college beat

[citanul]

If you had gotten an A on the final would you have gotten a C-?

Did you know how well you had to do on the final exam in order to not get a grade below C- (that is, if the answer to the first question was yes)?

cheer,

please respond to the following:

In order to get a C-, one needed to accumulate X points. You accumulated X-60 points. Since X-60 is less than X, you did not accumulate enough points to score a C-.

Then please respond:

Why should some sort of special case be made for you, moving the lines of where C- ends, or arbitrarilly adjusting your score upwards? I undersatnd you probably wouldn't mind if all the other people in the class had their scores moved up 60 points as well, but that is obviously silly.

Then please respond:

Which do you think you did to deserve it:

was it being worth of it, or having the right to it?

citanul

[FlyWf]

I still don't understand why you need to meet a specific advisor to drop a class. Maybe your college works ridiculously, but that sounds like something that can be handled by paperwork or at most any random administrative person.

Looking at UMN's calender it seems like you had a ton of time between the various last days to cancel classes and the end of instruction(not to mention a ton of time before those deadlines). My theory is that you needed this specific advisor because you had already missed the cancelling deadlines and you thought you could convince this specific advisor to break the rules for you. Is that correct?

[Nick Rainey]

I was under the impression that everyone had someone doing all their homework and tests for them in college. Maybe USC is a little different, but these little Indian geniuses the Athletic Department hired took care of everything for me. Ship it

[Evenkeal]

I'm not one to chew someone out, but I desperately need citanul's money that he is offering.

(Please ship it to someone who works hard at academics and ships insanely high marks, please. AlphaWice on stars.) So here I go.

A bit of snooping around determines that he is a student of University of Minnesota, has a major in Applied Economics. One of his course requirements

(http://www.apec.umn.edu/documents/UM...EC%20Major.pdf) forces him to take a course from "the list below" which includes a Biol 4501, Social Uses of Biology the only such course there with a bio name on the pdf page.

Preliminary snooping on google reveals that while one may be led to believe that one <u>Raj Karim</u> is the professor responsible for teaching a BIOL 4501, we find that this is in the Duluth college (wrong), and the title, Microbiology, is wrong. More creative snooping including going through various pdf's reveals that one <u>Alan B Hooper</u> taught a "BIOL 4501 - Social ..", in 2005 and 2004. We easily find his email through related pages describing his research.

Let's focus now on his health insurance policy. It is easy to determine that his university requires anyone that is a full time student without health insurance, access to a free health insurance known as the <u>Student Health Benefit Plan</u> (SHBP). However, it is more complicated than that.

When a student is considered a 'full time student', that is, they are enrolled for 6 or more credits, they are automatically assessed a Student Services Fee. This Student Services Fee includes a cost (somewhere in the ballpark of $700, depending on what campus he is in) that covers the SHBP.

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The guideline .... guidelines for being assessed mandatory Student Services Fee.
If a student can not show proof of health insurance, the student will be charged for the Student Health Benefit Plan.


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Thus, there is no health insurance fraud to report; however, there is something to report in terms of OP lying about getting free insurance. Either he believes he is getting free health coverage, or he intentionally misled the readers, presumably to impress them. Both show delusional, compulsive behaviour usually correlative with immaturity.

To conclude, OP got what he deserved anyways. But to seal it, I wrote a short letter to the professor Alan B Hooper ([email protected]). [There is no way to contact the advisor because that sort of information is not discernable through the internet (atleast not that I know of), and there is nothing to report to the health insurance company.]

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Dear Prof. Hooper,

It has come to my attention that one of your students taking BIOL 4501 has recieved a D grade in a course where he required a C- to fufill his degree requirement.

Inflamed, this student went to a message board (twoplustwo.com) where he proceeded to rant about his bad 'fate' of failing his requirement by 60 out of 1000 points. In his words, "Even though I got a B on both my lab final and lecture final they [the professor, on behalf of the university] still don't think I deserve the C-. what bitches." He then proceeded to bitch about life and college in general. In my opinion college is easy so I think his position is weak.

I applaud your decision to fail this lackluster, undeserving lowlife.

Sincerely,
Alex Wice


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holla

[OneChipWarrior]

"lackluster, underserving lowlife"

I like where you took this.

[alphatmw]

1. doesn't being 6% away from a C- mean that you're closer to a D- than a C?! wow.

2. LOL evenkeal. if i were cheer, i'd be figuring out ways to [censored] up your life now.

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I'm not one to chew someone out, but I desperately need citanul's money that he is offering.

[/ QUOTE ]the fact that evenkeal "desperately" needs $10-20 is very very very sad [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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A bit of snooping around determines that he is a student of University of Minnesota, has a major in Applied Economics.

[/ QUOTE ] "a bit of snooping around" = "reading the thread i am currently posting in". lol.

[Gildwulf]

That's pretty f'ed up that you contacted his professor

[thunk]

[alphatmw]

[thunk]

Marvelous hair.