade, i haven't had that before.
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>>25029795
So you're doing like a commerce degree? Sounds alright f a m
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>>25029588
its weird because I am as autistic as the next guy but I am really charismatic if you put me infront of a crowd

I have seen total normies do really bad infront of crowds too so it can go both ways
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>First year used to be worth nothing
>Students voted for it to be worth something
now I feel shit about those two pieces of homework I handed in but messed up
why the FUCK didn't they count the essay which I actually did well on
why was that a practice
why is all the other stuff I'm doing for the first time in my life worth 25% of my organismal biology grade
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>>25030430
The shekels voted for it goyim.
If you can't get past their tests for rocks first and second year you should probably return your loan now.
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>homework

Are you in a community college, OP?
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>major is linear in structure
>don't offer three courses for at main campus for a semester
What the fuck man

Also do you think a 3.2 GPA prevent me transferring to a big 10 school?
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>>25028393
What the fuck is wrong with that? Homework is an easy fucking grade; just do it. I fucking hate classes that are 100% exam grades and nothing else. What if I have a fluke one day and I studied the wrong material? Or if one of the tests is written poorly and doesn't reflect what we learned in class? Having a class that is nothing but exam grades is fucking bollocks
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Well, this was my last semester.

Now I've got a BA in English/TESOL and will work on my Master's. Yay.
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>statistics exam on friday
jdimsa, I can't do fucking any of the tutorial questions
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>>25028943
As an UoM alumni, you're absolutely delusional yourself if you genuinely believe that UoM has any sort of international reputation. Outside of Australia, nobody gives a single shit.
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>>25028393
>attendance 30%
>homework 5%
>quiz 10%
>test 15%
>final 40%

tfw not in uni anymore
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>>25030978
already took my stats final on monday nerd

Got 90%
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>>25031042
I can't keep track of all the fucking expressions for variance and mean and fucking degrees of freedom over like 10 distributions, when do I use each one?
This shit is triggering me so hard mane
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>>25031062
Just use a graphing calculator, it does everything you would ever need to do
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>>25031091
Can't take my own calculator in with me, just standard calculators
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I read through a lot of these university problems threads and one thing that stands out to be is that many of you simply don't belong there. You simply don't have the drive, the resourcefulness, or the intelligence for post secondary education.
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>>25028393
>Exam__s__
>Homework getting rated
>Not just having a single exam per class at the end of the semester
Is this some third world meme?
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I'd actually be grateful if more weight was given to final exams rather than shitty mundane things like homeworks and tests. That way it'll just be like my old high school days when I just slacked off all day and only had to do well on the actual A Levels to get a good grade.

Here, since the homework, midterm grades and exams get similar weightings, you're pretty much forced to be on edge for the whole semester. I've seen people get sick and essentially flunk the semester because it's impossible to catch up once you trip. I didn't expect Americans to make school so wagecucky.
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>americans have to study their asses of every week, do multiple projects, expose themselves to SJW propaganda, and risk getting kicked out of university they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to if they fail 2 courses, just to get a useless degree and work at the local mcdonalds

Wtf, you guys have to be overreacting.
And apparently you also need to get a GPA above 3.0 as well.

Are universities in america that hard, or are the courses that easy?
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>>25028393
I was a genius at a medium/low tier university, thought it was too easy for me as my GPA was 1.23, i had all the time in the world to play so i transferred to a Top tier university
Worst mistake ever ! so far i failed around 5 classes, delayed by a year, my classmates in previous college graduated already
"it is better to be a genius at a shit university than a pleb at top tier university"
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>>25032068
Pretty sure they won't kick you out for failing 2 courses. They'll probably just ask you to switch major or something.

