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 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I got suspended

Eokboy
Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 4:13 pm 

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Why would you purposely fail a class?... Because I thought I was going to fail it anyway if I sat for the final. So I didn't took the final to focus on my calculus and killer C++ class. Only later I found out my physics midterms are not too far below the average and I would have passed. Avoidable h...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I got suspended

Eokboy
Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 1:26 pm 

Replies: 11
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Get your diagnosis in your home country (which almost certainly has better health insurance than here) and then come back in a year. The break will also be good to help you get away from this situation and re-assess things. I'm not sure of how to convince my parents to let me do it. Though the prov...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I got suspended

Eokboy
Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 1:07 pm 

Replies: 11
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You can try appealing to someone higher than the person who's making the call, but again, since anyone could claim to have a disability to get another chance, the school is within its right to want proof to believe your claim. Your academic adviser is not the top of the food chain. The dean of stud...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I got suspended

Eokboy
 Post subject: I got suspended
Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 2:48 am 

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I am (was?) an international student at University of Minnesota. Fall 2009 was the semester I was put under academic probation, as I stupidly, purposely failed a physics course the previous Spring semester though I knew I could pass it. Spring 2009 was also my first semester in the U, first semester...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Greetings from a Malaysian in cold Minnesota!

Eokboy
Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 6:42 am 

Replies: 10
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Hello guise! Wow I can't believe I just opened a self intro thread. Usually I look past the new member introduction boards in online forums I frequent. I came across a trailer for the movie 'Adam', and I couldn't help but notice that I have more in common with the protagonist than just our first nam...
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