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Requiring first-year students to have $1,200 per semester meal plan and then serving them offal is really loving lovely. So glad I can buy my own groceries now. http://www.usforacle.com/food-for-thought-1.2818638  Also, saying "I don't take attendance, you don't have to come to class if you don't want to" and then having a quiz or a paper required to be turned in in person every single class is dishonest, you gently caress. I hate my university.
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memy posted:I got up before sunrise today to register for next semester. Half the classes I needed for my major filled up within seconds anyway. Might as well have stayed in bed. I'm sure you already know this but there will be openings as people adjust their schedules, most likely.
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Oct 31, 2013 16:13
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My undergrad ethics teacher wants us to write a total of 3750 words for our two hour final. Ignoring the content completely, I don't even think I can physically write that much in that span of time. By the way, 3750 words is 2.5 times the length of the term paper we had to do.
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Dec 10, 2013 20:43
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One of my professors wrote the textbook for the course, which isn't unusual. However, the book is out of print and is $300 everywhere I've seen it. The punchline is that the class is online and only has two test grades (and an optional final) making up the entirety of the course. Obviously I'll drop the class rather that buy this gently caress's book if I absolutely can't muddle through without it.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:37
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Oh god gently caress mathXL.
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Jan 30, 2014 01:13
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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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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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Hell when it's cold out I unironically look homeless when I can muster up the willpower to go to class. In Florida no one really has winter coats so I just wear a few huge-rear end sweaters. I can't judge people for trying to be comfortable during a lovely class where they don't even want to be.
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Feb 19, 2014 04:02
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The academic scholarship I received two years ago is now worth $4000 more  I know this is a huge first world problem but for some reason I'm really mad about it.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:03
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Now that I think about it, for all the flak it got from students for being a "stupid community college," the CC I went to during my senior year of high school was a lot more accommodating than the university I go to now.
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Feb 21, 2014 16:50
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A friend of mine goes to a different school than me and she's had several lectures where there's three times the students than seats in the lecture hall. They're expected to watch the lectures online if they can't get seats, the videos of which play at about 6 fps.
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Feb 22, 2014 05:17
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When I was a freshman and had to have a meal plan, I made it a point to steal produce (that was sitting around as decorations) every time I went in the meal hall. Once I managed to get an entire pineapple. gently caress meal plans forever, and gently caress Aramark.
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Feb 27, 2014 16:57
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Kavak posted:I may be the only person alive who likes their university's dining hall food. Then again I have very low standards and may be a human garbage can. The food at mine wasn't slop (usually; see my first post in this thread) it was just unhealthy and extremely overpriced for what it was. I could have eaten a hell of a lot better for the money I was forced to spend on a meal plan. E: however, the fallback dish for when they ran out of ingredients/didn't know what else to make that day was half an English muffin with a scoop of tuna fish and a Kraft slice on top, broiled.
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Feb 27, 2014 19:00
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Grape Juice Vampire posted:And for gently caress's sake chew with your mouth closed if you're going to noisily eat grapes and nuts all through class. A girl in one of my classes ate an orange in class the other day while she surfed Facebook on her MacBook with the two fingers that didn't have orange juice on them.
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Mar 6, 2014 14:42
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Shuffle posted:please tell me she at least threw the peel in the garbage and didn't just chuck it on the floor, like I saw someone do the otherday in my art history lecture, they did it during the slides and since it was dark they thought no one would notice. Probably, but that's not saying much as she was sitting next to the trash can. Today she's eating chips. crunch
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When I lived in a dorm, I shared a room with a girl and our bathroom was shared with another pair of girls in the adjacent room. One weekend, my roommate and I both went home and when we returned, there was a massive poo poo in the toilet. We knew it was one of our suite mates so we went all passive aggressive on them and left a note saying to please flush the loving toilet. We went downstairs to use the bathroom for two days until one of the other girls finally flushed the goddamn toilet. One or both of them also left used pads unwrapped in the trash can. That's my college bathroom story. Living in a dorm sucked.
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kazil posted:Wait you left a turd in the toilet for two days to passive-aggressively nag someone into flushing a toilet? I hope you know no one in that story comes away a winner. Without leaving the poo poo in the toilet there was no consequence for whoever didn't loving flush. Still don't know which girl it was, but because of the note she knew we knew that like an infant, she apparently couldn't use the toilet correctly. This incident happened after a weekend where my roommate and I got back to the dorm and the toilet was clogged and neither of the suite mates had contacted maintenance about it. They seemed to have a policy of "ignore it and it goes away." The point is, I'm not ashamed of how my roommate and I handled it.
