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Lottery of Babylon posted:It's a room in the math/physics building and is the size of maybe two or three classrooms. (Small classrooms, not lecture halls.) Ah. Yeah that's some bullshit.
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The Chairman posted:My department lost half its machine shop to architecture studios. Then they got rid of the other half because it was too loud for the architects. This is really funny.
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My school cut the entire Ag school to save money. A week later someone pointed out most of the campus is on a federal land grant requiring them to have an Ag school.  
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Kavak posted:I "multitask" to put in lightly in every class that allows me a laptop, and almost every class has an attendence policy of some sort, so I can't rightfully condemn any other slackers, as long as they're quiet. Nothing pisses me off more than people who decided to talk over the professor. Pretty much this. You want to sit in the back of the lecture and surf facebook all day? Fine: it's your money, kid. You want to sit somewhere around the back-middle and have a "we're trying to whisper but not really" conversation with your friend all day? There's a huge loving hallway just outside for you to do that in, and I'd like to actually hear the lecture I'm going into debt to listen to. Yes, I'm that rear end in a top hat who turns around and shushes people who are talking loudly/excessively in the class.
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Mar 6, 2014 08:26
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We're half way through the semester. That's my loving seat. < > And for gently caress's sake chew with your mouth closed if you're going to noisily eat grapes and nuts all through class.
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Mar 6, 2014 08:44
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Sydin posted:Yes, I'm that rear end in a top hat who turns around and shushes people who are talking loudly/excessively in the class. I was late to a lecture today (for an undergrad class I'm doing as part of my masters) because the parking situation at my uni is _dire_ (I got to uni 50 minutes before the lecture started, and didn't get a park until about 10 minutes before the lecture started, on the other side of the campus, which is a 10-15 minute walk), and the 3 people behind me were whispering juuuuust loudly enough for me to hear them over the lecturer (whose accent sometimes makes it a little hard to understand certain words) for the entire lecture. I almost did exactly that. Almost. If it had been a 2 hour lecture I would have.
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Ignimbrite posted:I was late to a lecture today (for an undergrad class I'm doing as part of my masters) because the parking situation at my uni is _dire_ (I got to uni 50 minutes before the lecture started, and didn't get a park until about 10 minutes before the lecture started, on the other side of the campus, which is a 10-15 minute walk), and the 3 people behind me were whispering juuuuust loudly enough for me to hear them over the lecturer (whose accent sometimes makes it a little hard to understand certain words) for the entire lecture. I almost did exactly that. Almost. If it had been a 2 hour lecture I would have. Parking is a fuckin' crapshoot all over these days, man. I hate commuting to campus and trying to park in the lot reserved for commuter permits to find no spaces and a shitton of vehicles with no sticker. And, don't forget that one car that hasn't moved since the Clinton administration. It's commuter parking, chief, not cold storage. Related: There are two metered lots right by the Union--one is level with the entrance and the other is a minute's walk away, down a flight of stairs. The nearer one can hold maybe 18 vehicles (most of it is closed off because the Union is being renovated) and the (not really all that) farther one has space for over 50. That farther lot literally never fills up--you can always find a meter there in a pinch, even at peak times of day during finals week. So, why do these lazy fucks actually form a queue with their vehicles for the closer lot? They literally loving sit in line and wait for a space to become available so they don't have to climb a flight of stairs 
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Mar 6, 2014 14:38
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Grape Juice Vampire posted:And for gently caress's sake chew with your mouth closed if you're going to noisily eat grapes and nuts all through class. A girl in one of my classes ate an orange in class the other day while she surfed Facebook on her MacBook with the two fingers that didn't have orange juice on them.
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Hummingbirds posted:A girl in one of my classes ate an orange in class the other day while she surfed Facebook on her MacBook with the two fingers that didn't have orange juice on them. please tell me she at least threw the peel in the garbage and didn't just chuck it on the floor, like I saw someone do the otherday in my art history lecture, they did it during the slides and since it was dark they thought no one would notice.
