Yeah, I always start this topic :)
What's everybody taking this semester? I'm excited; I'll be done with all the requirements for my B.A. in political science after this semester. I'm not graduating because I'm still on the state's dime, but this is what I've got this semester:
PSY 290 -- Research Methods, 4 hours (Psychology core requirement)
SPA 314 -- Spanish Conversation and Composition, 3 hours (Spanish minor requirement)
PSY 330 -- Statistical Methods, Advanced, 3 hours (Psychology upper-div elective)
PGS 350 -- Social Psychology, 3 hours (Psychology core requirement)
POS 492 -- Honors Directed Study, 3 hours (Honors Thesis)
Over the next year or so, I plan on taking these classes:
Psychology degree requirements:
PGS 315 - Intro to Personality Theory, 3 hours
PSY 320 - Learning and Motivation, 3 hours
PSY 323 - Sensation and Perception, 3 hours
PSY 324 - Memory and Cognition, 3 hours
PSY 424 - Genetic Psychology, 3 hours
Shared political science and psychology requirements:
PSY 425 - Biological Basis for Behavior, 3 hours
Honors college requirements:
POS 493 - Honors Thesis, 3 hours (this is where I defend my thesis so I can graduate from the honors college)
Spanish minor requirements:
SPA 325 - Intro to Hispanic Literature, 3 hours
SPA 412 - Advanced Conversation and Composition, 3 hours (yawwwwwn)
SPA 471 - Civilization of the Spanish Southwest, 3 hours
SPA 473 - Spanish Civilization, 3 hours
Extra stuff:
POS 503 - Empirical Political Inquiry, 3 hours, graduate-level
ARB 101 and 102 - Elementary Arabic, 4 hours each
I'm going to petition my College to let me be a pilot student for a 5-year BA/MA in Political Science, which would be lovely, as I would be paying undergrad tuition to get the MA, and it would also make me immediately eligible for any graduate classes (I wouldn't have to hunt for professors to get approval, and the Dept. of Poli Sci only allows 6 hours to be transferred in, even from its own program). I have some exciting opportunities ahead! :D
Geology, JR/SR Team Sports, JR English, US History, Algebra 3-4, World History.
World History
English 2
Spanish 3
Geometry
CS 1
Biology
Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Networks, and Computer Architecture. Still not sure what I want to take during the last quarter...I'll have to figure that out in the next couple weeks.
Yay for classes not changing across semesters!
British Literature
Fine arts 2
Latin 1
Biology
Core+ Math 3
AP CS
NJROTC 3
Lineup for next year is looking like:
English
Health/and something else
Govt/Economics
Latin 2
Core+ Math 4
AP Statistics
NJROTC 4
My classes don't change either, and plus our semester doesn't end for two more weeks! :P
Anyway:
Physical Education/Health (Drivers Ed is over! :( )
Pre-IB World History II
Pre-IB Algebera II/Trigonometry
Pre-IB Chemistry
Pre-IB American Literature
Pre-IB French III
AP Computer Science
Lineup for next year is looking like:
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB American History
IB Pre-Calculus with Limits
IB British Literature
AP Physics
IB French IV
Theatre
Latin I
Grade 12 Computer Engineering
Grade 10 Food and Nutrition
Grade 12 Chemistry
Grade 12 Discrete (Algebra)
I assume you were replying to my post.
I deleted it since I figured it was probably like Health here, minus all the non-food related stuff.
As a sophomore 2nd semester...
1.) Weight Training
2.) Spanish II
3.) Humanities English II
4.) Humanities World History
5.) CP Biology
6.) Algebra II
CSCI-3753:Operating Systems
ECEN-3100: Digital Logic
MATH-3130: Linear Algebra
PHYS-1140: Experimental Physics
I need more credit hours, but with all the labs and recitations, nothing will fit my schedual.
