wow, 5 pages

9/15/2006 11:34:57 AM

2 pages are probably just

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"I'm sure he would let you take the test early if you asked him....have you tried that yet?"

9/15/2006 11:40:51 AM

^thats a good idea. try that!

9/15/2006 11:55:02 AM

maybe i should have asked him if i could have taken it early...wish i'd thought of that

9/15/2006 12:55:24 PM

The prof is right ... you either drop now or seriously kiss ass and do A+ work. If you don't drop the class and it looks like you're going to fail the best you can hope for is some benevolent being (dean of whatever college the class is in) is going to let you change that one class to audit or credit only so it won't affect your GPA, but usually they want explanations, and a week in Vegas probably isn't going to get you very far.

9/15/2006 2:22:35 PM

I didn't read the five pages, but I have to say you are soooo wrong and the professor is soooo right. You made an agreement when you registered for the class... honor it and stop acting like a spoiled brat. You are way out of line thinking of trying to get somebody to put pressure on him.

9/15/2006 6:22:21 PM

Damn, you told him!

9/15/2006 6:27:51 PM

Actually, I thought the same way about such stuff when I was an undergrad as well. I'm not trying to be mean, I just feel strongly that this is a frivolous idea.

9/15/2006 6:34:49 PM

Welcome to 48 hours ago.

9/15/2006 6:44:20 PM

whatever

9/15/2006 6:45:21 PM

^^ hahaha

9/15/2006 6:49:58 PM

You've got a rude awakening coming once you finish school, kid...

9/15/2006 7:03:53 PM

and what's that, pray tell

9/15/2006 7:05:50 PM

Some lessons have to be learned by experience. Good luck to you, cereal.

9/15/2006 7:11:57 PM

what lesson do i have to learn here? not that i can blame you for not reading the thread, but i am fully aware that he has no obligation to help me out here. if it comes to it, i'll just take the 0 and do what i have to do to come out on top in the end, but you can't blame me for trying.

if it has to do with me mentioning going to outside sources to resolve the issue, i regret ever saying it. i only mentioned it because i figured someone would suggest going over his head, but i'm not the kind of person to do that, especially not when he's in the right.

i've been through a lot growing up and am probably more "socially aware" than the average kid my age, so resist the urge to judge me based on the limited information you've gleaned from this thread.

9/15/2006 7:16:12 PM

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"You've got a rude awakening coming once you finish school, kid..."

Yeah, you can use vacation days to go to vegas and get drunk whenever you damn well please. It's rough I tell ya.

9/15/2006 7:41:58 PM

hahah you guys are such jealous little assholes, it sickens me

9/15/2006 7:45:12 PM

hahah the Voice of Reason!

9/15/2006 7:51:20 PM

omfg a guy wants to take a week off and go do something fun? WHAT THE FUCK? I NEVER GET TO HAVE FUN

9/15/2006 7:53:20 PM

i realize that this response isn't helpful to you at this point, but it's never a good idea to plan to skip a class until you know it's okay for sure. case in point, 2 people in my vet school class skipped a lab to fly to the notre dame/penn state game, and now they get an incomplete for the whole course, have to take this one 3 hr lab with next year's class, and there's a course that we are supposed to take 1st quarter next year that they won't be able to take until 2nd quarter when they've completed the lab. lesson learned i guess!

9/15/2006 8:11:07 PM

oh wow, that really sucks. luckily this won't have that big of an effect on my future as that. and unfortunately this trip was planned months ago before i was even aware of it.

9/15/2006 8:18:16 PM

Have you tried asking to take the test early?

9/15/2006 8:19:16 PM

I can't belieive you think planning your trip months ahead has anything to do with this.

9/15/2006 8:20:55 PM

I can't believe you're still bothering yourself with this thread.

9/15/2006 8:21:46 PM

I'm taking a break and hopefullly helping you out, stranger.

9/15/2006 8:22:51 PM

One of the people who posted in here is your professor, but I am not telling who.

9/15/2006 8:26:24 PM

^^ I appreciate the thought, but how about some advice rather than subjective opinion if you actually care to help

9/15/2006 8:29:46 PM

OK, I think you should cancel the trip, or if you can't for some reason then drop the class and take it again next year, maybe with a few grad courses to make it look good. You are obviously very bright, but unless you are sure you can ace the class if you get a zero, you are taking a big risk... employers / grad schools are going to get suspicious of an anonymously bad grade in the senior year, and if they smell "unreliable" (immature) you are going to get passed over. At least that's what people I've worked with/for would do to you...

9/15/2006 8:35:19 PM

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. This class is an intro-level class for my major though, and most (if not all) the material is old hat to me. As such, I'm fairly certain acing the rest of the class won't be an issue, and I've handled the situation such that I believe I'm still in my professor's good graces. I think he'll help me out come December with my overall grade, and I'd much rather suffer a slight drop in performance than delay completion of the class yet another year.

[Edited on September 15, 2006 at 8:40 PM. Reason : sdf]

9/15/2006 8:40:32 PM

You guys get to try on old hats in class? I wouldn't miss that for the world.

9/15/2006 8:43:17 PM

I knew paerabol had his head on straight.

9/15/2006 8:47:37 PM

Wish my family would have surprised me with a trip to Vegas on my 21st. Fucking crybaby.





Just kidding. Hope you're having a blast in Vegas!

9/16/2006 6:44:35 AM

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"and I've handled the situation such that I believe I'm still in my professor's good graces. I think he'll help me out come December with my overall grade"

so you're hoping for a handout later instead?

9/16/2006 11:17:25 AM

Teachers are people too. Sometimes we actually do feel sympathy for students and understand certain situations are unavoidable (even if its a fun family trip).

I would probably be a hardass about it exactly like your professor, but if you worked extremely hard the rest of the semester, I might be willing to help you out. Although, I wouldn't expect much in the way of a handout. My idea of helping out is decimal points: giving you a B- (79.54 = 80) over a C+ (79.44=79). And I know a lot of teachers who feel that way as well.

9/16/2006 11:48:10 AM

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"This class is an intro-level class for my major though"

WTF kind if shitty major only has an intro class once a year? There were 234554 sections for my intro classes both semesters.

9/16/2006 12:05:48 PM

i dont know why you didnt ask your advisor. your advisor would be aware everything you could and should do.

9/16/2006 1:07:06 PM

^^ the intro to nuclear class is only offered once a year, as is every nuclear engineering class there is.

9/16/2006 3:09:14 PM

keep it jungle, b.

9/16/2006 3:31:04 PM

9/16/2006 10:45:19 PM