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Originally Posted by Karibou
One more thing to consider is the language barrier that seems to be a popular issue in math and science classes with foreign professors. In high school, I had people telling me "yes, you will have foreign professors, you won't be able to understand them, and you will still be expected to pass the class." My engineering fundamentals professor speaks English very well, but he still has an accent and there is still a slight barrier to overcome in understanding him.
and they are almost all weeder classes.
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#2 and #1 reasons that classes are hard and students drop.
They are hard because your teacher is not always ideal (did you ever think that professors aren't really trained to teach?).
They are hard because they were meant to be hard. Not everyone was meant to be an engineer.