College courses in which you received a 4.0 ?

Just remembered another funny story of getting a 4.0 in Applied Laziness:

Engineering Tech department had a weed-out course that everyone had to take. Taught by a grizzled old dude who'd seen some shit. That class was just called "Materials" or something like that. It was the only class I ever took that covered an entire textbook, and this textbook was thiiiiick. The class was a weird combination of physics and chemistry and metallurgy and manufacturing processes. Everything from "here are the various thermoset plastics, their chemical makeup, how they're made, and how they're used in industry" to "here's how machinists figure out blade speed in teeth per inch when cutting 4160 stainless."

The whole grade was made up of three tests, and they were crazy because each test had to cover something like 200 pages of material from the text. The lectures were a combination of textbook review and the professor's wild stories from industry, and the homework was always "read 50 pages."

Studied my ass off for the first test and still only pulled a B- or C+ or something like that. The questions were fucking stupid. Details that nobody should have been expected to remember, as opposed to high level conceptual stuff that matters. Here's the thing, though: By a little ways into the test, I realize that the questions looked awfully familiar. All of them.

Get the test back, and, sure enough, every single question is copied word for word from the questions at the end of the textbook chapters. And there's even a handy answer guide in an appendix for every one of those little tests. That was the end of textbook reading for me! After a brief debate with myself over how obviously this must be a trap, and proceeding as if the second test would be the same way was awfully risky, the lazy devil on one shoulder choked out the angel on the other, and, the day of the second test, I just read all of the questions and answers from the back for the relevant chapters, went to the test, and knocked it out of the park.

And the final? I think I was up late fucking around before the test, so I couldn't be bothered to read the answers and the questions. Walking to the final, I just scanned through all of the test answers in the back, then sat for the test. This made for a much more interesting experience, as--no shit--some of the answers I read were "54/235." Or "332 TPI." Or "4-flute." Or "T6." So I had to read the test question and try and think which random fraction or number or heat treating grade on the answer sheet applied to the question.

Best score of the three!

RoadDawg55 said:

My first semester of college I got a 1.4. I was put on academic probation. I wasn’t even partying much because I didn’t know anyone and hadn’t found out where anyone cool hung out at. I sat in my dorm room, smoked weed, and played Madden, Fifa, and Call of Duty.

My roommate was doing even worse than me in school. His family was loaded and he would smoke weed all day, stay up until 3 or 4 am because he would nap almost all day. Decent enough guy and he was generous with getting food delivered to our room, but I doubt he’s doing well these days. He also got no girls and was in the fucking room 24/7.

I ended up graduating in 5 years with a GPA around 2.8. Had some 4.0’s but don’t remember many of my classes. The only 4.0 I can remember was a winter session Econ class where you simply had to show up and then there was an open book, open notes, and you could copy any other students test. The professor didn’t care.

I score pretty high on IQ tests and did well on my SAT’s but school was always boring and I had no interest in any of it.

This^^^. I was a bored, mediocre student in high school, apparently crushed the ACT, and had invites to Ivys and privates (I went JUCO). Bored, mediocre student as an undergrad, by the time I figured out what I wanted to do, and that it required at least a Masters, it was too late. I was required to take the GRE to be considered for admission (a 3.0 GPA waived it), and apparently crushed the GRE, getting bombarded with literature and applications for PhD programs...in conclusion, I am a really good educated-guesser, I guess...

EDIT: I got some 4.0's in grad school, but never really thought that much about it because I was really into it, and it was fun. I was so immature I'm still amazed I survived, much less graduated...

Most of them.

I was a finance major (worthless) so in a lot of my classes there was literally just a midterm and final. I dropped anything that used "participation" as a grade metric.

I did get one C. My last semester I only had 1 class which was an upper level finance class Tues and Thurs that I only went to on Tues.

I already had a job though so just didn't really give a shit. Even with it I had like a 3.82 or something

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RoadDawg55 said:

My first semester of college I got a 1.4. I was put on academic probation. I wasn’t even partying much because I didn’t know anyone and hadn’t found out where anyone cool hung out at. I sat in my dorm room, smoked weed, and played Madden, Fifa, and Call of Duty.

