/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5757847]

grades thread?

grades thread.

[Anonymous No.5757856]

>>5757847
>have no real life friends
>get amazing grades to compensate
>want to brag about it
>have no friends
>brag on 4chan
>tfw debilitating loneliness

[Anonymous No.5757862]

I got mostly D's and one F because my dad passed away recently and I went into serious depression.

I got a 96%/100% on my finals and about 95% average on the last two exams in each class but missed most of the course so my grades botched.

I might get automatically unenrolled from the school for failing a class and I've been talking with my physics department advisor and the dean's assistant explaining my circumstances but the dean's assistant is completely neglecting my e-mails so it looks like I'll get automatically unenrolled anyway, despite my support from the physics head.

Glad you did well though, anon. Keep up the good work.

[Anonymous No.5757864]

>>5757856
I know that feel

[Anonymous No.5757878]

>tfw painfully average grades
>tfw I'm just lazy and have no real excuses
;_; I have like a 3.2, feels bad.

[Anonymous No.5757879]

>did great all semester in one class
>took the final
>yeah I'm a fucking beast
>get back my results
>82/240
>grade C

>studied like fucking crazy for calc II
>get the exam
>Don't know shit
>bunch of things we never even discussed
>hand it in
>hear the professor sighing as I leave the room

How quickly should I kill myself sci?

[Anonymous No.5757880]

>>5757856
went to my girlfriend and peers graduation on saturday
prepping for internship next week
not bragging, just hoping to share in the glory of completion with my bros
i'm sure you have accomplishments. tell me of them, they interest me greatly.

>>5757862
i'm edeeply sorry for your loss - i'm not sure what i would do without my father. talk to your faculty advisors, they should talk to the deans. they understand that family comes first, at least have in my past years at university.
I had a family matter to attend to my freshman summer and could not continue research through the may-mester, etc. the professors paused their work until i was back to accommodate. hopefully you'll find the same compassion.

>>5757864
i'm sure you, too, have accomplishments, anon. share them with us.

[Anonymous No.5757892]

>>5757878
i'm OP. my cumulative GPA is a 3.253, with OP's pic included.
it's not like i started off smart. i just learned to learn, in tandem finding out what hard work could actually lead to, academically, through industry.
get an internship or a job (if you dont already have one, or if you do, get one thats fulfilling and actually involving). they'll push you in academia to learn more once you know why youre learning the things you are. at least that helped me greatly.

>>5757879
calc II is some weird stuff, anon. i know you might get flack and all, but personally (i've completed calc I [A], II [B]. III [A]. and Diff EQ [C]) I thought II was the most abstract and least applicable, if youre engineering at least.
don't consider suicide from one passed class, a prerequisite to the enlightening is all it is.
when you get to the fun stuff like i did (nuclear, alternate, etc) all the pre-req's are miles away from your worries.

>this turned into a feels thread.
>whoops

[Anonymous No.5757897]

>>5757856
>>get amazing grades to compensate
please, 9 credits of humanities ruins any impressiveness

[Anonymous No.5757896]

>tfw bombed 2 finals and slacked in other 2 classes and too scared to check my grades because i know they will be bad and want to enjoy the awesome relaxation of the first couple weeks of summer as long as possible

[Anonymous No.5757912]

>>5757892
I'm not even an engineering major

I'm a bio major, my school requires us to take up to Diff EQ to get a Bs

I'm all most positive I failed. I think passing is somewhere between 50-65. He hasn't said but I pretty much need a 50 to pass if it is 50 for passing.

I feel even worse because my parents are going to be disappointed. I even more disappointed with myself. I know I had the shitty professor in the world, everyone in the class agreed on this, but I just feel like shit.

[Anonymous No.5757923]

>>5757897
well, they're core but not humanities.

in texas the marketing class is to cover a sociological credit. the music, a music credit. the tech writing course is a generic course required for most technical programs ( i think there were bio/chem bros in there ).