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Shuffle posted:please tell me she at least threw the peel in the garbage and didn't just chuck it on the floor, like I saw someone do the otherday in my art history lecture, they did it during the slides and since it was dark they thought no one would notice. Probably, but that's not saying much as she was sitting next to the trash can. Today she's eating chips. crunch
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Mar 6, 2014 17:04
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My 26 person English 101 class is all full of retards who won't shut the gently caress up. It's a small class, the professor is literally 3-10 feet away, and you are talking over her about your goddamn personal issues right next to/behind me, and are being incredibly rude and obnoxious.  EDIT: Not to mention not a single one of these people actually know how to find/cite sources for a Lit. Review after we spent literally two weeks talking about sources and a whole class in the library finding sources for our topics.
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Mar 6, 2014 17:38
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Hummingbirds posted:Probably, but that's not saying much as she was sitting next to the trash can. There was once a dude in one of my classes who was just chugging down a jar of queso. 
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Mar 6, 2014 18:53
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MoreLikeTen posted:Like 3/4. Its a senior seminar on metabolic pathways, so not the most complicated poo poo in the world, but every time someone says something, I can't help but worry that they're slightly wrong, and I'll be remembering the wrong fact about basic biology forever. But presenting is most of the point of a senior seminar? The instructor should obviously correct anything that's wrong, but presenting science is a special thing and you need experience with it before you get to grad school or into the workforce. Now, if the prof just checks the gently caress out the whole time and doesn't give a poo poo, that's dumb as hell.
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Mar 6, 2014 19:06
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The vast majority of the time if you ask people to quiet down they will. They might think you're an rear end in a top hat but who cares? Also randomly sitting in another seat halfway through the semester will nearly send some people into panic attacks and is very funny.
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Mar 6, 2014 19:08
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My Global Economics professor takes every opportunity to rag on socialism, the Chinese and Russia, while glorifying Regan and other similar politicians. We're Canadian. E: Like, it isn't even his politics that bug me, it's that he constantly brings them up in unrelated lessons.
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FutonForensic posted:There was once a dude in one of my classes who was just chugging down a jar of queso. Back in Sophmore year I took a class where there was a girl who told the professor she had class more or less straight from 7am-6pm, and asked for permission to break the no food in the building rule so she could have some lunch (the class was around noon). The professor said sure, why not? Then next class, she takes out her food and it turns out that "lunch" means "my five gallon tupperware of the most pungent tuna salad on the planet." She doesn't even take two bites before the professor tells her to put that poo poo away and never eat in his class again.  edit: gleep gloop posted:Also randomly sitting in another seat halfway through the semester will nearly send some people into panic attacks and is very funny. In my archaeology class there is one left handed desk, and I'm the only left hander in the class. Yet there's this girl who sat in that desk on the first day, and will always go to sit in it if she gets there before me. When I get their fist and sit in it instead, she gives me the dirtiest look. 
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The most annoying thing I faced in college (besides the ONLY advisor for what was then my major going on sabbatical for eighteen months and informing me I'd need at least four more semesters to finish a degree the backup thought I'd be done with in one -- I ultimately just transferred and switched majors and it worked out) was when the professor-assigned leader of my professor-assigned group in a technical writing class in my fourth or fifth semester skipped class for five weeks and then plagiarized his entire part of the group project. As in literally everything he submitted was copied verbatim off of the internet with no attributions or anything. The professor ultimately agreed to not fail the entire group, but we wound up losing like thirty percentage points because we received no credit for the sections he had done. In retrospect I probably should have raised a stink about it, but after the rest of the frustration of the rest of the semester and being threatened with a failing grade in the course and being reported to the dean I think the rest of us all figured it would be easiest to take the C and put it behind us. On the plus side, at least none of the other group projects I did went anywhere near that badly. There was also a "fun" communications course I took where the professor repeatedly assured us that since the final presentation was department-mandated even though it wasn't a public speaking class, she wouldn't dock people for stuttering or reading off of notecards or whatever as long as we made an effort. Cue almost everyone in the class getting marked off five points (or more) for stuttering, reading off of notecards, etc.
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Sydin posted:Back in Sophmore year I took a class where there was a girl who told the professor she had class more or less straight from 7am-6pm, and asked for permission to break the no food in the building rule so she could have some lunch (the class was around noon). The professor said sure, why not? Then next class, she takes out her food and it turns out that "lunch" means "my five gallon tupperware of the most pungent tuna salad on the planet." She doesn't even take two bites before the professor tells her to put that poo poo away and never eat in his class again. On the first part, I have to wonder both why and how could someone schedule themselves for 11 hours straight of classes in a single day. I had a hard enough time fitting /two/ classes I needed into the same day, and even then I got stuck with having a 9:30 AM recitation on Thursdays. (Speaking of that recitation period, I have to give a hearty gently caress YOU to Cobb County, Georgia morning rush hour traffic. Thanks to that, I have to leave my house no later than 7 AM to be sure I'm here by 9:30. This is why I was trying to avoid classes before 11 AM.)
