Where did it all go wrong?
I look through my current school transcript and notice some very ugly things... For instance....
Linear Algebra 2.... 50
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Linear Algebra 1.... 56
Calculus 2.... 59
Add a couple WD's and a WF and you have a general idea of my disasterous undergraduate career. I am what you call a "bottom feeder" in the Honours Math program - having managed to maintain a cumulative average barely above the minimum to remain in "good standing". Honestly, I'm surprised I even made it 3 years in co-op. If I was a minor league baseball player I probably would have been released by a long time ago!
I remember cramming for a final (for one of my "50" courses) last fall, and Sen asked me, "How the hell did you even get into UW Math?" To answer his question, there was once a time in high school when I excelled in courses like Algebra and Calculus, believe it or not. Winning the OAC Algebra & Geometry award was probably my highlight, and with an average in the 90s I proudly accepted my admission offer to one of the toughest univerity Mathematics programs in the world, having no idea that I would soon be raped and eaten alive by Taylor Polynomials, Enumerations, and the theorems I can't prove to save my life!
So I stop and wonder, what exactly is it that's leading to my downfall?
I came up with a few possible explanations....
I enrolled in the wrong program
Math has never interested me. High school math is easy, which was the only reason why I ever liked it... so maybe a transfer to a different program or school is what I need.
I am a lazy fuck
My low grades are simply the result of laziness. If I learn to manage my time and not be easily distracted, I should be fine. No transfer necessary.
I have become more right-brained
Over the last few years, my social life, new friends, and interaction with females have transformed me into more of a "people person". (I didn't date in high school.) As a result, I now use more of my energy for the right (emotional) side of my brain, but at the expense of the left (logical) side.
I'm too stupid
I simply don't have the cognitive capacity to succeed in university without giving up my social life and all extra-curricular activites. I really shouldn't be here.
Linear Algebra 2.... 50
.
.
Linear Algebra 1.... 56
Calculus 2.... 59
Add a couple WD's and a WF and you have a general idea of my disasterous undergraduate career. I am what you call a "bottom feeder" in the Honours Math program - having managed to maintain a cumulative average barely above the minimum to remain in "good standing". Honestly, I'm surprised I even made it 3 years in co-op. If I was a minor league baseball player I probably would have been released by a long time ago!
I remember cramming for a final (for one of my "50" courses) last fall, and Sen asked me, "How the hell did you even get into UW Math?" To answer his question, there was once a time in high school when I excelled in courses like Algebra and Calculus, believe it or not. Winning the OAC Algebra & Geometry award was probably my highlight, and with an average in the 90s I proudly accepted my admission offer to one of the toughest univerity Mathematics programs in the world, having no idea that I would soon be raped and eaten alive by Taylor Polynomials, Enumerations, and the theorems I can't prove to save my life!
So I stop and wonder, what exactly is it that's leading to my downfall?
I came up with a few possible explanations....
I enrolled in the wrong program
Math has never interested me. High school math is easy, which was the only reason why I ever liked it... so maybe a transfer to a different program or school is what I need.
I am a lazy fuck
My low grades are simply the result of laziness. If I learn to manage my time and not be easily distracted, I should be fine. No transfer necessary.
I have become more right-brained
Over the last few years, my social life, new friends, and interaction with females have transformed me into more of a "people person". (I didn't date in high school.) As a result, I now use more of my energy for the right (emotional) side of my brain, but at the expense of the left (logical) side.
I'm too stupid
I simply don't have the cognitive capacity to succeed in university without giving up my social life and all extra-curricular activites. I really shouldn't be here.
Labels: James
posted by James | 7/26/2006 04:10:00 AM
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7 comments
7 Comments:
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Sen
Boy I feel like the mosquito at the nudist colony - I don't know where to begin.
7/26/2006 11:56:00 AMIt's not you've gotten dumber. It's that everyone around you is that much smarter. Going from a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big pond is the hardest part of one's transition to UW. So don't feel bad.
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Brock Campbell
so sen, ur saying that james IS dumb. Well, at least relatively to the others in his faculty, like yourself?
7/28/2006 05:11:00 PM-
Tristan
James
7/28/2006 08:40:00 PMI don't see this as your downfall but merely a bump in the road of life. All of us in life fuck up here or there, the fact that you passed these classes shows something. It shows that you are capable of continuing on with what you are currently doing in School. You made it this far, don't give up, and with a little persistance you will make it in the end.
This term feels like hell, and by God We'll get fucking trashed by the end of exams. That and we can blow up something in the process!
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Smiley
whats WF ?
7/30/2006 02:49:00 PM-
James
Smiley,
7/30/2006 03:32:00 PMWF is for dropping a course after the drop deadline has passed. It counts as a failure.
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James
Well I don't exactly enjoy "faking it".
7/31/2006 11:20:00 PM-
Anonymous
I can relate. I console myself by saying that stupid at waterloo is still average in the world....
8/02/2006 04:15:00 AMPost a Comment
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