>>5757912
dont dismay. just retake it, and carry on brother.

>>5757896
drink up while it lasts. i'll drink for you, in fact.

[Anonymous No.5757945]

>>5757880
i managed to fap 12 times today wihtout chafing, thats about it

[Anonymous No.5757954]

Im not sure if i'm stupid because I cant get my GPA to break 3.0 / get any A's as a Bio major or if my school is just hard... It's a small private school in NC

[Anonymous No.5757956]

I have a final tomorrow and wednesday, even though I studied all weekend I'm currently having a bit of an anxiety attack.

Calm me down bros ;;_;;

[Anonymous No.5757960]

>>5757956
random picture from my folder

lets see if its useful

[Anonymous No.5757967]

>>5757960
I chuckled quietly for a moment, but am now back to panic. Thanks though anon

[Anonymous No.5757965]

>>5757847
>international cultures

[Anonymous No.5757971]

>>5757956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5mbcE7VY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74

[Anonymous No.5757969]

>>5757956

[Anonymous No.5757980]

>>5757967

[Anonymous No.5757979]

>>5757969
>>5757971
Thanks bros.

[Anonymous No.5757988]

>>5757956
what subjects?
>so we can better know how to calm you?

>>5757965
i took it in tandem to the alternative energy course, since the two had similar syllabi and course content. the marketing course was a perspective of targeting crowd metrics for most substanital influence of product adoption, and the factors that add up to buy or no buy. the alternate energy course compared resource collection mediums and energy generation means, the applicable requirements and the socio-economic-environmental aspects of adoption contrasts.
>the two are co-interlinked. i swur.

[Anonymous No.5757986]

>>5757979

[Anonymous No.5757995]

>>5757988
Linear algebra and computer architecture. I'm sure they will go fine, just a moment of weakness. Congrats on the grades though.

>>5757986
I've seen it before, but this made me smile

[Anonymous No.5758010]

>>5757995
might be a bit late for you, but when i took Lin Al i made a spreadsheet with a word (rank, inverse, etc) and a pseudo-definition of what was actually happening to the array/matrix. instead of doing problems. then, when i understood the terms and their definitions, i looked to problems. i also converted every single problem into ax1+bx2+cx2+...+nxn.
just know that regardless what you make, you're still in a portion of the highest standard of living and education by taking the coursework you are.

>thanks anon, means a lot.

[Anonymous No.5758025]

>A for my undergrad research
>A for my seminar class
>A- for CMB lab
>A- for instrumental analysis
>B+ for organic lab
>B for organic chem
>C+ for CMB lecture

Quit going to CMB for the last half of the semester and didn't really study anything ever. Changed my major emphasis and found out I didn't need 3 of the classes I took this year, and the teacher was terrible. Overall not bad.

[Anonymous No.5758023]

>>5758010
>dat inspiration

Thanks anon. Gonna go study some more now.

[Anonymous No.5758030]

>>5758023
cheers and good luck.

>>5758025
what are/were you researching?
also (assuming your chem) how do your seminar class(es) work?
i ask because i'm looking to make a formal suggestion for a transdisciplinary course for sociology/environmental/chem/engr majors to discuss Sustainability concepts, and a seminar seemed to fit the platform best.

>what's cmb?

[Anonymous No.5758066]

>>5758030
I work with chiral silanes, as kinetic resolving agents and such. It's just a bunch of organic synthesis and analysis. I love it. Except running columns. Fuck.

My seminar classes work like this: first semester in the fall a bunch of guest speakers come in and you're required to attend all of them. In the winter everyone takes turn giving their own lecture, and the rest of the chem seniors/juniors and the faculty grade and question you. It's pretty much just anxiety if you ask me. Do I understand right that you're trying to get a bunch of different departments to listen to each other lecture with a consistent theme? Seems pretty cool if you can get people interested.

