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re: Your best 2nd chances while in school/college
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:41 am to bigberg2000
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:41 am to bigberg2000
Messed up the first date with a chick pretty good and fortunately got a second one out of it. Worth the effort in more ways than one.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:43 am to bigberg2000
Applied Technical Calculus. I'm not great at advanced math and I needed a 78 on the final to get a C in the course to keep financial aid because I was over my allowed hours because of a bullshite transfer.
Took the final and got at 54. Asked for a chance to retake it. Retook it, got a 64. I thought college was over for me one quarter before graduation. I explained the situation not expecting he'd care. He told me, "go enjoy your weekend, you got a C".
Took the final and got at 54. Asked for a chance to retake it. Retook it, got a 64. I thought college was over for me one quarter before graduation. I explained the situation not expecting he'd care. He told me, "go enjoy your weekend, you got a C".
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:46 am to Loungefly85
Oh I just remembered a good one.
Freshman year in HS. Geography Test. I finished mine and handed it to a complete retard but nice dude. He put his name on it and I went to work furiously to finish his copy of the test as my own.
We got caught. I got a do-over b/c I made 100 on both tests and my mama had to come to school and what not.
8 years later, that guy was shot in the head dead by a homeowner he was trying to rob in Baton Rouge about 2 miles from his boyhood home. Lesson Learned. Don't cheat or you'll die
Freshman year in HS. Geography Test. I finished mine and handed it to a complete retard but nice dude. He put his name on it and I went to work furiously to finish his copy of the test as my own.
We got caught. I got a do-over b/c I made 100 on both tests and my mama had to come to school and what not.
8 years later, that guy was shot in the head dead by a homeowner he was trying to rob in Baton Rouge about 2 miles from his boyhood home. Lesson Learned. Don't cheat or you'll die

This post was edited on 10/31/17 at 11:47 am
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:48 am to Loungefly85
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Applied Technical Calculus. I'm not great at advanced math
i literally went college of arts to avoid high level math. my lone 3 hours in math were called intro to contemporary mathematics and it was football/basketball players and me.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:53 am to bigberg2000
I had a history test where part of the test (essay) was on the lectures and part was on one of three books we were supposed to read. Well one of the books was so boring I just couldn't bring myself to get through the first chapter. I just read the back cover right before the test. Sure enough one of the essay questions is on this book with the answer being on the back cover. The TA pointed this out to all the people that missed the question. LOL.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:56 am to 3nOut
I probably should have been kicked out of grad school. I was there on a teaching assitantship and was teaching the lab for a graduate level class I had already taken so I was basically teaching people who were in my program, but a year behind me. I got involved with and started dating this chick in the program who also happened to be in the class. We decided to just not say anything and I let another GA who knew about our relationship grade all of her stuff.
Well.... one morning my major professor called me into her office livid... someone had slipped a note under her door complaining about us being in a relationship and how it was unfair, unethical, unprofessional etc etc.
Turns out my professor was more livid at the note than me.... we were thankfully pretty close by this point. I assured her I never graded anything of hers and she had sat in on a few classes and never would have known we were dating as I didn't treat her any different in class. She basically just said don;t worry about it then gave the class a tongue lashing saying if you have a problem with anything have the courage to come to her directly instead of hiding behind a note.
I laugh about the whole thing now, but for a second I thought my arse was grass.
Well.... one morning my major professor called me into her office livid... someone had slipped a note under her door complaining about us being in a relationship and how it was unfair, unethical, unprofessional etc etc.
Turns out my professor was more livid at the note than me.... we were thankfully pretty close by this point. I assured her I never graded anything of hers and she had sat in on a few classes and never would have known we were dating as I didn't treat her any different in class. She basically just said don;t worry about it then gave the class a tongue lashing saying if you have a problem with anything have the courage to come to her directly instead of hiding behind a note.
I laugh about the whole thing now, but for a second I thought my arse was grass.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:59 am to mikelbr
Made a sorostitute cry; she was dtf and went to a place that made her feel slummy (it was a rough apartment that my friend stayed in and was the closest to campus)
I apologized and told her my mom taught me better than that.
She then proceded to make a few calls and we went to her friends place south of campus and I was rewarded for my apology.
