I don't know if I can do this.

stmarys14
Tue, 13 May 2014 01:20:33 +0000

there are plenty of those students (aka “chicken crap”) who will overcome the obstacles and do important things

Define “plenty” and “important things”

I didn’t say OP won’t earn a degree just that it will most likely will not be CS, or any stem for that matter. You can cling to outliers all you want, but the facts prevail. Life isn’t fair and skill set and knowledge don’t reset for anyone come August.

As for the massive online courses and community college classes, those are things any student that feels behind should be doing as they prepare for Ann Arbor. Not sure why you’d take issue with someone who’s years behind the top 25% trying to catch up.

To illustrate how behind, how long do you think it would take the OP to get a 32 on the ACT? 6 months, a year… never? Why would we sugar coat the reality of the landscape? That does nobody any favors. OP can either coast to a humanities degree or grind and be an outlier.