College
02-04-2004, 01:58 AM
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It must be true that they try to weed you out during your first year in college. Last semester was my first and it went well for me, straight As and all, but this semester I am only taking two more credits but the workload feels like it has doubled. Classes are just different from last semester because the teachers want homework and ****. It's not just about exam scores to these fools; they treat homework like tests in that it's not for practice or to build skills, but to scare you into studying by punishing you for not.
Today was another 12+ hour day of cram studying, a midterm, attempting to write a report due tomorrow at 10am, and tonight will bring another 5 hours of attempted sleep.
Yeah, so I guess I am telling all you students out there that I feel your pain. I see why a lot of college students dring a lot of beer. I think I need to start binge drinking.
Today was another 12+ hour day of cram studying, a midterm, attempting to write a report due tomorrow at 10am, and tonight will bring another 5 hours of attempted sleep.
Yeah, so I guess I am telling all you students out there that I feel your pain. I see why a lot of college students dring a lot of beer. I think I need to start binge drinking.
02-04-2004, 07:37 AM
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1. You have to pace yourself.
2. You have to have dedicated homework and study hours
3. Homework is a way of testing you finding out how much you know at a certain point.
College is tough but you got to deal with it. I have a test this Friday 1 next Wed, 1 on Thu, plus and engineering project which is winding up to be 42+ hours in the making. You just have to deal with it, if you can't drop out and serve me breakfast. Hate to be like that but that's the way college works.
- Hand
2. You have to have dedicated homework and study hours
3. Homework is a way of testing you finding out how much you know at a certain point.
College is tough but you got to deal with it. I have a test this Friday 1 next Wed, 1 on Thu, plus and engineering project which is winding up to be 42+ hours in the making. You just have to deal with it, if you can't drop out and serve me breakfast. Hate to be like that but that's the way college works.
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02-04-2004, 07:41 AM
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I ******* hate homework. Always have, always will. That's why I love my job, no homework. It really sucks when you work full time, go to night school (thereby using up your "home" time), and still have homework. 
02-04-2004, 08:08 AM
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Exams are pointless. When you start working no one will take all your reference material away and make you memorize ****.
Grading you on what you can do with all your reference material available and your co-workers (classmates) working together is a lot closer to what you will do in the future. This is better than grading you on what you can do in a 2 hour time period from memory.
Buck up. College is the best time of your life. More pressure than high school, but you don't have to live in your mothers house!
02-04-2004, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Feb 4 2004, 06:08 AM
Exams are pointless. When you start working no one will take all your reference material away and make you memorize ****.
Grading you on what you can do with all your reference material available and your co-workers (classmates) working together is a lot closer to what you will do in the future. This is better than grading you on what you can do in a 2 hour time period from memory.
Buck up. College is the best time of your life. More pressure than high school, but you don't have to live in your mothers house!
The machining part wasnt too hard, so studying and memorizing was part of it.
02-04-2004, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by G2G' date='Feb 4 2004, 08:37 AM
1. You have to pace yourself.
2. You have to have dedicated homework and study hours
3. Homework is a way of testing you finding out how much you know at a certain point.
College is tough but you got to deal with it. I have a test this Friday 1 next Wed, 1 on Thu, plus and engineering project which is winding up to be 42+ hours in the making. You just have to deal with it, if you can't drop out and serve me breakfast. Hate to be like that but that's the way college works.
- Hand
2. You have to have dedicated homework and study hours
3. Homework is a way of testing you finding out how much you know at a certain point.
College is tough but you got to deal with it. I have a test this Friday 1 next Wed, 1 on Thu, plus and engineering project which is winding up to be 42+ hours in the making. You just have to deal with it, if you can't drop out and serve me breakfast. Hate to be like that but that's the way college works.
- Hand
ohh yeah, tests i could deal with no problem, homework kinda sucked specially when it wasnt what was covered in exams...
02-04-2004, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Feb 4 2004, 06:08 AM
Exams are pointless. When you start working no one will take all your reference material away and make you memorize ****.
Grading you on what you can do with all your reference material available and your co-workers (classmates) working together is a lot closer to what you will do in the future. This is better than grading you on what you can do in a 2 hour time period from memory.
Buck up. College is the best time of your life. More pressure than high school, but you don't have to live in your mothers house!
02-04-2004, 10:38 AM
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All my technical classes are okay; I love them. What I can't understand is why some of my other classes are taught the way they are. I love the engineering classes but hate the math and anything having to do with liberal arts. I agree that the way it works in the job world is with reference material and other people, not memorizing $hit and correctly interpreting the teacher's vague instructions.
It's all good. I just finished the weekly five hour report for a one credit class. I have like an hour of free time on my hands.
It's all good. I just finished the weekly five hour report for a one credit class. I have like an hour of free time on my hands.