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- Nov 9, 2015
So I was feeling nosy/had a ton of time to kill and did some snooping. I pulled up the website for his school and looked up the degree plan for their general education AA (which I am assuming is what he's doing right now, since he's failed to answer anyone regarding what his exact major is, so I'm assuming he doesn't fucking know and his parents enrolled him in gen ed).
We know he's taken an "intro math" course, and I'm reading now that he isn't taking college algebra which is what I had foolishly assumed upthread. No, he's taking "Beginning Algebra" which, lo and behold, is indeed the name of a course at his college.
Here's a shortlist of some of the math courses offered at TCL. Specifically of note is the "(Non-degree credit)" beside both the previous class he took (which I'm assuming is Developmental Mathematics) and the class he just dropped out of for being too torturously hard. This means, obviously, that it doesn't count in any way toward his degree, and that he was taking it (likely at the suggestion/insistance of his parents) to sort of get him up to speed so that he could start taking actual required math classes.
Here then, are his actual math reqs:
The ellusive College Algebra and College Trig. For anyone who's curious, college algebra and college trigonometry are maybe one step up from their high school equivalents, but otherwise not that far off. If you know your sines and cosines, you'll do fine in college trig.
The takeaway: Connor has spent two semesters taking math courses that don't apply to his theoretical degree, and has apparently dropped one of those. I typically wouldn't fault a dude on struggling with math, because lord knows I've been down that road. But Connor, pal, you were taking one class and you still couldn't cut it. I would kill to be able to dedicate that much time to any of my classes. Why didn't you get tutoring? Your school has math tutors. I checked for you.
TL;DR: Connor will never graduate.
We know he's taken an "intro math" course, and I'm reading now that he isn't taking college algebra which is what I had foolishly assumed upthread. No, he's taking "Beginning Algebra" which, lo and behold, is indeed the name of a course at his college.
Here's a shortlist of some of the math courses offered at TCL. Specifically of note is the "(Non-degree credit)" beside both the previous class he took (which I'm assuming is Developmental Mathematics) and the class he just dropped out of for being too torturously hard. This means, obviously, that it doesn't count in any way toward his degree, and that he was taking it (likely at the suggestion/insistance of his parents) to sort of get him up to speed so that he could start taking actual required math classes.
Here then, are his actual math reqs:
The ellusive College Algebra and College Trig. For anyone who's curious, college algebra and college trigonometry are maybe one step up from their high school equivalents, but otherwise not that far off. If you know your sines and cosines, you'll do fine in college trig.
The takeaway: Connor has spent two semesters taking math courses that don't apply to his theoretical degree, and has apparently dropped one of those. I typically wouldn't fault a dude on struggling with math, because lord knows I've been down that road. But Connor, pal, you were taking one class and you still couldn't cut it. I would kill to be able to dedicate that much time to any of my classes. Why didn't you get tutoring? Your school has math tutors. I checked for you.
TL;DR: Connor will never graduate.