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>You actually hacked the system to take your time and money and not give you a good result. And what if I earned 100% on the 2 midterms and a 94% on the final?
by jdmt 13y ago
>You actually hacked the system to take your time and money and not give you a good result.
And what if I earned 100% on the 2 midterms and a 94% on the final? I got a 96% in that physics class. Other students told me that their exam grades improved after starting to use the forum. Not sure how I didn't get a good result. Again, I'd like to say that rushing to judgement of other people's situations isn't beneficial to anyone. I feel as though my initial post was very on topic and was kind of hurt when it was downvoted within a few minutes. We're all here to help and support each other.
By the way, I'm new to posting on HN and am wondering how you made your text italics?
- chasing 13y agoSurround something in asterisks for italics. :-) You're assuming that a particular grade is a good result. It's an issue I think a lot of students have -- I certainly did. And it's not exactly the fault of students... The whole system seems geared towards the "good grade = success" metric. It's a weird kind of institutional laziness. I don't know your specific situation, and I also don't really care if you cheated in your class and still got an A. And I'm happy that you got some programming skills out of it! But -- as someone who now teaches at a couple of universities -- I want students to be engaged, to not treat the work cynically, and to actually do the work I assign. As a professor, I am not only more experienced than you, but I know a lot you don't know. Trust me. That's why they hired me. If you consider the class nothing but useless busy-work, get out of the class. An engaged student who tries hard and gets a C is preferable to a student who does show up, cheats, and gets a A. That C is way more respectable than the A and the C student should take more pride in it than the A student. (And it's sad that our system doesn't really allow that.) Don't get confused about what the actual goal of education is.
- jdmt 13y agoThanks for teaching me the italics trick! I promise, I love to learn! I agree with most of what you said. In fact, it's due to a few of my classes (especially that physics class) that I'd like to become a professor some day. I want to teach kids much better than those few terrible professors I had to learn from (I had no other choice in teacher). > If you consider the class nothing but useless busy-work, get out of the class. Trust me, if I could have I would have. Unfortunately these classes were prereq's for the classes (and major) that I cared about. I knew the material well enough to get decent grades and didn't care beyond that. I would have gladly traded a seat for a student who cared (especially a student who couldn't afford to go to college!)