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Anyone failed a uni subject before?

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Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
June 06 2009 04:06 GMT
#1
My first year, I've slacked of ridiculous amounts and im definitely failing one of my exams, fortunately i should smash the rest (easily) I just have no particular interest in biol and I have literally no chance of passing at this stage... I guess I'll just do it again over the summer as luckily its not a pre-req to any of the subjects im doing in 2nd semester this year...


So yeah, just to make me feel better, everyone who's ever failed a uni subject please post here so i don't feel like such a failure at life . Subjects/stories welcome =]

@NvPinder on twitter | Member of Gamecom Nv | http://www.clan-ta.com | http://www.youtube.com/user/ftrunkz | http://www.twitchtv.com/xghpinder
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 06 2009 04:09 GMT
#2
Did you pay your own tuition?
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
June 06 2009 04:12 GMT
#3
On June 06 2009 13:09 Chef wrote:
Did you pay your own tuition?

My parents pay for supplies(txt books etc.), but I'm paying(debt to the government lawl) my own tuition.... eventually ;P. So I'm sure i'll regret this even more later in life, lol .
@NvPinder on twitter | Member of Gamecom Nv | http://www.clan-ta.com | http://www.youtube.com/user/ftrunkz | http://www.twitchtv.com/xghpinder
omninmo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
2349 Posts
June 06 2009 04:16 GMT
#4
i was a liberal arts major.
forced to take biology 101 spring semester of my senior year.
i went to class 5 times (to take the tests)
i failed.
i called the teacher on the telephone and explained my situation.
she gave me a D
aznmathfreak
Profile Joined March 2009
United States148 Posts
June 06 2009 04:20 GMT
#5
Um.. I'm not sure how it works in Australia, but for American Universities, it's really not a big deal. The cons are you waste one class/time spent on it and it shows on your transcript. However, once you retake it the second grade "replaces" the previous grade GPA wise. Graduate schools won't really look too much into it.

The class I failed in was physics my first year. The class had a really great professor and the students were really bright. Unfortunately(or maybe fortunately) for me, I found my love for starcraft the semester before that. I discovered iccup, met some friends that kept me up, and my attendance plummeted. I think I missed about 2 months worth of class, out of a total of 4 months. Anyways, had to retake the class the following semester, realized I didn't want to major in physics, and got a B+ in it. I'm kind of sad it wasn't an A but oh well, done with that road. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's an experience nevertheless. You should be fine once you just put some effort into it. To a bio-filled summer.
Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-06 04:33:31
June 06 2009 04:31 GMT
#6
On June 06 2009 13:16 omninmo wrote:
i was a liberal arts major.
forced to take biology 101 spring semester of my senior year.
i went to class 5 times (to take the tests)
i failed.
i called the teacher on the telephone and explained my situation.
she gave me a D

That sir is fucking awesome.I was pissed when I didn't get a B in Bio 114 even though I was like 1-2 percentage points away. I hate when that shit happens, I ended up getting a C. I wasn't mad at the professor though. He was great.

Well I haven't failed a class yet in College. I did have to drop my remedial Math 99 this spring. I'm taking it again right now. Hopefully I pass this time. I have the mathematical capability of a 8th grader =/ My best advice is to buckle down, and just pass man.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
June 06 2009 04:32 GMT
#7
On June 06 2009 13:16 omninmo wrote:
i was a liberal arts major.
forced to take biology 101 spring semester of my senior year.
i went to class 5 times (to take the tests)
i failed.
i called the teacher on the telephone and explained my situation.
she gave me a D


In a Chinese university?
:]
King K. Rool
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada4408 Posts
June 06 2009 04:37 GMT
#8
I got 50 and 50 in my advanced calc 2 and linear algebra courses.

Pity passed since they were advanced hahaha. Even fell asleep during my algebra exam.

I feel some of your pain, there were 2-3 weeks where I was sure I failed.
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
June 06 2009 04:37 GMT
#9
Chemistry. I'm a big proponent of science, but christ I can't stand memorization.
Shitposting
Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
June 06 2009 04:41 GMT
#10
LOL at that story omninmo! That's ridiculous!

Cheers for the stories guys, keep'm coming! =]. I think my parents are going to be pretty disappointed, but i think i'm more disappointed in myself than they will be of me =[. Oh well, good experience and glad i did it now rather in 2nd or 3rd year... Time to knuckle down so i do good in my other subjects so this i at least have something to be proud of ;P
@NvPinder on twitter | Member of Gamecom Nv | http://www.clan-ta.com | http://www.youtube.com/user/ftrunkz | http://www.twitchtv.com/xghpinder
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
June 06 2009 04:56 GMT
#11
On June 06 2009 13:32 illu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2009 13:16 omninmo wrote:
i was a liberal arts major.
forced to take biology 101 spring semester of my senior year.
i went to class 5 times (to take the tests)
i failed.
i called the teacher on the telephone and explained my situation.
she gave me a D


In a Chinese university?

irc he isn't actually in China

One of those misleading country people...
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
King K. Rool
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada4408 Posts
June 06 2009 05:00 GMT
#12
On June 06 2009 13:41 Ftrunkz wrote:
LOL at that story omninmo! That's ridiculous!

