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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (124628)	9/24/2000 3:18:27 AM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570897

> Speaking of which, last week you were on a rant that Gore flunked a science or math course and gave it as an example > of his lack of smarts and lack of talent in this arena. You might want to expand the possible causes for his failing the > course. I had mostly A's when I starting taking Trig but generally I hated math and science even though I had a > natural bent for them. In Trig my grades starting slipping in part because I could not get the concept behind it but in > addition I don't think I wanted to get it. Things were not going well at home and I was angry and I wanted to strike > back. Eventually I passed with barely a B but only because I realized I was hurting myself more than anyone else. You lucky freak ... I totally flunked out of my entire first year of college ... got a 1.10 the first semester and a 1.82 (I think) the second semester. No partying or anything. I must be really stupid or something, can't possibly be any other reason. It's a wonder that I can operate my website! -JC PS: I did end up graduating with a passing grade after five or seven years, but my time in college taught me almost nothing that I needed in actual real life, including the "technical" stuff that I involve myself in now. Experience and self-education was the only useful factor here.