I did a Cisco course on Networking at college. Was a piece of piss.
Put the yellow cable in the yellow input and you'll be on a winner. Revision. Pffffft
I did a Cisco course on Networking at college. Was a piece of piss.
Put the yellow cable in the yellow input and you'll be on a winner. Revision. Pffffft
I'm sure you did.
It sounds absolutely riveting.
It's not really, especially because I've done it before, albeit with some minor changes. It was kind of exciting and NEW WORLDE last time but it's just repetitive unnecessary bullshit this time round, again bar the new stuff.
Wish I'd went for the next level up or a different specification of this level but I'm a lazy shit cunt so...
Back visiting Oxford. I couldn't live here, but it's a really lovely place to be and think about research.
Passed my exam.
87%.
Worth a read- https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/...us-university/
It would be funny if it wasn't so depressing.
Exaggerated by someone with an axe to grind. There's lots of stupid stuff on uni campuses, but it's easy to avoid. You have to go looking for it and deliberately engage with it.Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
Never let it be said that lefties are the only people with a ridiculous victim complex.
EDIT: Also, the second paragraph suggests that they've missed the point of their studies. Anyone who suggests that they "believe" in some kind of objective standard of art will be asked to back that up. I doubt an undergraduate is even capable of making a cogent argument for that position which depends on anything other than their own subjective experience, which kind of undermines their point.
Pronoun badges?
Anybody poncing off to study journalism in America is liable to be posh as fuck, so they're probably a massive fanny to begin with.
There's always going to be kumbaya drum circles at universities. Nobody's ever going to force you to join one.
It's all scare-mongering among the anti-university set, aiming squarely at people who love feeling victimized.
NYU is probably as bad as it gets to be fair.
None of that nonsense existed in the two places I attended as an undergraduate, but it does exist where I am right now. Might be that I just barely missed it time-wise.
Disagree. At Stanford social forces compel you to take part. It's 100% pushed on you, especially for organizations that aren't specifically minority rights orgs. The last couple of years of school, I'd say at about 50% of meetings that I attended, when you introduced yourself, you had to give your preferred pronoun alongside name, field of study etc. If you're the one guy out of 30 to not give preferred pronoun, people judge you for that. Pretty inescapable.
SOAS was heading that way in the last year I was there (2012), having been fine to start with, by now it'll be absolutely riddled with it. And I avoided absolutely everything (though being a politics student didn't help as +-75% are gobshites).
I can't imagine what it's like to be a white person at a school with 'African Studies' in its name in this age. Probably have to deposit reparations in order to use the toilets.
It's a worthwhile exercise in terms of broadening your mind, albeit you get the odd legend like this geezer who just used to say 'It's all their own fault'.
How many actual Oriental/African professors are there at the school, compared to whiteys?
Many more whiteys (including a shitload of continental Europeans), but enough Asians/Africans, mainly in their local subjects like languages and so on. Humanities and social sciences were very white.
Occasionally you'd see the professor of Yoruba mooching around in his Fred Flintstone-esque national dress, or a Buddhist monk here and there.
I was only confronted with the left wing nutjobs in 2008 protesting that if the government could afford to bail out banks it could afford to give them free tuition.
I avoided absolutely everything, though, including all events of every description outside of the course itself.
I've no idea what they're like these days, though.
Malcolm Caldwell setting himself up as the best-known Western cheerleader for the Khmer Rouge before being murdered by them sums SOAS up nicely.
'Frats' are still the worst part of American universities.
Frats at a lot of schools basically just produce Mert clones, so i'd agree, but there's a lot of frats/schools that are not like that at all
#notallfrats
I'm sure there are some fine ones out there, but most are filled with twats.
At least it keeps them all in the same place.
I would argue that it is all frats.
There's been a few moments of madness from the student union since I've been at UEA (banning Blurred Lines as it's a RAPE ANTHEM, banning Sombreros for cultural appropriation, having a bitch-fit to get gender neutral toilets) but nothing that bad.
I don't think I could give my 'preferred pronoun' with a straight face.
Banning sombreros?
Cultural appropriation mate.
When I was there they tried to stop the bar[s] showing the Six Nations on account of Royal Bank of Scotland being involved in that filthy Canadian oil stuff, but loads of people moaned and they BOTTLED IT.
There's a tex mex place in the city that gives them out and the SU got offended about it and from what I remember tried to stop them from doing it, but settled on banning people wearing them at the Uni when they were lolled out the room.
Blurred Lines is rapey af, tbf.
Even if it is, who cares enough to try and ban it? Who was it that tried to stop Delilah being played at Wales rugby matches again? Lol.
'Cultural appropriation' really is the worst explanation to give for a manufactured grievance.
It must be fucking exhausting being angry about everything all the time.
Someone should go round all the ethnic society meetings turning the lights off on the basis of technological appropriation.
After more than a half dozen years of reading the uni thread, I begin uni tomorrow.
(although really I'm just moving into my dorm room and classes won't start for another week and a half.)
Which frat are you joining?
How are you settling in to your new surroundings Spoons?
O Caaanadaaa
Classes have started!
Anthropology is awesome, I'm really excited for it. Italian is fun and nice because there are 20 people instead of 300 like my other classes. Philosophy seems a bit dull but we'll see. English is weird because it's exactly what my parents teach so I've grown up surrounded by these books without every having read them myself; but it should be fun. And there's a "Natives of the Americas" class which seems interesting enough but I might drop because it goes till 5:30 and I don't want that much reading.
Kinda weird that there's nobody left to legitimately post in this thread these days. I guess I've got another year left kinda.
Spoonsky take a heavy math class. Just do it. If you really hate it at the end of the semester don't take one again, but just do it once. Trust me.
What are you planning on doing after college? That's a really eclectic mix of subjects.
Just donned my proposal. Which I should, since I left it until my fifth year.
What does 'heavy' mean in this sense?
Accounting.
One where you write proofs as assignments. You'll come out feeling so knowledgeable, if you put the time in.
A nice introduction would be a proof-heavy linear algebra class. I also loved number theory and set theory, so if you're into that, take a swing.
It's the US. You do just enough for a major, then a random selection of whatever you feel like.
Everyone should have to write proofs at some point in their formal education. Not because it's intrinsically a specific skill they'll need, but because it's the most demanding and yet unassailable form of constructing a logical argument.
Most people just can't think in straight lines, which is what proofs demand.
I wrote a lot of proofs in 8th grade, that shit was awesome. Math has been one long downhill slope ever since.
It's Canada.
But yeah pretty much, at least in my faculty (Arts).
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