>calc 3 final in an hour
>I know literally nothing
who else is going to fail a class this semester?
college fuckups thread
>>28500128
>failing just one class
Look at this casual.
>>28500128
>>28500166
>failing any class
Kek look at this retards
>usually a B+/A student
>got c's on two HW assignments a few days ago
>didn't go to lecture today, too sleepy
>can only miss one day a month, classes split into months
>every hw assignment requires extensive notes from lecture
>i have to preen through the lecture recording now to figure it out
>due friday
sometimes i get too insulted if my grades slip and i just throw myself at the material and battle with it until it works out. i won't let the class end with anything less than an 85, that's my standard.
some people can literally piss on the floor in every class and walk out with an A, for me it's a constant battle to do it. i don't get C's because smug profs piss me off.
>>28500195
>look at this retards
>at this
k
How can you know nothing? Did you just sit in your room and shitpost on 4chan and watch anime instead of studying all semester?
>>28500128
Are you scared of feedback, success, failure? What are you scared of?
>>28500208
C's get degrees. You're doing fine.
>>28500128
I didn't even study for O-Chem and I got a C in both courses and passed ACS certification. I learned and retained the hydroboration reaction for about one week and then forgot it after the final.
>4 year engineering degree
>common first year so I have to do a bit of each discipline plus some maths and data analysis etc
>want to do civil
>smashing mech/civil/materials/data subjects, passed math, passed software and comp sci
>struggling with chem and electrical
Fuck this gay shit. Just 2 more weeks and exams and then I can specialise if I don't fail this bullshit.
>>28500128
Failing, haven't spent the thinnest amount of effort, and without a doubt about your failure, is actually quite peaceful.
I speak from experience of 2 years that I have spent fucking around in college. I could sleep at night before the final with no stress knowing that it is without a doubt too late. Regrets only come later, and they hit hard. But that's another story.
This time, I actually semi-studied, and you cannot imagine how much scarier it feels even though in perspective, having inconsistently studied beats not having studied at all by a mile.
Something is actually at stake when you try. And not knowing if you've tried hard enough or smart enough to succeed, the uncertainty of it, is the worse.
>>28500259
>I didn't even study for O-Chem and I got a C in both courses and passed ACS certification.
American ((((((education))))))
>mfw I have a $20/hour job set up before I even graduate
>have a whopping 2.2 GPA
>Despite my shit grades, the fact that I worked through college gave me an advantage over other applicants
Yes, it's stressful, but getting a bad grade isn't the end of the world.
Sure, won't be going to grad school any time soon, but just remember, work experience is everything, and most employers don't care about grades unless you're going into research.
Not me
C's get degrees. Remember that senpai
>>28500214
You can actually spend entire semester attending all classes, taking all the notes and still fail.
I have done that. When you are not proactively engaged with the material, the missing hours of effort pile up and overwhelm you in the end.
>>28500424
those were actually the only C's I got in college, somehow I was able to intuit that I could be incredibly lazy with those courses despite their difficulty. It was either put in dozens of hours of studying for maybe a solid B or skimp by on barely anything. It was basically luck though.
>>28500470
As make you distinguished tho, if you are interested in working at a fortune 500 business.
>>28500334
Civil is worst engineeringRobotics master race
>>28500334
>electrical
FUCK THAT SHIT
It's fucking brutal. I was afraid I'd have to retake it next semesterfor the third timebut thank fuck I got a C. I never want to see another electric circuit in my life.
>>28500208
>some people can literally piss on the floor in every class and walk out with an A
believe me, everyone spends effort at As
>>28500522
Can you construct a pleasure android?
>HW is literally right there
>Would take a couple hours to complete on average
>Nothing else to do
>Just sitting here f4ing /r9k/
>>28500540
>never go to lectures
>never go to tutorials
>do all assignments the night before
>wait until 1/2 weeks before exams to actually learn the material
>still get A's and B's
>>28500555
Thats the plan anon
>>28500566
I don't see many people like that.
>C student with no internships
>somehow befriended a pseudo-chad normie in a class
>happened again in another class
>both introduced me to hiring managers theyre related to for ""interviews"" (just a formality)
>got 2 job offers in the 75k range
>dont know which to pick
that old adage is true, it's literally all about who you know, not what you know.
>>28500522
:^)
No robotics (or aerospace) jobs in Australia anyway m8
>>28500535
Tell me about it. Worst part is in my course all the first year chem & electric is crammed into one subject, so we started elec from scratch in week 7. I still don't get how to analyse circuits properly.