Top tier universities with really difficult classes don't like to lose the students they've picked and typically do lots to keep them. Low tier universities don't kick out bad students because they need funding.
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>>25028393
I honestly don't know, I never do my homework so I almost always fail.
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>>25029390
I HATE working in groups just for this reason. I literally get cucked into doing the project myself.
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>>25032418
Which university that allow you to fail 2 course?
My uni make student drop out of their programs if they fail in 1 class or get under C in one of the core class. The only programs that don't do this are liberal studies
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>applications due soon
>still haven't written essays for Columbia or Boston universitiy
>probably won't get into any of my top schools anyways
whew lads
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>>25029257
If you can't make it in community college, uni will tear you apart.
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>>25029573
Fuck that, I have 100 credits, am riding till the wheels fall off on that stage.
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>>25029656
It's not. In my experience it's better if you have quizzes and assignments, than exams being most of the course. You'll remember the information better as well.
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I gave up, I don't care about anything anymore

I'll just apply for shit jobs with stupid tasks, might be alienation but at least I won't get eaten by anxiety because I can't remember 700 pages for exams
feels good to know stress can't reach you anymore
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>>25028393
Anyone know if I need to take regular breaks while studying on addy like I would normally?
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>>25031168
Don't forget the crazy professors who can't teach, are lazy, or sadistic.
ratemyprofessor is one of the best websites ever created.
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>>25031168
I realised this after 1 year of this shit but I'm I'm too deep now, starting 3rd ye soon
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>>25028393
>midterm 50%
>final 50%
JUST
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>>25034490

sup niggerBLOXX
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>>25029264
If the internet can't help you, then it's not really needed in the real world.
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>>25028943
>6 fucking figures
Holy shit calm down faggot. I have a friend who was lucky enough to get a job in construction management after he finished his degree. Went like this

>Work as intern 6 days a week 50 hours for no money
>Get bumped up to full-time employee
>Lots of unpaid overtime
>50k starting

He hates his job every day but I think he's making around 65k now. Get a grip faggot.
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Attended 1 lecture, did no homework, went to no workshops, only one evening of revising yesterday and still managed to knock my exam today out of the park.
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>>25034396
Just change your major, minor, get certified. graduate with something.

Some of these anons pick majors for the wrong reasons and end up failing. You major in something because you were interested and had the exceptional abilities way before college.
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>>25029264
You're forgetting engineering.
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>>25034546
I would take the opposite position.

The things you can learn which you can't learn from the Internet are the most valuable things for you to learn.

After all, you are developing skills that few other people will have. For the simple things, you can always do a web search, but for the complex stuff, you have no way to learn it on your own.
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>FINALS WORTH 50%, 65%, 70%

>DID TERRIBLE ON ALL OF THEM

>FAILED 3 COURSES IN SPAN OF 3 DAYS


JUST
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>>25034597
But you need the diploma and certs to show your status to employers and HR. Once you get your education that can't be taken away.
Some subjects can't be self-studied all the time.
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>>25034546

I suppose people who invented new tech just found all of the info and guides freely available on the internet.
The actions in the real world happen and exist before the information gets to the net, you deluded fuck.
The number of humans taking a graduate level mathematics course, and the number of people doing so that need to look up answers to solve problems is far too low for any content about the subject matter (that isn't a research paper) to be hosted on the web.
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>final is 18% of the grade
>BUT if you are within 2% points of a different overall grade(e.g. A-, B) your overall grade will be adjusted in the direction of your final

If you end up with an 88 (including your final grade at 18%) and got an A- or A on the final, you get an A-. If you got a B+ on the final, you get a B+. If you get a B or lower on the final, you get a B. So your 88% grade barely matters. It just disqualifies you from an A and makes it hard to get lower than a B.

>Having this retarded of a grading system
Fuck this final
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>exams after christmas holiday
>start wageslaving the rest of the semester break the day after the last exam
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>final is multiple choice
>A, B, C, D
>easily dismiss two possibilities
>left with two responses
>professors are cunts who seem to delight in semantics and word games
>even when they don't you can almost always argue for both responses
>on a written exam you would get partial or even full credit for the "incorrect" response
>because it's multiple choice you literally end up fucking guessing even though you know the material really well

Just fuck my shit up: the exam format
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>>25028754
>All I need is a 75 on my precalculus final for a B

Please give me your strength for my final friday
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>>25034746
>mfw every exam I have is like this
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>>25034677
>uni is for retards

Ok champ. Hope you enjoy your dead end life. I doubt you've done anything difficult. What do you have to show for yourself anyway? How can you consider yourself better than anyone without having anything to show for it?
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>>25034644
I think the internet has everything people need.

