low point of academic career

[Chad]

i can't decide.
there was this time when i was an undergrad and had to take a class to satisfy some core requirement. the class was an anthropology one focusing on cultures of the "far east"
it basically amounted to me sitting there fuming because i had to endure listening to 3 different fat stupid assholes with ponytails talk about some samurai novels they had read which were clearly not academic literature or ethnographic. i considered this abuse and hoped it was some kind of a sick joke being played on me. ive never hated school more than that.
there was also the time i was new to college, having started late because of some holdups in life. on my first day walking through the university campus there was this event happening in one of the "free speech" areas. there was an old car they had sitting there with some hammers, baseball bats, and cans of spraypaint. you got to take a weapon and smash up the old car. at first i thought "oh, must be for some charity."
but as i got closer i realized it was actually a recruitment event for the ROTC program. there were about 4 young guys wearing army fatigues, jumping up and down on the car while screaming with limp bizkit blasting from a stereo. on the car was spray-painted "women's lib" and "same-sex marriage"

[kpih]

My latest gripe...

My campus student center has a hair and nail salon, dry cleaner, and they are opening a day spa soon.

DAY SPA?I!!?!?!?!

What the hell? Did I miss something? I thought people are here to learn, not to look pretty...

DAY SPA?!?!??!?!??!

[Chad]

Well I guess those things could teach students about running different types of businesses. If they employed students, that is.

But yeah it does seem a little excessive. Especially when there's so many orange people around. I don't know how so many ugly people all find their way to one place at a time. Seems like there's at least twice as many orange people this year than there was last year.

[moser]

As of now, taking a required world culture course; the one that I took was on the ancient Egyptians. The class had a lot of potential, but the professor decided to focus on literary analysis on ancient texts. The professor also interjected his religious views in the class, which for the most part was inappropriate. (I mean, dude, I really don't want to know that you were a virgin when you got married.)

[Emperor_Mike]

A history elective that promised an examination of politics in Europe during the 17th-19th centuries, but instead delivered an excrutiatingly dull semester's worth of topics ranging from the origin of books to post-Civil War Puritanism in England.

[Atealtha]

My school's honors program is an absolute joke. I met a few that truly work hard and deserve to be in there. But some don't carry out their days with simple logic. There was a "one time special topic" course for interdisciplinary studies on drawing comics. Honors students only. Now, when I looked that the book, I stayed clear from critisizing their artistic skills as far as coloring, form, etc. goes.

But one comic had a picture of the subway. Let me explain this as best as I can. The panel is a birds eye view of the inside of a subway car. So squares drawn stood for the seats. Now, when looking at people in a birds eye view, you see their head and shoulders only. But this "honors student" went and drew the entire person, holding onto a pole, as if you're looking straight at the person. This figure was placed in the panel that was oriented with a bird's eye view.

I'm sure the student did not mean to draw a person lying down on the ground with a pole in his hand.

[hooligan]

straight Cs during my first year at LA.

[yoMAMA]

when i withdrawn from trig TWICE.

[nola]

drawing class in college. got a "b" but the instructor said at the beginning before charcoals i "had no talent whatsoever".

[fresh22]

Spring semester during my junior year I attempted to join Air Force ROTC (don't ask me why now, but at that time it seemed like a good idea). One of the courses required for potential cadets is an Air Force indoctrination course (i.e. how to do things the Air Force way, leadership skills, etc.). Part of this course entailed practicing in prepartion to go off to basic training during the summer. So naturally one of the skills they wanted you to master is how to do drills. I think that was the lowest point in my academic career, in addition to my life. I completely embarrassed myself, I could not march in formation to save my life. I was always offstep with everyone else ( always screwed up at least once during a drill.), I couldn't concentrate on the orders that were given. I could see the disappointment in the squad leader's eyes. Frankly after 4 weeks of trying to get the basics of marching down (never did), I withdrew from that course. I'm sure alot of those cadets still probably remember how bad 'that asian guy' (I was the only Asian in the whole program) was at drill, and they probably still have some good laughs at my expense.

[Hiroshi2]

So far, my last semester of high school. Did absoultely nothing but fuck around, on many occasions came to class drunk, high and/or just plain sleepy........................I needed a 66 on my final exam in order to pass out of Pre-Cal.............I made a 66.


I barely made it out of HS.................don't want to do that shit again.


Now in college................I still get drunk almost every day, except now I do my homework during the daytime so I can do that shit at night, and still wake up in the morning just to do it all over again :D

[deez nuts]

when i didn't set the curve on a test in one of my classes one semester.

i think it was biophysics.

[kimpossible]

When the scraggly old TA from an engineering course asked me out around midterms. Aside from that, I blew off one course and took a final drunk. Normally, the rock star life is much cooler than I really am but the night previous I had a good friend going back to Europe and decided to party.

[Faithless]

Lowest point: Floundering in Differential Calc II.

Man, that was one dry subject.

[pablohoney]

I took first-quarter calculus twice, not realizing my grade was good enough the first time around to go onto the next level.

Then I flunked second-quarter calculus, not realizing my degree requirements had recently changed and I no longer needed more than one quarter of calculus.

So that was basically 10 credits of wasted time and money that I never got back, and I ended up having to take Summer Quarter classes to make up for it. But in the end it worked out because it gave me an excuse to stay in town during summer and really, I was just in school to hang out anyway...