Most dropped courses at ISU this semester
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I stupidly took Honors 165 because I qualified for it. Actually had a professor, not a TA, but definitely not a native English speaker. Plus it was at 8 AM, so my first ever class at ISU was this. And to top it off, he used a different text book from all of the other sections. Fun times. I managed to survive my 4 semesters of calculus, but that was a rough first step.
I'm surprised Physics 221 isn't on there. That seemed to be the main engineering weed out course 10 years ago.
My session was in that dark big lecture hall in Kildee. Definitely dozed off a few times in that class, especially when talking about radiation waves. I signed up to learn about cool stuff like tornadoes, not that crap!
I dropped Math 150 the first time around and then learned how easy it was to cheat in that class. Mathway.com got me an easy A! Also it makes me feel really good about myself seeing Stat 226 on there knowing I got a B+ in it.
I remember that old lecture hall in Physics Hall with all the old wooden desks. I never took 221, but all the graffiti carved into those desks was about how terrible 221 and 222 was. Lol!
Yes, Lib 160 is the most failed course on campus, because, as stated, miss the first class auto fail. Many students forget about the class if they enroll in a second-half term section.
Worst ones were Lebaron and food science. Small seats, no air and lap boards.
Had geography 101 in FS. Took attendance, signed in on a piece of paper, each row got one. He changed it up after some rows of frat guys showed 30 people in a row that held like 18.
That course was a *****. It was the only course I tried doing extra work, such as going to study groups led by the TA. Nice guy, but I just couldn’t understand him. English was not his first language. I got to the last day before I could drop, did the math and new it was going to crush my GPA, so drop I did.
My only grade worse than a C+ was a D my first go at 221 my freshman year. That kicked me in the a**, turned it around into an A- the second go and that was with an insane curve. I want to say my average was like 81%.
CycloneErik
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I took Library because, yes, you have to. I meant that I bypassed most GE classes and took what I wanted that was related to my major. I see how my last post suggested otherwise. It's Friday. **** it.
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Did anyone else have Stephen Harper for Math 165? He was the best prof I ever had at ISU but a real piece of work, in mostly a good way.
He thought it was BS to start class before Labor Day, so we just kinda wasted the first week of class. And then he had a heart attack over Labor Day Weekend. So we got a new TA every week until Mid-Late October when he came back. At which point he said those guys were all stupid and basically jammed all of Math 165 into a month of lectures. I did okay in it, but I learned so much that Matt 166 was a breeze. Showed up for tests and that was it!
Ended up having him for Math 267 (Diff EQ) and was really psyched. And did well and learned a lot. Which I’ve all forgotten in the last 15+ years.
Last I knew he was flipping houses in Texas. Which if you knew him, isn’t all that surprising.
He thought it was BS to start class before Labor Day, so we just kinda wasted the first week of class. And then he had a heart attack over Labor Day Weekend. So we got a new TA every week until Mid-Late October when he came back. At which point he said those guys were all stupid and basically jammed all of Math 165 into a month of lectures. I did okay in it, but I learned so much that Matt 166 was a breeze. Showed up for tests and that was it!
Ended up having him for Math 267 (Diff EQ) and was really psyched. And did well and learned a lot. Which I’ve all forgotten in the last 15+ years.
Last I knew he was flipping houses in Texas. Which if you knew him, isn’t all that surprising.
Looks like most of the list is tied to people who want to be engineers but can't handle it.
One of the assignments? I remember that being damn near the entire grade! I believe the assignment was titled "Reading/copying weather forecasts".
I got a D in math 150 as a freshman. Retook it my Sr year on got a A.
The difference was a professor who could pronounce words correctly. Freshman year professor one day kept talking about something called a "resprobal". No one in class had a clue what he was talking about, turns out he was talking about a reciprocal. He thought we were all dumb for not knowing what he meant.
Sr year professor just called me out in class all the time and made fun of me as the "Sr FB player taking math 150" - jackass
The difference was a professor who could pronounce words correctly. Freshman year professor one day kept talking about something called a "resprobal". No one in class had a clue what he was talking about, turns out he was talking about a reciprocal. He thought we were all dumb for not knowing what he meant.
Sr year professor just called me out in class all the time and made fun of me as the "Sr FB player taking math 150" - jackass
