<p>General Chem, Integrated Biology (apparently, the first professor I had for this class structured all tests like the MCAT, structured his lectures as if we were his more difficult Microbiology class when we weren’t, and didn’t seem to understand that this was a lower division course at a community college), and Calculus I.</p>
<p>Organic, without a doubt. B- and a B.</p>
<p>College Algebra and this other math course I took. Got a C in both classes. They were math courses I had to take though and i’m not great at math so I was just happy to get a passing grade. This semester i’m taking courses that i’m pretty confident i’ll get A’s in so I can boost my GPA back up.</p>
<p>any math and science course for me.</p>
<p>My GPA killer was microbiology. At the time, my vision was very poor and I just could not handle it. I got almost a perfect score in lecture, but a D- in lab which averaged to a C for the class. Finally could afford the surgery and so far using the microscope for bio this semester has been a breeze. </p>
<p>As far as the math courses, it really depends a lot on what your high school was like and where your going to college. The community college I’m at now I was actually invited to be a math tutor because I finished trig with an A over the summer. Most people at my local community college will not be able to go beyond college algebra and many won’t even pass that. The head of the department was surprised that I had an A in trig and A’s so far in precalc. Technically, with my SAT score, I should have been able to test out and just go straight to calculus, but, the college I want to transfer to requires 9 credits of math. The highest the community college goes is calc 1, so to earn 9 credits you have to do the lower maths.
The counselors are a joke, all they talk to are failures all day. Go in and they advise you to pursue a vocational program without even looking at your transcript. Our local high schools churn out people who can’t multiply and divide. </p>
<p>Our state schools are full and competitive. But, you have guaranteed entrance to one of them if you’ve already earned your AA at a community college. So, a lot of us get stuck taking a bunch of lower level classes that everyone else gets to test out of. </p>
<p>There’s a big difference too in the leap from everyday math to ‘math you do for the sake of doing math’. My first attempt at algebra in high school I just gave up. Then it hit me out of the blue one day, “quit asking why, just ask how.” Many people bomb algebra because they just haven’t learned how to learn math. So far I have perfect test scores in statistics and precalc this semester. I would’ve failed algebra in high school. So, go figure, some of us are just late bloomers in math.</p>
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Try <1 week to read The Republic in a freshman humanities course and then talk about workload, lol. It’s great for “patience and discipline” because it starts slow and goes downhill after Book VII when he begins making enormous assumptions based on nothing more than speculation (e.g. his idea for the natural progression of political systems in a society). It’s all a failed thought experiment anyways. ;)</p>
<p>Deductive Logic was almost a GPA killer for me. My professor would give us incredibly long schemata and expect us to finish them as homework. I eventually got the hang of it (with a little tutoring), but a 28 step derivation in an introductory symbolic course can be a bit tasking on the mind.</p>
<p>I’m an Engineering major and managed to keep a 3.8ish through all the really hard classes. </p>
<p>However, Linear Algebra freaking killed me. My professor was new and studied all sorts of Linear Algebra theory crap for his PhD. Instead of doing anything computational we listened to him tell us about what they did in his masters classes, and then would test on these ideas. </p>
<p>Some of the math majors got a 4.0, so I guess there is no excuse. I ended up with a 2.9. I also got a 3.0 in Calc based E&M, which is decent but definitely brought down my GPA.</p>
<p>General Chem I. Got a C. It’s a notorious weed out class here, even more so than organic since it’s a prereq. Good thing my major has literally nothing to do with chemistry</p>