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ziffhasnoaim/password Snifit                  Since: 06-07-06 Last post: 6505 days Last view: 6505 days |
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| HH - yeah I know a story or two about getting edumacated up near a nickle mine. | |||
NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE    Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| Sounds like my Chem 121 class. Which is why I didn't go after the first couple of weeks. | |||
DarkSlaya   930 Gamma Ray  Since: 11-17-05 From: Montreal, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Originally posted by Colin Those exams are ahdlkfgskjdlfkjdskgjsrkgmf. Don't touch my mark, bitches (and 58 seems to be unlucky or something. If I failed, it seemed to be 58. Nothing else) |
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Black Lord + Flurry Since: 11-17-05 From: Where indians still roam... Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| I've heard different things about summer courses... sometimes you get a teacher that doesn't teach anything and just gives everyone an A ( everyone with some mental ability )... but then you get the nazis that you will go over all the material, and you will have a test every 3 days... etc.
I got 2 nazis. Go me. But I think I'd rather be challenged then be bored out of my mind. |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Meh, only failed one course and it was from my procenstration. :/ Gonna redo the exam for it soon though, and if I finish it, it's done. :3 It was a hard course though, and it was mostly me being lazy. -.- Oh well, I don't want to go through that again.
In other words, I don't really like object programming so far.  Ironic though, as I got the best grade on Assembly. xD(edited by Ailure on 06-25-06 03:46 PM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Summer courses in university tend to be a little easier workload-wise because they can't expect you to do, say, 30-page papers. So even if you have assignments to do at home, a lot of the mark is based on classwork and exams. | |||
neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Originally posted by Colin that holds true except for classes of complete memorization...where you have half as much time to memorize the same material  |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| That's true, but usually that's offset with fewer assignments that have to be done.
Universities understand that they can't try to compress everything into one small period of time, they don't want a high failure rate. |
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NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| Our Summer quarter is the same length as the others. So they can do that. | |||
DahrkDaiz Nipper Plant U wan hax Mario?!  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6314 days |
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| This reminds me of my first Honors Physics class. The teacher never gave homework. He only gave 4 exams and then the lab grade. Each exam was only 4 questions... You miss one question, bam you got a C (yes, partial credit _was_ given). He spoke in a low tone and a thick accent. More than half of the class failed and he was put on probation hehe. | |||
Doritokiller Mole Since: 06-15-06 From: California Last post: 6456 days Last view: 6318 days |
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Originally posted by spel werdz rite That's the same deal at my school. 14 year olds who don't know how to use the correct homonym. It saddens me. And the way they read... Holy crap. "Johnny... Walked... Up... To... The... School." ... Wow. What's even worse is that some kids can't even pronounce words and names like "Fremont" or "Virtually". Oh, my Algebra teacher... He's a bit messed up. His lessons almost never made sense, so you know how I passed the class? I had to teach MYSELF. However, he is a bit generous, or just had no faith in the class. He made the grade margins a bit lower, so you could get a D+ or C- with around 60%. What a strange life I live in. Oh yeah, almost forgot. The level of your summer classes in Chemistry are practically similar with my Chemistry segment in Science. ... Once again, wow. (edited by Doritokiller on 06-26-06 01:17 PM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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At least I've never had a multiple choice or true/false exam where you're penalized a point if you guess incorrectly. I've heard horror stories of exams where people got 35/50 questions right but guessed wrong on the other 15, and ended up with 20/50 as a mark.  |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| My college experience has been pleasant, but high school was hell.
I can list a dozen things, but I don't feel like doing that right now. Out of some of them, one of the things I hated was the session of reading out loud in the Junior or Senior English classes. Read that... Junior or Senior, not Grade 3. I don't mind the part of reading out loud, I hate the part that people shouldn't have passed grade 3 ever. Reading at five words an hour, I'll usually be done by the stories reading to myself before the out-loud session is done with the first few pages. Major drawback, it somewhat made me look like I wasn't paying attention when I needed to ask how far back the record-slow-readers were. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Colin: Yes, those suck.
Originally posted by Black Lord + Heh, that reminds me of the only course I ever dropped out of - Law. After the first week I noticed we hadn't gone a day without some OMGHUGE homework assignment. I dropped out after the teacher confirmed that there would be one every single day. Like if you can't fit your lesson plan into the designated time period, you need a new lesson plan. IMO homework should only be assignments you don't finish or can't do in class; after the final bell rings is MY time dammit. It's hard on students (and their parents) too because the teacher's not there to ask for help, they end up staying up all night doing some big assignment, etc.
