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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

I thought my university was bad for taking 1½ months to grade papers.

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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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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.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Super Waffle posted:

Best thing that ever happened to me as an engineer was when my calculator broke in junior year and I was too cheap to buy a new one. I was amazed at how much of a crutch it was.

I had a working but obsolete calculator during my starting years of university, and compared to my fellow students I appeared to be a god of simple maths.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
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While an argument about autoplagiarism is interesting in itself I'm more interested in two different courses that have assignments so similar it's A Thing.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Since you're paying for it I'd say it's all your business.

In socialist Denmark and it's the state who's paying it's another can of worms altogether.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I think we can all agree that business students are dicks.

What puzzles me is what makes med students in assholes in america but pleasant people in Scandinavia.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Having course evaluation before a course has ended is for lack of a better term rear end backwards.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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achillesforever6 posted:

Woo got a B in Physics II lecture even though I bombed horribly on my final! Huzzah for curving :woop:

While it's nice and all that you passed I get the feeling that grade curving is a terrible idea as opposed to straight percentage grades.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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That sounds to me like a terrible workaround for a not very well laid out course. If I understand this system correctly, a long shot, you could have a class where everyone is graded the same letter grade based on everyone being terrible.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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A White Guy posted:

How the hell do I go to a school where even though there's more girls than men, everyone has a boyfriend? :sigh:

That's probably my only complaint about this place, everything else owns bones. Gonna go rockclimbing here in a bit :toot:

I'm at a university that has somewhere in the realm of a 70/30 m/f split and it's the same story here. The pattern, however, seems to be that the nice, well adjusted women have boyfriends and get them quickly, while the crazier ones don't.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I have only ever heard of it in reference to a goon working in an office in Japan.

Also depending on the aerosol in question a mask might not do anything but look funny.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

But it certainly is something that can be left to a program to complete.

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Apr 5, 2006

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Cythereal posted:

You're a random schmuck. The biology and chemistry departments at the university where I work got together last year to get t-shirts for all the professors and TAs that read "Saving lives, one failed pre-med at a time."

Wouldn't labeling yourself a pre-med just paint a big fat target on you?

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