This was after the lsu vs USCe game in 2007
I apologized and told her my mom taught me better than that.
She then proceded to make a few calls and we went to her friends place south of campus and I was rewarded for my apology.
This was after the lsu vs USCe game in 2007
This post was edited on 10/31/17 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:00 pm to bigberg2000
I too woke up late for an exam once worth 25% of my overall grade. I made up an excuse to why I missed the test and got to retake the test in the professor's office a week later. The professor said the test would be written rather than multiple choice and would be much more difficult. My friend got his test back and had failed it, but all the correct answers were marked on the test and he gave it to me to help me study for the makeup exam.
I stayed up looking over the test with the correct marks on it and studied those points. The test the professor gave me was the exact same test as the one he gave the rest of the class and I ended up making a 100% on it. The class average on the exam was around 60%. I'm so glad I woke up late and missed that exam that day.
I stayed up looking over the test with the correct marks on it and studied those points. The test the professor gave me was the exact same test as the one he gave the rest of the class and I ended up making a 100% on it. The class average on the exam was around 60%. I'm so glad I woke up late and missed that exam that day.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:07 pm to bigberg2000
My sophomore semester at LSU consisted of Mardi Gras followed by the Saints' Super Bowl run and me getting a job at a bar in Tigerland. Needless to say, I lost my TOPS after that semester because I was a stupid kid and chose partying over going to class. Coincidentally I also took that crazy acne medicine Accutane for a couple months during this time period. It is a known side effect of Accutane that is causes depression and crazy drowsiness. I appealed my losing TOPS by writing a very long paper claiming the Accutane kept me sleeping during the day and I missed class because it was a side effect of the medicine. After a long process I got my TOPS back!
TLDR: Lost my TOPS, appealed claiming medicine I was taking made me sleep in past all of my classes. I got my TOPS back
TLDR: Lost my TOPS, appealed claiming medicine I was taking made me sleep in past all of my classes. I got my TOPS back
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:11 pm to bigberg2000
College professors are a lot more forgiving and accommodating than people in here act like. You just have to not be a total piece of shite and ask for the help and they will give it to you most of the time.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:22 pm to bigberg2000
This isn't really a second change more than it was me saving my arse from failing a class.
I forgot the exact situation, I think I had an F in the class and there was no chance of me getting a D, I had to make a 98% on the final exam to get a C otherwise I would fail the class.
The final exam was 100 questions, obviously 1 point each. I went talk to my teacher about it to make sure and she was like "yeah, unfortunately you can not miss more than two questions. But don't give up, at least study and you never know".
I thought to myself "give up?" I am about to knock this bitch out the park. The week before dead week I started reading over my notes. We are talking about 100 questions from anything that was covered the whole semester.
I forgot how many pages of notes I had. This was the second biology. Anyway, I read the book in 2.5 days and then just kept reading over and over my notes. By the weekend of the start of dead week I was pretty much able to recite a good bit of the notes without even looking at them. During dead week I would read them once or twice a day.. And thankfully it was the last exam I had scheduled. I want to say I had two days between my 2nd to last exam and the last exam.
The exam was in the evening. The day of the exam I was pretty much able to recite my notes word for word. When I got the exam, it was as if I had a cheat sheet on my desk, I went through each question with no problem except one answer. There was one question on the test that was in my notes and that I read about in the book, but for whatever reason, whatever I had in my notes on it, it was vague so I had to take a guess. I was the first one to finish.
The next day the instructor emails me to congratulate me. I was in the front of class, she would have know if I were cheating, which I wasn't, but she told me that based on my previous exams in the class she didn't think I had much of a chance to score a 98%, but I had actually did one better.. I scored a 99% and she never seen someone do that before..
It was as if there was 5 seconds left in the 4th quarter, down by 8 and I was at my own 25 yard line.. So I needed a 75 yard play and a two point conversion to go into OT to have a shot to win the game.. And it happened.
I forgot the exact situation, I think I had an F in the class and there was no chance of me getting a D, I had to make a 98% on the final exam to get a C otherwise I would fail the class.
The final exam was 100 questions, obviously 1 point each. I went talk to my teacher about it to make sure and she was like "yeah, unfortunately you can not miss more than two questions. But don't give up, at least study and you never know".
