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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Yeah what is up with Poli Sci professors and publishing books that they use in class. Or one of their friend's book. It's always the poli sci profs too.

    I had a Biology teacher who used a chapter of a book she was writing. And one of my English professors is currently writing a book about Digital Fiction which features a story I wrote 8-)

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I had a creative writing professor who would always assign a book he had written for any class he taught.

    I did not like him.

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Notice how I used dramatic irony to affect the reader in this passage.

    ...sure

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The way he taught us was he just had us read short stories and poems, than expected us to write well. At no point did he actually discuss the process of writing creatively.

    It was like if you took a film production class, the professor showed you Star Wars and said, "Now do that."

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    i had a professor who made us buy his books of poetry

    he was a shitty professor as well

    i dropped that class and took it with a grad student who was awesome

    on the other hand, i had a classics professor who had us buy a book that included his translation of something... euripides? i forget, but it was great

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Yeah I'm at a community college, but Cal said the instructors here were pretty great and so far I agree

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    The way he taught us was he just had us read short stories and poems, than expected us to write well.

    then.

    It seems that your professor failed on a variety of levels.

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    reading things is certainly an important part of learning to write better

    but there are, uh, other parts that merit exploration as well

    did you at least get critiqued or was it a cuddly class

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    Yeah I'm at a community college, but Cal said the instructors here were pretty great and so far I agree
    I'm glad you're digging Seattle Central. It's honestly a fantastic school (though the students there can be obnoxious as shit sometimes).

    It's probably the second best community college I've been to.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Callius wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Yeah I'm at a community college, but Cal said the instructors here were pretty great and so far I agree
    I'm glad you're digging Seattle Central. It's honestly a fantastic school (though the students there can be obnoxious as shit sometimes).

    It's probably the second best community college I've been to.

    One of the Sounders is doing a thing here on Thursday I am so psyched

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Callius wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    The way he taught us was he just had us read short stories and poems, than expected us to write well.

    then.

    It seems that your professor failed on a variety of levels.

    I blame everyone but myself.

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I blame everyone but myself.
    Manichaeism is dead.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Callius wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I blame everyone but myself.
    Manichaeism is dead.

    Nothing can ever die if you believe in it hard enough.

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm still not used to the idea of having a mid-term after five classes.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    i am constitutionally incapable of doing this homework for my first classes

    school hasn't started yet and i'm already behind!

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Callius wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Yeah I'm at a community college, but Cal said the instructors here were pretty great and so far I agree
    I'm glad you're digging Seattle Central. It's honestly a fantastic school (though the students there can be obnoxious as shit sometimes).

    It's probably the second best community college I've been to.

    how many have you attended?

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I am now enrolled in Journalism at the local CC. The classes are held on the high school campus however. Also judginf from last weeks science test I did not retain any chemistry. Being bad at science is why I will never become a scientist, as interesting as I think it is.

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  • Steel-AngelSteel-Angel Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    so i applied to the u of oregon's master's program in accountancy about two months ago

    one month later i got a reply from the director of the program, telling me that she reviewed my application and it was excellent; but she had a concern about my planned prerequisite courses being insufficient

    so she asked me to apply to portland state univ. and get the stuff done over spring and summer quarters

    i replied that i would get it done and never got a response back

    am i screwed for admission?

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    so, I have one exam tomorrow because I took my Speech exam today
    it was a three minute impromptu speech on a random topic
    guess who got to talk about Michael Jackson and exit while dancing Thriller? *this chick*

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I took speech but it was boring. I only went up once.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm the person with the most charisma in the whole damn class

    course, same could be said of me in most my other ones, too

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    every time some stupidly long and complicated equations solves to 0 I'm like "well aren't you just so clever"

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Antimatter wrote: »
    so, I have one exam tomorrow because I took my Speech exam today
    it was a three minute impromptu speech on a random topic
    guess who got to talk about Michael Jackson and exit while dancing Thriller? *this chick*

    that is so totally bitchin

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Muse, make that fashion thread already. I washed my raw denim jeans today because I got salt water and/or oyster juice and a decent amount of dirt on them and I have nowhere to talk about it.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    In high school my best friend was the president of our local FBLA chapter and convinced me to sign up. I said sure and told her to put me down for whatever activity she felt I would be good at. Later on I learned she put me in Impromptu Speech, the hardest activity, because she wanted to punish me.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I took speech but it was boring. I only went up once.

    Because you didn't want to go up or the class sucked?

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    every time some stupidly long and complicated equations solves to 0 I'm like "well aren't you just so clever"

    I had this happen so many times with polynomial stuff that the first thing I do is put 0 in for all the variables just in case.

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Muse, make that fashion thread already. I washed my raw denim jeans today because I got salt water and/or oyster juice and a decent amount of dirt on them and I have nowhere to talk about it.

    In all our laziness 6 articles are done and I do not know if that is enough.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    In high school my best friend was the president of our local FBLA chapter and convinced me to sign up. I said sure and told her to put me down for whatever activity she felt I would be good at. Later on I learned she put me in Impromptu Speech, the hardest activity, because she wanted to punish me.

    are you sure she didn't want to punish the audience HIYOOOO

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    In high school my best friend was the president of our local FBLA chapter and convinced me to sign up. I said sure and told her to put me down for whatever activity she felt I would be good at. Later on I learned she put me in Impromptu Speech, the hardest activity, because she wanted to punish me.

    are you sure she didn't want to punish the audience HIYOOOO

    I am crying everywhere...

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Muse, make that fashion thread already. I washed my raw denim jeans today because I got salt water and/or oyster juice and a decent amount of dirt on them and I have nowhere to talk about it.

    In all our laziness 6 articles are done and I do not know if that is enough.

    have you written about prom dresses yet? I am pretty sure you can fill the rest of the OP with prom dress words.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    every time some stupidly long and complicated equations solves to 0 I'm like "well aren't you just so clever"

    this happens all the time in intro quantum mechanics, and it's really fucking annoying because it takes about an entire page of working to do all the integrals and you can't guess and check

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Pharezon wrote: »
    I took speech but it was boring. I only went up once.

    Because you didn't want to go up or the class sucked?

    Because it sucked. I have no problem with public speaking.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm wearing my old 187th Infantry shirt and this equation came to negative 187 I think I have to take my shirt off now

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    man I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to make my food once in college. Fuck meal plans. I don't want to deal with that.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    man I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to make my food once in college. Fuck meal plans. I don't want to deal with that.

    I have seen some communal kitchens on college visits

    some were nice

    and some, when looked at, made me die inside.


    If I go to UO, I am going to immediately start looking for an apartment because I really want a kitchen and also livingroom space. Fuck being in a 2 person walk-in closet for 8 months at a time.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    man I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to make my food once in college. Fuck meal plans. I don't want to deal with that.

    For your first year I might be hesitant on making your own food.

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  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I would not bank on getting any serious cooking done if you live in a dorm. I've seen places with full kitchens and others that get only a stovetop.

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Eww, the UCs require you purchase a meal plan. I can confidently say that I will not use the meal plan often. What a spectacular waste of money, some thousands of dollars I will not use. I am very demanding taste-wise and easily bored. I'd sooner skip a meal than eat bland food (which I do all too much actually).

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I was allowed to use a mircrowave in my first year dorm

    fuck

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