Biggest university/college/school pet peeves.
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-athletes: being in athletics was meaningless in my tech school undergrad, thankfully, but i got a shock in grad school at a state university- me and a couple of buddies in grad school had some undergrad athletes (looked like football players) give us shit for taking 'their' seat in a dining hall when they were 'saving it' with a bag and then proceeded to tell us we should have more respect and 'should know better' because we were older. my friend then promptly put them in their place.
-complaining about core/required classes outside of your major: you can connect better with people if you have varied interests and education - and this will help you get and retain jobs in the future. yeah, science and humanities are fairly distant, but i'd wager its better for those writers to know how the world works and scientists to be able to communicate and socialize than otherwise. generally, everything is becoming multidisciplinary, so learn what you can while you're there.
-cheaters: i don't care why, but cheating is stupid. you don't learn anything by cheating. in fact, i'd say you learn more when you genuinely try and fail than copying to get a better grade. have better time-management skills or self-control to get the work done or find a GOOD group of people to study, work together with. and by 'work together' i don't mean splitting up the work and not actually trying all of the problems yourself first. that's the shit that really pissed me off, when students would either just do their problem on a problem set and then copy their friends work, or even worse, get the 'master homework' from someone really smart who did it already and copies of that homework floating around being copied by everyone (this was actually really wide-spread and was at a very respected tech school in the US). sadly, some of those people get through school with better grades than those who actually worked on it, but then those people generally fail when they get to their actual jobs.
-athletes: being in athletics was meaningless in my tech school undergrad, thankfully, but i got a shock in grad school at a state university- me and a couple of buddies in grad school had some undergrad athletes (looked like football players) give us shit for taking 'their' seat in a dining hall when they were 'saving it' with a bag and then proceeded to tell us we should have more respect and 'should know better' because we were older. my friend then promptly put them in their place.
-complaining about core/required classes outside of your major: you can connect better with people if you have varied interests and education - and this will help you get and retain jobs in the future. yeah, science and humanities are fairly distant, but i'd wager its better for those writers to know how the world works and scientists to be able to communicate and socialize than otherwise. generally, everything is becoming multidisciplinary, so learn what you can while you're there.
-cheaters: i don't care why, but cheating is stupid. you don't learn anything by cheating. in fact, i'd say you learn more when you genuinely try and fail than copying to get a better grade. have better time-management skills or self-control to get the work done or find a GOOD group of people to study, work together with. and by 'work together' i don't mean splitting up the work and not actually trying all of the problems yourself first. that's the shit that really pissed me off, when students would either just do their problem on a problem set and then copy their friends work, or even worse, get the 'master homework' from someone really smart who did it already and copies of that homework floating around being copied by everyone (this was actually really wide-spread and was at a very respected tech school in the US). sadly, some of those people get through school with better grades than those who actually worked on it, but then those people generally fail when they get to their actual jobs.
I'd say all the chess boxing teams are after youVault101 said:
I hate it when people (in secondary school)kiss the teachers arse. Don't get me wrong if the teacher asks a question and you stick your hand up and answer it, fair enough. Just don't be that guy that feels the need to show how clever he is at every opurtunity. Give someone else a chance you beacon of learning you. I have one of these kind of guys beside me in a lot of classes. He will shout out the answer to a question before anyone else can, funny thing is that he is often wrong
I like the sound of your lecturer.rosac said:
You are aware that you can be from a working class background and be incredibly well educated? One of my tutors at college spoke with a thick Mancunian accent and admitted that he only managed to get into Manchester because the Uni realised (Way back when) that they did not have enough working class students. He was a fucking brilliant tutor.
First thing he said to me after finding out my own political history (Heading up a branch of the Young Socialists) was "Raise the Red Flag, Brother". Are you trying to indicate that if one identifies as working class one should speak like an idiot?
I think if anything that shows your own class prejudice. Which is an interesting subject (One that I intend to study) cause I faced the reverse, I was judged as "Posh" due to my accent and decent educational upbringing whilst I was at College due to most of my fellow students being working class to the core.
