Better Than Wolves Forum

PatrickSJ wrote:This is a prereq to intro to programming so I'm assuming it is a 100 level course. Given that ~22 people have dropped from an introductory level course I'd say you should drop as well. Is the issue the professor is plain bad or just going too quickly?

As for switching colleges... I did the transfer routine and I found I received better teachers, but I didn't know in advance how good the teachers were. Now you can check out the universities' professor ratings.

Also, 4000 words over 20 slides is too dense for a presentation. Are you making a case for various financial risk options or stating your knowledge about financial risk management (condensing notes to PPT)?

TheAnarchitect wrote:I quit my calculus classes in college because all available professors had thick foreign accents. It's not that I couldn't understand them, it's that it was impossible for me to respond in class without mimicking the accent, and thus embarrassing the teachers and myself. It turned out that I had AP credits from high school I could transfer in for a small fee, so I did it. I think taking the classes elsewhere and transfering them is a good move.

I also had a good friend who went through 3 years of hell because his masters program was run by a psychotic bastard. He stuck through it and is reaping the rewards, and every year his school contacts him asking for Alumni donations, he tells them he'll donate provided they fire the guy. He's convinced a few of his other former students to do the same, and he's hoping that if he can get enough they might go through with it. Complain about the professor to your school, and get other people who dislike him to do the same. Maybe you can get the bad professor gone.

PatrickSJ wrote:... What was the correct answer for the pseudo code? If he can't explain why his is correct and yours is wrong then he isn't worth having.

I am curious; is this a book about corporate finance risk management or project finance risk management?

While condition
Do command
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SterlingRed wrote:I had issues with some of my professors at my university. How I handled it varied from teacher to teacher. I never dropped a class and always stuck it out, my grade suffered as a result in 4 classes. In two cases the teachers I had were new and not tenured, so I worked with my fellow students and ta's to make sure the next class wouldn't have that problem. Let's just say they don't teach at that school anymore. One of these classes was English 101 and it was so bad, I took the second class at a community college and transferred the credit. I had a bad teacher for calculus 2, so I spoke to the other math teachers and got their class schedules for the next three semesters and arranged the rest of my classes around the teacher I wanted. For a few teachers, I had some pull with the dean of the engineering college and had him force professors to offer extra credit if he agreed with my view and got enough complaints. Really you will always have bad teachers, learn how to pick your battles and do the best you can.

Marasambala wrote:Look at it this way, everything will look easier from here on out. Who knows, some of those proffs. who are HORRIBLE first year teachers turn out to the best you can hope for during senior level classes.

Ribky wrote:I see your High C and raise you a High 5 for sticking it to the teacher.

Reminds me of when I inched through a class in high school with straight D's and the lowest passing score on the final exam because of my utter hatred of the teacher.

Gargantuan_Penguin wrote:I commend you on your ability to remain resolute and resourceful in an atmosphere of extreme pessimism. I have had teachers that I hated... all that got me was expelled form highschool... twice.