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Sep. 18th, 2003 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidToday I had my appointment with the undergraduate director of computer science. I had been told by the director of my program (cognitive science) that COGS students that didn't meet minimum requirements for COSC courses could go get them waived on an individual basis. So I tell that to the guy, and he tells me that they will only correct errors that the admissions department made and that if I don't have the prereqs, I'm not going in just because I'm a COGS student.
ARGG!!! I thought that this was supposed to be easy.
Well, I actually had the pre-reqs, since I had managed to pass a few math courses in cégep after failing them a few times. The thing is, I had planned on fudging the details a little bit, but when I got in his office, I peeked at his monitor and he had my entire (academic) life available at his fingertips. Scary. After I told him that the passing grade in cégep was 60% (which is accurate, but which made me look worse than if I had said 50%, but at that point I had decided that I should stick with the truth, all the truth, and only the truth in case it was revealed that I tried to fudge stuff), he managed to figure out which of the grades were for courses that I passed... The thing is, ALL of my cégep grades were there, including all the courses that I failed, even if I passed them later on. I hadn't forgotten that part of my life, but seeing all of these very very very low grades was quite traumatizing. The guy actually stopped talking and kept looking at my grades, and I was waiting for him to ask me why I had failed these courses so much and start questioning whether I had actually learned anything there. Which would have been a very valid question. I actually plan on retaking these courses, because I passed by cramming, which is no way to remember math, which I will need to know to do funky AI stuff.
"Okay, it's fine."
Fucking hell. I walked out of there traumatized. That was one extra year of school right there. Like, $15,000 or something.
Oh yeah, I had passed that one cégep math course I needed with 62%, 2 percent above the pass grade. Then and now, I've been driving far too close to the edge...
ARGG!!! I thought that this was supposed to be easy.
Well, I actually had the pre-reqs, since I had managed to pass a few math courses in cégep after failing them a few times. The thing is, I had planned on fudging the details a little bit, but when I got in his office, I peeked at his monitor and he had my entire (academic) life available at his fingertips. Scary. After I told him that the passing grade in cégep was 60% (which is accurate, but which made me look worse than if I had said 50%, but at that point I had decided that I should stick with the truth, all the truth, and only the truth in case it was revealed that I tried to fudge stuff), he managed to figure out which of the grades were for courses that I passed... The thing is, ALL of my cégep grades were there, including all the courses that I failed, even if I passed them later on. I hadn't forgotten that part of my life, but seeing all of these very very very low grades was quite traumatizing. The guy actually stopped talking and kept looking at my grades, and I was waiting for him to ask me why I had failed these courses so much and start questioning whether I had actually learned anything there. Which would have been a very valid question. I actually plan on retaking these courses, because I passed by cramming, which is no way to remember math, which I will need to know to do funky AI stuff.
"Okay, it's fine."
Fucking hell. I walked out of there traumatized. That was one extra year of school right there. Like, $15,000 or something.
Oh yeah, I had passed that one cégep math course I needed with 62%, 2 percent above the pass grade. Then and now, I've been driving far too close to the edge...
grades
Date: 2003-09-19 12:06 am (UTC)brooke
Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-19 08:23 pm (UTC)Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-19 08:24 pm (UTC)Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-20 10:42 am (UTC)I don't need no steenking livejournal! I have a diaryland diary. Actually I like the livejournal format better but I have the momentum thing going with diaryland.
brooke
Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-21 10:34 pm (UTC)p.s.: you are a freak! :P
Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-22 06:56 am (UTC)Yuck, why? Man, 3 or 4 courses is the perfect amount. This 9-different-courses thing is making me crazy - I can't even really keep track of them all in my head. I would probably totally forget to do any work for several of them without my elaborate accounting system. Don't be a chump like me!
Re: grades
Date: 2003-09-24 08:53 pm (UTC)I do plan on taking many summer courses for the next 2 or 3 summers though, that should keep me from taking on fall/winter loads that are too big.
This reminds me that I have to rewrite that damn CV...