I have to take an online course about hookup culture as part of my new student orientation oh my goooooood this is the most hilariously terrible thing ever
also I'm totally skewing your statistics because I'm 31 and married! guess how many times I've drank alcohol? as many as I want because I'm thirty one goddamn years old
Dammit I am so confused... financial aid is weird. I am unable to apply for a student loan for this semester for some reason and it's driving me nuts! And of course the financial aid office is closed at 9 am on a weekday, sheesh.
For my speech class an assignment was to ask to questions on the duscussion board to analyze your audience for an informative speech you will do. Since I decided on Dinosaurs for my topic, I asked questions to narrow down exactly what about Dinosaurs to focus on, based on what my classmates will understand. Basically to determine whether to talk about "post-cranial skeletal pnuemacity in theropods" versus "T-rex had hollow bones."
But I live in the South, so to get a feel for my audiance one of the questions I asked was, "Do you accept the theory of evolution? Why or why not?"
Every response so far has been a variation of: No, if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
:bigfrown:
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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For my speech class an assignment was to ask to questions on the duscussion board to analyze your audience for an informative speech you will do. Since I decided on Dinosaurs for my topic, I asked questions to narrow down exactly what about Dinosaurs to focus on, based on what my classmates will understand. Basically to determine whether to talk about "post-cranial skeletal pnuemacity in theropods" versus "T-rex had hollow bones."
But I live in the South, so to get a feel for my audiance one of the questions I asked was, "Do you accept the theory of evolution? Why or why not?"
Every response so far has been a variation of: No, if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
I'm not sure why professors feel the need to tell their students not to eat in class. For one I have 7 1/2 consecutive hours of class so I will eat if I need to and two when you make a big deal out of not wanting food in your class it just makes me want to bring in as much food as possible
I'm not sure why professors feel the need to tell their students not to eat in class. For one I have 7 1/2 consecutive hours of class so I will eat if I need to and two when you make a big deal out of not wanting food in your class it just makes me want to bring in as much food as possible
Because too many people have abused the privilege and fucked it up for everyone else. I've seen people bring in huge take out smelling meals and eat them loudly, or even just extra noisy snacks. They probably started out allowing it and after attempting to modify the policy just went "fuck it, nobody is getting food in this class."
fuck you if you take in aluminum bags of chips and cookies and shit to class and open them
it makes me want to murder you
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I Win Swordfightsall the traits of greatnessstarlight at my feetRegistered Userregular
In my Arabic class last semester some of the native speaking students would just get up and leave during class and come back like 20 minutes later with a bag of hot cheetos
As somebody who regularly eats in class (because I'm hypoglycemic) I don't get what all the hate is for prepackaged food bags. You can eat chips quietly if you try hard enough. Getting anything out of a paper bag without making noise is almost impossible. The same goes for plastic Tupperware.
Out of all the containers I've used, I'd have to say that the absolute quietest is either a chip bag (opened prior to class) or glass Tupperware.
And I'm not lugging glass Tupperware four miles to class and back when I'm already hauling several textbooks and my laptop. That'd be ridiculous.
As somebody who regularly eats in class (because I'm hypoglycemic) I don't get what all the hate is for prepackaged food bags. You can eat chips quietly if you try hard enough. Getting anything out of a paper bag without making noise is almost impossible. The same goes for plastic Tupperware.
Out of all the containers I've used, I'd have to say that the absolute quietest is either a chip bag (opened prior to class) or glass Tupperware.
And I'm not lugging glass Tupperware four miles to class and back when I'm already hauling several textbooks and my laptop. That'd be ridiculous.
You should consider not opening your plastic tupperware with a chainsaw
It's just Ziplock. You grab a tap and pull it to get the lid off. The rectangular ones I'd use make about three or four really loud popping noises, followed by a louder snapping noise as you remove the lid.
So if for whatever reason I need to get food after class has started (which can happen if a professor unexpectedly talks for an hour longer than he's supposed to,) plastic Tupperware is basically guaranteed to completely distract the entire class. Especially because people are way more likely to stare at you if you're eating something out of a Tupperware container than if you're just quietly eating prepackaged food.
Don't get me wrong- I try to be discreet and I definitely minimize noise as much as possible. If I'm hungry, I try to open my food before class starts. I don't eat stuff that I know is messy or smelly. I pick up after myself. If I have extra food with me, and you're hungry, I'll share if you ask for a bite.
So for an in class exercise today, we were told to go look at specific sections of the stacks to evaluate the condition of materials and the shelves they were on. In my case that was folios, and one that I saw was about four feet long, eighteen or so wide and an inch and a half thick. I could barely lift the damn thing.
