The University Thread
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
I guess that I can kiss my chances of making the Dean's List this quarter (which requires a 3.5 GPA per quarter) goodbye. I just failed a group project today. Point blank- I failed it. We were supposed to either research a company and report on its issues with human relations or make up our own company and issues. My group made a knock-off of John Deere, and we had one guy responsible for the presentation.
Well, the guy with the presentation decided to show up to class 45 minutes late with an unfinished presentation that missed half the requirements. We went with what we had (no time to make a new one- we had to present right when he got there and other groups were presenting as well) so we failed. I think that I (at best) will get 55% of the grade all because of someone else not doing their work. Half the group wasn't even dressed accordingly either which will further hurt their grades. I should have known better than to entrust one guy with the PowerPoint as well, but I'm a moron so I did anyway.
Well, the guy with the presentation decided to show up to class 45 minutes late with an unfinished presentation that missed half the requirements. We went with what we had (no time to make a new one- we had to present right when he got there and other groups were presenting as well) so we failed. I think that I (at best) will get 55% of the grade all because of someone else not doing their work. Half the group wasn't even dressed accordingly either which will further hurt their grades. I should have known better than to entrust one guy with the PowerPoint as well, but I'm a moron so I did anyway.
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Does anybody have any experience with studying math? That's what I plan on doing after school and I am unsure what to expect. What kind of jobs can I expect with a degree in math?
Yes I may be crazy, but I love thinking about mathematical problems and even creating them myself.
Yes I may be crazy, but I love thinking about mathematical problems and even creating them myself.
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What is the Dean's List? We don't have anything like that here in the UK.
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
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So what is so amazing about getting on it? Does it affect anything or is it just a name on a piece of paper?
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Oh ok. I don't really care about individual or term grades. I care about the grade I am going to graduate with.
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I'm kinda terrified at how sensitive people in my university are. God forbid someone says something even slightly politically incorrect, because the other students will have a hissy fit over it and call you out on it until you become yet another brain-dead politically correct conformist. Seems to me like they can't handle even the slightest of criticism.
And they are supposed to be the leaders of the future? My God.
And they are supposed to be the leaders of the future? My God.
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- KCCO
wow... So I turned in a short story essay a few weeks ago only to find out I received a 60. I look at my paper and see that he found a source was not listed in the paper, but I labeled it clearly on the WC page. I take it back and show him his screw-up and he said "let me look at it again and I'll see what I'll do."
I get it back today to find it with a 50. Ten points lower than what I originally gave it to him. This time, he goes through and changes just about every word longer than five characters and and counts off two points each.
I absolutely cannot stand literature teachers. They grade papers based on how they would say it, and not for what it actually is. It's grammatically correct, yet it isn't to them...
I get it back today to find it with a 50. Ten points lower than what I originally gave it to him. This time, he goes through and changes just about every word longer than five characters and and counts off two points each.
I absolutely cannot stand literature teachers. They grade papers based on how they would say it, and not for what it actually is. It's grammatically correct, yet it isn't to them...
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Ugh. American History.
Sweet Jesus, I read 3 chapters worth of stuff and yet the questions found on the unit exams go over the smallest details within the chapter.
A 44, and a 33 the past two exams.
Ugh.
Sweet Jesus, I read 3 chapters worth of stuff and yet the questions found on the unit exams go over the smallest details within the chapter.
A 44, and a 33 the past two exams.
Ugh.
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What, like how many men followed Bacon into Jamestown in Bacon's rebellion?
(300-500,can't recall the number)
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Out of those men, which of them had Spanish ancestry?
Stupid nit pick questions like that make me question why I'm even in ****ing school.
Just got my Biology test back and I pulled off a 73℅. I think I have a mid range D in the class. I need to finish this class with a C or higher in order for it to be considered credit for the college I want to go.
Every time I walk in that class I ask myself why the **** am I here. I'm here to learn about things that are relative to my studies.
General Ed can **** off.
Stupid nit pick questions like that make me question why I'm even in ****ing school.
Just got my Biology test back and I pulled off a 73℅. I think I have a mid range D in the class. I need to finish this class with a C or higher in order for it to be considered credit for the college I want to go.
Every time I walk in that class I ask myself why the **** am I here. I'm here to learn about things that are relative to my studies.
General Ed can **** off.
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yeah...Wait, what...?
I wanted to go back to him and say "this is not how this works ya know..."
