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dovetaile posted:The worst part about being an English major was having all the novels at the end of the semester and being unable to sell them back because "Oh we're not taking that next semester". I think I sold back two out of the dozens of books I had. Luckily pretty much everything I needed is available via project gutenberg or google. No you piece of poo poo bookstore, I will not buy your repackaged public domain bullshit!  The worst part about being an English Major is theory. gently caress Theory
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I passed my physics midterm with a B+. I still have no idea what the gently caress is going on though.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:33
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I have a professor that went on a massive fifteen minute rant about how irresponsible and awful most of the people in the class are and how we're behind because we suck. He has just flat out not shown up for class three times and other than that I've seen him on time twice. Total.
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Feb 27, 2015 05:58
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Glasgow Kiss posted:I passed my physics midterm with a B+. It's alright, I took Physics 1 twice and got A's in all the courses that required it and have by BSME and still don't understand quite a bit of Physics.
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Feb 27, 2015 06:15
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God i wish canadian textbooks were available on pirate sites because having ti pay 90$ on an online copy is insane
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Feb 27, 2015 18:47
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I did chemistry for undergrad, and usually at a reasonable time before the class started my professors would send out an email to the class either saying "oh god don't buy the newest edition the last or 2nd to last one is just fine and 1/4 the price" or "yeah you actually need the newest edition of the textbook sorry". I don't recall there being a conflict of interest in that second subset more than once, though. I think the money I most resent spending, ironically, was $20 on a DVD of Porgy and Bess for a mandatory humanities GE class. The opera itself was alright but it was 3 hours long with the longest, screechiest high notes I've heard in any dramatic production. A friend and I bit the bullet and watched it together, only to emerge at the end of the 3 hours to find a group of our friends in the same class watching it at 1.5x speed. I want that hour of my life back. Then at the end of the semester the DVD was unreturnable since it had been opened.
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Mar 2, 2015 23:45
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I have a professor that went on a massive fifteen minute rant about how irresponsible and awful most of the people in the class are and how we're behind because we suck. Its always the worst, least organized profs that do this. Maybe the missing link in this class being lovely is...you? I just wanted to vent about people who come to lectures just to watch some lovely K-drama or whatever on their ipad the entire time. Why are you even loving here? They aren't taking attendance so why even show up if you give so little of a poo poo?
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Mar 4, 2015 03:47
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Doing a 3 month group project using assembler with three other engineering students.  They seem to prefer working from home because I never see any of them in the lab but random components magically appear soldered onto the project. Trying to schedule meetings is like pulling teeth even though we all live within 20 minutes of the school and have classes or lectures every day. We have a limited number of registers so the first thing we decided was to all use aliases instead of registry names. That way, when we then realize two of us are using the same register one of us just have to change alias from "= r16" to "= r17" or some other register. Got a big chunk of code from one of them today and he of course hasn't used aliases at all. This is the same guy who went half the project time without apparently coding a single line of assembler, just wiring/soldering some stuff and thinking that was ok.
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I've never been so glad that my boss registered as a Training Practice as when I see my veterinary nursing classmates frantically scrabble for summer placements. Three have begged me to see if my boss will take them on but we're apparently only able to take me on. Also gently caress the competition. Textbook chat: I got most of my texts from Waterstones marketplace, where they sell preowned texts for rock bottom prices. The only book I got new was the BSAVA Textbook of Veterinary Nursingwhivh my boss got on discount.
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Mar 5, 2015 15:54
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Partners: 1. Tell him, hey, we're meeting at 2:30. 2. I completely forget that I have a meeting. Check email 3. Hi (not actually my name), this is Matt from econ309. I'm in library, it's 5 after 2.  gently caress me with a long wooden stick.
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Mar 6, 2015 02:38
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Group projects aren't that bad
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Hipster Occultist posted:Luckily pretty much everything I needed is available via project gutenberg or google. I did have a couple classes where I unwittingly bought a different translation than what the professor was teaching, which lead to some differences in interpretation. In one class, the professor was teaching a really tepid, old translation of Death in Venice that's very shy about, you know, the whole pedophilia angle, while I picked up a newer translation that was pretty vividly lusty. It had a dream sequence involving a huge wooden penis that the professor's text apparently danced around by calling it a "monument to passion" or something.
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Mar 6, 2015 03:36
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Austrian mook posted:Group projects aren't that bad I found the guy who lets everyone else do all the work. So a prof I have shared a ton of files from her Google Drive with me. Just me. I asked other people in the class about it, they didn't get any of it at all. I got: All the course outlines for her other classes. All the PowerPoints for these classes. Several tests with notes about grading, but no answers. Full chapters from a textbook in pdf form. Various .jpgs used for case studies in marketing, 8 different images At least 10 different versions of a student's research paper. I have no clue what the hell she did to share all of that with me. I'm not the kind of person to try and get her in trouble either, so I just removed it all since it was making it very difficult to find actual shared documents I needed from her and others. It was just completely baffling.
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Seems like an accident to me, probably meant to share that stuff with someone else. That stuff could come in handy for you (maybe), but I admire your integrity for getting rid of it all anyway.
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Mar 6, 2015 11:42
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Yeah, probably an auto-complete screwup. Good on you for removing it instead of selling tests for twenty bucks apiece.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:49
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That's just dumb. You got handed a free 300$ at least and you threw it away.
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Mar 6, 2015 16:38
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I had an assignment due in a class by 11:45 pm saturday. Go to submit at 10 pm and d2l is doing "routine planned maintenance" I emailed my professor about it. loving hell.
