Wait till Academic Update or Not?

[Sparda29]

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Okay, so my physics professor kept to his word and did not curve at all despite the fact that the majority of the class was failing. I doubt that anyone even got a B. I got a C in the course, even though I did all the homework and had like the 2nd highest average in the class. He probably wasn't a fan of my physician-like handwriting on the lab reports.

Now, should I wait until the Academic Update to enter this grade into PharmCAS?

 

[Farcus]

lol no send it now so the grade wouldn't be part of your PharmCAS gpa until like january or w/e lol.

 

[BioKim]

I'm dealing with the same type of Physics teacher🙁 but the difference is he is so old he forgets stuff. We haven't received any test back and Summer session is almost ending. I would send it because if your retaking it, pharmcas will still calculate it as such, once they receive your new grade.

 

[Sparda29]

It sucks for me because I only registered for that class under the knowledge that it was going to be taught by this professor who gives like 10 A's every time. The professor I was hoping for also fell asleep during the final last year. Unfortunately, he got really sick in the Fall, and he didn't feel up to teaching the class this summer, so we got stuck with the prick.

 

[laimyours]

Why are all physics teachers so weird? I had one that constantly put the whole class down saying how he really dumbs the subject down for us because we will never be able to grasp physics, and used analogies that never made sense. For some odd reason he loved me and always talked about how smart I was, which was not the case I struggled in that class. The next semester he decided he didn't like me and gave me a whole letter grade lower despite having the same grade as the semester before. It seems fair grading and physics teachers don't go together. 😡

 

[Sparda29]

Yeah, this guy didn't even care about the answer, he only cared about how you got it.

He was pretty pissed off when I was using the Kinematics equations to solve problems for a test on the Work Energy Theorem or Newton's Laws.

He had a thing about proving the law first and then going for the problem. The guy didn't even care about the numbers.

Personally, the first thing I do in a physics problem is substitute all the numbers in.

 

[Chem Geek]

I believe insanity is a prerequisite for teaching physics (but not those who enjoy it). I completely sympathize!

 

[IrishOats]

I feel your pain...I'm in a summer term physics class as well, and looks like it might not turn out so well. The last professor I had for physics was really smart but just could not teach the class worth beans, and my professor this summer has been teaching forever but just seems angry all the time.
I think a lot of physics professors are really bitter for various reasons, and some of them just enjoy taking it out on their students.

 

[BioKim]

I feel your pain...I'm in a summer term physics class as well, and looks like it might not turn out so well. The last professor I had for physics was really smart but just could not teach the class worth beans, and my professor this summer has been teaching forever but just seems angry all the time.
I think a lot of physics professors are really bitter for various reasons, and some of them just enjoy taking it out on their students.

Agreed, My professor spends hours telling Aggie jokes then spaces out and says break time he leaves for 2 hours then comes back with a test in his hand about materials we havent covered. I been in this class for 2 weeks and we havent passed the first chapter.

 

[medicalCPA]

Since this thread has evolved into comments on physics professors, let me chime in with mine. I always hated physics until I took Physics I here. I loved that class. There were only 7 of us, so we all got our professor's attention. He always found a way to make the class interesting, even with the stuff that went over my head (cough, relativity, cough). His only flaw was that his tests were almost too easy, and he gave a truckload of extra credit. I once asked him about it, and he said that all he wanted to know was whether we understood the principles behind the question, and he could learn that from an easy test just as he could from a hard test.

I also had a good physics II professor, but I just did not like optics and electricity. I guess I liked physics I because it was math heavy.

...Sorry you have to put up with crappy teachers.

 

[Sparda29]

Since this thread has evolved into comments on physics professors, let me chime in with mine. I always hated physics until I took Physics I here. I loved that class. There were only 7 of us, so we all got our professor's attention. He always found a way to make the class interesting, even with the stuff that went over my head (cough, relativity, cough). His only flaw was that his tests were almost too easy, and he gave a truckload of extra credit. I once asked him about it, and he said that all he wanted to know was whether we understood the principles behind the question, and he could learn that from an easy test just as he could from a hard test.

I also had a good physics II professor, but I just did not like optics and electricity. I guess I liked physics I because it was math heavy.

...Sorry you have to put up with crappy teachers.

I don't mind math when it is all numbers. But I hate having multiple variables in the problems.

I could do dosage problems all day long if you give me the patient's mass, the drug dose to be given, and how long that it has to be given.

 

[laimyours]

I don't mind math when it is all numbers. But I hate having multiple variables in the problems.

I could do dosage problems all day long if you give me the patient's mass, the drug dose to be given, and how long that it has to be given.

I'm the same way, I'm great with numbers, not all this multi variable crap. It's so unnecessary for pharmacy school ESPECIALLY physics. It's just a weed out class, It was the most miserable year of school. Another thing about my physics teacher is he REFUSED to answer questions. You'd ask him how to do problem #20 and he'd say "I'm not going to waste my time answering that". hahaha