<p>The word quote goes between the brackets, not the symbol ". For purposes of illustration, I’m going to misspell quote so you can see what it should look like.</p>
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<p>I attended “The U” of MN for a bit to get prerequisites for nursing school at Cornell. I had to take college chem and had never taken high school chem because I left high school early. It was an extreme challenge. I literally went every day to the TAs for help. Even in this huge state U there was help for me, but I needed to work at getting it. The prof was available during office hours and I visited him too. I’m sure it was not the height of his professional hopes to help the high school drop-out in his class, but he did it anyway, with good grace. Again, I mostly relied on the TAs because the prof had way too many students to personally bail me out. Before finals, I was ill from anxiety, but I got through them because I had worked hard and gotten help.</p>
<p>Change the quote symbol to the word quote.</p>
<p>Here’s a guide to the formatting codes (BBCode) used by CC: <a href=“http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php[/url]”>http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php</a></p>
<p>Only some work - bold, italic, quote, size. Pretty sure IMG does not. URL does but is automatic when you type a web address beginning with http://.</p>
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<p>Back to the original question…I find it hard to believe you didn’t realize you were struggling in your classes until you got your final grade. Most classes have quizzes, tests and various other assignments during the semester. What kind of grades were you getting on those? For the analytical types of classes, did you not realize you didn’t understand the material until the final? I guess I have a lot more questions then answers.</p>
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<p>Thanks, patsmom and OHMof2!</p>
<p>Wow, that’s kind of fun! :)</p>
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Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Will the official poster give us an update?</p>
<p>Retake another semester. Won’t hurt that much.</p>
<p>Hey,
How accessible is Houston as a Rice student, meaning how often did you go out into the city for food, entertainment, and things like that?</p>
<p>Haha hey this is the wrong CC box. please ignore me :D</p>
<p>My guess is the person who started this thread is long gone. They just joined recently and their only comments are on this one thread.</p>
<p>I’m really sorry about how your first semester at college turned out. Something like that also happened to me last semester. I thought i was doing fine in my algebra class but I failed the term! My mom thinks i’m doing well in school but really i’m barely passing math. I’m so nervous about when she’s gonna find out! I really hope I bring up my grade before the semester is up! I’m sure you’ll be able to do the same if you ask your teachers about any extra-credit you can do.</p>
<p>Houston is generally very accessible to a Rice student since there are Metros for many places. Although, because it’s Houston, some things are kinda spread apart. Just be careful to stay clear of the messy places…</p>
<p>morganv, please go to the teacher for help and talk to your mom asap. You still have time before finals. Good luck!</p>
<p>We just learned today that our S has also flunked out of his first semester. Had one B+ (ironically in ‘college success’ class) and 3 F’s, and one grade still not reported. Total shock, and as he seemed to be totally shocked we were angry that he had apparently not bothered to check his grades through the semester. Did he really care? Did he still want to be in college? Asked him these questions, and told him he needed to come up with a PLAN (actually several) of how he was going to proceed. </p>
<p>He will be put on academic probation according to the school website, but we wonder if it’s going to be useful to send him for another semester. His problem seems to be much the same as many have stated: never learned to study in HS and thought the same approach of going to lectures and doing homework was enough in college. </p>
<p>We don’t know yet what the best thing to do is as a parent. Pay for another semester? Or make him quit and get a job? Ugh.</p>
<p>So sorry to hear that, expat. It is more common than one would realize. Still dont have the answers.</p>
<p>As a mom of a freshman whose daughter was just put on probation for her first semester’s grades, I can sympathize with OP. In her case, we knew the school she had chosen would be challenging, but hoped a light load would be adequate for her first semester. Didn’t count on a faculty member missing six weeks of class with inconsistent substitutes filling in - in the one class where we knew there would be challenges. Luckily for her, first time probation at her school means she has until the end of Summer school 2013 to pull up the gpa. As a mom, I’m as much concerned about her concept that her grades define her as about the grades themselves. We’ve set our kids up to believe everyone is “good” at everything, and the truth is, she simply is NOT good at traditional school-work. This doesn’t mean she’s not good at other things, though. This doesn’t really answer your questions, OP, but it may be a case where you need to figure out what your strengths are and work towards those instead of trying to fit into a program that doesn’t match. I just wish we could see changes in the education system that allowed children to succeed AND fail in order to discover where their strengths lie.</p>
<p>Thanks dowzerw. I’m ‘glad’ to learn it’s more common, just never thought my son would be one of them; he seems determined to take the most difficult path. At the same time as he’s failing, another more prestigious university (that he turned down last year) is sending him scholarship offers to attend there based on his ‘academic excellence’. Amazing irony.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, here is the Marquette policy from their website. Looks like there is a procedure for reinstatement. [url=<a href=“Marquette Central // Marquette University”>Marquette Central // Marquette University]policy_UGacademiccensure[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Very ironic. Hang in there!</p>