Oh wow, so many replies >.< Thanks!! I'm still on campus and working on stuff atm but I'll edit in my responses here later. The entry/OP is absolutely horrendous because I felt like shit (still do, the math midterm owned me ofc...there was one problem where I miraculously arrived at a solution somehow, but I said area of triangle = bh instead of half that, so even if if my method was right, I fucked up lol) and I was mostly just letting it all out. I'll reply properly to all y'all later.

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Also 1 star again T.T honestly it doesn't matter at all but it still feels bad haha. Maybe the so-call "one-star ninjas" just do it to everyone, maybe they have certain people they dislike, who knows. Maybe the feeling of the act in itself is enough, maybe it's seeing responses like these that get them their kicks. Whatever's the case, nooo D:

MountainDewJunkie

United States10341 Posts

October 29 2013 21:50 GMT

#22

Like I've been telling ya for months, I've dropped tons of classes to both cut my losses and salvage my jee pee ayy, but more importantly protect my sanity and drive. Think of these things as not failures, but simply delayed successes.

esla_sol

United States756 Posts

October 29 2013 21:54 GMT

#23

save your gpa (for reals).

drop drop drop. not worth taking low grades. will really hurt you if you decide to pursue grad school later on. i learned this the hard way.

farvacola

United States18828 Posts

October 29 2013 22:05 GMT

#24

You have more of a mind for the humanities anyway

MysteryMeat1

United States3292 Posts

October 29 2013 22:33 GMT

#25

On October 30 2013 06:50 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Like I've been telling ya for months, I've dropped tons of classes to both cut my losses and salvage my jee pee ayy, but more importantly protect my sanity and drive. Think of these things as not failures, but simply delayed successes.

Its too late for us now... well technically not.

Kingsky

Singapore298 Posts

October 29 2013 23:00 GMT

#26

how old are you? i think if you fall what matters most is you get up and learn from it

MountainDewJunkie

United States10341 Posts

October 29 2013 23:13 GMT

#27

On October 30 2013 07:05 farvacola wrote:
You have more of a mind for the humanities anyway

Jesus Christ, farva. Why not just suggest he gets a General Studies degree while he lays here bleeding on the floor?

farvacola

United States18828 Posts

October 30 2013 00:00 GMT

#28

Because that's not the same thing at all.

MountainDewJunkie

United States10341 Posts

October 30 2013 01:23 GMT

#29

On October 30 2013 09:00 farvacola wrote:
Because that's not the same thing at all.

Yes I know... One is called Humanities, the other general studies... shall I explain the yoke?

farvacola

United States18828 Posts

October 30 2013 03:08 GMT

#30

This is Aerisky's blog afterall.

AiurZ

United States429 Posts

October 30 2013 03:36 GMT

#31

failure is important

every day u just need to get up and go hard

every time you fail u just have to get up and go harder

anytime i start feeling down i clap my hands and shout and i start jumping and yelping. i look at clouds in the sky and i appreciate them and i breathe the air and i appreciate it.

do you know what phase of the moon it is?

go look at the moon and appreciate it and cheer wildly for it and then go hard.

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

October 30 2013 06:22 GMT

#32

On October 30 2013 12:36 AiurZ wrote:
failure is important

every day u just need to get up and go hard

every time you fail u just have to get up and go harder

anytime i start feeling down i clap my hands and shout and i start jumping and yelping. i look at clouds in the sky and i appreciate them and i breathe the air and i appreciate it.

do you know what phase of the moon it is?

go look at the moon and appreciate it and cheer wildly for it and then go hard.

This makes you sound really deranged.

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

October 30 2013 06:34 GMT

#33

On October 30 2013 15:22 packrat386 wrote:

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This makes you sound really deranged.

He's a poet, he's paid to be high.

blinkingangels

105 Posts

October 30 2013 07:34 GMT

#34

Everyone has trouble with math sometime along their educational career. It you've made it to multivar without much difficulty already, then you've already done pretty well for yourself. When you do hit that point where you're having difficulties, it's important not to give up, but to work harder. Identify your weaknesses and then work your ass off on them to get better. I know cs is very much related to discrete math, and the same thing applies there. It's incredibly easy to make excuses, and incredibly difficult to take action to work harder, but it will always pay off in the end. You've gotten into UCB already, which I know is very difficult to get into, so you definitley have the ability to succeed in math and cs. The best way to not feel shitty is to know at the end of the day you've given all of your possible efforts into succeeding at your goals. Better than that is when you start seeing the results.

Cam Connor

Canada786 Posts

October 31 2013 01:09 GMT

#35

keep working hard u nerd
or start working hard
love u

Ushio

Canada868 Posts

October 31 2013 02:35 GMT

#36

On October 30 2013 03:33 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
do NOT go into finance just because "business sounds like it might be cool"

unless you know, absolutely, without a trace of doubt, that you like finance, you should not go into it just because of some vague notions of profit/fun/enjoyability

also dont go into law because you like arguing/debating/writing/reading lol

What should he do then? He wouldn't know if he likes finance without taking the classes no?

Bereft

United States1007 Posts

October 31 2013 03:57 GMT

#37

aw man, your blog reminds me of how hopeless i've felt at times at like 4am in college with a sht ton of exam or assignments the next morning.

so you're only a first year? it def takes time to figure out how uni classes work, what's the most efficient use of your time, etc. i had my worst gpa as a freshman. sounds like you really need to figure out how to use the resources are available to you. and i'm not just talking about guidance counselors -- but peers in your class [study groups!], upperclassmen with experience in a certain class / field / major... also as mt. dew said above, you've got to be smart about what classes you sign up for and stick with. as much as we would all like college to be some fair, glorious, pure pursuit of knowledge, in a certain sense it's really a game and you have to learn how to navigate (work?) the system. perhaps i'm just jaded, but while going to berkeley will already open up doors, a good gpa will open further doors. not to be disheartened if you've already done poorly your first semester. from what i hear, recruiters like seeing improvement from years 1 - 4 almost as much as they like a perfect record.

Cam Connor

Canada786 Posts

October 31 2013 05:17 GMT

#38

finance rules go into finance
quant finance though ib is lame