Fave you ever failed a post secondary course?

[Stuxnet]

That was a big deal for me.
Yay, I can determine the volume of a curve rotated about an axis, bounded by zero and infinity on the ends.
I can also make squeaky farting noises by rubbing the side of my jaw against the skin over my clavicle.
Awesome.

You can? 😛

 

[child of wonder]

Failed tons of classes the first time I went to college. Too busy drinking, partying, and sleeping.

When I went back years later I failed one because of the technical college's stupid attendance policy. Had my father in law die, baby born, and severe illness hit all in one semester.

 

[rh71]

College whipped my ass into shape (mostly because I was paying for it). Graduated high school with a B average. Graduated college (mathematics) Summa Cum Laude.

Moral of the story? Make kids pay for their high school education.

I agree with this - it may also make them care about the little details... like proofreading what they write. 😉

 

[Stuxnet]

I failed economics in college... I honestly couldn't care less about it - it puts me to sleep. I also failed calc my freshman year because I never took pre-calc in HS... wtf was going on I had no idea.

Ironic that I just put in my 2c in that mortgage vs. investment thread.

I will just say that books / school is not for me.

I absolutely loved economics, but then again I also loved math, and economics attempts to quantify human behavior, so I thought that was cool.

 

[edro]

Probably your teacher's fault if you "just don't get it." Watch the first 10 minutes of calculus in 20 minutes (youtube) - that's the nuts and bolts of what you need to understand.

Right.

I have watched numerous online videos that would have been immensely useful when I was in school.
Instead, I crammed for the tests using examples the teacher/prof used and never really understood it that well.

Years later, a simple video made it so much simpler.

Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_picture_(animation)/January_20,_2007
can make mathematics so much easier to grasp.

 

[CraigRT]

Total underachiever in high school. Failed my fair share. I hated those years and other than my social times with good friends would never in a million years want to go back.

 

[dfuze]

Nope, lowest grade was a B+, but that might have been because I did my college later in life rather than right out of highschool, so I was very motivated to do well.

 

[D1gger]

No, I did not fail any post secondary courses, but I came damn near in 1st year university. I took a matrix algebra course from a professor who barely spoke english. I had breezed through every other mathematics/algebra course I had ever taken, but somehow I couldn't grasp the concepts of this topic. I blame much of it on not understanding the professor.

The day before the final exam, with a current course grade of about 53% I went to the library and photocopied the final exam for this course for the previous five years. Studied them all night and ended up with a final grade of 65%. Most stress ever in school.