SS: engineering grades

[ski]

C, C+, B-, and B

I had B+ or above going into finals for all of these classes, and somehow I managed to screw them up. WTF!!!!

I get really angry at myself for blowing 15 weeks of work in a 2 hour final, and Corsec can tell you all about it since I'm talking his ear off right now (well, on AIM :P)

Anyone else do poorly? Just say yes, make me believe everyone else did!

[ray]

I bombed in all of college with the exception of my final semester. The main thing to focus on is improving your average year to year. I wouldn't worry about it too much...you have a whole life ahead of you to worry about more important things in life :)

[ufcrusher]

I had an A going into a final and got a D in the class. To this day, I dont have any clue what happened since the final was only worth 40%. I was very annoyed and to this day curse that stupid class.

[ski]

The only thing is... I've been around for 6 semesters, and each 5 chances I've had for improvement, I've fallen every time in GPA. That's the only reason I would worry, so I am :eek:

[kei2]

hey man passing is passing. be glad they're all C or better.

[yippiekiyeh]

Maybe you should cut back on the |apex forums... :) Seriously though, sounds like you need to schedule some time to hit the books, maybe tutor group/study session.

[ski]

Maybe you should cut back on the |apex forums... :) Seriously though, sounds like you need to schedule some time to hit the books, maybe tutor group/study session.
That's a good idea, but we did group study for every final I had. Made our study sheets together, etc. The one thing to improve is getting together earlier than the night before the final :boxing:

[mcs328]

I took some engineering classes. Statics was easy...everything equals zero. Dynamics was a biiiiacth...rotating this way and that. Physics - Mechanics was easy...but electricity was not my thing. After Physics 3 and I think like 4 high level Math courses I think I switch majors. I went the Business/Info Sys route and the math was much easier and I could not believe the heavy dependence on calculators in the business classes.

[gwilks98]

Do the math yourself, just to make sure. Find out what it took to get the grade you got. If you're lucky, you may be able to argue a point here or there and raise the GPA by a point or two. Maybe there was a grading error.

If you're really lucky, you'll have a prof like I had and realize you were one question away from a higher grade and go ahead and give it to you because he knows you did the work. He said he re-reviewed my exam and saw a MC question marked right, then erased, so he called it "dimpled chad."

Good luck. I've been in your boat before.

[Kevster]

When I was in undergrad engineering school, we had a very tough program. The average EE GPA in major was around 2.5. Of course all the "core" requirements we had to take were relatively easy compared to our engineering classes so thats how my overall GPA was above 3.0.

When I was a junior, I failed Differential Equations. That screwed me on some other classes in my shcedule and I had to wait a whole year to take those classes again. So I went to an academic counselor and got myself back on track. I took advantage of my school's Learning Resource Center and got some educational counseling on why the way I was studying wasn't working for me. They gave me some different learning strategies to try and some of them worked out much better. Nobody learns the same way and what works for one person may not necessarily work for someone else.

I took Differential Equations again with a different professor (who taught it very differently than the previous non-tenured instructor) and got an A- in the class. I got back on track and took a few other engineering classes to help make up for what I had to miss. I ended up ahead in the end since I got the opportunity to take more engineering elective courses in Microprocessors, silicon processing and VLSI design.

I ended up doing a lot better towards the end because I was able to lessen my course load from 18 units/semester to 16, but it took me one more year of school to graduate. As Gwilks98 said above, I wish you good luck. I've been in your boat before too.

Ski - if you want to talk about it, send me a PM.