Wait do people actually care about college GPA anywhere in a job interview? Its the kind of thing I'd internally laugh at if brought up repeatedly in an interview
I never put it on my resume yet it came up in every interview I did. Most of the time I was chided afterwards for not putting it on my resume since it was "a big deal" to them and could have hurt my chances had it not come up in the interview.
They cant get this without transcripts right? Are they actually going to do this? If I am a grown ass man looking for a non entry level position, I'm really not sure how I am going to answer that question when I have ~8 years experience. I doubt I could tell them what my degree was for at that point.
I leave it blank whenever I have to fill out one of those things. You gotta draw a line somewhere. No one will ever look or care or anything.
Lot of employers have asked for my transcripts after hiring me.
You're kidding right?
I've never heard of that happening to anyone ever! Are you doing some sort of sciencing or something wherein people care?
i have designed/engineered stuff that could hurt/maim/kill if it failed.
I have also been around someone that said they were a degrees engineer and that was either a complete lie or his engineering program was the worst. Was university of Houston though so I think it's more likely that he fibbed.
degrees...engineer?
yeah I've had to produce transcripts for all my jobs. I'm in a similar position where if I fuck up monstrously a whole lot of people could get hurt or killed.
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My parents were really viciously mean about everything I ever enjoyed. Getting really good at programming was probably 20% ability and 80% pure spite for the way they'd cut off my access to technology constantly and tell me to do shit I hated so I could become a doctor or a lawyer.
that's pretty awful
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
one of the benefits of being a heideggerian is that it's not really important to necessarily grasp how consciousness functions because while we are never removed from a single consciousness nevertheless that is not what we are so don't stress out about fully analyzing the mind
this is a qualiaty post
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Why am I suddenly brainstorming about a career change? My job is great!
Fak
skippy's wanderlust is contagious and fatal. I'm sorry.
Edit: well, I guess me and at least two other posters are on the same page. In my defense I'm waiting around at the title place for paperwork to get filed with the bank.
Alright and in this next scene all the animals have AIDS.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
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but seriously a very large amount of philosophy of mind is super trolly because its in that perfect area of everybody has lots of super intuitive responses about it while being unable to actually back up or properly eliminate many of the ideas
so you get this huge fuckfest full of insane thought experiments and qualia and general awesomeness
surrealitycheck on
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i can't tell if i'm actually naturally intelligent or just really good with language or if they are the same thing
with few exceptions, everything we know is contained within the language
I strongly disagree, unless we use a particularly expansive definition of 'language' that I would then take issue with.
care to elaborate?
Well, I'm projecting a little bit from conversations I've had before.
But let's start with an easy example. Imagine the Mona Lisa. You know what the Mona Lisa looks like. Is the knowledge of what the Mona Lisa looks like "contained within the language?"
Or, for a trollish philosophy of mind example (<3 podly), colorblind Mary. Colorblind Mary knows everything that can be conveyed linguistically about the color blue. However, I would argue that she doesn't know everything any human could possibly know about the color blue because she cannot know what it is like to see the color blue.
beetle-box we're all colorblind and we can never know it hamlet may have something in him that passes show but unless he can show it then even he doesn't know it
one of my classmates that went through the gifted programme, as it was run in singapore, remarked after we left that it was in essence a classroom full of nerds being kept carefully unaware that they are nerds
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even college is sometimes horrible about giving free passes
some professors actually critically evaluate what you did and even have criticism of an A paper
some give you an assignment to write about slavery and your write a 10 page paper about Frederick Douglass from memory and get a 100% and a "VERY GOOD" when there's no way in fuck all the facts as written lined up to reality
also professors often have a bias towards talented students.
like, the work you are doing in college isn't important in and of itself - it's just a set of exercises to gauge your ability to perform the thing in question.
so a professor's job is to teach students and assess their capability, yes, but the other part of their job is to recognize exceptionally talented or intelligent students and then make use of them in their research or grant areas.
so they have a built-in incentive to pick out exceptionally talented students even if their work ethic is shitty.
also compounding this is that lots of college professors were drawn from the group of "gifted students" who were always praised for their intelligence and you can see the cycle perpetuating itself.
For your tutoring what I use to do when I went and got my one on one time was try to do the homework first. I took notes on each step I failed at doing or how to move on. Now I suck at visualization of stuff in my head so that is what killed me. Limits kind of clicked in a weird way and I have never explained how. They just kind of worked.
But do some problems with limits. Write down each thought outside of "I AM DUMB!" while doing about 5 long problems. Take the problems and the notes with you to the tutor. Walk through the problem with the tutor again and show them your notes as you go. Hopefully this will help them figure out why you aren't getting limits.
