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Just to be clear, I think this is goddamn ridiculous and should not be so.
Also, my panties are not in a twist and I am genuinely interested in this discussion, so if I sound confrontational then be assured that I am not. Except before when I told that one guy to eat a dick, because seriously, he should eat a dick.
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I'm sure it could have. Didn't press the point, would have felt slightly prostitutional.
Clarifying edit: Although, my wife did jokingly refer to the lot of them as my 'chemistry hookers'
Sure some people have different reasons for going to university, some actually wish to learn. Some wish to get a degree so they can have a better chance at getting a good job. And some actually come to do both.
But I mean, if your looking for a job when your an arts/mass com/history/philosophy/insert_stupid_degree that doesn't involve being a prof/teacher then I salute your bravery.
Il stick to my computer science degree and enjoy being laid off every year.
Also, little jim.. Can I get some onion rings instead of fries with my combo?
LoL: j0hnh4m
So you mean
"no"
So I mean
"yes if I were single"
I'm married you see
I.E. Having to take a bunch of fucking classes about Native Americans to fulfill my "diversity requirements". Can I cheat in those with zero guilt?
Well, that depends on whether you want to take the moral high ground or be a rationalizing poophead. The short answer is "no."
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Well, it's a lot easier to rationalize, unless Mr. Engineering Major has to build a bridge through an Indian reservation or some shit.
pretty much any company that is located in a place devoid of workers will hire you for something
a good example of this is alberta right now
it will probably be a crappy white collar job at a crappy faceless corperation, but you'll definitely have work
and after a few years you'll be experienced enough to move on or move up, depending on the company
well, she has 20 years of experience, in which field? Where does she work? Where does she live?
these all change where you take your career, but having a resume with "has worked on this shit for 20 years" is extremely valuable
the hardest part is asking, looking around, sending your resume out and getting into interviews
edit:
ps we are no longer friends
If you have to cheat your way through your diversity requirements, you fail at class selection. Music appreciation class = go to six concerts and do two take-home multiple choice tests.
I didn't cheat either. I simply played the teacher like a harp the whole time and ended the class with a big presentation on how Asians are being subjected to rampant discrimination in the entertainment industry unless they can do martial arts.
Yeah there is no reason to fail a cultural diversity class.
The first day of my "musical traditions of latin america" class my teacher pretty much said "As long as you show up on time to class, and participate there is no reason for you to fail this class." The tests were all multiple choice and all you had to do was recognize what kind of music you were listening to.
Every fights a food fight when you're a cannibal.
It's a long story but I feel justified in my decision.
That right there would be why most of the cheaters cheat.
People take notes on extra paper, and write really hard, so the notes are imprinted (dented) into the scrap paper. It can only be seen at weird angles. So check people's seemingly blank scratch paper.
Shit that came out wrong.
Just trade someone in that class a couple beads and maybe a blanket for his reports.
So just because they're of an Asian background they should be intimately familiar with literature produced by people of a similar background? I tend to think half the foreign students I meet could get better grades in an English course than the natives at my school.
The truth is, nobody gets good grades in an English course if they're not English majors. You faggots can't speak English.
I am convinced that nobody can speak English, or write the language.
I am marking exams.
There is no correlation.
this is pretty much true.
i got the unofficial job of proofreading my friends' papers in university, since i was the resident english major.
and i'll tell you, despite them being generally intelligent people, they could not write worth a damn. many cases of 'well this paper isn't very good so i'll look in the thesaurus and add overly-complicated words to it'.
Beating Asians in a lot of classes is a brag-worthy exercise guys.
Keep up with the stereotypes.
you need to have a firm grasp of theories to do well in it
pretty much exactly like calculus or chemistry
namedropping just the name of the theory is like writing the function down and not solving it at all
I think the last time I didn't get an A in an english class was freshman year of high school. I'm a CS major.
how are you taking english courses without being a major? here, arts courses are restricted to majors only
That said, of the 4 required english courses, I placed out of 2 of them due to AP exams, resulting in me taking only 3 English courses since I got out of high school.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
it saved me from pretty much failing the course and losing my tiny scholarship
i got a B+
This of course resulted in everyone immediatly opening AIM.
Highest grade was a B+, because no one could find what this guy was asking for anywhere on the internet.
Good work, shitty professor.
actually i couldnt really do it back in high school either
ive only had to do a couple in the past few years
i think even with reports i kinda fuck up the writing and explanation parts of it but largely due to laziness. so ill be doing calculations for a few days and when its all done i dont care to add anything more than a bare minimum of text to go with them
also recently i met this native korean girl who i think had hardly ever left the country or at least never lived anywhere else and had been studying all crazy for the gre and i went through some of the english stuff with her, mostly the comparing "X is to Y as Z is to ?" questions, and that shit was crazy and she did much better than me
as long as i avoid subjects with a lot of essays and shit i should be all good
with engineering you always got a backup plan cos if an assignment is due soon you can just go to our library and find everyone all copying answers off eachother
so you get dumb kids keeping their grades up without doing shit
and the smart kids collaborating either to reduce the workload or finish off the parts that they had trouble with
It was rather depressing.
He didn't even copy it into Word or anything.
what was she teaching
edit:
One of my friends happily admitted to doing this. The fucking prof left a note on his paper adoring his use of words. All he did was use MSWord's thesaurus on every other damned word.
in kindergarten there was this wall of words and i think you had to spell each one before it was uncovered and you could move on to the next one
and im pretty sure i was the first to get through the whole thing
then in year one i was in this composite class with kids from year 2, and every week we got spelling lists and i was one of the few kids good enough to be given extra words to learn
yay lucky me...
I don't know why
it also bugs me to play games on easy
IF I CAN'T BEAT IT ON NORMAL IT'S MY FAULT NOT THE GAME'S