CMB = cell and molecular biology

[Anonymous No.5758086]

woop defuckin gwoop

[Anonymous No.5758096]

Is a mathematics curriculum universally rigorous give or take some difficulty or can they be entirely different, not even close, generally

[Anonymous No.5758101]

>>5758086
>85 is an A

[Anonymous No.5758104]

>got into wow again
>never study for midterms, get horrible marks
>quit wow and study for finals, avoided failing any classes

[Anonymous No.5758103]

>>5758086
>PSYC 101
>Class average 66

Jesus Christ how horrifying

[Anonymous No.5758109]

>>5758086
Why do people think we will magically know what "EECE666" means? At least post a transcript with course names.

[Anonymous No.5758108]

>>5758104

>Playing a dead shell of a game
>Giving money to Kiketick and his underlings

[Anonymous No.5758113]

>>5758096
Not even close. Even within the same degree program at the same school you can see incredible amounts of variation, from the knuckle-dragging "teaching track" graduates to students taking heavy analysis and grad courses the whole time while publishing papers.

[Anonymous No.5758115]

>>5758109
eh, not option for that.

it's all electrical shit anyway. comms, power, DSP.

[Anonymous No.5758120]

>>5758096
They can be quite different, one of my friends is going to become a math teacher and is taking total bullshit electives, shit like functions of a complex variable (calc II-3 with complex numbers), computational linear algebra (programming without proofs), and fucking intro probability, and the major at my school has a core of analysis 1 and 2, abstract algebra and intro linear algebra plus all the kiddie shit. So you cover the same core classes pretty much everywhere, but some colleges allow you to take slacker electives and not really do much outside the core, others (most I think) require quite a bit more rigor.

[Anonymous No.5758129]

>>5758120
So like the difficulty of the upper level classes at your friends school are easier than your schools? I'm transferring to a much better school from a shit tier one, if comparing classes at yours school and his school would yours cover a wider range of topics or do them faster or something?

[Anonymous No.5758131]

>>5758086
>ubc
>electrical engineering

how's 3rd and 4th year?

[Anonymous No.5758140]

>>5758131
3rd was probably the hardest.

4th was in between 2nd and 3rd in terms of difficulty.

[Anonymous No.5758146]

>>5758140
did you do co-op or not?

[Anonymous No.5758154]

>>5758086
>UBC
Mah nigga

>tfw my grades are absolutely nowhere close to yours

[Anonymous No.5758159]

>>5758146
nah. had relevant work experience during the summers though.

[Anonymous No.5758161]

>>5758096
>Is a mathematics curriculum universally rigorous give or take some difficulty or can they be entirely different, not even close, generally

Not even close. Those aiming to be HS teachers or having the metal handicap of also being CS majors take laughably easy electives and the fact that they get away with being called a math major is an upright travesty. Average students take a mix of easy and a few difficult electives that really interest them. Exceptional students can easily outsmart graduate students in other departments and fill their schedules with the hardest classes they can take.

>>5758120
>major at my school has a core of analysis 1 and 2, abstract algebra

Pretty much all math majors are required to do at least one course of analysis and algebra (vector spaces or abstract) but those "core classes" are usually pathetic shells that aren't taught in a challenging way, and most of those coming out of them would've never have heard of Rudin let alone be able to read it. Only the best of the best take honours versions at my school but that, sadly, only makes up less than a percent of all majors.

/math elitist

[Anonymous No.5758167]

>>5758154
meh, looking back probably not worth all that time. kinda regret not spending more time enjoying myself.

oh well, all over now. onto the whole "get a job" process now!

[Anonymous No.5758172]

>>5758167
Well still, good for you dude. I'm sure you can find some time to enjoy yourself when you have a job. Seeing a transcript like that from my school is pretty motivating.

[Anonymous No.5758173]

>>5758161

so theoretically, which classes would you consider to be fundamental to be a true mathematician?

[Anonymous No.5758176]

>>5758172
glad it's helpful. it's definitely achievable. i'm just an average white guy who enjoyed his classes!

