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Yay I finally have a 3 hour break per week from my project! Now I have time to work on my assignments from every other class!! And the next project is assigned the day we turn in the previous one. I spent 40 hours over the past 2 weeks with two other people working on this and only got the project half done. It's one of the easier ones 
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Macroeconomics sucks dog balls anyway. I've never met anyone who has taken that course and said "yeah that was fun and informative, I'm so glad I took that class and got an A" I'm the guy on the edge of the bell curve that is actually planning to major in economics. I did straight up tell my professor though that I couldn't wait to get out of his course and move on to actual content courses. He said he didn't blame me.
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Oct 7, 2014 23:23
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Besesoth posted:I'm normally hesitant to say this, but that sounds like it might be grounds for legal action. If you can prove that you failed the class not because of the grades you received on assignments but because your professor screwed up and then the person in charge of handling professorial screw-ups dramatically mismanaged the situation, you ought to at least be able to recover the portion of your tuition that paid for the credit hours you had to spend re-taking the class. Oh, don't worry, I got my money back. After talking with the department head and getting no where I decided just to contact the teacher directly and ask what was up. It turns out that he had accidentally marked the wrong column on the grade sheet and I should have passed the class. With that and an arm load of coursework, I went straight to the Dean and told him what happened. He right then and there set everything straight. The only negative is that the department head never faced repercussions for any of this because he retired at the end of the semester. He had been there for so long that I guess the school found it easier to just let him retire instead of fire him. I hope him leaving bolstered their image though, because what says "freshman services" more than ancient old man who hates young people? :V Chip McFuck has a new favorite as of 01:27 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 00:18
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Razorwired posted:One of my profs last year put 90% of our course grade into two research projects. She didn't grade the first project(due during midterms) until the Friday before finals. Everyone turned in their finals without any idea of how the professor approached grading.
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Oct 8, 2014 02:01
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suuma posted:Every class I've had at this university for the last 3 semesters has required APA formatting for all papers, etc., which is cool because I've finally mastered it and can do it in my sleep. Chicago and Turabian is pretty much standard for all history, so you would've run into it one way or another. It's also a much better style than APA. 
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Oct 8, 2014 03:20
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Gobblecoque posted:It's also a much better style than APA. This is the truth. It's so much more relaxed and easier to remember than APA. Sorry you have to switch, but I think you'll like using it.
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Oct 8, 2014 03:32
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suuma posted:Every class I've had at this university for the last 3 semesters has required APA formatting for all papers, etc., which is cool because I've finally mastered it and can do it in my sleep. I thank God everyday that all my upper division professors want to prepare me for a life of writing journal articles and prefer SAA style.
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Oct 8, 2014 03:37
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suuma posted:Every class I've had at this university for the last 3 semesters has required APA formatting for all papers, etc., which is cool because I've finally mastered it and can do it in my sleep. Do you not use a citation generator or have a manual that you can use? Chicago style is the standard for historical writing because APA, MLA, etc. are abominations.
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Oct 8, 2014 06:36
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High school/Junior college: 'MLA is the style you will use at university. Therefore, we are using MLA.' College: 'You know that APA style that was never covered? That's what we use.' Also, citation generators are pretty much the best thing ever because no one really gives that much of a poo poo about your undergrad papers for your classes.
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Oct 8, 2014 20:43
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Really, the only bothersome parts for me in papers is proper citation because it's a pain in the rear end to have to go into your writing and type everything this EXACT WAY. Otherwise writing's a cinch, I'm that good at it, but citation just feels like busywork most of the time.
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Oct 8, 2014 21:31
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Doing citations isn't the most fun thing in the world, but it's absolutely necessary to do and to have students know to do it. It's definitely not busywork.
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Oct 8, 2014 21:44
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But it certainly is something that can be left to a program to complete.
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Oct 8, 2014 22:46
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Boiled Water posted:But it certainly is something that can be left to a program to complete. Yeah and there are websites that can almost do the whole process for you thank god. Awhile back I used a Shakespeare quote in an essay, can't remember what it was exactly but something like "nothing new under the sun", you know something that's in the everyday vernacular. I got marked down for not correctly citing it and not listing Shakespeare or the particular play it happened to be from in the bibliography. New college complaint: I'm not attending school this term since my hours at work got slashed thanks to downsizing, and I was only two terms away from finishing...