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TunaSpleen posted:This same school also served chicken that was still bloody in the middle in the dining halls, and on occasion we'd even have "French fry bars" where the main entree that day was our choice of curly fries, waffle fries, sweet potato fries, steak fries, and regular fries. I finally found the picture I took of this crime against starch.  This is supposed to be at the nicest dining hall on campus. The administration sometimes has meetings here, but naturally they got nice catered meals while we got scurvy.
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This happened about 5 years ago at a crappy local community college in an intro C++ class. The instructor wrote the textbook and we bought it in a pdf format from the book store. We basically got a link that was printed out on a piece of paper that we downloaded the pdf file from. On the first day of class the instructor offered to print the book out for a fee of around $30. I did not purchase the book myself, but some of the students paid the instructor for a hard copy of the textbook. She didn't make them pay her when they got the hard copy of the book. A couple of weeks after the class started, the instructor told the class that somebody hasn't paid her for the book yet. She threatened to lower the entire classes grades by 10% for each day that the student in question didn't pay her. She apparently did not write down the names of the people who bought the book from her so she did not even know who owed her the money. Naturally, I thought this was complete bullshit that my grade was going to suffer because she could not keep her poo poo in order. I wrote a very strongly worded letter to the dean about how I thought it was improper and unprofessional for the instructor to be selling stuff to the students during class and if she wanted to sell hard copies of her book she should have done it through the bookstore. I also mentioned that I would throw a fit to everybody in the administration that I could talk too if my grade suffered because the teacher can't handle her business. The cherry on the top was that I mentioned I would file a complaint with the state board of community colleges if it was not resolved. The next time I attended this class, the teacher informed us that she had to give out refunds to everybody that purchased the book, and that nobody would have their grade docked. Needless to say, she was not happy about this. I would not have even cared about this whole situation except for the part where the instructor threatened to dock my grade for something that I had nothing to do with.
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Speaking of parking complaints, those of you that don't live in winter cities haven't understood the pain of the company contracted to plow the parking lot just piling all the snow in one corner of the lot taking up at LEAST 10 spots. Then you drive around aimlessly getting more and more pissed off at the pile staring at you with every loop.
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Justin Godscock posted:Speaking of parking complaints, those of you that don't live in winter cities haven't understood the pain of the company contracted to plow the parking lot just piling all the snow in one corner of the lot taking up at LEAST 10 spots. Then you drive around aimlessly getting more and more pissed off at the pile staring at you with every loop. This right here gently caress this, They also do a lovely job of clearing what snow they do and they let a good 6 inches of ice to build up they don't put any grit down either so good luck getting up those steep entrances without almost running someone over cause you need a good running start. This week the campus had to declare a emergency snow removal making every lot off limits no matter what parking permit you had for most of the day queue me getting up at 4 am to get a street parking spot. It was a good bit of schadenfreude to see the cars that have never been moved from the "good" spots getting ticketed and towed at the owners expense
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I would've pmed you but you don't have it, but you should send this woman this article: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bccj/Title_IX_Law_Review_Article_Final_5.29-3-5.pdf And she should speak to a lawyer about the discrimination she experienced. I'm not kidding in the slightest, what she went through is absolutely unacceptable. She should talk to a lawyer. gently caress those professors and gently caress your school for letting that be acceptable. Tell your cohort member. I assume this has been awhile given your tone, but you should still encourage this woman to pursue legal action.
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N. Senada posted:I would've pmed you but you don't have it, but you should send this woman this article: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bccj/Title_IX_Law_Review_Article_Final_5.29-3-5.pdf poo poo, this would have been nice to know before. My wife had our daughter on a Friday morning and had to be back to her (school/work?) 3rd year medical rotation on Monday. The dean told her if she wasn't back by Monday then she would have to redo her entire year (over $60000), while still completing the last 3-4 months working at hospitals anyways. If she didn't complete those last months (even though they wouldn't count and she would have to repeat them) then she was going to be kicked out of school completely. It was horrible for everyone. If she had had to get a C-section like they were thinking we would have been completely hosed for at least a decade trying to pay back all of her loans without a physician's salary. Medical schools are complete assholes because they know there are always more people fighting to get in.