My roommate was doing even worse than me in school.

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I think I also got around a 1.4 my first semester partying every night. "C's get degrees is what I would hear from the Seniors, etc..."

But my roommate took it to a whole new level. Nice enough guy and we used to hang out for the first couple weeks of school. He was a huge pothead and started getting into shrooms and dropping acid every day. I literally saw the guy maybe once a week & he was always with his druggie friends.

To this day I've never seen a more disappointed parent when his Dad had to come up to get his things at the dorm because he flunked out with a 0.0 gpa.

StLouisDawg said:

I think there is an apple and oranges thing happening here. The people who actually went to UW remember (at least when I was there) that profs were required to use a modified decimal grading system. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, Etc. So really for most classes to get a 4.0 you had to achieve a 97% or above on coursework. Setting aside the crayon degrees like business and speech communications, getting an actual 4.0 in a class (as opposed to a 3.8 or 3.9) was pretty difficult.

I had one. ONE. 400 level logic class. Ironically only final I took while drinking.

And whoever asked who the scraggly beard raincoat phill professor was - had to be Clatterbaugh or Ron Moore. If he was an asshat that looked like 30 lbs of pig shit in a gunney sack, it was Ron Moore. If he looked like he wanted you to fuck his wife it was Clatterbaugh.

So the real question for the group is you got your grades via telephone back in the day. The rumor was Starman, the IVR assistant, would say something after reporting the quarter grade if and ONLY if you got a 4.0. What was the communication and did Starman actually say it?

Clatterbaugh was my advisor and it wasn’t Moore either, who was on the pudgy side. The guy I’m thinking about was a tall’ish emaciated string bean. If you say his name I’ll remember it. He was a Yale guy.

StLouisDawg said:

creepycoug said:

StLouisDawg said:

I think there is an apple and oranges thing happening here. The people who actually went to UW remember (at least when I was there) that profs were required to use a modified decimal grading system. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, Etc. So really for most classes to get a 4.0 you had to achieve a 97% or above on coursework. Setting aside the crayon degrees like business and speech communications, getting an actual 4.0 in a class (as opposed to a 3.8 or 3.9) was pretty difficult.

I had one. ONE. 400 level logic class. Ironically only final I took while drinking.

And whoever asked who the scraggly beard raincoat phill professor was - had to be Clatterbaugh or Ron Moore. If he was an asshat that looked like 30 lbs of pig shit in a gunney sack, it was Ron Moore. If he looked like he wanted you to fuck his wife it was Clatterbaugh.

So the real question for the group is you got your grades via telephone back in the day. The rumor was Starman, the IVR assistant, would say something after reporting the quarter grade if and ONLY if you got a 4.0. What was the communication and did Starman actually say it?

Clatterbaugh was my advisor and it wasn’t Moore either, who was on the pudgy side. The guy I’m thinking about was a tall’ish emaciated string bean. If you say his name I’ll remember it. He was a Yale guy.

No idea. Bon jour was Princeton, Keyt was Cornell, don’t remember other beards. And the Yalies were rare. uW was definitely in the Harvard/Cornell camp when it came to faculty.

Funny story: 2nd year of law school, take legal philosophy. Professor comes up to me before first class and asks if I am so and so from UW. I say yes, we chat a bit, and he asks me if I know Prof Ron Moore. I say yes and am silent… sensing there is more, professor ask my honest opinion of him.

I said Ron Moore was an arrogant windbag that treated people badly and students as serfs. Went on to say he was an exceptionally poor tipper, especially for his neighborhood, and as an actual philosopher he could regurgitate canon but original rigorous thought escaped him. A terrible person.

Professor looks at me and said. “ I quite agree. I co chaired a conference with him some years ago and you describe him to a tee”.

Law school professor and I became good friends. He came to my wedding.

And Ron Moore is still a piece of shit.

I only told Aesthetics from him. It was fine but not great. I think he was competent in teaching undergrads the meat and potatoes. Not a stupid man. But, otherwise forgettable.

Clatterbaugh was smart and engaging, and one of the most kind and thoughtful people I’ve ever known.

At asu an a plus was 4.3