In my previous profession a guy who was on the fast track nearly lost his job becaues of this outlook, was tasked with training up 6 individuals and told them if all of them pass he's not doing his job. Failed ALL of them because they didn't do the exam in the order he told them and was booted from training people forever. What a b*****d

Some classes just are pretty hard, even if the professor is good. Different subjects - different difficulty.

I couldn't agree with this more. Some professors forget that we're paying through the nose (some for years) to be properly taught/trained. They are providing a paid service. If I wouldn't tolerate that haughty attitude from a store clerk, I sure am not tolerating it from someone I'm spending thousands of dollars on.

I've had High School teachers like this. Unsurprisingly, I wouldn't pass their class.

On the other hand, when the instructer tells you there are no adjectives in accounting, believe him.

I remember having a GE class that, on paper, seemed pretty simple. Professor on the first day handed out the curriculum with essays, reports, and major presentations galore. I noped TF out of there so fast. Took it over the summer instead and it was breeze.

I had a law professor that on his first class told us that his course is the most difficult to pass ...oh well we all passed apart from a fellow student that dropped the law school to become a full time chef. Yep his food is marvellous btw

Different subjects have different difficulties and for some the warning is appropriate. The pass rate of the NY bar is 42%. I took graduate Optics with 11 other students. Only 1 person passed and it was their 2nd time taking the course. They helped make the JWST. No one can be talented in every field and there is no shame in admitting your limitations.

I had a professor like this at SMU-jerk!

My only problem here is that the person writing the note has the common, but erroneous belief that classes, especially the more difficult ones, are for "conveying information". They are about learning how to think. They are about acquiring new tools for analysis and understanding material. That being said, the point of a class is to teach as many as you can. If most of the class is failing that means that either you are a crappy teacher or the material is not appropriate for the level that most of the students are at.

I dearly wish I had received this advice while in university.

College is meant to be hard. Even with a good professor. If it were easy, everyone would have a degree. Stop being so sensitive.

The son of a friend of mine was having trouble in a course. The father drove down to campus to talk to the professor, and the professor asked him "How many times has your son taken this course?" "Why, this is his first time," replied the father. The professor said "Oh, it usually takes two or three tries to pass this class." And he was thought that was something to be proud of.

I think that's the idea. These courses are usually required for engineering, physics, comp scim etc. and are an enormous reason why there are so few women in those fields. American universities use gatekeeping courses, often organic chemistry or a special version of Calculus or Physics to keep out students who they feel would not be likely to succeed in the program. Problem is that they keep out women, Blacks, and anyone else who isn't 100% positive they belong. I have ADD; I dropped a Calculus course after getting 10% on an early test where I used a mathematically correct way of achieving a mathematically correct answer 9 out of 10 times. 70% was passing. I later found out he passed just about everyone who hung in until the end. The rest of the university was going crazy trying to fight racism, sexism, etc. with required political indoctrination courses, Soviet-style purged curricula, etc.,

I am one of those three people

Perhaps your soulmate is in the administration building.

Nothing traumatized me more in college than having to take 2 math classes due to a "general education" requirement. And one of them was freakin' calculus! I still can't believe I passed it :D

..for the rest of my life.

Dying of thirst in the desert: "Well, at least we aren't in middle school."

Scholarships summed up pretty much perfectly

Priorities.

I did it. All it take is discipline and not getting hammered the day before. No big deal

Update: oops, I was just in the cafeteria

Workplace relations the next year discussed the "Trail mix incident"

Why is this so true though? Can someone explain. Is it because of aging?

I am 61, with a PhD, was a professor for 20 years and I still have those dreams!

As a non-American I had to google what the ACT was and then went into a rabbit hole of googling SAT vs ACT . It feels alien because round my parts we all take the same test, the "bac" short for "baccalauréat", an exam instituted in France by Napoleon himself in 1808 and then widely copied continent-wide under many different names. As it happens, in my country, Romania, it's named the exact same. And that's just to finish high-school and get your diploma. And then, because I decided to be an architect, I had to take an extra admission exam specifically for that university. And for the latter, I even remember the date: September 9, 2001. You can probably guess why I remember it - the next day after the test I went out with friends to celebrate, got back early in the morning and slept until 3 something PM. Walked in the living room just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC...

First, ask her if one of their parents owns the company where her "dream job" would be located. One never knows.

I went to a college with more students than my entire town's population. Overwhelmed, on the first day I stood in the quad with a map in my hand crying. Finally, someone stopped and asked me what was the matter. I said I couldn't find my class, and they said, that's nothing to cry about and walked away.

This is something that college/university DOES teach you: you're not the hot-shot you thought you were, lower your expectations.

My college had "Happy Friday Guy". Dude riding on an electric scooter (like Razor brand stand up scooter, no seat), dressed in a superhero cape & eye mask. Shouting as loud as he could around campus "HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!" Someone eventually gave him a Tshirt with the official HFG logo superman style. We loved him.

I still wonder what happened to 1000 word essay on Byzantian Christianity me 10 years ago and me now that takes a day to reply to "wyd"

yep. No-one cares. Just get through the course.

Do this in the breakroom at work too. Throws the whole room off when a newbie doesn't know better and everyone moves their seat because of it.

Covid times.

This has carried on post-college for me...

wow that's advanced. Our idiots are still emailing attachments around with no version control.

LMAO so true!! 😆

This is the most nutshelled nutshell I've ever read.

You really shouldn't skip English class.

Serious: One of my professors escaped out of East Germany and came to the US. Gives you a whole different perspective on life.

Heh, some of my college photos, taken in the dorm room, do have visible collections of empty wine bottles sitting on top of the wardrobe, like they are trophies :D

Sounds about right

Sometimes I do this on work meetings, e.g. "(colleague) sneezed twice."

I'm about to be a freshman... for high skl--everything comparing HS to college here is making me nervous, is it really that bad?

Oh my God. Why are all these so true??!!!

*blinks in European*

away?

'No boys past 2am'? Is that code for 'your boyfriend can do anything you both consent to under this roof, except wake up here'?

Feels like a minor annoyance in high school... but like vile torture in college.

Upvoted for mario kart

Will granted where I live