<p>I know that most people here have probably taken a W somewhere in something. What is that one class (or more) that you took a W in that you know if you had finished your whole GPA would have been screwed and your chances for a UC slim? (i’m bored as you can see from this thread :-)</p>
<p>Mine would be American Politics and Govt., it was a televideo course and it was literally impossible, the test was like 200 questions and a total joke. Luckily I got out with a W and love the way that looks instead of a D or F.</p>
<p>i’m in a finite mathematics class right now, teacher stands up there and mumbles half english half chinese, wish I could drop but its a major pre-req, hopefully i can pull a B as well!</p>
<p>sweetnezz998, I’m also taking Finite Math with a terrible professor. He goes way too fast, makes student-esque mistakes (which is brutal when matrices take him an hour to complete), and has a pretty bad hispanic accent (I’m Mexican!) He had the nerve to barely start making lesson plans last week and we started on February 24th and whenever we complained, he would just say “come on, you should see what we do in my Calculus II and III classes”. One day I (maybe rudely) said “I don’t care what you do in your other classes”. Sad that it has to come to that type of stuff.</p>
<p>Anyway, I took a W in World History in the Fall of 07. I had just started working at a new job full time and the professor was a complete a.s.s. He vowed to not let ANYONE in his class get an A. By the 4th week, everyone’s grade was so low that it would be impossible to get an A. I spent maybe 20 hours working on a 20 page midterm essay. I got a B on it. I said goodbye.</p>
<p>haha trust me my finite math class consists of examples of problems only written on the board like we already took the class and this is just a refresher, not one bit of actual teaching and the book sucks, so lame.</p>
<p>My school, west valley, offers intersession calc. My w class is math 3a and 3b. Got an a after taking one w in 3a, and 3b is just brutal with the teachers I have had so w’s there as well.</p>
<p>it was english 1A, the first college level english class you take. i took it online and barely logged on so i had to escape with a W before the deadline passed</p>
<p>My counselor told me I had to take Fench 1 for economics… It wasn’t true and the guy was a new teacher from France and thought the native speakers of French in class were the norm. To say the least it was way too hard and I took the W</p>
<p>It was a one day class and I didn’t think they’d actually give me a W if I didn’t show up. Really doesn’t matter but still frustrating… Intro to college…</p>
<p>i dropped world history TWICE.
retook it a year later with the same prof and ended up with a 98% in the class… that’s after literally failing every test / quiz / assignment til the drop dates, the first two times around. </p>
<p>classes i wish i’d dropped: econ 1, taken over summer session. 8 am class for 4 hours a day, 4 days a week. it was unbearable.</p>
<p>Dropped PSychology 1 (introductory psych) with a W during the summer of my first year at CC…I would have ended up with a B I think, so I retook it later and got an A. I had been having trouble adjusting to the short and fast-paced sessions during my first year at cc. During my second year, I challenged myself by taking Organic chem 2 during winter and got an A, that is when I become really confident of myself. So the take home message is…Never doubt yourself of your own ability.</p>