school sucks

[spazegun2213]

Alright, I'm sitting in class, and i just finished 2 online quizes. The first was on a chapter I covered yesterday and the second was one that was not covered in class by our section.

The first quiz i got a 60% because there was at least one impossible question (ie. no one got it right). And others were made to trick you.

The second quiz i got an 80% on (yea, I'm stupid) and i though it was not that bad.

WTF?! is all i have to say, i mean the prof cant teach to start with and this quizes are impossible!!!!! I mean he says he is all about non-tricky questions, rather ones that make you think but are not made to deceive you, BULLSHIT! And this guy is my advisor?!?! :(

AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

ok, had to vent, I think i need to get drunk... shit i have to wait for the weekend....

[kubtastic]

juvenile drunks...

[Glenn B]

Ahha!!! They want you to *THINK*, but you want to *drink*. Sounds like a conflict of priorities.

Plenty of time to drink later when you fail in life. Best to put that aside and concentrate on school for now.

[Ray H]

Wait till your out of school with a fulltime job, a mortgage, kids and no end in sight. etc.
You think you feel like getting drunk now.Ha. Enjoy it while its easy.

[red91]

Ahha!!!
Plenty of time to drink later when you fail in life.


Grasshopper....When you can snatch the Jim Beam from Glenns' hand then, and only then, will you have reached true enlightenment...

[olivedrabcj7]

i feel your pain...go plug a fattie and call it a day...:)

[FarmerMatt]

Grasshopper....When you can snatch the Jim Beam from Glenns' hand then, and only then, will you have reached true enlightenment...

That'll be the day...

[Glenn B]

Yuk, I cannot drink that crap anymore. Hard stuff makes me very ill..... blame that on the 80's. :)

[XJawgi]

Wait till your out of school with a fulltime job, a mortgage, kids and no end in sight. etc.
You think you feel like getting drunk now.Ha. Enjoy it while its easy.

Id rather have a fulltime job and a mortgage. Right now im in school and i work 3 different jobs. Im about to have a mortgage because im about to buy a house. So dont think having a fulltime job and a mortgage is all that hard..

[Glenn B]

Nope, plenty have full time jobs and houses. Not all that hard. Trailer homes are cheap. :)

Good for you that you are a school kid and have a job. Parents must be proud.
Id rather have a fulltime job and a mortgage. Right now im in school and i work 3 different jobs. Im about to have a mortgage because im about to buy a house. So dont think having a fulltime job and a mortgage is all that hard..

[Hunter-Lynchburg,Va]

school is not just about learning the material, its about learning to understand how people think and how that makes society work. but if the prof. really does suck, drop the class before its too late. a W is better than an F. oh yeah choose your classes based on Prof's not on topic. www.ratemyproffesor.com is a damn good resource.

Hunter

[Urban Redneck]

:cry: :confused1 You can't pass a quiz and can barely pass another and it is his fault? Why don't you put the bong down and pick up a book? The prof is there to make it easy? The word is called study. Don't worry though, if you ever need a gig, I always need someone to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"

F**kin' kids....

[red91]

:cry: :confused1 You can't pass a quiz and can barely pass another and it is his fault? Why don't you put the bong down and pick up a book? The prof is there to make it easy? The word is called study. Don't worry though, if you ever need a gig, I always need someone to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"

F**kin' kids....

:worship: yup. School is supposed to be easy ? I think they call it social advancement so the kiddies don't get their feelings hurt.

[Atl XJ]

I can vouch for the fact that alot of those online quizzes are bs but don't you have a window of time where you can retake them until you are satisfied with your grade or did you wait till the last minute. Thats how all of the ones I've even taken or heard of were. Some of the questions are pretty tricky it that you can know the correct answer but don't know the response they are looking for but being able to retake them with different questions usually allevitates that. That is unless you wait to the last minute of course.

[kubtastic]

In the words of Judge Smails:

"The world needs ditch-diggers too"

[KY Chris]

I just got out of school this past summer after 11 years of higher education and I would love to go back! Enjoy the time you have in college. Working sucks. I'd much rather take an online quiz tomorrow than go to work.

[XJawgi]

just curious as to what you were studying?

[NCSUcherokee]

someone is headed here:

http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/JPEG2004b-buildings/Tompkins.JPG


you dont know hard until you take thermodynamics with an Asian professor that got his Ph.d from MIT, and doesnt speak much english

[kubtastic]

are we talking introductory thermodynamics, or is it at a higher level and a focus of your major?

[NCSUcherokee]

it's a major part of my BS

[hjeepxj]

Yeah, school does suck, but work sucks more. I have done both.

[XJawgi]

whats thermodynamics?

[KY Chris]

just curious as to what you were studying?
BS Biology
MS Toxicology
PhD Toxicology
PhD Pharmacology

[XJawgi]

haha well thats quite an accomplishment. Do you do lab work or do you work in a pharcmacy?..or neither? My buddy is about to have a bs in chemistry and hes going for his masters in chemistry and they are paying him like 20g's a year to go to school.

