Graduating with Honors at my University is pretty lame, mostly in regards to doing it with an engineering degree. You practically have to beg the professors to give you more work so it can count as 'honors' credit, then spend your junior and senior years doing community service type projects.
I guess the upshot is that I don't have to put up with any of their bullshit and they wont kick me out. Also I get to register for classes a week early.
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
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I actually wish I did more community service in HS and college, I should rectify that
A lot of the community service around here involves beach cleanups and bowling with speds
Or you could help out at one of those marathons for aids in abortion clinics or something. They want you to show up at 5am and stick around until the evening. No.
I mean, do they really need me there the WHOLE time? Marathons take a long time, no matter how fast you run. Let me go take off my pants and rest for a while.
This is the problem with education these days
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Ugh. I wish I had a better memory so I could take a whole bunch of math and science classes. The stuff you can play around with in those classes fascinates me and feeds my insatiable curiosity.
memory doesn't really help that much with maths classes. My brain is pretty much a sponge when it comes to remembering science stuff that interests me at least a little (which is pretty much all science outside of biology above the cellular scale), but I'm really having to work on not just relying on this because I'm not doing too great at maths at the moment and it just really sucks having to change how I learn a subject as compared to memorising specific methods like I did in high school
I had a computational modelling midterm last week the day after mid semester break without knowing about it beforehand at 10am as my first class back and only finished half of it badly, that was a fun surprise (fuck that class is taught terribly. If you are contemplating it, do not take a computational modelling course at otago university. Just don't) and have another one this saturday at 10am that counts for 15% of my mark for that class, but that's chem and is pretty much purely remembering formulas and some basic stuff that I've already learned and been examined on in high school
Ugh. I wish I had a better memory so I could take a whole bunch of math and science classes. The stuff you can play around with in those classes fascinates me and feeds my insatiable curiosity.
I can see where being able to memorize gobs of information would be useful in basic biology, astronomy, and maybe geology courses, but I certainly can't say the same thing for math, chemistry, or physics (well, maybe a little bit for organic chem).
Math classes, at least what I've had to take (calc 3, differential equations & matrix alg) really have always boiled down to:
"This is what we're learning today, here's the derivation of the equations you use, circle the final equations we get. Here's twenty practice problems that all follow pretty much the same procedure and are almost identical to what you'll be seeing on exams"
Whereas science and engineering courses like physics and chemistry and material/energy balances go like this:
"Here are the basic concepts that you need to understand completely. Here are some example problems of the most basic form that utilize one of each of these principles. These are in no way what you'll be seeing on the exam. On there, you'll get problems that are an amalgam of most of these concepts and you'll have to know then inside and out to manipulate them in such a way to find the correct answer"
Ugh. I wish I had a better memory so I could take a whole bunch of math and science classes. The stuff you can play around with in those classes fascinates me and feeds my insatiable curiosity.
I can see where being able to memorize gobs of information would be useful in basic biology, astronomy, and maybe geology courses, but I certainly can't say the same thing for math, chemistry, or physics (well, maybe a little bit for organic chem).
Math classes, at least what I've had to take (calc 3, differential equations & matrix alg) really have always boiled down to:
"This is what we're learning today, here's the derivation of the equations you use, circle the final equations we get. Here's twenty practice problems that all follow pretty much the same procedure and are almost identical to what you'll be seeing on exams"
Whereas science and engineering courses like physics and chemistry and material/energy balances go like this:
"Here are the basic concepts that you need to understand completely. Here are some example problems of the most basic form that utilize one of each of these principles. These are in no way what you'll be seeing on the exam. On there, you'll get problems that are an amalgam of most of these concepts and you'll have to know then inside and out to manipulate them in such a way to find the correct answer"
Second year almost through!
this will all change pretty heavily depending on your profs and the courses you take
the math you will know the best is the math you can derive yourself
at least when you're just dealing with computation
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thorgotthere is special providencein the fall of a sparrowRegistered Userregular
this will all change pretty heavily depending on your profs and the courses you take
the math you will know the best is the math you can derive yourself
at least when you're just dealing with computation
Eh, I'm done with math. Engineers only have to know up through differential equations and manipulating matrices. Honestly, I wish I had more courses like that that were so straightforward.
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neville's major just reminds me of when I talked to a friend who goes to GA Tech (majoring in some kind of Engineering), and I asked him what classes he was taking.
basically it sounded like the most incredibly tough shit imaginable. I will never understand mathematics or computers or anything like that.
