Pretty low, but I already had kids when I was in high school. The fact that I graduated is a goddamn miracle. Especially putting up with shit from people who knew I was a young mother. I learned to stick up for myself, which was a very valuable lesson.
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| High GPA | 13 | 61.90% | |
| Low GPA | 8 | 38.10% | |
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Were you a high GPA student?
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If I liked the subject I always did well grade wise.
About the only thing I didn't really care for that I thought mattered was high school English so I took 4 years of it and put effort into doing the course work and not POing the instructors too much. I had a crush on my junior high math teacher, that led to some issues with math and myself. It might have been remedied, but first high school math teacher I encountered was a total butthole. Later I took geometry under a different instructor and did well enough. I actually flunked first year high school accounting class. I didn't care for the subject and hated the instructor. Took a high school geography class mostly cuz the instructor was hot, and I had matured enough by then to try harder to impress him. I hated PE from the get go till HS graduation. Surprised the shit out of most everyone by getting a 28 on my ACT. Me included. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
 (August 31, 2015 at 9:53 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Hate to break it to you, pool, but you're going to have to learn other people's work if you want to become a programmer for real. The various sorting algorithms, searching algorithms, data structures, and design patterns you're going to have to employ on an everyday basis? Generally conceived of and refined by other people, and you will be expected to know them and be able to use them out of the gate rather than go through the process of inventing them again. Not only is time money, but knowing how they work and what their Big(O) values are will let you choose the most efficient (in terms of program execution) one to implement. But there is a huge difference between learning algorithms in programming and learning equations in mathematics,don't you think? In mathematics,we're just supposed to memorize all the equations without actually understanding how someone arrived at that equation or what it *actually* does.Whereas,in programming if i learn an algorithm i will actually *get* what it is.I no longer will have to memorize it and i can write a similar one just from memory.That's the beauty of programming,i doesn't really have to put much effort into it and still can be considered as someone that is smart because i'm good with it xD  (August 31, 2015 at 10:27 am)pool Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 9:53 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Hate to break it to you, pool, but you're going to have to learn other people's work if you want to become a programmer for real. The various sorting algorithms, searching algorithms, data structures, and design patterns you're going to have to employ on an everyday basis? Generally conceived of and refined by other people, and you will be expected to know them and be able to use them out of the gate rather than go through the process of inventing them again. Not only is time money, but knowing how they work and what their Big(O) values are will let you choose the most efficient (in terms of program execution) one to implement. If your math teachers were doing their jobs well, they'd be teaching you the 'why' of various formulas and equations, too. Because math and computer science are actually the same thing, at their core. I had the same math teacher all four years of high school. Algebra I through pre-calculus. He was awesome because he explained everything. There was no memorization, there was knowledge. Mr. Daigle. Best teacher in the entire school. I was going to say 'tough but fair', but he wasn't tough in a gruff sense. He raised his voice just once in those four years. What he demanded was professionalism. His job was to teach, ours was to be respectful, learn, do our homework, and do our best on quizzes and tests. Out of all the teachers at my high school, he was the one who most prepared me for college.
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I had the highest GPA of my graduation class.
In high school, no (2 point something). College, yes (3.9 something).
I struggled MASSIVELY in high school. I went to four different high schools in three states. I started in my hometown of San Diego, lived in the Tampa Bay area for a while (never did find Margaritaville), and graduated near Phoenix. I was one who actually likedmost lecture periods, but I hated homework. When the bell rang, all I wanted to do was socialize with my neighbors or play Nintendo games or whatever.
Strangely, anatomy and physics are what scared me the most. I often think about being able to go back in time and redo part of my life, and these two classes are what I would hone in on. I would also ask more questions, and try to make friendships that were more relevant to my classes, versus just who I thought was cool (or the least annoying). I had a low GPA.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
I was, dyslexic--still am as many reading my posts may have noticed from time to time. I barely made it through elementary school. High school was a little easier and I got a 3.5 GPA there. Then a miracle happened, I got a PC with a spell checker and writing became easy so I did better in college though I struggled with math (except statistics and geometry which are fun) and foreign languages. I got my best GPA ever in law school and graduated 2nd in the class.
The computer and taking more classes I was good at and less that I wasn't (specialization and all that) made most of the difference.
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I would average 105 on exams and 25 on homework, for roughly a B GPA. In high school I think I pulled maybe a 3.1, and I finished college with a 3.23. I did so while obliterating the ACT, SAT, LSAT, and every other standardized test foolish enough to get in my way. My first year of law school was the first and last time I really applied myself to academic work; I was just outside the top 5% of my class.
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