College courses in which you received a 4.0 ?
For me: I only got a 4.0 once at UW and it was in "History of Popular Music". No wonder why @DerekJohnson gave me my own shitty little, old man music bored.
I got a 3.9 in History of Jazz because my essay on seeing Chick Corea live at Jazz Alley was not technically gifted writing.
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I helped Wayne Moses and Charles Jackson pass Anthropology
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I put you in the highest tier of Jack Doogs, Race.RaceBannon said:I helped Wayne Moses and Charles Jackson pass Anthropology
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I got a 4.0 in Theory of Baseball, and in A/V (basically how to set up a movie projector, overhead…etc). In grad school, my gf took History of Popular Music, and they gave out practice tests, of which I aced every one, without cracking the book…don’t know if she was as impressed with that as I was…
EDIT: My A/V “prof” was about to retire, and he had a signed photo of Jack Patera in his office…he taught him in HS, …csb -
I got a 4.3 in a creative writing class during my sophomore year in college. Basically, we just wrote fictional short stories all day every day. Then at the end of the term, the professor said he doesn't believe in grades and that he will put in any grade we think we deserve. I obviously went with the A+ route. Had to make up for the B- I got in golf class.
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Oceanography 101 was the one I definitely remember. Ocean is not only easy but it's fairly interesting. I could have sat through a couple of lectures, studied the material for a few hiurs, and aced the final. That was a tap in.
I've made no secret that I didn't have a lot of big time offers out of HS and went the JC route. I had 4.0s in a few real easy ones...math 101, 105 and 107, Geography, Psych 180-something (human sexuality), music history 101. I think that was all of them. I modified my senior year of HS strategy of eekiing out a C in everything to getting the easy As and eeking out a C in any class that mattered. -
My daddy came to UW in '64 to study Oceanography. But our clan is not good at maff and STEM, so Pappa Yella switched to PolySci and being a frat boi.chuck said:Oceanography 101 was the one I definitely remember. Ocean is not only easy but it's fairly interesting. I could have sat through a couple of lectures, studied the material for a few hiurs, and aced the final. That was a tap in.
I've made no secret that I didn't have a lot of big time offers out of HS and went the JC route. I had 4.0s in a few real easy ones...math 101, 105 and 107, Geography, Psych 180-something (human sexuality), music history 101. I think that was all of them. I modified my senior year of HS strategy of eekiing out a C in everything to getting the easy As and eeking out a C in any class that mattered. -
Same here. 4.0 in history of pop music.
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I got them in all of them.
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Not the kind of discussion you'll find on rolltide.com.
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Hookers and blow.
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Point of clarification - are you talking 4.0 in ONE class or 4.0 totaling up ALL the classes?
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*one classPurpleThrobber said:
Point of clarification - are you talking 4.0 in ONE class or 4.0 totaling up ALL the classes? -
I don't remember, but if they gave grades for drinking on weeknights and giving no fucks about how I felt the next day, 4.0 would be the floor.
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I got nuthin'YellowSnow said:
*one classPurpleThrobber said:
Point of clarification - are you talking 4.0 in ONE class or 4.0 totaling up ALL the classes?
No, seriously. Like Bluto 0.0 nuthin.
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Well, let's see here. Undergrad is a challenge to remember, but you make (intentionally or otherwise) a good point: UW's grading system either helped you or fucked you, depending on which side of the line you tended to land. If you were a consistent high 3.7 or better, then at a letter grade school you'd get an A and all 4 points would go into your GPA. It cut the other way too, so again, depending on where you tended to land.YellowSnow said:@creepycoug where you at, ese? Queef some academis out of the Messican twat of yours.
For me: I only got a 4.0 once at UW and it was in "History of Popular Music". No wonder why @DerekJohnson gave me my own shitty little, old man music bored.
I got a 3.9 in History of Jazz because my essay on seeing Chick Corea live at Jazz Alley was not technically gifted writing.
I got some 4.0s in B School in the BCON series because there was a professor at the time, Dudley Johnson, who just gave them out and I loaded up. I did pretty well in the Finance courses, in the 3.5+ range, and the Org. and Mktg. courses were a fucking joke. I'd say my B school GEEP was like 3.7 or so. I think? I really slacked on the back end of those requirements. Hated it.
Philo was harder but I did better there because I liked it. I had to work because those goons in their sleepy wing of Savery Hall were brutal graders, especially papers. I loaded up on Ken Clatterbaugh, who was a brilliant professor there and who liked me and the way I thought and wrote, so I probably wound up with 3 or so 4.0s from him. I never got below a 3.5 in Philo, though one class pushed me to the limits to get that 3.5.