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Mar 10, 2014 17:36
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karl fungus posted:One of my strangest dorm memories was when a crew of frat boys stopped by our residence hall to clog up all the toilets on a weekend, making the bathroom flood with the combined water of six toilets. Unable to find anyone that could help, I wrapped several plastic bags around one arm and went through each toilet unclogging them manually. Thankfully they were all just clogged with huge wads of paper, not anything gross. People used to punch out the lightbulbs in the elevators at my dorm. Honors students are the loving worst to live with because they were sheltered at home and suddenly have a bunch of freedom that they can't handle. Once someone even peed in the elevator. That was gross.
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Mar 10, 2014 22:05
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The year I lived on campus, one of the apartment style dorm buildings next to my building flooded when the sprinklers erroneously went off during the night. A bunch of my friends lost their computers and various other expensive items due to water damage, and when they went to the administration, they were told it wasn't the school's problem and that they should've had renter's insurance. Which yeah, I suppose they should have, but most 18-year-olds have no idea that exists, so they were poo poo out of luck.
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Mar 10, 2014 23:30
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I was always the high-scoring student in those intentionally mismatched groups and I hated it. I could kill teachers that create groups that way. Just because I am smart doesn't mean I have the skills to teach someone something they didn't understand the first time the professor tried to teach them. E: might have underexplained there, what I mean is that as the high-scorer I usually had to guide my group mate through the lesson and/or assignment
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Mar 28, 2014 19:00
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HonorableTB posted:The Rocky Horror film showings (plus accompanying rice throwing and costumes and all) has been a thing for the better part of 30 years at least. My mother was doing the same thing when she lived in Atlanta in the 80s. It's just a quirky thing that people do, and it IS fun. I never particularly liked the movie but I enjoyed getting together with a bunch of people in costume who were having a good time singing and drinking. Some of the dances from the movie are pretty fun as well! I was a history major, for the record, not a theatre/fine arts student. I'm the opposite, I love the movie/music but the one time I went to a show the audience was so horrific that I'm scared to ever go again. I am a STEM major for demographics purposes 
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A White Guy posted:I have a philsophy class as part of my science major. I had to sit in class today and watch a video where some woman (who's apparently written some philosophical poo poo on the environment) talked about how if we just lived with 'natural' things, everything would be better. While she was wearing a polyester windbreaker. I agree with you; I had to take an environmental ethics class for my degree and the teacher was so loving pretentious despite being an adjunct not much older than most of his students. The basic premise of the class was that we were supposed to learn that animals have an intrinsic worth equal to that of humans (and other, lesser animals) so one should act accordingly. My problem was that you can argue about the sanctity of the lives of food animals all you want, but if you are inside a classroom feeling good about your ethical superiority rather than lobbying against factory farms, you aren't helping poo poo. I don't even think the guy was a vegetarian since he seemed to take it personally when I suggested that cutting meat out of one's diet for one day a week doesn't help reduce demand for meat (or eggs or dairy) on any sort of appreciable scale. By the way, I'm not a vegetarian, just pragmatic. Tl dr I do not like philosophy classes. Or philosophy professors.
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One of mine is scheduled for several days after the term ends. I'm not sure how that's allowed.
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I hate when people giving presentations have unusual verbal pauses. I don't notice "um" or "so" but I'm watching a girl give a presentation who's chosen verbal pause is "of course." It's incredibly distracting.
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I see this one brony every time I am walking to my morning class. I know he's a brony because he is always wearing a pony shirt. He also always wears a green and white striped bucket hat, which, although it does not have the same connotations, looks just as bad as a fedora.
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Speaking of GPAs, I loving hate the plus/minus system. If you can get less than a 4.0 with an A-, you should be able to get more than a 4.0 with an A+. It's fundamentally unbalanced. I don't think I've ever had a plus/minus grade that actually helped my GPA, just hurt it. edit: I got an A+ in one of my online classes this semester, so I'm even more pissed off at the stupid system than usual Hummingbirds has a new favorite as of 05:02 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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I had this online class that I just finished yesterday and while the teacher was ridiculously out of touch and the book he wrote/required us to use (for a science class that included modules about DNA and evolution) was from 1998, he didn't use +/-, so I got a 90% and will receive a 4.0 for that class. No good reason to use +/-. Any B plus I've gotten has been made null by the A minuses I've received.