Although in the UK working class seems to apply more to the unemployed then the actual working classes, most of which seem to identify as "Lower Middle Class" then working class. Which puts me in an interesting position of class hatred, as a socialist I work to advance the working class, yet as I am treated as someone who is above them I sometimes feel like one of the old parental Tories who considered it a moral duty to "Advance the lower orders".
... Wait, I just went massively off topic.
Derp.
My current greatest pet peeve?
Its over. Seriously, its freshers at the moment and this is the first year I've not been going back.
Sure it had its moments where I'd rather perform self-immolation than attend, but I'd do anything to get to have the whole fantastic ride again from fresher to finals. Every practical and lecture in hindsight was great, even the ones I skipped to go to the pub with my coursemates because we already knew the lecture material (Self study, a blessing and a curse).
Fiancé feels the same. Might help thats where we met actually.
Its over. Seriously, its freshers at the moment and this is the first year I've not been going back.
Sure it had its moments where I'd rather perform self-immolation than attend, but I'd do anything to get to have the whole fantastic ride again from fresher to finals. Every practical and lecture in hindsight was great, even the ones I skipped to go to the pub with my coursemates because we already knew the lecture material (Self study, a blessing and a curse).
Fiancé feels the same. Might help thats where we met actually.
Lectures, assignments and exams.
They really interfere with my drinking, and sleeping. Major pain in the ass.
They have it all ahead of them, but it's all downhill for us I fear
They really interfere with my drinking, and sleeping. Major pain in the ass.
Agreed here. I'm about to do a MA but I'll be living at home, so it just isn't the same when you realize that so many of these lucky, lucky people are about to embark on the journey of Uni, which is all but over for us.Metzeten said:
They have it all ahead of them, but it's all downhill for us I fear
A few things really, first off some of the teachers, you got the ones that have that laid back attitude they're great teachers but when they say "turn it in when you can" It doesn't really give you motivation to finish it. The teacher that has no clue what they're actually talking about, they think they know but they don't it's just... eh... *Facepalm*
Second dorm life, when people are not considerate of other people it could be 1:00 in the morning and the room next to you is screaming their heads off playing Halo or something.
And finally early morning classes, I don't know about everyone else but I need at least an hour or two before I'm awake enough to be enthusiastic about what the teacher is talking about.
Second dorm life, when people are not considerate of other people it could be 1:00 in the morning and the room next to you is screaming their heads off playing Halo or something.
And finally early morning classes, I don't know about everyone else but I need at least an hour or two before I'm awake enough to be enthusiastic about what the teacher is talking about.
Wow just reading these makes my experience so far feel like a breeze. All of my teachers are really chill and just want you to do the work they assign but if you don't well that's you money you're wasting. Heck I'm playing HvZ and some teachers actually participate and get nerf guns to help the humans
My one gripe is my Discrete Math talks into the board so he's hard to hear. However the notes that he posts online are amazing so it balances out.
My one gripe is my Discrete Math talks into the board so he's hard to hear. However the notes that he posts online are amazing so it balances out.
People who are too competetive or take things too seriously. We had an assessment in one of my education classes where you recieved marks from both the tutor and your peers, and the marks would be combined to give your final result. 90% of the class gave their peers full marks because, why wouldn't you? It's no skin off your own back and could give someone's mark a helpful little bump. Then there were those few people who, for whatever reason, felt the need to be "honest" (read: assholes). I'm sorry, but unless you have any qualifications it's not your fucking place to mark people down.
That entire system was just stupid. It didn't affect me because I was lucky and happened to land a group where everyone happily gave eachother full marks. Some of the other groups were less fortunate. I just can't understand why you would hurt someone's grade for no reason at all. You'd need to be either incredibly bitter or extremely arrogant. Perhaps both.
