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My college has had three major security incidents in the past year. The Chancellor who actively covered them up is getting $200000 and a paid leave of absence until her contract is up for her trouble. Meanwhile, students just have to hope that nothing else bad happens which we won't find out until the next day----and even then only through text alerts, for those who signed up for them.
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So not only did I have to scramble to get into replacement classes for the one that got dropped suddenly for low enrollment, but because said replacements were last-start and the stupid new attendance-tracking software ties payment of financial aid to attendance, my student aid isn't coming until midway through next month. (And it looks like I'm getting less than I thought anyway.) Thanks guys, I didn't actually need books for said classes, no big deal!
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Feb 21, 2014 07:00
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Fat_Cow posted:Blackboard is the devil's program. "You can stop and resume this test later", so I open it up and glance at some questions before leaving for work, come back and it is 8 hours overdue, I loving hate Blackboard.
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Mar 26, 2014 23:22
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Kavak posted:
We have to do discussion boards on it as a key portion of our grade (and in another class, we do tests through it. You can totally save and come back to this, guys! Really! You just lose a point per minute past x length of time, that's all!). And the red text came from a description of a feminist-centric sci-fi fantasy story I was working on for a while. Rather Watch Them posted:At least it was $90 cheaper than my psychology Oh, that's another fun thing---textbooks that come as looseleaf and thus can't be sold to get back even part of the $150 you paid for it! Astrofig has a new favorite as of 21:11 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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Apr 4, 2014 21:00
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/sympathetic hug to people without a nice electronic submission system like CROPS. By the way, what the hell is your red text from?
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Oh hey, so guess what else is awesome? Thanks to budget cuts, we have to provide our own scantrons for tomorrow's test! which means driving from St. Louis county to South County because the loving bookstore closed early!
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Apr 4, 2014 23:04
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Austrian mook posted:free healthcare You joke but I think there might be some element of truth to this. Med students know that not every patient they get is going to be able to afford their care, and that's most often going to lead to some loving tragic circumstances. I like to think they tend to reflexively become assholes to protect against this phenomena so as to be less depressed by having to turn away people who need care and can't afford it.
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Apr 4, 2014 23:56
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I've had so many goddamn professors do this poo poo My brother's psych professor is apparently an actual, licensed clinical psychologist---yet he says she reads her lecture off of notecards and ignores questions that are asked. I had another who would put up the lecture notes online and then proceed to read them off the board. That was the entire lecture; he had nothing else to add.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:40
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Ahaha, so thanks to the new automated attendance tracking system, I might have to give back all of my financial aid! Someone shoot me in the head please? I am beyond done with this bullshit.
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Apr 16, 2014 03:03
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The lovely thing is, I WENT TO EVERY SINGLE loving CLASS! I have no idea how it got the idea I skipped enough days for this, and of course the office is closed by now, and I have to work mornings tomorrow, so I can't call until afternoon! Yay me! What is sleep?
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Apr 16, 2014 05:22
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BumikiIsFreaky posted:Where are all these high schools with the massively inflated GPAs? I don't think my high school offered a single class where it was possible to get above a 4.0 and no students were allowed to take college courses for dual credit. Mine was one of them; the so-called 'weighted grade' classes made it possible to get a 5.0 but I'd never heard of it being possible to get higher than that....
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Apr 30, 2014 13:16
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Ours won't be up until tomorrow. Hahaha oh god gently caress Blackboard in every orifice.
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May 15, 2014 18:18
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Final grades were due a week ago. Two of my professors have not posted literally any grades yet. And one of them apparently hasn't yet graded two of my four papers. The good news is, as it stands I'm passing everything!
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May 18, 2014 22:16
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Euphoriaphone posted:You guys actually make your works cited pages by hand? I just use Word to track all my sources, and then insert a generated works cited page. It's great, Word will ask you for all the information you have about a source, and format it in whatever style your professor demands. How do you do this?! Or where can I learn? I need this like yesterday.