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Oct 8, 2014 22:56
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A White Guy posted:Also, citation generators are pretty much the best thing ever because no one really gives that much of a poo poo about your undergrad papers for your classes. Beware taking this mentality into upper-level undergraduate courses, and you had better learn to do them without citation generators by the time you get to grad school.
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Oct 8, 2014 23:13
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I don't remember what the style was called, but I had a 'how to write scientifically' book for a basic biology course that told us to write 'et al.' as 'et. al' which, as someone with a latin minor, was painful. (the 'al' is an abbreviation, hence the period. 'et' is just 'et')
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Oct 8, 2014 23:48
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My school has a limited number of licenses for the software package I need to use, so it's only available in a computer lab with 12 computers. Every time I go in there, there are students on their laptops sitting at these stations. Not even logged into the computer, just taking up the space browsing Facebook.
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Oct 10, 2014 00:53
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Ducreux posted:My school has a limited number of licenses for the software package I need to use, so it's only available in a computer lab with 12 computers. Every time I go in there, there are students on their laptops sitting at these stations. Not even logged into the computer, just taking up the space browsing Facebook. So tell them to move?
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Oct 10, 2014 01:02
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Action-Bastard posted:Yeah and there are websites that can almost do the whole process for you thank god. That's the Bible, not Shakespeare.
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Oct 10, 2014 01:03
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Action-Bastard posted:Yeah and there are websites that can almost do the whole process for you thank god. I didn't have to do it much in university, but I remember what a pain it was in high school when no one seemed to know how to cite a website. My brother almost got in a bunch of trouble for citing sparks notes when he was writing an English essay one time.
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Oct 10, 2014 15:46
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Ducreux posted:My school has a limited number of licenses for the software package I need to use, so it's only available in a computer lab with 12 computers. Every time I go in there, there are students on their laptops sitting at these stations. Not even logged into the computer, just taking up the space browsing Facebook. Most of my computer lab woes are communitycollege.txt problems. Namely the place being too drat noisy. Often times there are straight up classes in there. And the most egregious is when some dumbass, rather than walk over and talk to her friend across the room, just straight up yells. And no one does a drat thing. 
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Oct 10, 2014 15:48
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Warmachine posted:Most of my computer lab woes are communitycollege.txt problems. Namely the place being too drat noisy. Often times there are straight up classes in there. And the most egregious is when some dumbass, rather than walk over and talk to her friend across the room, just straight up yells. And no one does a drat thing. If your college library is anything like mine, there's nothing we can do about noisy patrons beyond politely asking them to stop or calling campus police.
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Oct 10, 2014 15:58
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Apocadall posted:So tell them to move? Or ask.
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Oct 10, 2014 15:59
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chemosh6969 posted:Or ask. This really works. Seriously. "Hey, the software I need is on that computer. Would you mind letting me use it if you're done?" Boom. No magic spell needed, no hiring a hitman, just simple words. And, no need to stew about it later, since you can get your work done! 
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Oct 10, 2014 16:12
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My university just sent out an email titled 'Ebola:Being Prepared'  . The content of the email is 'Oh, we're totally prepared in case Ebola somehow arrives in (middle of nowhere, California)'  . My recent interactions with the university/local health system tell me we are hosed in a wickers hat if even a moderately severe flu epidemic occurred here, much less a disease with 50% fatality rate.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:52
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Every University Health Center Ever posted:"I see you're bleeding profusely out of every orifice. Do you think you might be pregnant?"
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Oct 10, 2014 18:21
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A White Guy posted:My university just sent out an email titled 'Ebola:Being Prepared' "Please refund me the portion of my tuition that went towards this. Thanks."
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Oct 10, 2014 18:33
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Jack of Hearts posted:That's pretty drat weird. I'd never even heard of that as a stereotype before. You probably haven't met many polacks
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Oct 10, 2014 19:30
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Soylent Pudding posted:
This sounds dumb, but it makes a certain amount of sense. They're not saying "this might be a symptom of pregnancy", they're saying "do we have a fetus to worry about too?".
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Oct 11, 2014 00:14
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This sounds dumb, but it makes a certain amount of sense. They're not saying "this might be a symptom of pregnancy", they're saying "do we have a fetus to worry about too?". [/quote] Considering the amount of pregnant people on my campus as well, it doesn't seem like a bad question to ask.
