<p>college writing...the system in place at my college makes it basically impossible to get an A, while a whole bunch of people get C's</p>
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i was almost certain that Calculus II was going to kill my GPA...
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<p>haha, I know it's gonna kill my GPA cause I know what my grades are relatively...</p>
<p>It's kinda sad, we have like 11 quizzes, lowest is dropped</p>
<p>so far</p>
<p>11.5/12, 5.5/12, and 6.5/12</p>
<p>the reason she gave me a low score on the last two? Too many arrows on one (3 arrows, I counted afterwards lol) and my explinantion of curves wasn't good enough... (eh that's understandable I guess)</p>
<p>Now I have a test tomorrow @ 6:00 PM, so I've been studying since 2 PM today. weee... : (</p>
<p>Biology is hard for me. Calculus 2 i got a A in without going to more than 3 class discussions, and chemistry i got an A in both gen chem 1 and 2. But yep, i hear organic chemistry is the devil!!! </p>
<p>I also heard that human anatomy at the university of utah is deadly.</p>
<p>It is not the class to me so much as the teachers. The closest I came to getting a C was last quarter due to a over the top physics teacher. I just ended up dropping the class. I am retaking it right now and owned the first midterm.</p>
<p>Linguistics for me. A completely foreign subject for a little freshman!</p>
<p>Phobos--I hear you on the Stewart textbooks. I don't know of anyone who likes them except math profs, and they don't care because they know the material in the first place.</p>
<p>I could be taking calculus but I don't want to deal with the pace they take it at. I prefer slower paced instruction in math so that I can understand it--I like math and always have.</p>
<p>As for the Ethics course I dropped--the former classmates I have talked to since I dropped (three total) are all considering the same. Their first test is Friday and one of them will be keeping me posted on the grades.</p>
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haha, I know it's gonna kill my GPA cause I know what my grades are relatively...
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oh trust me, i knew enough about my grades to be scared haha. i got a 57 on my first midterm. the curve was ridiculous though, with a C- at 25. that still didn't mean that much to me, because i still didn't know what letter grade i got, what the outliers were, etc. my second midterm looked better at 73, but because all the problems were off of old final exams, people spent hours going over the last ten semesters' final exams, and quite a few people nearly aced the test.</p>
<p>what saved me though was getting one of the highest grades on a computer project that constituted 15% of the final grade, and then studying my ass off for the final and getting one of the highest grades on the final out of two lecture periods. it also didn't hurt that i did all of my homework.</p>
<p>orgo I is not so bad. If that's the hardest class you take you need to seriously consider changing majors.</p>
<p>oh man, that'd be great if my previous exams were posted...</p>
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Stewart textbooks. I don't know of anyone who likes them except math profs
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<p><em>looks at book</em></p>
<p>****...</p>
<p>What I'm doing is going first off of the homework that she assigned from this textbook, and going into this Larson, Hostetler, Edwards; Calculus book from my high school's AP class, which I think is superior to this one...</p>
<p>Then going online and doing problem sets for the next 15 hours should prepare me...</p>
<p>mine was a philosophy class. i just dont think that way!</p>
<p>haha yup, studying all of that does nothing</p>
<p>Give me a problem, I can do it</p>
<p>Give me proofs, and I will fail!</p>
<p>I think any math class will kill my GPA.</p>
<p>It's called Canadian grade deflation. Just like the cold, it's impossible to escape here. </p>
<p>I juz wanna 3.3-3.4 when I graduate.</p>
<p>my stupid spanish class where the teacher couldn't teach.</p>
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What I'm doing is going first off of the homework that she assigned from this textbook, and going into this Larson, Hostetler, Edwards; Calculus book from my high school's AP class, which I think is superior to this one...
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oh, i loved that book. you could actually understand problems and concepts by reading the book, and the problems were much more reasonable and definitely more educational. hard problems are fine...but some of the ones in Stewart seem to be obscene exercises in algebraic simplification.</p>
<p>though i will say that once you get into the Calc III portion of the book, the explanations get much better. at least chapters 13 and 14 were pretty good. the actual multivariable portion remains to be seen...</p>
<p>Physics 2. Maybe it wouldn't, but I don't study before the day of the exam.</p>
<p>Applied Econometrics II. This is the biggest obstacle between me and a BSc.</p>
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orgo I is not so bad. If that's the hardest class you take you need to seriously consider changing majors.
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<p>Nobody mentioned anything about majors.</p>
<p>Whatever science I have to take to fulfill my gen ed requirements.</p>
<p>I say whatever class I HAVE TO TAKE because I'm literally not going to take a single science class beyond what is required of me.</p>
<p>Calculus I.</p>
<p>I have no idea how people manage to understand this stuff in 8th grade.</p>