[Anonymous No.5758175]

>>5758161
>the fact that they get away with being called a math major is an upright travesty
It's fucking undergrad, not everyone is going to do a masters in pure or applied maths. You could say that shit about literally any major. The people who are going farther with the classes will take harder courses, whoopdeedoo

[Anonymous No.5758180]

fuck, barely 3.0 gpa in a psych degree this semester. gotta work harder, gotta work harder, gotta work harder, gotta work harder, gotta be less stupid too.

[Anonymous No.5758183]

>>5758103
Psyc 101 is pure memorization. Being smart will not help you a whole lot.

[Anonymous No.5758190]

>>5758175

Yes, but it takes away from the prestige of a math degree. Take engineering/physics for example, all the core classes that are considered hard must be taken to graduate, it has much stricter requirements.

If you take 2 random math majors, you can't tell who took all the hard pure math classes and who took every easy electives from G.P.A alone.

[Anonymous No.5758194]

>>5758190
Math is such a broad subject that it would be absolutely retarded to require everyone to take courses where the amount rigor isn't beneficial to anyone who doesn't plan on getting a masters in pure math. Also, how do you think the math department at a university of 30k undergrads would feel if they only produced 20 math majors a year? It would be a total waste.

Do the fucking honors program like everyone else if you care about prestige you pretentious dick.

[Anonymous No.5758197]

>>5758173

Topology
Real Analysis (at least at baby Rudin level)
Complex Analysis (not calculus with complex variables)
Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Differential Geometry
Mathematical Logic and "Metamathematics"
Fourier/Functional Analysis
Abstract Algebra that covers some Galois Theory, Lie Algebra, and Group Representation Theory

They all form a highly interconnected basis that's required to do any future study in Mathematics or in any related applied field like Physics or Engineering.

[Anonymous No.5758205]

>>5758175
>It's fucking undergrad, not everyone is going to do a masters in pure or applied maths. You could say that shit about literally any major.

University and especially their Math, Science, and Engineering programs should NOT be in the business of letting people fuck around for 4 years just to get a paper saying they're employable in the end. They should actually require them to learn the subject matter of Mathematics. Enough Mathematics in scope and depth that they are at the point that they are knocking at the door of graduate education at the end of it.

It's this kind of logic that transformed undergraduate CS ' """education""" ' in to a 4 year manchild daycare programs that teaches student literately nothing at all.

[Anonymous No.5758223]

Back to grades though...

[Anonymous No.5758227]

still another week until my grades come in, but here is the curve for my organic chem class from 2 tests back, sitting at a mid A and was happy I only needed to score at lest a 70ish to maintain it.

Why my classmates can't arrow push blows my mind.

[Anonymous No.5758235]

>>5758227

The amount of knowledge one requires to make an A in orgo 2 is pretty outstanding.

[Anonymous No.5758236]

>>5758227
>Why my classmates can't arrow push blows my mind.

because they are not autists like you are

[Anonymous No.5758253]

I'm a pre-med major and I got almost all A!!!

[Anonymous No.5758258]

>>5758235
>orgo
>hard

[Anonymous No.5758257]

>>5758236
no like, my professor gives us the reactants, the catalysts, and the products for each step (and even the charges). It's literally just drawing dots and arrows they can't do.

>>5758235
Is that true? I'd never had anyone say one way or another, my professor did tell us to memorize a reaction flow chart for the first quiz.

I'm assuming the curve will rise with many of the F/D/C students dropping?

[Anonymous No.5758268]

>>5758258

http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/351/exams/3513/353w12/353fin12.pdf

Is this actually easy?

[Anonymous No.5758267]

I post a thread asking about poster presentations, one of the most common ways scientists present their data to the scientific community and I get banned because not science

Yet everyday theres a Grades/Finals/Majors threads which is not science

the mods can suck a dick

[Anonymous No.5758275]

>>5758268
Looks like any other organic chemistry exam
Yes pretty easy

[Anonymous No.5758285]

>>5758280

It takes alkynes.