[woody]

Hahahaha

1st :cheers: to Hunter... wisdom from the mouth of babes.

2nd :cheers: to Chris for the Phd in documenting ill-advised habits

3rd :cheers: to NCSUCherokee... I learned too much about bituminous pavement in a building just like that by a non-good english speaking Indian Dr Kohsla. It was worth $3000 gross salary just to STFU and learn so I did. He knew his topic... getting it across in North Carolinian was lacking...

4th: Thumbs down to anyone who can't "learn" from a teacher. If it is a >< thing, transfer out... don't make yourself or your peers suffer. At the JHS/HS level kids are some captive within their classes, but in college, I can recall several students who merited a piano wire surprise quiz...

[KY Chris]

haha well thats quite an accomplishment. Do you do lab work or do you work in a pharcmacy?..or neither? My buddy is about to have a bs in chemistry and hes going for his masters in chemistry and they are paying him like 20g's a year to go to school.
No. Pharmacists go to Pharmacy shcool and get PharmDs. Pharmacologists design the drugs, we don't dispense them. I work in air pollution prevention and air toxics.

[XJawgi]

Ah i see, just taught me something i didnt know.

[KY Chris]

:cheers: to Woody for encouraging my personal pursuits of scientific/chemical pursuits. A man wise beyond his years, for sure!
Woody is one of the most interesting and intelligent people i've met.

[woody]

I am available for beta trials under certain (clandestine) circumstances.

I don't claim 'wise' but I will claim 'adventurous'

[spazegun2213]

Yea, school is not meant to be easy, no shit, but there is no reason to be impossible. Either way, i cant transfer, i can drop, all i can do is stick it out and hope the grade is better than a C.

I know i will not fail this class, its just a pain in the ass.
The class is cs 332 Operating Systems.

meh, school is fun.. but some profs...

[What Rd]

whats thermodynamics?

thermo = heat
dynamic = wild movements

so thermodynamics is the study of hot chicks on the dancefloor

:lecture:

duh!
what did you study in school?

:cheers:

[Beej]

I guess I am one of 'those' profs/teachers. Thanks for reminding me what slackoffs students can be. :D I just finished rewriting tomorrow's quiz for some juniors in philosophy. Hopefully it will provoke some thought and some study habits for the next term... The last question, a 50 point essay question, just one word: "Why?"
They have four pages and an hour to answer it. And the best part, I don't have to be there to give the quiz or mark it, I'll just get a teaching assistant to do it :D. Bwahahahahahahahah!
B.

[XJawgi]

haha well looks like i found a new major if thats the case.

[XJawgi]

I guess I am one of 'those' profs/teachers. Thanks for reminding me what slackoffs students can be. :D I just finished rewriting tomorrow's quiz for some juniors in philosophy. Hopefully it will provoke some thought and some study habits for the next term... The last question, a 50 point essay question, just one word: "Why?"
They have four pages and an hour to answer it. And the best part, I don't have to be there to give the quiz or mark it, I'll just get a teaching assistant to do it :D. Bwahahahahahahahah!
B.

Are you a college prof?

[woody]

thermo = heat
dynamic = wild movements

so thermodynamics is the study of hot chicks on the dancefloor

:lecture:

duh!
what did you study in school?

:cheers:

is a thermonamic-based defense representable in a red-state court of law?

[Bent]

Yuk, I cannot drink that crap anymore. Hard stuff makes me very ill..... blame that on the 80's. :)

The 80's didn't exist, a myth, and I can prove it!

[Yucca-Man]

The last question, a 50 point essay question, just one word: "Why?" Why not, of course! Unless you are Sir Edmund Hillary, in which case you can use, "Because it was there" as your answer. :D

[Lawn Cher']

you dont know hard until you take thermodynamics with an Asian professor that got his Ph.d from MIT, and doesnt speak much english

That explains my grade in Controls... try saying LaPlace Transform with a Chinese accent.

OTOH, I had an Indian professor for a Materials & Manufacturing class named Dr Tirupathi R Chandrupatla, with a good sense of humor. Many of my classmates were bored to tears, but I listened intently as he peppered his lectures with subtle jokes... "Tomorrow we shall study boring, which shall prove most interesting."

[Beej]

Why not, of course! Unless you are Sir Edmund Hillary, in which case you can use, "Because it was there" as your answer. :DAh Jim, the only A++ in the bunch! :D You earned it, "why not" was my right answer all along. Perfect score. Funnily enough, the only one who got it was the kid who's doing the worst in the class right now. Hie totalled the rest of the quiz but aced the 50 pointer. He probably wrote "why not" as a "screw you" to me, but hey, it deserves an A+, 50 out of 50....

[grasseater]

No. Pharmacists go to Pharmacy shcool and get PharmDs. Pharmacologists design the drugs, we don't dispense them. I work in air pollution prevention and air toxics.

Industrial Hygienist, myself. Better working conditions through chemistry...

