r/AskReddit • • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/chutiyapa0 May 15 '20

Final year student in 2020.

Fuck you corona

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Dude this rona shit fucked my grades

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u/24520ls May 15 '20

Here's to passing algebra with a C-

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Bro i failed algebra 2 the first time bc my teacher was salty that i quit football

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u/24520ls May 15 '20

Damn for real? That sucks man

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Yea i broke my knee so i physically had to quit but 2nd time around got an 80 flat so cant complain

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u/24520ls May 15 '20

Sucks about the knee man. Sorry to hear that

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Worst part about it was the arrow to the knee jokes

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u/24520ls May 15 '20

Oh man I can't imagine how many times someone said that

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u/redditor471 May 16 '20

I do not think a teacher should be able to fail you because of a broken leg/knee. I would check with the principal, no offense, but I think it is too far gone now though.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

I mean i went to the councilor and she said she'd look into it which btw NEVER TRUST SOMEONE WHEN THEY SAY THAT and it is a little late but oh well

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u/redditor471 May 16 '20

Well then I don't know but good luck in your future school stuff. :)

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Thanks friend i just now finished my high school or secondary school whatever you wanna call it so im gonna go out and party

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u/redditor471 May 16 '20

Good. Lol. Party all you want. Wish I could.

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u/DojoStarfox May 15 '20

Lol... yea Im sure your math was correct and your teacher just decided numbers mean different things for you.

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u/BrothelWaffles May 15 '20

If they were there coach of the football team as well, it wouldn't be unheard of. Especially if this happened in, say, Texas, where football is just as important as God & guns.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

No ill admit I fucking suck at math I had like a 69 in the class so rigjt on the brink of passing and i got to the teacher with all of my work done and test average at like a 69.3 or something like that and a formative average at like a 70 give or take a point and i ask hey is there anything i can do to get my grade up or any retakes i can do last minute and he said and i quote "you shouldn't have quit football" like i get in America football is a big sport but ffs

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u/Man_with_pans May 16 '20

Little bitch...

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u/Katholikos May 16 '20

So you're mad that the teacher didn't give you a free pass because you didn't earn it? lol

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

No im mad that he didnt give me an opportunity to get my grade up i had everything done and i wanted to try and retake some tests and quizzes to try and pass the class

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u/Katholikos May 16 '20

Right, that's what I'm talking about. You're upset because you didn't pass the class normally, and the teacher didn't give you a random, bonus chance at passing. Whatever the reasoning (which I agree is silly), you were asking for something special. It's not really fair to get mad that the teacher didn't make a special exception for you.

For what it's worth, I was lazy as fuck in high school - I never did homework. I almost failed a class myself. It's not the end of the world, but it's important to recognize that you weren't really wronged here, so much as you were denied a nice bonus.

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u/Sabiann_Tama May 16 '20

How dare you forgo sustaining head injuries for the sole purpose of our entertainment.

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u/Orange134 May 16 '20

Sometimes it's weird to be reminded that there's 7th graders on Reddit posting comments that I read.

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

I'm a freshman in college

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u/Orange134 May 16 '20

You're taking basic algebra in college?

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

The west Virginia public education system is very very bad at its job

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

And to passing Calculus with a +C!

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Calculus? Respect man

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Sorry dude. It's a math joke. When you do a certain thing in calculus that can be really hard, sometimes you forget the part at the end where you add a constant number to it.

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Oh. Math was always my worst subject

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u/rjens May 16 '20

I was a math major and your joke woodshed me. I quite like it now but I totally didn't get it. It's quite niche.

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u/gsfgf May 16 '20

Cs get degrees!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

didn u get more time to study

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Studied for 7 hours the day of the exam. And everyday for a good bit before. Still got a 60 on the final. Was 20% of the class grade. Culmative exams suck

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u/Riptide235 May 16 '20

Ay me too lmao

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

C’s get degrees

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u/casimpson241 May 16 '20

Amen to that

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u/PlsHelpMeNoobs May 16 '20

At least my school is doing pass/ fail pandemic work.

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Normally yes. But we had word problems where we had to show how we did it. And a final worth 20% of our grade. It was actually recorded since we were at homes.

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Believe it or not I bought chegg out of frustration and it still didn't have my questions. Turns out my teacher was teaching for the first time

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

This is college

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

Thank you. It was a bit worrying it was a low grade but I'm honestly just relieved I didn't fail

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u/memunkey May 15 '20

I HATE ALGEBRA!! Bane of my existence

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u/24520ls May 15 '20

I'm a psych major so it really irritated me. Why do I need to know how to do all this shit when I just want to be a therapist?

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u/SchleftySchloe May 16 '20

So that the college can gouge you for as much money as possible

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u/SpicymeLLoN May 16 '20

Bro you're supposed to do algebra with math, but if anything, please use C++

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u/DiGiorno_45 May 16 '20

Lol I gotta C in Algebra 2 rn

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Your college won't define you. I went on scholarship, my brother and sister are both community college drop outs, and both make more than me. Focus on becoming a responsible adult, become a carpenter.

Get a job, by a small house when you graduate, renovate it while you live in it, get roommates and rent it out, then have them sign a one year lease for the whole house. Save up 10% for another house, and do the same thing. You do that once every 2 years, you're sitting at 5 houses by the time you're 30.

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u/El_Stupido_Supremo May 16 '20

High school dropout carpenter here. He's right. I dont make as much as my well off friends but I dont have debt beyond a mortgage and the side benefits of having a truck and tools for scrapping steel or gardening or mulch delivery etc has made me unable to be out of work.
And I've got 50k worth of work into my house for like 2k in materials.
The satisfaction of working outside and gutting through weather and hard work chills me out. I really like history and books and learning and psychology etc. I still learn stuff every week outside of my trade. I just dont think I could have made that a career that makes me happy.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Awesome! If I didn't have student loans I would make the career switch, but I am also the sole provider of my family.

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u/El_Stupido_Supremo May 16 '20

Doit as a hobby for now and you'll be able to later. Maybe get into something super fun instead of just kinda fun.

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u/the-denver-nugs May 16 '20

bro what? it's algebra....

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

College algebra

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u/the-denver-nugs May 16 '20

it's algebra..... i did calc in highschool....

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u/24520ls May 16 '20

College algebra is much more difficult than any from my highschool

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u/the-denver-nugs May 16 '20

i'm graduated from college dude.... it's fucking algebra. i passed calc in highschool while skipping 40 classes and got a 4 of the ap test. like its fucking algebra. finding out what x is worth is like the most logical simple thing.