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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Finance 317 really did me in. I studied my ass off, more than I even wanted to, and my improvement was marginal over my failing mid-term grade. I managed to squeak by with a C-, two wrong answers away from a complete fail. That stuff is just all bollocks to me, I can't stomach any of that financial crap for the life of me - I'm an HR guy! It's the only class I even came close to failing, I was quite nervous...
I agree with Simmer though, it was more about the socializing than anything else. I seriously showed up for half my classes just to chat with friends and flirt with the business girls. Ahh, good times!
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FNCE 317 was a bit of a bitch. The prof was good, but her quizzes were nothing short of dead easy. Needless to say, this shot my midterm confidence levels to unprecedented heights. That midterm was ugly. I failed it fairly miserably.
I had to bust my ass on the final just to pass, but I did manage it. My prof even told me that (at the time) I had set her teaching record for the biggest grade difference between midterm and final (which usually arent far apart).
My worst class ever? Coms 363.
I was in the very first semester that Haskayne stopped offering 363 and instead gave the course to Communications & Culture to run. And boy did they screw it up something fierce.
Every week we had:
- A portion of a Major Group project to hand in.
- A portion of a Major Individual project to hand in.
- A minor weekly Group project to hand in.
- A minor weekly Individual group project to hand in.
- 2 Minor weekly projects to complete in tutorials and deliver.
All of these projects had to be submitted by digital dropbox.
AND a printed hardcopy.
The lecture times for almost 1000 people.
- L01: Monday 7-10 am
- L02 Monday 7-10 pm.
So a load of BS every monday. To top the rest of the crap, the professor had used up all of his alotted TA time after the first month. So we had tutorials where he emailed us projects to complete with no present TA, but it had to be submitted via digital dropbox by the end of the tutorial time.
At one point he had nobody left that the Dean of Communications & Culture had to TA every section.
Lets add to the ridiculous torture. At the end of the semester we had to hand in
every project we had completed over the course of the entire semester in paper hardcopy. Thats right, we had to re-submit everything, even things we'd already handed in twice. He wanted it a third time. Furthermore, he wanted each member of the groups to hand in a full copy of the group projects.
So, we at the end of the semester we had to hand in:
- Full group project (this was appx. 50 pages and each member of a six member group had to submit the whole thing).
- Full Individual Major Project (over 30 pages)
- Every weekly group project we had done over the semester. (probably another 25 pages, but again, each group member had to hand in a copy, so 25 pages x 6, forgetting the fact these have already been submitted twice each already)
- Every weekly individual project, 15 or so pages. Again, these have been submitted twice already.
Alright. So, at the end of the semester we had to submit 120+ pages of work. Times 1000 students in the course.
The faculty had to rent a 5 ton truck to haul these away for him to mark at his house bacuse there wasnt enough room for all the paper in their faculty.
I didnt receive a grade until March of the next semester.
The professor was promptly fired as soon as the marking was done.
I have never forgiven the Faculty of Communication & Culture, and likely never will.
I almost failed 2 other classes because of the insane workload of this one.
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