>>28500540
I never really put that much effort into getting As. Half the grade is just showing up. You can totally skip class and get decent grades, but often there'd be extra credit just for being there because the professor got annoyed that no one showed up. Sometimes they'd give out test questions. I had nowhere else better to be anyways.
Learning how to read the teachers and read exams is also a good way to get As easily. Tons of effort put into studying can be destroyed just because a teacher is bad at writing tests or they do some weird format.
Just knowing how to game multiple choice questions or how to properly BS a question you don't know for at least partial credit will get you C's without studying in most classes.
>>28500645
And if those establishments are anywhere near being competent, you'd get fired before the end of your first year if you can't handle the job.
Not trying to be a buzzkill, but you're far from set, good start tho.
>>28500698
I don't really know what school/program you're attending but you'll never pull that shit off at my classes lol.
>>28500128
>Statistics final exam tomorrow morning
>It's fucking proctored
>Don't know shit cause I cheated all semester
I remember the good old days when you could take a online class and literally take every exam online w/o supervision and just google answers.
I only need a 50 to pass, but fuck am I sweating bullets.
>Calc II final yesterday
>Actually knew a lot of it, still nervous but I only need a 70 to get a B
>>28500793
fuck off you smug cunt
>>28500698
>Fluid dynamics midterm
>Last question something about angle the liquid in a flatbed truck makes when it brakes hard
>No fucking clue, play with units, get some acceleration terms and diagrams
>Desperately check formula sheet
> tan (th) = ax / (ay+g) or something like that
>hmm looks ok
>plug numbers in, get angle
> 100%
:^)
>>28500753
Depends on the class I suppose. Obviously you can't do this for a math based class. Most teachers are bad at writing exams though, even when they take questions from the textbook publisher. Half the time the answer to a question is inside another question. Sometimes it's very easy to rule out wrong choices too, like "Is It -5, 5, or 20?" - it's very likely that 20 is not the answer.
>>28500128
I probably failed my japanese class, I did pretty well in it up until the last 2 tests which I completely failed. The final would have replaced my lowest test grade but I got way too stressed about it once I realized I had to do really well and had a minor panic attack during it where I couldn't breathe and threw up in my mouth, I barely even remember turning it in.
And then I'm planning on retaking my econ class online over the summer so I didn't even go to it, it's easy as shit but the only one available this semester was at 8am and I was working nights the first part of the year so I missed too many classes.
>>28500793
>Settling for a B
>>28500855
Oh boy, you have seen nothing. I'm in biochemistry and the professors in half of my classes make every choice on multiple questions (a lot of these) a very reasonable one.
>>28500907
>Implying I give a shit about an A
>Being a tryhard loser
I bet you're the smartest guy at community college, arent'cha?
>>28500907
C's get Degrees
>probs and stats final
>did one of the five problems
>probably did it wrong
hopefully the curve is good
>Had an 85 average before my Pre-Cal final
>pretty sure I bombed it because the teacher didn't explain the trigonometry stuff properly.
Am I fucked, lads?
>even if I earn a 100% on my biochem final I'm .2 points out of 400 away from an A
At least I can get a 60.2% on the final and get a B.
>>28501062
Depends on how the points are allocated in your class. See my example above. I have an 86.6% currently and would have to barely get a D to stay at a B.
>>28500902
Anon, 80% of immunology class is about rote memorization. Of course, the answers are online.
Also CD4 is the protein that binds T-helper cells to other white blood cells so they can tell'em shit's going down.
>>28501062
yep, work out your percentage
e.g. midterm worth 20% of the class, you get 80%, you get 16/20% in that block
depending on how generous your school is, you maybe have an alternative grading scheme that benefits you more
>>28501294
Well, there's also a project that is worth a test grade(they're worth 30% of my grade). She still hasn't factored that in and I'm sure I got 100 on it.
Could that offset the final by a bit?
im a college fuck up, about to start my 'fourth year' of 'college' and only have 1 year and a half of credits actually completed.
Feels like a fucking waste.
shitty gpa, failed 2 classes, 2 Ds also mostly Cs and Bs, got one A, cuz it was some dumb fucking easy class, feels like no progress is being made towards my degree
>>28501573
Anon, how can you not know how much each assignment, quiz, lab, project, exam is worth?
Yes, anon 100% is good, but you find out from your teacher how much the project's worth.
>>28501573
*final
excuse me
also usually at 85 before a final, it's pretty damn hard to fail
>>28501809
Am I going crazy? I thought I just told you the project is worth a test grade.
calc 3 is the easiest one lol
>>28500128
I have my calc 3 final tomorrow. Shit is open notes though, thanks jesus.