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Two weeks ago Me: Hey professor your syllabus says that the date of the final is May 6th which is after the term ends. Is that right? Him: Yep that's right Yesterday Him: Hey class I just realized there is a typo in the syllabus, your final is actually three days from now, not May 6th. At least it's an optional final. loving idiot.
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Apr 28, 2014 15:17
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Lottery of Babylon posted:My high school gave how GPAs greater than 5 on what was nominally the 4-point scale. We're already there. I went to the local community college during my senior year, and tons of people also did dual enrollment there. If you got an A in a cc class, that was a 5.0 on your high school GPA. I don't think that's unreasonable. In fact, the academic scholarship I received from my university required a 4.3 high school GPA. That said, how did people at your school get greater than a 5.0?
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Apr 29, 2014 14:01
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Not a complaint: finished my last final this morning. Summer 
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A White Guy posted:Find someone who has adderall. Eat every caffiene pill you can find. Don't sleep. Hallucinate while doing proposal. Get A+. Good luck and god speed, brave soldier. Yeah, Beastie, you're already on something awful when you should be writing, some adderall would do you a world of good.
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Adderall always made me decide to skip class and chainsmoke if I took it on a regular day, but if I actually had something to write or whatever, it was a loving godsend. Congrats on being halfway done though, dude.
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May 8, 2014 04:47
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Irradiation posted:Didn't stop someone down the hall from me my freshmen year. Some friends of mine kept a couple gerbils in a trashcan when they lived in a dorm.
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Vegetable posted:I also don't get the point of classes where everybody is "meant" to fail. If you get 50% on a class you clearly haven't demonstrated mastery of its content. Curving your grade to an A doesn't change that. It especially isn't very meaningful if that class is supposed to ground you for higher-level stuff. In my chem 1 class a passing grade (C-) was a 56%.
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May 14, 2014 15:37
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Got an online teacher who requires us to submit our assignments on the day they're due. Obviously I can understand not posting late, but why not early? It seems to miss the point of an online class. He also happens to look like the dollfucker Davecat. I know this because he included a short biography in our syllabus.
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May 27, 2014 15:49
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I have to watch a Roman Polanski movie for a literature class. (???) Great, I love things that sprang from the mind of convicted pedophile rapists. Oh wait, sorry, not convicted, because he fled the country the day before his sentencing and doesn't go places that might extradite him to the US.
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Last year I saw someone in a heavy traffic student lot who had double-parked and then left their car for weeks. The last time I remembered to look, they had five sun-bleached tickets on their windshield. Edit for complaint: Today I was supposed to start a three hour long evening class, and the professor neglected to put the syllabus up until this morning. It's obvious why: despite the class only fulfilling an elective credit, she deducts a full letter grade for each absence after the first, has a TA patrol the classroom and dock points if you are using an electronic device, takes attendance at the start of class and after the break, and requires 20 volunteer hours with a political group. I've never dropped a class so quickly. gently caress that bullshit, I'm a loving adult and don't need to be micromanaged. Hummingbirds has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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I agree. I have one right now that I could seriously finish in two or three days but I can only access one quiz/test a week.
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chemosh6969 posted:If you're good enough to learn it in a few days, you just do some equivalency test instead and not take the class. That would sort of defeat the purpose of taking a bullshit class to bring me up to full time while I focus on three harder classes  It's easy because the class is just some multiple choice quizzes and tests with questions taken directly from the book. If I were to do it in a few days I wouldn't actually learn the material, but I'm probably not going to learn it anyway, because it's an elective that has nothing to do with my major.
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Simply Simon posted:Classes in school were all starting at 8:00 AM for every pupil every day from first to thirteenth grade in Germany, then for my Chemistry education at University every course was mandatory and starting at 8:00 AM, too. As I moved from country (during my school days) to the city (for Uni), I could actually sleep an hour longer in Uni. I have no idea how some of you might have survived in our socialist wasteland of Europe. I think everyone had to wake up early for school when they were children. Happily, children have a much easier time waking up early. When I was in middle school (ages 12-14) I could live on four hours of sleep and be perfectly functional. Now I need nine to not wake up feeling half-dead. Plus there's a difference between going to grade school and learning how to do long division, and going to a calc class at 7:30 and trying to learn that. I'd argue that many jobs are less mentally strenuous than the classes that tend to be scheduled ungodly early, as well. Hummingbirds has a new favorite as of 15:17 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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