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RJKarl said:
I did the opposite. I placed out of waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much French. On top of that my frosh French prof's hubby was leading a student group for the year and she found out he was having an affair. I had no business being in that class and got an F-. I think the highest grade a guy in that class was a D. She was none too happy.

Luckily, I was able to take it in summer school, at night, at St. Joe's to fill my requirement.

The lit class at Wake was taught by a hippyish guy who had been at Amherst. On the first day of class, he asked who was taking the class because they loved French lit. The frosh raised their hands. He asked who was taking the class so they could graduate. The rest of us raised our hands. He let us write our papers in English and take tests in English. That was a big break.
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I think one of my biggest regrets from Wake aside from being pre-med for a semester was not majoring in Spanish. I placed into intermediate and had a ton of enthusiasm for the language, but by the time I was done with Spanish lit I had lost interest. I should have kept on with it and studied abroad in Spain or South America. I think my intermediate professor is still there, and I was on a Spanish subreddit a year or so ago and someone mentioned a book they were using, and it turned out he had helped to write it.
 
mako1331 said:
Yeah, my high school football coach was my chem teacher and somehow the key to every test ended up left on the table that I shared with another player. Which is cool when you're 16, but not so cool when you're 19 and change majors because organic chem has drained your will to live because you never really had a basic chem background. Which is probably as big a reason as any as to why I teach now, so, yeah, I make it a point to not shortchange my students or especially my players if I have them in class.
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This was kinda my story. I breezed through high school, graduated third, got into Wake and found out first semester I had no idea how to study. My teachers must have used some crazy curves on our tests, there's no way I should have done as well as I did especially in classes like AP Calculus.
 
 
Pretty sure saban teaches grad level philosophy classes
 
iodeac said:
This was kinda my story. I breezed through high school, graduated third, got into Wake and found out first semester I had no idea how to study. My teachers must have used some crazy curves on our tests, there's no way I should have done as well as I did especially in classes like AP Calculus.
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Y’all are talking my language. I took a shitload of APs, scored well on the tests, and got good grades in hs and then struggled almost from the start at Wake. I think once I calibrated my expectations about grades (I.e., it’s ok to get bad grades sometimes) I recognized I could make it through but it fucked me up for a while. Plus I didn’t really have the work ethic and wanted to party. And I took on classes I thought would be cool and interesting but turned out to be stupidly hard sometimes. I found my fit in the English dept though, loved almost every single class and teacher I had there. Once I figured out i could do English professionally and not be a prof or writer it was even cooler.
 
TownieDeac said:
Y’all are talking my language. I took a shitload of APs, scored well on the tests, and got good grades in hs and then struggled almost from the start at Wake. I think once I calibrated my expectations about grades (I.e., it’s ok to get bad grades sometimes) I recognized I could make it through but it fucked me up for a while. Plus I didn’t really have the work ethic and wanted to party. And I took on classes I thought would be cool and interesting but turned out to be stupidly hard sometimes. I found my fit in the English dept though, loved almost every single class and teacher I had there. Once I figured out i could do English professionally and not be a prof or writer it was even cooler.
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That’s because English obviously attracts the coolest people.

Did you ever think that you were gonna write the great American novel?
 
When you arrive at Wake and you realize you're average and everyone else is tall, strong, beautiful and smart

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I echo a lot of these sentiments about making the transition to Wake, especially after being used to flying through even the most advanced HS classes. The structure and discipline required to be successful was just totally lost on me at 18.
 
My dad looked it up during the application process and found out I could have skipped two entire years at NC State lol
 
WRS said:
My dad looked it up during the application process and found out I could have skipped two entire years at NC State lol
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damn, i feel like wake was a lot of cash thrown into the burn barrel if you could get a degree in two years
 
mako1331 said:
That’s because English obviously attracts the coolest people.

Did you ever think that you were gonna write the great American novel?
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When I actually started trying to write stuff I was only ever doing short stories so no, not really. I was very into Kerouac in high school and then I actually tried uppers and was like uh maybe I don’t have what it takes to be a beatnik
 
ImTheCaptain said:
damn, i feel like wake was a lot of cash thrown into the burn barrel if you could get a degree in two years
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Yeah but PackPride sucks, dude

You get what you pay for and I’m glad we’re all here
 
ImTheCaptain said:
damn, i feel like wake was a lot of cash thrown into the burn barrel if you could get a degree in two years
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I was gonna say something like "but where else could all that money also buy you perpetual athletic disappointment" but then I realized the counterfactual here was NC State and, well, yeah


I was also in the camp that cruised through high school (though I wasn't top 20% of my class), did well on the SAT, then figured out how to get a B at Wake and that's about all I did -- get B's and take PE classes (A's!)
 
ImTheCaptain said:
damn, i feel like wake was a lot of cash thrown into the burn barrel if you could get a degree in two years
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I guess that’s one way to look at it. My parents were really the ones who encouraged me to challenge myself to the greatest extent possible and I think that ultimately paid off significantly. But we were decidedly a lower middle class family so it was a big undertaking for my parents despite the various forms of assistance available. Even now they say it was one of the best things they have ever invested in.
 
Also I always had intentions of pursuing a financially lucrative career. If that weren’t the case I would likely have made different choices.
 
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