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I've missed quit a bit of class and attendance is half the grade. I missed the other night and a quiz and won't be able to re-take it. This course is pass/fail and it's doing something I really have discovered I don't want to do anyway.
The students are brown nosers and do things like bring the instructor coffee and cupcakes and all I do is show up, when I show up. I've done well on the quizzes to date but am hating the class.
I thought I could just email the instructor and ask him point blank what my chances of passing are since we're at the halfway point. What would you do?
I would take responsibility for my own learning. You should know about where your grade will fall based on the standards in the syllabus. If attendance is half of the grade, and you can't be bothered to show up, then you probably have a good idea of where your chances of passing stand.
I'm pretty sure you can't drop out more than 5 or 6 weeks into a semester either so you will get an I or F on your transcript which will look great! Your real question is why you are half assing going to school? If you don't want to go to class, why did you pay for it? There are plenty of people who are trying to get into classes and can't. You are just wasting someone elses opportunity.
I'm pretty sure you can't drop out more than 5 or 6 weeks into a semester either so you will get an I or F on your transcript which will look great! Your real question is why you are half assing going to school? If you don't want to go to class, why did you pay for it? There are plenty of people who are trying to get into classes and can't. You are just wasting someone elses opportunity.
I've had some issues I was hoping were going to improve and they haven't so that's the reason for missing some classes. I paid for it as I felt I had to do something in this unemployed state I am in, I thought I would like it, didn't realize how much math would be involved and now know I am not well suited to it. I wanted to drop out after the first night but the school said no. If I even opened the textbooks I was going to get charged the full amount, so I gave it a go.
In my last course of study I always went to class and finished with a 4.0 GPA, graduated with high distinction. That was then, this is now. This isn't my typical MO, believe me. I do have a couple of other degrees from universities and this is just at the community college level.
Ok well, it sounds like whatever degree you are trying to get now is going to be alot harder to get than your expected. I highly suggest looking into if you really want to continue with this path. I mean, if you are at a community college having trouble with the math classes...most degrees have at least 1 more math class at the Uni level.
One thing about math classes, most math teachers are awful. I mean, you can not expect to get a good math teacher. I think that is one major reason why the US as a whole sucks at math.
Yes, I would just drop out since you already have a university degree.
Just chalk it up as a mistake.
Thanks, should I at least bother to send the instructor an email and inquire as to what my chances are? I am not normally a quitter. It's just that my brain doesn't do math well (at all) and I'm far behind. I sit down to do the problems and get almost every one wrong. I do well on tests when it's just information, but forget math. I don't know how I ever made it through calculus, but it did take me three tries to do so.
I could always just level with him and tell him I am having a problem with the math, ask him if I would really be expected to do that much math on the job and see what he says. When I emailed him the other day to tell him I would not be coming to class he didn't even respond to my email. He is one of those types of people. This is why I just don't know what to do.
Ok well, it sounds like whatever degree you are trying to get now is going to be alot harder to get than your expected. I highly suggest looking into if you really want to continue with this path. I mean, if you are at a community college having trouble with the math classes...most degrees have at least 1 more math class at the Uni level.
One thing about math classes, most math teachers are awful. I mean, you can not expect to get a good math teacher. I think that is one major reason why the US as a whole sucks at math.
This is a little embarrassing, but I already have a master's degree in business so I've done the math. But it was years ago and I am not into going through all that brain crap again. All I wanted was to go get something fast and quick and get a job! Thanks.
IDK man, most math teachers are complete A-holes. He'll probably say "you should have told me this in the beginning...its probably too late now". Or he will give you some optional books or suggest a learning center at school.
But my man, you know what he is going to say if you have a degree already.
IDK man, most math teachers are complete A-holes. He'll probably say "you should have told me this in the beginning...its probably too late now". Or he will give you some optional books or suggest a learning center at school.
But my man, you know what he is going to say if you have a degree already.
I'm not going to tell him I have a degree already. I at least think, in the interest of not being a quitter, I could attempt to have a dialogue with him (or email). He does strike me as not real friendly and he's actually a pharmacist by trade. I am not used to dealing with personality types like his. Half of me just wants to quit quietly and the other half of me says just ask him point blank what my chances are. Maybe if I really, really force myself I can catch up on the math. I just don't know how to deal with his lack of response to my email. I signed up for this course in part to see if my brain still works, and it does for certain things, but math has always been an issue for me. My master's concentration was marketing. I can do stats just fine, but not this solving for unknown sort of stuff.
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