I thought to myself "give up?" I am about to knock this bitch out the park. The week before dead week I started reading over my notes. We are talking about 100 questions from anything that was covered the whole semester.
I forgot how many pages of notes I had. This was the second biology. Anyway, I read the book in 2.5 days and then just kept reading over and over my notes. By the weekend of the start of dead week I was pretty much able to recite a good bit of the notes without even looking at them. During dead week I would read them once or twice a day.. And thankfully it was the last exam I had scheduled. I want to say I had two days between my 2nd to last exam and the last exam.
The exam was in the evening. The day of the exam I was pretty much able to recite my notes word for word. When I got the exam, it was as if I had a cheat sheet on my desk, I went through each question with no problem except one answer. There was one question on the test that was in my notes and that I read about in the book, but for whatever reason, whatever I had in my notes on it, it was vague so I had to take a guess. I was the first one to finish.
The next day the instructor emails me to congratulate me. I was in the front of class, she would have know if I were cheating, which I wasn't, but she told me that based on my previous exams in the class she didn't think I had much of a chance to score a 98%, but I had actually did one better.. I scored a 99% and she never seen someone do that before..
It was as if there was 5 seconds left in the 4th quarter, down by 8 and I was at my own 25 yard line.. So I needed a 75 yard play and a two point conversion to go into OT to have a shot to win the game.. And it happened.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:22 pm to bigberg2000
Twice, with the same professor, I went to class for the first time in a long time thinking it was a review session for the exam. Both times, it was the exam, which the class voted to take early during one of the many, many classes I missed prior.
After each experience I had to send a "I'm such a frick up and I'm sorry for disrespecting you" email, and both times the prof gave me a chance to retake/make it up. It helped that these were undergrad classes in subjects like Federal Indian Lands Law so the curves were always absurd.
I also showed up on the day a paper on a Pinochet book was due in a Latin American politics class. Thankfully I got to class before the prof, saw what was about to happen and immediately went to the clinic. Gave me enough time to go buy the book (this was a couple of months in, further proof of being a total frickup) and write the paper that night.
After each experience I had to send a "I'm such a frick up and I'm sorry for disrespecting you" email, and both times the prof gave me a chance to retake/make it up. It helped that these were undergrad classes in subjects like Federal Indian Lands Law so the curves were always absurd.
I also showed up on the day a paper on a Pinochet book was due in a Latin American politics class. Thankfully I got to class before the prof, saw what was about to happen and immediately went to the clinic. Gave me enough time to go buy the book (this was a couple of months in, further proof of being a total frickup) and write the paper that night.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 12:43 pm to Pettifogger
I have two examples.
1st one is the bad one. “Theory and design of Mexhanical Conytol Systems” (AKA Controls). I had an F average because I was just a horrible student. Didn’t turn in any homework. Was absent for a lot of quizzes. Just had a C average on the tests. (I can only assume it was a C average because the teacher didn’t curve the grade till the end of the year so you had to guess as to where you stood in the class. He would give us the average score on the tests and they hovered around 50-60% which is what I usually got so I assumed “C” going into the final. Well, I overslept for the final.
Even after all of my shitty conduct in this class, the prof said he would pass me if I could answer one question of his choosing but I had to get the entire thing correct.
It was 1 question, 5 parts. I got every single part of that question correct so he said I had at least retained the most important parts of the class.
2nd example: I overslept for the Fluid Dynamics 2 final but I had a B going into the final. I showed up to the final with an hour already elapsed. The teacher knew I was a good student in that class so he said chill out and he would give the final to me right after he finished with the rest of the class. I smoked that final and got a B. I’m pretty sure I was really close to an A. Always loved fluids.
1st one is the bad one. “Theory and design of Mexhanical Conytol Systems” (AKA Controls). I had an F average because I was just a horrible student. Didn’t turn in any homework. Was absent for a lot of quizzes. Just had a C average on the tests. (I can only assume it was a C average because the teacher didn’t curve the grade till the end of the year so you had to guess as to where you stood in the class. He would give us the average score on the tests and they hovered around 50-60% which is what I usually got so I assumed “C” going into the final. Well, I overslept for the final.