Design of Communication Protocols
Comparative Programming Languages
And something else. Not sure yet. THe choices are:
Object Oriented Real-Time Systems
Distributed Components
Object Oriented Databases
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on January 17, 2005, 07:37 PM
My classes don't change either, and plus our semester doesn't end for two more weeks! :P
Anyway:
Physical Education/Health (Drivers Ed is over! :( )
Pre-IB World History II
Pre-IB Algebera II/Trigonometry
Pre-IB Chemistry
Pre-IB American Literature
Pre-IB French III
AP Computer Science
Lineup for next year is looking like:
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB American History
IB Pre-Calculus with Limits
IB British Literature
AP Physics
IB French IV
Theatre
Latin I
Looks like I'm going to be dropping IB. I've pretty much hit rock bottom and am in fear I'll be going into a mild depression over school. My French and Chemistry grades suck and I have like a 2.5 GPA (yea, horrible). This will happen before 2nd semester starts if I decide to, and will give me the same courses just non-IB. The whole reason is becuase I want to go to this College Prepatory school here, it's really the only academic school in the city. I applied to join for first grade and didn't get in, from what I recall I did spectacular on the test but my mom wasn't an alumni nor was she married. That's not the type of school that's looking for single parent households, even if they can pay the tuition. So, my goal now is to get my grades back up so I can be accepted into this school and take some nice classes (they offer more AP classes than where I go now) and have a nice transcript for at least Junior and Senior year. I may have to apply to college late, even though I wanted to not do that, but if it helps me get into my college of choice I'm all for it. I've really been upset about this the past few days, I really want to get into Columbia University, but the odds are really really against me. I have no work ethic when it comes to this stuff, and it's really starting to hurt me.
Just something to bear in mind --
Even if you get Bs in your IB classes, the people will see that you took IB classes on your transcript. My unweighted high school GPA was about 3.2, but I got a four-year tuition waiver and $1,000 a year to attend Arizona State. A friend of mine had a solid 3.75 and he got $500 a year, period, no tuition waiver. The difference was that I took all honors/AP classes throughout all of high school, and he didn't (plus he took a partial day his senior year).
That isn't necessarily how it is where you're trying to go, but it's something to keep in mind.
Computing Studies - A level
Electronics - A level
Media Studies - A Level
Quote from: MyndFyre on January 18, 2005, 05:27 PM
Just something to bear in mind --
Even if you get Bs in your IB classes, the people will see that you took IB classes on your transcript. My unweighted high school GPA was about 3.2, but I got a four-year tuition waiver and $1,000 a year to attend Arizona State. A friend of mine had a solid 3.75 and he got $500 a year, period, no tuition waiver. The difference was that I took all honors/AP classes throughout all of high school, and he didn't (plus he took a partial day his senior year).
That isn't necessarily how it is where you're trying to go, but it's something to keep in mind.
Selective schools don't pay attention to IB (why would they? admitting kids as a sophmore takes $44,000 away from them), IB is mainly there to prepare you for a work load. If I can drop IB, and get good grades for the rest of the year then I plan to go to this college prepatory school here. I applied there in 1st grade, and did well on the entrance exam, but my mom was single then and I'm sure they didn't want a single family income filling one of their 3 spots at the school. After that, whenever my parents tried to get me to apply again, I didn't want to leave my friends. Now, all the friends I didn't want to leave I never even talk to and I've decided I wanted to go to the shcool on my own. I looked at their course offerings and they offer much better AP classes than my current highschool, so not only will colleges see a nice prep school but also some nice AP classes. As long as this works out, I should be able to fair pretty well. I've waisted my mind for a long time, and now I'm trying to play catch up.
(Yes, I already know that I'm going to be up to my neck in debt from student loans)
You shouldn't stress yourself out over a 2.5 GPA. I know tons of people who would kill for that.
Quote from: Zorm on January 18, 2005, 11:09 PM
You shouldn't stress yourself out over a 2.5 GPA. I know tons of people who would kill for that.
Do those tons of people want to go to a good college?
a 2.5, where I'm from, is enough to get you a scholarship to cover tuition @ the 2 local universities.
My Classes:
Introduction to Paralegal-OELA-160
That's it. I have physical therapy other days (m, w, & f) & work in the afternoon from 1-5 for a lawyer in town.
Quote from: Crazy mormon confused me on January 19, 2005, 10:59 AM
a 2.5, where I'm from, is enough to get you a scholarship to cover tuition @ the 2 local universities.
Yes but those local universities are probably not Ivy League.
Quote from: dxoigmn on January 19, 2005, 12:49 PM
Quote from: Crazy mormon confused me on January 19, 2005, 10:59 AM
a 2.5, where I'm from, is enough to get you a scholarship to cover tuition @ the 2 local universities.
Yes but those local universities are probably not Ivy League.
Maybe, but working my ass off at my school would be enough to get me into Oxford, Cambridge, or Columbia for my graduate degree.
Come to oxford and we can hang, my grandparentslive nearby. ;D
Quote from: Meh - (S-1-0-0) on January 19, 2005, 01:31 PM
Come to oxford and we can hang, my grandparentslive nearby. ;D
What's with the Meh - (S-1-0-0) style names?
