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Kawasaki Nun posted:Young lady in one of my classes talked about how academic writing is elitist and exclusionary. Advocating for everyone writing in their own personal vernacular because that will make it inclusive (and retarded). A girl taking her final history course and graduating with a history degree this semester gets her essay back, an essay where the professor said multiple times in class to use Aaron Burr when discussing whatever prompt you choose for this essay. This girl chose a prompt that listed a couple of Founding Fathers but not Aaron Burr. When she got back her C paper she threw a poo poo fit because she was marked off for not using Burr anywhere in the essay and her justification was that Burr wasn't mentioned in the prompt. He wasn't in any prompt! College is full of retards, and they're all passing.
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Grem posted:A girl taking her final history course and graduating with a history degree this semester gets her essay back, an essay where the professor said multiple times in class to use Aaron Burr when discussing whatever prompt you choose for this essay. This girl chose a prompt that listed a couple of Founding Fathers but not Aaron Burr. When she got back her C paper she threw a poo poo fit because she was marked off for not using Burr anywhere in the essay and her justification was that Burr wasn't mentioned in the prompt. He wasn't in any prompt! College is full of retards, and they're all passing.
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Feb 25, 2016 05:15
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My aunt has endless horror stories about graduate students that still couldn't write a loving paper to save their lives, let alone undergrads.
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Feb 25, 2016 05:27
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Grem posted:A girl taking her final history course and graduating with a history degree this semester gets her essay back, an essay where the professor said multiple times in class to use Aaron Burr when discussing whatever prompt you choose for this essay. This girl chose a prompt that listed a couple of Founding Fathers but not Aaron Burr. When she got back her C paper she threw a poo poo fit because she was marked off for not using Burr anywhere in the essay and her justification was that Burr wasn't mentioned in the prompt. He wasn't in any prompt! College is full of retards, and they're all passing. Yeah, but she went into how the vernacular is the true expression of English so utilizing dictionary meanings is unfair. This idiot was literally advocating for the wholesale adoption of individual vernaculars to be some how graded by a single person like it was a common sense approach to educating the masses. I literally thought people like that only existed on the internet.
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Feb 25, 2016 06:13
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holocaust bloopers posted:MLA formatting is offensive to my zyr sensibilities. MLA rules. gently caress your touchy-feely APA.
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Feb 25, 2016 07:11
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I think MLA is retarded and incredibly unreadable garbage but it's great for taking notes in the margins so its great for grading I guess. Im an insane person who prefers to read really dense and small text though
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Feb 25, 2016 09:45
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I used ASA for my entire academic writing career, then had to use APA for work. Felt like one of those feral kids being let outside for the first time when I could actually use all those automated bib programs.
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Feb 25, 2016 12:33
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:MLA rules. gently caress your touchy-feely APA. Chicago for lyfe.
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Feb 25, 2016 13:12
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Chicago is God's true format
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Feb 25, 2016 14:19
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You guys are cute with your formatting arguments. I pretty much just have to make sure my lab reports are in the same color of crayon.
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Feb 25, 2016 15:28
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The phrase 'you guys' is offensive.
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Feb 25, 2016 15:34
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"You people"
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Feb 25, 2016 16:03
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:"You people" What if they self identify as a rabid wolverine? You're not being inclusive enough there, guy/girl/dragon/sentient mattress.
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Feb 25, 2016 16:33
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:What if they self identify as a rabid wolverine? You're not being inclusive enough there, guy/girl/dragon/sentient mattress. Wow, bloops is trans-Raptor and this is the poo poo you spew??
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Feb 25, 2016 17:41
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Just take a line from Idiocracy and call everyone 'particular individuals'. That movie hit too many nails on the drat head and it scares the poo poo out of me.
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Feb 25, 2016 18:59
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Vasudus posted:I used ASA for my entire academic writing career, then had to use APA for work. Felt like one of those feral kids being let outside for the first time when I could actually use all those automated bib programs. EasyBib does APA just fine, but you have to pay for it. Easily worth the $20 a year when you are writing a lot of papers.
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Crazy Dutchman posted:EasyBib does APA just fine, but you have to pay for it. Easily worth the $20 a year when you are writing a lot of papers. But Microsoft Word has a pretty good reference feature built in that allows you to insert citations in several styles, as well as generate a bibliography. Why pay more?