What's not need is not there.

Carpenty tutorials are there, survival guides are there, hitmen are there, even how to make your own nerve gas is right there just after a search or two.

But your valuable math solution is not there? Wouldn't that mean it's useless?

Well I think it's just dickwaving major at best.

>huhu bet you can't do this, right :^)?
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>hey boss, i know i fucked up when it mattered and lost us a major client, but i worked really hard on it at home. can i get a raise?
the 25% is your mommy's hand guiding you into the real world.
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>>25034776
The worst are ones that include MC and short answer, and you ace the short answer and tank the MC

Like what the fuck goddammit
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>>25034746
Do you not have a quarter to flip?
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>>25034758

K kiddo
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>>25034758
>Then get a subject that's self-studied master it show proof of your creations

Become an inventor?

But you see not everyone wants to be or can be a successful inventor.

Some people want to be teachers, teachers, scientists, doctors, those are things you have to go school for.
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Help me, goyim. I can't into math.
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>get As on homework, quizzes and exams
>get a C+ because bad attendance due to depression

If I can learn the material on my own why do I NEED to show up?
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>>25034814

I think kingblackchad sucks dicks (nigga is a homo) -kingblackchad
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>>25028393

>programming exam
>with pen and paper

Just like in real life.
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>>25034814

Lol you can be what you want on the internet, champ. Don't have debt because i'm not a poorfag.
Thankfully i won't be working in a wagekek office.

Keep living your lovely dreams anon.
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>>25034832
>teachers
I meant researchers, lel

Final's week man.

Who's seriously thinking about taking winter and summer semesters? I want to graduate early.
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>>25034854
And then you go on to complain about "muh no gf" "tfw no gf" "fucking chads wrryyy", then you go on to be even more depressed because you're depressed and now you're angry that you're depressed.

Go to the gym or something breh
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>>25034875

Your age tells me nothing about your maturity

>thinks 18 is a free pass to adulthood
Bitch please
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i have two finals in humanities courses that are closed book multiple essays. I can't for the life of me determine what these are supposed to test for other than my ability to retain some "fun facts" about the readings.
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>attending classes is 55% of the final grade
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>>25034936

I hope you're not majoring in humanities. Doesn't sounds like you're in a school that's good at teaching them
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>>25034945
Nigga that's like 55% of the grade for 0 effort
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>>25034971
Don't bite.
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>>25034971
>0 effort
Leave, normalfag.
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>>25034963
i'm majoring a social science. its a good school and the classes are good. i promise. these two professors are just weirdos.
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>>25034875
Robots and computers are programmed by people.

People including scientists who studied and went to school =)

Even philosophers and scribes weren't self taught, they schools of thought and practice of people shared knowledge and taught each.

Some trades as well can't be self-taught, you need be an apprentice or go to a guild.
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how hard are american universities? in italy we only have exams that we can retry as many times as we want, no homeworks, no midterms etc but we have exams that take months to prepare and we would fucking riot if they kicked us out after failing them
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>>25028393

>Don't be female and get by on rote learning.
>Understand the content with my superior brain.
>See score weighting like this.
>Shrug and do fine anyway.

Not seeing the problem.
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>>25034746

>Not researching your professors before taking a class.

