Okay, not really.

when did college kids get so stupid>

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god, I've fallen to the masses.

Oh noes. May terrable secrat is reveled!

In going back to school, I realize the student population is filled with questions like

"Is the test going to be true/false?"

"If it is true false..and I answer true to all of them, will I at least get 50% right?"

What.the.fuck.

I'm in college and I have still yet to grasp the concept of number 2 pencils.

Well, that's because you are

A. male

b. midwestern

it's really not your fault, b.

I too have issues with college, like the guy who doesn't actually ask viable questions so much as complain that the lecture has no bearing on anything, despite being repeatedly crushed in debate day after day.

Or really obvious answer guy, who asks questions that have really obvious answers. "Will the stuff on the midterm review be on the midterm?" "Lenny, please go hang yourself."

Or the hippe chick who seems to change any and all subjects into something related to the will of the universe, karma, and pot.

It's all good, they sell gummi bears at the store by my lecture hall.

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PhreakyChinchilla wrote:

Well, that's because you are

 

A. male

b. midwestern

 

it's really not your fault, b.

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"B" is really due to the fact that I go to college in Wisconsin :-P

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LuckyGuess wrote:

I too have issues with college, like the guy who doesn't actually ask viable questions so much as complain that the lecture has no bearing on anything, despite being repeatedly crushed in debate day after day.

Or really obvious answer guy, who asks questions that have really obvious answers. "Will the stuff on the midterm review be on the midterm?" "Lenny, please go hang yourself."

Or the hippe chick who seems to change any and all subjects into something related to the will of the universe, karma, and pot.

It's all good, they sell gummi bears at the store by my lecture hall.

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Or the professors. Don't they have anything better to do?

The people I hate are the ones who usually sit right up at the front, and they basically repeat just what the lecturer has said, but in the form of a question. Then they act all smart when the lecturer tells them they are correct.

The ones I really hated were the ones who would bring grenades to class, and during the lecture they'd stand up and scream "YAAAAAAAA!!!" and pull the pins with their teeth and start throwing them, and blowing most of the people in class up until the survivors who weren't fleeing in terror would overpower them.  It was always such an awkward situation.   And then of course, there were those people who just wouldn't shut up during class.

There was this one guy who sat right behind me in a Poly Sci course about 10 years ago, who would attempt to turn EVERY goddamn class into a harangue about how much Clinton sucked. You could tell the professor just wanted to tell him to shut the fuck up, but didn't want to be accused of "stifling the conservative opinion."

How about shifting this discussion to wonderful world of foreign-born TA's? Last year I had an Indian-born Biology teacher and a Chinese-born TA who barely knew enough English to write the letter grade on my tests. Good times.

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The_young_scot wrote:
The people I hate are the ones who usually sit right up at the front, and they basically repeat just what the lecturer has said, but in the form of a question. Then they act all smart when the lecturer tells them they are correct.

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Another group I oh so love are the defenders of shitty classes, who attempt to gang up on the students that realize that the lecturer is shitty, the class is shitty, and the grading is fucked.

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BigFrank105 wrote:

How about shifting this discussion to wonderful world of foreign-born TA's?

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In my MLS program, I had a professor for 3 different classes who had just moved to the States from Japan, barely spoke English AND stuttered. Every class was a fun game of "What the fuck did she just say?"

I hated it when the kids who rode the short yellow bus and wore protective head gear and drooled a lot got the days off when the weather was a bit snowy...

I mean, we had to fucking walk in that damn weather...and we didn't even have helmets on in case we fell!

Hardly seemed fair!!! Thankfully, I"m over it these days!

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BigFrank105 wrote:

How about shifting this discussion to wonderful world of foreign-born TA's? Last year I had an Indian-born Biology teacher and a Chinese-born TA who barely knew enough English to write the letter grade on my tests. Good times.

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I got you beat.

A gay, monotone, Native American Macroeconomics prof combined with an Asian (whom I am SURE just walked off the plane that morning) macroeconmics TA. Instead of him explaining why things equalled anything, he just wrote down the answers. About half of my tutorial group walked out of there within the first 15 minutes.

*bows to Kitty*

I once had a TA that spoke with an impenatrable Chinese accent -- so much that we weren't sure he wasn't speaking Chinese.  The professor wasn't any better; he only spoke Math.

Some of my least comprehensible instructors have been native speakers of English.

That's nothing. I once had a Business Administration instructor who communicated only in the clicking, whistling tongue of the Mbonto people of South-Central Namibia. If you so much as tried to ask him a question, he would have you torn between cape buffalo or devoured by a driver ant column. He graded all of our work by consulting the ancestors and rolling a set of antelope bones. You can ask anybody.

Boorite used to have TA, but then he got the operation.

HEYOOO!

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Zaster wrote:
That's nothing. I once had a Business Administration instructor who communicated only in the clicking, whistling tongue of the Mbonto people of South-Central Namibia. If you so much as tried to ask him a question, he would have you torn between cape buffalo or devoured by a driver ant column. He graded all of our work by consulting the ancestors and rolling a set of antelope bones. You can ask anybody.

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sooooooooo nobody knows the mystery behind the number two pencil?

come on people, you're better than that

i think since they're usually yellow they should be called the number one pencil

"new guy" showed up to one class yesterday. He missed the entire first week and acted as if everyone was supposed to do this.

When the prof asked who a certain paper belonged to, he said "Well, obviously it is mine. He he."

Yeah he is THAT guy. Cocky guy. He also talks to other people in class during lecture - HELLO, I ALREADY CANNOT HEAR THE FUCKING ANCIENT PROF. STFU.

we might have to take this to the thunderdome.

Two will enter.  One will leave.