I got a B :(

[Dumac]

You're upset about getting a B? Seriously?

Not that upset. It just sucks because it is a major course, and I like my major GPA to be high.

 

[Pantlegz]

I'm happy to have one B this semester, not that I've tried at all. But grades don't matter to me I've got the job I'm going to have when I graduate(with more pay) doesn't matter what grades I get and if I decide I hate this place and want to leave I'll have 2 years of full time work experience 🙂 YAY ME. Now go back to over achieving, nobody cares.

 

[Carmen813]

Well, towards the end of the semester (and this is totally my fault) I became so bored with the material that I stopped going to lectures. I would estimate I went to about only half the lectures towards the end, and when I did go, I wasn't even really paying attention. I just always thought or more productive things I could be doing with my time, like homework or a meeting (not sleeping!).

I figured that I'd just do the homework and readings on my own time. The material was so pathetically easy anyway. Homeworks only took 30 minutes to an hour, and none of the concepts in the reading too more than a first glance.

But it turned out on the final that he asked a lot of stuff that wasn't on the homeworks or in the readings...stuff he just mentioned in class. And it wasn't the type of stuff you could BS or figure out from concepts you already know. There were questions like "What is blahblahblah's theorem (mentioned in class)" or "What was that proof I did in class"

I didn't do THAT terrible (90/115 is ~ 78%) but that was enough to bring my grade down.

Again, my fault, I know, but I just wanted to share 😛

Lots of students make that mistake, just learn from it. No one will care if you got a B in discrete mathematics when you are looking for a job...and if they do, apply elsewhere 🙂

 

[tatteredpotato]

I've never been one to dwell on grades... I learn what I find interesting and some of the other stuff not so much. Obsessing over a GPA is what I consider to be "missing the point" when it comes to school.

 

[joesmoke]

The funny thing is, the professor thinks the material is hot shit that is so deep and complex, but it is such simple stuff that I think kids in junior high could do it.

Discrete Mathematics

who says college doesnt build character?

 

[Dumac]

Now go back to over achieving, nobody cares.

so bitter 😉

 

[AMDZen]

so bitter 😉

College is for drugs and sex with multiple girls at a time. Not crying about getting a "B"

Did you really expect people to be sympathetic to your plight?

 

[Dumac]

who says college doesnt build character?

I'm not even joking.

The professor was probably just a bad teacher, but the concepts were so simple that I could have easily done them in junior high.

Sets? Graphs? Trees? First order logic? Basic state machines?

That stuff is all so easy.

 

[Stuxnet]

This is quite common. I graduated with a core GPA of 3.8x in mathematics, but my overall GPA was 3.6. I had a B here and there in some of the most ridiculous courses there are.

It's difficult to engage yourself in a uninteresting courses and courses that require little effort.

 

[AMDZen]

I'm not even joking.

The professor was probably just a bad teacher, but the concepts were so simple that I could have easily done them in junior high.

Sets? Graphs? Trees? First order logic? Basic state machines?

That stuff is all so easy.

Like your mom

 

[Dumac]

College is for drugs and sex with multiple girls at a time. Not crying about getting a "B"

Did you really expect people to be sympathetic to your plight?

nope.jpg 😛

that is why I put

P.S. Yes, I know, grades don't matter blah blah

 

[Matthiasa]

Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Well then get use to it.
By the time you graduate getting B's will most likely put you in the top few percent of the class unless there are major curves.

 

[Carmen813]

I'm not even joking.

The professor was probably just a bad teacher, but the concepts were so simple that I could have easily done them in junior high.

Sets? Graphs? Trees? First order logic? Basic state machines?

That stuff is all so easy.

At this point I could probably right a dissertation about how students cope when they receive a grade they don't like. Perhaps there was a broader point to him requiring you to attend class in order to get an A. Don't miss the forest due to all the trees 🙂

 

[Dumac]

Like your mom

Do you feel less inadequate now? 😉

 

[jingramm]

where do you go to school?

is it a 4 year university?

 

[litttlechica]

My mom the valedictorian made me an all A student and I freaked out about GPA etc... even though I still would've freaked out about C's.. by the end of college (electrical engineering) I learned that attitude ruined high school & part of college for me and that life is much funner if you kick back and take classes as they come. Do well for a good GPA but being too anal about GPA sucks. It's all about learning the professors and what you can get away with to still do well. Life is much more worth it if you skipped some classes or just plain didn't stress out and still pulled off a B 😉

 

[Dumac]

At this point I could probably right a dissertation about how students cope when they receive a grade they don't like. Perhaps there was a broader point to him requiring you to attend class in order to get an A. Don't miss the forest due to all the trees 🙂

Yeah, probably, but my dislike for the professor and the course caused me to overlook that possibility.

I should have just been like my friend, who has only missed 2 college classes so far. It is as if he wants the best-attendance award, like elementary school.

 

[joesmoke]

I'm not even joking.

The professor was probably just a bad teacher, but the concepts were so simple that I could have easily done them in junior high.

Sets? Graphs? Trees? First order logic? Basic state machines?

That stuff is all so easy.

in the world college is preparing you for it doesnt matter if something is easy, or beneath you, only that it gets done. you didnt get the desired result because you only did what you felt like doing, not what needed to be done. apparently the class had at least one lesson of worth, even for someone of your intelect.

 

[Dumac]

where do you go to school?

is it a 4 year university?

Yes, top 10 Eng school.

 

[Dumac]

Well then get use to it.
By the time you graduate getting B's will most likely put you in the top few percent of the class unless there are major curves.

Yeah, my real classes usually have pretty heavy curves and require my attention. I also don't skip those classes.

By the way, I will be second semester junior next semester. Maybe this course wouldn't seem so silly if it was required freshman year or something. By now, I've already taken some tough courses.

 

[Dumac]

in the world college is preparing you for it doesnt matter if something is easy, or beneath you, only that it gets done. you didnt get the desired result because you only did what you felt like doing, not what needed to be done. apparently the class had at least one lesson of worth, even for someone of your intelect.

point taken

 

[tatteredpotato]

Also OP please tell me you aren't one of those people who broadcasts their GPA via facebook status... Those people are such tools.

I remember seeing this one earlier this week:

"__insert_name__ has successfully maintained a 4.0 through both her undergraduate and graduate degrees!"

 

[Dumac]

Also OP please tell me you aren't one of those people who broadcasts their GPA via facebook status... Those people are such tools.

I remember seeing this one earlier this week:

"__insert_name__ has successfully maintained a 4.0 through both her undergraduate and graduate degrees!"

No, only my SO, parents, best friends who ask, and possible employers know my GPA....

People do that?

4.0? What major was that? 😛

 

[Dumac]

I know it stings, but don't break out in hives just because you're now a 'B' keeper.

Nice pun

 

[Carmen813]

Yeah, probably, but my dislike for the professor and the course caused me to overlook that possibility.

I should have just been like my friend, who has only missed 2 college classes so far. It is as if he wants the best-attendance award, like elementary school.

Like I said it's normal, most students make the same error that you did when they believe the material is easy. Receiving a "B" is nothing to be ashamed of, but it's okay to feel disappointed when you do. The grade isn't really important long term, how you respond to it is. Perhaps when if you feel that way in the future you will now will have the awareness to remind yourself not to assume you know more than you do.

I wonder if you go to RIT, since it sounds like you expected an A in the course and one bad grade dropped you to a B. That's an experience I had there (okay, from B's to C's...)