Ever dropped out of a class?

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Back in 6th grade, I used to have all these classes (math, social studies, language arts, and science) with kids who possibly had aspergers, but I (and another girl in those classes) had to drop out of it the next year because the work was too hard for us to understand. Plus, some of those kids had better social skills than me.

I have, at the college level a few times, because it ended up being much harder than I thought.

same. i had to drop analytic chemistry. second time in a row, still nothing. luckily i didn't need it!

I dropped an astronomy/astrophysics course this semester because the professor had a very haphazard teaching style and it was difficult to determine what I was supposed to get out of that class. People who are a million times smarter than I am say that I should have stayed in the class, never gone to the lectures, and simply read the textbook - because, apparently, that is the cool thing to do nowadays (I do NOT kid! It seems that in my upper division courses, attendance in class is something like 50 to 75%, yet people seem to do quite well. I assume that there is a purely social reason for this: it's seen as cooler to learn the material on your own, even if you (or your parents) are paying for you to attend classes). Yet I object, since the textbook we use was written for a descriptive astronomy class like the one I took in high school - there are absolutely no formulas, no theorems proven, etc.... So, how would the text help when it's a theoretical astrophysics course?

If I do want to minor in physics, there are a million billion other courses I could (and will) take in the future. So it's no big deal.

So far I have dropped 2 classes while going to college and i need to retake like 3-4 classes still.

I never dropped out of class within my four years at George Mason. I had to redo a class because the grade did not count the credit hours to my degree.

I have, big time. My GCSEs, one by one I dropped them all, except the basics. Either french or textiles was the first to go. Then the other, then art, drama, PE(that one I'm ok with dropping)... you get the idea.

I only dropped out of one class in college but that was because my student adviser registered me for a class I wasn't ready for. The one she registered me for had a prerequisite class I needed to take and pass first. I did have to retake one class, though but not because of a bad grade, Math for Game Programming I. C++ was confusing when I was introduced to it. It's gotten a bit easier now.

Not until college and then only one. In grade school and high school, very few classes were optional.

I haven't once dropped out of college yet...

I had to drop Environmental Systems I, one of the core classes for my major, on Week 6 of this semester (Fall 2009). It wasn't an academic thing; there were extenuating family circumstances (husband nearly dying in car wreck) that kept me from giving that class the time I felt it deserved. It's a really important course, full of concepts that are vital to understand, and although I probably would have had a decent grade, I don't know how much I would have actually *learned*. Plus, I was having panic attacks in that class due to the way it was structured (probably would have been able to handle those just fine if not for the stress I was already under).

I felt really bad about dropping the class, because it's my first semester at the four-year university and I didn't want people to think I was a "quitter," but as one of my older, wiser friends pointed out, "Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to drop out of something than it does to keep pursuing it." I had never thought of it that way before.

I am very much looking forward to retaking the class in its entirety next fall when it is offered again and when I can give proper attention to the course material. As for the rest of this semester, I was able to pick up enough second-eight-weeks courses to regain full-time status for the semester, and with three weeks remaining, I am on track for straight As.