FEATURED POST: How Failing a Class Made Me Learn More

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It was the end of December.

After struggling to find the motivation to complete monotonous robotic coursework in Comp Sci 153, the Data Structures class, it was time for the teachers to release the grades.

I had a ‘C-’ going into the final and felt great about what I’d done on the final. In fact, I’d used Data Structures the previous summer on my two internship projects (both of which Far Exceeded Expectations) and had helped the majority of the class finish our assignments.

Time for the moment of truth. I press reload on the online gradebook and it shows:
Statistics for Engineers A
Circuits II B
Circuits II Lab A
Physics II B
Data Structures F

That ‘F’ in Data Structures changed my life.

Sittin' On The Row with Amber

 

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Hello world, my name is Amber I am a BS candidate for Computer Science and Spanish on May 20, 2012

A Transitioning State of Mind

Time to reflect. We've all done it. I call this, the stages of my educated mind.

High school - Was pretty darn easy, probably even easier than middle school. All I had to do was show up to class and turn in assignments which, apparently, was pretty hard for the average teenager to do. The only struggles I had were memorizing my marching band music *go c-nets!*