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Anyone remember that "Don't Taze Me, Bro!" video from years back? There is at least one of those people in EVERY political science classroom (loud, opinionated motherfucker whose interjections are so common it borders on disrupting a class) and they usually lean libertarian to boot. Watching that video the first time brought a smirk to my face as I imagined this one guy I used to know from class being the one to lip off John Kerry.
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Pudgygiant posted:It's community college, not Harvard, jesus dude In my experience the less prestige your program has the more pedantic your professors get. I've seen community college instructors make assignments due on Thanksgiving because gently caress you.
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Jan 30, 2014 05:39
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Everyone has their keys on lanyards. It's pretty much the equivalent to wearing your mittens on strings.
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Jan 30, 2014 06:01
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Ego-bot posted:Everyone has their keys on lanyards. It's pretty much the equivalent to wearing your mittens on strings. I can't twirl my mittens around and flagellate myself them when I'm bored.
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Jan 30, 2014 06:14
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Justin Godscock posted:Anyone remember that "Don't Taze Me, Bro!" video from years back? In a similar vein, why must every class have a student who feels the need to make comments on everything the professor says, as if it's a personal conversation and not a lecture? And it's almost always to refute a commonly-accepted theory or interpretation with some poorly thought out (or straight-up idiotic) idea.
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Jan 30, 2014 06:17
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Today a prof got angry when a few students attempted to e-mail Word document assignments after she told us to use Google Docs. Fair enough. But what was her reason for hating Word? It comes with viruses that attack her computer. Wait, what? She's also an open fan of Sherlock, Dr. Who, and MLP. I'm sticking it out though, I think it will be quite the experience.
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Jan 30, 2014 08:21
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You know, I get that we're more electronic than we were 5-15 years ago, but I remember when teachers were quite the opposite and refused to accept any homework or essays via electronic means and you HAD to submit it via hardcopy. Heck, in the year 2000 there was actually a guy in charge of a program who didn't use e-mail, period, so when needing to get in contact with him I had to wait until the actual first day of the new semester when he stepped back on campus.
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Jan 30, 2014 08:26
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The geology department at my university is still like this now. They don't post anything online, don't respond to e-mails, and do all the notes on overhead. It's amazing actually, because you move to the offices next door in the geography department, and they're out recording observations in the field using 3D GoPros and have laser pens to draw on the screen in class.
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Jan 30, 2014 09:33
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I had a professor that was approximately 80 years old and completely technologically illiterate, but everything related to the class had to be done through computers. So one of the things he did was have one of the office ladies print out all his emails, and he'd pick them up in the morning, and then hand write out responses, which he would then give back to the office ladies for them to type up and reply to the emails with. It was one of the more absurd things I've seen.
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Jan 30, 2014 09:47
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At least they're honest about it, this drat English teacher said everything will be on the intranet site "because we live in the 21st century" and has given roughly a ream of paper of handouts every class so far.
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Jan 30, 2014 15:28
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Phthisis posted:I had a professor that was approximately 80 years old and completely technologically illiterate, but everything related to the class had to be done through computers. So one of the things he did was have one of the office ladies print out all his emails, and he'd pick them up in the morning, and then hand write out responses, which he would then give back to the office ladies for them to type up and reply to the emails with. It was one of the more absurd things I've seen. This is actually kind of adorable.
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Jan 30, 2014 15:36
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My faculty email account runs on Exchange 2003, and is locked down so that the only way I can get to it off-campus is the webmail interface, which barely works on any modern browser. I can't auto-forward mail to other accounts, either. The login page has said "Coming soon: Exchange 2010" since I started teaching here.
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Jan 30, 2014 16:47
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And I thought being unable to use Firefox to place work orders was bad.
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Jan 30, 2014 18:51
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I work in an academic probation office at a school part time, and a student just made their own appointment and left this note in the comments: " I would like to know if there is any way to be eligible to play Quidditch while on probation." Turns out there's actually strict rules against playing a made up sport while on non good standing academically.
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Jan 30, 2014 20:23
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The fact that Quidditch is actually a thing in multiple colleges is baffling to me. Nerds can't even play sports without being nerds, it's amazing. edit: and this is coming from someone who really likes those books/movies
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Jan 30, 2014 20:43
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Coffee And Pie posted:In a similar vein, why must every class have a student who feels the need to make comments on everything the professor says, as if it's a personal conversation and not a lecture? And it's almost always to refute a commonly-accepted theory or interpretation with some poorly thought out (or straight-up idiotic) idea. I'd rather have that guy than a room full of people with blank stares who never say a loving thing even when the instructor asks a question and repeatedly asks for a response. I'll never understand people who pay hundreds of dollars for a class and then refuse to get even slightly involved when they have a teacher who actually gives a poo poo and is trying to get them to engage with the material.
