Poll: Have you ever failed a college class?

[jhayx7]

Between my weak math skills, getting married, taking honeymoon, moving out of our aparment and having to put stuff in storage for 2 weeks, closing on our new place this past Monday, moving everyting back into our new place from the storage unit, catching up on projects at work because of honeymoon (many late nights at the office), I am about to fail my first class ever.. I bombed my last test, maybe made a 20 on it (yes out of 100). I had a C+ or B- in the class but now it is hopeless. I feel like a total dumbass.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I work full time and go to school part time.

 

[Ryan]

I have - but then again, there was a point where I just gave up on caring. I failed 3 classes, and decided last summer that I wouldn't let it happen again, and am passing the classes I'm taking now.

 

[pennylane]

Any particular reason you decided to get married in the middle of the semester/quarter? Just wondering.

The only reason you should fail is if you didn't devote enough time to the thing. Don't think your dumb. Sometimes you just stretch yourself out too far.

BTW I've never failed a college class before (knock on wood). Then again I'm some asian kid who's been taught that failing is worse than death.

 

[Platypus]

Yeah I failed a course in college... you just gotta suck it up and get back on the horse, don't feel like a dumbass unless you're just not trying.

 

[txrandom]

After last nights Calculus II test..probably.

 

[jhayx7]

Originally posted by: fanerman91
Any particular reason you decided to get married in the middle of the semester/quarter?

BTW I've never failed a college class before (knock on wood). Then again I'm some asian kid who's been taught that failing is worse than death.

Hehe lemme guess, you are not married eh? The guy does not decide when to get married

 

[CollectiveUnconscious]

No. I've always loved school...I'm just weird like that.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: fanerman91
Any particular reason you decided to get married in the middle of the semester/quarter?

BTW I've never failed a college class before (knock on wood). Then again I'm some asian kid who's been taught that failing is worse than death.

Hehe lemme guess, you are not married eh? The guy does not decide when to get married

Nope. What is teh female? I've only heard about them in books . Sadly, that's not far from the truth.

 

[DaShen]

I passed out before a final and woke up with the professor telling me I had to take the test. I was so delirious, I couldn't even read the questions.
I also passed out and slept through another final. I was in tears about it. I had always gotten away with doing things half-assed before, but failing was a big wake up call for me.

 

[NinjaGnome]

I absolutely bombed a calc test this semester too, I dont even know what happened because I knew the material well but felt like a retard when taking the test. I got a high b on my last test and if I get another then I will have a C in the class. I will just have to make sure that doesnt happen again next semester.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Originally posted by: jhayx7
Hehe lemme guess, you are not married eh? The guy does not decide when to get married

I am, and I made it very clear that I would not have a wedding while I was at school. In fact, I held off on the engagement until after.

You have a say in everything you want to have a say in. Don't let your wife (or anyone else, for that matter) make life changing decisions for you.

Oh, and for the record, I got a D once, but that was in Music Theory when I was still deluding myself that I would tack on a music minor to my CompE degree.

 

[Gagabiji]

Wohoo! Got the first, "Wuts kolage?" vote!

 

[vi edit]

I had a 1.9 one semester. That wasn't fun. Lost $5000 in scholarships among some other privledges. I didn't fail with an "F", but I had several D-'s that were in my major and I needed "C"'s to be passing.

I was clinically depressed for about 8 months and managed to get out of it and finished up with two more semesters of 3.5's or better.

 

[iamwiz82]

I came close once or twice, but never failed a class. It was usually professor related, though. I got a 70 in Calc 1 (min. passing is 70) but scored mid 90s in calc 2 and 3. :roll:

 

[SirChadwick]

I got a D in World History and a D in Database Mgmt

I only retook Database Mgmt and got a C.

History I could care less about... just hurt my GPA a tad.

 

[razor2025]

Oh yeah.. I'm in same boat. It wasn't lacking in time though. I just lost motivation completely and slacked off alot. I haven't had a looong vacation (i.e. summer break) ever since the start of school, so I think I'm just out of motivation juice. Maybe failing my Combinatorics will give me the wakeup call and motivation juice to help me out in Summer semester classes (after my Spring semester Co-Op). The only "positive" thing is that, despite losing my HOPE scholarship after this failure, I will only have to pay for 1 class in Spring (taking with my Co-Op) and Summer classes, before a chance to get it back, so financially it's not as bad hit.

Anyone thinks having the Summer off from classes and internship is a needed break?

 

[Avalon]

Yes, I failed one class (F) and didn't pass another (D+). The class I failed in was during my sophomore year while I was pursuing my B.S. degree in IT. It was an Object Oriented programming course in Java, which up to that point I had only done C, so it was a big change.

Of course, it didn't help that the professor was an ass who told the class he was going to make everyone fail, and then he'd give these ridiculous assignments that are to this day still massively more complex than my upper level programming assignments I'm getting now in my senior year. If you asked him a question, he either wouldn't respond or he'd give you an answer that had nothing to do with your question. His lectures consisted of slurring in a barely audible tone over powerpoint slides that were horribly put together demonstrating code that never compiled.

So yeah...I failed that one.

The other class I got the D+ in was Computer Sciene 1, where we had an Indian professor that could not speak english. As with the first teacher, his notes and powerpoints were awful and none of his code compiled so you couldn't work with the material he was trying to teach. At least this guy was nice. I would have passed if I hadn't bombed the final, which BTW had nothing to do with the review the professor gave us.

Other than that...I've got a 3.2 GPA, so I'm not doing too horrible, and I'm set to graduate very shortly.

 

[Childs]

Never failed a class, but have withdrew from quite a few, even as late as a week from finals.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: Childs
Never failed a class, but have withdrew from quite a few, even as late as a week from finals.

What school let you withdraw so late?

 

[Brentx]

I'm about to fail one of my Econ classes. When I was driving to school one day my car had a flat tire on the freeway. It took about 30mins to change the tire and for someone to let me in with the fricken traffic on the freeways at that time in the morning.

I had emailed my professor about it, and he must of thought I was lying cause he was kinda of an ass hole about it.

Needless to say, I couldn't take the exam, which is 1/3 of our grade. You need a 70% to pass. I got a 0. Which means if I got 100's on the other two exams I could get a max of 66% for the class. And all of this happened 2 days after we could drop the class deadline.

What crap.. so is life I guess.

Live and learn.

 

[goatjc]

You should get used to withdrawing. In my liberal arts classes, I could drop a week before the final. Not all schools are like that, but withdrawing saved me twice from classes that could hurt my meager gpa.

 

[Gravity]

Can't get a C in grad school or I go on probation. Came close to a few Statistics Test C's but the overall grade should be a b or so.

Try to get focused if you can, if the wife is distracting, take a semester off, train her in the way she should go, and then resume life as normal.

Best,

Gravity

 

[jhayx7]

Originally posted by: Strk

Originally posted by: Childs
Never failed a class, but have withdrew from quite a few, even as late as a week from finals.

What school let you withdraw so late?

Some professors will let you withdraw up to the last min. I had a great math teacher once, she let the students (who were trying but just couldn't get it) take the final, she would add up their score and if they did not pass, would give them a W.

 

[mchammer187]

at my school they let you change to Audit/Listener status up to the last minute

which means you are supposed to show up but its for no credit/grade

we could also withdraw up to 8 weeks into the class i think

 

[WhiteKnight]

Yep, I failed Calc III the first time I took it as a college frosh. I had a hell of a time adjusting to college and a lot of my classwork suffered accordingly.