Well good to hear MT.Royal isn't such a kick in the arse. I will be attending next year. Took the year off, went to Europe, and decided to work for the year, and now with all the money I will save up I will be able to come out of College debt free, with money in the bank, so I am all set for when I turn 24.
I got a B in HROD 401 and 405, a C- in RMIN 317 (I should've studied a lot more for both midterms..), and I STILL haven't got my PHIL 313 mark back yet!
Locke, I'm at least a little suspicious that our Den meetups might not take place if you've been placed on probation already.
You never showed up anyways...
I got: A in Acct 423 - Advanced Tax
A C in HTST 323 - Renaissance History
A B in Econ 321 - Game Theory for Strategic thinking
And I still dont have a posted mark for HTST 307 - Contemporary History.
And if you want to have some CP meets during this semester, I might show up, but I am a respectable working man for the Winter semester, so I'm not on Campus.
One class left baby....one class left....
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a D+ in fnce 317-- brutal, means i need to retake the stupid course!
3 other grades in 317 classes between b+ and c+, still havent gotten marketing 317 back yet!
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Personally I found going from highschool to university like going from Grade 12 to Grade 12, but I never tried to get top marks in either place so perhaps it is just easy to get B's and C's both places, but harder to get A's in University.
I think it also depends on the person & program. I did alot better in Uni than HS, because HS was 3 years of laughs and I started to give a shart in University. I also remember hearing about 3 of the 10 chancellor scholarship recipients (supposed to be the top 10 students starting UNI based on HS) losing their scholarship after 1st year because they couldnt maintain the 3.5 GPA doing hard core sciences. But we also lost alot of people after 1st year because they just couldnt hack it.
HS will spoon feed you the whole way, whereas in a 400+ students university class you're on your own, both in terms of teaching yourself but also in determining what's actually relevant. It's also harder to distinguish yourself at the top when you are no longer compared to the HS stoners/dumb jocks/future criminals/ESL's...etc
My buddy, who only completed one course, if that, at Mt Royal was quite offended. I am not knocking Mt Royal, but wow are their courses easier than the U of C.
I think part of the reason their courses are viewed as easier, is because for the most part, with some exceptions obviously, the quality of the instruction was WAY better, atleast in my faculty.
I dont even wanna look at my GPA from last semester(and I probably won't). I'm usually hovering around a 3.0(been as high as 3.65) over-all, but last semester I failed a college course for the first time ever. And it was Track & Field! Sounds stupid, but from those who remember me bitchin earlier about it, the class is on the curve, and 8 of the 12 guys in my class were either on the UofA Track team, or various other track clubs. Whereas I'm just a regular dude who only did it in HS gym class. Even one of the girls in my class represented Canada at the Beijing Olympics!! How am I supposed to compete with that?? Dumb dumb decision to take that class, I thought it would've been a breeze too...
I might as well join in on all this fun. Thankfully I finished both FNCE 317 and MKGT 435 with an A-, which is great. Finished with a B- in Poli 381 International Relations however. And haven't gotten back my letter grades for Poli 359 or HROD 317 yet, not looking forward to those two grades though as I had a brutal exam schedule and did not do the greatest on the final for those two.
The only classes I did exceptionally well in at University were painting and art theory. I got A+ in both of those. The rest of my grades were typically A- B range.
a D+ in fnce 317-- brutal, means i need to retake the stupid course!
3 other grades in 317 classes between b+ and c+, still havent gotten marketing 317 back yet!
FNCE 317 was a kick in the nuts, thankfully I passed that stone many an eon ago.
Who did you have, Peggy Hedges or Larry Woods?
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I'm starting to think that myself. For me, I'm doing my masters in electrical engineering right now (MSEE, for the thread - Two A's and a B, stupid probability I was sure I got a A-) but I wonder how much I really enjoy it and if I would have been better off just trying the trades. I went to university and did engineering, cause I didn't know what else to do and I was always good with numbers. I hate the idea of university lectures, I'm bored in class and for the most part, uninterested. We'll see how I feel after this thesis goes, I got 2 more semesters.
I did the same thing (going into ENGG because I was good at it), but after a year I just couldn't handle it anymore. It wasn't that the classes were hard, it was more that I couldn't envision myself ever enjoying a career in ENGG.
I took a year off to concentrate on playing hockey (figured that would be my last shot) got badly injured, moved to Vancouver and started working with people that had a KNES degree. Found that I really enjoyed doing that stuff, and suddenly I find myself enjoying schools.
My main problem with ENGG in Calgary was that at least half my teachers were there for a research grant and really didn't speak English or explain what the hell they were doing. Suddenly a gamma would appear in the formula and we had no idea what was going on.
Screwed up my first semester in Computer Science way back in the day (failed both first year math courses). Was too stupid to withdraw so I ended up dropping out and continuing a BA program at Mount Royal. By the time I graduated from the UofC 5 years later, I had battled my GPA back up to 3.3 or so.
Word of advice, if you're gonna fail or pull a D in a course, just drop it unless your GPA can take the hit. Those two F's dragged me down like nothing else.
BTW, if you're taking a Calculus class and the professor cannot speak English, drop it immediately. f'ing UofC....
Dean Vernon Wormer: Mr. Kroger: two C's, two D's and an F. That's a 1.2. Congratulations, Kroger. You're at the top of the Delta pledge class. Mr. Dorfman?
Dean Vernon Wormer: Zero point two... Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Mr. Hoover, president of Delta house? One point six; four C's and an F. A fine example you set! Daniel Simpson Day... HAS no grade point average. All courses incomplete. Mr. Blu - MR. BLUTARSKY... ZERO POINT ZERO.
FNCE 317 was a kick in the nuts, thankfully I passed that stone many an eon ago.
Who did you have, Peggy Hedges or Larry Woods?
yea it sure was, unfortunatly being forced to take it again to get a bcomm is another kick..
I had larry, he flew thru the stuff soo fast, it was rediculous. how did you have?
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