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Ever failed a class?

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I was somehow signed up for English 101 on the running start program while in highschool when it wasn't class I ever filled out any paperwork for. Anyway, the college put me in it without my signature on anything and I didn't know until two years later when a counselor pointed out that I had had "academic problems." (Got a 0.0 in the class... cuz I never showed up.) So we figure out the mess and I ask what I can do to get it off my record. Well, I need a letter from the teacher who taught the class certifying that I wasn't there. Okay, what's his address? Oh, we don't know; he moved out of state. Yeesh. So I basically have this thing dragging down my GPA and it's impossible to get rid of. Stupid bureacracy.
 
F first semester of HS Spanish I freshman year

Couldn't learn when the teacher disappeared half way through the semester and all he talked about was his "best friend" Sammy Sosa.... then passed the 2nd half with 90 to earn both credits. Foreign language should be optional :disgust:
 
I am a member of both the "Buckshot Club" (0.0) and the "Square Root Club" (0.###) in college. Both of those quarters were when I was searching for my identity in the bottom of a liquor bottle.
 
high school: gym (3 times, spread across 4 years... never failed for the year, though, just for random marking periods). I technically didn't fail French 3, but I should have. I had a personal relationship (family friend) with my French teacher, and she padded my grade enough for me to just barely avoid summer school. I knew that she did it, because there was no way in hell that I'd have been able to pull my grade up that high. She told me straight out just how badly I failed and how much she pumped my grade up after graduation. My grade would have been in the high 30's. She bumped it up to a 75, which was the minimum passing grade in high school.

no failures in college, but I did charm my way out of a few D's.
 
Yes I did. It cost me dearly as it took me 3 years to get my Associates Degree at my community college. A lesson was learned though (I learned you had to ACTUALLY READ THE TEXT BOOKS and DO YOUR ASSIGNMENTS to succeed in college. I couldn't be lazy and coast though like high school!) I learned from my mistakes, got motivated, and went on to graduate with high honors at another college for my Bachelors degree.

IMHO failure can be good for a person. How someone deals with failure reveals *MUCH* about their character. If used in a positve manner (constructively to learn not to repeat the modus that CAUSED the failure) it can make you a better person.
 
In college its better to withdraw than fail. In the classes I never went to I would withdraw if the midterm and final didn't outweigh the other coursework.
 
High school, no way. It's not possible unless you don't show up and don't do any work at all. College, you can do the work, show up for lecture, and still fail easy.
 
i failed calculus in college

the first 2 times i took it , i withdrew to avoid the F , then the last time i stayed in the class i failed

my math brain peaked at trigonometry
 
Nope. The lowest grade I have gotten so far has been a B. I'm starting to slack off now...........nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
 
Originally posted by: rh71
failed global studies regents in HS and also failed Economics in college. I really didn't care about either and never bothered...
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how did you graduate without passing it? you can't graduate without it last year when i graduated.
 
I THOROUGHLY enjoyed my first semester in college to the tune of an Animal House-esque 0.6 GPA that semester. 😱 After that wakeup call (and the one issued from my parents) my grades bounced back and I was able to recover to a more healthy 3.25 by the time I graduated.

My grades have never been indicative of my intelligence though. I was a lazy realist in college and realized early on that about 40% of the effort would get me ~85% of the return on my grades that busting my butt would so I chose the path that gave me the maximum ROI and had a lot more free time. My future wife took the alternate path and graduated with honors thanks to her hard work. However, if I had to do it over again I'd probably still do the same thing as it didn't really end up affecting my getting into grad school or finding work once I graduated and I was able to have a lot more time to have fun while in college. I'll never admit that to my future kids though. 😉
 
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