[Anonymous No.5758280]

dumping some orgo flowcharts I made last year.

>implying these weren't made in a scurry with an attempt to make them more aesthetically pleasing.

Also,

>needing an alkanes flowchart

shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.5758289]

>>5758275
I never took that class, so I have no idea what their asking, but it looks hard as fuck to me.

[Anonymous No.5758293]

>>5758289
Yup showing off organic chemistry to nonscience people makes them think you're a genius
It's really not too bad

[Anonymous No.5758296]

>>5758293

Pending on how the exam is structured. Some profs throw you bones, others don't.

[Anonymous No.5758303]

>>5758293
Agreed.

That test seemed pretty rigorous because of the sheer size, we do Aromatics in Organic II here so I don't know much about that stuff yet.

I don't even really "study" all my studying is just paying attention in class and recitation. My professor also had 2 study sessions the weekend before the test in a random chem I classroom.

[Anonymous No.5758310]

>>5758303

I'm still not convinced that those synthesis questions are trivial.

The multiple choice you could reason/guess, but if you look at the last few questions, they seem pretty rape.

[Anonymous No.5758316]

>>5758268

Exactly like my exams, except mine are formatted like the ACS for organic chemistry.

Cake walk.

[Anonymous No.5758320]

>>5758310
Maybe not "trivial" but it's not that hard. Learning a few numbers, and knowledge of what kind of reactions are possible limits what can happen.

[Anonymous No.5758318]

>>5758296

This is definitely true, but it can be said about any course.

[Anonymous No.5758324]

>>5758320

Right, some professors cover various reactions and concepts more than others.

I'm guessing that if a student went to lecture and effectively studied at least 5 hours for the exam, they would be okay.

[Anonymous No.5758333]

>>5758267

4chan isn't exactly the place (due to formatting mostly) for good discussion. It happens, but threads like this and 12 year-old boy genius wonderbody jelly buns kid is most of the shit on here. Better discussion on Reddit, the xchanges websites, or the physics forum.

[Anonymous No.5758337]

>>5757896
>>5757896
>>5757896

are we the same person

[Anonymous No.5758338]

>>5758333
They didn't have to ban me though ;_;

[Anonymous No.5758352]

>implying I didn't fail out and become a NEET 2 years ago

[Anonymous No.5758354]

>4.0 GPA chemistry major about to finish my 4th semester
>Finishing up all my mickey-mouse classes (core curriculum)
>I will get my first B ever (if not two) in chem 1 and possibly government because of soul-crushing major depression and colossal discouragement along with various other life events
>If I didn't have to deal with personal issues, id be able to focus on my studies much more clearly but I haven't been able to read a damn thing for school since february
>tfw there is actually a chance I may get a B in Government class because the instructor posted the wrong IBN in the syllabus and I couldn't find the right edition (something truly worthy of suicide if there were one.)

>tfw I know I would've effortlessly aced chem 1 if only I had read because when I do read from the textbook, I enjoy it as both entertainment and enlightenment so the material sticks well but it is far too late to catch up on everything before the final exam in a couple days

Having less than an A in introductory chemistry as a chem major is one of the greatest indignities, regardless of circumstance.

[Anonymous No.5758359]

>>5758337

>Oscar Gamble Ph.D of Philosophy

[Anonymous No.5758362]

>>5757847
>implying I'm currently enrolled in university

[Anonymous No.5758363]

Holy shit college is easy. How is is that 50% of all my fellow classmates are getting F's and dropping classes. Seriously, what the fuck? Idiot can't even get C's. I'm not even trying and I'm getting A's. Do you faggot even care about your life or the universe?

