I love it when the teacher says this...

[Isaac]

"Your first project is going to be very hard, but I have good news. It is, by far, the easiest one you'll have this semester."

sweet...

[Jeff250]

What class? I take it you're on the quarter system?

[Isaac]

Quarter system? Never heard that term used before.

The class is federal income tax. It's a very interesting class. In fact my two hardest classes are my two most interesting.

[Thenior]

se·mes·ter   [si-mes-ter]
noun
1. (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.

I really wish we had quarters or trimesters sometimes - usually by the last bit of the class, I am pretty burned out of it.

[CUDA]

The class is federal income tax. It's a very interesting class. In fact my two hardest classes are my two most interesting.

don't worry Issac. NOBODY understands Federal Income Tax. even the people that wrote the laws

[Isaac]

Haha! Yeah, I love how there's different tiers of private and public organizations explaining what they think a new tax law means. Also, the IRS sure exports a lot of paper. I wonder how much of it is actually read.

[snoopy]

In my experience (mostly engineering classes):

If you put in the effort, you will pass with a decent grade.

Some professors/classes are geared toward being weed-out classes, which means that they try to intimidate you into quitting. If you have some clue about the material (on par with the rest of the class) and put in the work, they usually whip out some special curve of statistical deviation or whatever to bring the grades into something close to a traditional bell curve. Moral of the story: work hard and you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

I had a couple classes where I never got anything better than a 75% on any assignments and wound up with an A for the final grade.