My greatest accomplishments at UW for me were, bar none, a 4.0 in Calc., given who else was in my class, a 3.8 in intermediate logic (hard class for me), and a 3.7 in Continental Rationalism with a weird old prof who's been dead for years now. Can't for the life of me remember his name. Tall, gangly, quiet fellow with a messy beard who never took off his blue rain jacket. He wrote on the board 99% of the class hour. He told us on Day 1 to take good notes of what he writes on the board. I listened, and managed to regurgitate that very same information on weird shit I barely understood into blue books. Descartes I understood. The rest was a little too abstract for me. People in my little sphere of influence thought I walked on water because of that 3.7. That fucker failed people without a thought. I remember one of my friends approaching him about his 2.whatever on his mid-term and the guy said, "that grade reflects your work, which was pretty good." He was serious that a 2.5 or whatever was "doing ok! Good job!"
I got a good education at UW. That school made me. You can get a good one anywhere if you work hard and go get it. My impression is that a decent % of UW undergrads are still there to play grab ass and aren't looking to become intellectuals. Where Washington is really elite at the undergrad level is in applied STEM. Very different subset of people in those programs.
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PS: you know how to get me going Yella!
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I had a few occasions to cuss the numerical grading system for the reason creep mentioned. Fucking 3.7-3.9 should've been 4 points you bastards!
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Yes, but with the Mom's golf clubs reveal, you are no longer qualified to wrap yourself in the clothing of the working class.RaceBannon said:I helped Wayne Moses and Charles Jackson pass Anthropology
Have no idea what my grade point was because I dropped out and didn't give a fuck
I always knew you had too much attitude to have dirt under your nails. Always suspected you ran with the Indian Summer crowd. Probably banged a few Capital High co-eds on the back 9.
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We were the white trash of the Olympia Country and Golf Clubcreepycoug said:
Yes, but with the Mom's golf clubs reveal, you are no longer qualified to wrap yourself in the clothing of the working class.RaceBannon said:I helped Wayne Moses and Charles Jackson pass Anthropology
Have no idea what my grade point was because I dropped out and didn't give a fuck
I always knew you had too much attitude to have dirt under your nails. Always suspected you ran with the Indian Summer crowd. Probably banged a few Capital High co-eds on the back 9.
Working class my ass. -
Does Rocks for Jocks count as STEM?creepycoug said:
Well, let's see here. Undergrad is a challenge to remember, but you make (intentionally or otherwise) a good point: UW's grading system either helped you or fucked you, depending on which side of the line you tended to land. If you were a consistent high 3.7 or better, then at a letter grade school you'd get an A and all 4 points would go into your GPA. It cut the other way too, so again, depending on where you tended to land.YellowSnow said:@creepycoug where you at, ese? Queef some academis out of the Messican twat of yours.
For me: I only got a 4.0 once at UW and it was in "History of Popular Music". No wonder why @DerekJohnson gave me my own shitty little, old man music bored.
I got a 3.9 in History of Jazz because my essay on seeing Chick Corea live at Jazz Alley was not technically gifted writing.
I got some 4.0s in B School in the BCON series because there was a professor at the time, Dudley Johnson, who just gave them out and I loaded up. I did pretty well in the Finance courses, in the 3.5+ range, and the Org. and Mktg. courses were a fucking joke. I'd say my B school GEEP was like 3.7 or so. I think? I really slacked on the back end of those requirements. Hated it.
Philo was harder but I did better there because I liked it. I had to work because those goons in their sleepy wing of Savery Hall were brutal graders, especially papers. I loaded up on Ken Clatterbaugh, who was a brilliant professor there and who liked me and the way I thought and wrote, so I probably wound up with 3 or so 4.0s from him. I never got below a 3.5 in Philo, though one class pushed me to the limits to get that 3.5.
My greatest accomplishments at UW for me were, bar none, a 4.0 in Calc., given who else was in my class, a 3.8 in intermediate logic (hard class for me), and a 3.7 in Continental Rationalism with a weird old prof who's been dead for years now. Can't for the life of me remember his name. Tall, gangly, quiet fellow with a messy beard who never took off his blue rain jacket. He wrote on the board 99% of the class hour. He told us on Day 1 to take good notes of what he writes on the board. I listened, and managed to regurgitate that very same information on weird shit I barely understood into blue books. Descartes I understood. The rest was a little too abstract for me. People in my little sphere of influence thought I walked on water because of that 3.7. That fucker failed people without a thought. I remember one of my friends approaching him about his 2.whatever on his mid-term and the guy said, "that grade reflects your work, which was pretty good." He was serious that a 2.5 or whatever was "doing ok! Good job!"
