The University Thread

[Team THRT Drift]

ahh lazy professors, they piss me off to no end.

I also hate those who like to get into your minds. They turn fun subjects into massive headaches.

Ah yes. I don't mind them, becuase I understand why they do it, but my lazy calc prof.... oh god..



All the calc profs I've had so far, either can't speak English properly, or can, but can't be arsed to teach.


"The grades, are, well as usual, disappointing."

Well why don't you do something? Acknowledge what most students missed on the test and go over it. Don't be so condascending.

 

[Omnis]

well im screwed then

Take physics or some other applied math while you take math. I sucked at math but did pretty well when I had to apply it. The reason being that it will be pretty obvious when you screw up. Working with units is especially helpful in this regard.

Math is too numbery. I've always had trouble with numbers for the sake of numbers. Calculus was mystifying until I learned how you can apply it to getting the most pizza per dollar.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Ugh!! I hate this! When will I ever need to use this in my life!!!!

Calculus was mystifying until I learned how you can apply it to getting the most pizza per dollar.

*ding*

 

[uMadson?]

Ah yes. I don't mind them, becuase I understand why they do it, but my lazy calc prof.... oh god..



All the calc profs I've had so far, either can't speak English properly, or can, but can't be arsed to teach.


"The grades, are, well as usual, disappointing."

Well why don't you do something? Acknowledge what most students missed on the test and go over it. Don't be so condascending.

I don't understand them though. I prefer to have a fun learning environment and tension and anxiety before and during exam day is the last thing I want to have. I did study before the day comes but really...

Oh and I also know that feel about lazy calc profs. Mine just gives us 100 item homework and expects us to learn by completing everything. And then exam day comes and pretty much the entire class, me included, has to cheat just for a decent score.

Of course it's the individual's fault if he cheats but if the entire class cheats then obviously something is wrong...

 

[Grandea GTR]

I don't understand them though. I prefer to have a fun learning environment and tension and anxiety before and during exam day is the last thing I want to have. I did study before the day comes but really...

Oh and I also know that feel about lazy calc profs. Mine just gives us 100 item homework and expects us to learn by completing everything. And then exam day comes and pretty much the entire class, me included, has to cheat just for a decent score.

Of course it's the individual's fault if he cheats but if the entire class cheats then obviously something is wrong...

My history class in a nutshell.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

I understand that they try to engage you in the course and make you actually think instead of goofing off.

This is something good for physics, or chem, or bio... but something like History or Philosophy shouldn't have a strenuous workload.

My history class in a nutshell.

Did he fix the grade?

 

[Team THRT Drift]

oops.

 

[Omnis]

Don't be a god damn cheater. Seriously. I hate you.

My calculus professor was awesome. He was hard as hell but actually wound up one of my good friends. I was going to drop his class, but I got through it with a B.

Don't cheat. Work hard and get through it. It's only a few months of your life.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Did he fix the grade?

Nope!

Don't be a god damn cheater. Seriously. I hate you.

My calculus professor was awesome. He was hard as hell but actually wound up one of my good friends. I was going to drop his class, but I got through it with a B.

Don't cheat. Work hard and get through it. It's only a few months of your life.

Cheaters never prosper.

 

[uMadson?]

tbh between cheating and failure, I'd rather cheat. I know cheating is bad but

1. The entire class does it.
2. The lecturer can't teach for ****.
3. I'm broke and I can't afford to fail. Failing a subject = I'll have to pay up again.

Ever heard of the word "survival"?

Cheaters never prosper.

How come I hear stories of people still having a nice and useful career despite cheating in ingenious ways? I'll have you know that some of those stories even came from, of all people, my dean.

Hell my aunt and her husband weren't achievers but they're now working on a condo building or whatever it is in Malaysia. High class too.

Hard work is a lie.

 

[Grandea GTR]

How come I hear stories of people still having a nice and useful career despite cheating in ingenious ways?

Hell my aunt and her husband weren't achievers but they're now working on a condo building or whatever it is in Malaysia. High class too.

Hard work is a lie.

Meh. I dunno, that was a quote taken from someone sometime ago. Morally, I find cheating to not be the way to go (admittedly, I have done it few times in some classes). If I were to cheat, I would've passed my History class, in green.

But instead I didn't, ended up failing, studying as much as I could, only to find out that the exam has completely different material from what we were told to study.

Well shucks. Oh well.

 

[Omnis]

tbh between cheating and failure, I'd rather cheat. I know cheating is bad but

1. The entire class does it.
2. The lecturer can't teach for ****.
3. I'm broke and I can't afford to fail. Failing a subject = I'll have to pay up again.

Ever heard of the word "survival"?



How come I hear stories of people still having a nice and useful career despite cheating in ingenious ways? I'll have you know that some of those stories even came from, of all people, my dean.

Hell my aunt and her husband weren't achievers but they're now working on a condo building or whatever it is in Malaysia. High class too.

Hard work is a lie.

Character reference.