>>28501922
You lucky motherfucker.
Give your professor a bj. He deserves it for being so generous
>>28501871
No, you aren't. I had a stroke midpost. I meant you should find out from your teacher how much your final is worth, then do:
0.85*(100-final's worth)+(worst final grade you expect)*(final's worth)
>Not withdrawing the unit before the academic penalty date
>Lacking the foresight to know when you're fucked and cutting your losses
>>28501943
Open notes tests from my experience tend to be considerably harder than standard tests.
>>28501882
I don't know why people always said Calc 2 was the hardest; literally 90% of the course is just learning different ways to integrate, then there's sequence and series.
>>28502056
Oh OK anon. Thanks for the formula
>>28500128
>who else is going to fail a class this semester?
>a class
>not every single one
>>28501645
You should probably stop wasting money anon
>>28502066
This man, I failed all of my 7 classes at 30%-50% during a semester because I have been sick as a dog for 3 months straight and too stupid to drop the classes (didn't know you can do that back then).
You have shit tier retard-proof American education and still fail classes. What's wrong with you?
>>28502289
This is university level bro.
It pretty much gets even at this level, and it gets even more competitive if you are in some world-renowned American school.
>got a C on my first Pre-Calc exam
>got an F on my second Pre-Calc exam
>need an A- minimum on the third exam to pass with a C
fug :DDDDDDD
>>28502289
american universities are the best, but you're on a board for the mentally ill
>10 pg research paper due Friday
>haven't started
Fucking end it all
>>28503662
ready your coffee cup and keyboard, do not despair
when i was in college the first time i fucked it up so badly and literally wasted like $100K of my parents money. i was so depressed that i just stayed in my room and did drugs and slept and i never went to class and i was at a good school.
i ended up going back to a different school a few years later though and graduated with a 4.0 so don't fret too much if you're fucking up a class or two. you can always hit the reset button and go to a different school.
>>28503662
i got nothing going on. i'll write it for you. it won't be cheap though. $25 a page. i did just get a 100/100 on my research paper though and i've never gotten below an A on a paper in any class.
>>28503727
you'd need patient parents tho
Anyone else really anxious about post graduation? I can't even think straight or feel at ease. Goddamn I don't even want to pursue a career in my degree. Fuck
>>28500128
>constantly screw up as a teenager
>graduate high school at 14, go to college, fuck around, have no idea what I want to do
>fuck around in 20s, waste time and money, fail classes by not going
>just finished degree at 31, could've finished at 18, it was not hard I just had to stop fucking around
>I'm retarded for not doing that
>organic chemistry
>need a B in the class for it to count towards my degree
>75% exam average and the teacher hates me
looks like I'll be retaking it next spring
>Accounting class
>Assessments worth 40%
>only one 15% of it
>Exam worth 60%
Can I do it, or should i give up, i dont want to fail again
>>28503792
yeah. my parents were pissed of course but they eventually forgave me and were thrilled when i went back and did that shit right.
>porn binge last night
>forgot alarm
>slept until noon
>final exam was at 10AM
>worth 20% of my grade
Looks like I'm getting a 64.5%. I hope he grades with Ds.
>engineering
>finished finals, officially a senior
>start internship next week
You can make it robots.
>>28503942
I guess you should try if you dont want to fail again; might as well right? Unless there's something else in the way.
>>28503832
go to grad school or something. having to work a 9 to 5 job 250 days a year is fucking awful, especially when you're a loner with no gf or social life. i wish i could just be a professional college student.
>>28503976
Shouldnt that be a C?
>>28504029
hell no nigga
>>28503976
overwatch porn, receive Ds
>>28504022
don't you do that even after grad school?
>>28504022
>go into debt
solid advice
>>28504003
do people screw up and get fired once they made it in?
>>28504059
well yeah entering the workforce is inevitable unless you're planning on being a NEET but my advice is to put it off as long as you possibly can unless you really need the money. stay in school as long as you can. you'll probably make more money with a graduate degree anyway.
>>28504069
i don't know his financial situation. i had grants and scholarships and my parents covered the rest of my tuition. i don't advise anyone taking on debt unless it's for a valuable degree with good job prospects. my advice was just that working life fucking blows and i miss being a college student so i wish i stayed in school longer.
>>28504029
All my professors grade differently. I can't understand what this chink is saying, so I don't know. Definitely not a C though, best case is D, worst is F.
