<p>..and I have a massive physics assignment due tomorrow that I didn't start yet. Make me feel better.</p>
<p>rip it up into shreds and/or burn it</p>
<p>if it makes you feel a bit better, I didn’t do so well on my chemical dynamics midterm
and i’m a chem major =/
i did ace orgo and physics, though
and some bimbo in the class got a 13%, at least you didn’t do that poorly, right? 
there’s always the people who completely suck to make us feel better. </p>
<p>think about all the fun you’re gonna have this weekend, or next weekend (halloween’s coming up!)</p>
<p>Somebody in my econ class got a -3% before the curve last semester (7% after the curve). My teacher graded SAT style where you got points off for wrong answers.</p>
<p>3 exams next week all in a row
research paper due on tuesday which I have not started nor thought about
practically everyone in my hall is sick so it’s only a matter of time before I catch it</p>
<p>I’m sure I can come up with a longer list of stuff to whine about…I’m exceedingly proficient at that :p.</p>
<p>Attempt to make you feel better: One down, one to go…
Feel better?</p>
<p>I got a 99 on my english midterm. : )</p>
<p>Oh…guess that doesn’t help. xD</p>
<p>Well I have a test next week, three papers due next week, 4 books (entire books) to read this weekend and one hundred vocab words to learn.</p>
<p>Check the grade distribution. If everybody else bombed too, you may end up with a decently curved grade :)</p>
<p>Do you want to feel better or do better? Its an important question that you should be asking yourself. </p>
<p>A lot of bright kids come to college never having learned how to study well; being in the top 5% (or 1%) of their HS the classwork was not too difficult for them. Come to college, everyone else around you is smart too and the expectations step up a few notches. What you have gotten is a wake-up call. Keep doing the same things and odds are good you’ll get the same results. On the other hand if you spend some time looking into what you could do better then you can turn things around and be writing posts “just aced my chem midterm”. I really believe most people have the capacity to do well in math and science classes provided they study enough and study effectively. If you were to talk to enough of your profs or people working in careers in science you’d find out that a good number of them actually had a slow start, but decided they were going to do what it took to succeed.</p>
<p>@ag54 Oh believe me the grade distribution is horrid. I would say well over half the class failed. The Prof I have, this is her first year and she’s just on a mission for some reason. Our mid-term was twice as long and covered an extra chapter compared to the other section. Over 80 percent of her Organic class failed their midterm. Also I’m pretty sure she doesn’t grade on a curve so that’s pretty sweet considering even with my suave performance I’m probably still in the top 10-15% of the class.</p>
<p>I got a 42/100, and the average was 72. Stupid pchem class. This should make you feel better.</p>
<p>Once in my precalc class someone got a 2. out of 100.</p>
<p>One of my classmates got a -3 on a French test once, years ago. 7/100 and then -10 for talking.</p>
<p>Ouch that blows</p>
<p>Instead of looking at it as so and so people did better, look at it that so and so people did worse. Understand that you are not the absolute worst, stick it through, learn from you mistakes, and try harder. Tons of people fail, but it takes a true genius to say “I was wrong, lets do it better” - thats why you go to college, not to get As, but to learn. Its a lesson that has been adulterated too much in this age. </p>
<p>I feel your pain though, I struggle with Chem too, but I know that I can try harder and do better if I learn from what I did wrong. Freshman year is your first year and experimental year, not too many people expect much from you - especially first semester.</p>
<p>if its her first time teaching things like this can happen. Its happened to me before where the class average is really low and then they bump everyone up. For example, just last week everyone got a 25% bonus in one of the midterms!</p>
<p>It was the prof’s first time teaching and the test was too long. So i wouldn’t worry too much about it. The school should have a policy where the class avg is around a B and if its not they will curve it so it is. The is especially true for new and inexperienced profs so don’t worry too much.</p>
<p>Why don’t you talk to a girl…maybe that will help.</p>
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<p>You go to U of Alberta; every intro science course is curved, including chem 101 or whatever you’re taking. I really doubt the exam was as hard as you’re saying. Everyone complains about exam difficulty in 1st year and then they get to 3rd/4th year and realize how easy the exams really were.</p>
<p>Failing in University and failing in high school are two different things. Getting below a 50 in University isn’t necessarily a fail.</p>
<p>It’s okay, I totally blew at Chemistry too. For whatever reason, I can understand the fundamentals of calc 3, thermodynamics, magnetism, etc etc etc but I can’t for the life of me figure out ANYTHING within the Chemistry spectrum. I guess it just doesn’t mesh well with some people’s brains.</p>
<p>I had to take both chem 1 and chem 2 for my major (civil engineering) and I got a C in both chem 1 (first C of my entire life) and chem 2. For the chem 1 final I took adderall (sp?) and studied for about 15 hours and STILL failed it. For my chem 2 final I figured it’d make absolutely no difference whether I studied or not, so I went out the night before and took my final hungover and got a 45% on it, making my average in the class .5% above passing. </p>
<p>So yea, Chemistry pretty much killed my gpa, I’d have nearly a 4.0 if it weren’t for those 2 wretched semesters, but I still have a 3.5 so whatever. </p>
<p>End mini rant.</p>
<p>"Why don’t you talk to a girl…maybe that will help. "</p>
<p>I don’t understand</p>
<p>^ I think thermo is referring to your contention that getting laid improves your grades.</p>
<p>(You didn’t think I’d forget, did you?)</p>