captainballs
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Ha... I can't say this has ever happened to me - I always have a good excuse (drug addiction, forest fire, etc.). But seriously, there are some people out there who fail courses for reasons that most of us can not fathom. School is not really about intelligence so much as it is about figuring out the subject at hand (which really only requires work and persistence).
I opened this thread so we can all laugh about people who've crippled themselves in courses for no apparent excusable reason. These are people who know how to read, know how to write, but made irrational decisions that put the hurt on their grades.
For instance (true story):
My friend took the very first finance course this semester, and scored a D after countless hours of studying for the entire five-month period. Now, for those of you who have never taken a basic finance course, there's a calculator called the BA II Plus that really turns basic finance into something an 8th grader could ace. The professor will tell you, "Go buy this calculator today" on the first day of class. You can almost pound on the calculator with your fist and get the correct answer to Present Value, Interest Rate, etc. type problems. I can not stress enough how EASY this calculator makes life if you're taking a finance course.
My friend never got the calculator. I was too busy with my courses to pay attention to how bad his grades were getting, but I distinctly remember asking him before and during his course, "Do you have a BA II Plus?" "No?" "Well you better go get one... it makes finance a complete joke..."
He never ever got one.... and it's not like figuring out finance problems algebraically is impossible (to say the least), it's just that using the BA II Plus makes things RETARDEDLY EASY and FAST.
I just can't understand how a person can sit in class where everyone else has the calculator, and even the teacher is using one in front of class, and that person will still refuse to go to Wal Mart or Best Buy and just get one.
People like this keep me smiling - without them life would be boring. But they also make me want to bang my head against the wall until I pass out.
I opened this thread so we can all laugh about people who've crippled themselves in courses for no apparent excusable reason. These are people who know how to read, know how to write, but made irrational decisions that put the hurt on their grades.
For instance (true story):
My friend took the very first finance course this semester, and scored a D after countless hours of studying for the entire five-month period. Now, for those of you who have never taken a basic finance course, there's a calculator called the BA II Plus that really turns basic finance into something an 8th grader could ace. The professor will tell you, "Go buy this calculator today" on the first day of class. You can almost pound on the calculator with your fist and get the correct answer to Present Value, Interest Rate, etc. type problems. I can not stress enough how EASY this calculator makes life if you're taking a finance course.
My friend never got the calculator. I was too busy with my courses to pay attention to how bad his grades were getting, but I distinctly remember asking him before and during his course, "Do you have a BA II Plus?" "No?" "Well you better go get one... it makes finance a complete joke..."
He never ever got one.... and it's not like figuring out finance problems algebraically is impossible (to say the least), it's just that using the BA II Plus makes things RETARDEDLY EASY and FAST.
I just can't understand how a person can sit in class where everyone else has the calculator, and even the teacher is using one in front of class, and that person will still refuse to go to Wal Mart or Best Buy and just get one.
People like this keep me smiling - without them life would be boring. But they also make me want to bang my head against the wall until I pass out.
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