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
Just got done with my first day of what will hopefully be my second-to-last term of college. I have the same instructor for two of my three classes, and it just happened to be that those classes are on the same days (classes meet for 2 hours on Monday and Wednesday). I get tomorrow off because I don't have anything on Tuesdays, but I have a Thursday night class, and I'm getting burnt out of night classes.
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Then go. Go and complain, it's YOUR future. Don't let some old bag ruin it because he didn't have a social life in Uni.
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Actually he's around 28-32 so I'd prefer not to... I have a paper due tomorrow for him so we'll see how that rolls over..
Other news, I had an online discussion question to be answered and thought I completed it like a boss. Turns up I got a 90 with a comment "Where are your quotation marks?" I scratched my head for a minute because I never directly quoted anything but rather paraphrased a lot. So yesterday I asked a lot of people if they too got the same comment and they all answered yes. So I stayed a few minutes after class and discussed with him why it was there. Apparently (hidden to me) he also typed in grammar errors, so after reading it I misspelled four words (illegitimate, apparently, and a few others..). Normally I type in the box to do my discussion answers rather than import from Word as it's buggy and skips sentences at times, and Chrome will show the squiggly line at the bottom if wrong.
This time, it didn't.
But staying after for a few moments bumped it five points to a 95, and that was the highest grade so I'm happy with that..
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Wait... I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how much of an asshat your prof is.
So.... he changes your spelling....and then takes marks off.
Oh well. Uni's are known to try and do anything to fail first year students just so they have to reenroll again. More money, happy accountants. It's disgusting.
So.... he changes your spelling....and then takes marks off.
Oh well. Uni's are known to try and do anything to fail first year students just so they have to reenroll again. More money, happy accountants. It's disgusting.
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
Yeah, the thing is that every college/university has a few idiot professors that are either inept or asshats. There was an instructor last year that only lasted two quarters because she couldn't teach anyone a thing. My Personal Finance instructor was a guy who taught me virtually nothing. I got a B in the class due to the essays in it (never thought I'd be thankful for an essay!), but I pretty much failed all of the exams because I never actually learned the material. I thankfully haven't had to deal with an asshat yet, and I hope I don't have to.
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Actually (I guess I forgot to mention) it was for my History class... Not Lit
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Still, tampering with your work and then penalizing you for it is an ass move.
My current Calc prof just reads the slides. It's Calc.. you're supposed to teach a theorem, and then solve problems on the board with your prof.
I was excited too, because he's British... at least, I think he's from the British Isles. Could be from South Africa. He pronounces weekdays weird... "Mondeee, Wednesdeee, Frideee"
Might be a Kiwi, or might be South African. I haven't met a member of the British Isles that speaks that way.
Anyway, I was excited because he can speak English!! Unfortunately, he is very condascending and rarely uses the board. Most of the time, he just reads off the slides from his podium.
When we didn't have Wi-Fi for about half an hour, he actually used chalk!! Plus the class actually understood the topic.
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lol I was just thinking about this. I wish powerpoints never existed. The professors are just reading it and giving a bit more info that refreshes their minds, but never actually "teaching" anything...
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From my three years as a college student, I've learned that the best instructors don't even use PowerPoint and the worst ones use it all the time.
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Power points are terrible for learning. I had one teacher user them and actually be good at teaching.
Teachers who rely on power points aren't 'teachers'.
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
That was the point I was trying to get at. Yeah, I've had an instructor who used them all the time, but she actually knew what the hell she was talking about. The only reason she used it was because the class was Business Law, and she never used them in other classes. I still think half the class failed though because we had to do a Black History Month project that put us 4 weeks behind (10 week quarters). That same instructor never uses them in other classes and still gets high marks for her ability to teach.
Every other instructor I've had who was PowerPoint dependent couldn't teach and had no idea how to actually explain the concepts. They were all basically "teach yourself and hope you taught the right material" classes and sucked to be in.
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This was my Biology class last semester. Then I changed majors. This class was the cause of it.
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Really? All my lecturers use powerpoint except one and a lot of them are quite good. Only a couple bad ones.
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- I_Fail_At_FPS
It really has to do with personal experience. Most of mine who use it don't teach well at all. The problem with that is they always used the presentation as the lecture instead of as a tool to augment the lecture. When I look at a presentation, All I see are a bunch of words. I want to know why those words are important to my education instead of just merely seeing that they are on it.
A good instructor can demonstrate the relevance of those words and explain their importance in a way that people actually learn. Most of the ones I've had couldn't do that and wondered why their classes had a high drop rate.