[Anonymous No.5758367]

>>5757847
>International cultures
Oh lord hahahahhaaaahaaa haaa

[Anonymous No.5758376]

>go to community college with 2 others nearby under the same "name"/district/whatever

>always go to the main one

>put enough effort to get B average

>finally have schedule conflict and go to one of the other campuses

>everything is easy as fuck

>teachers allow ti84s on math exams, blatant notes/programming to cheat in calc series/linear algebra/etc

>people discuss how to optimize the easiness of the transfer trip before day1 of class

> talk to random girl who is complete moron but has 3.8 gpa and is going to berkeley next semester

fuck

[Anonymous No.5758383]

Complex Analysis - A
Differential Equations - A
Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces - A
Advanced Calculus I (Intro to Real Analysis) - A
Michel Foucault - A

I was really close to getting a few B's, but I got lucky.

[Anonymous No.5758426]

>>5758363

>beginning snowboarding

what

[Anonymous No.5758430]

>>5758363
>failing PE
>ever

[Anonymous No.5758431]

god damnit not a good start to finals week
supposed to attend medical school in the fall too
now i'll have to take a summer class

[Anonymous No.5758463]

>>5758431

>modern latin america

did you sign up for that thinking you were going to learn latin?

[Anonymous No.5758465]

>>5758376
>talk to random girl who is complete moron but has 3.8 gpa and is going to berkeley next semester
>berkeley
How, she won't last long there.

[Anonymous No.5758467]

>>5758463
Do I look autistic to you?

[Anonymous No.5758490]

>go to uni expecting knowledge and wisdom bombs
>get the opposite

turns out getting high marks is a good combination of cheating, using other students material and networking

[Anonymous No.5758505]

>>5758490
If you're lucky you'll refine your study method but that'll be it.

[Anonymous No.5758511]

>wonder why STEM is dominated by ethnicities

They network together really well and share notes to beat the white man.

[Anonymous No.5758563]

>>5758236
I did this sort of stuff in 6th form. So did everyone else in my class. Not to the level this guy is talking about (I hope, for his sake), but we were drawing arrows all over the place just fine.

[Anonymous No.5758571]

>>5758086

[Anonymous No.5758577]

dem 89's

[Anonymous No.5758578]

>tfw when taking 6 courses (18 credits)

>tfw 5 A's and 1 F

Fuck you accounting

[Anonymous No.5758588]

>Intro microeconomics A
>History of capitalism A
>Abstract Algebra A-
>American history since 1865 A-

Feels good. I really worked hard this semester and it paid off. I could have gotten an A in abstract if I studied for the final more, but no regrets really.

[Anonymous No.5758591]

>>5758578
Accounting major here too

>tfw smashing all the accounting courses
>tfw on the verge of failing taxation law

fuck you all

[Anonymous No.5758592]

>>5758571
you used a maymay faget

[Anonymous No.5758594]

>>5758588

>history degree

>no regrets

[Anonymous No.5758596]

>>5758268
you have to get >90% for an A on that?

[Anonymous No.5758612]

>>5758594
>history majors
>taking abstract algebra

Pick one.

I'm a math major. One American history course is a requirement. And the other history course is a class I was simply interested in.

[Anonymous No.5758622]

>>5758511

pretty much

No intergrity left in STEM.

[Anonymous No.5758626]

>semester 1 half applying myself
>semester 2 fully applying myself
>tfw 90s in courses where the median was 44

[Anonymous No.5758710]

>>5758626
mirin' hard, nice job
ausfag?

[Anonymous No.5758715]

>implying gades means shit any more
>implying projects and networking is not more important
grade inflations general?

[Anonymous No.5758725]

I want to study but I can't just keep studying for hours on end which i want to do.
I get distracted or after solving a big problem I just fuck off and do something else for a while as a "reward".

what can i do to force myself to study more?

[Anonymous No.5758722]

>>5758577

dude thats the omnivox website... heritage?

[Anonymous No.5758736]

>>5758725
Look up pomodoro timer. It's optimized to keel you efficient. It's basically 25 study intervals with 5 minute breaks that increase over time. It takes devotion though, and you'll feel like a robot. Just remember you're exchanging time for grades. You're not changing yourself