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I'm taking a break from writing a paper that's due tomorrow morning to tell the story of the most uncomfortable moment in my college career so far. It was a few weeks ago, during a federal holiday where public schools had off but we didn't. My professor, a woman in her 30s-40s, had brought in her two kids, a boy and girl around 8 years old. They weren't really bothering us, they were out in the hall coloring or anything, so I didn't care. I should mention, this was one of those once a week, 3 hours with a break halfway through, and it was lunchtime so I was running out to grab some food. I was just on my way out the door when my professor pulls me aside, and tells me that her son has been in the bathroom for a long time, she thought he had food poisoning, and that she wanted me to go in and check on him since I was the only boy in her class. And this wasn't a even a normal public bathroom with stalls and stuff, this was one of the ones that's just a toilet and a sink. So like any sane person, I tell her no, and that I'm not comfortable with that, then went off to get my lunch. On my way back, I pass the professer in the hall and she tells me "sorry to have bothered you" in a tone that strongly suggested that I was being the unreasonable one. This was also the professor who routinely gave me poo poo for going to the bathroom during class, and would mark people absent for being 30 minutes late.
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Dec 10, 2013 18:50
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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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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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I have a professor who spends basically every class saying weird sexist stuff, complaining about Obama, and repeating the same few stories verbatim. I would drop the class but it's an easy a, so...
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Feb 11, 2014 19:38
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College students have a uniform now, didn't you hear? Guys: Baggy light-wash jeans, black North Face fleece, ugly running shoes Girls: Black yoga pants, colorful North Face fleece, tan uggs Sometimes I feel too dressed up in a button-down and cardigan.
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Feb 11, 2014 23:32
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I see skinny people wearing sweats/pajamas, I think people just don't care. In all honesty, I'm getting close to that point myself.
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Feb 18, 2014 20:25
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I went to the bathroom the other day, and the stall door would not shut, I had to hold it closed with one hand. Whatever genius installed the latch didn't bother to align the two pieces, apparently.
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Feb 20, 2014 19:35
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I commute to school, which means after class I walk to the train station and during the winter I wait for the train in the little heated vestibule thing. The other day, I get to the vestibule and there are a bunch of guys hotboxing the thing. So now my options are to wait in the cold or get vaguely high and reek like weed all day. gently caress those guys.
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Mar 2, 2014 20:50
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Picnic Princess posted:My prof likes Doge. She made a powerpoint slide about "The influence of Doge". OMFG. Wow. Also, various student advisors: get your poo poo together and figure out if I need English 400 to graduate! Seriously, I'm putting together my schedule for my last two semesters tomorrow, what the gently caress?
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Mar 5, 2014 00:45
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This is bullshit, if I miss more than two classes it's an instant fail. Each class only meets once a week, so there are fewer classes, but still.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:37
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I had a professor call me out today because I had dared to get up to go to the bathroom during a 3-hour class. Then later, he used me as an example while lecturing us on how we were being disrespectful.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:53
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I've only got like 1 class that's not 70% personal digressions from the professor (anything from rules to movies to politics), I just want to get this over with, why must it be dragged out?
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Apr 8, 2014 16:59
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Picnic Princess posted:So remember that class I took with the pony on the course outline? I just got this in my e-mail. Do dickbutt.
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Apr 8, 2014 19:04
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There were a few weeks where the wiki page for my school claimed that 1% of the students were actual talking dogs who could drive cars.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:23
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Justin Godscock posted:It really depends if That Guy is in your class, I found. The last three years have really whittled down my ability to cope with That Guys. Like to the point where it's entirely possible I will throttle one of them.
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Apr 16, 2014 02:46
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Well, I have a final in a few hours that's just two in-class essays worth about 25% of my grade, because my professor is a dickhead who doesn't assign any graded work during the semester. He also pronounces it "re-NAY-sance" like loving Ted Mosby. Oh, and he pronounces ouija board as "wee-ya." It's unbelievably pretentious.
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May 7, 2014 13:37
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A White Guy posted:Also, yes, mandatory attendance is stupid. I'm an adult. I pay for college, I work in my offtime to feed and clothe myself. If I don't want to come to class, that's what I loving want to do, and gently caress you for treating me like I'm still in high school. Wait until you get a professor who throws a hissyfit every time someone leaves to use the bathroom because it "distracts the class."
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Sep 17, 2014 22:59
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I've come to passionately hate fat white guys with beards. Why do you keep talking in class? Nobody cares. Be quiet.
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Sep 30, 2014 16:32
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gently caress papers. I can't go a week without writing a goddamn essay about some bullshit.
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Oct 2, 2014 01:23
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Cythereal posted:It would be even more beneficial for students to learn to write better papers. It's kinda hard to write a good paper when you're literally given a sentence-by-sentence outline that you can't deviate from. Thankfully, good paper =/= good grade.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:01
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Cythereal posted:Call me paranoid but I'm getting more than a slight whiff of bullshit. It's not that I'm having trouble with papers, it's just that I'm in some kind of perfect essay storm of different classes and different topics. Last week it was about Victorian poems and Time Magazine, now it's about deaf culture, next week it's Latin American short stories. I'm an English major, so I'm used to a lot of reading/writing, but I'm starting to get a little burned out. A White Guy posted:Give me a 5 paged annotated bibliography for that. Stab me in the goddamn heart.
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