What colleges do you folks attend? PE as a college requirement would be a joke around here, even the student athletes have to take the same courses as everybody else.
Over the line! I’m sorry Monkey, your lack of attendance was over the line. That’s a B. This is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. This is college. This determines who becomes the next generation of world leaders. Am I wrong? Am I wrong?
I feel bad, but I actually got an A in a PE class I never showed up for. I didn’t expect to get it, and was surprised.
I’d have felt bad about taking the credit, but I also had a PE class I showed up for all the time, did all the work, but, because I miscalculated, ans did not get the exact required number of hours at the gym and got an F.
God damn you Autolycus. You fuckin’ asshole. Everything’s a fucking travesty with you, man. And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?
Also, my rug was stolen.
Have the class deleted from your record.
I opted for Pocket Billiards myself. We had bowling though. My sister took Ultimate Frisbee. 
Pity. It really tied the room together.
This pisses me off.
What else is part of a core curriculum in American universities? Is a PE requirement the norm, or is this unusual? How long do you have to keep PE classes up for?
Ya know, I spent about 3 hours this morning looking at course requirements for Worcester State College. If my financial aid comes through, I’ll be going to a community college in the fall and should be ready to transfer to WSC in Fall of 2011. I wanted to see which classes I should take at the CC so that I wouldn’t find out after the fact that my classes wont transfer with me.
So, because of this, I just happen to have the general requirements written down.
6 credits English Comp
3 Credits Math
3 Credits Constitutions (it says US and MA constitutions but I think it’s either)
Group 1 Humanities 12 credits (english, foreign language, history, philosophy, communications)
Group 2 Behavioral and Social Sciences 12 credits (Cult. geography, economics, education, political science, sociology, urban studies)
Group 3 Natural Science and Math 13 credits (Biology, Chemistry, geology, physical geography, math, natural science, physics)
Group 4 Fine Arts 9 credits (art, communications, music, theater, visual and performing arts)
Group 5 Heath 3 credits (either 1 health class or 3 activities. I’m assuming activities are sports)
Those are the core requirements. The major/minor requirements are much more interesting.
When it comes time for me to take care of Group 5, I’ll be taking a health class.
Lost my 4.0 in junior high because of a B in Driver’s Ed in ninth grade. I once forgot to put the car into gear after I started it, and stepped on the accelerator. When the car wouldn’t go, I thought I wasn’t pressing it hard enough and really ROOM ROOM’ed that sucker. The instructor thought I was being a smartass.
Well, I *was *a smartass, just not that time.
I’m in nursing school too. I just got final grades - I took my stellar GPA down by getting a C in Nutrition. Here’s what sucks though - I had an A+ and I know the information backwards and forwards, but it’s an online class and I missed the window to submit one of the tests so I lost 100 points.
Sucks, but I figure at this point no one is going to be asking what I made in Nutrition when they want their pain meds.
Christ, I have this exact same nightmare every so often. Except not about the bowling. I’ll dream there’s a class I’ve signed up for, but I haven’t done the work, and I haven’t been going to class, and the final is tomorrow, and I can’t find the classroom. Stupid brain.
Yeah, but what if you get this patient:
I’ll throw the damn bowling ball in there to remove his catheter, but I’m not sure my aims that great. Maybe I do need remedial classes.
This is why I purposely got a “B” in my first semester of college.
Got it over with and moved on from there.
Then I got some “C’s” and a “D” in later semesters and adjusted my expectations accordingly.
We had to take PE in college in Ohio. I took bowling (got an A of course, how could you get anything but?) and archery. Sure beat high school where I took “Wellness.” **Many **years ago when my mom was in college she took fencing. Dang, wish they had that at my college!
Me too. I stopped showing up when the prof lost one of my written tests, then forgot to withdraw until it was too late.
I think he felt bad for losing the test.
Waitaminutehere…failed TAI CHI? Did he move too quickly? Did he actually hit someone?
I have this dream all the time.
I graduated high school with a 3.97 GPA because of fucking AP English. The reason this sucks is because I was an excellent English student. It was a 2-year course and I was the first junior in the history of the school to earn 5s on both AP tests. I got an A- because of a stupid fucking class exam I didn’t study for because my psychotic mother was giving me living hell the night before.
The thing that really pisses me off is that our valedictorian also got an A- in the class, but she and her mother went and whined to get the teacher to change the grade, whereas I just took it.
And then – and THEN – she ended up getting the Senior AP English award, and my teacher said to me, ‘‘I thought you should get it, but some people [read: her mother] didn’t agree because you only took one year of AP English.’’
Nevermind the fact that I only took one year of AP English BECAUSE I SMOKED THE FUCKING EXAMS THE FIRST YEAR and it would have been a waste of my goddamn time.
Our Valedictorian was an absolutely brilliant and gifted person who could run circles around me in math and science, but she was NOT, I repeated NOT a better English student than me.
I may still have some feelings about this.
I’m surprised the PE courses give grades to non-PE/recreation majors. Why not just make them pass/fail?