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i did a creative writing elective, started out getting distinctions and high distinctions at the beginning of semester and then as i attended more classes and tried to apply what i'd been taught my marks steadily dwindled with no explanation from the tutor until for the final project i got a conceded pass. that is how i learnt that the more you practice something the worse you get at it, and that you should never try
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Avshalom posted:being able to write coherently is a surprisingly rare skill I feel like a lot of it, in undergrad at least, is just rushing assignments and not actually actively reading what you write. Like im sure these kids can write, they just haven't bothered too.
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Nov 22, 2016 21:37
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un petit guerre
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kustomkarkommando posted:I'm sure the military will be keen to get the optimum value for their money dude haven't you been following politics we're gonna molotov-ribbentrop ukraine with the russians
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the best elective i did was a studies of religion thing, it was all online and basically you just had to keep a diary about your insights on religion and the tutor had never had a jew in her class before so i just went on endlessly about the holocaust and got top marks pretty much by default
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mooyashi posted:I still probably can't write very well but I'm glad to have had no less than ten thousand hours on a platform of sorts talking to strangers wrt public speaking i used to try to pick up women in bars by telling them i spent many hours per week with mentally disabled people, helping them build their communication skills via online classes
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Nov 22, 2016 21:41
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oh and the design history course where the teacher was a marx fanatic of a calibre i've never seen outside this very forum and he was just so excited to have someone of the same bloodline as his hero there to talk to about full communism now
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Nov 22, 2016 21:41
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*holocaust denier voice* I don't believe australian universities exist. where is the evidence?
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boner confessor posted:i used to try to pick up women in bars by telling them i spent many hours per week with mentally disabled people, helping them build their communication skills via online classes
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Nov 22, 2016 21:42
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Avshalom posted:yeah i always bring up this thread on first dates relieved to see we all share something in common wrt our romantic lives
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Nov 22, 2016 21:43
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honestly avs just show them the keets or goats
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Nov 22, 2016 21:44
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my life is strictly compartmentalized nobody I know irl knows that I post here, or that I have an internet connection
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Nov 22, 2016 21:45
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i miss the goats 
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Nov 22, 2016 21:46
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only something like 15-20% of first world people have 'proficient' language skills, able to comprehend compex thoughts and synthesize new ones. the bulk of people are on the adequate or competent level, where they can read and write ok. and 15-20% of people are functionally illiterate, in which they can eventually derive meaning from words if they go over it enough times but it's frustrating and difficult. anyway the last group of people includes everyone who dislikes my psots
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Nov 22, 2016 21:48
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when i get back to the city i'll make it clear to any and all potential partners that i expect a man to be able to defend me as valiantly as ziggy stardust the guinea fowl rooster defends his hen. if an echidna enters my territory i need my man to have the courage to honk at it until it leaves. if he discovers a delicious morsel, i need him to indicate it to me while making gentle encouraging toot toot sounds. in return i will be a gracious hen - when i bend down to eat, he can jump on my back and take me up the rear end
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PupsOfWar posted:also if we reduced GPA gating in professional programs they all have messianic egos and are engaged in a course of study almost totally dependent on rote memorisation of huge blocks of data continuous evaluation also sucks imo
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Avshalom posted:being able to write coherently is a surprisingly rare skill Found sorely in area lacking I've been.
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i had to lead a seminar and give a paper as a master's student and discovered that no printer in the entire faculty building was working because of a network problem luckily i was psychologically broken enough by research to be able to regurgigate most of it without the paper
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in every exam i took at a university level someone broke down and sobbed and left the room long before time if they were a historian they were probably the lone person that failed in a given year
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Disinterested posted:i had to lead a seminar and give a paper as a master's student and discovered that no printer in the entire faculty building was working because of a network problem I could probably give that paper today if I wanted to. I haven't looked at it in over a year.
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Nov 22, 2016 22:08
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al gore's voice is real icky
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one of my tutors got an unexpected insight into me when she ran into my father and i at a market in sydney. i said "hey laura this is my dad, dad this is laura, she's my typography tutor", she said "hi, nice to meet you!" and he affixed her with a wide-eyed adam lanza stare and without blinking or saying a word backed very slowly into the crowd and disappeared
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Nov 22, 2016 22:14
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it took me several minutes to find him and when i did find him he was outside stealing candy from the charity bowl
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i am sorry about your father who is apparently late-era homer simpson
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my father describes himself as a "jewish christian zen buddhist subatomic quantum sufi mystic"
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Nov 22, 2016 22:39
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Someone wrote BENCH BITCH on one of those benches with a memorial plaque outside my office
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boner confessor posted:i used to try to pick up women in bars by telling them i spent many hours per week with mentally disabled people, helping them build their communication skills via online classes This took me more than once but bravo
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Nov 22, 2016 22:41
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I used to pick up women in bars by working at one. Nobody does it for the hours.
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I met my lady at a bar eleven years ago. We really hit it off but went our separate ways that night. She went on to get married and live hundreds of miles away and I took a job at said bar. Years after her divorce she found herself in my tiny town on business and came back in. We've been together since 2012 
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Nov 22, 2016 22:47
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here he is trying to buy comics in pyongyang with american money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxpvhBGxLY
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rear end struggle posted:here he is trying to buy comics in pyongyang with american money that preview image lmao
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I once gave a paper that I hadn't looked at in months. Gave it mostly perfectly. Yeah I could probably give it with like five minutes of prep today
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The guy I mostly gave that for and who gave me a ton of advice on it is dead now rip him
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Academia is a mental illness
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it's sort of looking like the council laws on keeping goats in urban areas aren't as strict as i thought they were...
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Badger of Basra posted:Academia is a mental illness There are all sorts of generalizations when it comes to attitude and tipping in retail and restaurants but people who never left college tend to be the worst all around imo
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Avshalom posted:it's sort of looking like the council laws on keeping goats in urban areas aren't as strict as i thought they were... Those laws were eaten by goats years ago for some reason...
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mooyashi posted:There are all sorts of generalizations when it comes to attitude and tipping in retail and restaurants but people who never left college tend to be the worst all around imo
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