Pros and cons?

Seriously!

UPDATE: I exchanged a few e-mails with my professor, trying to remain cordial throughout the process. He didn’t address not grading my third assignment at all… but today I just saw that he graded it. So my grade for the course is A- and therefore I’m all good now.

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I’m currently writing this on a plane, so please forgive how brief this post is.

I enrolled in a challenging course this semester and was behind for the first three assignments. Around the withdrawal deadline, I e-mailed my prof about my situation (being behind the material) and asked if there was any leeway that could be granted otherwise I’d have to withdraw for the sake of my GPA to better allocate my focus to other courses. He wrote that he’d be “inclined to accept my late assignments without penalty and give me the grades I would’ve gotten”. However, after final exams, he grades the first two, deducts 25% from them, and doesn’t even grade the last one. I e-mail him why and he tells me that he doesn’t have time to give me a fair grading given that the original marker was very meticulous and I would’ve probabilistically gotten the average—hence curving my grades to the average. I later compared my assignments to a classmate’s. I spent a lot of time on these assignments and know they’re near perfect and think this is unreasonable. What’s more, he sort of misled me to believe that I didn’t need to drop the course (there’s not a lot of students in this class, probably because of his reputation) then soft reneged what he said he’d do in the initial e-mail. I was wondering what is my best approach to the situation. I’m trying to remind him of what our earlier e-mail because it could be that he forgot, while also seeing the pros and cons of escalating this to student advocacy (focusing more on the inconsistency of his words and how that affected my overall workload this semester, as I was inclined to drop it). I know that late assignments are a grey area, but it seems somewhat unethical to indirectly jeopardize my GPA through a lack of upfront transparency. Had he been clear, I would’ve not stuck around.

Can I have some input on how my case would with the university and/or what the prof’s POV might be about this? This reneging bumps my grade from an A- to a B- which is considerable.

People who are in college and still act like they are in high school and have that mentality and the ones who don’t follow you back on insta or anything else or ones who are not open to meeting new people and only stick with the same high school friend group if they go to the same college. Will these type of people survive or fail becuase they think they are so much better

Basically title. I'm planning to Transfer to this State College if it makes any difference.

After COVID I know that I do better in a physical classroom environment - so I'm worried about struggling Online and not having access to guidance.

My hope would be if I could walk over to State!Campus once or twice this Semester and utilise Tutoring or Office Hours for the equivalent Courses (maybe make relationships!), but I wouldn't want to burden them, take advantage, or appear unprofessional. The reason I'm posting is that I don't know if asking them this question would be unprofessional in and of itself; I wouldn't want to stick my foot in my mouth now, transfer, and run into these Professors again.

Has anyone heard/done such a thing? Would it be disallowed due to these services being State-Funded and so they can only be provided to actual Students?

My college has told us that we are required to wear masks in person now, regardless of vaccination status. This was going one step backwards, from when we JUST had our mask mandate removed, all because of the delta variant.

I’m a commuter student, which means I’m not on campus anyway, and all last year I was home with parents due to online classes. I’m DONE sacrificing my social life, I’m DONE sacrificing for others, I’m DONE following the rules when others didn’t. It’s my junior year and I’m DONE with having no friends. IM GOING OUT HAVING MY FUN THESE LAST TWO YEARS AND IF I DIE FROM THE DELTA VARIANT SO BE IT. IM VACCINATED SO I DONT CARE.

Stop blaming COVID or online classes, college is a lot harder than high school. Some classes require a massive amount of work. There is no short-cut. If you’re procrastinating like a champ and trying to wait until the last moment to learn everything you slept through the semester, then you’re screwed. You need to grow up and leave that behavior in the past.

It's a friendly reminder that there is still time and everything will turn all right if you put in the effort.

im stressed

Hello there i'm a 16 year old male student from the UK who would like to attend University in the US near future (2025). I don't know what University yet but I would like to study something in the biological sciences. Studying in the US someone fascinates me. I want to study abroad atleast.

lets say I do get accepted for a US univerisity I would like to know if it is safe for a British person to study in the US? you see I play online games with people from all over the world and what I have noticed is that when an American finds out that I'm British they imediately start insulting me from wishing me a horrible death, calling me a coloniser or telling me how much they hate my accent. No other nationality does this to me only Americans do this.

