Coffee And Pie posted:

gently caress papers. I can't go a week without writing a goddamn essay about some bullshit.

A White Guy posted:

College.txt

I'm not smart. I'm a raging idiot who can't stop himself from answering questions in class.

_{especially since I'm taking the class again}

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"

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.

Besesoth posted:

chemosh6969 posted:

If you're pregnant and get offended when a medical facility asks if you're pregnant, you seriously need to grow the gently caress up. It's time to start taking into account that you have a thing growing inside your loving beer gut and learn some responsibility. We don't need some deformed offspring walking the streets at night, mangling people, just because you lied to a doctor and took medicine that changed a normal kid into the monster from It's Alive.

Steampunk iPhone posted:

I guess I thought it was more widespread than it was... maybe it's just a thing at my school. People take a Gatorade bottle or one of those water bottles with the squeeze top and try to spray your rear end with the drink when you're not looking.

Hipster Occultist posted:

Jesus H Christ, 4 loving grand for one semester?

Cythereal posted:

You are not special, and you do not get the grade that you deserve. You get the grade that you earn.

chemosh6969 posted:

They don't have the right of way when they're crossing on a Don't Walk light at a crosswalk. A few years back the cops did a sting and got a ton of students. All of them interviewed by the newspaper were complaining because they're safer than cars and shouldn't have to wait if it's clear. I'm sure they say differently about a car at a red light. "Golly gee, it was clear so why should I get a ticket?"

The sting happened because students were jaywalking and getting run over at the time. Not just regular jaywalking but the extra stupid kind where you don't look and are either talking on a phone or have headphones on and are listening to music and then just decide to step onto the road.

A White Guy posted:

Let me tell you what the evaluation will find: "Need moar bandwidth".

But that's what happens when the campus hasn't upgraded their pipe since the early 2000s.

Cythereal posted:

To be fair to the IT guys, students and professors alike can be really, really loving stupid about computers and IT stuff on campus. Not that they're always faultless, but anyone who's worked in IT can confirm that some people have difficulty with ideas such as "Your computer isn't broken, just turn on the monitor" and it goes downhill from there.

Skinny King Pimp posted:

You managed 6 instances of "apparently" in 4 bullet points. Gonna go ahead and complain about the lax standards in freshman writing courses.

canyoneer posted:

Why would you sabotage your peers? Grading on a curve?

Dusty Baker 2 posted:

I was getting harassed pretty extensively last month by people I thought were my friends, and in the interest of my own mental health I decided to take time away from social media. I took my Facebook down for about a week and tried just chilling and reading, but I was only an hour or two into that when the campus police showed up at my apartment. My friend had seen my Facebook disappear and thought I'd killed myself, so she called the cops. Not mad at her, she was just worried.

I'm being brought up on conduct violation charges now (The policy is "Other") in response to being reported as suicidal. Last Spring I actually made an attempt on my own life and was expelled from my former school for it (I had already left the school/withdrawn/lived 200 miles away, but they still held a conduct meeting without me and charged me).

My complaint? gently caress the higher education system's "attempt" at giving a gently caress about students and their wellbeing. I live in Washington state, which is supposed to be more progressive than others in this realm, but apparently you're still a problem to schools if you're suicidal.

Finisher1 posted:

Whatever merit there is in what this guy is saying is completely squandered by how much of a condescending shitheel he comes off as. Some random kid forgot to plug in his ethernet cable and thought his internet wasn't working? Millenials don't know how to use computers

How Rude posted:

why aren't there laws or something protecting the interests of the students or whatever. it feels like i'm burning money every time the next semester's bill is ready to be paid with all the extra course fees and textbooks on top of my tuition

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Hey, if only one blew off his or her part, you got pretty lucky. Here's who could've been in your group:

Ras-Trent: No project work from this guy because he's always stoned. Wears the same foul-smelling Grateful Dead hemp hoodie every single day. Shows up to class late, if at all. Never bothered buying the textbook.

Sergeant Important: In ROTC, and can't come to class or participate in projects because he always "has drill that day." Thinks he's better than everyone else and has no problem butting into conversations to say so.

MegaMom: Didn't complete her project portion because WELL UNLIKE YOU GUYS I'M A FULL-TIME STUDENT AND A FULL-TIME MOM, I HAVE FOUR KIDS TO RAISE, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE THE POWERPOINT BECAUSE RICKY HAS COLIC AND I HAD TO TAKE JESSICA TO THE ORTHODONTIST TO HAVE HER BRACES ADJUSTED AND YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE KIDS

The CEO: Didn't bring his project work to the meeting because "it's on his other laptop." Wears an ill-fitting Burlington Coat Factory suit to class, and carries a briefcase for some reason. Wants everyone to think he's smart, handsome, rich, and on the fast-track to corporate management. If you do finally get his portion of the project from him, it'll all be totally wrong and essentially useless, and he'll laugh it off, saying "oh ha ha, I was preoccupied with 'other projects' when I did that."