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May 19, 2014 16:57
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How Rude posted:My university recently had some kind of policy change where taking attendance was "encouraged" to professors but usually attendance only counts for 5% of the grade in class. Though, if someone skips literally every other class they don't do too well anyway. You usually also get two to four "free days" and also most of my professors have made exceptions for attendance if you were sick or another class's obligations were more important than attending class in another. Around here it's tied to financial aid. Miss 16 classes in a row and you're counted as dropped and have to pay your aid back! Oh, did I mention the system that tracks this is automated, and the instructor has to remember to go in by hand and mark each student present? My English professor had to literally call the registrar on my behalf last semester, explaining that I never missed a single class; he was just bad about taking attendence.
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Sep 16, 2014 06:06
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Cythereal posted:There's a Starbucks in the library building where I work. What you've described is one of the more common crowds who frequent it. *The MtG players smelling up a cafeteria table yelling about which cards you can or can't play and why
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Sep 23, 2014 22:26
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The models used in this lab class are amazingly lovely. Even the professor can't find some of the smaller blood vessels; they run together/connect in the wrong place, or some of them seem to be missing entirely. The best he can tell us is what he thinks the author of the text (oh hi, $300 new and no rentals allowed!) intended them to be. Kind of sucks come test day when the scanned diagrams look nothing like what we've been studying.
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Oct 2, 2014 03:40
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KiteAuraan posted:I have learned that students do not like to talk or give answers in class. Ever. It is a rare day I see it happen. They're terrified of giving a wrong answer and having it count against their grade or else somehow reveal that they know less than everyone else/otherwise be ridiculed for it. My math professor likes to make fun of people who get answers wrong. Not cruelly, mind you--but it's still enough that not a lot of people want to volunteer to ask things.
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Oct 5, 2014 12:11
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Just had to pay $80 to access mymathlab. Pearson themselves wanted $118.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:20
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???? You're old enough to be their father yet lamenting that they're romantically taken, and somehow the person that finds that creepy is the one in the wrong? Sorry dude, you are the old creepy guy. Stop that poo poo.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:33
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Ahaha, gently caress me somehow I managed to skip algebra completely and just moved on to intermediate algebra from pre. No wonder I sucked so hard at it! Thanks, academic counselor lady!
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Feb 3, 2015 04:17
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Lamech posted:Pearson has talked my state higher ed institution into piloting a program where they, Pearson, provide canned, for credit, automated classes to the colleges in the system. I'm morbidly curious how this works. Is it like mastering*subject here* on steroids, or.....?
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Feb 14, 2015 04:34
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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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Mar 8, 2015 20:13
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Oh god, Blackboard is about to be more like Facebook. I can't decide if this is going to be excellent or terrible, but I'm leaning towards terrible.
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Mar 13, 2015 14:56
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Picnic Princess posted:I'm expected to get a textbook for some stupid mandatory sports and rec philosophy class that costs $250. Not doing it. You can make me take the course, but I'm not buying your dumb book. My math text is a special edition created just for the school, $150 and apparently the literal only reason to have it is that it's bundled with some kind of access code used to do the homework.
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Aug 31, 2015 05:05
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Yay more fun with Attendance Tracker! At least it was widespread this time tho, so the department had to sit up and take notice.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:42
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:If it's like the system the local state university uses, it's a global computerized attendance tracking program. Professors have to enter the daily class attendance into some bulky, slow-rear end program, which then generates reports on each student's overall attendance rate on a regular basis and warns advisors if the rate drops too low. Yeah, apparently the way it works is that each student in a class section is automatically marked absent by the software, and it's up to the professor to manually go in and mark the students present. Well, this past weekend there were no classes because of the holiday, so no one got marked present. As a result a ton of us were suddenly getting emails asking if we'd stopped attending and warning that we would have to pay back any financial aid we received.
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Sep 24, 2015 05:57
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BumikiIsFreaky posted:Our school has a "free speech area" that is also the quad. We get a ton of people that come down to pick fights with students. From the people that parade their children with horribly graphic abortion signs to the people that come to a college to tell women they are going to hell for seeking higher education. Just ignore them, it is the best thing you can do. I kind of wish there were some of those on my campus so I could get one of those little straw-things that let girls piss like guys, and just pee all over them.
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Oct 2, 2015 12:36
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please tell me it was a gay porn. or transgender-on-gay porn.
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Oct 3, 2015 00:20
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Hey Reslife, thanks a bunch for not cluing me in that I'd need to lease and furnish my own off-campus apartment until 2 months before classes! that's super-helpful!
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