Shred the Eleventh: The sleeper has awakened!

MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: My brain doesn't seem to be working today, even for composing. I know that feeling. I was going to try tackling my Cost homework, but I can't even think enough. Maybe I'll just be really lazy today. I think I'll do business homework today. Intro to Business or what? I have alot of homework to do this weekend, but I can't do any right now. I'm feeling a bit down today, not for any good reason. Yeah, business 101, it's an easy class, it is just a dull subject. Yeah, definitely. I'm glad I'm in all the upper-level stuff now, but at the same time there are some disadvantages.

I'm in computer science, and I thought that taking a little business would be good idea, it fulfilled a required credit anyway.

MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Woo, I think my external hard drive isn't failing after all...I think that one of two USB ports on the front of my PC is, though. That's good... and bad. Well, I think it's actually always been less powerful than the other front USB port.  I've never plugged my external into it before, but when I plug my Zune into it it usually syncs/charges more slowly than when I plug it into the other.  I've got two more on the front I've never even noticed/tried anything in before, too.   My computer has like 12 USB ports altogether I think. Wow, nice. Guess it doesn't matter then. Yeah, but if the front ones all fail it'll be an incredibly horrible pain to plug anything into the back ones.  One of the few downsides of my computer, the tower is a beastly huge thing. That's true. I'm forced to plug in the back of my computer for this desktop

I have to plug my headphones into the back of mine, it is definitely a pain.

A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: My brain doesn't seem to be working today, even for composing. I know that feeling. I was going to try tackling my Cost homework, but I can't even think enough. Maybe I'll just be really lazy today. I think I'll do business homework today. Intro to Business or what? I have alot of homework to do this weekend, but I can't do any right now. I'm feeling a bit down today, not for any good reason. Yeah, business 101, it's an easy class, it is just a dull subject. Yeah, definitely. I'm glad I'm in all the upper-level stuff now, but at the same time there are some disadvantages. I'm in computer science, and I thought that taking a little business would be good idea, it fulfilled a required credit anyway.

Yeah, IT and business go well together.

SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Woo, I think my external hard drive isn't failing after all...I think that one of two USB ports on the front of my PC is, though. That's good... and bad. Well, I think it's actually always been less powerful than the other front USB port.  I've never plugged my external into it before, but when I plug my Zune into it it usually syncs/charges more slowly than when I plug it into the other.  I've got two more on the front I've never even noticed/tried anything in before, too.   My computer has like 12 USB ports altogether I think. Wow, nice. Guess it doesn't matter then. Yeah, but if the front ones all fail it'll be an incredibly horrible pain to plug anything into the back ones.  One of the few downsides of my computer, the tower is a beastly huge thing. That's true. I'm forced to plug in the back of my computer for this desktop Yeah, if I ever have to do that, every time I want to plug something in I'll have to pull my tower out from under the computer desk here at school, because there's barely even room for my feet under here between the tower and the subwoofer, and my arms aren't long enough to reach behind the tower well.  Thankfully the sub doubles as a footrest.

I know what you mean; it's a pain in the ass.

Jon - just get a USB hub to plug into a back USB port, so you have accessible USB ports again.

Padraic wrote: Jon - just get a USB hub to plug into a back USB port, so you have accessible USB ports again.

As far as I know, 3 of 4 of the front USB ports still work. I know at least one does, and that's all I really ever need to use at once.

A Person wrote: I can learn to program just fine. The hard part is applying it. The only thing that I hate is that every class I've taken has been in some form of Basic, and I am quite sick of it. I liked teaching myself some python and C++ better.

My view of our public education system is pretty cynical.

I'm still taking classes that are completely useless, and I'm getting close to my Bachelor's degree.

A Person wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: I can learn to program just fine. The hard part is applying it. The only thing that I hate is that every class I've taken has been in some form of Basic, and I am quite sick of it. I liked teaching myself some python and C++ better. My view of our public education system is pretty cynical. I'm still taking classes that are completely useless, and I'm getting close to my Bachelor's degree. I have been wondering when I'll learn something useful. The only class that has really taught me anything so far is my philosophy class.

"I don't let schooling interfere with my education."

SaltyJon wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: A Person wrote: I can learn to program just fine. The hard part is applying it. The only thing that I hate is that every class I've taken has been in some form of Basic, and I am quite sick of it. I liked teaching myself some python and C++ better. My view of our public education system is pretty cynical. I'm still taking classes that are completely useless, and I'm getting close to my Bachelor's degree. Same here.  Most of the classes I have left to take, I think are completely useless for what I want to do.  Unfortunately we have to take them, it's generally annoying.  Ah well, I've gotta go to German now, one of the classes I enjoy.    Be back in a bit.

Have fun! See you later.

harmonium.ro wrote: What are the classes you guys find useless? I'm curious.

Actually, most of my experiences of classes that I have found useless were largely because of the teacher.

And also, let's just say that I'm only going to end up using about 5% of everything that I've learned in college in my actual career. That strikes me as too much useless information.

I can't say I've actually learned anything of substance that I found interesting in about half of the classes I've ever taken. It doesn't help that my English 371 class is stuff I already know, and that classes I've taken in the past (such as Math 112, Finite Mathematics) were similar in that I had already known a great deal of the information and that the information has no practical knowledge to me being a Tax Accountant. Alot of it strikes me as just being a waste of time, a mere formality that is necessary for me to go through only to be obtaining a piece of paper so I can do my job.

Thankfully.. my college experience has been mostly good, I suppose; it's just that this semester is really annoying except for one class. I try not to look at it negatively.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - February 26 2010 at 12:10