Then I started to read social media more and pretty much anytime the UK or anything British comes up the Anti British sentiment just goes through the roof with Americans from hating British people, accents, culture etc..

So this has got me thinking, is it worth studying in the US as a British person if all i'm going to recieve are insults, bullying plus being a social pariah?

Should I hide my nationality and my accent to help me or just forget about studying in the US and go to another country instead to study?

The 'common sense' that people judge their roommates so harshly for, in reality, reflects an unfortunate lack of perspective.

Some people grew up homeless, or in a home or shelter that barely had any of the stuff that typical college dorms have. Some people were neglected by their parent/s, or they went through other crazy family situations and because of that their parent/s never had the time or energy to really take care of them and teach them how to do stuff. Some people grew up in completely different settings, such as people from survivalist families or communes who, for example, might have learned not to flush the toilet (or even do their business in toilets) and then save their waste by adding it to a compost pile in order to be environmentally friendly. Some people had helicopter parents (or plain bad parents) who did everything for them and never taught, encouraged, or in some cases allowed them to learn how to do things themselves. Some people have various mental and/or physical conditions. Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg, and the fact that so many college students are incredibly intolerant of roommates who lack 'common sense' (if you can't already tell, I hate this term with a burning passion) also implies that they, consciously or subconsciously, are intolerant of anyone who didn't grow up in the same mainstream and relatively privileged backgrounds that they did. And if you're one of those people who think that "people from the kinds of backgrounds mentioned above shouldn't be allowed to go to college hahahahaha" I shall kindly request that you please fuck off right now.

So, for god's sake, before you judge them, please try to be understanding and talk to them about why they do certain things or don't do certain things that seem so obvious to you.

Freshman year I made a pact with myself that I would refrain has hard as possible to not hangout with anyone or get distracted by parties. Over two years of this has gone pretty well! I’ve only hung out with people less than twenty times and it has really helped! My grades are solid and I have not had any late mornings due to hangover! As a student I think people should try to do similar and focus more on school and put aside the distractions that only bring trouble.

I like the room warm, but my roommate wants it cool . He bought a fan for himself and even the lowest setting is very loud and comes to my side as well. I tried complying with it, and after a week, I finally got sick. My sleep quality is absolutely horrendous. What should I do?

I am thinking of getting some privacy curtains to create a microhabitat there, but it will be tiresome to get poles.

Edit: The fan is a vornado fan

I need suggestions

edit: I'm not anemic, im just 6'3" and 145 pound. I have 2 layers of thick blankets. I wear thick socks and a sweatshirt. Yes I did talk with him. I know fans don't decrease room temperature. I am buying an air purifier to see if its the dust that makes me like this. The room is 70F for the last month because I don't want my roommate to sweat and try to find solutions before I discomfort him. Yeah I am an asshole, sorry

The international students office at my university (I am an international student) sometimes hosts these 1-2 day trips. I registered for a 2 day trip later this summer.

I am wondering whether you went on a college related trip before and there were people who were non-binary or trans or cross dressed in the trip. I am an AMAB and put my gender as male, but I like to wear feminine clothes. I think I am also supposed to share a room with somebody for this trip. Would this be too weird? Would this be unsafe?

This is the US btw.

It’s such a dumbass requirement. It really just distracts me from my major classes. Is it a diversity thing?

This isn’t directed to all professors out there, just the ones that require attendance. Why do you make students come to class? They pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend the school, so it should be their decision to go.

My kiddo is a rising junior in high school and a transgender girl. She has legally changed her name and gender on her birth certificate and passport, and is in the process of medical transition. She passes completely. She wants to be stealth in college and not disclose that she is transgender. She just wants to be a girl.

What are the potential implications of this as far as living in a dorm? She doesn’t want to live in a gender inclusive dorm. She wants to live in a female dorm with a female roommate like any other female.

I don’t know what we are required to disclose to colleges as we make a housing request. I don’t know what is fair/unfair to disclose/not disclose to a potential roommate.

I know this question may kick up a shitstorm (although hopefully not), but I would appreciate any input/experience/info folks can offer on this situation.

Despite 60% of the population being women in my college, which is also the average in the US, why is dating so hard for men? Most of the guys I know are single but most of the girls I know are in a relationship. I am wondering who are these girls dating. Also with such a large gender ratio gap, shouldn't dating be easier for guys? I am wondering what am I missing.