Even after all of my shitty conduct in this class, the prof said he would pass me if I could answer one question of his choosing but I had to get the entire thing correct.
It was 1 question, 5 parts. I got every single part of that question correct so he said I had at least retained the most important parts of the class.
2nd example: I overslept for the Fluid Dynamics 2 final but I had a B going into the final. I showed up to the final with an hour already elapsed. The teacher knew I was a good student in that class so he said chill out and he would give the final to me right after he finished with the rest of the class. I smoked that final and got a B. I’m pretty sure I was really close to an A. Always loved fluids.
This post was edited on 10/31/17 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 10/31/17 at 1:29 pm to LesMiles BFF
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got my first C ever
I thought any grade higher that a C was just wasted effort.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 3:01 pm to OlGrandad
I was a screw up my first run at college. Went to LSU and failed out after 4 semesters. Never got higher than a 1.8, but never lower than a 1.6. I did get my shite together after taking the year off and graduated from UNO with good grades.
I never went to class. In a 15 hour week, I would make maybe 2 or 3 classes on average. Not a good plan. I would just cram for exams and hope for the best.
First story was intro accounting. Walked into class and saw that literally 2/3 of the students were athletes. Figured this was easy and never went to class. It was a MWF class. I was cramming for the first exam on a Thursday night when I looked closer at the syllabus. Yep, everybody that took that Accounting (regardless what time or day) was given the exam at the same time...and it had started an hour ago. There were only 3 exams all year so each test was a third of the grade.
Went to the professor and gave a sob story of how my grandfather had a stroke and I had to be with him. I even used a Sprite bottle to trace a couple fake tears. The professor was very understanding and said my second exam would just count twice. I'm sure he knew I was a screw up. Didn't show up for classes and tried to cram again. I was so lost I got a 40 on the exam. Didn't even bother showing up for the final as I was mathematically eliminated from a D.
Second story is a redemption. Had a religion class at LSU on Tues/Thurs. Grew up Catholic and knew that subject matter like the back of my hand. We had to write a one page paper every week (or maybe every class?) as homework. The teacher would select 2 or 3 papers at random when they were turned in and have the student read them. The papers were worth 10% of our total grade.
I was getting 90% plus on our frequent exams. In my mind I could easily get a B in the class without really studying or doing the work. At the end of the semester, the teacher said because the papers were so much work, they should count as 25% of the grade.
What? That would take me from a B to a probable D. So I gave him a story of how I was petrified of public speaking. It was worth taking the B to not have to deal with it. In this case, I did go to the class most of the time and was doing great on the tests. So he let me write a 5 or 6 page paper to make up for everything. And that's how I got my only A at LSU.
My last story was an Econ class at UNO. It was taught by a first year teacher who would just ramble on and get sidetracked horribly. We were supposed to have 3 tests evenly spaced through the semester. It was halfway through the year before we got to the first one. 80% of the class (at least and I'm not exaggerating) failed the test horribly. Nothing made much sense.
The grades were posted and there were two ladies that did well. They were probably in their 30s and taking their second chance at life seriously. The teacher continued to suck and ended up giving us the second exam and final on the last day of class. The students were livid and didn't know what was going to happen.
As luck would have it, I was sitting to the right and one desk back from one of the geniuses. The tests were each 25 multiple choice questions and I literally copied at least 45 of her 50 answers. Then I made up scratch work. Got a B in the class. Not sure what happened for the other students. They couldn't have done well based on the first exam. Never talked to anyone about it and the teacher was gone the next semester.
I never went to class. In a 15 hour week, I would make maybe 2 or 3 classes on average. Not a good plan. I would just cram for exams and hope for the best.
First story was intro accounting. Walked into class and saw that literally 2/3 of the students were athletes. Figured this was easy and never went to class. It was a MWF class. I was cramming for the first exam on a Thursday night when I looked closer at the syllabus. Yep, everybody that took that Accounting (regardless what time or day) was given the exam at the same time...and it had started an hour ago. There were only 3 exams all year so each test was a third of the grade.
