How (Not) to Fail Miserably in Academia

[codergeek42]

"I don't like this class."
"I'm going to fail; I just know it."
"Oh, I'm doing really bad [sic] in this class!."
"I'm never going to get it!"
"This is going to hurt."
These are only some of the things I've heard fellow classmates say in various situations: some before an exam, others after taking notes in lecture, yet more in lab/discussion for

Comments

too easy

[anonymous]

On the whole (not just science+engineering), lots of people go to college for no reason of their own. Or at least that is how they feel. You are *never* going to get everybody to care, even about themselves.

Personally, I think college has become too easy, and therefore it becomes possible to slide and not try, but still squeak by. If you make it harder, filled with more content and make it more rewarding, then people will want to work hard.

Talk to a professor who has been doing it a while, ask them about how courses have changed through the years, and I imagine they will agree that kids are spoonfed now, and still complaining it is too hard. Suckitup kids.

Re: too easy

[codergeek42]

Agreed, in full. It's a bit disheartening, really. :|

still hard

[anonymous]

It's still hard to find that internal motivation to get through a boring class... but you are right that taking it over and over again will not be fun.

Good blog post.