College
Ok, so I go to discussion, hoping to God that I won't sit there awkwardly because I didn't do the reading. Which, thankfully, for about 35 minutes or so, I didn't. HOWEVER, instead, there was an evaluation for our TA, and when that was done, he asked us if we had any questions about the class, himself, blah blah blah. So some girl(I'll refrain from curse words as much as possible here, for once. Huzzah, now buy me a drink.), asks our TA why we get B's and even more C's on our essays, thus lowering our GPA, therefore slimming down our chances to get in to grad school. And he tells her that there is an objective standard, and that he tries to apply it as objectively as he can. It's like I'm back in high school again. Holy crap, guys, I mean, I get it. I get where you're coming from. You want to get into grad school. You want a higher degree, because getting a Bachelor's is like getting a high school diploma back in the 70's. I get it. But I mean, really? You took this class. You came into Revelle knowing that there was going to be a tough Hum series you'd have to deal with. And YOU start complaining about your grades? When YOU knew that you were going to have to take this series? REALLY? I mean, come ON people! If you came into a Hum class, thinking that you were going to be handed easy A's without having to think critically about the text we're reading, then you're just dumb. Ok, so you chose Revelle because it has a high turnout to med schools. You STILL should have read everything about Revelle. I mean, it says on their description when you choose which college you want to apply to that Revelle has a hum series. Maybe, just maybe, you should have looked into that and looked at what other people said. Even a simple search on WIKIPEDIA says such things: "Revelle College's core writing course is known as Humanities (HUM), and is a notoriously challenging Western Civilization course that incorporates writing, history and other social science requirements into a five quarter (1 2/3 year) sequence that attempts to understand the greater social and literary developments throughout Western culture." You people are just running out of excuses.
Right now, I am incredibly thankful I was in the Magnet program. It sounds retardedly hypocritical of me, I know. After all, all I did was complain about having to take courses I don't want to take and having those courses weigh me down, but that's high school for you. You have to go through with it. It's not like I had a choice, really. I wasn't given the option to choose another school; however, college is different. College is all about you. You get to choose where you go, so long as you get accepted there. That's the only part where any outside influence comes in. If you don't get in, then that's that. However, for the other colleges you do get into, there is a choice. A choice in where you want to go. I don't know, it might not be different. I know I didn't have much of a choice. I had very little input as to where I wanted to go. And you, the people complaining about Hum, chose to come to Revelle. Where you should have known was a tough Hum series. And for people in my discussion who are complaining, again, you chose Caldwell. The toughest out of the three. Everyone knows he's the most difficult. I didn't know until some of my friends told me, but I still chose him. You don't have a right to complain if you chose a class, knowing that it was going to be hard. You really don't. You chose Revelle, knowing it had a high turn out rate for med school AND that it had a Hum program that wasn't a walk in the park. If you want to go to med school so badly, or grad school in general, then you should work even harder, not complain about grades and shit.
For God fucking sake.
Right now, I am incredibly thankful I was in the Magnet program. It sounds retardedly hypocritical of me, I know. After all, all I did was complain about having to take courses I don't want to take and having those courses weigh me down, but that's high school for you. You have to go through with it. It's not like I had a choice, really. I wasn't given the option to choose another school; however, college is different. College is all about you. You get to choose where you go, so long as you get accepted there. That's the only part where any outside influence comes in. If you don't get in, then that's that. However, for the other colleges you do get into, there is a choice. A choice in where you want to go. I don't know, it might not be different. I know I didn't have much of a choice. I had very little input as to where I wanted to go. And you, the people complaining about Hum, chose to come to Revelle. Where you should have known was a tough Hum series. And for people in my discussion who are complaining, again, you chose Caldwell. The toughest out of the three. Everyone knows he's the most difficult. I didn't know until some of my friends told me, but I still chose him. You don't have a right to complain if you chose a class, knowing that it was going to be hard. You really don't. You chose Revelle, knowing it had a high turn out rate for med school AND that it had a Hum program that wasn't a walk in the park. If you want to go to med school so badly, or grad school in general, then you should work even harder, not complain about grades and shit.
For God fucking sake.