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« on: April 29, 2016, 08:43:33 PM »

I'm actually pretty curious about this, have you ever done this before. I have only done it ONCE and regretted it even though I got a B overall in the class.
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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2016, 08:52:52 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.
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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2016, 09:09:12 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.
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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2016, 09:11:36 PM »

Plenty of times, usually only if another class where I needed to boost my grade (Math classes, I'm looking at you) , or I found the assignment and the professor's demands to be BS from the start.
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2016, 09:14:23 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.

I mean, I often give up on papers before they're "perfect" in my--or my professors' eyes--and there are always assignment produced below the optimal level of quality, but I try to do it within a certain margin of "likely to produce an acceptable result".
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2016, 09:17:21 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.

I mean, I often give up on papers before they're "perfect" in my--or my professors' eyes--and there are always assignment produced below the optimal level of quality, but I try to do it within a certain margin of "likely to produce an acceptable result".

Yeah, I try to put a lot of effort into my assignments and got 100's or 90's on all of them, but this one I just didn't understand AT ALL and tried to get tutoring help for it and even then it wasn't processing so after spending 2 WEEKS just trying to understand it and applying it to the other 2 WEEKS of working on it, I just suck f[inks] it and turned it into my professor's dropbox and got a 35 on it and got an 89.4% in the class.
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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2016, 09:28:47 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.

I mean, I often give up on papers before they're "perfect" in my--or my professors' eyes--and there are always assignment produced below the optimal level of quality, but I try to do it within a certain margin of "likely to produce an acceptable result".

Yeah, I try to put a lot of effort into my assignments and got 100's or 90's on all of them, but this one I just didn't understand AT ALL and tried to get tutoring help for it and even then it wasn't processing so after spending 2 WEEKS just trying to understand it and applying it to the other 2 WEEKS of working on it, I just suck f[inks] it and turned it into my professor's dropbox and got a 35 on it and got an 89.4% in the class.

89.4 that's rough
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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2016, 09:52:25 PM »

In Calculus 1 I skipped the final test since we were allowed to drop the lowest test grade, and I was fairly certain that even if I did study and took it that it would've been the lowest grade anyway (the others I all got As and Bs on.) Seemed pointless.
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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2016, 09:53:00 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.

I mean, I often give up on papers before they're "perfect" in my--or my professors' eyes--and there are always assignment produced below the optimal level of quality, but I try to do it within a certain margin of "likely to produce an acceptable result".

Yeah, I try to put a lot of effort into my assignments and got 100's or 90's on all of them, but this one I just didn't understand AT ALL and tried to get tutoring help for it and even then it wasn't processing so after spending 2 WEEKS just trying to understand it and applying it to the other 2 WEEKS of working on it, I just suck f[inks] it and turned it into my professor's dropbox and got a 35 on it and got an 89.4% in the class.

You're computers, right? I have a friend who takes programming classes to sub for her CIS electives--effing rough; if ya don't get it, you're kinna effed.
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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2016, 09:56:31 PM »

I aim to maximize my GPA for employment and grad school reasons, so I try to get as close to an A as I can, multiplied by six.

I try to as well, but once I literally rage quit an assignment after spending a month on it and not going anywhere with it, and this was this semester.

I mean, I often give up on papers before they're "perfect" in my--or my professors' eyes--and there are always assignment produced below the optimal level of quality, but I try to do it within a certain margin of "likely to produce an acceptable result".

Yeah, I try to put a lot of effort into my assignments and got 100's or 90's on all of them, but this one I just didn't understand AT ALL and tried to get tutoring help for it and even then it wasn't processing so after spending 2 WEEKS just trying to understand it and applying it to the other 2 WEEKS of working on it, I just suck f[inks] it and turned it into my professor's dropbox and got a 35 on it and got an 89.4% in the class.

You're computers, right? I have a friend who takes programming classes to sub for her CIS electives--effing rough; if ya don't get it, you're kinna effed.