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Jan 30, 2014 20:49
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I have a teacher right now who asks the class questions but he never repeats the answer when a student gives it, so I can never actually hear what the correct answers to his questions are.
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Jan 30, 2014 21:48
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Jan 30, 2014 23:00
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Coffee And Pie posted:In a similar vein, why must every class have a student who feels the need to make comments on everything the professor says, as if it's a personal conversation and not a lecture? And it's almost always to refute a commonly-accepted theory or interpretation with some poorly thought out (or straight-up idiotic) idea. There's a dude in more than half of my courses that does this, except he makes awful jokes and brings up vaguely-at-best connected news stories. Ugh.
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Jan 31, 2014 01:53
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Double Plus Good posted:Oh, god, this is one of my worst pet peeves. It instantly sets me in a rage and I just have to cover my mouth so I don't start shouting "WHAT? WHAT??" to get my point across. Even in small classes it sucks. Mine are typically 25-30 people, and I get profs who keep begging for answers. If no one figured it out in a couple of minutes, no one will so just give up and tell us already so we can move on.
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Jan 31, 2014 02:14
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I've seen this happen a lot. In my school the order of taking classes, for lack of a better term, starts out with large mathematics and chemistry courses (350-ish people) and end with 15-20 people in more specialised classes like Hygienic Design in Food Industry. It's no wonder people don't ask questions.
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Jan 31, 2014 02:37
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Shuffle posted:waitlists are the stupidest thing. Well I guess it worked out in the end. A spot opened in another section the professor has and I snagged it fast. 8 in the drat morning but at least I don't have to wait another drat semester.
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Jan 31, 2014 23:04
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So I was having some trouble getting the money to pay for my tuition. After months of begging my uncle, who is the only person in my family with good credit, to cosign a loan I finally got it all straightened out. The funds were due to disburse on the 24th. Classes began on the 20th. I get an email the Friday before the start of classes that said there was still a hold on my account and I would not be able to use my ID to get into buildings, eat in the dining hall, etc. So I went a week without eating anything except granola and the occasional hot pocket given to me out of pity by my friend. The lady who handles the accounts is on part-time status due to medical problems so there wasn't really anyway I could be sure that she was in the office and would help me. I call her Friday, the day my loans were supposed to disburse. "You should have been able to use your ID this whole week." Thanks for letting me starve, guys. I swear it feels like they just don't want me here. (Oh, I also just found out that I'm on academic probation from my ACADEMIC MENTOR they assigned me. Thanks for letting me know!)
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Feb 1, 2014 18:43
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My school was known on campus for always coming down like a ton of bricks on any org that broke the rules yet turning a blind eye to infractions (sometimes serious) that were perpetrated by sports teams, ROTC, orgs that drew from the student activities funds, and our pitiful greek life(as in the members were pathetic dumbasses).
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Feb 1, 2014 22:44
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A classmate has sent me the introduction he's written for our group project. I thought one of the words was a bit strange, so I googled the sentence… and found the patent the introduction was taken from. 
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Feb 3, 2014 02:12
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gently caress that guy, tell your professor. Group projects are painful/lovely enough without some rear end in a top hat putting everyone's grades at risk by plagiarizing.
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Feb 3, 2014 02:24
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Hummingbirds posted:gently caress that guy, tell your professor. Group projects are painful/lovely enough without some rear end in a top hat putting everyone's grades at risk by plagiarizing. I told the project supervisor today, but apparently if it hasn't actually been submitted, they can't take any action, so now we're going to have the most awkward group meeting imaginable where we tell him we know he plagiarised and we're not happy about it.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:00
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I've only had to deal with deadbeats or laziness when it comes to group projects. But, plagiarism? What I would do in that situation is sit the member down with all of us and tell them we caught him and then warn him if he pulls that poo poo again we are reporting him. It's nothing personal, just that if the professor discovers plagiarism in the presentation we are all hosed. Yeah, I should tell the professor about plagiarism within the group but I'm a nice guy that believes in second chances and I don't fault anyone going to the professor immediately. My group project story. We had this one girl who always came up with excuses for not attending meetings in between classes we shared. She also couldn't be trusted with really important parts of the project so we gave her easy stuff like assembling the PowerPoint. Then, this one time, the day before one presentation no less, she gave us the PowerPoint for a Psychology class. She literally took the paragraphs we gave her to bullet-point in the PowerPoint (that way she had to do actual work) and copied+pasted them into the PowerPoint so it was a cluttered and unreadable mess (because she didn't even bother to fix the formatting). We all freaked, one guy who is really cool said "we can't use this, I'm fixing it tonight" and from that point on we all agreed she was no longer wanted in our groups and it was nothing personal (but she took it that way).
