PurpleBadger 0 #1 June 16, 2003 Hey all... well i found out another problem of a life that revolves around jumping (apart from being totally broke)... it's called failing exams . I have a huge maths exam in about 8 hours time and I just kinda begun learning the course, i hadn't thought that i'd been spending to much time at the DZ... untill maybe now... please tell me that i'm not the only one and that if all goes to hell then i can always move to america, start packing and just live on a DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurel 0 #2 June 16, 2003 Study, dude and/or remember my motto when it came to math: If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying...................................................................... PMS#28, Pelogrande Rodriguez#1074 My Pink M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #3 June 17, 2003 I got an exam on thursday which is going to be fooking hard, and here I am pw'ing at 1am. damn. Good luck with yours !! ____________________ Say no to subliminal messages Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frodo 0 #4 June 17, 2003 You're definitely not the only one. I took a calculus class this Spring, and on the day before the final test, I knew/remembered very little of the material. So I wake up early the next day, the test is at 2pm; I came to the university at ~7am, and for 7 hours was just reading and reading and reading. All in all, when I saw my final grade, it was higher than I expected, which means I passed that exam really well. My point is that, strangely enough, the material of a whole course can be studied in a matter of hours, with proper motivation. Don't get frustrated, just forget whatever you're doing now and open that book and study. Good luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
katiebear21 0 #5 June 17, 2003 I think I dropped Calc II 3 times in college before I got smart enough to change majors! You just have to remember to do it before the deadline! I'm sure you could find a home on any American DZ! Katie Get your PMS glass necklace here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydive84 0 #6 June 17, 2003 Dave Ur gonna fail - so am i! U know it. But hey it just means you get another year at uni jumping with me! (unless you wanna get a proper job) Ur sooo lucky! I bet everyone wishes they were like you! Adi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #7 June 17, 2003 I love Math. It's hard to believe that Failing Exams is a part of having your life revolving around jumping. Here at KSUPC, about 3/4 of the jumpers, JM's, and coaches are Engineers of some sort. Myself, I am an Actuary student. However, studying at the DZ never works, so i can see how you can get in a crunch. (I've put myself into that corner all too often.) Good luck, and take care of yourself for the test.=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skr 1 #8 June 17, 2003 For me it wasn't so much the exams as the discrepancy between the life I was seeing on the weekends at Elsinore and the life I was seeing during the week in the math department at Caltech. So dropped out, got a job at JPL, and made 900 jumps in the next 3 years :-) :-) That was 1965. So now I have no money, a lot of jump stories, and have helped a lot of people learn to skydive, which is a better outcome than being a grumpy old math professor inflicting my views on a bunch of hapless math students. Skr Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bbarnhouse 0 #9 June 17, 2003 QuoteSo now I have no money, a lot of jump stories, and have helped a lot of people learn to skydive, which is a better outcome than being a grumpy old math professor inflicting my views on a bunch of hapless math students. And Skratch how we love your stories....and you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PurpleBadger 0 #10 June 17, 2003 Anybody know if GoFast sponsors Skydivers learning course material??? Cause the way I see it then fitting a recommended 240 hrs of study into 12 is pretty extreame Luck to everyone else with exams p.s. Adi... I though that we had decided not to have discussions over the net... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydive84 0 #11 June 17, 2003 Quote p.s. Adi... I though that we had decided not to have discussions over the net... Yea but i got bored + lazy. Hell you were like wot..... 3 foot away, how am i supposed to make myself heard over the sound of u trying to think about math Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #12 June 17, 2003 QuoteAnd Scratch how we love your stories....and you! And as Skratch likes to say - "it's Skratch with a K, not a C". Oh, and we love you too B^2 - you are the coolest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skr 1 #13 June 18, 2003 Well, that was a very nice thing to say any way you spell it :-) It's been hard to get my brain into jump story mode with all the people dying, and trying to figure out what I think about students and canopy training, and other assorted turmoil. Skr Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cuchulinn 0 #14 June 18, 2003 Well.. if this is the case.. your studing the wrong books from the start. Put all the math books away, english, social science, history etc....ALL the books... accept that fact your a simple... broke... DZ groupie (not that there is anything wrong with that mind you, you just need to admit to it soon so you don't waste jump money on classes your doomed to fail anyway) pick up the SIM manual, and rigger course material, study the shit out of it while flying to altitude, become a rigger, live on jumps and Top Roman noodles and quit bugging us with your irrelavant school failures! :) SMA#18 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
