Aw man that stinks 🙁. Have you tried Khan Academy on Youtube? It's a great resource and was one of the reasons why I was able to pass the horror that was physics.No, it's a small class, another reason I signed up for it. So no TAs at all.
*grrrrrrrrr*
Well if it comes down to just not having enough time to practice... it might be worthwhile to use another resource (text, youtube, etc.) and see if you can get ahead and use lecture as supplemental instead of a primary learning tool. I personally despise getting a bunch of information a day before the exam because for me it has to stew for a bit... hopefully it gets better for you!
Those first few lectures were so promising 😢
Definitely this. Watching those videos practically saved me. And this chick 👍
I agree, the only "good" part of physics was able to complain about with each other 😛
Yes! Brightstorm is the one I was thinking of!! I absolutely loved that guy, he's so energetic.
My physio class gets curved so that the highest score in the class is 100%. The Exam 1 highest grade was 100%, so there was no curve even though the average was below 65%. The Exam 2 highest grade was 96%, so curve was 4%. Does anyone else think that this is super weird? I find it extremely annoying for some reason. I get wanting to cap the highest grade at 100, but you can still cap at 100 while curving the average to a passing grade. lol. I'm doing fine in the class, but the way this professor does things bothers me.
In other (less important?) news, the ratio of my PB&J was wayyy off. 🙁 I made it, so it's my fault. I must have still been asleep this morning. lol.
My understanding is that the class syllabus is like a contract, and if the prof deviates from it, the class must agree to it. There must be someone you can talk to about it.My physics professor is so frustrating. First off, when I signed up for the class, I specifically took it because there is one really good professor and he was scheduled to teach this section. On the first day of school, the professor got changed and there were no other classes I could fit into my schedule. Secondly, this new professor, his PhD is in environmental science and he has not taught a physics class before. Every single class he mumbles around, never lectures on the actual material, and when asked questions never gives a clear answer. I asked him to explain a homework problem the other day, he proceeded to do it wrong on the board, get a wrong answer, and then tell us "I actually don't know how to do this one, I'll have to get back to you." I understand that everyone has bad days, but how can you assign a problem that you don't even know how to solve yourself?! On top of that, based off the syllabus we were supposed to take four exams plus a final. We have taken two, and now he has decided that he would rather do a weekly 20 point mini-exam instead of the four big 100 point ones. So he is completely changing the class structure half way through the semester and he hasn't even given us a new syllabus explaining the new grading format. I was able to get a 102% and a 92% on the first two big exams, but now his little "exams" I only got an 81% because we have one day to study following the lecture where it is "taught." So there is no time to get help if you don't understand something. On top of all of this, he has magically lost one of my lab reports that I definitely turned in, so there is a currently a zero in the gradebook for that until he finds it and fixes it. Other students in the class have gone to the Dean of Students to complain because he is making the class so difficult for all of us, but nothing is being done. I'm doing my best to suck it up and survive, but when my grade has gone from a 96% to an 89% in under a week, I am not very pleased.
That seems reasonable. Lol. 🙂 idk, my physiology professor is just terrible at teaching. Lol
Ack! I hate car accidents - no matter how small, they're always scary. Hope everything's okay!
Glad you're safe!!
Generally speaking, most syllabi have some kind of disclaimer that the professor can change the syllabus at any time. I know all of mine for the last two years of vet school have. Pretty sure they do this year too, although clinics are a bit different.
I haven't looked at my vet school syllabi, but I know the ones I had in undergrad did not have any clause like that.
Luckily, I keep all my records from classes so I was able to prove that I in fact turned my lab report in, so that part is at least taken care of.
What the actual ****It's just so frustrating. On yesterday's mini exam which covered torque, he screwed over the entire class. The normal rule is that clockwise is negative, counter clockwise is positive. However for the entire quiz he put an astrick on the directions and at the bottom of the page he said that it was opposite convention for this problem. So of course 2/3 of the class missed that direction and went off normal convention. Of course it is my own fault for not reading it properly and thoroughly, but now I got about a 40% on that mini exam because he doesn't believe in partial credit.Luckily, I keep all my records from classes so I was able to prove that I in fact turned my lab report in, so that part is at least taken care of.
The first really sad case I worked on as a VA was a papillon with pancreatitis that went south really quick. Still sticks with me.
One of my first days of shadowing we had a "pancreatitis" that ended up being really bad pancreatic cancer (aren't they all?) Really sweet, very very loved spaniel with owners who felt horrible because they thought they might have missed something the last few weeks as they had their firstborn in NICU. Crappy situation all around.
That's ok. If you know enough about dogs cats and horses, you like don't need to know much about anything else to really pass.Hoolllyy crap I know nothing about cows and I'm taking the NAVLE in a week.
Cows have 4 chambered "stomachs" including the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. They have a spiral colon. Their extensive gut is designed to get as many nutrients as possible from the microbes that really make up their diet. (The grass feeds the bugs, the bugs feed the cow.)Hoolllyy crap I know nothing about cows and I'm taking the NAVLE in a week.