 

[Crash]

Seriously? College and university doesn't spoon feed you learning material because it's "higher education." It's optional. You are there because you choose to. The initiative is on you to get the most out of that opportunity to learn and purse the education and field that you want to be in. University students (well, vast majority of them anyway) are adults; take responsibility for your own future rather than waiting for someone to hand it to you on a silver platter.

If you don't want to be at university, then fine, don't. Quit. Plenty of people don't have university degrees or educations. If you want that education, then just like everything else in life that you want, you have to work for it.

Just don't go around complaining later that "you can't achieve your dreams" or whatever because you didn't want to put in the work that others were putting in to get through university to educate, to further, and to better themselves.

 

[phillgt2002]

Its turned from higher education to who can get the degree that makes the most money. It's known today, people aren't going to college to learn more about what they love most of the time.

I'm not really happy about the things I've done so far in college, but I did learn more than those who stuck with simply their diploma and skipped college.

 

[True-blue-8]

Hi guys.

In September i'll be studying for my English degree at Cardiff. However during this time i'll still be living at home. I'm currently trying to process my student finance application and was wondering is it worth applying for a maintenance loan if i'll be receiving a grant?

 

[phillgt2002]

If the grant doesn't cover all of the expenses of your classes, sure, take out a loan, but understand that there unsubsidized and subsidized loans. Though I forgot which one charges interest, all I know is that its one of those. Just be smart and take out as little money as you can.

As an extension to what I said above -----------

I'm not letting college decide what I want to do for a living. While it does provide credibility, in my major, what matters after graduation is the stuff that you put out and the things that you have done.

Mentally, school takes a toll on the students. Many of the people who I spoke to who have finished college said that it was one of the more stressful parts of their life. I don't know.. Whenever I speak to other students about college, I tell them that I just don't worry about it at the end of the day. Severe failure is only possible when you stop trying to do something you want to do.

Just because you haven't done good doing Gen Ed in school doesn't mean that your life is over.

Another thing is that people treat college like a track & field race.... It's a process as learning is a process too. I wish I started off as a part time student. My first year of college, I got severely depressed because I couldn't find time to figure myself out. Now that I've stopped worrying about it so much, I've found space to stop and think about things, the best thing you could do.

 

[Lizard]

Hi guys.

In September i'll be studying for my English degree at Cardiff. However during this time i'll still be living at home. I'm currently trying to process my student finance application and was wondering is it worth applying for a maintenance loan if i'll be receiving a grant?

Depends. What are you going to be paying for and how much?

And don't worry about the above. There are no subsidised loans unless you get a scholarship. Our system is different to the US one.

 

[True-blue-8]

If the grant doesn't cover all of the expenses of your classes, sure, take out a loan, but understand that there unsubsidized and subsidized loans. Though I forgot which one charges interest, all I know is that its one of those. Just be smart and take out as little money as you can.

As an extension to what I said above -----------

I'm not letting college decide what I want to do for a living. While it does provide credibility, in my major, what matters after graduation is the stuff that you put out and the things that you have done.

Mentally, school takes a toll on the students. Many of the people who I spoke to who have finished college said that it was one of the more stressful parts of their life. I don't know.. Whenever I speak to other students about college, I tell them that I just don't worry about it at the end of the day. Severe failure is only possible when you stop trying to do something you want to do.

Just because you haven't done good doing Gen Ed in school doesn't mean that your life is over.

Another thing is that people treat college like a track & field race.... It's a process as learning is a process too. I wish I started off as a part time student. My first year of college, I got severely depressed because I couldn't find time to figure myself out. Now that I've stopped worrying about it so much, I've found space to stop and think about things, the best thing you could do.

Depends. What are you going to be paying for and how much?

And don't worry about the above. There are no subsidised loans unless you get a scholarship. Our system is different to the US one.

Thanks guys

The course is £9000 at the moment, which I can get that covered. I can apply for a grant which I won't need to pay back. But the maintenance loan, the majority of the money will be for travel, but any extra I can get to help support the family would be great, but at only £1000 is it really not worth it?

 

[F1GTR]

Take the maintenance loan and stick it in a savings account. Use it in case of emergency. That's assuming you're taking out a government loan (which have really lenient repayment terms).

Re: Cheating. I used to cheat all the time, what I did was I used this book that covered the whole module (I think they're called textbooks?) and memorised the main points and principles after each lecture. Usually rewrote them in my own hand to help with the memorisation. I'd often did it with other people on my course. Like @uMadson?'s class, we were all in on it. I never got caught.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Its turned from higher education to who can get the degree that makes the most money. It's known today, people aren't going to college to learn more about what they love most of the time.

I'm not really happy about the things I've done so far in college, but I did learn more than those who stuck with simply their diploma and skipped college.

It has mainly gone from "follow your dreams" to "get the most money possible" for most people. I originally went for Nursing just for the money, but then finally snapped out of it and followed what I wanted to do this semester, by switching majors to Mechanical Engineering.

 

[phillgt2002]

Depends. What are you going to be paying for and how much?

And don't worry about the above. There are no subsidised loans unless you get a scholarship. Our system is different to the US one.

Oops, I didn't pay attention to location.