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Mar 8, 2015 12:36
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DEAR RICHARD posted:I had an assignment due in a class by 11:45 pm saturday. Go to submit at 10 pm and d2l is doing "routine planned maintenance" Not to be a jackass, but this kind of thing is a significant part of why professors generally recommend you don't leave submitting assignments until an hour or two before they're do. Problems and accidents can and do come up.
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Mar 8, 2015 17:36
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Speaking as someone who's been on the administrative side of that divide: it's a deadline, not a loving target.
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Mar 8, 2015 17:37
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thespaceinvader posted:Speaking as someone who's been on the administrative side of that divide: it's a deadline, not a loving target. on one hand yeah, but on the other hand the professor will probably give the guy who posted that a second chance, so nah
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Mar 8, 2015 18:20
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ArtIsResistance posted:on one hand yeah, but on the other hand the professor will probably give the guy who posted that a second chance, so nah I only do this if they take screenshots of their attempts and seeing it down at the time and an attempt closer to the deadline. When I submit assignments for the class I'm taking electronically I always use the snipping tool of the successful submission just in case something happens as proof.
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I graduated in 1990 and was just at the breaking point where I was no longer going to be able to attend due to rapidly rising costs. I think tuition was something like $318 a quarter when I started and $600 when I finished four years later. I have no idea how anyone can still afford college, especially if like me they had to work to pay for it. EDIT: Sweet jesus it's now over $4,000 per quarter.  Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 18:48 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Mar 8, 2015 18:41
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My school is $13 grand a year 
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thespaceinvader posted:Speaking as someone who's been on the administrative side of that divide: it's a deadline, not a loving target. Except for the profs who get pissed off if things are turned in early.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:My school is $13 grand a year same except $16k, the second most expensive public university in these great united states
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Tunicate posted:Except for the profs who get pissed off if things are turned in early. What mythical profs are these?
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Dick Trauma posted:I have no idea how anyone can still afford college No one can.
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Thinking about costs keeps me awake at night sometimes. i'm trying to get as much done as possible at community college first where it's only $47/credit even though it's taking me forever and I just want to transfer already. It'll all be worth it in the end, right?! 
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In my last semester, three of my final exams were on the same day, at the same time. I was able to scoot out of the Biochem final because it was more a 'grade override' deal and I already passed the class, but the ones for Stats and Calc were 'Departmental,' which is apparently a magic word that means "gently caress you, we're not rescheduling." After I sent an email to the Department head with both of my syllabi and a forwarded email from the Stats department refusing to reschedule that exam, they allowed me to take the exam early.
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HOLY gently caress posted:Thinking about costs keeps me awake at night sometimes. i'm trying to get as much done as possible at community college first where it's only $47/credit even though it's taking me forever and I just want to transfer already. It'll all be worth it in the end, right?! Where the gently caress do you go that's $50 a credit? My lovely community college costs twice that!
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contagonist posted:In my last semester, three of my final exams were on the same day, at the same time. Wow. Here the exam schedule is set by the university based on the course meeting time of day / week, so it's impossible to have a conflict. The only time there is an issue is when a professor decides to break the rules and schedule on their own time, but students can really easily overrule that.
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Astrofig posted:Where the gently caress do you go that's $50 a credit? My lovely community college costs twice that! Sacramento, California. I am drat thankful for $47 a credit, believe me. It's the cost of university after transferring that has me worried.
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Mar 8, 2015 20:53
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You're going to fall into crippling debt like the rest of us haha.
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Tunicate posted:Except for the profs who get pissed off if things are turned in early. Admittedly, my experience is limited to a few institutions, but I have never encountered such an individual.
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thespaceinvader posted:Admittedly, my experience is limited to a few institutions, but I have never encountered such an individual. Speaking as someone on the non-student side of the divide, I can understand a prof being a bit suspicious if you get an assignment to them REALLY early, on suspicion of cheating or just rushing the assignment without taking the time to do it properly, but I suspect in this case that it's just a strawman.
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Gobblecoque posted:You're going to fall into crippling debt like the rest of us haha. I know. 
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thespaceinvader posted:Admittedly, my experience is limited to a few institutions, but I have never encountered such an individual. Ironically, my project management prof was like that. Wouldn't accept early work in person, said he'd delete any emails before the due date.
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Cythereal posted:Not to be a jackass, but this kind of thing is a significant part of why professors generally recommend you don't leave submitting assignments until an hour or two before they're do. Problems and accidents can and do come up. It was a 'respond to x amount of students in this weeks discussion by 11:45' thing, so it wasn't a huge deal. I'm still going to get an A in the class, and yeah, I shouldn't have waited that long to do it. I wanted to make sure I actually had some poo poo to respond to in the different threads that all say the same thing. I emailed him and said why the only thing I posted that week was my initial post, and I accepted the full responsibility for not paying attention to the maintenance window tab.
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This week has been more intense than finals week. If I make it through tomorrow, I'm golden, but if I don't, I'm throwing myself off the library. Holy gently caress, I've literally had a project due in every class, plus labs, weekly assignments, in addition to three midterms.  Must be the spring break next week that's made every professor realize that they need to inflict as much suffering as possible.
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A White Guy posted:This week has been more intense than finals week. If I make it through tomorrow, I'm golden, but if I don't, I'm throwing myself off the library. Holy gently caress, I've literally had a project due in every class, plus labs, weekly assignments, in addition to three midterms. My semester has been pretty much like this. Rather than anything being spread out at all, I get all sorts of poo poo thrown into exactly one week like a turbo-fuckyou-finals week. I had one of these weeks a couple weeks ago and next week is pretty much gonna be the same.
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