Intelligence associated with grades

I took an advanced Spanish class during the term I spent at a uni (I've taken like 9 years of spanish) and I loved it. Because I loved it so much and was genuinely interested in becoming fluent in another language I did well in the class and even did the work willingly. I had an A not even a week before the term came to an end, but I missed a class during that week, which meant my 7th missed class, which also meant an automatic fail. There's a perfect example.......

 

HA! If I was an 85% student I'd get a 90% for showing up half of the time. But certain profs grade the 10% at random. So, by chance I could be sick for odd days throughout the year and be docked marks for those particular days. I really try hard - honest I do. But I'm not the kind of person who has or will ever have 100% attendance.

 

i took one class, due to my work schedule (i had three jobs, 20 hours/ week each) that i never showed up for. however, i did the work, conferred with the professor and developed a self-study program. it was great. i did have to show up once per week, though, to discuss my progress and clarify requirements.

 

a lot of people don't realize that professors will work with you on these things. many of them have a great deal of respect for working students who are willing to meet them during office hours. the professor i had would allow me to record his class because i was the one putting myself through college, with no money assistance from anyone or anywhere. request the situation respectfully, be respectful of the check ups of your progress and do the work.

 

At the college I just quit there was an automatic fail rule. It didn't matter if you were in a horrible accident and put in the hospital. If you miss 4 classes in any class in the English/Humanities building you fail.

 

yea, at my school, i'd have to break my legs and then bend over to get fucked in the ass to even get a prof to agree to anything resembling independent study

 

You guys might want to read this:

"Education is Ignorance"
http://www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm

 

*shrugs*

I have a learning disability so at least 20 staff members know me by my first name at school. It's not always easy to convince the prof that you're having a hard time with something in their class either or ask them what you are looking for. They either tend to want to treat you like everyone else in the class and are less willing to help you or they try and help as much as they can but prefer the Student Disability Department handle whatever concerns I have.

So I'm like, always dealing with my profs and the SDD people. It still doesn't make me any more or less punctual however.

 

I think it's a mixture of intelligence and hard work. I find that I get less than stellar marks if I just rush through my work. But other times I've had great ideas in my essays and good marks on the tests that I've gotten good marks. But I also find that I'm a visual-spatial learner which makes it hard to go along with the way that the teacher teaches the class.

 

it's not hard work or intelligence, it is an ability to turn off, record, copy, and put it in the right boxes.

it did not used to be that way, but school isn't about learning anymore, it is about being able to be machined into the component needed

I score ridiculously high on pretty much every test I take (unless somewhere it involves running any distance) but I am terrible at school because I lack the patience for the mechanism of it. almost every job I have had, I have been described as an incredibly hard worker, and I have more than once been described as the best hiring decision ever made.

So, genius I.Q. hard worker, but I do not do well in school, I can tell you right now, I don't do well because I am incredibly defiant, and I have enough self loathing that I don't feel like I deserve to succeed, so, it's got nothing to do with being either a hard worker or intelligent.

 

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I think a LOT of getting good grades in school is effort, and the ability to complete stuff the way they want you to. I just feel like they're trying to ram all this information down our throats and not really taking the time to teach us well. But I have had a few teachers that were genuinely good teachers and they really tried to help you understand things.