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Hmm, interesting topic, I was actually going to make one just like this two weeks ago but at that particular time I was too depressed to even bother. My semester has been sort of fucked up see, its one of those semesters where you realize you're going to change majors.
Presently going to the university of houston (UH) majoring in Information Systems, I had gone there from fall 2000- fall 2001 but certain circumstances caused me to get on academic suspension (not that I cared at the time, because I wanted to get away from there as well) and spent the next year and a half getting really good grades finishing up my basic courses at a local junior college - then, in Fall of 2003 I returned to UH and contined on with my major under the grip of academic probation (meaning you have to make a 2.0 average or above per semester until you're overall GPA rises above 2.0), I took a visual basic course, made an A and registered again for this semester.
This semester started out sucking - I had a class called Information Systems Applications that turned out to be a class focusing on Microsoft Access and Excel with a bitch teacher that made any other professor's busy work seem like child's play. Her sllyabus was 12 pages long, and the class demanded a major group project with weekly deadlines, 2x weekly individual assignments, internet assignments, and group oral presentations of chapters to teach the class every single class day - all this in addition to the astounding amount of reading required. To top it all off, the teacher was incredibly strict, would not grade assignments if she spotted spelling, grammar or punctuation errors and refused to answer your questions about anything in class. The same class the previous semester had only 6 people out of 30 pass, and she told us that half of us this semester would fail. A bitch in otherwords. I hated this class and it started to weigh heavily on my mind but I told myself to gun it out and deal - after all it was required, and my only other class was very very easy.
After two weeks though, the class was weighing to heavily on my mind and it began to make me think of why I was choosing to pursue an Informations Systems degree anyway. I knew IT graduates weren't getting jobs and most of the ones I knew were managing retail stores, or like my brother - being glorified office workers. I had recently learned that our IT program was decreasing its focus on web design and concentrating more on database management and business applications...hmm...If I wanted that I'd have gone into MIS. No thanks.
After alot of discussion with family, friends, IT grads (like my brother) I decided to drop this shit class and change majors. Thankfully I'm not that far into IT yet (only 2 courses) so pulling out is do-able. To what I currently do not know but it will definitly be more literary based, I enjoy computers and all but I can learn about them better myself rather than in some bullshit class.
I'm glad I dropped that one course though, Lhadhatt knows, I told him about it and he agreed it wasn't worth the misery it was putting me through mentally.
So I'm stuck taking this other class that in reality is kind of a waste, due to the fact that I have to take at least one class when on probation - I'll try to make the most of it and score an A to help the old GPA out some more. Its easy enough, pertaining to basic concepts about the internet. I'm probably going to investigate what my new major will be next week, may even ask for some advice here.
Please tell me where you're getting the money from to retake classes you've already passed? College is bloody expensive enough without doing shit like that - I know!Originally Posted by Satsuki
they're wastes since i've already passed them, but sometimes i wish my GPA were a lot better.
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