Ok so I need to get this out or whatever. I am sure I am not the only who has ever gone through this.
As of this fall semester I will be in my 5th year of schooling towards my degree. I already have my AA degree. I will be a senior after fall semester. At this point I am still taking a few low level classes (basically I have both organics and phy2 left. I am in phy 2 now), then I have 2 cores and all my upperlevel major calsses left and my exit requirements of 6 hours..(your basic bs course).
Alright I am already well past my breaking point. Over fall they are offering one upper level for my degree major.... and I cant take it b/c I am missing one pre-req. which is fine... however if its like this every semester it will take me forever to get my degree. I am also past my point with these bs courses. I am a biology-marine major. I am sitting here in phy2, failing it not because I cant do it, but I am a bad test taker and it takes me to long to figure out a problem. I am so sick and tired of taking these bs courses that have nothing to do with my major (minus one equation for phy1 if you did reseach on plankton which is so simple a 3rd grader could do it). I have study hard for this class and I am doing really good on the homework (which is graded). I just cant get over the fact that I am failing this class, esp with how much I studied for the last test. I will have to talk to my prof. AGAIN as its past add/drop to see if there is anyway I can pass. This is driving me insane I feel like I am being punished for something that I know I can do I just suck at tests that have to deal with math...ive been like that from elementary school. I can take test fine in any other subject. Math is just not my thing. I am not even sure how I managed to pass calc. but I did (again I can do math just takes me a long time to get it done). I am just so far over this at this point that I really just dont want to do this bs anymore. I am wasting so much money on bs classes and all to get a piece of paper to say that I can have job in (insert here). Whats really sad is that the stuff that actually does have to do with my major I am really good with, hence why I am MAJORING in it... I am donig it because I want to SPECIFICALLY go into this area. Yet I take these bs courses b/c they want us to be "well rounded" If I wanted to be well rounded I would major in a degree for well roundedness. On top of that I am really annoyed that all these freaking professor say is "oh well (insert here) for med students" or today we will do (insert here) for med students or well you will never use (insert here) unless you are a med student so we will go over it for the med students. Ok we are in base courses not everyone is a freakin med student.... its like they dont give a crap about any degree program but the med one. Please make seperate calsses for med students then... we are not all med students and I am not the only non med-student who feels this way.. we want to learn about stuff that pretains to us too. I honestly dont feel like I am learning all that much from these courses. I am sure I will learn more in my upper levels which are what I am looking forward to but in the meantime I just cant take it with these bs classes anymore. I feel like these classes are always going to keep holindg me back. I know this holds true for a lot of people. I am donig great in the classes that have to do with my major and I am maintaing easily a 3.0+ for my science gpa, but its these stupid lower level bs classes that are screwing me up. I fell like I coud get a 4.0 science gpa pass everything but physics 2 and they wouldnt give my my degree b/c of that one class that has nothing do with my major and it's extremely discouraging and even more so when they gear everything to med students. I know "that just how it is" or whatever but it's just annoying. It really discourages me enough to not want to go anymore (and yes I pay out of pocket..which doesnt help).
As of this fall semester I will be in my 5th year of schooling towards my degree. I already have my AA degree. I will be a senior after fall semester. At this point I am still taking a few low level classes (basically I have both organics and phy2 left. I am in phy 2 now), then I have 2 cores and all my upperlevel major calsses left and my exit requirements of 6 hours..(your basic bs course).
Alright I am already well past my breaking point. Over fall they are offering one upper level for my degree major.... and I cant take it b/c I am missing one pre-req. which is fine... however if its like this every semester it will take me forever to get my degree. I am also past my point with these bs courses. I am a biology-marine major. I am sitting here in phy2, failing it not because I cant do it, but I am a bad test taker and it takes me to long to figure out a problem. I am so sick and tired of taking these bs courses that have nothing to do with my major (minus one equation for phy1 if you did reseach on plankton which is so simple a 3rd grader could do it). I have study hard for this class and I am doing really good on the homework (which is graded). I just cant get over the fact that I am failing this class, esp with how much I studied for the last test. I will have to talk to my prof. AGAIN as its past add/drop to see if there is anyway I can pass. This is driving me insane I feel like I am being punished for something that I know I can do I just suck at tests that have to deal with math...ive been like that from elementary school. I can take test fine in any other subject. Math is just not my thing. I am not even sure how I managed to pass calc. but I did (again I can do math just takes me a long time to get it done). I am just so far over this at this point that I really just dont want to do this bs anymore. I am wasting so much money on bs classes and all to get a piece of paper to say that I can have job in (insert here). Whats really sad is that the stuff that actually does have to do with my major I am really good with, hence why I am MAJORING in it... I am donig it because I want to SPECIFICALLY go into this area. Yet I take these bs courses b/c they want us to be "well rounded" If I wanted to be well rounded I would major in a degree for well roundedness. On top of that I am really annoyed that all these freaking professor say is "oh well (insert here) for med students" or today we will do (insert here) for med students or well you will never use (insert here) unless you are a med student so we will go over it for the med students. Ok we are in base courses not everyone is a freakin med student.... its like they dont give a crap about any degree program but the med one. Please make seperate calsses for med students then... we are not all med students and I am not the only non med-student who feels this way.. we want to learn about stuff that pretains to us too. I honestly dont feel like I am learning all that much from these courses. I am sure I will learn more in my upper levels which are what I am looking forward to but in the meantime I just cant take it with these bs classes anymore. I feel like these classes are always going to keep holindg me back. I know this holds true for a lot of people. I am donig great in the classes that have to do with my major and I am maintaing easily a 3.0+ for my science gpa, but its these stupid lower level bs classes that are screwing me up. I fell like I coud get a 4.0 science gpa pass everything but physics 2 and they wouldnt give my my degree b/c of that one class that has nothing do with my major and it's extremely discouraging and even more so when they gear everything to med students. I know "that just how it is" or whatever but it's just annoying. It really discourages me enough to not want to go anymore (and yes I pay out of pocket..which doesnt help).