I got a good education at UW. That school made me. You can get a good one anywhere if you work hard and go get it. My impression is that a decent % of UW undergrads are still there to play grab ass and aren't looking to become intellectuals. Where Washington is really elite at the undergrad level is in applied STEM. Very different subset of people in those programs. -
Oregon gives a 4.0 for an A and a 4.3 for an A+.
I got a 4.3 in Pump Kinetics and Intro to Gas Station Socioeconomics. -
I’m starting to get used to Pump my Gas Duck. Used to hate it. But when it’s cold and shitty outside, it’s kind of a nice service.IPukeOregonGrellow said:Oregon gives a 4.0 for an A and a 4.3 for an A+.
I got a 4.3 in Pump Kinetics and Intro to Gas Station Socioeconomics. -
Strong agree.creepycoug said:
I got a good education at UW. That school made me. You can get a good one anywhere if you work hard and go get it. My impression is that a decent % of UW undergrads are still there to play grab ass and aren't looking to become intellectuals. Where Washington is really elite at the undergrad level is in applied STEM. Very different subset of people in those programs. -
Was this some kinda affirmative action grading for the aboriginal peoples?Swaye said:I got them in all of them.
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My older brother was the 4.0 guy in the family. He got the full ride at UW and then at MIT, and worked under Hans Dehmelt at UW - UW's last Nobel prize winner in physics.
I was the 3.4 guy who'd drive out to the Skykomish after the math midterm to catch a steelhead and smoke a bunch of weed. -
Were?RaceBannon said:
We were the white trash of the Olympia Country and Golf Clubcreepycoug said:
Yes, but with the Mom's golf clubs reveal, you are no longer qualified to wrap yourself in the clothing of the working class.RaceBannon said:I helped Wayne Moses and Charles Jackson pass Anthropology
Have no idea what my grade point was because I dropped out and didn't give a fuck
I always knew you had too much attitude to have dirt under your nails. Always suspected you ran with the Indian Summer crowd. Probably banged a few Capital High co-eds on the back 9.
Working class my ass. -
I remember Oceanography 101 and the Human Sexuality courses ... you remember the ones everyone said were easy grades. I think my schedule never really lined up for those. You could also take statistics in the Sociology Department to satisfy the B school requirement for QM 201 (or whatever it was). The guy who taught the regular course the quarter I could take it was known to be a complete Nazi with grades so I said fuck it. I'll take it with the Sociology kids and cover, which I also did.chuck said:Oceanography 101 was the one I definitely remember. Ocean is not only easy but it's fairly interesting. I could have sat through a couple of lectures, studied the material for a few hiurs, and aced the final. That was a tap in.
I've made no secret that I didn't have a lot of big time offers out of HS and went the JC route. I had 4.0s in a few real easy ones...math 101, 105 and 107, Geography, Psych 180-something (human sexuality), music history 101. I think that was all of them. I modified my senior year of HS strategy of eekiing out a C in everything to getting the easy As and eeking out a C in any class that mattered.
Two other sources of 4.0 grades are coming back to me. The well-known Comp. Lit guy named Willis Konick, https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/sept99/class/konick.html . Very theatrical guy ... stood on desks, super flamboyant and all that. Easy, easy grader. I remember one class he added oral presentations to go with your paper and he's in his office with a grad student while you're talking and he's nodding off because, you know, I didn't know wtf I was talking about. 4.0. Didn't matter. At the time, I thought I wasn't learning anything, but you oughta hear me at cocktail parties now waxing on about Boris Pasternak and what he was trying to say in Dr. Shivago, and Garcia-Marquez in Autum of the Patriarch. Fuck'n a the guy did teach me something.
Last 4.0 I can remember of note was Classics G&R Mythology. Set up for the kid with either a good memory or who actually likes it. I was the latter. I ate it up, so, while it took some effort on his long ass exams, it didn't feel like work because I thought it was interesting. The guy was always announcing that the frat boys who don't come to class and are relying on their test files to cheat had better think again ... presumably because he thought he could write the exam so many different ways that they'd have to study. As I recall he did in fact burn a few frat boys who never came to class probably assuming the test file would save them. -
Classics: this guy. Damn, they're all dead or dying. I'm old.
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It's like they say...Once you go white, it's aight.YellowSnow said:
I’m starting to get used to Pump my Gas Duck. Used to hate it. But when it’s cold and shitty outside, it’s kind of a nice service.IPukeOregonGrellow said:Oregon gives a 4.0 for an A and a 4.3 for an A+.
I got a 4.3 in Pump Kinetics and Intro to Gas Station Socioeconomics.