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Pesticide20 posted:But Microsoft Word has a pretty good reference feature built in that allows you to insert citations in several styles, as well as generate a bibliography. Why pay more? That poo poo hosed all my citations up for an MLA paper. I mean I probably am the one who hosed it up but I don't trust it anymore.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:09
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Yeah, for some reason Word doesn't do MLA citations correctly. It gets you most of the way there, but then you have to disable updates and fix your bibliography , after which you can't use the citation feature because you'd have to re-enable updates and scrap all your manual corrections. e: and since you should be updating your bibliography all the way through the writing process, this defeats the whole purpose of the software feature
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Feb 26, 2016 00:19
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at the date posted:e: and since you should be updating your bibliography all the way through the writing process, this defeats the whole purpose of the software feature Separate document, copy/paste to the rear end of your paper when you're done. What's difficult about that?
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Feb 26, 2016 01:26
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So University San Diego said they'll accept me, but the credits I have at Thomas Edison State University won't transfer over, meaning I'll be starting from the beginning despite having almost an AA from them. Only because they are online 
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Feb 26, 2016 02:53
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Soulex posted:So University San Diego said they'll accept me, but the credits I have at Thomas Edison State University won't transfer over, meaning I'll be starting from the beginning despite having almost an AA from them. Only because they are online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A Option A) Remove the "almost" part from "having almost an AA" Option B) Say gently caress it and take the hit
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Feb 26, 2016 03:33
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They got my unofficial transcripts so they know it's close. 2 classes away. Probably doing option B. I'll just Clep the last two classes and hope I pass. That way I'll get an AA regardless. Edit: that includes JST stuff by the way.
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Feb 26, 2016 04:58
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Separate document, copy/paste to the rear end of your paper when you're done. What's difficult about that? Citations and bibliography entries are different in MLA, neither are done correctly in Word
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Feb 26, 2016 05:23
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"Writing"? Is that like when you put letters into Excel cells instead of numbers?
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Feb 26, 2016 10:33
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Crazy Dutchman posted:EasyBib does APA just fine, but you have to pay for it. Easily worth the $20 a year when you are writing a lot of papers. It does APA fine, yeah, but I used ASA for my academic career. At least at the time, there were no options because lol ASA.
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Feb 26, 2016 12:30
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what kind of luck have had people getting their VMET, ATARRS or whatever they call the military transcripts transferred into credits? Mine lists some MOSs that I was just slotted in with no actual training, mostly commo poo poo with a lot of recommendations for computer poo poo. Considering I'm going to pursue a CS degree I think, that could be pretty helpful? probably going to knock out my lower level courses at a community college then transfer to a state uni.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:20
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Any legit school is going to give you 6-10 elective credits and exempt you from the phys Ed requirement.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:35
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I got around 26 accepted by my university. Mostly managerial stuff and the PT stuff, along with first year seminar freshman bullshit classes they require you to take. This is from an AF SNCO perspective though so ymmv.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:44
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OK, I wasn't holding my breath for anything great, because I would probably laugh at someones military transcripts if it was my job.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:45
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:what kind of luck have had people getting their VMET, ATARRS or whatever they call the military transcripts transferred into credits? Depends on the school. My college took enough that I was roughly halfway done with freshman year.
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Feb 28, 2016 00:05
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well, regardless of the outcome of my credits, I do know that when I start school, I'm going to throw a little spice into the "wear poo poo to look like a veteran" and rock ESS goggles and maybe long sleeve army pts and pants. The ones with the elastic cuffs on the ankles, I don't know if the new poo poo is out. CHICKEN SHOES fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Feb 28, 2016 00:12
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you should be like some of the females in my rotc lite unit who have EMBRACE THE SUCK and WHAT NOW BITCHES! emblazoned on their National Guard (tm) ACU bags, especially the one that runs like a 22 minute 2 mile e; and go to the talent show and sing back to back hymns about praising jesus 
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Feb 28, 2016 01:45
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NTT posted:especially the one that runs like a 22 minute 2 mile 
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Feb 28, 2016 02:36
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Seriously, even the tubbiest wooks could beat that fighting off a3 day benders hangover
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Feb 28, 2016 02:51
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Yeah, still waiting on finding out if they can expedite my applications process. If not I'll have to stay here till spring semester, which means picking up a dead end job part time until I leave to make bills.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:38
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Is stuff not posting on eBenefits for anyone else?
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Feb 28, 2016 08:22
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She's so slow they make us all run behind her during bleachers for pt and it's like the slowest jog
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Feb 28, 2016 09:20
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Hi, I come from the Land of Learning the Hard Way to tell you all that dating undergrads is always a bad idea, no matter how hot she is and no matter how unique the situation seems. Learn the hard way if you like, but don't say you weren't told.
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