Went to the professor and gave a sob story of how my grandfather had a stroke and I had to be with him. I even used a Sprite bottle to trace a couple fake tears. The professor was very understanding and said my second exam would just count twice. I'm sure he knew I was a screw up. Didn't show up for classes and tried to cram again. I was so lost I got a 40 on the exam. Didn't even bother showing up for the final as I was mathematically eliminated from a D.
Second story is a redemption. Had a religion class at LSU on Tues/Thurs. Grew up Catholic and knew that subject matter like the back of my hand. We had to write a one page paper every week (or maybe every class?) as homework. The teacher would select 2 or 3 papers at random when they were turned in and have the student read them. The papers were worth 10% of our total grade.
I was getting 90% plus on our frequent exams. In my mind I could easily get a B in the class without really studying or doing the work. At the end of the semester, the teacher said because the papers were so much work, they should count as 25% of the grade.
What? That would take me from a B to a probable D. So I gave him a story of how I was petrified of public speaking. It was worth taking the B to not have to deal with it. In this case, I did go to the class most of the time and was doing great on the tests. So he let me write a 5 or 6 page paper to make up for everything. And that's how I got my only A at LSU.
My last story was an Econ class at UNO. It was taught by a first year teacher who would just ramble on and get sidetracked horribly. We were supposed to have 3 tests evenly spaced through the semester. It was halfway through the year before we got to the first one. 80% of the class (at least and I'm not exaggerating) failed the test horribly. Nothing made much sense.
The grades were posted and there were two ladies that did well. They were probably in their 30s and taking their second chance at life seriously. The teacher continued to suck and ended up giving us the second exam and final on the last day of class. The students were livid and didn't know what was going to happen.
As luck would have it, I was sitting to the right and one desk back from one of the geniuses. The tests were each 25 multiple choice questions and I literally copied at least 45 of her 50 answers. Then I made up scratch work. Got a B in the class. Not sure what happened for the other students. They couldn't have done well based on the first exam. Never talked to anyone about it and the teacher was gone the next semester.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:23 pm to bigberg2000
Bump.
Majored in Pre-Pharm Freshman year of college and walked into a buzzsaw of Calc and Chem, ended up with a really shitty GPA which cost me my 1/2 ACT scholarship (other 1/2 was football), but it didn’t kick in until Sophomore year. In the meantime, one of my teammates, a gold-toothed gangsta from Natchez named Eli, ended up getting the boot from the team after a couple of weeks that second year for some drug related offenses. My bill comes due and I figure Eli’s money is just sitting there unused, so I hit up my coach and he reallocates that money so I’m now paid up. No shite, Eli dies a few months later in a shoot-out. So I guess I can say that I owe my success in part to a dead drug dealer from Natchez, MS. RIP Eli.
Majored in Pre-Pharm Freshman year of college and walked into a buzzsaw of Calc and Chem, ended up with a really shitty GPA which cost me my 1/2 ACT scholarship (other 1/2 was football), but it didn’t kick in until Sophomore year. In the meantime, one of my teammates, a gold-toothed gangsta from Natchez named Eli, ended up getting the boot from the team after a couple of weeks that second year for some drug related offenses. My bill comes due and I figure Eli’s money is just sitting there unused, so I hit up my coach and he reallocates that money so I’m now paid up. No shite, Eli dies a few months later in a shoot-out. So I guess I can say that I owe my success in part to a dead drug dealer from Natchez, MS. RIP Eli.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:18 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Which establishment did you work at? I bet we know each other. I also worked at one of those fine establishments during that time period.
Posted on 11/8/17 at 4:08 pm to bigberg2000
Stayed up late studying for an early morning final, then slept through my alarm. Got to the exam when there was only 15 minutes left to take it.
Begged the professor to let me at least attempt the exam, and she gave me until a meeting that she had 30 minutes after the exam ended. Obviously didn't get to finish the exam, but it's better than a 0.
Went to her office a few days later and gave her a gift card for a nice restaurant as a show of thanks. She was really nice about it.
Begged the professor to let me at least attempt the exam, and she gave me until a meeting that she had 30 minutes after the exam ended. Obviously didn't get to finish the exam, but it's better than a 0.
Went to her office a few days later and gave her a gift card for a nice restaurant as a show of thanks. She was really nice about it.
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