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I applied there, but the last thing I ever got back from them was a note that they'd received my completed application, and the AU deadline rolled around so that kinda sealed it.
I applied there, but the last thing I ever got back from them was a note that they'd received my completed application, and the AU deadline rolled around so that kinda sealed it.
You're usually supposed to pester them until you get a result.
I applied there, but the last thing I ever got back from them was a note that they'd received my completed application, and the AU deadline rolled around so that kinda sealed it.
You're usually supposed to pester them until you get a result.
It's like a lesson in initiative or something.
oh yeah, I love hearing a frustrated office employee repeat for the trillionth time that I'll hear as soon as they've made a decision or getting form e-mails back from the dean of admissions
I'm not sure what the hell I'll end up doing with most of the knowledge I've amassed over the past two years; most of it is inapplicable to my main choice of career path.
Public Administration degree? Less than ideal for higher ed.
but hey, it's what was around.
maybe ill just end up running a city instead, which would also be neat.
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Great, now I'm going to watch at least one full season of Futurama instead of working on my papers.
I guess that's ok.
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Why you gotta do that.
Why.
Unless Information Systems is hilarious to you?
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That's fine. It's still funny.
No more Futurama hating.
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literally retarded
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also I graduated in december
with no honors
because I didn't want them obviously
I guess the upshot is that I don't have to put up with any of their bullshit and they wont kick me out. Also I get to register for classes a week early.
Or you could help out at one of those marathons for aids in abortion clinics or something. They want you to show up at 5am and stick around until the evening. No.
This is the problem with education these days
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memory doesn't really help that much with maths classes. My brain is pretty much a sponge when it comes to remembering science stuff that interests me at least a little (which is pretty much all science outside of biology above the cellular scale), but I'm really having to work on not just relying on this because I'm not doing too great at maths at the moment and it just really sucks having to change how I learn a subject as compared to memorising specific methods like I did in high school
I had a computational modelling midterm last week the day after mid semester break without knowing about it beforehand at 10am as my first class back and only finished half of it badly, that was a fun surprise (fuck that class is taught terribly. If you are contemplating it, do not take a computational modelling course at otago university. Just don't) and have another one this saturday at 10am that counts for 15% of my mark for that class, but that's chem and is pretty much purely remembering formulas and some basic stuff that I've already learned and been examined on in high school
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I can see where being able to memorize gobs of information would be useful in basic biology, astronomy, and maybe geology courses, but I certainly can't say the same thing for math, chemistry, or physics (well, maybe a little bit for organic chem).
Math classes, at least what I've had to take (calc 3, differential equations & matrix alg) really have always boiled down to:
"This is what we're learning today, here's the derivation of the equations you use, circle the final equations we get. Here's twenty practice problems that all follow pretty much the same procedure and are almost identical to what you'll be seeing on exams"
Whereas science and engineering courses like physics and chemistry and material/energy balances go like this:
"Here are the basic concepts that you need to understand completely. Here are some example problems of the most basic form that utilize one of each of these principles. These are in no way what you'll be seeing on the exam. On there, you'll get problems that are an amalgam of most of these concepts and you'll have to know then inside and out to manipulate them in such a way to find the correct answer"
Second year almost through!
this will all change pretty heavily depending on your profs and the courses you take
the math you will know the best is the math you can derive yourself
at least when you're just dealing with computation
better start thinking about finding a job
Eh, I'm done with math. Engineers only have to know up through differential equations and manipulating matrices. Honestly, I wish I had more courses like that that were so straightforward.
I am studying maths and bioengineering right now infact
thus far it's the best place we've looked at, so I'm thinking we will take it
that's one thing I don't have to worry about
Only one more year to go to finish my undergrad.
Then off to more school!
Here's to years more of education regardless of getting my BA in English next year!
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basically it sounded like the most incredibly tough shit imaginable. I will never understand mathematics or computers or anything like that.
I applied there, but the last thing I ever got back from them was a note that they'd received my completed application, and the AU deadline rolled around so that kinda sealed it.
You're usually supposed to pester them until you get a result.
It's like a lesson in initiative or something.
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oh yeah, I love hearing a frustrated office employee repeat for the trillionth time that I'll hear as soon as they've made a decision or getting form e-mails back from the dean of admissions
calling once or twice is not pestering
it's giving a shit about whatever you're applying for
but whatever
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pfft. Clearly your style of college is old school.
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Public Administration degree? Less than ideal for higher ed.
but hey, it's what was around.
maybe ill just end up running a city instead, which would also be neat.
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