Blackboard seemed pretty simple to me - last semester all of my professors used it. It had a pretty minimal interface - just links to your classes and then you end up on your class page which has subordinate links “lecture notes, syllabus, etc” and then that’s where you’d find any files/documents/presentations you’d need. It seems that all of my classes with the exception of my Calc professor are going to use Blackboard - he’s using some other website called Piazza or something.
We didn’t have any sort of online class interface in high school - just the portal to check our grades. Everything else was either emailed to us or handed out in class.
So, I dropped one of my online classes for an on-campus class. I just didn’t like having three online classes. I don’t mind one or two, but three was too much, lol.
I got an email from the Dean of my school’s Honors College congratulating me for making Dean’s List. Dean’s List at my school is a 3.75+ GPA because I guess the point is that a 3.75 constitutes summa cum laude at graduation which is pretty interesting. I’m still waiting for my certificate thing (I know they’re out there.) I have already reserved fridge space for it, LOL.
@NewBeginnings3 That’s always my worst fear with adding a class - especially if you add towards the end of the add/drop window - I’d already be like three class meetings behind. I get that it’s like “syllabus week” so everything is supposed to be really chill, but some classes seem to hit the ground running on the very first day.
@preamble1776 - Yeah, that’s what I hate. The drop/add period ends tonight at midnight, so I’m like anxious. I know it’s not going to be as bad as I am thinking, but I feel all awkward and everything, lol.
Also, I would hate to add a once-a-week class after the first class meeting because those classes actually do things on the first day.
@Vctory
Summa cum laude 3.75+
Magna cum laude 3.50 to 3.74
Cum laude 3.30 to 3.49
I don’t know if this is indicative of grade deflation or if people at my school just kinda suck? We have a pretty high average GPA relative to our absolutely abysmal LSAT average. (Something like a 3.5/145… LOL.)
Week 2 is now over for me. 13 weeks until summer! Lol. I really enjoy my classes and am glad that I decided to drop one of my online classes for an on-campus class. The class I am taking now is a human development and family studies class, so it shouldn’t be too bad. At my school, you need 6 credits of social sciences, 6 of humanities, and 6 of arts. Instead of taking 6-6-6 in each field, you can do a 9-6-3 and substitute an extra course in one field and take away a course in another. I like this method. I am taking 9 credits of social sciences, 6 of humanities, and 3 of arts.
I have been figuring out my credits and classes for next year before I transfer, and I have two classes out of five scheduled for my spring semester. I’m not sure what is going to happen during that semester because I need to take three other classes, but there are no classes that fulfill my major. I can’t take those classes until I transfer. I don’t want to end up taking 3 blow-off classes during my fourth semester, and I doubt that I could transfer a semester early. Ugh! The good thing is that I will have all my general education requirements completed at the end of spring of 2016.
@preamble1776
You just keep studying until you know the topic well enough to handle any question that might come up on an exam. If it takes thirty minutes of studying a week then that’s all you should be studying. If you need more than use as much as you need. It’s utterly pointless to study 3 hours a week for a gen ed that barely requires you to show up.