That entire system was just stupid. It didn't affect me because I was lucky and happened to land a group where everyone happily gave eachother full marks. Some of the other groups were less fortunate. I just can't understand why you would hurt someone's grade for no reason at all. You'd need to be either incredibly bitter or extremely arrogant. Perhaps both.
haven't finished earning it yet, but it's in English so chances are whatever I end up doing as a day job with it probably won't be related to it.yeti585 said:
I really went into college hoping to improve as a writer and as a story teller. In hindsight it would of been wiser of me to have taken a tech school, and just start writing four years ago instead of putting off working on my first novel. Problem is, back in high school, I got fucked over by everyone that counseled me because they kept saying "College! College! College!"
When I say you can learn more with an internet connection and a library card, I mean it. I've probably learned stuff USEFUL to what I want to do off of TV Tropes, learning from current day author's blogs about the publishing industry, reading the favorite authors of the authors I like... I'm flabbergasted Hunter S. Thompson hasn't been covered AT ALL during my stay in college, but I'm finding him wayyyyy more useful and accessible then Virginia Woolf.
And at this point I'm so stressed out, I don't care what the hell I do as long as I'm making enough to survive and I'm able to chase the dream of being a writer with a fan base.
I'm sure it sounds arrogant as hell, but I've been at university doing building surveying for a week so far and I simply can't fathom how some of the people on my course have gotten on it without even the most basic grasp of simple mathematics. Building surveying requires you to have to measure entire fucking buildings, if you can't add up two double digit numbers what the fuck do you think you're doing?
People who go into the library, where others are reading and studying in near complete silence, and decide to talk on the phone, play games on their laptop or have a conversation about Justin Bieber.
Ex: A guy at the table behind me was playing CoD with his headphones on. He would frantically hit keys and his mouse then yell whenever he was killed. (which happened a lot)
The people who come to class late and instead of quietly sitting down decide they are required to tell the class why they were late and that they are sorry for interrupting.
Ex: A guy at the table behind me was playing CoD with his headphones on. He would frantically hit keys and his mouse then yell whenever he was killed. (which happened a lot)
The people who come to class late and instead of quietly sitting down decide they are required to tell the class why they were late and that they are sorry for interrupting.
Mostly just what people think is happening in college as opposed to what is actually happening in college. I know actual college can be kind of boring but why is it that there is so much media that revolves around the fake idea of college.
Lol, last year we marked our peers, accounting for 10% of the project mark. My team got sent emails saying that it was highly suspicious that we'd all received 10/10 from each other and unless we changed them or came up with bloody good justifications we'd all get 0 for that bit.manic_depressive13 said:
This is a good one. My list in no particular order goes as follows:
1. Professors who care far more about their research than teaching their courses.
2. TAs who don't know the material, or can't effectively help us understand it.
3. Professors who give homework assignments that we haven't been taught the material for, and then desperately try to teach us all the material before it is due.
4. Billing. This one is just a universal pain in the ass for every college student who manages their own account.
5. Activists on campus who want me to sign something or hand me a pamphlet.
6. Students who complain about their class load being so hard, but are playing video games for over 40 hours a week.
7. Constant construction on campus because we obviously need more renovations on buildings less than 20 years old.
8. Professors who will only help students during office hours, and then schedule less than three hours a week for office hours, usually during times when we have other classes.
9. On campus parking. OH MY GOD THE PAIN.
10. Sorority girls and fraternity guys who continue to fuel negative stereotypes about the Greek system by being complete and utter idiots and imbeciles.
1. Professors who care far more about their research than teaching their courses.
2. TAs who don't know the material, or can't effectively help us understand it.
3. Professors who give homework assignments that we haven't been taught the material for, and then desperately try to teach us all the material before it is due.
4. Billing. This one is just a universal pain in the ass for every college student who manages their own account.
5. Activists on campus who want me to sign something or hand me a pamphlet.
6. Students who complain about their class load being so hard, but are playing video games for over 40 hours a week.
7. Constant construction on campus because we obviously need more renovations on buildings less than 20 years old.
8. Professors who will only help students during office hours, and then schedule less than three hours a week for office hours, usually during times when we have other classes.
