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03-01-2005, 05:15 PM
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Re: College Advice.
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You should quit school and become an internet poker pro. [/ QUOTE ] Brilliant. 
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#4
03-01-2005, 05:16 PM
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Re: College Advice.
Awesome, these responses are great so far. I especially like this PM I got shortly after I posted.
from granny50 [ QUOTE ] I can help you out. I can offer you private online lessons via messenger or AOL. For more information here's my (beta) website: http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/shehzad20/index.htm [/ QUOTE ] sexypanda: yes I am taking precalc in college, my high school advisor [censored] me over and instead of taking it in high school they put me in Algebra 3. So it didn't count as exempting it. jakethebake: Quarter mid-life crisis.. hmm thats interesting. Maybe I should buy a $60,000 car and forget about college. Patrick: About to go buy WoW now, cheers! mmbt0ne: I'm guessing you are a GA resident as well. I know I'm getting evaluated this semester, but I never heard about the 2/3 class rule. Can you show me a link? voltron: My gut is telling me that as well. Boris: No, I'm not a troll, I'm just starting to post in OOT more than the strat forums. Thanks for the comments. I'm still trying to adjust to college which is why I didn't go to 100% of my classes. Parents were assholes so I enjoyed my freedom a little bit too much, sue me. Oh and the HOPE scholarship is a regular Georgia thing. Every high school student who graduates with a 3.0 or above gets it. Not a huge deal to get. Not changing my major, there's nothing else I would rather do than computers. It's what I enjoy in life. Thanks for the words of encouragement. ChoicestHops: I'm going to talk to my advisor tomorrow and make sure that I can drop these classes and keep Hope if my GPA is good. Patrick: Yea, calc blows. I was actually thinking of doing a dual-major in engineering but I decided against it because it was an extremem amount of work. 18 hour semesters minimum. Yea, I know I [censored] up dropping so many classes. Not going to class has already cost me two classes so far this semester. Another one I missed a paper and a quiz on the same day, so my 90 average went to a 30. Last semester I started with 15 hours and ended with 8, and this semester I started with 12 and will be ending with 7 probably. That's what my Dad says too about working now so you don't have to in the future. Good advice, I'm trying to take it. bosoxfan: Dude, you are so right. Screw college.
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#5
03-01-2005, 05:28 PM
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Re: College Advice.
Seriously, if you honestly care about pulling your grades back up, you'll forget that WoW ever existed. If you pick up WoW, I'll definitely take the under on your GPA.
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#8
03-01-2005, 05:59 PM
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Re: College Advice.
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Seriously, if you honestly care about pulling your grades back up, you'll forget that WoW ever existed. If you pick up WoW, I'll definitely take the under on your GPA. [/ QUOTE ] this is very very true. having the above knowledge, if you still go out and buy this game you are basically saying that you dont really give a [censored] and are destined to lose your scholarship.
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#9
03-01-2005, 05:40 PM
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Re: College Advice.
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Here's the situation. I'm a second semester freshmen in college at the moment. I've got 8 hours earned last semester (after dropping 6 hours) with a 2.75 GPA. I'm currently on the HOPE scholarship which pays my tuition and some other things. This requires me to maintain a 3.0 GPA. It is pretty crucial I keep this scholarship because my family is middle/lower class and can't afford to send me to school. So I'd have to take out a few loans. Roughly $6000 per semester. So I'm working on bringing my GPA back up. I've now found out that I am failing Precalculus with only 2 more tests left in the semester. I have a 55 in the class at the moment. If I stay in Precalculus the minimum I can get would be a C. Or else it would be pretty detrimental to my already shaky GPA. The reason I'm not doing well though is because I've missed so much of class, not because I don't understand the material. However, if I drop Precalc now, with my remaining classes and the grades I expect to make in them (based on my current grades) I am almost 90% sure that my GPA will be above a 3.0 next semester. And then I would be able to retain my scholarship. But I'm already a semester behind, and this class is a basic core class that I will have to take if I want to advance in my major (Computer Science). So, my question is: Should I try and stick it out and bring up the 55 or, should I drop the class and just focus on bringing my GPA up this semester and not worry about being a semester behind? [/ QUOTE ] Precalc? In college? Comp Sci major? These 3 things seem incompatible. Also: [ QUOTE ] Reged: 01/12/05 Posts: 764 [/ QUOTE ] Get the fck out of here and don't come back until after the end of the semester. This is a ridiculous amount of time you've wasted, and you can see the results already. You've got zero chance of making it if you keep doing what you're doing. Zero. (Yes, I'm being a dick. I don't care.)
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#10
03-01-2005, 05:43 PM
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Re: College Advice.
How do they seem incompatible?
I came here and wanted to get better at poker. I am getting better, so I'm going to continue to post. It's not time wasted in my mind. I asked for advice, not dickhead demands.
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