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My experience with university is that one can easily get at least a B+ if one attends every class, completes every assignment, and attends every tutorial to ens

My experience with university is that one can easily get at least a B+ if one attends every class, completes every assignment, and attends every tutorial to ensure they understand most, if not every, basic concept. So, I never understood why students could complain that a class is too hard, especially for classes as fundamental and structured as organic chemistry. I'm sorry to break to the snowflakes, but Organic Chemistry is easy. Can't we just tough up? Or as my professor used to tell me when I was trying to explain to him that I got B+ for my complex analysis course because that class "was too hard": math is math. Don't look for excuses.

Thetawaves 4y ago
I'm sure most autodidacts can appreciate this, but I can't help but consider: He is paid to teach - is he performing that role effectively if his students aren't learning?
- bell-cot 4y ago
  Was his recent teaching (or attempts to teach) substantially different from what it was 5-10 years ago, when he (seemingly) was considered satisfactory? Or were the students he was given this year academically weaker, and just too pissed off with the whole COVID / remote learning / student debt / etc. situation (none of which was his fault) to put up with a weeder course (which OC always is) where the professor was too idealistic / stubborn / whatever to lower the standard "as far as it took"?
  - sudosysgen 4y ago
    There are comments from more than ten years ago complaining about the unfairness of exams being on matter which wasn't even seen, so it may just be accumulation of complaints and previous conflicts with university administration coming to a head.
birdyrooster 4y ago
Your emotional intelligence quotient is on the left half of the bell curve. So is mine, we can be friends.
7thaccount 4y ago
I think it depends on the university. I found engineering and math classes to be brutal. Sure I made plenty of A's, but I had to do a whole lot more than show up and do homework. I had to put in long hours to pass the tests. I also made more than a few C's and it wasn't due to any lack of effort.
thomassmith65 4y ago
Aha! So it's just as I always suspected: everyone but me is a bad person. /s

Thetawaves 4y ago

I'm sure most autodidacts can appreciate this, but I can't help but consider: He is paid to teach - is he performing that role effectively if his students aren't learning?

bell-cot 4y ago
Was his recent teaching (or attempts to teach) substantially different from what it was 5-10 years ago, when he (seemingly) was considered satisfactory? Or were the students he was given this year academically weaker, and just too pissed off with the whole COVID / remote learning / student debt / etc. situation (none of which was his fault) to put up with a weeder course (which OC always is) where the professor was too idealistic / stubborn / whatever to lower the standard "as far as it took"?
- sudosysgen 4y ago
  There are comments from more than ten years ago complaining about the unfairness of exams being on matter which wasn't even seen, so it may just be accumulation of complaints and previous conflicts with university administration coming to a head.

birdyrooster 4y ago

Your emotional intelligence quotient is on the left half of the bell curve. So is mine, we can be friends.

7thaccount 4y ago

I think it depends on the university. I found engineering and math classes to be brutal. Sure I made plenty of A's, but I had to do a whole lot more than show up and do homework. I had to put in long hours to pass the tests. I also made more than a few C's and it wasn't due to any lack of effort.

thomassmith65 4y ago

Aha! So it's just as I always suspected: everyone but me is a bad person. /s