Struggle Thread

[dfrecore]

Calculus for Engineers I. I had always been a good math student, all A's and B's through my life. And then I went to SJSU on a full scholarship in Engineering, and wham! It didn't help that the teacher was not a professor, but a grad student who did not speak English as her first (or really any) language. I couldn't understand a single word she said. I struggled through that, and after the first exam, every single person in the class (like 50 of us) got a 50% or worse on the exam - and she had every grade on the board, and said "obviously you did not study!" Yeah lady, every single person in here, who are all Engineering students, didn't study. Right. Or maybe you're the worst teacher on Earth.

I dropped it at that point, and changed my major to Business. Never got anything below a B after that except Financial Accounting and Business Law (and I worked in Accounting at the time, those courses were HARD!).