Did you ever barely pull it off?

[Enlitx]

The following semesters after I made this thread, I have done much better in school. I went to rehab and have been clean for over a year and a half now. I haven't used any adderall to study in two years. I have earned a 4.0 in the last three semesters of school, and this last semester I actually received an A+ in every single class. I was pretty proud of myself considering I took BIOC 431, BIOC 432, BIOC 498, BIOS 312, CSE 150 and CSE 155 all in the same semester. Life is so much more enjoyable once you become responsible.

 

[aanallein]

I had 5 classes in college where I went to class three times the entire quarter and still passed (first day, midterm, final). I still have nightmares about those classes though.

Finishing in 4 was my crowning achievement though. For how well I did in highschool I was very unprepared to take college seriously. I took maximum course load the last 2 quarters and 22 units over summer and got A's in everything (maybe like 1 B+ don't remember now) to squeak in and complete my 180 units and get my BA. I didn't have a lease lined up for the following year, was tired of college in general, and tuition was going up by some absurd amount (i think 20% or more that year) and didn't want to double my student debt burden from 20k to 40k simply because I jerked around and couldn't wrap it up in 4 so I busted my ass. I quit my job and basically lived at the library. My friends all assumed I had fallen off the earth lol.

 

[RedLeader]

I put off taking my mandatory (unless you test out) year of foreign language until my last year of undergrad. Basically I took a few years of German in high school, but decided to just take German101 my senior year, as opposed to trying something new (I slept through the exemption exams, and my school had a rule that only incoming freshmen could test out of the foreign language requirement!) Anyway, it was really easy for me still, since things tend to always be the second time around.

Anyway, I had a solid grade going, despite slacking off bigtime in the course. But our final for the first semester was a GROUP PRESENTATION. It was only worth like 25% of the semester grade, but still, a significant chunk. And I got put into a group of three, and one of the other people was this guy who just couldn't do it. Not that he didn't try, but he was just absolutely horrible. Terrible anxiety and terrible memory. Since our whole group would get the same grade, I knew we were doomed, because he'd never remember his lines.

Anyway, we had to make up a 5 minute skit, where our theme was that we were a group of German first-year students, arriving at the dormatory and discussing basic things. Me and the other decent person wrote up a skit, and gave the risky guy all of his lines to memorize.

After about 2 minutes in, it was going terribly. He didn't know anything, and me and the third girl were doing our best to improvise and make the seconds pass by. But by around the 3:30 mark, it basically hit a wall. So I took a HUGE risk and basically did this:

Me (in German): Which courses are you taking?
Guy (in German): What, I don't understand.
Me (in German): I saw you in my English language course, right? :nods:
Guy (in German): Yes
Me (in English): Would we...no. Would you want to...exercise English with we? No. With me?
Girl (in German): Me too!
Girl (in English): I in back of room sit. Yes.

...and so on for another 1:30.

The professor just about had a heart attack from laughing (crazy old German lady...I knew she'd probably go with it). I don't know if this has ever been portrayed on a sitcom before, but I claim originality. We ended up getting a sympathy grade high enough to allow for me to get what I needed for the semester, but it was a risk nontheless.

 

[Transcendence]

is that for general chem 1. if so how is the ACS test? im going to be taking that in about 2 weeks.

The ACS test is easy. Unfortunately I somehow failed the fucking thing even though I was getting A's and B's on tests in my Honors Gen Chem course. I must have skipped one of the multiple choice and threw the whole thing off or something, but god damn I was pissed when I saw that. Especially considering that the final replaces one of your regular semester tests if you do better on it, so all I needed to get was an 80% or higher to get an A. Instead I got a 50% and ended up with a C for the semester in chem.

fuk.

I needed to get a 3.00 to maintain a very large 4 year scholarship I have. The first semester I smoked blunts all day every day, slept till 2:00 PM and never went to class and ended up with straight Bs and a 3.02. My major is among the most difficult and I was on an honors tract so I didn't feel too bad, but it still sucked when held up to my personal standards. I pledged to try harder second semester, did for the first 3 or 4 weeks, then fell into doing the same shit as first semester only on an even larger scale. Failed 2 finals and ended up with 2 Cs 1 B and 3 A's for a 3.04.

That's cutting it close alright. I need to shape the fuck up for next year, which is going to be much harder (organic chem, biochem, physics, genetics, etc)
So yeah