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Swerve Wrote:INFS2120-D Visual Basic Programming B+
SOCI1010-G Principles Of Sociology D (LOL. I hate this professor so much....)
ELIT1040-B Reading Literature: Coming Of Age C (Considering I never once opened any of the 4 books assigned.. This isn't bad.)
INFS2150-B Intro To Web Dev & E-Comm Tech B+

It is obvious that you do well in what you are interested in as evidenced by the fact that you got strong scores in both Visual Basic Programming and Intro to Web Dev & E-Comm Tech. However Principles of Sociology and Read Literature: Coming of Age were low scores because they are completely outside the framework of computer science and internet analysis. I assume that these two courses were part of your humanities requirement. I'd suggest that you try to take more relevant info-tech based humanity courses so that you can gain some interest and maintain a B or above.

Strong resolve, commitment, irritation, and distractions are feelings that exist for a reason. The part of this is to not get caught up in those shōjo-esque feelings, but to find out why you have those feelings and what you can do in order to generate a more positive feeling rather than having to cage your personality in. Having will power to make things work only lasts for so long. A couple of weeks, a couple of months? Regardless there is a point where it will fail and all those thoughts will come pouring out like a pent-up dam.

This is not to shoot down your previous suggestion of finding professors who will teach the material according to your like & dislikes. That is also another method of making you happier and more compliant to study. However there will be cases when you will have to deal with bad professors and should plan accordingly. Perhaps you might write about in on Southperry to maintain interest as an individual pet project or you could try at other strategies to make it a recurring theme that you hit that undesirable textbook on a regular basis.

In my own opinion the results of your transcript show that you do well in what you are interested in as with many individuals. The problem is not "dampening" your emotional abilities, but rather to find out how you can make studying enjoyable, practical, and efficient. Attempting to find valid reasons for failure and designing practical solutions is one such tactic to turn bad grades into a strong case of personal benefit. Do not gratify business marketers with the sad note of personal guilt if they do decide to touch upon that D or F in an interview process. Rather explain how it has benefited you as an individual and allowed you to make respectable decisions for the future rather than being caught in the traps that tripped you up in the past.

If you have thought this out then I apologize.
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Strangely, what you said actually made sense. The problem here is that some of those humanities courses are actually Core classes, meaning I am required to take them, regardless of my feelings towards those courses. I am required to take some mathematics, and that's fine with me because math will always be involved in life and technology. I feel really irritable when I'm forced to take classes such as Literature or Sociology, something I could care less about. Sociology was the more-fun one of the two, yet I got a lower grade. You'd figure it'd be the opposite, considering that I didn't pick up a single book during Lit and just sat through class listening to lectures.

Where as in Sociology, I actually devoted some time towards studying, yet I got a D. It was really frustrating to see my score in that class, really. I was expecting either a D or a low C in the class, because I've been trying to keep a track of my scores. But this professor counts all of the grading based on exams only, there are no assignments or anything, which also bugged me.

Now, this part gets even more interesting. In HTML, I really never opened my book.. not once. I purchased it, but used mostly websites to gather information to helped me along the way. Even then, I didn't really devote as much time as I had wanted in that class and amazingly passed with a B+. In VB, I gave more of an attempt than normal, and gained a B+ because I apparently had an easy-going professor. As long as I was in the class, did the assignment that was given during class time, as well as trying to participate during class discussion, I was to be given "points". This was also a huge reason for why my grade in VB was higher than expected, I really expected a C for that class...

Overall, irony here is, the class that I gave most efforts into, I did terrible. Sadly, not trying at all would definitely make it worse. I'm not going to bother making excuses for why I did bad now, because you do have a point there, but rather, see the light in it and try to improve myself for the future. So, thanks, Swerve.

Also, my slacker-attitude can be extremely unsettling because it compromises my grades. This doesn't make my situation any better because I get so easily distracted, and I slack off. I'm admitting to this. You're also right about classes that are relevant to my major, those ones seems to make my grades go higher too. Especially since I feel like I should know the topics, and that they're extremely important for my future career.

Spot-on.
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