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Old 10-19-2005, 09:46 PM   #83 (permalink)
hrandani
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I thought I would give the perspective from the other side, if you will permit.

I am what is generally considered to be the poorest sort of student as illustrated above.

In college since enrolling I have 60 hours of credit. I am 19 years old. This makes this the first semester of my junior year currently. My GPA is 2.5 and my major is neurobiology.

I have failed, on average, one course a semester. I get more C's than D's and consider that a success.

I don't give a shit for grades, or this whole system. I am just plodding along to get my degree at this top-ten rated college because I frankly can't think of anything else better to do, yet. Some of you adults probably are thinking, what a waste.

Well it is a waste. College is a waste of my time, and everybody else's. The whole system of American education is bullshit and has been for a few hundred years. Standardized tests are a joke and I put no effort in because none is required, and when an essay is required I just write something and forget about it.
I've known people that fail multiple choice tests, and others who ace courses they don't go to. If you want to be yet another horse rode hard and dumped to the side when they're done with you then work hard and get your A and go to graduate school. It doesn't mean shit.

Lots of things affect grades such as ability to concentrate, type of major and how well it suits you, if you are working on things on the side while you are supposed to be going to school - people have mentioned girls, video games - whatever. People who do well want to, and those who do poorly don't.

My parents rail at me for wasting my education, but I haven't learned anything so far and the only reason I don't make A's is because I don't care about the details. I follow concepts and patterns, and couldn't care less about the specifics. I don't care to follow in the footsteps of my predecessors. Fuck memorization and true/false. This country is fucked and the values are all in the wrong places and nobody gives a shit. So fuck getting a job, and fuck America. I work hard, and I have in the past. But not for this. Not for this. Ustwo is probably now calling me anti-american and a bum, saying that I will change my mind when I go out and experience the starving masses outside, but I can't say I care. I'm just trying to share my feelings here and if I get banned for that, that's up to the mods.

It doesn't have to be this way. Our world is set up to fuck 90% for the benefit of 10% and we have the gall to toss words like utilitarianism around. There is some depressing shit floating around and most people do all they can to ignore it. I contemplate dropping out but I can't see any advantages as long as I am progressing at college, and despite everything, I should graduate within the standard four years thanks to the full year of advance credit I got in high school.

Academia is a fucking fantasy world with little application to reality. Yes, I reject it. You can't quantify anything worth having, and grades are definetly not on that list. We are substituting grades for reality in the workforce, and I've talked to both employers and professors in my field who would prefer me, a shitty student to the constant stream of memorization queens the colleges currently produce in mass quantities.

By the way, I have tried transferring but the other college that purported to be open-minded and accepting of alternative students didn't like my grades, or apparently my essay. Sometimes in the depths of my dillusions I consider myself a writer of sorts. I should wash my hands of this now.

So, Gilda, is a C a bad grade? No. It's passing.

But see above for the attitude of a C student. Would you want this to be your son or daughter?
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