Yeah, I SUCK at programming, it's why I chose to go into Networking and Network Security, since the relatively little coding there is simple enough to understand.
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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2016, 11:05:16 PM »

No, but I've often slacked off on my homework because I knew that the tests and quizzes would bring me up to a good grade.
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« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2016, 04:37:58 AM »

Of course I have. I remember completing that during the last night before deadline, as I've had too much pot during the day.
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« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2016, 01:11:08 PM »

Sure, all the time. I had to take a lot of stupid classes. I turned in a lot of bad English Comp papers, for example. I usually gave classes related to my major (chemistry) my best effort. I also tried really hard at my math classes. I once got an A on a Calculus 3 test. I had that test stuck on my dorm room fridge for months afterword.

The standards were so low in my 200-level biology class that each student received ten extra-credit points for being less than 10 minutes late to the labs. People still skipped them. I could have failed the final exam and still had a grade over 100%. And I wasn't even a biology major.

I did not pull an especially high GPA (less than 3.3), but I still ended up with a job eventually. My standards are much higher for my work now that I am out of academia.
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« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2016, 03:09:19 PM »

I showed up 5 times for my health class in college.  Day 1, Syllabus.  It had the days of the 4 tests on it.  I showed up those days.  Got a C in the class.  I didn't buy the US History text books, still passed the classes.  My HS GPS was just under 2.  My college GPA was worse.  It's never once prevented me from getting a job.
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« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2016, 06:43:39 PM »

I had a 100 going into the final in a world religions class freshman year so I didn't even bother spending a minute to study.
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« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2016, 06:59:22 PM »

I had a 100 going into the final in a world religions class freshman year so I didn't even bother spending a minute to study.

What did you end up getting on the final?
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2016, 09:10:55 PM »

I'm assuming your talking about college here, but no. Now, what I have done in high school is a BS assignment that the teacher just checks and you get credit for it. I have done that multiple times, but I don't think I've really just guessed and then turned something in that gets checked for accuracy.
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« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2016, 01:53:06 PM »

I'm assuming your talking about college here, but no. Now, what I have done in high school is a BS assignment that the teacher just checks and you get credit for it. I have done that multiple times, but I don't think I've really just guessed and then turned something in that gets checked for accuracy.
There are some really stupid assignments that are for participation in undergraduate, too. College professors, in my experience, are surprisingly lazy.
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« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2016, 11:43:32 AM »

College professors, in my experience, are surprisingly lazy.

And how would you know little boy? Do you spend all of your time around an academic department carefully observing the working environment? Have you ever marked any papers yourself? Do you have any idea what an absolute fycking nightmare of a hassle it is?
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« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2016, 11:46:36 AM »

College professors, in my experience, are surprisingly lazy.

And how would you know little boy? Do you spend all of your time around an academic department carefully observing the working environment? Have you ever marked any papers yourself? Do you have any idea what an absolute fycking nightmare of a hassle it is?

The worst is grading essay papers which basically suck, but once in awhile say something vaguely on point. One has to work hard to figure out how much above zero the detritus should fairly receive. As one who has found oneself engaged in such a grading task, it is indeed hell.
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« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2016, 02:07:03 PM »

If you get a liberal arts degree in America, you really should be BSing all your papers. If you have to put in effort, college isn't for you. Go be a welder or something. You'll make more money anyway.
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« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2016, 02:30:21 PM »

College professors, in my experience, are surprisingly lazy.

Undergrads are far more lazy. And needy. And whiny. I'm fleeing academia as soon as I finish grad school.
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« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2016, 04:40:39 PM »

If you get a liberal arts degree in America, you really should be BSing all your papers. If you have to put in effort, college isn't for you. Go be a welder or something. You'll make more money anyway.

As a welder? No you won't: it's not 1976 any more. Besides that's a skilled job that requires a lot of work as well...
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« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2016, 05:43:18 PM »

In Calculus 1 I skipped the final test since we were allowed to drop the lowest test grade, and I was fairly certain that even if I did study and took it that it would've been the lowest grade anyway (the others I all got As and Bs on.) Seemed pointless.

They let you drop the final?  Wow.
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« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2016, 06:23:04 PM »

In Calculus 1 I skipped the final test since we were allowed to drop the lowest test grade, and I was fairly certain that even if I did study and took it that it would've been the lowest grade anyway (the others I all got As and Bs on.) Seemed pointless.

They let you drop the final?  Wow.

My college does that too, your lowest grade gets dropped, even if it was the final.
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