<p>zoosermom: Sounds like the best outcome and give her time to get her bearings. It will be all up from here. Give her a hug from us.</p>
<p>Thanks Mythmom. I’m just glad it’s over. She was absolutely hysterical last night and I had just come home from work and found my car vandalized, so I was not up for any more drama. On the positive side, she has learned the importance of changing classes within the stated deadlines and is completely resolved to see through the major, so that’s a plus. Thanks for all the good wishes.</p>
<p>zoosermom, my d. also had poor results on her chem exam. Since she was just taking 12 hours and working about 30hr/wk–she decided to withdraw for the semester. She holds a BS already and was taking more classes to figure out what she wants to do—guess it won’t have anything to do with chemistry! </p>
<p>She is now applying for jobs where she will get more of a work experience (rather than restaurant work, that she knows she doesn’t want to stay with long)</p>
<p>I think it is the best for her also–if she decides to go back and apply for a grad school–she doesn’t want her gpa hurt. Sounds like what worked out for your d. is also for the best–when she registers for classes next time she will have much more information to work with (which profs to take for example).</p>
<p>Glad the decision is made and she can now concentrate on her other classes.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear that your daughter made a decision - it really does sound like a wise one. Lots of chances for her to make the class up if that’s what she decides she wants to do - maybe taking a college chem course over the summer first or next year with another prof etc. Best of luck to her for a successful year ahead! </p>
<p>On another note - so sorry to hear about your car being vandalized. UGH.</p>
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<p>This is very true. In a small LAC, where professors teach everyone, you sometimes get a very heavy-handed prof, well-suited to upper-level major students but too much for a freshman. I enrolled as a freshman with “some guy” and found him so intimidating and impossible to understand. zBy October, meeting other History majors, they clued me in that he was the most austere person in that department. A great scholar, but not for a freshman like me. History majors told me they waited to take him until they “learned how to learn” from other history profs and became better writers in their other courses. </p>
<p>An incoming freshman can’t know all of this, but next time she’ll have better info. I earned a “D” in that class. By Junior year, I might have handled his teaching style better, I believe. Dropping the course sounded to me like just the right answer for your daughter this time. She’ll make up the time, and has plenty of time to do so.</p>
<p>Just a thought. It is possible to go to the Dean and ask for special dispensation to switch to the other section of the class even thought hte deadline has passed. That must happen every semester. It doesn’t seem like too big a favor to ask–esp as the lower course load is a financial loss.</p>
<p>My freshman called in week two to say that two classes were boring. He switched up to higher level courses. After a week in the higher level Computer Science course, he said he hadn’t understood a single word. He’s gone back to the Intro CS course.</p>
<p>He’s staying in the upper level IR class. I’m prepared to see a low grade for that course–and possibly a meltdown when he realizes how well juniors and seniors write exams and papers.</p>
<p>Hugs to all the zoosers.</p>