I have 7 1/2 straight hours of class with only 15m in between and everyone acts like this is some kind of crazy feat
I always want to be like 'no see this is just the only way I can keep myself motivated to come to class because even an hour break will enable me to justify fuckin off for the rest of the day'
I'm either exactly the same way, or the complete opposite of that. It depends on what I'm doing and how I'm feeling.
Most of the time, I need a significant break every two hours. Otherwise my brain just crashes, I struggle to maintain my focus, and then suddenly it's 30 minutes later and I haven't heard a single word my prof has said because I've been daydreaming about dragon body language.
But occasionally I'll get super focused on something. And then I'm like you- I can't take any significant breaks because otherwise I'll lose it and just be done for the rest of the day. Sometimes two days. That's why even though I can force myself into that feeling, I usually just reserve it for paper writing and finals week. It's too exhausting.
Even though we got hella snow and all the other colleges in the area are closed, my school doesn't have a large commuter population so they didn't bother to cancel classes today despite the storm warnings and over a foot of snow forecast for the next 12 hours and etc (we already have probably close to a foot of new snow). One of my professors emailed his class to let us know that the unofficial official word from the college is that they aren't going to cancel classes, they'll just let individual professors decide to cancel classes so that it isn't technically a school closure. The fuck is that all about
in other news I feel like I'm getting burned out on school. I don't think I want to go to graduate school to study history, either asian history or economic history, and at this point I kind of just want to work and make money.
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Just tell everyone about how much you love attack on titan
But... I do like it! What, is AoT too popular for "true otaku" now or something?
That is precisely it
People who are Hella into anime are super dismissive of AoT and get annoyed that people like it so much cuz it's kinda drivel (highly entertaining and superbly animated all the same) and it's most people's "favorite" anime and they can't stand that
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Big Red Tiebeautiful clydesdale style feettoo hot to trotRegistered Userregular
uhoh
also im watching hunter x hunter and its getting better
I've got my first midterm coming up. So of course THIS was the week my dad decided to cause a bunch of massive problems at home. We'll see what happens though. The test is Thursday, not Tuesday like I believe he thinks. And if I bomb it, my prof. will just count my score on the final. So I may not be completely screwed.
Performance this wednesday in class. The software I was writing for it ran into the problem all my software runs into: Max/MSP is stupid and letting myself be talked into integrating with Max because "It's good for music stuff" inevitably leads to my downfall. So instead I've had to come up with a new performance. It can be a pretty basic performance, but still.
Also I had forgotten that it was this Tursday that I have a presentation.
And next week is "Reading break", except that it's also tech week for the play I'm doing the sound design for, so setting up the board and routing for the operator, as well as running the sound for rehearsals, is basically going to torch that week to the ground. And then I have another presentation the week after. And a performance the week after.
Luckily, after that it's one week of rehearsals where I'll be phasing myself out of control, and then on to heavy work but, like, zero in-class time. Two more performances for one class, one big project for one class, and a piece to finish for one class and that's it.
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I Win Swordfightsall the traits of greatnessstarlight at my feetRegistered Userregular
Frustrated because my two credit hours of swim class of all things had to be dropped because the professor is having us do peer grading instead of actually grading anything ourselves, doesn't teach, and then today was like 'look the roads aren't THAT bad probably, you could get here, so this is an unexcused absence and you only get one'
This week is Reading break. No classes! Time to catch up!
Oh what's that? We're starting to move into the performance space for the show? Oh and because we have no classes we just rehearse 8 hours a day?
Oh and next week is going to be moving to some 12 hour days?
Good break.
Just gotta keep looking at my calendar and seeing that big, bright, totally open day on the 25th(though really, I'll be going to opening night, so my first actually open day is the 27th, but the 25th is just evening, 26th is just afternoon, and 27th is just morning.
I MEAN I GET THAT FAMILY LAW IS NOT THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECT BUT HOLY GOD THIS MAN MUMBLES AND STUTTERS AND LOSES TRACK OF WHAT HE IS SAYING EVERY FEW MINUTES
HE JUST SPENT AN HOUR TRYING TO EXPLAIN A MATH FORMULA
ONE
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
People skills and academia do not necessarily intersect.
and I actually really like the law classes I've been taking! It's not the subject matter, this guy is just painfully boring!
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I love my internship, but 8 hours of it a day starting at 7 am is really annoying when you also have to re-learn half a semester's worth of material in six days, because there's a test on Friday.
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also I'm totally skewing your statistics because I'm 31 and married! guess how many times I've drank alcohol? as many as I want because I'm thirty one goddamn years old
oh god it will be awful
For my speech class an assignment was to ask to questions on the duscussion board to analyze your audience for an informative speech you will do. Since I decided on Dinosaurs for my topic, I asked questions to narrow down exactly what about Dinosaurs to focus on, based on what my classmates will understand. Basically to determine whether to talk about "post-cranial skeletal pnuemacity in theropods" versus "T-rex had hollow bones."