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Ariza posted:(over $60000) Are you loving kidding? Did you mean $6000? I'm assuming this was in the US so is that a normal amount to pay? Here in the UK we were close to riots over maximum tuition fees being raised to around £9000. This thread is like my worst nightmare.
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Stargate posted:Are you loving kidding? Did you mean $6000? I'm assuming this was in the US so is that a normal amount to pay? Here in the UK we were close to riots over maximum tuition fees being raised to around £9000. Here you go!
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Jesus Christ. I'm so glad I got my college course for free, but university is looking to be 6k+ a year. And I have four years before I qualify. At least my placement is my paying job, I guess.
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I feel bad for the people who have to attend Full Sail, which is close to the university I go to. The tuition fees coming from there go into six figures and sometimes people who graduate from there have zero chances of getting a job purely because they went to Full Sail. Some of their programs do actually get you into a line of work from what I hear, but would that be worth paying six figure tuition fees?
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Full Sail exists to extract money from people who love video games and techno music. Any kind of education or job placement is secondary.
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The Chairman posted:Full Sail exists to extract money from people who love video games and techno music. Any kind of education or job placement is secondary. But what other university or institute will get my prepared to enter the video game market that I have so long dreamed and desired to enter??
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Zeether posted:I feel bad for the people who have to attend Full Sail, which is close to the university I go to. The tuition fees coming from there go into six figures and sometimes people who graduate from there have zero chances of getting a job purely because they went to Full Sail. Some of their programs do actually get you into a line of work from what I hear, but would that be worth paying six figure tuition fees? I had a friend who went there for music production! He got one unpaid internship in the field and is now a substitute teacher in the middle of nowhere, 6 or 7 years later. I did have another friend who went there for some video game arts or some such and he did get a pretty good job in his field, though I imagine he will probably be in debt for at least 20 years trying to get that paid off. It's crazy how many actual literal hours you need to be present there each week as compared to any other college I've ever heard of. My 12 credit hours this semester equate to about 12 hours a week that I'm supposed to be in class.
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So I learned today the GRE's are complete bullshit, I mean how are they expecting me to answer 20 math questions in 35 minutes?
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achillesforever6 posted:So I learned today the GRE's are complete bullshit, I mean how are they expecting me to answer 20 math questions in 35 minutes? If you're talking about the general test, it's because the questions are really short and easy. If you weren't studying math in college you might be out of practice, but there's nothing in them above the high school level, so you should be able to get used to them again quickly enough. If you're talking about the math subject test, a lot of the questions look really hard but get solved in one step with the right theorem. I remember when I took it a bunch of questions all just boiled down to "Cauchy-Riemann equations, done".
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I got called a "Grade A Shitlord" for debating the pros of religion tax advantages with things like facts and real numbers (a side I've made it clear I'm not even on numerous times before). And I'm pretty sure she's a furry. Oh freshman macroecon, you're the best class
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Lottery of Babylon posted:If you're talking about the general test, it's because the questions are really short and easy. If you weren't studying math in college you might be out of practice, but there's nothing in them above the high school level, so you should be able to get used to them again quickly enough.
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achillesforever6 posted:So I learned today the GRE's are complete bullshit, I mean how are they expecting me to answer 20 math questions in 35 minutes? They're not math questions, they're logic questions. All of the math is trivial, but they try to trip you up by using all kinds of weird notation that simplifies down to poo poo like x + 2 = 3, solve for x, or poo poo that you don't even have to solve because you can prove it must be larger than the other value with two steps. Take practice tests if you hosed it up, because knowing math is only about a third of actually doing well on it. Look, it's a list of reasons why I'm going for a Ph.D. and not an M.D.! Instead of paying tuition, I get to pay like $1k in fees and then they're going to give me another $24k a year, hooray! Seriously though, gently caress medical school.
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Skinny King Pimp posted:They're not math questions, they're logic questions. All of the math is trivial, but they try to trip you up by using all kinds of weird notation that simplifies down to poo poo like x + 2 = 3, solve for x, or poo poo that you don't even have to solve because you can prove it must be larger than the other value with two steps.
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