Is the Stupid tag for people who can't even maintain a farking 2.0??

clancifer: Is the Stupid tag for people who can't even maintain a farking 2.0??

I would hope so. If you give at least half a shiat you should be able to stay above that. Welcome to having to earn things in life.

I can kinda understand the "you're so stupid we'll penalize you" angle, but on the other hand, if there are any students that NEED the enforced monastic lifestyle of living in a cement box with all meals provided so they can study 24/7, it might be these people.

Of course, it might be that the school is only too happy to see them quit.

If you can't maintain a 2.0 then maybe you should make room for someone who will actually take their education seriously. I fail to see the problem... but then I'm bitter, so I suppose that's not too surprising.

clancifer: Is the Stupid tag for people who can't even maintain a farking 2.0??

this

If you can't maintain a 2.0 GPA which is a C average, this is for you:

Hell, they should all sleep out in the rain until first semester grades come in.

The world needs ditch-diggers, too.

We really really really need to get back to the world of:

if (downpayment

SoothinglyDeranged

I would hope so. If you give at least half a shiat you should be able to stay above that. Welcome to having to earn things in life.

QFT.

Bleah, HTML

if (downpayment LESS THAN 20%), house = no

It takes some special kind of fail to maintain a 2.0 average.

I was high on weed and mushrooms all through college and still pulled a 3.5.

Sounds like a solid policy to me.

At my university, it was common for students to get a taste of real school in first term, and smarten up in second term. The dorms here will not let you back in if your gpa is under 2.0... but only after the entire school year. They don't boot you out in the middle of the year (January).

You're also not allowed to be a Resident Assistant if your GPA is under 2.5.

Meh. It's not like there aren't 100 other ways to get punished for a low GPA when dealing with such things as extracurricular activities or tuition assistance.

Good? No free lunch motherfarkers. This is Academic Darwinism, mommy and daddy can't help you now. Turn off the stereo, put up the beer bong, and grab a farking text book. If you can't maintain at least a 2.0, why are you even in school?

understandable.. many kids dont take school seriously at first and commit major FAIL.

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It's farking 2.0 GPA. Stupid tag is for submitter

But you can't hold a whole student body responsible for the behavior of a few lazy, stupid individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole recruiting system? And if the whole recruiting system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Farkers - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

They should do this for drivers licenses. Perhaps some sort of IQ test.

Every day on my commute I see low brain power at work with the number of rear-enders, non-signaled lane changes, tail-gaters, idiots crawling along in the passing lane, passing using the breakdown lane...the list goes on and on.

Driving a car is a complex activity. If they eliminated the intelligence-impaired from the road it would be soooo much safer.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!"

Here you have to take at least a semester off if you get below a 2.0 for two semesters in a row.

Aughsum: understandable.. many kids dont take school seriously at first and commit major FAIL.

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You had to retake all of your first classes I take it?

Yea, because people who are working two jobs to put themselves through expensive school deserve to be cut off because they dedicate their time to learning instead of jumping through hoops.

Somewhere around I still have a physics exam from college I failed with all the right answers.

Colleges (and High School) give far too much praise and reward to people who don't actually produce correct results. C'mon, how many people could go to their boss and say "Well, y'know that problem I was supposed to fix, well, I followed everything it said in the book, but it still isn't fixed. Can I have a raise?"

FTFA: Sandy Pierre, 20, of Brooklyn, who said she is a junior, said she received a letter during winter break that she would have to leave her dorm because her grade point average was 1.9.

"It came as a shock to me," said Pierre, who wants to go into public relations and said she is on the school's dance team.

This is exactly - exactly - as I would expect.

Get the f*ck out of school and make room for people who actually understand what the point of it is.

GaidinBDJ: Yea, because people who are working two jobs to put themselves through expensive school deserve to be cut off because they dedicate their time to learning instead of jumping through hoops.

What?

Somewhere around I still have a physics exam from college I failed with all the right answers.

What?

Colleges (and High School) give far too much praise and reward to people who don't actually produce correct results. C'mon, how many people could go to their boss and say "Well, y'know that problem I was supposed to fix, well, I followed everything it said in the book, but it still isn't fixed. Can I have a raise?"

What?

That picture if full of win, doctorzorro

I am working in the campus safety department of a small midwestern college right this very moment, so I'm getting a kick out of this.

Fact is, colleges all over America are getting so many applications for admission from really good high school and transfer students that they need the bottom-feeding student like another hole in the butt. Same goes to the student that violates drinking and drug policies, vandalizes the campus and just generally acts like a douche. If apps were down, it'd be different, but cut the underachieving students loose since there are so many hard working students wanting to get in and can't.

You should be able to earn a 2.0 standing on your head. Anything less is a "D" average! Time to get that burger flippin' job. Or learn welding...

BTW, if I had brought home grades like that, the tuition money would have been cut off pronto, along with access to the car, food and shelter.

I put not effort forth in College/Uni (Yes this was a ..uh..mistake) and was easily above 2.5, 2.7? Even at my worst.

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: if (downpayment LESS THAN 20%), house = no

That'd be fine and dandy if it didn't now take twice the work hours to buy the same house one could buy in the 70's or before and that includes adjusting for inflation. It's so easy to bash folks but the fact remains one needs to work almost exactly twice the hours to buy the same house or car our parents bought decades ago.

Day_Old_Dutchie: They should do this for drivers licenses. Perhaps some sort of IQ test.

Every day on my commute I see low brain power at work with the number of rear-enders, non-signaled lane changes, tail-gaters, idiots crawling along in the passing lane, passing using the breakdown lane...the list goes on and on.

