Whoa, that was incredibly scary... (long)

[M4LFUNCT10N]

Okay, I averted disaster big time. I was really scared that I was going to have to pull out of the lan. Here's the story.

Okay, so I was a major slacker in HS. I didn't care. I always had a hard time in class. I had a really hard time sitting through class, I wouldn't do my homework either. Anyway, fast forward to now. I took 2 years off from school after I graduated, and now I'm in my second year of college at WCC. Here's where the fun begins.

This quarter my schedule has been Computer Science 101, Physical Anthropology 2XX, and Business Accounting 2XX. The computer science class was INCREDIBLY boring. The first couple days were devoted to teaching you how to create and delete files. Then she explained what file extensions were. Okay, I was a computer tech/admin for nearly 2 years for a large company. It was mind numbingly boring. I told my teacher my experience and she said, "well, I'll just waive your attendance requirement." Now think back to my hard time in HS. Yep. I went to class for about a week. Then I just stopped going altogether. Wednesday it kind of hit me that I hadn't been to class in about a month. That means I hadn't done any homework, any test, missed the midterm. Can we say screwed? :eek: . SCREWED. So, I emailed my teacher. I said I screwed up big time. I was incredibly complacent and just slacked off to the extreme. I asked if there was any way for me to make up everything. Maybe a nice programming project, a few lengthy homework assignments and an extensive cumulative test well beyond the requirements for the class.

My answer from her yesterday was, "I think at this point it's best for you to drop the class and try again later. P. Bover"

Okay, no fast forward to tonight. I have to tell my parents that I screwed around and have to withdraw from a class. My parents grounded me once for something like 3 months for getting a D in a class. They grounded me for one month because of a C. I got calls home from teachers.

I was scared to death to tell them what had happened. But somehow I got out of it all. My parents have been paying for my tuition. So... I told them that my amplifer that I'm putting on ebay will pay for my class. I'm going to give them $300 for the class(1/3 of this quarter's tuition), and that I will take it again next quarter without skipping.

So basically I'm screwed out of $300 AND I get to take a full load of 20 credits next quarter. But somehow they didn't freak out or anything. They were happy that I didn't put it off, and that I was being responsible about it all. They asked me if I learned a lesson and that was it. Talk about a load off of my shoulders! But I'm also going to be completely screwed next quarter when I have to take 4 classes @ 20 credits total. BTW, that also means that my parents are getting $150 credit from me. Cause when I add that extra 5 credits onto next quarter it will only cost them $150 from the $300 I'm giving them.

So any of you have some close calls from major screwups?

[SuperDude]

cant say i have had anything that screwed.

[M4LFUNCT10N]

I truly don't know how this happened. While I did slack off in HS, I was also in nearly all Honors classes(including Honors Calculus). I would slack, but when it came down to it, I would get everything done in the end. But this has got to be an alltime low. Talk about learning a big lesson here.

[ghrogels]

this also kinda happened to me this quarter too...

it was in my math 99 klass, everything was going a-ok untill one day a sub shows up out of nowhere and says that e harri (the teacher) won't be able to make it for an indefinate period of time.

so the sub starts teaching the class, and not assigning hw, totally teaching his own style not really assigning anything. So, well, if the teacher isn't shwoing up, its not like i have to, so i started skipping everyonce in awhile

Then a Friday comes around 2 weeks latter and i'm like "oh crap, i hope we don't have a test today, cause i'm not going"

well, i come in monday, and there was no test, but there was e.harri back again and it was like "oh ****", was there a test on friday, "no, but theres one tomarrow."

well crap, i ended up being really really late for class the next day cause i haddn't show up on time/shown up for over 2 weeks, and didn't bother to even take the test.

the next day comes around and i ask if i can make it up, the rest of the class was doing a retake on friday so it should've been no prob (plus he haddn't shown up in 14 days). but he's like, "well you can make it up, but you can't turn in your hw that was due(?) and you will be only able to get 50% credit on the test. maybe you should drop the class (that monday had been the last drop date w/0 an i)"

well, out of all this i realized that you can't slack off when a sub shows up, and you sure as hell better pick it up when the teacher gets back. Also I probably missed something the sub or teacher said, and there was a bad stroke of communication

btw, it ended up being dropped

live + learn

[DiscoDave]

My strategy in high school was to put forth the exact minimum amount of effort required to graduate.

Suffice to say, I achieved that goal with astounding success. Looking back on it, I can't believe I made it.

My senior project was a complete sham. I was supposed to build a webpage for the school...I didn't do a damn thing. Someone else had the same project I did. At the end of it, he had some wild flash movie, and frames, and images that had multiple clicking points embedded, and all stuff, including profiles of the major staff and such.

I had 3 pages, one of them was a "my favorite links" page. And it had broken images and other errors I never bothered to fix.

When it came time to give my presentation, I showed what I had and claimed (lied) that my project was more oriented on actually setting up the Internet space, so we could load files and get the domain name launched and stuff. I never did any of that. *cough*

I got a B- on the project. If I had flunked it, which I of course should have, I wouldn't have graduated.

Additionally, I had flunked enough classes so I needed to pass every class I had in the final quarter to have enough credits to graduate. With a month left to go, I realized I was going to flunk my math class. Somehow I managed to turn myself around right up until the math final, which I determined I needed certain percentage score in order to pass the class. I think it was like a 82% or something. I don't remember what I got, but it was something just slightly above that...within 5%, or so.

[M4LFUNCT10N]

I had one really bad experience my Junior year of HS. Which I learned from, but what I just did at WCC is pretty much a repeat. I went to class all the time, but never did any homework. Honors Math Analysis. I had to have 80% of my homework turned in to pass the class. I took the final, then when he was giving out grades, he called me back and just shook his head. He told me that I had only turned in 45% of my homework. But he said that he couldn't fail me and feel good about himself, even though I knew the consequences of my actions. He said that on his final, which was the hardest cumulative final he had given out to date, I got the 4th highest score out of his 5 classes. He told me if I showed up in his class the next quarter, that I better get my ass in gear or he'd fail me with no remorse. Needless to say I made sure I didn't end up in his class that next quarter!

In all of HS I never failed a class. Somehow I did pretty well, even though I was always doing the bare minimum.

[RawKus]

Now this should be a lesson for everyone, the moral of the story is...don't play video games.

[M4LFUNCT10N]

haha... I wasn't playing video games. I've spent more time on here than I have been playing games. Back in HS.... I'd say I was too busy with work and other extra-curricular activities, girlfriends that stuff.