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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:02
F*ck it, more Sunn O))).  I'm in the mood for some crushing dronebient.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:05
Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I used to hate classes, then I finished my general education requirements and could take all physics and math.

General education requirements are the worse. A sure way to make you pay more than you should for your education... Dead

Yeah, the stuff I'm being tested on I will never have to learn for my major at all... Confused
Waste of my time and money.


It's not even that you won't use it; it's that you don't learn anything in the classes.

My life would be so superior right now if I was not forced to take Gen Eds.
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My posting on PA this morning is enough evidence of the uselessness of General Education classes... 
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:08
I am in favor of the idea of Gen Eds because I have some gay ideas about a well rounded education. They never seem to be implemented very well, though. 
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:10
You're assuming that forcing a person to take a class that they do not want to take guarantees that they will learn something. You can't make a person well rounded any more than you can make that fat chick who hangs all over you at the bar look like Scarlett Johanson. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:12
Especially because these supposed "rounding" classes usually are totally wasted and not-payed-attention-to by the students... 

I like the Johanson-conversion idea though... 
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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:13
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

You're assuming that forcing a person to take a class that they do not want to take guarantees that they will learn something. You can't make a person well rounded any more than you can make that fat chick who hangs all over you at the bar look like Scarlett Johanson. 

I dunno, eight or nine beers might help Tongue
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:18
^Yes, 8 or 9 beers usually make you learn Gen Ed classes.... 
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I could summarize my eductation like this:
 
-Pay a lot of money to buy books.
-Have lecturers go through the books and note important passages.
-5% of ideas for the test will not be from the book, but only an idiot wouldn't be able to take a logical guess at them.
-Do one worthwhile project a class, if that.
 
So, how much am I in debt in order to learn sh*t I could have learned by renting a few books from the library and taken a CLEP test for $50?
 
Now I'm working 30 hour weeks and going to school with 19 credits (23 next semester) and trying not to think about my debt or lack of life.
 
F**k anyone who doesn't think all manner of formal education in th US is retarded.
 
I also had a professor say something like, "You're in college. This should be your job. You should be putting 40 hours in schoolwork each week." In retrospect, I don't know how I didn't burst out laughing. It could be I was taken aback at how out of touch he was.


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I could go for 8 or 9 beers right now.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:26
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

 
F**k anyone who doesn't think all manner of formal education in the world is retarded.
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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:32
Sorry to post more Rebecca Black but the ending to this one really made me laugh:
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:32
And this has gotten worse since the invention of laptops and wifi internet connections... Listening to the idiotic lectures vs reading something on the web? Please... 
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Points: 10185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:34
Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Sorry to post more Rebecca Black but the ending to this one really made me laugh:


That was already posted before.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:37
Idiotic Lecturer, every time.  We used to count the times one of ours said "um".  It kept us busy.

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Points: 10185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:38
Holy sh*t, try reading through the comments section on Rebecca Black's Friday with the automatic updates setting on.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:40
I feel sorry for the girl.  She's got no talent and when she's older, she'll likely regret her unwanted career choice.

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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:42
Agreeing with the Education talk i'm finishing my main education in a couple of months and I know i need a very large break from it.Yet i'll no doubt end up having to spend thousands doing an Undergraduate degree just so I can look good enough to get a job. Stern Smile

And I read that Rebecca Black's parents paid a record company for the song so it probably wasn't even her idea
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:43
You read about her?

Wow.

She's hit our shores too, only a litter slower.  A few of my English friends started posting Friday up on Facebook.

Grr!

Can't she stay in America?
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2011 at 13:43
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

And this has gotten worse since the invention of laptops and wifi internet connections... Listening to the idiotic lectures vs reading something on the web? Please... 


I've had some fantastic lecturers I'd pay a substantial amount of money for. But in general, give me a textbook and I'll show up with a question or two once a week.

We have a few excellent lecturers. We have the ability to record them and mass broadcast their lectures. Instead, we settle for tens of thousands sub par lecturers and pay thousands of dollars to sit through them.


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