Literally female-tier.
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>>25035039
intellectually they're not challenging. there is just a lot of busy work, bureaucracy, and nepotism which describes america in general.
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>>25035073
dog, girls are the one who go on rate my professor and bitch about every little thing that happens
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>>25030455
it's not about passing, it's about getting a first pleb
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>>25035039
Most liberal arts classes (not STEM or economics) have most of their grades determined by projects and papers, lots of reading, maybe a discussion component

Otherwise most classes have homework count as 10-20% of the grade (in the form of ~weekly problem sets), maybe 2-3 midterms that count as 15-25% of your grade each, and a final that counts from 15-50%.

If your average dips below 2.0 (a C grade, which is usually near the bottom of a class) you get on probation; if you are unable to raise your average above 2.0 for a few semesters you are usually kicked out.

The main difference between our countries is that our universities range from extremely selective to basically open admission. So there is a large difference in difficulty of material between schools
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>>25034546
As I progress in programming it happens less and less that I can find an answer to a problem on the internet. I think it's common for advanced topics.
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>>25029264
Applies to Comp Sci too. Sure you can look up code online but only small snippets that have little practical application. Often I may find something on how to add a specific type of function, which I have to rewrite anyway. You've a better chance just asking fellow students or tutors. The Maths guys I lived with just asked each other for help.
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>>25035039
The difficulty depends on where you go. Public universities are the easiest, then private, then ivy league is the hardest.

Stay away from for-profit colleges.
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>>25035102
RMP is usually right though, but read all the reviews. Profs can be sneaky and write their own.
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>>25035226
You're full off shit. You talk big but in the end all you do is shitpost 24/7 on /r9k/, shitting up threads.
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>>25035226
You. You are my hero kingblackchad and i would pleasure your massive black cock all day m'chief
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>>25035347
You can't actually link that to yourself.
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>>25035226
Doesn't matter though, if am interviewing you and you don't have licenses, certification or education I ain't hiring you. I want someone who will show they won't fuck up.
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>>25035347
Top kek, are you trying to boast with a skype convo?
Your permavirgin is showing.
If you really want to show how alpha you are, why don't you show us pictures with you and all the girls you're getting?
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>>25028410
When your like me and cosntantly skip class and jus take the final and get a C it feels awesome
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>>25035402
how dare you question our king you pathetic fucking beta cuck. i bet your moms pantys would get soaked with just one glance at kingblackchad
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>>25028506
Ever try taking the same class with a different professor?
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>>25035436
>cosntantly skip class

Don't do this. I missed my final this week by doing this.
You can skip 2 classes and it will be okay. If you don't come for a long time they can drop you, be careful.
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>>25028701
To challenge the programs candidtes, for example my uni has a liquid crystal development degree program where out of 100 candidate only 60-40 people get the dgree , and walk out of college into some $1x0,000 salary job just for getting the degree
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Being a Math major sucks.

>Exams are bulk of grade
>Every exam problem is a proof
>No sure-fire way to study for exams
>Every math proof is different
>Every problem is different
>Text books are impossible to read
>Can't understand any of the example proofs because they skip multiple steps that are 'left to the reader'
>No solution guides in back of book
>No way to know if you did the proof right
>Every exercise problem in the text seems impossible.

Do this for 4-years
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>>25034420
bump. Anyone?
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>>25034750
Pre-calculus is easy if your a math person, just find some online question gnerator and study
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>tfw uni asking me to pay up my tuituin fee
>I'm going to drop out
>can't type it out to them cus i get too anxious when dealing with important emails
>it's the fourth time they ask me for my tuition in a row and they're getting angry at me for no replying

I wish they would just wait until after christmas, they're ruining the holidays for me ;_;
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>>25035643
That's excellent advice. I'm starting that over the break. Did that for a few weeks before class started last semester and was acing the first three week's homeworks. This time I'll study longer and more in advance.
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>>25028857
Bring this to /g/
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>>25035667
Just stop checking your e-mail. This is avoidance 101 material, I shouldn't have to explain it to you. Apply yourself.
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>>25029005
>earning 6 figures out if college
>let alone 300k
Only 10% of people in the US make 6 figures, so you must be in Yale or under the age of 20
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>>25035643
lmao your little skype convo sure convinced me

>implying you come close to getting the amount of pussy I get
pic related
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>>25035732
Well get fucked then, his fault for not studing
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>>25035770
>I get
>I

kek
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>>25028410
this desu senpai they wanna know that you actually memorized the material
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What GPA do you guys make this semester?

