FUCK THAT SHOW. It is probably the only thing on TV worse than 2 and a half men. Actually no, it doesn't advocate misogyny (at least as much as that), so at worst it's equally bad. But still terrible.
I actually tried to give it a chance last night but within about 2 minutes they were talking about one of them not knowing the result of a decision someone else had made and how they "felt like one of heisenberg's particles" and no one fucking talks like that. There are some borderline autistic manchildren in my physics classes but none of them approach that level of terrible.
FUCK THAT SHOW. It is probably the only thing on TV worse than 2 and a half men. Actually no, it doesn't advocate misogyny (at least as much as that), so at worst it's equally bad. But still terrible.
I actually tried to give it a chance last night but within about 2 minutes they were talking about one of them not knowing the result of a decision someone else had made and how they "felt like one of heisenberg's particles" and no one fucking talks like that. There are some borderline autistic manchildren in my physics classes but none of them approach that level of terrible.
it's an example of painfully catering to what you believe a target demographic to be
sometimes it yields success, like two and a half men's pandering to the hillbillies who desire to live through charlie sheen vicariously as he berates ducky from fucking sixteen candles
the big bang theory is more offensive than all of blaxploitation
seriously though there's still a few decent sitcoms - 30 rock, the office, modern family, I've never watched them but I hear parks and rec, community, always sunny in philadelphia, are good, HIMYM is kind of bland but it's alright, uhh
Laugh tracks have always been fucking terrible, shows are only good despite them. They don't really add much if it's a good show, but if you don't get a joke or it isn't funny it just makes you go "oh, that was supposed to be a joke. That's fucking terrible". Now that I look at it, yeah, the only one in that list that has a laugh track that I know of is the one I rated lowest.
Just finished my Political Psychology final, fucked up some of the questions but at least my essays were good (still have a paper due for that class though, have to finish that by Wednesday).
what's the deal with teaching and degrees and shit there? Here you can just get a 1 year diploma after you've done undergrad (3 years, 4 for honours) and you're sorted.
I got 40.5/50 on my calculus midterm, screwed up the first question a little bit and got flustered and messed up a couple of fairly simple questions that I can do in my head just looking at the test now.
also cal why does iron have 2 different prefixes related to it (ferro- and sidero-)?
Ferro is latin, Sidero is greek (to the best of my knowledge, I don't know greek).
Over here the teaching certificates vary from state to state. In Washington state you have to have your Bachelors (approx. 4 years of Uni) and then a teaching certificate (usually another 2 years of uni; though it grants you the title of Masters).
The teaching certificates come with endorsements for certain subjects. I would be getting my endorsement in Social Studies and History.
Ok, guys, I need some help (and a quote for pictures)
Room draw is tonight and I have a pretty great number, so I likely have my pick of the litter. There are three dorms that I'm choosing between:
Dorm A
-Classic ivied stone collegiate-looking building
-Right on the main academic campus (literally about twenty second walk from academic buildings & main cafeteria & library, three minute walk from the campus center with the cafe and the mailboxes and all that -- this means enormously convenient, not at all isolated (that being a pro and a con))
-BFF is gonna be living there
-Tiny rooms (not as big a deal as it sounds, as this is a single and is just going to be for sleeping and studying)
-Shared bathrooms (however, pretty spacious & with lockable doors)
-No kitchen (right near cafeteria, though, and I'll be cooking at friends' houses a lot), no common room
-Poor wireless
-Auto-regulated AC and heat (which sounds awful, but my friend who lives there says it works out great, so eh)
-Exposed brick wall in dorm (!!)
TL;DR: Conveniently located, poor amenities, small
Dorm B
-An honest-to-god converted Manor, classy-looking as all hell, although hardly very modern
-As far away as possible from main academic campus (about a 15-20 minute walk -- on the one hand, I'm going to have a car; on the other hand, it gets down to about -10 degrees F in the winter)
-Right over the secondary cafe, which is better food & smaller selection & smaller servings than the primary, but still super far from the campus center & library & all
-No friends living there -- one friend will be living maybe five minutes walk away. Again, though, I'll have a car, and most of my friends are living off-campus anyway.