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Oct 11, 2014 03:07
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Warmachine posted:Considering the amount of pregnant people on my campus as well, it doesn't seem like a bad question to ask. It isn't a bad one to ask at all. If you are pregnant, they need to refer you to a proper hospital. No college clinic wants to try treating something they aren't absolutely positive they can help with because there are people who would sue their asses off if they tried and failed, or if they made a wrong diagnosis.
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Oct 11, 2014 03:13
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Ducreux posted:My school has a limited number of licenses for the software package I need to use, so it's only available in a computer lab with 12 computers. Every time I go in there, there are students on their laptops sitting at these stations. Not even logged into the computer, just taking up the space browsing Facebook. In one of my classes we needed to use a particular piece of software, which was only licensed for a single computer lab. However, the only version of the software the school had licensed was the 64-bit version, and there was only one computer in the lab that was 64-bit, so the whole class had to ssh into a single computer to do our homework.
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Oct 11, 2014 05:27
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chemosh6969 posted:Or ask. I don't get why you would give them the option of staying there wasting space?
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Oct 12, 2014 21:27
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Apocadall posted:I don't get why you would give them the option of staying there wasting space? Because in real life (outside the basement), you aren't a tough guy and need to interact with people in the real world. People use this thing called manners.
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Oct 13, 2014 16:06
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I get that asking about pregnancy in and of itself is a very sensible thing for a health center to do. The problem is that women feel social pressure to not answer honestly. This means that campus health center workers keep pushing and don't trust the initial answer. Whether that practice is sensible or not it causes many women to have a very negative experience where their doctor or nurse leaves them feeling patronized, infantalized, or morally outraged that medical professionals questioned their commitment to their values.
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Oct 13, 2014 17:24
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Soylent Pudding posted:I get that asking about pregnancy in and of itself is a very sensible thing for a health center to do. The problem is that women feel social pressure to not answer honestly. This means that campus health center workers keep pushing and don't trust the initial answer. Whether that practice is sensible or not it causes many women to have a very negative experience where their doctor or nurse leaves them feeling patronized, infantalized, or morally outraged that medical professionals questioned their commitment to their values. Which is more a problem with social pressure than university procedures. Being pregnant changes a lot of medical-related things, and university staff are well aware that this is an issue where students may not answer honestly. The problem is, if the student *is* pregnant but doesn't tell the clinic staff that, and the clinic proceeds with whatever, the clinic can inadvertently do a lot of harm to the student and her child. Completely aside from the very real possibility that the student or her parents will sue the university's rear end off, it hurts the student. Faced with a choice between potentially hurting a pregnant student and their child, or pissing off a student, is it really a surprise that universities tend to opt for the latter?
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Not really, which is why I clarified that regardless of sensibility it's still something that is terribly frustrating and possibly offensive to a lot of students seeking medical treatment.
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Oct 13, 2014 17:39
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It appears that all the funding has been ripped away from disability services at my uni. They're sending out an automated response to any emails that says it will take them 3 - 5 days to respond. My Disabled Student Allowance pays for me to see a mentor weekly and, as the chap I was seeing for the last two years has now retired, you'd think they'd have been in touch to set up a new one. Nope. I swear, it's loving shambolic that a uni that prides itself on being inclusive and forward thinking has such a shoddy approach to disability. I could literally write an essay on the regular gently caress ups they make that the able-bodied population never notice.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:05
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chemosh6969 posted:Because in real life (outside the basement), you aren't a tough guy and need to interact with people in the real world. People use this thing called manners. I'm guessing you're the kind of person that would sheepishly go elsewhere if they said no then 
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Oct 13, 2014 22:38
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Apocadall posted:I'm guessing you're the kind of person that would sheepishly go elsewhere if they said no then Haha, yeah what a loving beta you tell 'em
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Bad Roy posted:It appears that all the funding has been ripped away from disability services at my uni. They're sending out an automated response to any emails that says it will take them 3 - 5 days to respond. My Disabled Student Allowance pays for me to see a mentor weekly and, as the chap I was seeing for the last two years has now retired, you'd think they'd have been in touch to set up a new one. Nope. You should. Nothing makes a university take notice like letters in the Telegraph.
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