I'm 90% sure I made a 3.4
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>>25035843
Here's another of my favs from omegle
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>your major
>how many hours you study a week
>where you study
>prefered method of studying

Mechanical Engineering

3 hours a day

Campus library

Read book and do practice problems etc etc
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>>25035988
Yeah her legs aren't the best but I enjoyed how much effort she made to get me off since I like anal.
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>>25035879
3.94
I don't care about getting a 4.0 at this point, just want to graduate summa cum laude
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>>25034746
>yfw 4 D answers in a row
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>be turbo manlet (5'4")
>go to big state school
>surrounded by normie women who wear yoga pants that might as well be just black paint on their legs
>I talk to girls frequently but I never reach the next level

Pol/red pill crap keeps telling me to go no porn, but I think I'm a special exception lads to be honest
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>semester results came in a few days ago
>too scared to look

who else /scared/ here?
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>>25036157
>Never had a girl lick his asshole while jacking him off
B E T A
E
T
A
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>>25036287
>wanting the dick sucking part of a woman contaminated by shit
This is how STDS spread
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>>25036334
Whatever you say cuck, I'm going to the bar later today with my fraternity. Maybe I can convince some slut to sleep with me like last week.

>>25036367
>implying I do this with random sluts and not with girlfriends
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>participation is 15% of grade
>to receive participation credit, you must ask or answer at least one question during class time per week
>then email the professor the question to receive credit because she can't be assed to remember who spoke during class
>show up to class every day but only answer a couple questions
>grade suffers end of term because of it
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>did well in every class but one class
>only class I needed to make a B in or get kicked out of department honors program
>probably got destroyed on the final
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>>25036438
You aren't fooling anyone, nigger.
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>>25036438
How do you self teach senpai
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>>25036496
>>25036438
>>25036401
>buncha fucking fags arguing on a board for autistic loners that they are more social
Literally like fighting over a post-apocolyptic wasteland
R E T A R D S I N T H E I R P R I M E
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>>25036645
I might have acted like a faggot, but I can't help it I hate that filthy nigger so much.
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>>25036157
>self-teach
You realize we're going to Uni so we can get jobs, right?
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>>25036722
Just award yourself a diploma - kingniggercuck
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>>25036938
No reputable business will accept that :)
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> class participation: 10%

RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>25037033
Just develop your own reputable self teaching business to accept your self taught diploma -kingniggercuck
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>>25037570
KEKKKKK

U JUST UUUU
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>>25028393
>Exams 20% each
>3 exams and a global one
>Global is 40%

JUST
U
S
T
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>>25036127
>yfw when "E" is included
>Finish and a whole column is empty.
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>>25033585
What university do you go to?

Here at MIT, if you fail a few courses they'll just put you on suicide watch somehow or something and probably ask you to take a semester leave but will hardly ever kick you out.
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>>25039926
Was it difficult to get into MIT ? Or are you just some sort of gifted person
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>>25039926
I'm thinking of MIT for grad school for CSC. How hard is it to get in and will I commit suicide if I go in for 4 years? Note that I would have no social life and only study.
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>king black nig finally banned
thank u based janitor

>tfw computer org exam tomorrow
Why is this class so easy? It's literally just digital logic with a few extra topics in it, and some assembly (but there's no assembly on my final for some reason)
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>>25041183
As much as I'd like to believe I got here by muh hard work and muh intellect alone, the truth is one way or another I'm just a really lucky motherfucker. Same can be said for every other person in the Institute, even though they refuse to acknowledge it and as a result become massive intellectual snobs.