-Beautiful views, pretty spacious rooms, private bathroom
-The building's main floor is where students hold dance parties, so once or twice a month on the weekends it's going to be NUTS. Otherwise, regular and quiet.
-On a grassy hill overlooking the Hudson River
-Pretty sizable rooms; most 'state-of-the-art,' meaning everything is in really good condition, good internet, etc.
-About halfway between Dorms A and B -- i.e. maybe five-ten minute walk from academic buildings & campus center
-In little residential community, so isn't isolated like dorm B but doesn't feel hubbub-y like dorm A
-No friends live anywhere around at all
-Tucked down in a little valley with the other similar dorms
-Occasional big parties around
-Nice common rooms, nice kitchens
-Far less personality than either of the other dorms (there are about sixteen that are all nearly alike)
I'd go with A only cos you'd be right there for classes (oh how I wish I still lived on campus for this very reason) and you've got friends right there.
Though if cooking is important to you, then B would probably be the better choice. If it's only a 5-10 minute walk to campus center, it's not like you not going to see your friends and associates all the time.
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Shankill, what year are you going into college? I ask because I feel that's the most important condition in throwing in my vote for which building.
Shankill, what year are you going into college? I ask because I feel that's the most important condition in throwing in my vote for which building.
I'm technically going to be a sophomore, but in a lot of respects I'm more like a junior -- the administration gave me a junior room-draw number, I'm taking mostly 300-level courses, I'm Moderating into the Upper College of my major next semester, all my friends are juniors, etc.
but that's me having graduated college and not giving two shits about the dorm looking "collegiate"
I mean it's not really that I care about the dorm looking collegiate, it's more that A and B are very classic, well-kept old buildings (in B especially, some of the rooms have fireplaces or balconies or incredible amounts of detail in the architecture, the rooms overlook either the Hudson or the Gehry theater) where all the rooms are different sizes and are totally unique and all have different great views and C is a series of mostly-identical function-over-form buildings where each room is functionally the same as however many others.
I think what's probably going on here is that I should just for every reason live in A (right next to my classes!) but I'm kinda romanticizing B? I know that as soon as winter came and I had to spend every morning warming up my car in the snowy bitter-ass midstate New York weather I'd be pretty pissed.
If you basically have your own apartment, you're more comfortable, especially if everything else is pretty nice
I mean -- B is the most like having my own apartment? at least the dorms at B have private bathrooms, C has two shared lockable bathrooms to a floor (like A)
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yeah it's clearly about living in a building that makes you feel like you're in a nice college.
and dude you were talking about a ten minute walk with option C
if you are seriously going to drive to class I'm going to hike upstate and beat the shit out of you
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What sucks though is when you tell people you study physics and they say "Oh you have to watch the Big Bang Theory"
I actually tried to give it a chance last night but within about 2 minutes they were talking about one of them not knowing the result of a decision someone else had made and how they "felt like one of heisenberg's particles" and no one fucking talks like that. There are some borderline autistic manchildren in my physics classes but none of them approach that level of terrible.
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I get that at work. I just glare at them until they go ...maybe not.
It's geeksploitation, is what it is.
sometimes it yields success, like two and a half men's pandering to the hillbillies who desire to live through charlie sheen vicariously as he berates ducky from fucking sixteen candles
for example patrick warburton and david spade are in a sitcom together that wasn't funny
seriously though there's still a few decent sitcoms - 30 rock, the office, modern family, I've never watched them but I hear parks and rec, community, always sunny in philadelphia, are good, HIMYM is kind of bland but it's alright, uhh
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"live studio audience" sitcoms really suck shit corn lately
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omniscient storytelling making you feel comfortable to a point until they yank the b-ball out your hand, and deflate it in front of you
unblinking
as you just sit there sobbing
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Instead of going for a Medieval History PhD I may go for a Masters in Teaching and get certified to do High School history.
It's not the best, but... ugh.... fucks.