Driving a car is a complex activity. If they eliminated the intelligence-impaired from the road it would be soooo much safer.

Can we just raise the passing score on both the written and on-the-road tests by 30%? At least get the worst of the worst off the road.

I don't knot if an IQ test would actually filter out the bad ones. More like a "situational awareness" test would be what's needed.

CheekyMunky: What?

In college, I had minimal free time through most of it. I spent it learning stuff, instead of learning how they wanted you to do stuff. Just didn't have the time.

What?

Yep. Didn't use "instructed methods" to get the right answer. I just did it the most effective way to get the right answer. Doesn't mean dick.

What?

College and high school both offer rewards (aka "partial credit) even if you get the answer completely wrong, just for doing stuff the way the book says. In general wrong = fail, right = pass. Not so in academia nowadays.

Day_Old_Dutchie: Perhaps some sort of IQ test.

"I'm not saying we should kill stupid people. We should just take the warning labels off everything and let nature sort it out."

GaidinBDJ: Yea, because people who are working two jobs to put themselves through expensive school deserve to be cut off because they dedicate their time to learning instead of jumping through hoops.

Somewhere around I still have a physics exam from college I failed with all the right answers.

Colleges (and High School) give far too much praise and reward to people who don't actually produce correct results. C'mon, how many people could go to their boss and say "Well, y'know that problem I was supposed to fix, well, I followed everything it said in the book, but it still isn't fixed. Can I have a raise?"

I really can't tell, because your post is mildly incoherent, but if you're trying to drum up sympathy for these morons than stop. It really trivializes the effort of those of us who did put in the two jobs while going to school and managed to pull out of it with grades that were just fine. It takes a minimum of work to pull a C average at pretty much any major university. It takes an idiot or a lazy bum to pull a D average, and in neither case should the person in question be in college.

Freshman year can be pretty rough for kids. If they come from a lower performing high school, they may have received disproportionately high grades just for showing up, and then they hit college and they're ill prepared. Add in the underclassmen who realize partway through a semester that they really should reconsider their major once the focus courses kick in, and I can see how some of those dorms could revert into a home for underwater basketweaving and bowling students just out to party but having the good sense to not piss down the stairwell.

(Why yes, I did have one semester below 2.0. It was epic fail. But at least I wasn't evicted because of it.)

College kicks out failing students? This is news?

People are upset about this? WAAAAAAAAAHHH

Sorry snowflake, open your farking book next semester.

Freshman year first semester? Everyone is capable of screwing up. They should have at least been given the opportunity to prove themselves with an overall GPA of 2.0 at the end of the second semester.

st.theresa: Freshman year can be pretty rough for kids.

Someone above said that there are too many willing and prepared freshman and transfer students to accommodate those who are going to slack/just don't get the game yet. I'm a freshman at a major U.S. public university right now, and I know a handful of people who could have benefited from a semester or two at community college instead of wasting mommy and daddy's money.

Leishu: It takes an idiot or a lazy bum to pull a D average, and in neither case should the person in question be in college.

I am neither an idiot nor a lazy bum.

I'm just pointing out that placing cut-offs based on a single criteria is an asinine idea. Why not find the idiots and lazy bums and kick them out of housing? Or would that actually require administrators to have a passing knowledge of the student body?

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FTA:Pierre said her mother now drives her to and from campus each day, but the travel is taking a toll. "I am enrolled, but it's really hard for me to actually have to commute," Pierre said.

It's hard for her to commute? How about the mom that probably has a job and has to act as chauffeur around her work hours?? Get a license and drive yourself.

And I can't believe anyone pulled this little gem from the article: University president Calvin O. Butts III...

There's THREE of them!! Heh.

wow - this thread is so full of fail.

no-one arguing that you should get as much fun as possible in uni, because the rest of your life is a work-grind?

so you farked up for a term - big wow - but it seems unfair to kick people off campus because of this

lighten up farkers

Roundtower Darcy: wow - this thread is so full of fail.

no-one arguing that you should get as much fun as possible in uni, because the rest of your life is a work-grind?

so you farked up for a term - big wow - but it seems unfair to kick people off campus because of this

lighten up farkers

I've been drunk all weekend. I still manage to HAND IN MY EFFING PAPERS. DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT THIS IS ALL IT TAKES TO GET ABOVE A C?!?!

I failed out of college the first time I went. I was too lazy and didn't care enough to do homework or go to class. The college eventually kicked me out with a 1.7 gpa.

Then I lived in the real world for a few years and grew up. Now, I'm back in college with a 3.6 while working. I'm down to one job now, but when I first went back to college I had three.

If the kids get kicked out for doing poor, that's fine by me. Let them live life a little, and maybe grow up a little. When they're more mature, and can handle life, then they can try again.

If you can't pull in a 2.0 GPA your tag is well-deserved. Maybe these people need a waaaahmbulance to commute to school.




/goes to college
/has higher than a 2.0

Roundtower Darcy: wow - this thread is so full of fail.

no-one arguing that you should get as much fun as possible in uni, because the rest of your life is a work-grind?

so you farked up for a term - big wow - but it seems unfair to kick people off campus because of this

lighten up farkers

No kidding, chill out. Too much elitism in here.

My GPA 3.5 so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

freshman first semester? no, that can be a bit schizoid after that, boot 'em. but only gpA.

carnifderome

The reason housing is so damn expensive right now is because lenders lost their minds and started giving out loans to anybody, because they could resell them to Wall Street. Standards went right out the window and prices soared. But 2 years from now 20% down will be the rule again, which will put huge downward pressure on prices. That and all the excess inventory.