Its politically incorrect, but the reality is that even being gifted is a matter of luck. And beyond the luck you need to be born gifted, you need the luck go actually manage to be part of a certain 8% of a group of gifted people to get into MIT.
>>25041238
Different programs have different acceptance rates so I really have no idea. Just look it up on your own.

What you should probably think about is why you want to attend this place anyway. If you're only here because of the name and don't actually enjoy doing nothing but study 60 hours a week and more, you're going to have a pretty miserable time up to the point where it might not even be worth it anymore.

Also, if you're not particularly inherently smart, your colleagues will literally wipe the floor with you. It's quite common here to feel that your neighbor completely obsoletes you in an intellectual sense, and that depresses a lot of people who used to be the superstar of their high school or whatever.
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>Miss 5 classes and you fail
FUCK you bitch i got an A on every exam and project.
All you fucking do is go over PowerPoints that are online.
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>65% are tests and homework
>the other 35% are based on projects you have to do throughout quarter
>most of the projects are based on group work
>the ones that aren't require another student to review the assignment
>interacting with people makes me nervous as fuck
>going to get a D because I'm an autist

WHY THE FUCK KILL SOMEBODY WITH LITTLE SHIT LIKE THIS IM GETTING FUCKING KEKED I JUST WANT TO FUCKING QUIT
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>>25030705
For cs major most likely(i go to Maryland and usually 3.5 or above is needed) Idk how competitive is Ohio St, Nebraska or Rutgers? They seem like the worst academic big 10 schools.
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>Exams worth 75%
>homework worth 25%
>Astronomy final goes into exam section
>had a C borderline C-
>bombs final with a 43%
>not sure if still have C-
im currently going to get drunk because the stress is too much. Hopefully have a C-.
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I think it's good in its own way. It means you have only one major thing to really worry about and don't really need to sweat over homework.
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>exams 75%
>HW 25%
>4 exams including final
>got 44% on final
>had a C before final
>about 60%
>to get a C its a 60% and C- is 59%
>not sure what the fuck I have in the class now
probably going to off myself tonight
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>>25042087
>>25042053
samefag bc i thought first one didnt go through. still gunna kms
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>>25028393
>exams
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>>25034746
>tfw "none of the above" is an option
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Any art majors in here? How did you get into an art major or how do you get in. They all require portfolios. I don't want to end up like Adolf
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>>25042087
>C its a 60% and C- is 59%
Fucking non-American or community college. Either way that's easy mode.
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>exams 30%
>assignments 70%
y-you too
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>>25028506
i see you are also pursuing a degree in being a batman villan
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>>25028675
Holy shit, my uni is like this and the payment is due in 2 days. Thanks for the reminder anon.
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>>25042510
>he doesn't want to be like Adolf
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>>25043326
Adolf is dead and still didn't pursue his dreams of art. I don't need that right now.
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>>25042239
>tfw "none of the above" and "all of the above" are available for every single question
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>Mandatory speech assignment
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>>25034420
I didnt the one time I studied with it.
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i got a 4.0 this semester, i'm still fucking miserable though.

tfw you've been chatting up this qt 3.14 all semester and it seemed like maybe for once a girl might actually like me. she's transferring to another school next semester but it's only 10 minutes away and today was the last day of classes.

i was planning to ask for her number so we can stay in touch but i was going to wait until class got out and we were saying our goodbyes and shit because if i asked her before class and struck out it would have made it awkward to sit next to her for the next 90 minutes.

class ended, she got up and walked out quickly without even giving me a second look or saying goodbye. this is after spending like 10 minutes talking to each other before every fucking class of the semester and knowing that she's transferring to a completely different school and we might never see each other again. i fucking hate women. i'm going to go kill myself.
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Got a C- in my science lab, which by the standards of my major means I have to retake it and get a C or Higher. Otherwise fine semester, Bs all around.

3.30 GPA
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>Exam 1: 33%
>Exam 2: 33%
>Exam 3: 34%
Just fuck my life up professor
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>>25028506
That sounds fucking awesome.

