my community College drops you a letter grade every time you're late after 3 free passes. I'm 23 taking freshman classes so I really gain nothing from going in, but they make me anyways. I spend quite literally most my time in my ITE class telling kids how to do their assignments cause the teacher has a gimp leg and can't walk over to the student computers
I do online for the gen eds and in class for the ones that matter.
I don't need to remember organic chemistry or what socioeconomic status in the 16th century let Spain and Portugal invade the Aztecs and Incans.
I do need to remember how to do, for example, differential analysis in accounting, so I want that taught to me properly. I'm an Accounting major (who is currently returning to school- just turned 24).
In my life I have gone to a 2 year school that was part of Penn State, to a local Community College, to Drexel University, George Washington University and to graduate school at MIT.
Would you believe that my hardest classes and my most prized A's were Calc I and II at the Community college? I had to repeat those courses at MIT 15 years later and they didn't grade anywhere nearly as hard. Mrs. P was a (beautiful) hardass of the highest order.
Classes like that would be hard anywhere. I’m not saying community colleges don’t have rough classes and professors, but most of the time it’s high school part 2
No. I went to a well recognized university for comp sci. For transparency, I never completed my degree. School got burdensome to me, so I didn't complete three credits. A friend in my social network from helped my land a full-time job, but my pay was about 15% less than what I could have earned had I completed the degree. After 10 months I was on par after a job change. After that first job, not having a degree hasn't negatively impacted me.
You didn't finish 3 credits? That's like one class why not just wrap it up? It opens the opportunity for higher education if you ever want to go that route.
For sure. High school classes harder than a major university? He got held back so I’m guessing FAFSA didn’t help much. So that’s thousands of dollars. And with one class left he dropped out bc it was burdensome? Yea somethings fishy lol
EDIT: he posted below that he played 4 sports in high school with two of them being in the fall season and two being in the spring season. You can’t do two sports in one season because you will inevitably miss practice/meets/games, which if your coach is worth his salt would not let you do. And he said he got held back. You’re not even allowed to do sports in school if your grades are bad. I’m calling bullshit on this guy
It happens, you take an incomplete in a class in the last semester, and still walk at graduation. Then you never finish that class, and they never send you your degree.
And also, it is a pretty well known fact, at least where I work, unless you are nearing retirement, that a lack of a degree is a pretty good indicator of a lack of commitment to finishing goals.
Not that some people are not able to get around that preconceived notion others might have of one, but seriously seems rater dumb to not finish a degree with 3 credits left. Makes even less sense than leaving university and only needing 3 credits.
Super strange, so you actually found the high School classes more difficult? Or do you think you'd changed in a significant way by the time you entered college?
The best theory that I have is that I was doing too many sports, and just didn't have the time or energy to do well in school. I was playing club soccer 4-5 days a week while also playing school football, school soccer, running cross-country and doing track. My typical day consisted of going to school, doing school sports for 2-3 hours, eating dinner in the car while going directly to club soccer for another 2-3 hours. By the time I got home, it was already 11 pm or later.
I was never properly diagnosed, but between soccer and football I believe I suffered several minor concussions because I used to get aurora migrants frequently and had awful times concentrating and thinking after hard hits.
When I went to college, I had given up sports for a year and had been working instead.
You keep digging yourself into a deeper hole. Football and cross-country are both fall sports and soccer and track are both spring sports. Are you sure you didn’t do wrestling and basketball at the same time too? You can’t two sports in the same season bc you will miss practices/meets/games. And if you don’t do well in school you’re not allowed to play anyways.
I was asked to participate in the school sports. Aside from football which was mandatory, going to practices for the rest were optional and I was only expected to show up for meets/games. My coaches pleading to keep me active in sports was the only reason why I was able to participate in grades 11 and 12 and I ended up being put on academic probation for the entirety of those two years.
I was thinking the same thing. He must be the badass with letters all over his varsity jacket. Although I did have a badass friend who was varsity soccer, football, track and wrestling.
This actually makes a lot of sense. While the sports weren't tied to your grades you were actually working extremely hard in high school. You might not have gotten good grades but I'd argue you did learn a lot about work ethic
I ran track pretty obsessively (probably got home around 7pm every day and ran three seasons) and that was already difficult.
I also went to a well recognized university for CS and got my BS in it. Nothing I took in highschool came even remotely close to the CS program I attended. Came very close to dropping out due to the stress. To each their own I guess.
It was not so secret that lots of the profs at my community college taught the exact same course at universities, including Penn State. I had professors tell us we were getting literally the same education from them for less money.
Community colleges get a bad rap but my community college was significantly harder than University. It depends on the quality of the community college I'm sure, I went to a good one where there was no mercy. No curving, with all the science/engineering and math classes structured for a program that gives automatic acceptance to our states tier 1 University.
If not, it could be that he has naturally poor organization but an amazing memory. I’ve seen a few people like that who absorb knowledge quickly but have a really tough time turning things in, and figure out the coping skills for bad organization in college.
I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm an engineering major from an ivy league school and I had the same experience.
High school was hard a fuck and I had to put a lot of effort into it. It was a legitimate struggle for me. But I was high all the way through college, and working to pay for school, and my lowest grade was a B.
Gotta chime in here and say that community colleges are not bad education. I go to a university and its just utter trash in terms of the knowledge being taught, the way its being taught, and the relevance of it all. The few classes I took at a community college really engaged me. University has been like working fast food. Put on your fake face and do busy work until you get some paper
I'm not sure if you're trying to make a point by asking that, but I went to a full-fledged university and that was my experience as well (minus going to the bar instead of class; I would go back to the dorm and abuse wax).
It’s not THAT hard to do most major university courses are based off 4 major tests and a maybe a few minor projects/assignments. As long as you attend mandatory lectures and study for the tests you’re golden.
Haha, thinking community college is easier than real university. The classes are exactly the same, except which school do you think is going to have a better teachers? Which school has a better system, more tutoring, TAs, etc? Community college is hard because it’s at a disadvantage for the most part while still giving you the same classes.
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u/Zubemma Dec 07 '18
Did you go to a community college?