School Is Bumming Me Out
I just bombed a test... im barely scraping by in this class.
The instructor is one of those types that can talk for like an hour, and you have absolutely no idea what the hell he just said. You know what im talking about? Its like hes speaking some sort of foreign language, and I only grab words like "the" and "experiment"
Im probably not in any danger of flunking out, in fact theres a very very slim chance of that... except it seems every semester theres 1 god damned class that pulls all my A and B averages down to Cs. So frustrating...
Also, finals are coming up soon, and it seems like I have a gigantic mountain of crap to accomplish, and have to do it in a very short amount of time. Why must school be some god damned competetive.
*sigh*
The instructor is one of those types that can talk for like an hour, and you have absolutely no idea what the hell he just said. You know what im talking about? Its like hes speaking some sort of foreign language, and I only grab words like "the" and "experiment"
Im probably not in any danger of flunking out, in fact theres a very very slim chance of that... except it seems every semester theres 1 god damned class that pulls all my A and B averages down to Cs. So frustrating...
Also, finals are coming up soon, and it seems like I have a gigantic mountain of crap to accomplish, and have to do it in a very short amount of time. Why must school be some god damned competetive.
*sigh*
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Then you've got college, where you can transfer for the first 2 weeks with no notice or penalty, or after the first 10 weeks for a W on your transcript. For all of high school's touting of "Hey, this is what college is going to be like!" (especially you, Mr. Smith, with your "Hey, I want you to write your psych paper like this, because that's how college professors will want their" even though it was COMPLETELY OFF).
Errr, yea, slight bit of a tangent there. In all truth though, I got an A in the class (which I can do if the information is cool, even if the teacher sucks - of course, it's more fun if the teacher doesn't suck, like in physics). Then you've got biology, where I get the low Bs because, except for geologic time, which can fit better with physics and chemistry in some places, it's really boring to me.
In college, if you bomb a test, they can be drastic, since most of the classes don't have daily homework except for math (which doesn't take place every day anyway, even Russian, which took place every weekday didn't have much homework). Most of the grades are concentrated in tests (or for English/Advanced FL classes; papers and tests). Especially one of the history classes here, where there's a midterm and the final, both 50%...but you don't have to take the midterm and rely your entire grade on the final.
I'm a bigger fan of the 4 or 5 tests, a final and some lab/papers to buffer the grade.
Attendance really, really doesn't matter, because many college classes don't even take it. The only real mandatory clases are science labs ( or classes where there's stuff you might want to know for the final/just for the heck of it). They don't even really take attendance there, if you don't come, you miss the lab, don't get credit on it, fail your lab credits, and you don't get to graduate until you've passed at least one science class with a lab.
Of course, if you're applying for a high school education only job, then attendance might be looked at more critically.
I sometimes have fantasies of a gunman running into the classroom, shooting him point blank, and running away... is this natural? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Take that back. <b>Now</b>
What was I talking about again?
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I've spoken to people at many colleges, most classes don't take attendance (at least here (if that's what you're refering to, not sure if southern states or other countries are completely different). Last I checked, college is supposed to be about independance and freedom, not going to mandatory attendance procedures.
I'm not saying you shouldn't go to class - that'll get you a terrible grade (depending on your intelligence and background knowledge - I don't have to go to astronomy, because I basically know the general ideas of the lectures. I go anyway, because I like to learn cool, trivial facts no one will ever need or be applicable in my lifetime). Not going to class in most instances is going to mean you're not going to know what's going on.
I also have to say, most classes have little homework, there are a few that have a lot. As they said at orientation, about 20% of your time will be school related, the rest is sleeping, eating and free time. I have an average of 4 credit hours a weekday ( 3 on M, 6 on T, 1 on W, 4 on Th and 2 on F) and that's 16 credits.
It's pretty nice, except for the whole, living in a room that's 20' x 15' x 8' with another person (that and the fact they don't plow/shovel, the internet sucks and people always pull the fire alarms/smoke in their rooms that sets them off, even though they should be 50 feet from the building[woot, maturity with age, eh?]).
