Taking University Physics in college without ever taking a single Physics course in my life time.

Grijalva480
Tue, 15 May 2018 08:40:01 +0000

@ucbalumnus It’s not that I’ve tried to avoid Physics in High School or that I hated Physics. It’s rather that my situation in high school was a bit complicated. I transferred High Schools after my Freshman year and unfortunately later figured out that some of my credits from my Freshman year high school didn’t transfer to my other high school, thus holding me back a bit.

When I was a Senior in HS, I still haven’t taken and passed a prerequisite class for Physics(I’ve taken Environmental Science instead for Senior year) so by that point, it was too late for me to try to take it since I was already about to graduate at the time and it didn’t seem like it was worth becoming a super senior just for one class. Plus, during my high school years, I originally didn’t care for college(and attempted to enlist in the US Army til I got medically DQ’ed) since I felt like I wouldn’t amount to anything with my life and that no University would accept me because I was too average of a student with very little extracurricular background. It wasn’t until my friends and family kept encouraging me to enroll in CC after my failed MEPS test(for the US Army), that I started my college education and made up for all my high school screw ups with some remedial courses.