The School Thread and You, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Add/Drop

Romanian My Escutcheon

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Welcome to higher education.

Zonugal

I learned everything I need from the school of hard knocks.

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Marth

Other people's laptops in class are SOOOOO distracting if they're not taking notes.

Skull Man

can't watch those videos right now can somebody give me a summary

GreasyKidsStuff

I just stopped bringing my laptop to class when I couldn't keep myself from hopping on Facebook

Marth

Skull Man wrote:

can't watch those videos right now can somebody give me a summary

"oh my gosh the professor smashed that dude's phone/laptop"

even though the second was an April Fool's thing and the third is to set an example

Butler For Life #1

I don't really use my laptop for class

my only classes that allow it are classes where handwriting is the only way to go. You can't really draw chemical formulas on a computer (well you could, but it would take way too long).

Speed Racer

i feel like i'm barely even in school this term

my instructors are all apathetic, classes cancel more often than not

i am basically paying to have a degree handed to me at this point

Kadith

I am so surprised/disgusted with all the second year physics majors who are not bothered by graphs that have the terminal velocity of a projectile pointed away from the ground.

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Skull Man

turned in twenty pages of two different papers today

pyromaniac221

You know that feeling you get right after an 8A.M. calc exam when you realize you made a bunch of rudimentary errors and completely fucked yourself over?

Because it isn't a good feeling.

Big Red Tie

Marth wrote:

Other people's laptops in class are SOOOOO distracting if they're not taking notes.

look no offense but

no

you got ADD boy?

Kadith

pyromaniac221 wrote:

You know that feeling you get right after an 8A.M. calc exam when you realize you made a bunch of rudimentary errors and completely fucked yourself over?

Because it isn't a good feeling.

Nah I'm usually drunk by then

And as far as laptops go

I enjoy them, I get to watch people play pokemon during boring classes.

Romanian My Escutcheon

Marth wrote:

Skull Man wrote:

can't watch those videos right now can somebody give me a summary

"oh my gosh the professor smashed that dude's phone/laptop"

even though the second was an April Fool's thing and the third is to set an example

But the second thing was an April Fool's thing in a foreign language, so it is educational in nature, and therefore appropriate for the school thread!

And the third one, joke or not, is awesome.

Marth

Big Red Tie wrote:

Marth wrote:

Other people's laptops in class are SOOOOO distracting if they're not taking notes.

look no offense but

no

you got ADD boy?

when it's about two rows down, right in your line of vision, yeah it's distracting

Big Red Tie

what are the people in class looking at that's so distracting to you

Peter Ebel

Like, a bunch of flashing colours and twitch movement will catch your eye because that is how the brain works.

Peter Ebel

Also, is a chemistry lecture a front for an underground competitive speed talking ring? Slow down, man, and maybe leave out an anecdote. Maybe.

Are PhD dudes requires to mumble? Speak up, kid. And stand up straight. And for God's sake, stop wearing worn out sneakers to work.

Slider

One time, I had a professor tell me to take my hat off. I obliged.

But, if one of those fuckers tried anything like that now, I would rage.

Zonugal

Slider, you may have too much a commitment to fashion.

Shorty

if a prof asked me to take my hat off, I'd probably do it

but not without giving him a look

L|ama

today i learned why buying internet boner pills is a bad idea for anything other than the hilarious english on the packaging

laser applications mini-conferences are interesting

L|ama

oh one guy also did a talk about adaptive optics and had one slide that had the airy disk in it from an image of a star

so they can get things down to the diffraction limit through about 100km of atmosphere, and get better pictures than hubble (because even though it's slightly lower quality, it's far easier to use bigger diameter mirrors)

my supervisor described it as "optics pornography"

Riale

Big Red Tie wrote:

Marth wrote:

Other people's laptops in class are SOOOOO distracting if they're not taking notes.

look no offense but

no

you got ADD boy?

I don't have ADD but it's super distracting for me too. Usually because the students that are doing this are also quietly laughing/fidgeting all over while they watch music videos or something. If people are just quietly surfing facebook without comment It's not really bad, but I always get stuck behind the idiots watching movies in class or something.

Also it's just super disrespectful. I mean, if you're going to show up to class the least you can do is listen. God knows why someone pays for a course so they can sit in a fancy room and surf youtube instead of doing it at home.

However, the newest thing that's bugging me right now in my last year of undergrad is people kicking the back of my seat. Now, granted, because of my major I'm usually in shitty little windowless rooms with desks all squished together. But I always seem unlucky in that the person behind me is wired as fuck and insists on resting their legs on the back of my seat and jiggling them like a vibrator. I'm getting really tired of turning around and asking people to knock it off, only to get shouted at/given a dirty look. I don't understand when this became common practice but it's juvenile as fuck.

tl;dr super disappointed with my fellow seniors being shitcocks.

Kabitzy

before i started college i was under the impression that no one used notebooks in college, that everyone just carried their laptops to class always so i was super nervous. little did i realize 90% of my professors bar the use of laptops during class.

I'm most disappointed in my peers for pursuing a biology degree with no fucking interest in biology. What the absolute shit is that about? There are so many of these jerk offs in my bio classes and all they do is bitch and moan. You duders are paying the school to be miserable. Congrats at failing miserably at college.

Squall

Shorty wrote:

if a prof asked me to take my hat off, I'd probably do it

but not without giving him a look

i wish my professors had asked that of me as a freshman

i had a fedora, you see

Sassori

Squall wrote:

Shorty wrote:

if a prof asked me to take my hat off, I'd probably do it

but not without giving him a look

i wish my professors had asked that of me as a freshman

i had a fedora, you see

We weren't allowed to wear hats in High School. They could be symbols of gangs. Or something.

Squall

this makes me look worse but i was talking about as a college freshman

Squall

many regrets

Sassori

Oh you poor thing.

GreasyKidsStuff

Lonely Nerds Wearing Fedoras is a pretty awesome tumblr. Too bad it stopped updating.

MereHappenstance

Squall wrote:

Shorty wrote:

if a prof asked me to take my hat off, I'd probably do it

but not without giving him a look

i wish my professors had asked that of me as a freshman

i had a fedora, you see

To this day, I continue to see people wear fedoras. As upperclassmen.

This all happens either in the art building, or in the nerd group that is obsessed with animu.

Sassori

MereHappenstance wrote:

Squall wrote:

Shorty wrote:

if a prof asked me to take my hat off, I'd probably do it

but not without giving him a look

i wish my professors had asked that of me as a freshman

i had a fedora, you see

To this day, I continue to see people wear fedoras. As upperclassmen.

This all happens either in the art building, or in the nerd group that is obsessed with animu.

I own a fedora because I have a random-not-quite-collection of silly hats. But I can't think of the last time I actually wore it...

MereHappenstance

One of them wears a fedora, duster, and kilt all in one. On a regular basis.

I don't even know man.

SoaL

yeah *honk*

fockin nerds wearing fedoras

http://forums.penny-arcade.com

Kadith

some douchebag on campus wears a toga over his clothes

idgi

Speed Racer

we've got a girl that regularly wears cat ears, a cat tail, and a pink tutu

BugBoy

trying to come up with a witty pun about that

failing

TrippyJing

nyan of that in here, please