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Yup. the way life should be. we all know daily assignments were a waste of time. actually most of them were simply practice for the test. in College, you have to know when to study on your own time, so if you just dont you will bomb everything. the tests are much harder than in highschool, where the daily homework kept you on top of everything, in college without even attendance its easy to take a week off, but then when the exam comes around youll be totally missing a weeks worth of information and get a grade that reflects your effort.
it's justice, i love it.
except for foreign language classes which seem stuck in highschool mode tho, that sucks.
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Yup. the way life should be. we all know daily assignments were a waste of time. actually most of them were simply practice for the test. in College, you have to know when to study on your own time, so if you just dont you will bomb everything. the tests are much harder than in highschool, where the daily homework kept you on top of everything, in college without even attendance its easy to take a week off, but then when the exam comes around youll be totally missing a weeks worth of information and get a grade that reflects your effort.
it's justice, i love it.
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Do you mean homework wise or teaching wise?
The teaching method from high school is good, the teacher interacts and can talk with the students in a more personalized (and possibly familar) setting. I'm not sure about the homework aspect though.
Maybe it's just my college over here, but we'll get assigned reading and "Write some sentances" stuff, but he never checks it/has us hand it in. It's practice, most people don't bother doing it. We go over what we do in class anyway (it's advanced composistion, so it's basically reading stories, and the tests are writing about them). So we basically get 500 word papers, which we'd never get in high school (you might have to write a paper, but you'd get quite a while and quite a lot of help...here, he says "write the 500 word paper, it's due...next friday.")
I'm learning to write pointless dribble, it's almost as good as my english pointless dribble <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Still more productive than any non-english class based paper I've ever written.
So, it sortof seems like High School - if you do do the daily work (foreign languages are the only classes I've seen like this). English was awesome, we'd all put our chairs in a big circle and talk about grammar and how to prevent writing passive sentances and stuff. It was one of my first classes, and nothing like I expected (especially thanks to my Psych teacher in High School and movies).
i wish i could go back to school...
Not that I see that happening <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> ...
(I'm hoping for something I can apply my german or something too. Astronomy is kind of interesting, and I'd major in it...if my vision didn't suck and I wouldn't be able to use observatories and planetariums properly.
But I digress. Yes, school is generally boring, but it's probably more secure than any life of working for yourself.
tehehehehe
As far as homework, I've heard my school was different from a lot of other schools. Mostly the homework is not graded. That's right, they assign homework and you don't have to do it. But doing the homework is really the best thing you can do to study for the tests.
A solid GPA is very important for just getting the foot in the door when you are looking for a job, after that it's all interviewing skills and how well you apply the stuff you learned. I managed to find a job right out of college, which I mainly attribute to my GPA, I landed me a lot more interviews than my friends, most of whom are still looking.
Then you've got college, where you can transfer for the first 2 weeks with no notice or penalty, or after the first 10 weeks for a W on your transcript. For all of high school's touting of "Hey, this is what college is going to be like!" (especially you, Mr. Smith, with your "Hey, I want you to write your psych paper like this, because that's how college professors will want their" even though it was COMPLETELY OFF).
Errr, yea, slight bit of a tangent there. In all truth though, I got an A in the class (which I can do if the information is cool, even if the teacher sucks - of course, it's more fun if the teacher doesn't suck, like in physics). Then you've got biology, where I get the low Bs because, except for geologic time, which can fit better with physics and chemistry in some places, it's really boring to me.
In college, if you bomb a test, they can be drastic, since most of the classes don't have daily homework except for math (which doesn't take place every day anyway, even Russian, which took place every weekday didn't have much homework). Most of the grades are concentrated in tests (or for English/Advanced FL classes; papers and tests). Especially one of the history classes here, where there's a midterm and the final, both 50%...but you don't have to take the midterm and rely your entire grade on the final.
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Lol, transfer the first 2 weeks to were? After the first two weeks any required class's will be full and you will be forced to take the random ones that are open. Meaning you only get to transfer the elective class's which should be interesting to you anyways or there was no reason for you to sign up in the first place.
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please
just go sit in a corner and die
thank you
It's a pain. Especially our prof of empirical economy is of this type, droning on and on and on without remorse. He knows it though, and at least limits it to FOUR hours straight (okay, with small pauses between). After those lectures, you could just dive out from the nearest window just to have some change. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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