I got 40.5/50 on my calculus midterm, screwed up the first question a little bit and got flustered and messed up a couple of fairly simple questions that I can do in my head just looking at the test now.
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Over here the teaching certificates vary from state to state. In Washington state you have to have your Bachelors (approx. 4 years of Uni) and then a teaching certificate (usually another 2 years of uni; though it grants you the title of Masters).
The teaching certificates come with endorsements for certain subjects. I would be getting my endorsement in Social Studies and History.
Oh. That's mighty underwhelming.
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Room draw is tonight and I have a pretty great number, so I likely have my pick of the litter. There are three dorms that I'm choosing between:
Dorm A
-Right on the main academic campus (literally about twenty second walk from academic buildings & main cafeteria & library, three minute walk from the campus center with the cafe and the mailboxes and all that -- this means enormously convenient, not at all isolated (that being a pro and a con))
-BFF is gonna be living there
-Tiny rooms (not as big a deal as it sounds, as this is a single and is just going to be for sleeping and studying)
-Shared bathrooms (however, pretty spacious & with lockable doors)
-No kitchen (right near cafeteria, though, and I'll be cooking at friends' houses a lot), no common room
-Poor wireless
-Auto-regulated AC and heat (which sounds awful, but my friend who lives there says it works out great, so eh)
-Exposed brick wall in dorm (!!)
Dorm B
-As far away as possible from main academic campus (about a 15-20 minute walk -- on the one hand, I'm going to have a car; on the other hand, it gets down to about -10 degrees F in the winter)
-Right over the secondary cafe, which is better food & smaller selection & smaller servings than the primary, but still super far from the campus center & library & all
-No friends living there -- one friend will be living maybe five minutes walk away. Again, though, I'll have a car, and most of my friends are living off-campus anyway.
-Beautiful views, pretty spacious rooms, private bathroom
-The building's main floor is where students hold dance parties, so once or twice a month on the weekends it's going to be NUTS. Otherwise, regular and quiet.
-On a grassy hill overlooking the Hudson River
Dorm C
-About halfway between Dorms A and B -- i.e. maybe five-ten minute walk from academic buildings & campus center
-In little residential community, so isn't isolated like dorm B but doesn't feel hubbub-y like dorm A
-No friends live anywhere around at all
-Tucked down in a little valley with the other similar dorms
-Occasional big parties around
-Nice common rooms, nice kitchens
-Far less personality than either of the other dorms (there are about sixteen that are all nearly alike)
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Though if cooking is important to you, then B would probably be the better choice. If it's only a 5-10 minute walk to campus center, it's not like you not going to see your friends and associates all the time.
they are fairly nice trailers and all the international kids live there so it's basically ethnic party all the time
also the rent is one hundred dollars per month
but that's me having graduated college and not giving two shits about the dorm looking "collegiate"
If you basically have your own apartment, you're more comfortable, especially if everything else is pretty nice
I'm technically going to be a sophomore, but in a lot of respects I'm more like a junior -- the administration gave me a junior room-draw number, I'm taking mostly 300-level courses, I'm Moderating into the Upper College of my major next semester, all my friends are juniors, etc.
I mean it's not really that I care about the dorm looking collegiate, it's more that A and B are very classic, well-kept old buildings (in B especially, some of the rooms have fireplaces or balconies or incredible amounts of detail in the architecture, the rooms overlook either the Hudson or the Gehry theater) where all the rooms are different sizes and are totally unique and all have different great views and C is a series of mostly-identical function-over-form buildings where each room is functionally the same as however many others.
I think what's probably going on here is that I should just for every reason live in A (right next to my classes!) but I'm kinda romanticizing B? I know that as soon as winter came and I had to spend every morning warming up my car in the snowy bitter-ass midstate New York weather I'd be pretty pissed.
I mean -- B is the most like having my own apartment? at least the dorms at B have private bathrooms, C has two shared lockable bathrooms to a floor (like A)
and dude you were talking about a ten minute walk with option C
if you are seriously going to drive to class I'm going to hike upstate and beat the shit out of you