 

[Swagger897]

So I'm seriously sitting here schooling my accounting instructor on why I'm right and she's wrong....

I just did an assignment which was completed online and I have all the right answers. I just had to tell her step-by-step of what I did and what she's doing wrong... still waiting.....

It's been 40 minutes since class has been over and I haven't gotten my 100 yet..


and in other news:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/pf/college/ivy-league-low-income-students/index.html

Not sure if this is hilarious or if it's pissing me off. Mostly pissing me off.... If I were accepted to an Ivy league school and flunked out, I'm sure that any other college would pick me out or any job place would hire me, but yet this kid is worried about the shirts he wears and the loafers he doesn't have... Pathetic. Let me go to a school for absolutely nothing based on income. Would I cry, hell no.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Well got an update on grades.

English one day, my class had a quiz day (I was present, too) where all we just had to do was get a piece of paper, put our name on it, and so, easy 100%.

I got a 0% on that.

Time to wake up early morning and have a word with my professor...

 

[finnracer]

Feel I should contribute, just finished my first year (well, 4 exams to go but teaching and coursework is done...) studying Automotive Engineering at the University of Sussex (just outside Brighton). Has been a challenging but interesting experience so far, and the mechanics goes from being tough but doable at A level to utterly mind-bending at degree level. Apparently only 30% of students at Sussex passed the Engineering Mechanics module last year which does not fill me with confidence at all.

Loan wise the tuition fees aren't a huge issue for me, more the maintenance loan, which for me is £2000 less than my rent before you consider any living costs (My accommodation is nice but being near Brighton and on a campus that is on the border of the South Downs National Park makes it very expensive).

However once you look past the ugly 60's concrete buildings (some of which even listed...) the campus is very pretty, the location is lovely and Brighton is sublime when it comes to nightlife!

 

[Swagger897]

Feel I should contribute, just finished my first year (well, 4 exams to go but teaching and coursework is done...) studying Automotive Engineering at the University of Sussex (just outside Brighton). Has been a challenging but interesting experience so far, and the mechanics goes from being tough but doable at A level to utterly mind-bending at degree level. Apparently only 30% of students at Sussex passed the Engineering Mechanics module last year which does not fill me with confidence at all.

Loan wise the tuition fees aren't a huge issue for me, more the maintenance loan, which for me is £2000 less than my rent before you consider any living costs (My accommodation is nice but being near Brighton and on a campus that is on the border of the South Downs National Park makes it very expensive).

However once you look past the ugly 60's concrete buildings (some of which even listed...) the campus is very pretty, the location is lovely and Brighton is sublime when it comes to nightlife!

yeah.... wish I had that....

it's about a thirty minute drive to my school... (but it's free so I'm not here to complain..)


edit:

still no progress with the instructor...

 

[phillgt2002]

yeah.... wish I had that....

it's about a thirty minute drive to my school... (but it's free so I'm not here to complain..)


edit:

still no progress with the instructor...

Speak to the dean of the department.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Never have I had any amount of sheer unbridled rage within me in any point of my life until now.

Recapping back on what I said I was going to do:

Well got an update on grades.

English one day, my class had a quiz day (I was present, too) where all we just had to do was get a piece of paper, put our name on it, and so, easy 100%.

I got a 0% on that.

Time to wake up early morning and have a word with my professor...

Not only did I have one quiz for a 0%, I had TWO quizzes that were zeros.

I was there when she gave out the quiz and everything, but the reason why I have zeroes for them was:

"You didn't come to class by exactly 8:00. You may have come in time for the quiz to begin, but not when class started."

Never had I felt my heart drop down so hard.

It was never mentioned in the class syllabus that if you were barely late to class, even just one minute late to class, you get zero credit for any quizzes. And she just told me this.

Sure, I understand if you were 10 or so minutes late (quizzes would be done within 5 minutes or so, but a minute off from 8:00?

So now I don't even know what to do. I now have two failing classes because of this.

Screw that class.

 

[Swagger897]

so... just took my english exam...

failed..

grade=65... failed...

The only passing grade I was given was an attendance grade, and he couldn't even give me a 100 (I got a 93 but I told him to look at the records and I was not absent one. damn. day.)....

 

[Brutaka]

Never have I had any amount of sheer unbridled rage within me in any point of my life until now.

Recapping back on what I said I was going to do:


Not only did I have one quiz for a 0%, I had TWO quizzes that were zeros.

I was there when she gave out the quiz and everything, but the reason why I have zeroes for them was:

"You didn't come to class by exactly 8:00. You may have come in time for the quiz to begin, but not when class started."

Never had I felt my heart drop down so hard.

It was never mentioned in the class syllabus that if you were barely late to class, even just one minute late to class, you get zero credit for any quizzes. And she just told me this.

Sure, I understand if you were 10 or so minutes late (quizzes would be done within 5 minutes or so, but a minute off from 8:00?

So now I don't even know what to do. I now have two failing classes because of this.

Screw that class.

I dont know how it works but I would report that, that's just completely petty.

 

[phillgt2002]

This is the month where blood pressure goes up to unusually high numbers.