Cheers for the stories guys, keep'm coming! =]. I think my parents are going to be pretty disappointed, but i think i'm more disappointed in myself than they will be of me =[. Oh well, good experience and glad i did it now rather in 2nd or 3rd year... Time to knuckle down so i do good in my other subjects so this i at least have something to be proud of ;P

Sucks that you failed, but at least first year was great. I don't regret screwing around and not doing any work first year.
pachi
Profile Joined October 2006
Melbourne5338 Posts
June 06 2009 05:18 GMT
#13
If you can scrape an ok score, I know melbourne uni has supplementary exams that you can take so you don't have to repeat the whole subject in summer, just retake the exam at a later date.
Moderatorpachi fanclub http://goto.tl/6DI9 。◕‿◕。
Myst-
Profile Joined May 2009
United States96 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-06 05:31:02
June 06 2009 05:30 GMT
#14
I was never the smartest guy in HS, but I made decent grades. Anyways, a friend of mine Allen, was one of the top math students in the state of Tennessee. He got a 31 on his ACT and we both went on to the University of Tennessee.

So our first year on campus, we was introduced to the wonderful world of fraternities(AKA sluts and beer). Basically that entire year, we did nothing but drink and fuck unattractive women(nice bodies and ugly faces, but not all were so bad)! Needless to say, we both flunked our first two semesters. We both got put on academic probation, so we figured we needed to clean our shit up. I stopped drinking, but Allen still drank until it made him fat, but only after he did his homework, lol.

Allen got his degree in engineering this year and I'm working towards my second degree. You failed one class and we failed an entire year, so don't worry my man! You're not alone .

FastEddieV
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States614 Posts
June 06 2009 05:38 GMT
#15
I got on academic probation my first year at the uni (was year 3 since I transferred over) because I failed 3 classes that year. The second year I got a 3.7 GPA so it kind of evened itself out.
platinum? more like leaf
fearus
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
China2164 Posts
June 06 2009 05:53 GMT
#16
I remember in the first lecture of finance the lady said

look to the person to your left and to your right, 1 of you will fail.

roughly 35% failure rate for that course
bisu fanboy
aeronexus
Profile Joined June 2007
United States392 Posts
June 06 2009 06:02 GMT
#17
hahah Myst well done I screwed myself up pretty good 2nd year of school; freshman year was ok but sophomore year I just ran out of steam or something. barely scraped a C- in physics, failed calc outright, dropped another course... and that was only first semester lol. second semester I got unofficial withdrawals on 2 classes cuz I didn't show up enough, didn't finish a final project, and missed a final exam. all without the help of either sluts or booze! so yeah. I took this year off to sort things out, trying to transfer to another school. one F though? you have nothing to worry about my friend
10 points!
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2801 Posts
June 06 2009 06:06 GMT
#18
ive taken more than 20 courses and never failed any of them so far
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-06 06:13:43
June 06 2009 06:11 GMT
#19
I've failed 2 courses. Not even because they were especially difficult but because I was a fucking idiot.

Course #1: The final project seemed impossible to find research material for. I talked to my proff and she was like "wtf are you talking about? just check here, here and here, there should be loads of it". Problem is, I had already checked in the aforementioned places, to little avail. I pretty much just put it off, told myself I'd do it after I did all my other projects, then never did it.

Course #2: I should have just dropped this course by the withdrawl date. I missed a bunch of school due to several consecutive illnesses. My other courses were ok, I could catch up easily as they came naturally to me (poli sci / economics). This course was a human anthropology / evolution course with some biology in it (never even took bio in high school, did chemistry and physics instead). I fell behind, had my exams deferred until later in the year. Realizing that I could do this gave me no incentive to actually catch up until the very last minute. I actually studied very hard near the end of the term in the hopes of passing, but due to a miscommunication with the proff and gross laziness on my part, I thought certian marks were being deferred that actually weren't and even though I did fairly well on the final I still failed.


I was really, really afraid this would kill my gpa and fuck me over in the future, but just today I got accepted into the college I applied for anyway (didn't shoot TOO high, lol), so all is well. It's not like I'm rolling in money, so I wouldn't want to go to a prestigious institution until I'm working on a post-graduate degree anyway. I've just been trying to forge some mental discipline to get myself to REALLY put in maximum effort in the coming years.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
June 06 2009 06:18 GMT
#20
I came close once.
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