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[RainbowSparkle100]

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[deleted1199414]

chad is the goat if it's a learning thing.

 

[AJS59]

I'm taking General Chemistry 1 through a post-bacc and I want to rage quit this class because it simply ENRAGES ME.

We have 3 exams that are worth 25% of our grade each. I got 100% on the first exam and only a ****ing 88% on the second one. Each exam is graded out of 25 points.

Reasoning? There was one question that I did not know how to answer, so fine, I deserved losing that point. I deserved 96% max on that exam.

But, for the other two? I mistakenly selected the wrong answer choice for VSEPR geometry despite drawing the right Lewis structure and then lost points for not expressing my answer in the right number of significant figures.

I'm much better at chemistry than that B+ makes me out to be, which pisses me the **** off.

If I score less than 84% on the 3rd exam, which is acid-base chemistry (LMAO RIP) I get an A- or lower in this class.

I want to rage-quit this class. I already have a ton of academic trauma.

The reason why I need a post-bacc at all is because I used to be a decently above average HS student and then tanked it in college when being curved against cracked Bay Area kids, so this class reinforces that I'm incompetent and should really select another field.

It makes me want to chuck my laptop out the window and just go into accounting or some BS.

Can anyone relate?

I don't get a W for dropping this class. I just lose my money.

Been there, done that (failed organic chemistry exam). Now look where I’m at with a chem degree and now starting in medical school.

My advice? If you’re serious about this career, you need to be ready to deal with failure. A B+ on 1 exam should not derail you — seriously, there are way way worse things in this world.

Exam mistakes happen. Treat it as water under the bridge and a learning experience. What will truly define you in this career (or frankly, any career or in life) is your ability to get back up when punched in the mouth.

And final piece of advice - take your time to think through your answers carefully. Sig Figs are annoying (trust me, I know), but you have to go with what you got.

 

[AJS59]

Listen,

In this process a lot of things go wrong and you’ll be put through a lot of BS. But I am so serious when I say this is not something to get worked up over.

 

[Goro]

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What's wrong with an A-?
You don't need a 4.0 to get into medical school you know

 

[AJS59]

I have taken this class before in college and got an A, flat. No plus or minus.

I'm worried I'll look like a dunce for getting a lower grade the second time in this post-bacc.

I'm retaking this class because I'm at a new school on the quarter system, need to take Gen Chem 2, and need to refresh my knowledge of Gen Chem 1.

It’s fine. Things happen. You will not look like a dunce.

 

[Goro]

I have taken this class before in college and got an A, flat. No plus or minus.

I'm worried I'll look like a dunce for getting a lower grade the second time in this post-bacc.

I'm retaking this class because I'm at a new school on the quarter system whereas my college was semester, need to take Gen Chem 2 for my pre-reqs (my college did not have Gen Chem 2, long story) and need to refresh my knowledge of Gen Chem 1.

No one will care about that.

 

[Goro]

So, adcoms wouldn't care that I got an A- in General Chemistry 1 taking it for the second time at UCLA Extension, when I got an A in General Chemistry 1 taking it for the first time at UC Berkeley (main campus, undergrad)?

How not? If I really get an A- in this class it shows I have done worse the second time LMAO

Because in a minus is almost an a! Now if you'd gotten a B or less that would have been an eyebrow raiser

You really need to let this go

 

[Goro]

I forgot to add that my science GPA for MD schools is low, though, at 3.56-3.62.

It's not lethal for MD, but you'll need to have some DO schools on your list.