<p>I had an management accounting final that went horrible. We had a yearlong project that consisted of a simulated business and all kinds of data being thrown at us. We had to make a bunch of reports. When it got to the final presentation, we were so behind that one of the girls decided to stay up all night working on the project. To fight off the sleep she used a couple of those five hour engergy shots. During the final presentation, as I was giving my piece on surplus inventory, she passes out and hits the floor. I had no idea and kept right on with my speech until a bunch of people in the class ran up to the front to help her. Luckily, the professor was understanding and with my superior test grades I still got an A in the class.</p>
<p>@erikuh
BRAVO</p>
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Nerd? We prefer intellectual badass. Same principle. I like it. 
Hm. I’d have to say…probably way way back in the day when I was assigned to some kid who wanted to throw paper airplanes around instead. That was in middle school. Now? I stick with my own kind - the nerds.</p>
<p>I missed an in-class assignment when I had my wisdom teeth pulled, but my professor wouldn’t let me make it up. Probably the worst professor I’ve had in my entire life. It was only 10 points though so I just let it go.</p>
<p>nujabes29 - It was made worse by the fact that almost half of the students were internationals.</p>
<p>Jane… Is that… you!!! What happened?! :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I keep hearing stories about how international students are better at English than non-internationals. Some of my professors even reinforced this. But from what I’ve seen, these are just fairy tales from foreign lands. Math, however…</p>
<p>^ Well, it’s true… They memorize all the rules of English (writing, comprehension, diction, grammar, syntax, etc etc) so technically they’re better on paper. Most native speakers are egotistical (ahah) and think they know everything about English - that’s where they fall short. I think you’re referring to English speaking ability. Of course many international students will have a hard time speaking English (without an accent, too) seeing that it might be their second language (or the rules are different in their country).</p>
<p>Ah, well no, not speaking. I actually was referring to on paper. De Anza has a pretty big foreign student population, and my friends and I like to exchange horror stories of having to do groupwork with foreign students (this quarter, about 40-75% of the students in my classes are foreigners. They get priority registration here). Admittedly they work very hard, but it’s just that their concepts aren’t…well, college level. A lot of times we have to scrap basically everything that they wrote due it being redundant or not relating to the prompt. And never once could I go through and not have to fix grammar mistakes (especially those dealing with repetition and connotation) in every sentence. I’m not bashing on them, it’s just that I don’t think their English abilities are as fantastic as people keep telling me they are. Maybe I’ve just worked with the wrong ones.</p>
<p>A lot of my English classmates are international students. There’s always one or two people in the class that are phenomenal writers, but the rest make me cringe in horror.</p>
<p>yeah…i haven’t had that great of a time with international students at de anza…i met a couple that could write and speak very well from hong kong with whom i wrote a paper and did a presentation with, but that’s been about it…</p>
<p>English is my third language. Gosh I hope other students do not feel that way about me, lol. Although it was interesting in high school when I would know the grammar rules of the English language but not the native English speakers.^^ </p>
<p>…I have never had to do a group assignment, my English literature professor was thinking about one for our FINAL but decided against it because of the inconsistency of students showing up to class, I take it this is a very good thing…yay? (:</p>
<p>Greatest screw up? I have one, ONE, B out of all of my class (the rest are A’s) and I can trace it to a single event. It was my Asian philosophy class. We had to write an essay on the Tao Te Ching. Basically I’m horible at shelling out bs, so I tried to actually understand the Tao Te Ching well enough to write a coherent paper about it. I got so freaken angry that she asked us to answer questions that people spend there lives trying to figure out, that I just said “f it,” and I didn’t turn in the paper. The thing is, I had already written a couple of pages, and if I would have just turned that in I would have gotten an A in the class.</p>
<p>Now I think of all the potential scholarships and financial aid I could have gotten if I just turned in that one paper…</p>
<p>The ability it BS is a beautiful skill that i have yet to acquire. Alas.</p>
<p>I can trace my one B, which caused my rejection from UCLA and Cal, to ONE CALC 2 PROBLEM. I even took calc bc in high school, i just had to retake it cause I failed the AP test. So I got a D on my first exam for that class and she let us redo all the problems we got wrong. We only got credit it they were all right, and I messed up again on ONE PROBLEM so my grade on that exam stayed at a D (wouldve gone up to a B with the corrections). Then I got As/Bs on the rest of the exams, an A on the final, and did extra credit… but my overall grade was a B, cause of the first exam. And it was a 5 unit course. And it brought my GPA from a 4.0 to a 3.72. Which isn’t good enough for Econ at UCLA and Cal. uckfay my ifelay.</p>
<p>^ that can’t be right. If you had only one 5 unit B and all A’s in at LEAST 60 semester units your GPA would be about 3.92 (235/60). To have a 3.72 with 60 units you would need about 4 four unit B’s, you sure you calculated your GPA right? Oh calc 2… the first exam in that class was the toughest IMO, a lot of people struggled with Sequences and Series but I didn’t think they were as bad as some of the more complicated integration methods.</p>
<p>@lomkh I went to San Jose City College today and it made me realize I’d rather have De Anza’s international students over ghetto-trash any day of the week.</p>
<p>My greatest woe was getting a C on a macroecon midterm, resulting in a B+, my only grade that isn’t an A. It’ll probably ruin my chances for haas.</p>
<p>The only reason you’d be rejected with a single B on your transcript among 60+ units worth of As is you can’t write worth a damn. </p>
<p>Writing is an essential skill in life! How can you sell yourself to others if you can’t communicate with them?!</p>
<p>Haha I’m a good writer. Only reason I’d get rejected is because it’s a prerequisite for an extremely competitive school. One B and it’s skating on thin ice.</p>
<p>@MrOblivious</p>
<p>perhaps they get priority due to paying a higher fee? man i loved being at de anza but the fugn commute was too intense for me. (1 hr there and 1hr back home). de asia lol truly has the college experience and it’s closest thing we can get to until the real shizz.</p>
<p>Everyone’s stories are so intense, hahah.</p>