<p>I got a 37/100 on exam 2 of linear circuit analysis sophomore year. That really shook/woke me up.</p>
<p>Most recently… I had 4 problem exam and I skipped the first question because I couldn’t see the solution right away. 6 minutes before the exam is about to end, I finally see the answer and start writing. </p>
<p>Fire alarm goes off.</p>
<p>Prof says there’s nothing that can be done and collects the exams.</p>
<p>Thank god I’ll be graduating in May. Can’t take much more of this ;/</p>
<p>Ha, too many to mention. My college career is a full-fledged battle consisting of late nights and close calls. I can’t ever seem to do all of the work I have to, so I’m constantly strategizing about which assignments/exams I can afford to “let slip through the cracks ;)”
For instance, my first exam in Stats and Prob 2 this term, I got a 44/100. Yes, not good. None of the others have gone particularly well either – so now I’ll spend the next two months making up for the last two… Meaning mainly, no fun.</p>
<p>I took Calculus I, Calculus II, Discrete Math, and Probability and Statistics in high school. My freshman year I was too lazy to take the math placement exam and I ended up starting back at pre-calculus. Now that I’m doing my PhD I realize how stupid and completely lazy this was…</p>
<p>Oh, I also opted to fly to another state and do a presentation for my internship on the same day as a physics final; I had to leave half-way through the exam to get to the airport and spent all my time preparing my presentation instead of reviewing physics. This netted me a pretty ‘D’ on my transcripts - the only time I’ve ever gotten such a terrible grade. Luckily that class didn’t matter for me.</p>
<p>I hate homeworks. I still have a problem with on-time submission. I had a 91% average on midterms+final but the homework was worth 15% of the entire grade. I only submitted 2 on time. So I got a B. This could have been an A. Also, Professor was the kind you always want to avoid.</p>
<p>Just had mine today. Don’t know if this is what you mean, but I had to drop my classes because of a financial aid bureaucracy snafu. I just started this quarter, my glorious return to college to finally get a degree after a few failed attempts years ago. Now I have to wait a whole other quarter because they didn’t tell me about a hoop I had to jump through (even though they assured me everything was squared away and I was all set).</p>
<p>Taking Real Analysis when I dont have the background for it. It was the hardest class I ever took (Even harder then biochemical/chemical courses)…Nothing made sense :(</p>
<p>Going to Caltech. The kind of place where you show your physics final exam to a grad student, and they respond “oh hey, that problem was on my qualifying exams”. The class is for non-physics majors. The class average was 40%. And the prof didn’t know why we did so bad, decided we must be dumb, and curved the class down a little more.</p>
<p>But yeah, failing high school would win, unless someone failed middle school or something.</p>
<p>I basically flunked my first two years of college attempting to major in computer science. The second year was especially bad. Totally bombed linear algebra and a very weird psychology class that I can’t explain. Ended up going to another school and graduating with honors in mechanical engineering following a period of intellectual enlightenment during a summer break.</p>
<p>I kind of felt like John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.” Very confused about trying to find the answers in physics and mathematics classes, and then finally a breakthrough. Everything that confused me before became suddenly clear.</p>
<p>I’d say getting 22% of my first Mechanics for Engineers midterm exam was pretty much a slap in the face. Luckily the class average was 28% so the curve helped me out a lot.</p>
<p>I finally ended up with 45% in the class… which turned out to be enough for a C.</p>
<p>I’d say my most disappointing exam performance was my first chemistry exam for a general freshman chemistry course. I understood the material very well but the kind of material on the exam was totally unexpected. I did much better on the second and third exams but bombed the final that was 80% organic chemistry. We spent maybe only 30 minutes of lecture time on orgo. The professor was very arrogant.</p>
<p>Studied for a Stochastic Processes test. City flooded, test delayed. Studied again. Test delayed once again. Studied AGAIN. Official test date is finally revealed. I study for that and another test that is the next day, and draw a COMPLETE BLANK on the Stochastic Processes test.</p>
<p>Net result: 27/100. Never studied harder for an exam in my life, and never done worse.</p>
<p>Not going for my MBA until I was 8 years out of college.
Not taking the PE/EIT or whatever they call it now my senior year or shortly there after.</p>
<p>Biggest screw up (so far) happened just this month.</p>
<p>So it is my first semester as a graduate student, and I am taking perturbation methods, which is being taught by my own advisor. Now, as it turns out, I was largely unprepared for the class, so I started behind. I basically flunked the first exam in the most ridiculous, alarming way possible, and made a fool of myself in front of my advisor by doing it. Awesome stuff. Just got done talking to him about it about 20 min ago actually.</p>
<p>Despite that, I am in a fairly good mood today, and don’t feel completely terrible about that class.</p>