For the STEMchads here, did you ever fail any classes in college? Which ones did you find the most challenging? I'm going back to school now to get a chemical engineering degree and I failed calculus 3 last quarter and it's really bumming me out. Granted it was a close call but my grade would have been embarrassingly low even if I squeaked out a pass so now I'm retaking it. Please help me judge how much of a brainlet I am.

eh, math classes are notorious for low quality and difficulty.
everyone has to get shoved through parts of the math program. calc 3 isn't advanced enough to rise above that.
don't worry. you are familiar with the ideas now. it's not great to fail a course if you have interest in it, but take it again and you'll pass and everything will be fine.

>>16731387 (OP)
>be me
>first year
>get addicted to drugs
>fail first year
>repeat first year again
>barely pass
>barely pass second year
>take a year off and get clean
>start fresh in year one
>back to 80s and 90s

>>16731387 (OP)
I was taking 20 hours one semester and couldnt keep up in stats class and had to drop. I retook it over the summer though and aced it. Hands down the most difficult course taught in Universities is Cisco. The final is in the top ten hardest tests in the world to pass

>>16731387 (OP)
nursoid practitioner here. In my first semester of bachelors nursing school, I failed my final competency skill demonstration (sterile field procedure) in a class that I had a 95 in. Failed the class because of it and when I had to redo it one full year later I practiced so much I can do it blindfolded

>>16731387 (OP)
good: you passed all the way to calculus 3
bad: you're a down syndrome pepe poster, and there's no cure, might as well kys

>>16731427
>Cisco. The final is in the top ten hardest tests in the world to pass
Like the IT cert?

>>16731403
I relate to this a lot

>>16731581
It's amazing how much simply "paying attention in class" and "actually reading the fucking textbook" made the difference desu

>>16731582
or "do the practice problem" , I was like "hmm lemme just sit here , absorb it once , re-read it again like 1 day before the test"

I'm only getting 60s, how can this be???

>>16731584
Oh god kek even the "first practice problem is the easy in-class example, second one is the complex think for yourself about the concepts" case. I'd always only ever do half of the practice shit, the easy half. No fucking wonder I was failing.

My lowest grade was mechanics: statics. A C unfortunately. I did better in mechanics dynamics. And then decided to do chem eng and I became a better student and really studied hard. Pretty much made straight A’s after that except fluid mechanics which was just difficult and the surface integrals and poor assumptions you had to make for some problems just didn’t click.

>>16731387 (OP)
We were on the quarter system so calculus was split into four courses. Over half of us failed Calc III. That's not unusual for Calc I as it's a weed out course for kids with unrealistic dreams but by Calc III, students usually have a firm grasp on what's required. The professor just really sucked.
It caused problems for the Math Department since C3 is a feed in course to Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. Suddenly they had less students signing up for those courses and more than expected signing up for Calc III since so many of us had to retake the course. None of the Calc III sections were taught by that professor the next quarter.

>>16731387 (OP)
i graduated with a 2.0 gpa and failed a few classes. the hardest classes were usually the ones that had shitty teachers and/or shitty books.

>>16731580
yes

>>16731387 (OP)
Failed integral calculus and had to retake it over the summer. Only class I got below a C in undergrad or grad.

>>16731614
OP here, yeah I think that happened to me too, we also use a quarter system and the class seemed insanely hard for no reason. I'm retaking it this quarter and the professor I have now is incredible by comparison, granted it's going to feel easier because I'm familiar with the material but the last guy was just one of those "lecture on the projector" types that didn't really explain anything or field questions.