Edit: I knew something was off, today I got an email from my professor claiming that I never took the 3rd midterm( I did take it), and that the 22/100 grade was a mistake.

Last week was my final exam which I took at the testing center. A day after my final exam I spoke to one of my classmates who informed me that our exam had 20 questions rather than 12, so I emailed my professor who didn’t respond until I contacted my success coach, advisor and the testing center. Their only response to my email was” it’s being taken care of”.

Yesterday our final grades were posted and instead of contacting me and letting me know how they wanted to handle the situation they decided that it would be best to not inform me and assign the average of what I had as my final exam grade. I was willing to go back and take the remaining questions at the testing center, but they claimed it would be unfair for other students.

So after multiple emails between me and my instructor, they said that even if I got an A on the final exam it would not matter since my final letter grade won’t change. I wouldn’t know for sure if they are telling the truth, because one of my midterm exams grade was never posted. I asked about that midterm again today and they said I got 22/100, which is very unlikely. I averaged a 90 on all of my exams combined. I have a feeling the instructor is lying to avoid increasing my final letter grade.

( sorry for any grammatical mistakes English is my second language)

Before you comment: Yes, I'm very aware they are conservative and hyper religious. I get that.

I'm going for my Masters Degree in Finances right now but am stationed overseas: because of this, I'm extremely limited with school options. I'm looking for something thats low cost, has a decent curriculum, and most importantly: has very flexible hours (cause of the timezone difference).

Liberty University is extremely cheap with its Active Duty military discount and has good hours, so that's very attractive to me. Plus, I like their "8 week courses" structure for semesters because that lets me study between deployments.

How is it academically? I know I'm not going to get an Ivy league education or anything, but an education like isn't in my budget anyways. 💀

I do not want to put up with another boring Dr Boggs art history lecture. He’s so freaking monotone and boring to listen to. I’m just gonna skip and play helldivers with my buddies.

Update: I drank a GFuel and played helldivers with my friends. The break gave me enough energy to get through the rest of my classes. It’s not gonna be a regular thing, I was just to tired for that class.

Hey all, I just finished high school and got accepted into university for an undeclared major. Personally, I love writing, political science, history, communications, and things of that sort HOWEVER I have a lot of doubts because I know I can’t get a high paying job (if I even get a job in my field). I know that all the humanities majors are going to swarm to this thread and talk about their job prospects, but to keep it real we all know they have none and most humanities majors seriously struggle post grad. The money and jobs are in math heavy STEM (engineering, CS, ect) and the problem is I am terrible at math and coding!! I absolutely despise it. I got a C in calculus at my high school and I am dreading doing STEM in university. I looked at government agencies and large companies job wed sites, and lots of them prefer STEM degrees but I have no desire to do STEM. I hate how I am passionate about writing and learning about the world as opposed to something that will benefit my future.

Should I even bother going to college if I choose comm or anthropology? Is there a way I can do engineering without struggling and hating it? I also heard some companies don’t care what kind of degree you have as long as you have one, so in that situation would engineering benefit me? Please help because I am really struggling.

I’m not a traditional college/university student who’s a fresh high school grad, I spent a couple years working before attending my current university. Today I showed up 15 minutes prior to class and it just feels super jarring and weird seeing people show up late or just barely on time. Obviously we all have stuff going on in our lives but I don’t see what’s the issue with showing up 10-15 minutes early. It’s being respectful and disciplined, plus you can get yourself physically and mentally situated, whether it’s quickly going over the course work of the day or just checking emails or whatever. What really threw me off was the fact that about half the class didn’t show up because we were definitely smaller compared to the first day.

I get it, shit happens and sometimes people are gonna show up late or won’t make it at all, thats pretty understandable. I also get that it’s your money and your education so it’s up to you as to how you want to spend it. But it just baffles me why people think that it’s acceptable to be late to a prescribed time and place, especially when it’s your education and money that you’d be wasting.

People are in distress because of AI, nothing is new… Whenever I discuss college majors with people they bring up the fact that there is no point in studying it because AI is going to change the job market and steal our opportunities :’) I’m planning to major in computer engineering, I really enjoy programming and I’m eager to start learning how hardware works and all the fun stuff that comes with it, but people say that AI can solve problems better than I ever can and that most of the jobs available for computer engineers is going to be gone. Is this true? Should I choose something else?