But I live in the South, so to get a feel for my audiance one of the questions I asked was, "Do you accept the theory of evolution? Why or why not?"
Every response so far has been a variation of: No, if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
:bigfrown:
Well... now you have a new topic? :?
Switch: nin.codes/roldford
It's good to know someone's excited about me having completed the "how not to plagiarize" quiz, I guess.
Because too many people have abused the privilege and fucked it up for everyone else. I've seen people bring in huge take out smelling meals and eat them loudly, or even just extra noisy snacks. They probably started out allowing it and after attempting to modify the policy just went "fuck it, nobody is getting food in this class."
it makes me want to murder you
Out of all the containers I've used, I'd have to say that the absolute quietest is either a chip bag (opened prior to class) or glass Tupperware.
And I'm not lugging glass Tupperware four miles to class and back when I'm already hauling several textbooks and my laptop. That'd be ridiculous.
You should consider not opening your plastic tupperware with a chainsaw
So if for whatever reason I need to get food after class has started (which can happen if a professor unexpectedly talks for an hour longer than he's supposed to,) plastic Tupperware is basically guaranteed to completely distract the entire class. Especially because people are way more likely to stare at you if you're eating something out of a Tupperware container than if you're just quietly eating prepackaged food.
Don't get me wrong- I try to be discreet and I definitely minimize noise as much as possible. If I'm hungry, I try to open my food before class starts. I don't eat stuff that I know is messy or smelly. I pick up after myself. If I have extra food with me, and you're hungry, I'll share if you ask for a bite.
they just do it and arrrggghhh
I always want to be like 'no see this is just the only way I can keep myself motivated to come to class because even an hour break will enable me to justify fuckin off for the rest of the day'
Most of the time, I need a significant break every two hours. Otherwise my brain just crashes, I struggle to maintain my focus, and then suddenly it's 30 minutes later and I haven't heard a single word my prof has said because I've been daydreaming about dragon body language.
But occasionally I'll get super focused on something. And then I'm like you- I can't take any significant breaks because otherwise I'll lose it and just be done for the rest of the day. Sometimes two days. That's why even though I can force myself into that feeling, I usually just reserve it for paper writing and finals week. It's too exhausting.
But... I do like it! What, is AoT too popular for "true otaku" now or something?
in other news I feel like I'm getting burned out on school. I don't think I want to go to graduate school to study history, either asian history or economic history, and at this point I kind of just want to work and make money.
That is precisely it
People who are Hella into anime are super dismissive of AoT and get annoyed that people like it so much cuz it's kinda drivel (highly entertaining and superbly animated all the same) and it's most people's "favorite" anime and they can't stand that
also im watching hunter x hunter and its getting better
Anime clubs are very hit or miss. Mostly miss.
it keeps getting better and doesn't stop tbh
Performance this wednesday in class. The software I was writing for it ran into the problem all my software runs into: Max/MSP is stupid and letting myself be talked into integrating with Max because "It's good for music stuff" inevitably leads to my downfall. So instead I've had to come up with a new performance. It can be a pretty basic performance, but still.
Also I had forgotten that it was this Tursday that I have a presentation.
And next week is "Reading break", except that it's also tech week for the play I'm doing the sound design for, so setting up the board and routing for the operator, as well as running the sound for rehearsals, is basically going to torch that week to the ground. And then I have another presentation the week after. And a performance the week after.
Luckily, after that it's one week of rehearsals where I'll be phasing myself out of control, and then on to heavy work but, like, zero in-class time. Two more performances for one class, one big project for one class, and a piece to finish for one class and that's it.
Oh what's that? We're starting to move into the performance space for the show? Oh and because we have no classes we just rehearse 8 hours a day?
Oh and next week is going to be moving to some 12 hour days?
Good break.
Just gotta keep looking at my calendar and seeing that big, bright, totally open day on the 25th(though really, I'll be going to opening night, so my first actually open day is the 27th, but the 25th is just evening, 26th is just afternoon, and 27th is just morning.
MY FAMILY LAW TEACHER IS SO BORING OH MY GOD
I MEAN I GET THAT FAMILY LAW IS NOT THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECT BUT HOLY GOD THIS MAN MUMBLES AND STUTTERS AND LOSES TRACK OF WHAT HE IS SAYING EVERY FEW MINUTES
HE JUST SPENT AN HOUR TRYING TO EXPLAIN A MATH FORMULA
ONE
MATH
FORMULA
but goddamn man
this guy is just kryptonite for my attention span
and I actually really like the law classes I've been taking! It's not the subject matter, this guy is just painfully boring!