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one of the benefits of being a heideggerian is that it's not really important to necessarily grasp how consciousness functions because while we are never removed from a single consciousness nevertheless that is not what we are so don't stress out about fully analyzing the mind
this is a qualiaty post
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Seriously though. Who so angered icy liquid as to bring the new mobile site design upon our heads. I can't even see what the hell I'm typing.
one of my classmates that went through the gifted programme, as it was run in singapore, remarked after we left that it was in essence a classroom full of nerds being kept carefully unaware that they are nerds
luckily you are a dog not a nerd so it all pans out
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like, calculus 2 has been one of the most upsetting things in my life. you spend all this time just 'getting' things quicker than everyone else, not needing to study etc.
then you're like o that was a real small pond i was in i guess. here i am at a community college- so not exactly the most demanding sieve for talent- and i feel like everyone in my math classes is better equipped than i am.
it makes you (me at least) feel really dumb. thought i was the smart kid. turns out i am not- or at least, if i am sort of a smart kid, being a smart kid is not in itself enough to accomplish difficult tasks in life. the ability these other kids have to effectively study and apply themselves is worth significantly more than my ability to do hard arithmetic in my head or remember lots of facts.
in this world chu is the stupid one!
yes but a takeaway is also that these are skills that can be developed like any others
effective study habits, determination, resilience can be learned or strengthened
it kinda scares me for my daughter because I'm basically out of time. I know there are a lot of things I did sort of wrong and stuff she isn't going to be able to accomplish without learning it herself somehow...
Idk man. It's scary sending her out into the world and thinking
"holy shit I wish I had done all these things differently but now it's too late
I love you good luck we did our best "
one of my classmates that went through the gifted programme, as it was run in singapore, remarked after we left that it was in essence a classroom full of nerds being kept carefully unaware that they are nerds
luckily you are a dog not a nerd so it all pans out
one of my classmates that went through the gifted programme, as it was run in singapore, remarked after we left that it was in essence a classroom full of nerds being kept carefully unaware that they are nerds
Its pretty tough to hide that in the US. We do have places like Bronx Science or Thomas Jefferson in NoVa that are bonkers advanced in terms of facilities. Maybe you could pull it off there.
Seriously though. Who so angered icy liquid as to bring the new mobile site design upon our heads. I can't even see what the hell I'm typing.
You've got to use it in portrait.
I mean, it's stupid and all, but that's the only way it's functional.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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degrees...engineer?
yeah I've had to produce transcripts for all my jobs. I'm in a similar position where if I fuck up monstrously a whole lot of people could get hurt or killed.
ignore this guy you wanna spend as long as possible chilling in academia like a villain
avoid real life at all costs
that's pretty awful
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
later wittgenstein or i feed
hilary putnam can be pretty cool i guess
and i guess i enjoyed donald davidson's stuff
this is a qualiaty post
Edit: well, I guess me and at least two other posters are on the same page. In my defense I'm waiting around at the title place for paperwork to get filed with the bank.
Don't mind if I do!
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
so you get this huge fuckfest full of insane thought experiments and qualia and general awesomeness
beetle-box we're all colorblind and we can never know it hamlet may have something in him that passes show but unless he can show it then even he doesn't know it
get dunked on
boom philosophy of mind
philosophy of mine
is a philosophy of mines
boom
also professors often have a bias towards talented students.
like, the work you are doing in college isn't important in and of itself - it's just a set of exercises to gauge your ability to perform the thing in question.
so a professor's job is to teach students and assess their capability, yes, but the other part of their job is to recognize exceptionally talented or intelligent students and then make use of them in their research or grant areas.
so they have a built-in incentive to pick out exceptionally talented students even if their work ethic is shitty.
also compounding this is that lots of college professors were drawn from the group of "gifted students" who were always praised for their intelligence and you can see the cycle perpetuating itself.
For your tutoring what I use to do when I went and got my one on one time was try to do the homework first. I took notes on each step I failed at doing or how to move on. Now I suck at visualization of stuff in my head so that is what killed me. Limits kind of clicked in a weird way and I have never explained how. They just kind of worked.
But do some problems with limits. Write down each thought outside of "I AM DUMB!" while doing about 5 long problems. Take the problems and the notes with you to the tutor. Walk through the problem with the tutor again and show them your notes as you go. Hopefully this will help them figure out why you aren't getting limits.
bail and talk shit about your company on glassdoor.
which is the inescapable conclusion that colorblind mary (and common sense, really) brings us to
we're all platonic cave-dwellers looking at magritte paintings on the wall
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
it's punishment for all the times we asked for a mobile app
not only does it seem like I've been going to college forever it feels like I've been taking freshmen level courses forever
luckily you are a dog not a nerd so it all pans out
you are okay, spool
this will be settled once we have better machine brain interfaces and robot eyes
dang, now i know why i was failing out
I forgot about that title, ho ho ho ho ho.
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Its pretty tough to hide that in the US. We do have places like Bronx Science or Thomas Jefferson in NoVa that are bonkers advanced in terms of facilities. Maybe you could pull it off there.
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the best martial arts style against a voodoo style zombie uprising, which scientists admit is just as likely as a romero style zombie uprising
only once we're all merged into a single gestalt consciousness comprising all of the extant universe
i mean, more than we already are
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I mean, it's stupid and all, but that's the only way it's functional.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
machines should do the work
so humans have time to think
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
As it should be. Landscape phone users are worse than animals.
it is the intellectual equivalent of the five year old who responds to every statement with "why?"