Let's Talk About College

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Me either...and I got by with a's b's and a few c's ...until my senior year of college when I started simply going to class every day - and I still didn't put in massive effort - but I ended up getting all a's and a couple of bs....but too little too late - my cumulative gpa wasn't all high...

BUT not ONE person has ever asked about my gpa post college...

High School gpa? I didn't really care - I knew where I'd be going to school and I knew my gpa would be enough to get me in there...my mom was never a grade pusher - as long as I didn't fail she was fine...

^^^Me too. I discovered in 9th grade(I had been probably in the top ten in my class, until then) that I could do NOTHING except party, and run around with my friends, and still get B's. A practice which served me well throughout college.

I'd study maybe an hour, the night before the test. B's are fine, as far as I'm concerned!

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

^^^Me too. I discovered in 9th grade(I had been probably in the top ten in my class, until then) that I could do NOTHING except party, and run around with my friends, and still get B's. A practice which served me well throughout college.

I'd study maybe an hour, the night before the test. B's are fine, as far as I'm concerned!

I wasn't beyond c's either...I just didn't care all that much about grades..

Of course sometimes I DO wonder what I could have done had I actually tried, had I applied myself etc...but meh..I've got a great job now and I love what I'm doing...

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I wasn't beyond c's either...I just didn't care all that much about grades..

Of course sometimes I DO wonder what I could have done had I actually tried, had I applied myself etc...but meh..I've got a great job now and I love what I'm doing...

I HAD to apply myself, a couple of times.

Stats, whew, barely made it through. The ONLY class I never skipped.

A Physics class, too. The only D (D+ actually) I ever got.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I HAD to apply myself, a couple of times.

Stats, whew, barely made it through. The ONLY class I never skipped.

A Physics class, too. The only D (D+ actually) I ever got.

Oh...see I was laaazy. When I had to apply myself I'd just drop the class or stop going...unless I really liked the class..then it didn't feel like I was having to apply myself...

This was apparent in my Algebra 115 fiasco. I took that damn class three times and stopped going each time...then I switched to a major that didn't require it Sad...but I'm so damn math stupid...actually maybe not..had I just TRIED and I dunoo...GONE TO CLASS lol...

This was not without consequence...having that on my transcript dragged down my gpa (though after college no one seems to care about that) and to this day I have a recurring dream theme in which I know I"m missing math class and am panicked when I realize I can't graduated without the class - but that I never went to the class...grrr....

[HomerMcvie]

The reason I got a BA instead of a BS is that BS required two more math classes. F*ck that!!!!

The recurring nightmare....I have that. I once took a Criminal Justice class, that was SOOOOOO easy(filled with football players......I sat behind one who could barely even print any letters[I kid you not]). Anyway, I'd only show up for the tests, so I only went, like 5 days to it. I still have a dream that I didn't finish it, just because I was never there.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

The reason I got a BA instead of a BS is that BS required two more math classes. F*ck that!!!!

I hear that!!! So sad the lengths I went to to avoid Algebra 115...oh and the only class I ever got a "D" in in high school was geometry. I pretty much just freeze when presented with math

I haven't actually had the theme in my dream in a while..now that I've brought it up it'll probably figure prominently in my dreams tonight. Hope not...but glad to know I'm not the only one with school related dreams....and this is more than two years after finishing school...

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I hear that!!! So sad the lengths I went to to avoid Algebra 115...oh and the only class I ever got a "D" in in high school was geometry. I pretty much just freeze when presented with math

I haven't actually had the theme in my dream in a while..now that I've brought it up it'll probably figure prominently in my dreams tonight. Hope not...but glad to know I'm not the only one with school related dreams....and this is more than two years after finishing school...

I'm great at math, UP TO A POINT!
In high school, I dropped Trig, in my senior year. I took it about 3 days, and was getting lost quickly....my best friend's Dad was the teacher, and HE dropped it! If HE could, then I reasoned that I could, too(I'd already been accepted to IU, so f*ck it).