My classes this semester:
CH 201 ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL CULTURE
CS 311 CHAL SOC ASP COMPUTING
CS 365 MATH OF COMP SCIENCE
CS 446 PRINC COMP OP SYST
MATH 182 CALCULUS II
Quote from: warz on January 19, 2005, 03:01 PM
What's with the Meh - (S-1-0-0) style names?
http://forum.valhallalegends.com/phpbbs/index.php?topic=10168.0
Quote from: warz on January 19, 2005, 03:01 PM
Quote from: Meh - (S-1-0-0) on January 19, 2005, 01:31 PM
Come to oxford and we can hang, my grandparentslive nearby. ;D
What's with the Meh - (S-1-0-0) style names?
Grok mentioned them. As afr as I know it was onlyme and craz3d and now onlyme.
Quote from: Zorm on January 18, 2005, 11:09 PM
You shouldn't stress yourself out over a 2.5 GPA. I know tons of people who would kill for that.
Do these people intend on saying "Do you want fries with that sir" quite often in years to come?
My mom would probably kill me, make me make up classes in summer school, then kill me a few more times if I got a 2.5 GPA.
Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on January 19, 2005, 03:38 PM
My mom would probably kill me, make me make up classes in summer school, then kill me a few more times if I got a 2.5 GPA.
I'm definately going to make up chemistry at some point, I think. I don't think Iever had anything below a 3.5 until I hit high school. I hit rock bottom here, hard and fast.
Erm, I think I'm the only one who had to use google to help figure out what my GPA was, but it's around 2. I suck.
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on January 19, 2005, 05:30 PM
Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on January 19, 2005, 03:38 PM
My mom would probably kill me, make me make up classes in summer school, then kill me a few more times if I got a 2.5 GPA.
I'm definately going to make up chemistry at some point, I think. I don't think Iever had anything below a 3.5 until I hit high school. I hit rock bottom here, hard and fast.
Same happened to me except i was in comprehensive sachool. The equivilant. Im still shit even though I made it through.
What's the maximum GPA? It's 4.5 where I go, but it's 4.0 at other places, which generally makes us look smarter :)
I have 3.43 overall, and I think it's pretty crappy. I should do a lot better.
4.0, not including weighted classes.
AP classes give you .03 and IB gives you .01 if you're in that.
1. Chem
2. Trig
3. Spanish III
4. C++
5. Gym :(
I have a 1.9 because my freshman and sophmore years I skipped alot and passed mabye one class the whole time.
Since the start of my junoir year I have a 94% though. :)
I've always heard that the "maximum" GPA is 4.0, but you can get more-than-maximum by doing non-fun things.
@ my cousins' school in Round Rock, TX there basic grading scale was a 6 point.. I don't know how it worked though.
Here an A in an AP class USED to count as a 5, now it is the same as a general regular ed class...that is super dumb.
Quote from: tA-Kane on January 23, 2005, 04:29 PM
I've always heard that the "maximum" GPA is 4.0, but you can get more-than-maximum by doing non-fun things.
You don't find AP Latin IV to be fun!?
I find almost anything that's not computer-related non-fun.
Quote from: tA-Kane on January 23, 2005, 08:54 PM
I find almost anything that's not computer-related non-fun.
AP Computer Science can raise your GPA above a 4.0. :)
We didn't have GPs in HighSchool or earlier, it was always just percentages. I think GPs would have been loads better because my GPA would look better than my actual percentile average.
My GPA right now is crappily floating above 3...but I've gotten less lazy, so it's on an upward trend.
I don't think a lot of places really look at your GPA though (for hiring). Their more interested in how you *fit* with the rest of the company. I'd rather hire a graduate with a 2.5 GPA that would converse with other employee's (and ultimately keep morality in the workplace up) than hire someoen w/ a 4.5 GPA that refused to associate with anyone, and was always glued to a monitor (even if he did get more programmatical work done)
I read somewhere (here?) that highschool GPAs/class choice don't really matter much when going into a computer field. Just be sure to major in something dealing with math/science/computers in college, and a great school isn't as required for more professional jobs.
Schools that don't have GPAs, but instead comments, have a better college acceptance rate since it's not a fixed thing - it's a teachers opinion. Some elite prepatory schools do this, but not very many.
I take AP classes so my GPA can be 5 instead of 4.
How many are you taking? You get .03/class, I doubt you're gonna raise it too much over a 4.
4, but its still better than having your GPA limited at 4.