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Wasting Class Time

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  • RegrettableRegrettable Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    Seriously that is babby stuff compared to what I'm doing this year.

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    fpflfpplfpfhtjjkfh FUCK OFF

    being able to have conversations that are ostensibly in english but make absolutely no sense to 90% of the population is fun though.

    What sucks though is when you tell people you study physics and they say "Oh you have to watch the Big Bang Theory"

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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.

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    Seriously that is babby stuff compared to what I'm doing this year.

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    fpflfpplfpfhtjjkfh FUCK OFF

    being able to have conversations that are ostensibly in english but make absolutely no sense to 90% of the population is fun though.

    What sucks though is when you tell people you study physics and they say "Oh you have to watch the Big Bang Theory"

    I get that at work. I just glare at them until they go ...maybe not.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    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 geeksploitation, is what it is.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    yeah, sitcoms in general are kinda dogshit

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    There used to be good sitcoms all over the shop, but now it's like people have forgotten how to write for the format.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    other times, it's a vehicle of success for a fading star.

    for example patrick warburton and david spade are in a sitcom together that wasn't funny

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    hrm. okay, let me rephrase myself

    "live studio audience" sitcoms really suck shit corn lately

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    edited May 2010
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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    get ready for episode 13 to literally fuck your brain apart

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    breaking bad, now that's a show

    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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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    best vid is the big bang theory without laughter

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Yeah, breaking bad is fucking great. Can't really think of another drama that even comes close to it at the moment.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    oh yeah. saul's got a website too

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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).

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    So, thinking about changing my PhD goals.

    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.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    also cal why does iron have 2 different prefixes related to it (ferro- and sidero-)?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I've never even heard that 2nd one

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  • JordanthehuttJordanthehutt Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    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.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Callius wrote: »
    L|ama wrote: »
    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).

    Oh. That's mighty underwhelming.

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  • TLHTLH Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I believe they come from two very different time periods of iron work as well. If that helps at all...

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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
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    -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
    TL;DR: Inconveniently located, nice amenities, fairly spacious

    Dorm C
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    -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)
    TL;DR: Para-inconveniently located, nice amenities, boring

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    woops and forgot the picture for Dorm A

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'd get A myself.

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  • thanimationsthanimations Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I live in a trailer park.

    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

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I would take C without question

    but that's me having graduated college and not giving two shits about the dorm looking "collegiate"

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Who gives a fuck about personality

    If you basically have your own apartment, you're more comfortable, especially if everything else is pretty nice

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Zonugal wrote: »
    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.
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    I would take C without question

    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.
    Who gives a fuck about personality

    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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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    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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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    is a 15 minute walk seriously considered driving distance for some people

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