[Yucca-Man]

Beej - you realize you're going to mess with the kids head when he sees that...you KNOW he put it on there as an 'F U' comment...

What were some of the lesser replies?

[XJawgi]

beej, what course was this for??

[Beej]

beej, what course was this for??Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thought 100. But I prefer to refer to it as Hypercubic Metacognition 101. Let's see who can figure out why...

[UNCC_99XJ]

guess i'm the young'n of the group. 17, a junior in H.S., and I already have a 4 year car payment......college should be interesting...lol.

Going out looking for a second job tomorrow....LOL

[XJawgi]

guess i'm the young'n of the group. 17, a junior in H.S., and I already have a 4 year car payment......college should be interesting...lol.

Going out looking for a second job tomorrow....LOL

You got me beat by a year, but im a freshmen in college. Ever since jr year though i have worked 4 jobs and went to school...now im only working 3 and going to school....just dont let your jobs mess up school, school will pay off more in the long run, trust me.

[UNCC_99XJ]

You got me beat by a year, but im a freshmen in college. Ever since jr year though i have worked 4 jobs and went to school...now im only working 3 and going to school....just dont let your jobs mess up school, school will pay off more in the long run, trust me.


Oh believe me, It hasn't. All A's except for Algebra, got a 92 in that class.....damn teacher...lol

[CartsXJ]

I have to agree with the school suck thing. I am now sitting in a senior level engineering dynamics course, on a saturday morning, where the teacher has spent the last two weeks teaching the class Excel, yes the program. This is going to be a long semester.

[biscuitboy87]

Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thought 100. But I prefer to refer to it as Hypercubic Metacognition 101. Let's see who can figure out why...

okay i'd like to take a guess at this...
hypercubic = points to a mathmatical expression of the 4th dimension?
metacognition = higher intelligence and the use of that intelligence to actively learn (meta being higher level and cognition a form of understanding and learning)?
so...is it that the answers you get are so far out there that they are actually applicable to the question???

really i am just guessing, not being what one would call an intellectual.

i kinda just glided through school, and college (twice). never studied, but never got lower than a 3.5 high school, and a 3.8 college. i have come to the conclusion that intelligence is a funtion of DNA. do a search on psychometrics and that will give you some insight... i made some great friends at school so thats more of what i take from it.
bad professors do exist....more so when you are not really into being in school in the first place.
my favorite professer was this guy from germany. big time engineer with a super thick accent. his accent was what made the course hard. non-destructive testing and failure analysis is otherwise pretty neat.
funny how i get older i feel like i should have paid more attention to the homework than the location of parties...LOL

[Beej]

okay i'd like to take a guess at this...
hypercubic = points to a mathmatical expression of the 4th dimension?
metacognition = higher intelligence and the use of that intelligence to actively learn (meta being higher level and cognition a form of understanding and learning)?
so...is it that the answers you get are so far out there that they are actually applicable to the question???
really i am just guessing, not being what one would call an intellectual.Good guess Biscuitboy, but not exactly what I mean. Fair enough though, your interpretation is literally accurate, but there are multiple meanings to the words I used, and my intended use is along the lines of other meanings... Any other takers before I give it away? What is meant by "Hypercubic Metacognition"? Anyone, anyone? :lecture:

[1989laredoxj]

who cares?

[Beej]

who cares?Obviously not you! ' F- ' :D

[staticrevolution]

I couldn't love school more. I spend most of my school day around 3000' so there is nothing to complain about.

[Yucca-Man]

I couldn't love school more. I spend most of my school day around 3000' so there is nothing to complain about.'round these parts that would mean you're either a miner or you're a lawyer (buried so deep because deep down they really are nice people).

Was that 3000' MSL, or AGL?? :laugh3:

[spazegun2213]

Yea, school is a pain in the ass... I mean that SAME prof now assigned the class an online quiz to do on a SUNDAY!!!!
AHAH

I'm not saying school is THAT bad, i mean I love what i do, but there are profs that make you second guess why you are in their class.

[staticrevolution]

Thats 3000' MSL about 2800' AGL around here.

[dellstopjeep]

community college is great. The purpose is to learn but i cant even get into 100 level classes so i sit around with a couple buddies and just stare at girls all day. Its not all that bad i guess. Whats even better about community college is that you can just not do the work and seem to pass classes. The work is definitly hard though. High school did not prepare me for any of the material I have to study. Thank god for hot tutors!
Im tellin ya though, community colleges have great campuses for parkin lot wheelin. I love to drive up curbs to get spots before the two door honda beats me.
sorry im ramblin I better sober up and call it a night

[XJawgi]

Haha community college is awesome, theres a muddy trail for the service people and i hit that up allll the time...and the girls, man the girls..

[1989laredoxj]

how is school really that bad.....you sit in class look at the hot girls and do homework wow thats tough.

[XJpax]

someone is headed here:

http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/JPEG2004b-buildings/Tompkins.JPG


You had thermo in Tompkins? Who was your prof?