Just when the dad who wanted to give his average baseball player 13 year old HGH couldn’t sound any dumber or more naive, he mentions that he lets his 17 year old daughter go into his friends bar and get wasted and Uber home and he’ll get her car the next day, and that “I told her she will probably try blow one day and it’ll be fun.“
Is this guy even real? Why do people like this have to reproduce?
The guys a troll. I have been around too many parents who think their kids are all stars. If he was truly that wrapped up into his son’s athletics to the point of gearing him up . He would know exactly his son’s weight and not state it as 170 and come back and say 146 because he lost weight and didn’t notice.
I am in a little bit of a conundrum right now. They just put out the results of my calculus exam and I got a 19/30, so barely a passing grade (18 is the minimum). I got 8/10 on the multiple choice test and 11/20 on the written part. I still have the spoken part, which can raise the trade by up to 2-3 points.
I can choose to accept and verbalize the result or refuse it and take the written exam again. I don’t know what to do. I feel like if I accept it, all the effort I put in so far for that exam (several hours a day, every day, including Christmas and New year’s) will be wasted. On the other side, I have no guarantee that I’ll get a higher score if I take it again, and the problem is next date is in June. With three more exams. And what if it goes bad then?
I heard some pretty smart students say that they were going to accept even an 18 for calculus. But I don’t know what to do. I’m feeling much like a failure right now.
It’s a big failure for me. I put in the most effort I have ever put for something, for this exam.
This result is making me rethink the idea I had of myself throughout all my life. I don’t know how this sounds, but I’ve always thought I was an intelligent person, maybe even slightly above average in certain fields. But I’m coming to the realization that someone’s intelligence isn’t measured by their self-perception but rather has to be measured by means of quantifiable meters. Like, exam scores I guess?
I have heard lots of times the “grades don’t make a person,” but don’t they, somehow? Maybe not in high school, but when you’re in university and you live and breathe a subject all day for weeks on end, you give it your all, and what you accomplish is mediocrity, that’s soul crushing. Yes, I’m feeling like a total failure right now.
It depends on whether you think you can score 14 / 20 or better on the resit… We can’t answer that. Make an honest assessment, emotions like “what if it goes bad?” don’t help.
And remember, like jumping on a bad program for 12 weeks and going backwards, doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things of decades of training. This won’t matter in the context of a 40 year career. Just take the lesson and do better next time.
I’d say you are. A good college or university should challenge you to the limits of your abilities, and you in turn should challenge yourself to push that limit past its current point no matter how intelligent one is.