My Mechanics exam was 8 questions, and we could do any 6. The exam started at 5, and the professor strolled in around 5:30 and was like, "yeah, sorry about that. I'll be here all night. Take as much time as you need." All 8 questions were hard as fuck and some took multiple sheets of just trying out different methods to solve the problem. It was basically an exam measuring how little you were going to fail. I wasn't even a Physics major.

Honestly, that's my favorite kind of exam. Anyone who likes easy exams is wasting their time and money. Seriously, I knew people who got jobs around universities, bought housing, and lived around and still got to party all the time. People who spend thousands of dollars to go party are beyond fucking retarded.
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Anyone 1.0 gpa here? I wish I was dead
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>>25043714
>Adolf is dead and still didn't pursue his dreams of art.

>oh wow looks like i'm dead, hmm now i should probably pursue my dream of making art... nah i'm probably too lazy
>yeah... it's because im lazy... totally have nothing to do with the fact that i'm dead
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>hate my major
>struggling to pass the last 3 subjects I need to complete to graduate out of sheer boredom and spite for the course
>know I don't want to make a career out of this, no idea what I'll even do for work
>wish I wasn't a coward and swapped to accounting when I could

fuck economics
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>>25044550

2.3 here, but <2.0 will get me kicked out of the engineering faculty
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>got a C in a class I was failing
>41 on the final exam

I guess the teacher didnt want to see me again
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>11-12 assignments which each take up an entire weekend
>worth less than 1% each
thanks galko
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I dropped out of uni due to anxiety, depression and general hate of school. I've decided to apply for college and now I have even less support than before because my parents are disappointed in me.

I sit around smoking cigarettes trying not to think of killing myself too much.
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>have learning disablitlies.
>pretty much retarded.
>have to get special accommodations to pass pretty much
>get extra time on exams, quieter rooms, teachers probably grade less harshly

I sometimes wish people like myself were aborted at birth. It would benefit society greatly. More money would go towards the non-disabled ,etc for their courses.
Plus by having these accommodations, it's not like I can have this when I get a job after college.

To any robots or normies. When gene screening gets better and if you're kid will be a future tard. Abort it right away and save yourself and society some money.
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>>25042510
I'm a theatre major and luckily I didn't need a portfolio (I do design, not acting).

For a couple places I know that require portfolios, you usually are placed in like a preliminary art major so you can take classes to build your portfolio and then the department reviews your portfolio after your first year to fully accept you into the program.

Fucking sucks, m8. I hope you can find a way to get in.
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>Exam 1 25%
>Exam 2 25%
>Final exam 50%

Fuck you physical chemistry. The final exam was brutal. The only thing we are graded on are our answers, no chance for partial credit or anything. The average for the final was a 62 and I somehow pulled an 80. Since the average for the class was a C/C- he didn't curve anything so I'm glad I made a B.
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>tfw got all A's this semester
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>>25044939
>you usually are placed in like a preliminary art major so you can take classes to build your portfolio and then the department reviews your portfolio after your first year to fully accept you into the program.
Actually that sounds pretty fucking fantastic, but I can't seem to find any colleges like that in my state. It usually says fill out the application with a portfolio so I'm trying to figure out what level they expect you to be. I'm not a complete novice, but I thought you went in to art school to develop your skills not already be at an expert level.
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>>25045132
>do well on all the assignments
>tfw get raped thoroughly on the exams.
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>>25045139
That's pretty fucked up actually... Are you applying to legit art schools or are you just applying to art programs at the major university's in your state?

Because if you are applying to legit art schools that is probably your problem. They want to make sure you are serious about it and have some form of talent before accepting you.

Also, are you a senior in high school applying to colleges or are you trying to escape NEET-dom?
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>>25044653

How is it cowardly to swap a meme-degree for an actual degree?

