{June 3} Things are never what they seem
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Before I begin my tirade, I will say that yes this will be a nice rant so if you’re feeling like you’re having a nice stress free day then be cautious and know that I envy you.
Despite the fact that some people tell me that talking about school stuff is boring, it’s usually the source of my frustration and it ends up spilling all over and spraying in every which direction like when you accidently drop a Pepsi on the carpet and wonder how it was possible to create that big of a hot mess with such a little can. I also won’t apologize for the fact that I feel a need to let it out, if my circumstances were any different then you wouldn’t hear about it and better yet, I wouldn’t have to live it. So let’s all pray to the big guy upstairs (or whoever you like) to put us all out of our misery but until then let me begin.
First let me say that I’m not a very frantic or messy person. I’m not easily surprised or overwhelmed and I can take quite a bit of pressure before the shit hits the fan, so when the news I found out 3 hours ago came at me my first reaction was to simply ignore. I think I’m one of those people who would end up on the Titanic when everyone was hollering for their mama and abandoning ship with their floaties on backwards while I lay stretched out on by the pool, saying to the empty surroundings “Well statistically speaking there’s no way we could drown since this thing was built real strong” and then SLAM.
Not surprisingly then, I was sitting all calm in my statistics 2 class wile feeling safe with my grade today. I got 95% on the last test and an 89% on the previous and for a girl who is pretty clumsy in the twisted world of math, I thought I was doing well until a girl (who is the living, breathing, and walking example of a stress bag) told me the following news. As it turns out, our grades are based on a curve -- which means that your grade depends on how other people are doing. Unfortunately for me, about 52% of the kids hot higher grades so my 92% average is now considered about a D in the class. Our class has about 60 people who were brave enough to take it knowing we have 3 months of material to cover in 1. Most kids appear to be smart and intimidating Asians who could probably teach the class on their own and who know full well about people like me who want to scoop out their brains and run for the hills.
So now my 92 gets me a D and there I thought that I could have boosted the GPA. I know it’s competitive but I can’t help but be disappointed especially since none of my previous profs have done anything quite like this before, I’ve only heard of it happening to the poor Engineers. I guess Business is like Law School now. Just when I thought.
woahh that really is unfair for a prof to base everyone’s grade to the average of test scores. ):
school posts are interesting hahah since all web people are teens we all go to school. <– didn’t make sense haha.
I know (it’s 2am and as a result I’m still cramming)
I know it’s important to know your material better than most people; I get that (with life in general). But say you have a pottery class where everyone is getting 90’s and you’re getting an 80 because you aren’t quite as talented as the others. By our standards, that person who is getting the clearly passing 80 and who has shown to understand the work WOULD NOT PASS. In fact, that person along with a few people who got 90 would also fail because more people are doing better than them. Sucks, right? So then you have to go back, pay tuition again and sit through a class that you clearly understood before. If not, you settle for a shitty grade and have a fun time interviewing for jobs with a MUCH lower GPA than it should be. Someone in the 80’s or especially in the 90’s should not even be considered of FAILING a class.
Wow, to be honest this is interesting to me. I never knew that and to be honest it sounds retarded. It shouldn’t be like that, if anything profs should encourage those who are doing good and not fail them. It’s dumb, and it’s funny when you mention smart Asians considering that I know a few and they can teach the class and they always correct the teachers, quite funny actually. But I understand you current situation and how it’s unfair. It does suck, but hopefully you’ll get through it! I’m not in post-secondary yet, but it sounds frightening. Hope you do okay.
Ahhhh curves suck! But one time, I did get a better grade on a pre-calc quiz as result of one! So depending on what side you are, curves can either suck big ones or be a blessing. ^_^ But my dad was an engineering major! He said one of the reasons he dropped out and didn’t finish to get his bachelors degree (he just has an associates) was because all the curves screwed up his grades. ^_^ lol
Holy shit,
You have every right to be pissed.
It gets really competitive when you’re pitted against everyone in your class…
kwow – all I can say is that really sucks
so you say you have a 92% average? And a D?
You DO realize that that pretty much means that people that have an average just a couple %s higher than you have an A?
That REALLY stinks
you should protest or something, boycott the school!!
…or you could just go talk to your professor and figure out a way to get your mark 2% higher so you can have a B
lol @ the walking stress bag hehe. woah!!!!!!!! curves are supposed to start at the “end of the latter” not the top. I’d be talking to the professor asap!
Wow, that really sucks! This is my first visit to this site (though I heard MTV used your brushes!)
and I really like your layout. But God, a 92 to a D. I would probably kill someone :/ You are really
patient, though, and that’s good.
Hang in there!
I’m taking business too (at Simon Fraser University), and all of our business classes are curved, which is not made easier by the fact that my entire faculty is like 95% Asian (half of which, I would estimate, get crazy good grades). I sometimes get envious of the people in other faculties that don’t even know what curve grading is…
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