The Letting Off Steam Thread

[Lamrock]

I wholeheartedly agree. The worst thing since 2008's new Facebook, which I still haven't gotten over.

[[Q]]

I wholeheartedly agree. The worst thing since 2008's new Facebook, which I still haven't gotten over.

worst thing before 2008's new facebook was the 2006 new facebook which allowed high school kids on which led to evreyone being let on. if you think facebook is cool now, it was 100000000x better with only college people

[JaoSming]

if you think facebook is cool now, it was 100000000x better with only college people

this

[Lean]

The new profile layout looks cluttered. Seems like the "try the new profile" thing will be compulsory later on.

[Tupik]

I avoid these type of problems by not being on facebook. Oh YEEAAAH

[rise]

I avoid these type of problems by not being on facebook. Oh YEEAAAH

This.

[Houndy]

I avoid these type of problems by not being on facebook. Oh YEEAAAH

This.

These two

[kibaxx7]

Yep the new Facebook profile sucks. Keeping the old one

[Martti.]

How do you switch back? Can't find it.

[kibaxx7]

Never switched to the new one. Saw the preview and said "hell no".

[[Q]]

don't worry, they'll force you to change it eventually.

[dare]

4 college students ask me if I can edit the price on their tuition and make it a lot higher. Even though I don't like the idea I did it because it is a part of our family's business.

Students this days doesn't have any respect to their parents.

[NovU]

Urgh... Why? Why would anyone want to pay more tuition no matter who's paying it...? And what you mean by family buz?

[deihatein]

Urgh... Why? Why would anyone want to pay more tuition no matter who's paying it...? And what you mean by family buz?

So that they can get the extra change or just pay half then keep the remaining to themselves or something.

[NovU]

K. That explains a lot, though I find it bit odd since it sounds so impossible to be happening at where I am.

[NovU]

The school's finally over for 3 weeks FFS!!!

I looked at my NLSC fantasy team a few days ago and my team was at the bottom of the rank. Lolz... no surprise since my starter roster wasn't even filled.

But beating Ozrnogrd's team(1st) this week even with no player at util.

[Oznogrd]

hey, the week aint over yet. I was losing all last week and came back on the last night

[[Q]]

damn, it's been impossible for me to sleep at a decent hour. my body goes through all the motions (yawning, heavy eyes, etc.) but when i lay down, i'm wide awake. as a result, i've been sleeping in late but honestly i'd rather be up earlier and more productive

[j.23]

ugh, me too. i've been sleeping 3-4 hours everyday for the last week and a half because of school and exams. pulled an all nighter last night from studying, and then went to work from 9-5 .. slept for an hour, ate, hit the books at 8. it's 6 am now and i can't sleep, so wired from coffee.

haven't been in this forum for ages. does the filipino dude with the t-mac man crush still post here? pinoyidol? was that his name? no idea why he just crossed my mind.

[[Q]]

i'm guessing he got banned by jae a long time ago for PWF- posting while filipino

i pulled an all nighter last week to attempt to get myself to fall asleep at a normal time. i just wound up staying up past the time i wanted to sleep at and fell asleep at the same time as before which defeated the whole purpose of pulling an all nighter.

[benji]

This is why you sleep 20 hours instead and then get up and write 20 page papers with 50 sources in like five or six hours. And it's like nothing because you don't care.

Don't worry, everyone is incompetent, they gave an award to a completely plagiarized paper that didn't make sense and which had statistical flaws out the wazoo. Yes, this one was caught (what? you think benji was involved in finding all the original sources? well alright), but don't worry the rest weren't, nor were all the ones who were so incompetent they couldn't fake it. So you're still good.

The more you do this, the less you care, and thus the better you do.

And that's really a guideline for everything.

Studying isn't worth it. If you didn't know it before you won't learn it from cramming. If you memorize it temporarily, you didn't learn it.

Knowledge in any individual course is completely limited to a select few things, maximize on these and it's impossible to ever fail any course.

Oh, and you get like an A-. B+ if you gave up, or an A because almost everyone else is just so fucking stupid.

