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Henrietta wrote:But....I am at work and a serious hottie is sitting in here taking a test...oh man...

Easy tiger.....haha

I want to stab every exam in the face. Thats right. I said it.

I went to Mun today to study at 8 in the morning and I just came home at 9 in the night. wtfomg.

Just becase there was a 2 hour nap somewhere in between doesn't make it alright.

this is why i never go anywhere to study. the passage of time feels so much more bearable when you're studying at home.

tomorrow = my last day of classes for my undergrad

I used to skip all the classes that didn't have attendance policies. As long as I did the papers and took the tests, I got good grades. The classes that had attendance policies, well, I sent emails to the teachers saying I was sick, what did I miss, how could I make it up, etc.

Show them you're willing to work with them when you're "sick" and they'll do anything for you

what a waste of money

What's a waste of money?

I can't study at home because there are too many distractions. Namely a bed, a big screen tv, and a computer. There's also roommates...

J-Neli wrote:what a waste of money

Honestly, I learned better on my own than I did from a lot of the teachers. So no, it was not a waste of money. I got a very valuable education and I'm putting it to use as we speak. Plus, it helped me figure out what I want from my life.

And for the record - the only classes I regularly skipped were non-major classes that I was forced to take but had absolutely no interest in. I think THAT was the waste of money. I couldn't take the classes I wanted because I was restricted so heavily by what the State thinks I need to know in order to choose a career, when I already know what I want to do and what I need to do to get there.

That's fine. To me it is a huge waste of money to skip classes. When else in your life will you be able to learn and discuss under the guidance of some of the smartest people in our society? I would say it is a privilege that not many people get to take advantage of, and to take that for granted is a shame. In my 3 years at university I have missed only one class and it was because our city had an ice storm making it literally impossible to get to the class from my part of town due to the buses refusing to go there. Whether you learn directly from going to class or not is fine, but it shouldn't be a matter of black and white where you are only capable of learning in place A or B. You're supposed to be putting in 2-3 hours of studying for every hour of lecture/class anyways.

What your post indicated based on your remark that you only go to classes where attendance marks are kept, is that you were really only in university for the marks and the diploma, which would be a shame if that was the case, and to me would say a lot about your character. But that's just me and my opinion.

uh huh....

J-Neli wrote:That's fine. To me it is a huge waste of money to skip classes. When else in your life will you be able to learn and discuss under the guidance of some of the smartest people in our society?

you haven’t met my profs....seriously, i think they were recruited from a loony bin

I'm glad I didn't really have any profs I felt like that about!

J-Neli wrote:That's fine. To me it is a huge waste of money to skip classes. When else in your life will you be able to learn and discuss under the guidance of some of the smartest people in our society? I would say it is a privilege that not many people get to take advantage of, and to take that for granted is a shame. In my 3 years at university I have missed only one class and it was because our city had an ice storm making it literally impossible to get to the class from my part of town due to the buses refusing to go there. Whether you learn directly from going to class or not is fine, but it shouldn't be a matter of black and white where you are only capable of learning in place A or B. You're supposed to be putting in 2-3 hours of studying for every hour of lecture/class anyways.

What your post indicated based on your remark that you only go to classes where attendance marks are kept, is that you were really only in university for the marks and the diploma, which would be a shame if that was the case, and to me would say a lot about your character. But that's just me and my opinion.

Um, okay, because I spent thousands of dollars of my own money just so that I could get a diploma.

I worked hard in the courses I needed. The ones that were only required for the credits, I didn't take as seriously. I wanted to pass them and get it over with because I wasn't interested. I don't see how that translates to me not wanting to learn. Of course I wanted to learn. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone to college. If they didn't have attendance policies, I didn't go. I wasn't learning anything because I had difficulties with the teachers' ways of teaching, or the course wasn't interesting therefore I couldn't hold my attention long enough to learn anything from them, whatever.

I learned plenty on my own. I learned plenty from the teachers I could learn from. There are just some teachers I COULD NOT learn from. Like my Medieval History teacher, who rambled on about nothing, didn't connect anything he said, he jumped around so much my notes were in shambles, I couldn't learn a thing from him. I learned more from my textbook than I did from him, so why bother going to a class that's just going to confuse me more? I don't see anything wrong with that.

It just so happens that English teachers are the ones who have attendance policies. No one else really cared. And I was an English major. And I loved my English classes. I learned what I need to know from them. I learned what I didn't need to know from them.

If you feel the need to judge my character based on how many college courses I skipped, so be it. But I'm not defending my education and my motivations to someone who obviously doesn't know me any further than I already have.

But think about this: I know exactly how lucky I am - aside from my father and my aunt (who both waited until late in life to get their degrees), I am the first person in my family to get a college degree. I worked hard. Class attendance where there was nothing but note-taking and lecture, all of which I could have done on my own with the textbook, does not prove that I didn't learn or take advantage of my education. I plan on getting a MA, and then a PhD. If you deem my college years were wasted because I skipped a bunch of classes that won't count for anything in my grad portfolio or my doctorate paper, well, that's your own opinion.

dream in japanese wrote:

J-Neli wrote:That's fine. To me it is a huge waste of money to skip classes. When else in your life will you be able to learn and discuss under the guidance of some of the smartest people in our society?

you haven’t met my profs....seriously, i think they were recruited from a loony bin

Haha sometimes I think people HAVE to be crazy to teach.

But then again, I want to teach.

So ... well okay, I'm crazy too. I admit it.

Yep, they're all recruited from the loony bin!

hmmmm. so i contemplating eating a slice of bread with jam. except the bread expired on april 7. but! it still smells fine, and it doesn't seem to be mouldy. reckon i won't die if i eat it?

saman wrote:hmmmm. so i contemplating eating a slice of bread with jam. except the bread expired on april 7. but! it still smells fine, and it doesn't seem to be mouldy. reckon i won't die if i eat it?

Haha Saman, way to change the subject! I luff you April 7th was only a few days ago. I'd eat it.

But that's just me.

I wouldn't drink milk that expired a few days ago though. Or eat deli meats, or any of that kind of thing.

But bread's okay

subject? change? oh, right, the classes skipping and whatnot. at the u of s, i skipped physics class often, but i felt bad about it. then one day i had a midterm. i studied from the book and the notes and got a 98% on it. after that, i no longer felt bad about skipping class. the end.

*goes off to eat her bread*

p.s. megan, i luff you too

*cough* I was giving you a high five because I was sick of the topic LOL

*luff*luff*luff*

^^ just felt like adding my own two cents.

by the way, i ate two slices of bread. if i die, i'm blaming you, 'kay?

How about this.
If you die, I'll come to your funeral and throw myself on the casket.