Failed my first class ever

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How, exactly, did you fail this class? What class was it? Why didn't you drop it when you found out you were over your head? What level of education are you at?

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I failed the class because I wasn't smart enough to read the syllabus and realize that if I don't pick up all of my quizes from the professor during his office hours then they become zeros. It's not like I didn't do the work or wasn't doing well in the class. I didn't drop it when I found out I was over my head because I was never over my head, I did decently in the class so my failure had nothing to do with the quality of my work, but more with my stupidity. As for level of education, first semester freshman. The class was kind of a joke anyway. It was about witch hunting and witch trials. It did however fulfill part of a gen-ed requirement. So I'll have to take another class to fulfill that requirement.

[asofel]

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The class was kind of a joke anyway. It was about witch hunting and witch trials.

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dude, that's sweet. not quite as good as my luckbox friends who took "pool" as a course...

[edtost]

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How, exactly, did you fail this class? What class was it? Why didn't you drop it when you found out you were over your head? What level of education are you at?

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I failed the class because I wasn't smart enough to read the syllabus and realize that if I don't pick up all of my quizes from the professor during his office hours then they become zeros. It's not like I didn't do the work or wasn't doing well in the class. I didn't drop it when I found out I was over my head because I was never over my head, I did decently in the class so my failure had nothing to do with the quality of my work, but more with my stupidity. As for level of education, first semester freshman. The class was kind of a joke anyway. It was about witch hunting and witch trials. It did however fulfill part of a gen-ed requirement. So I'll have to take another class to fulfill that requirement.

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this is perhaps the most retarded policy i've ever heard.

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I failed the class because I can't read

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But seriously... whatever, its one damn class. Wouldnt worry too much.

Al,

From what I understand, the F never disappears from your record. For example, I have 12 credit hours of Fs from my one attempt at college. If I can find 4 classes out here (my first attempt was in New Mexico, now I'm in Texas) that are a close match to the title/course description of the 4 classes I failed, I can take those, and have the grade I receieve in those classes count toward the classes I failed. The Fs are still visible to anyone looking, but they don't get counted toward my GPA. The new grades do, AFAIK. My information comes from the head of the admissions department at a large public Texas university, so I may have certain details wrong, but the gist of it is correct. Its not like the Fs vanish, but they won't drag my GPA into the dirt, thankfully.

I can see why you might have an aversion to the practice being allowed, but if someone wants to burden themselves with retaking classes they did poorly in, why not allow it? If, in fact, college is about [blearning[/b], then this should even be encouraged. Maybe.

edited for: I failed - or got Ds in - a good 1/3rd of my high school classes, and I completely bombed out of the one semester of college I went to. I went to class just enough at the beginning of the semester to make sure I got on the rolls, and then I promptly neglected to go to any classes, any exams... in fact, I think I forgot where all my classes were. Go me. If I knew then what I know now... I'd be a dorky little bastard with a degree in Comparative Theology or something equally useless.

yasher

[diebitter]

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The class was kind of a joke anyway. It was about witch hunting and witch trials. It did however fulfill part of a gen-ed requirement. So I'll have to take another class to fulfill that requirement.

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[jaxUp]

cancer is twice as common among those who have failed a course. Don't think of it as the end of the world...more like the start of chemotherapy.

[kenberman]

look on the bright side:

You're still a donkey kong king

[SL__72]

Hopefully you are at a school where you can replace the grade after you retake it. Schools like that are awesome. The 2nd time through is a lot easier...

[Koss]

I failed 3, and I'm about to graduate.

[Aloysius]

DKK - Your life isn't over. There are many factors that will weight the importance of this failing grade. It is not good though, obviously.

In general, the earlier in your academic career the better. So if this is your freshman year... it's an easier thing to explain (for any grad school or employer that requests a transcript), chalking it up to being a frosh jackass.

Is this class in your major? If it is, and you're looking to apply to grad school specific to your major... obvioulsy this hurts alot. You would likely have to append an explanation for this failing grade in any app.

Bottom-line: Hopefully this F is an anomaly. This is good because 1) easier to explain as an outlier in your otherwise successful academic career and 2) obvioulsy won't affect your GPA that much.

Study Harder!
-Al

Edit - Hahaha yeah Sam, I've NEVER heard of an undergrad that allows you to "take a class over", meaning you get to replace the "F" with the new grade. That's ridiculous.

My brother went to Brown, which had a thing where if you are about to fail, you can switch it to "no grade" or something gay like that. Lame, also.

Edit 2 - Yasher/Melchy - I am seriously surprised that decent undergrads allow their students to repeat a failed class, and wipe out the previous F with the new grade.

The fact they got an F isn't somehow recorded, at all, on the transcript? Lame.