Of course, this only applies to the 80% of academia that's not hard science. And even still it's applicable to at least half your courses if you school in the world's greatest nation.

[[Q]]

Studying isn't worth it. If you didn't know it before you won't learn it from cramming. If you memorize it temporarily, you didn't learn it.

that was always my view on it. in college, i would look over my notes the night before and hope some of it would stay over night while i slept and then i would read over my notes once more as i walk to class

and i was always so tempted to send in a completely plagarized paper because i suck at essay writing and suck even more at bullshitting but i am a very paranoid person so i never had the balls to do it. except one time my roommate and i were in the same "easy A" class but different discussions (the lecture hall is divided into smaller groups led by different discussion leaders) and every week they required "journal entries" or 2 pages of bullshit and so we took turns every other week writing them.

[benji]

That's actually one of the better forms of studying. Refreshing prior knowledge before bed, and then taking another glance prior to the test is good reinforcement strategy. But the people who spend hours reading textbooks and the notes where they just rewrite the books, in the days before exams, that actually has proven lack of working. We like to pretend we can cram everything in and get away with it, but it doesn't actually work that way when you increase attempts. Basically you get more out of working the parts you already know, it has a higher likelihood of you remembering that random fact tied to something else you've always known.

Don't plagiarize. It's not worth it. Sure you can get away with it at 100/200 level, but the higher you go you won't because the standard deviation becomes more relevant.

And it's not the professors really.

You submit a great paper at a high enough level, people will want to tear you down. Grad students especially. Others just love detective work.

Let's just say if I google your paper and find two sources you lifted text from, I'm looking for a third and fourth. And in the case of this award winning paper, I found twelve before I got bored. Then I read the paper and really wondered how it won an award. And then Dr. Seth got ahold of it and well...

If you think writing two pages is a burden, all I have to say is seriously. That's like 15 minutes of work if that. See my posts, amirite? I write five page papers in the half hour before class anymore.

Essay writing is easier than most people think. Think of your class like the NLSC. 80% of it is either illiterate or can't form logical thoughts. If you can write something that at least makes sense you're already into the upper echelon. Display rational thought and you have to really not apply yourself to get a B or worse if you're on topic in some way.

I don't write tomes of endless bullshit on here nobody reads just because, (no, there's far darker reasons why I do) I know only one or two people will ever read it. But just writing it and trying to make it understandable makes it so incredibly easy to go off on a book I've half read same as following a stream of consciousness to how I can describe BrokeNCYDE to the modern society that needs its leadership.

Academia sucks. It's not worth ever caring about. George W. Bush graduated from Yale and got a Harvard MBA despite well, all that. Barack Obama was somehow part of the Harvard Law Review and taught at Chicago despite not knowing a single thing about the Constitution. Problem solved.

[Oznogrd]

Actually, I found the higher up I got, the easier it was to not get my paper torn to shreds at illinois. Once i got in 300/400/Grad level classes, havent made anything less than an A on any paper. But then again, I've never had anything revolutionary enough to get teachers say I should be published.

Closest I had was two professors that i bullshitted for said i should get my phd and teach at illinois (one was a paper about modern day application of Grimm's fairy tales, the other about cultural kinesiology, specifically about the rituals of play being present in the World of Warcraft)

[shadowgrin]

The last plagiarism related thing that happened to me was when some professor asked me to revise my paper because I didn't enclose in quotation marks the statements he thought that I copied in verbatim. I didn't revise shite and told him all of it were paraphrased, which it is (all sources cited though). I still don't get why some people find it hard to believe that a whole chapter that's heavily reliant on sources can be done by paraphrasing the sources.

Others just love detective work.

Damn you Batman! *shakes fist in the air*

4 college students ask me if I can edit the price on their tuition and make it a lot higher. Even though I don't like the idea I did it because it is a part of our family's business.

Students this days doesn't have any respect to their parents.

Oh shut the fuck up. You were an accomplice. Quit your bitching about them students when you yourself is a part of the problem.
I hate people who complain like that when they did nothing to prevent what they were complaining about.

Because of dare, I get to steam off too. On-topic, woot!