ALL-STAR PRO: Full ride sports scholarship. When he isn't at practice or hung over, he will actually try, because Coach said he had to pass this class. He can nail a free throw in front of thousands of screaming fans, but you'll never see that Excel graph he volunteered to make. He'll be lucky to even get the computer turned on.

Brosef Fratman: SPRING BREAK!

New Socrates: One semester of introductory philosophy courses awakened something in this kid, and now every little thing requires a deep discussion and tons of reflection. He or she agreed to write the abstract for your project, but it's six pages long and peppered with references to pre-socratic philosophical thought and political theory.

Taciturn Tina: Never speaks. Sits in the back of the room and stares blankly into space when called on by the professor. When everybody was volunteering for parts of the project to complete, she didn't speak up, and nobody noticed. Halfway through the semester she stops showing up to group meetings and nobody cares. When filling out group evaluations, you all write "Who was this?" next to her name.

Yokel Townie: Sixty-seven years old and in his sophomore year of undergraduate school. Does nothing in group meetings but chat with MegaMom about what it's like to have kids.

How Rude posted:

I get these a lot. There are so many students that just sit there and stare and don't say anything. You can even ask them to contribute or say "What do you think Tina?" and they just....stare. Maybe they say a word or two then breathe in and sigh and then it's back to staring. Either that or they are checking Facebook/Vine/Pinterest for the 50 billionth time.

They probably aren't going to get through college if their ability to collaborate is that non-existant are going to get through college because there are people carrying them through the course

in other words gently caress group work, it just stresses out the students that actually care about doing well and automatically passes the students that don't do poo poo

Hummingbirds posted:

The anti-abortion truck is on campus today, distracting drivers with its graphic fetus picture wraps.

Oh and one of my professors was late today. He apologized and said it was because he was feeling sore after being hit by a car last night. It was a student on her cell phone, she hit him while he was in a crosswalk and knocked him out of his shoes.

Ms Boods posted:

I'm at an academic conference at the moment. Student presentations are nothing compared to some of the lovely presentations their professors give at these things. There needs to be a conference paper/presentation Bingo card, too

*Reads a wall of text off PPTs

*Meaningless, unexplained illustrations on PPTs

*Low-res images on the PPTs that when blown up to the size of the screen in the auditorium look like those 90s Magic Eye pictures. i spent a good five minutes squinting at one trying to figure out if I were meant to be looking at a butterfly or something

*People who are so buried in their obscure research topics that no one has a clue what in the hell their presentation is on

*People who do not know their audience: there are a number of independent scholars here this week, and while some are quite good, there are people who are lecturing at a junior high school level. You don't have to tell a group of professional medievalists that restaurants such as Medieval Times are NOT what it was actually like in the Middle Ages (I heard about this paper from one of my colleagues this afternoon).

*People who read/mutter straight off their paper, making no eye contact at all with the audience

*People who do not loving rehearse, leading to:
--fumbling and stumbling through their papers
--papers that run WAY over time -- you've got 20 minutes, be finished in 20 minutes. I had to race through my paper (which had been rehearsed and timed to hit the 20 minute mark) because the numpty ahead of me took 35 minutes
--moderators who are too polite to tell over running speakers to arse-grab some seat

I'm sure there's more, but I got to see all of these in today's panels alone.
Rookie mistakes from grad students are one thing (and their supervisors should have had them better prepared), but I can't imagine what some of these people must be like in the classroom week after week.

OniPanda posted:

Then we go to orientation and register for classes. This is after all current students registered of course. Every class I need to take is already waitlisted, including the gatekeeper course for electrical engineering. They were adamant they would get us in, and we eventually did, but I was freakin out because my school has already been delayed and I want to get this done.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

This is passive-aggressive as gently caress and I love it

Dr_Amazing posted:

I wish professors would stop trying to inspire us by reading email forwards from the late 90s. I don't know how many times I've had to sit through the one about pouring sand and gold balls into a big jar.

OniPanda posted:

Yeah, I used to be all "imperial is fine" until I started having to do physics and then further into engineering classes. Now I'm all on the for using metric for calculations. If you want imperial units, convert after

ToxicSlurpee posted:

For some inexplicable reason finding out that your teachers and professors are actually human is a profound shock.