From: Menji76 | #014 Physics 211 is the calculus physics correct? That **** sucked, 212 is what made me stop being an engineer. I took up accounting and love it so I'm glad.
Phys 211 is probably 50 different courses -- it all depends on the school. At mine it was Mechanics without Calculus.
From: agesboy | #005 can't say i've done very much identifying carbon chains in my spare time over the years, i still couldn't tell you which f***ing way E is and Z is because why is there german in my chemistry why
It's memorization. Just come up with some stupid way of remembering which is which. An "E" has things hanging off of same side, and "Z" has things hanging off of opposite sides. This would be a really good way of remembering it, but E-Z isomers are stupid and it's actually the opposite.
Or you can remember it's "zis-trans" isomerism. This pairs Z with cis, which makes it easy to remember.
If you failed Orgo, and got D's in Calc/Physics you should probably get out of your major. You failed Orgo which means you're probably not going to want to do Organic Chem, and the marks in Calc/Physics means you're really not going to enjoy PChem/Analytical so I dunno what you're really looking to do with your degree.
From: Gwindor | #040 I will advise you to switch over the chemical engineering instead of chemistry, if you decide to continue to pursue this path.
If he's having trouble passing Calc/Physics... this seems like a very bad idea.
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From: _Regaro_ | #051 1000-based numbering is objectively superior
100-based numbering is easier to talk about your classes with others.
Probability/Statistics is surprisingly annoying
I haven't seen a Stats course that has been taught well. They just teach you tests without any theory behind them... my math probability course taught me so much more about stats than any stats course.
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From: Westbrick | #017 Business is actually pretty tough at top programs.
This. I'm in a top program (USC Marshall School of Business, ranked #9 in the nation), and the material can be very challenging at times. If you want to get above a 3.0, you have to work very hard for it, because there is a mandatory average grade in place for each class. People are competitive and push averages to very high levels, and the professors make their classes harder than they would be at your local community college.
There's definitely a difference between taking business classes at a community college compared to a top 10 business school, and I've done both.
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From my limited experience, I wouldn't call history a joke major. Those hist majors did nothing but read and write. They weren't thinking as hard as math majors or anything, but they definitely put their hours in.
I have to echo Ness's sentiments though; if you're failing both orgo and physics that leaves what, biochem? If that's the case, you really might as well be doing bio where you won't have to deal with quite as challenging classes. Pchem will basically be quantum and statistical mechanics, which will not be fun if you can't get the basics down.
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Hrezs posted... MRNlCEWATCH posted... _Carlemagne_ posted... From: Articuno2001 | #254 I got an A in statistics while browsing the internet in pretty much every class
can't see how it was anything but simple There are 2 types of stats. The easy one you take like in your first semester.
And then there's the hard one you take after 2 semesters of calc.
LMAO what
how was that hard at all
Dude. FTEST. C'mon.
is this trolling?
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From: Zachnorn | Posted: 5/15/2012 3:12:33 PM | #063 there is a mandatory average grade in place for each class
These classes
These classes are the ****ing worst
**** every professor that does that
(Also, when I called Prob/Stat annoying, I meant "Get a B" annoying, not "Potentially fail" annoying, since that seems to have sparked a bit of controversy <_<)
Zachnorn posted... I think the important thing to realize is that different majors require different skills and so difficulty really depends on the person.
I can see someone who is great at math being a terrible with history, for example, if they're not very good writers.
I guess that's true. I'm destroying physics and math, but I think I would die if all of my classes involved writing; I'm not bad at it, but I'm very bad at focusing on writing so it takes me a ridiculously long time to finish papers and lab reports. That said, the only majors I think I absolutely couldn't handle would be foreign languages.
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You would hate my business school, because all professors there are required to do this because of a policy! This past semester, I had 4 classes like that.
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It's usually not the professor -- it's the department. I know the ChemE department at my school forces average to be the B-/C+ line for all but senior level courses.
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Ness26 posted... From: _Regaro_ | #071 These classes
These classes are the ****ing worst
**** every professor that does that It's usually not the professor -- it's the department. I know the ChemE department at my school forces average to be the B-/C+ line for all but senior level courses.
yup
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From: Ness26 | Posted: 5/15/2012 3:52:21 PM | #075 It's usually not the professor -- it's the department. I know the ChemE department at my school forces average to be the B-/C+ line for all but senior level courses.
**** every professor that does that It's usually not the professor -- it's the department. I know the ChemE department at my school forces average to be the B-/C+ line for all but senior level courses.
yup
Still an absurdly terrible policy that punishes smart people for not being the absolute best.
From: _Regaro_ | #077 Still an absurdly terrible policy that punishes smart people for not being the absolute best.
It's to combat grade inflation, apparently. There's people worried about too many people getting A's in certain schools that mainly accept A students, so some of those former A students should get B's and C's. There, less grade inflation.
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It's a weed-out. It's done in competitive departments to thin things out for the higher level courses.
I know plenty of idiots that got through to their fourth year with their GPA intact, so if someone couldn't compete with these people I think they deserve to be weeded out.
I don't really see a problem with grading on a distribution if the class is large enough -- makes it easy to account for variations in test difficulty and such.
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This. I'm in a top program (USC Marshall School of Business, ranked #9 in the nation), and the material can be very challenging at times. If you want to get above a 3.0, you have to work very hard for it, because there is a mandatory average grade in place for each class. People are competitive and push averages to very high levels, and the professors make their classes harder than they would be at your local community college.
There's definitely a difference between taking business classes at a community college compared to a top 10 business school, and I've done both.
yeah this is what I figured, you're grumpy because you think I took an unintentional s*** on you
there's a small handful of degrees and a small handful of schools that are actually difficult, by and large most of college is not that hard and you'll only fail to obtain a degree if you don't show up. the science and math degrees are probably further towards the "actually difficult" side of the spectrum. at most places, business and psychology are not.