Over on Okayplayer there’s a discussion thread on dumb things you did in college.
I’m still in college and still do dumb things, but I know the thread was in reference to the undergraduate years.
My response: slept through two midterms… and a quiz.
True story.
Winter quarter of my first year, I woke up at 10:30 a.m. My midterm for Statistics 10, a required course for all sociology majors started at 10 a.m. It was a midterm I should have aced, if I bothered to show up. I didn’t immediately drop the class. The midterm was held week 3 and was the first of two. However, the professor only counted the best grade of two midterms, the homework and the final. I dropped the class without any penalty aside from paying $3. I enrolled in Stats 10 for spring quarter with an Argentine professor who made Chispa and I giggle when she said “focus.” Sleeping through that midterm turned out to be less dumb than I originally thought because I did really well in the class with the Argentine professor. Just ask Chispa, she knows the professor thought I was “wonderful.”
The second sleepy incident came in the middle of the spring quarter. I slept through the only midterm in my Earth & Space Sciences 8 course on earthquakes. This time I was in a bad position. The professor didn’t allow to find some way to make up the midterm. I had to drop the course and took a late withdraw which showed up on my transcript. Oh well. I took the course again for pass/no pass. I passed with an A-.
The third incident of irresponsibility (but there were many, many more) came in the winter of my sophomore year. I had a 9 a.m. discussion section for Chicana/o Studies 10a, and introductory course required of all students in the major. The TA gave a pre-announced quiz in the class and I was still on the 6th floor of Hedrick Hall sleeping away. Not good. But Terri “the TA tyrant” (as my friend Victor and I called her) was rather cool and allowed me to make up the quiz.
Moral of the story? I’m irresponsible but I got away with it (somewhat), so I didn’t learn my lesson. Not a good thing.
P.S. I got all A’s and two S’s last quarter. Woo hoo!
I think you did learn. That you’re able to remember these situations and recognize what you did wrong tells me you know. Now the next step is to stop being so irresponsible
The cute girls always get away with everything. Hey…take it while you can get it.
tsk tsk Cindy.
that said, I once dropped a class after messing up a couple of tests (early in the semester)… later I came to find out my final grade in the class (after the fact and not taking 3 other tests) had been a D+… oh yeah, I also slept through a final
=O
(I made it up later tho =)
College days. I really miss them. I think the worst I did was drop 12 credits after the add and drop period was over! What a waste of money. I graduated in 2000 with a 3.9 GPA. My only B coming in Statistics. I hate math!!!!
The only dumb thing I did was actually going to college.
And then going back to get a Masters.
And thinking about going back to get a Doctorate.
He he he…
^ PhD eh? Your da man! or Woman?
hmmm…Went into a final (worth 80%) in undergrad not having studied enough due to writing a grant the whole night for an org trip. I thought that I would do fine, actually failed the course along with another 20% of the class. Retook the course a year later and got an A—lesson learned: not studying=not good. Second, took a course on Affirmative Axn (Takash). I did very well in all her work (98% average in all her work), she gave me an A- in the course. I asked her why, she said that she wanted to actually give me a B in the class since I only showed up twice to class the whole quarter (first & final day). Did not think she would care about attendance in such a big course and I was going through depression which she knew about—lesson learned: attendance is important. Third, made a deal with a teaching assistant to convert the course’s two papers (2-30%) and midterm (10%) into one big research paper on NAFTA. Took the final, did not turn in the paper. He gave me an A-, but due to the guilt of the grade I sent him my paper a year and half later–lesson learned: guiltiness is a horrible feeling when you see the TA around campus. Last little story: did not turn in a 40% paper for Prof Goode until the day of my final, after four extensions he was justifiably angry. He gave me a preliminary A- on the paper but dropped the grade to a C- which he handed to me mid-final. I ended up with an A- in the class, I still can’t understand how—lesson learned: not sure on this one.
Well, since were all throwing around stupid things we did in college, I thought I’d chime in with one of mine.
It was less than a year from graduation and I was dating this girl who went to school with me. We had decided to meet up after her class and when I showed up to the door of her classroom I saw that her class was running late. So I decided to peak into the classroom and see what was going on. The doors had little windows on them that allowed you to look into the classroom. After a few more minutes, I peaked again, this time getting the professors and some of the students attention. I guess the students were eager to get out too and were looking for any distraction to notify the teacher of the passed time. After a few more minutes that the students still didn’t come out, I peaked in the window again only to see that the professor made eye contact with me and looked really annoyed.
He comes charging towards the door and swings it open. Since I saw the speed which he was walking towards the door, I backed off enough to barely escape getting hit from the swinging door. As I am backing away (walking backwards) I am still facing the professor and in a very angry tone he starts to yell at me about how rude I was for peeking in. I tried to hold in my anger as much as I could but because of his tone and his quickly invading my space, I got really angry too and yelled back, “Well than fucken do something about it”, and stopped walking backwards and took a few steps towards him with my arms in the air. At this point I was really angry, and if he did provoke me further, would have surely fought with him. The professor immediately stopped approaching me, threw his hands at me as in ‘screw you’, turned around and walked back into his class and dismissed everyone.
Apparently, my girlfriend said, everybody in the class heard our altercation. My girlfriend was extremely embarassed as this was one of her favorite professors at the time. Throughout the rest of my school year I would bump into the professor in the hallways and stuff but he would never say anything to me nor I to him. Most importantly, he didn’t report the incident to anyone and it just goes down in history as one of the many stupid things I did in undergrad.
Didn’t the women do anything dumb?
Heh. I remember my jr year during finals week i got drunk in the afternoon only to realise that 30 minutes later i had a group meeting for our final presentation the next day. I walked over to in’n'out to buy some greasy food to try and sober up, but just ended up feeling really sick. hah. I got an A in the class,though. yey.
1) I would find out who the weak teachers were by seeing if I could manipulate them by extending due dates on papers. I didn’t need the extra time but I was a brat in that way. I was very creative in my stories that I told to get out of the deadlines.
2) This one doesn’t really have to do with my classes in college but it did happen in the university parking lot. One morning I went to buy my daily parking pass. I closed the door when I stepped out to get it. I didn’t realize that I had locked the door with the car running!!! All of my doors were locked. What was I to do? I then realized that the hatch to the back of my LONG Dodge Aspen station wagon was unlocked. I had to crawl all the way to the front seat. Oh! I forgot to mention – I was wearing a mini skirt. How embarassing!!!