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Feb 4, 2014 01:08
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My roommate and I love our open door policy but one guy in our frat is really really really annoying, he has some physical disorder so we feel bad for him but he's so frustrating to deal with. He never leaves, he talks over everyone, and he lies about stuff. For instance, tonight he said he saw three of his grandfathers fingers get cut off through the bone in an industrial fan going several thousand rpm. I called this as bullshit, and did some google stuff and didn't find anything about fans cutting off fingers. He finally leaves and half an hour later comes back with three cases of people losing fingers to metal cutters, which are the same thing as fans to him. That's what I get for touching the poop, but he does this poo poo all the time. We all miss when he was in a wheelchair last semester and couldn't come upstairs.
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Feb 5, 2014 08:52
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Double Plus Good posted:Bad group story: The one time I got a bad gut feeling about a group I was in, I followed that intuition and asked to leave the group and do the project solo. The girls I was paired up with didn't make any effort to include me in the planning or meetings, and when I asked what I could do for the presentation, said "Oh, well, we've already done it all." Being a deadbeat and being given no chance to even contribute to a major portion of your grade are different, so my professor understood and let me do the entire project by myself in a day or two. Turns out I was right and their presentation was boring as gently caress and inaccurate! The class was about multiculturalism and we were supposed to present about a different culture. They did Deaf Culture and spent the entire presentation talking about the etiology and anatomy of deafness, and cochlear implants. Not the issues in the Deaf community surrounding cochlear implants, but the actual process and theory behind it. If you're going to do a presentation on Deaf culture, you should at least understand the difference behind big-D Deaf and little-d deaf. The ASL translator in our class found it so offensive she actually stood up and said "This doesn't represent Deaf culture at all, so I'm going to speak on that a little." The professor commented to them that she didn't even know how to grade them, since technically their presentation didn't even fill the assignment requirements. Meanwhile, I did Judaism and had my Jewish friend bring in traditional foods and a blow a shofar. I don't what a shofar is so I'm going with "a type of Jewish person".
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Exclude me from the project, will you?? It felt good to be justified in my hesitation to let some random people take the reigns.
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InEscape posted:I don't what a shofar is so I'm going with "a type of Jewish person". It's a ceremonial instrument made from a ram's horn. Stephen Colbert blows on one during Yom Kippur. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/398351/september-28-2011/sign-off---reading---shofar-playing
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Feb 5, 2014 17:13
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I hate when professors have a lot of homework assignments due, but take forever to get around to grading them, especially in the beginning of the semester. In my Acc 409 class we've had 4 homework assignments due, none graded, and we're about to start the 5th week into the semester. Without that feedback early on you just don't know if you're answering the way the professor wants you to.
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Feb 10, 2014 00:01
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Feb 10, 2014 00:05
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Double Plus Good posted:The professor commented to them that she didn't even know how to grade them, since technically their presentation didn't even fill the assignment requirements. That's an easy one. If the presentation didn't fill the assignment requirements, then they didn't do the presentation. The grade for not doing an assignment is a zero. I guess you could take pity on them and give half credit since it seems they did some work.
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Feb 10, 2014 00:52
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There are a few professors that tend to refuse to answer questions. One really comes to mind in that he's just as likely to yell at you and say "you should know that already" rather than just answering the drat question. If I knew I wouldn't have asked. You're a professor. Your job is to teach. That's literally why you stand in front of the class. You know more than students. Your job is to lessen that gap. That means students will ask you questions and sometimes they will sound stupid to you. Maybe I just forgot something you taught earlier or didn't take a class you think people SHOULD take before this one but isn't required. Maybe I haven't read the chapter yet because I had other poo poo I had to do. Maybe I DID read the chapter but wanted something clarified because I didn't quite get it. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 01:23 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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Feb 10, 2014 01:01
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Double Plus Good posted:I think that was essentially her dilemma. She was grading from a rubric and what they presented didn't even touch any of the components. They put a ton of work into it, but they missed the point entirely. Either way, I was glad to have no part of it. That sounds like the famous quandary of "not even wrong".
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Feb 10, 2014 01:50
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Hahahaha I have a prof who actually expects us to do an assignment over reading break. gently caress that nonsense, I'm going to Cuba.
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Picnic Princess posted:Hahahaha I have a prof who actually expects us to do an assignment over reading break. We always get assignments over Spring or Thanksgiving break here, but I've yet to actually do any work on one until I return to school.
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