The only homework I ever actually did was the things I didn't finish in class or couldn't do in school, the rest I just threw out.  It never had any signifigant impact on my grades, and even if it had... 50 and up is a pass. I slept through nearly every class of grade 9 science (really bad sleeping problems + boring first-period class = zzzzzzzz...) and passed with a 55. Like I said before, the only time anyone fails is if they don't show up for class or if the teacher really hates you. (I had two that did, and one of them still passed me. )
Other "fun" things I encountered in school: -Automated marking programs. They tried this once; you email your answers to some address and the computer marks them. Everyone did good, but according to the computer, everyone failed, because it marked correct answers wrong if they didn't have precise wording (if the question was about when something happened and the answer was "1978", writing "in 1978" was wrong ). The teachers ended up having to mark them manually anyway.
-Marking other peoples' assignments. Damn lazy teachers just have everyone mark someone else's work while they read off the answers. You'd get people marking them wrong when they're not, asking stupid questions about whether an answer counts when it should be blatantly obvious, intentionally adding wrong or correcting/changing peoples' answers, etc. A few of these geniuses even had us marking our own work. Like how did you become a teacher?
-Reading time! I read really fast and I'm expected to "keep up" with these people like FreeDOS + described. Fortunately there wasn't a lot of reading aloud (or the teacher did it all), but usually it'd be like "you have an hour to read the chapter and answer the questions"; it'd be something that would take an average person maybe 45 minutes to do. I'd finish in 30 and be bored as hell (the teacher better not catch you with anything besides the book, a pencil and the assignment on your desk) and everyone else wouldn't be done reading by the end of class. 
The closest thing to fun was the computer classes. We covered 3 programming languages, in order: Object Oriented Turing - WTF is that? Java - who cares? Visual Basic -  . By the first year I was already making things like map editors in VB6, so a useless language like OOT was pretty boring and didn't really teach me anything useful, but it was at least fun to screw around with. Java we only briefly covered, same deal but at least a bit more useful and challenging since it's similar to C syntax. By the time we actually got to VB I already knew pretty much everything about it. In the hour we were given to make a simple clock I'd have made one with ridiculous amounts of features. Confused the teacher on a number of assignments there.
I could go on even more but I'm sure you're all sick of my ranting by now. |
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Koneko Plasma Whisp  Since: 11-17-05 From: Tartarus. We get faster internet than you. Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| I had an interesting history class last year. The teacher actually taught the material in a smart way and told you why, so that things made sense and seemed interconnected. She also gave lots of homework, so most of the class hated her. However, because many of my classmates didn't have a vocabulary (not even a bad one), they could not take accurate notes, and so didn't know anything, and thus did poorly on tests. I remember one of these tests fairly well. There were 100 questions. I got 98 of them right. Second place was 74 correct answers. Thanks to the way the school system works, no teacher can really fail all the stupid people, so all tests had giant curves. I was curved into the 120s. It made me sad that the teacher felt she had to do something like that to keep her job, especially since I learned far more in that class than in any other history class ever.
More recently, I had a chemistry class in which my classmates could not count to eight. The teacher decided that she wasn't going to teach counting or math, and so if you could set up an equation correctly you would get full credit, regardless of your actual answer. Lots of the class did horribly anyway, partially because they didn't try to learn and partially because the teacher didn't try to teach. |
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ziffhasnoaim/password Snifit Since: 06-07-06 Last post: 6505 days Last view: 6505 days |
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| History teachers shouldn't connect the ideas for you. They should teach the background necessary and leave it to students to gather their own thoughts to connect history. | |||
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| IMO homework should only be assignments you don't finish or can't do in class; after the final bell rings is MY time dammit.
Depends on the class. In math classes you need to reinforce the ideas somehow; even if the work is optional, if you want to get a high mark you'll probably end up doing it. |
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ziffhasnoaim/password Snifit Since: 06-07-06 Last post: 6505 days Last view: 6505 days |
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| If you want to pass any class you should do homework. It is part of school. Suck it up or drop out. Every language class at university level requires fucktons of work if you're not fluent already. Any good history class requires you to do additional research over and above the readings so that you learn good skills that will aide you in essay writing, etc. | |||
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Any good history class requires you to do additional research over and above the readings so that you learn good skills that will aide you in essay writing, etc.
I disagree. All the history classes I've taken are about learning the core material; you need to pay attention to lectures and understand the textbook/readings. If you do that, you can get an A. The only time you need to (and should) go above and beyond is when writing an essay unless you're specifically told NOT to. (And yes, I have gotten the odd essay in various classes where we weren't supposed to use outside sources. I won't argue.) |
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ziffhasnoaim/password Snifit Since: 06-07-06 Last post: 6505 days Last view: 6505 days |
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| That's a shitty and boring class then. A prof that doesn't push his students is just a filler. I expect my profs to forward me a reading list of non-core material so that we can study it on our own leisure to better enhance our learning. God knows that that is why I adored one of my classes this year. Teaching a core material only course lends students to laziness of mind and ethic. |
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