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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have horrible learning disabilities that are both many, and severe.  College is REALLY hard for me. I show up on time, attend every class (even if I have to walk out to cry in the middle and walk back in five minutes later), write down everything you write on the board (and anything you say "write this down"), attempt all homework (often with huge blanks because I didn't understand what to do or did, but had no idea how to do it), participate in class (I ask great questions), and attempt all papers/projects assigned.

But what happens is that either, you taught 100% of the material and I only understood 34% of it so that's what my grade should be and I'm super excited to have actually learned things I didn't know before, or I THINK I understood only to find out my brain went off in the wrong direction and I missed it completely.

As an experiment, I once took the same class four times in a row, to see if "leaving myself back" would help. I still failed. In some classes I can get a D or even a low C.  It helps when I can go to office hours and basically get the teacher to re-teach whatever was taught in the class, again, just to me, and I can repeat what I understand, they can correct me, and we go bit by bit.  So for a one hour class, I basically need 3 hours of one on one time with the person teaching it.

Do you think I should just become a hairdresser or bartender or something? [/quote]

To quote the estimable Judge Smails in the classic movie, Caddyshack, "The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too."[/quote]

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