>>28504040
Poetic justice I guess.
>>28504076
It's possible, but you'd really have to try to fuck it up for that to happen. There are two ways to do that:
Be a dick/unprofessional at work.
OR
Somehow have faked it through the interview process and don't know how to do your job. They'll figure out pretty quick that you don't know what you're doing and fire your ass. The only exception is if you're doing IT or something where you can Google everything you run into.
Otherwise you should be fine.
>>28500566
no one gives a shit u can get an A without studying in calc 1 anon.
>>28504153
Seems strange that any professor would fail you if you had 64.5%. D sounds likely.
Power point, presentation/paper, test due tomorrow morning at 7
It's 12 am
I'm halfway through test, just started 8 pg paper yesterday and finished it 2 hrs ago, all I need to do is the power point
To top it off, I am sick. This is my last final for this semester.
I want to skip so bad.
>>28504172
not if you don't have a strong foundation m8
>>28500128
>first year at CC
>get all As and Bs
>subsequent years
>stop giving a fuck
>rarely attend class
>straight Cs all around
>no clue when/if I'm gonna transfer to a uni
I have a term paper due at midnight tonight that I haven't even started. At least I can afford to turn it in tomorrow night, though it'll cost me a letter grade on the paper.
>>28504088
Hmmm I'm planning to do that, but it seems so streamlined. I don't have any other plan anyway.
>>28504206
Anon keep up, you are almost done.
>>28504273
I am so tired.
Luckily I have tomorrow off from work.
I just want to sleep. Gotta get up early cause it takes an hour to get to school.
>>28504206
The only advice/motivational rhetoric I've ever heard that's worked is that you can still do something even if you don't feel like it. You can do it.
>>28502738
>failing pre-calc
wtf m8?
it's literally just a small step above high school algebra 2. what area are you struggling most in?
>>28504300
Just put some images + main point with some generic templates, it shouldn't take too long, reading off the powerpoint is for plebs anyway
>>28504334
elementary operations
One year left, it's definitely been a ride.
If any anons have any questions I wouldn't mind answering them. Not trying to act high and mighty because I have more credits under my belt, just giving the opportunity for some to put their minds to rest if they have any questions. If I (mostly)made it you guys can.
>>28504558
Have you ever sucked Chad's cum out of Stacy's roast beef, you pretentious faggot?
>>28504558
How to do well in memory intensive class like Biochm, biology 3, organic chem 2 etc?
>>28504558
Why post a pic of that pathetic excuse of a faggot?
>>28504601
Show up to lecture and take notes. Always. Listening to the prof talk obviously helps and writing it down helps solidify it in your memory better. Really obvious I know but some people still don't do it.
If we're talking terminology and stuff then rereading your notes and using notecards helps. Go through what you need to know, citing any terms then the definition a few times each, then quiz yourself on all of it to see if you remember them. Don't do it in the same order each time otherwise you just memorize their order. Online flash card shit is good for doing that easily like studyblue. Plus some students upload flash card collections they make for their courses so you can use theirs instead of manually entering everything in.
If we're talking about formulas then doing practice problems over and over and over again gets the job done. Only way to do it really.
If you have your old assignments or tests from past semesters to look at those help in any kind of course. Most of this is for courses in general but hey if it works it works I guess. Not especially detailed advice I guess though, sorry.
>>28504605
Because I'm a faggot duh
>>28504881
that's more detail that I could ever hope for, for too long I have been really inefficient in my way of studying, e.g. read manual until I lost focus, had hard time with classes where not only you have to grasp the bigger picture but also be aware of all the tiny details
I can really use the studyblue and maybe a little practice on old tests. Thank you.
>>28500128
I failed three out of six this past term.
Stayed in my room and smoke weed/played vidya basically every day. End my fucking life.
>>28505008
Did you have too fun to see it coming?
>>28500128
>2 finals 24 hours apart
>one in 7 hours haven't studied for
>need a 97% for an A
I have no idea how I'm gonna be able to sleep and then study for my final tomorrow. I definitely need more than a few hours to study for that one
>>28500208
>>28500128
>went to college in 1997, CS (yea, before it became a meme)
>failed out in 1.5 years
>shit life
>join military
>hate life but get money
>go back to college now, majoring in EE
>straight A's all the way for 3 years now, even with brutal overloads every single semester
As a former shithead failure who is now winning hard, i can tell you this much: it's literally as simple as going to class and doing the homework. you can't help but get at least B's if you do that much. from there, if you actually study some, you'll get A's.