9. On campus parking. OH MY GOD THE PAIN.
10. Sorority girls and fraternity guys who continue to fuel negative stereotypes about the Greek system by being complete and utter idiots and imbeciles.
Assignments like this: Read this article which is an article about something else and write and review on that article without telling what its about. Seriously? FUCK YOU!! YOU SADISTIC PUZZLE FUCKING asshole.
Formats: Even more useless than advanced math nobody gives a fuck if its an inch to the right or left. Completely useless unless you are a English or journalism major or some kind of scholar. At least math builds things that advanced society, and I hate math.
Professors who I cant understand; you cant teach if no one understands what you are saying.
That student who thinks they are so special that they can turn their work in late even when the professor told them not to even try.
Bookstores: Its a complete scam
Formats: Even more useless than advanced math nobody gives a fuck if its an inch to the right or left. Completely useless unless you are a English or journalism major or some kind of scholar. At least math builds things that advanced society, and I hate math.
Professors who I cant understand; you cant teach if no one understands what you are saying.
That student who thinks they are so special that they can turn their work in late even when the professor told them not to even try.
Bookstores: Its a complete scam
I had a long draw out post to this but due to my internet acting crazy I got to start all over and I'm just going to get to sweet stuff
1. high textbook cost/low buyback-why is it that if I shell out $500 bucks for textbooks Im not going to back at least a fourth of what I paid.
2.
3. teachers/instructors/professors-It seems you going to have that one that make you want to bash their head open, but my problem is one's that don't seem to reason with you if something out of your control happens.
4. Freshmen year- I really liked it my only problem is with it is when you come straight out of HS going to college usually your freshman year is a humongous wake-up call if you think with same mindset as you did in High School.
5. you have more per-requisite classes than Majors- Tell me why I have to take 3 math classes just to take my Major classes in Engineering? (Engineering is not my actual major btw, just saying.
hope I didn't come off as bitching about college.
Capcha- Hit the hay
I feel like I should after a long day at my college.
1. high textbook cost/low buyback-why is it that if I shell out $500 bucks for textbooks Im not going to back at least a fourth of what I paid.
2.
I will admit I at fault with this one I don't have car so I take public transit to school and when I'm do get to campus I know I might be late as hell as least I try to enter class and understand what is going on than saying F.T.S and just don't come to class.Padwolf said:
3. teachers/instructors/professors-It seems you going to have that one that make you want to bash their head open, but my problem is one's that don't seem to reason with you if something out of your control happens.
4. Freshmen year- I really liked it my only problem is with it is when you come straight out of HS going to college usually your freshman year is a humongous wake-up call if you think with same mindset as you did in High School.
5. you have more per-requisite classes than Majors- Tell me why I have to take 3 math classes just to take my Major classes in Engineering? (Engineering is not my actual major btw, just saying.
hope I didn't come off as bitching about college.
Capcha- Hit the hay
I feel like I should after a long day at my college.
Meh, at least you tried. Our class was admonished a little by the tutor, but nothing actually happened and the marks were still counted. In your case, I would have argued that the reason you are doing the course is that you are not currently fully qualified in the subject. Given your limited knowledge, as far as you are aware your peers were indeed deserving of 10/10. Peer marking is an idiotic system to begin with. How can someone who is not an expert accurately and with sound conscience judge the contribution of others?ClockworkPenguin said:
If you have Chrome, there is an extension that saves your forms called Lazarus.D-Soul said:
OT: I live in a student dorm building, and the people are generally nice, but there are some things that they need to take into account. I realize that we don't live in the same rooms, but that doesn't mean I can't still hear you. Other people who turn up their music loud enough to be heard through the walls just annoy me. Also smoking inside your room doesn't mean that the smell stays inside your room people.
The price of books is just criminal. I had to pay 90 euros for just one book on programming. Granted, it is a rather large book with lots of diagrams, but 90 euros? Really?