Posted on 09/28/2022 5:33:33 AM PDT by devane617
“Being assigned a low grade in introductory STEM course...”
Those grades weren’t earned?
“Weeding Out courses are doing their job of weeding out, therefore they are racist!!”
In civil engineering, the two “weeder” courses were taken in sequence in the second year: Engineering Mechanics and Structural Design I.
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In electrical engineering where I went they were 2 semesters of physics, 4 semesters of Calculus(aka Engineering math). There were about 120 in the freshman EE class but the “Senior Room” only had 22 desks so yeah, weed on. I was going “back to school” at 28 years old and competing with whiz-kids selected for being top of the HS class and/or SAT/ACT scores near or at the top. Spent every waking hour for the first year, outside of class, studying and sharpening time management methods. Ended up #7 in my class.
Stories such as the OP posted remind me of whiners in the liberal arts electives we had to take. They all got mad b/c engineering folks pulled A’s in their classes EXCEPT for 1 class. Had a philosophy class where you had to be an attractive female and make after-hours appointments with the “prof” to be GIVEN an “A”, all males and engineering folks got C’s. My worst encounter with that sort of cow manure but it taught me how to spot such slimeballs.
I took a computer programming class. I developed my own logic instead of using the cookbook approach the professor taught. The project took more time so I lost credit. No credit was given for original thought, so I wound up with a B+ instead of an A.
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