An economics degree won't get you anywhere unless you know somebody already in the business.
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>>25035753
10% is a pretty large amount. Only like ~35% of people even go to college at all.
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>>25042706
i got to Ball state you kek
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>>25045299
I'm a sophomore college student in STEM. I am researching art schools, but I've only found one that hasn't asked for a portfolio and another that offers Fine Arts but it's an AS and I want to enter for a BFA.
So basically I'm going to transfer, although I'd prefer to leave all of the STEM behind. I don't think I've seen any "major universities" since I'm looking strictly at ones in my city, and the most major school in NYC is Julliard I think, but that's performing arts.
I mean when you're looking at careers to pursue nobody actually tells you here are all these top arts, design or creative schools you could go to, so I can't name any top art schools, just going on whatever has the highest acceptance rate and lowest tuition.

It's fucking difficult making the transition from pure STEM to art. Where do you even start with this shit.
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>>25042706
also class is hard as a mother fucker so its curved like abe lincolns dick
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>>25030999
You are wrong. Plenty of people give a shit outside of Australia especially if you are from a decent university in Australia.
For example Newcastle' Construction Management degree was in such demand they opened the course for people who live in Singapore.

I have had a brief internship in China (Guangzhou) which was based purely off my degree I was studying from.


>>25034547
Well your friend is a fucking idiot.

He must have had ZERO experience and expected to land an entry job right out of uni with no experience, low grades or just a absolute dumb cunt of a person.

I am going to assume he was a dumb cunt since he excepted a 50 hour a week unpaid position. Not even the shit of the shit slave labor companies like Mirvac or Buildcorp do this crap.

>lots of unpaid overtime
Welcome to construction. Again he was a clueless idiot if he didn't expect this already. It's not a clock in clock out industry. They don't give you high salaries for doing shit all.
I am working right now as a Junior Project manager for 75k with fuel allowances and I am yet to graduate.
Your friend is a failure.
You guys are either extremely ignorant, biter, jealous or just plain stupid.
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>>25034746
>which of the following statements is false?
>A. answer which is probably true, and therefore incorrect
>B. answer that seems false, and therefore correct, but is in fact using a double negative statement that makes it into a true answer, and therefore incorrect
>C. answer which is plausibly false under very specific circumstances, and therefore the correct answer
>D. A & B
>E. B & C

>final exam is worth 100% of the grade
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>Get an A- in a class I was 100% sure I would get an A in
>Get an A in a class I was 100% sure I would get a B in

Curves and weighted grading can fuck off.
Kept my scholarship though so w/e
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>>25045722
My strategy for these questions are usually:
If A is 100% true on first glance it is false, choose B and C.
If A and C are true but there is no option for A and C together, whatever correlates with B is the answer.
If A, B, and C all sound false I gamble between the last two choices. I usually get them correct because it is usually All of The Above
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post grades
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>>25035614
Fucking hell that sounds awful.
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>switching my major this year
>taking a mix of second year courses and first year courses for my new major.
>The second year courses are actually easier than my first year courses.

I think it's because the intro courses have a lot more run around BS work to weed out lazy faggots like me. We do attendance and have participation marks in our tutorial sessions. So fucking dumb.
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>get full tuition scholarship
>need cumulative gpa above 3.5
>3.2 gpa after two semesters
>lose scholarship
>just fuck my finances up
>tfw gpa is above 3.5 again now

The university gave up on me too soon desu.
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>>25028393
>Midterm 1: 30%
>Midterm 2: 30%
>Final: 40%
>Final consists of 10 work out problems
JUST
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who a /fuckup/ here?

>go to cc because poor American
>have calc final yesterday
>study from more than 5 pretests the professor gave out
>easiest shit possible, you-can't-go-wrong,-my-dude type stuff
>come in late and only have no more than 30 minutes to do as much as possible
>only finish 2/3 of test.

Well, there goes my dreams of becoming an engineer. In fact if I end up with a D course grade I'll probably become an EMT or something.
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If I'm scraping by in calc I with a C- should I just retake it? I've heard that the following classes are a lot harder and I want to get good grades so I kinda want to get comfortable with calculus.
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