It actually takes less time overall, and is way less stress. This finals week has been a breeze since my grades so far are so high that i can get 40's and 50's on every final and still come up with a 4.0 for the semester.
It's pretty sick watching kids flushing out of the program though, I'm filled with regret watching them fuck up and skip classes then stress hard studying hard for the final with the grade meaning the difference between passing and failing..
>>28505091
I wasn't even having fun at the end, dude. Time just flew past me, and I couldn't bring myself to complete my final assignments or even go outside for extended periods of time. I was just numbing myself because I fucking loathe myself
>>28501062
you are a grown ass man you should have gone to the tutoring center and gotten help with shit you did not understand
>>28501645
>>28502130
not everyone is made for college look into being a plumber or something
>>28505191
Did military improve your discipline?
>>28500907
>amerifats smug about getting a's when all they need is an 80 to get one
kek
>>28503662
If this is an upper level course you might be boned but if it is lower level as long as you shit something semi coherent out even a shit grade like a D is infinity better than a 0 for not turning anything in you can do it anon BS like you never have before
>>28503832
you dont have to. Just having any degree puts you a head of burnouts and roastie single moms stacys
>>28504203
at my school d's dont count towards graduation
>>28505351
GPA is fair tho.
>>28505385
this
imagine most people with no degree, how fucked are they?
>>28505348
not that anon but working a shit job in the navy guarding a fucking ware house all day gave me tons of motivation to graduate than if I stayed home and played vidya.
I was also chubby and getting /fit/ helped me study
>>28505222
I know that feel, it is like a drug that doesn't even make you feel good.
>tfw I fucked up all of my finals and ended up with a B+ in all of my classes that I was supposed to get an A in
>>28505456
Did you ever get non-lethally taken down like in those stealth video game while on guarding duty?
Also what's in the warehouse?
>>28505493
It was just a bunch of welding equipment and surplus shit we used for training
>machine component design class
>didn't do final project that was 15% of grade
>grades on homework, quizzes, and tests weren't that great either
>might have to take it again
>a third time
>>28505518
Damn, that sounds exciting. Any guarding story?
>>28505534
at my school retaking something a third time made you fill out a form saying you were an autistic fuck up and you understood if you cocked up again you had to transfer somwhere else to take the class
>>28505534
How do you fail the same class 3 times
Are you doing crack
>>28505534
Wouldn't you have known almost the exact answers to everything on the quizzes and tests by then?
>Calc 3
What horrible meme major makes you take this.
My bullshit BS only made me take up to calc 2.
>>28505628
not the anon but I know you need it for any kind of finance math, it's definitely not meme
>>28501645
If you get your shit together and work hard you can graduate in two year. Thing is anon that I learned after fucking up and still fucking up is that you need to dedicate your life to school. 1. You should never ever get a zero for not doing an assignment, any bad grade you get should be because you did badly not because you didn't try at all. 2. Go to class, I like to think of going to class each day as one free answer on the next exam. 3. If you're like me then you hate studying/setting up a schedule go study so so your homework/projects right away, like the day they are assigned. Doing your homework and not missing a class is most of the time enough to get a C in the class.
>>28504601
Summarizing. Honestly the best way to memorize is getting it down on paper. Through graphs, colored pencils, whatever, the important thing is to get it down.
It makes me so sad that you guys and I are suffering, this world is a fucking peice of shit. If I won the lottery id definitely give you all some
>>28505315
I had an l2S class (tutoring) that I attended every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
It helped, but I forgot all the trig stuff since we did it quite some ago.
>>28505690
I do that, but somehow I feel I'm being awfully inefficient, as if I have my head in fog while doing it. It makes question if I'll just all forget once I get to the tests. But that's no excuse, I can probably find old test online and do them to get a general sense of how well I will do.
>>28505783
you should have just reviewed your tutoring notes
failed several classes over the years, dropped out of college last year. Like an idiot, I thought that college might be the place where I really "blossom" and finally get something of a social life and really make things happen. Instead I failed everything and was lonelier than ever before. It's just been a downward spiral. Here I am with a shitty retail job wondering where it all went so wrong.
>>28505571
I dropped it last semester cause I thought I would fail. This time I saw it all the way through. Hoping I pass
>>28505824
Did you care?
>>28505805
I did. I just ended up prioritizing shit that barely ended up on the test. The optional final review was very misleading
Not me... but I might get a C or 2. Real analysis final in 8 hours. Haven't done shit all semester.
>>28505849
My finals are next week and I dreamed what you described yesterday.
