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In all likelihood I will not pass Geology. This is a 101 class. How am I not going to pass it?! That's pathetic. I need a C to take Geology 102.

Our university has a "no grading on attendance policy." That I like. What I do not like, however, is teachers who circumvent this policy by threatening to drop unannounced quizzes on us. This is exactly what my professor did, and this is exactly how I lost out on 5% of the grade.

He also had this "knowledge survey." Basically, you were to take this 200-question survey before one of the tests, and then a 200-question survey after the test. The idea was to see how effective his teaching techniques were. I started to complete it one time, and said, "200 questions? Screw this!" Little did I know that this survey was worth 3% of our final grade. This was just ignorance on my part for not reading the syllabus.

Anyway, all-in-all I basically lost out on 8% of the final grade. It sounds pretty mild, but when you consider that I need a 70% or above, that's a pretty devastating blow.

I hate being so apathetic towards school. I hate professors that indirectly force attendance. Learning about rocks is even more boring than it sounds.

I sorta accept responsibility for not passing (or for getting a D, I should say), but then on the other hand I'm delusional and think that I am standing up for my beliefs by not caving in to going to class just because someone is forcing me to. Ah, who am I kidding? I'm just apathetic.

I've been involved with hiring several college students at my current work. If I saw grades like this on a transcript early in their studies, I tended to overlook it if I saw a improvement later. However, if I saw consistency through the four years where grades fluctuated drastically depending on the type of class, that was not good sign in my opinion.

So one bad Geology class isn't going to hurt, a career of them can be deadly. At least that is my opinion.

Rocks are boring, and so are jobs.

Just my $.02.

A friend of mine took geology 101 (also known as "rocks for jocks"), skipped half the classes, and answered the test questions with stuff about Vulcan and his mighty hammer. I think he passed.

I only passed one of my science classes and I got a "B" I got an F in biology lab and a D in biology lecture. Oh, and I got D's and F's in my math classes.

It's weird that Webster accepted me based on those grades...

I think most schools will accept you if you have secured your funds.

I think I can understand your frustration, but seriously, its 3 hours out of your week to attend class. I had some classes which were boring, but showing up and following the lectures usually gave me enough info to get a B...

I actually didn't have a single A in a class outside of my two majors and my minor. , but I only had like one or two Cs. Good thing I really loved my majors and minors, barely made magna [expletive] laude.

My dad used to say: "students are the only consumers who aren't satisfied unless they get less than what they paid for".

docellis wrote:I think most schools will accept you if you have secured your funds.

Depends on the school. Definitely not true with many.

docellis wrote:I think most schools will accept you if you have secured your funds.

Apparently, UNC doesn't agree.

ThatGuy wrote:

docellis wrote:I think most schools will accept you if you have secured your funds.

Apparently, UNC doesn't agree.

Larger colleges do not do it. I don't know about smaller, poorer colleges. In fact, I don't know of any colleges that do that.

thrill wrote:

ThatGuy wrote:

docellis wrote:I think most schools will accept you if you have secured your funds.

Apparently, UNC doesn't agree.

Larger colleges do not do it. I don't know about smaller, poorer colleges. In fact, I don't know of any colleges that do that.

My grades WIDELY varied and no school ever turned me away. Mizzou, Columbia College, SCCC, and more....
(I generally withdrew from a course if I thought the odds were bad though.)