Thread of Hate

HuskerShark said:
MLB 51 said:
Marf said:
Enhance89 said:
College rant coming up.

I hate that some classes take up way too much time despite how many credit hours they're worth. Case in point - I have a class that's worth only three credit hours, but we spend about 10 hours in class one day a week and then had about four to six hours worth of homework outside of class this past week. One three credit hour course equals almost 16 hours of my free time each week? That's bullsh#t.
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I feel you man. I have a f'ing drawing class that is Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 4-8. She keeps us there the wholllleeee time as well. 12 hours a week for 3 f'ing credits. I'm even more pissed off that I have to pay for this bullsh#t. f#*k general ed, I'm not retarded. Why am I paying MY money to fulfill the college's bullsh#t standards of what my 'well-rounded' education should be? I've taken all of my pre-medicine science courses, I'm ready to apply for medical school, everything required within my major in my degree audit is fulfilled, but instead I'm stuck here another 2 f'ing semesters taking all these ridiculous mandatory gen ed courses like art and f'ing literature. Are you kidding me? f#*k this place.
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This. I took all that general ed. stuff in high school. Why make me take that sh#t again. I didn't really learn anything new from those classes.
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I second everything that you all have said. This^^^ is the #1 issue I have with college, and it needs to be changed IMO.
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I think some gen ed classes are worthless, but not all. What they need is a more flexible system that takes less time and lets the student focus on exactly what they want to do. For example, in UNL's journalism school, you could probably graduate in three or four semesters if your only focuses were journalism based classes. If I'm remembering correctly, there are eight core broadcasting courses and then four, eight-week-long mini courses (you can do two at a time, so basically knock all four out in one semester). Without gen ed classes you could easily complete all of these in a few semesters.

Instead, it takes four years, because you need three concentrations (basically three focuses in which you take four classes - i.e. four political science courses equal one political science concentration), and then all the gen ed classes.

I think it'd be better if college was simply about getting degrees and double or even triple majoring. If you did only broadcasting, english, and political science core courses, you could graduate with three degrees in the time it takes to earn one.

 
Enhance89 said:
I think some gen ed classes are worthless, but not all. What they need is a more flexible system that takes less time and lets the student focus on exactly what they want to do. For example, in UNL's journalism school, you could probably graduate in three or four semesters if your only focuses were journalism based classes. If I'm remembering correctly, there are eight core broadcasting courses and then four, eight-week-long mini courses (you can do two at a time, so basically knock all four out in one semester). Without gen ed classes you could easily complete all of these in a few semesters.

Instead, it takes four years, because you need three concentrations (basically three focuses in which you take four classes - i.e. four political science courses equal one political science concentration), and then all the gen ed classes.

I think it'd be better if college was simply about getting degrees and double or even triple majoring. If you did only broadcasting, english, and political science core courses, you could graduate with three degrees in the time it takes to earn one.
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I think you're onto something. Let's put together a presentation and get Barack to implement this college education reform before he leaves office (assuming he gets beat, which looks very likely because people will vote for that douche Romey just to get Obama out which I think is the wrong way to go, but that's a different convo).

 
I hate when people don't use proper sentence structure and paragraphs. I realize this is the internet, and people who complain about grammar or use it as a means to insult are just annoying. But, whenever I see someone post nothing but one large paragraph, putting all their ideas into one pot like it's gumbo, I lose my patience. I don't even want to read it.

Even if your statements does make sense as a 20 sentence paragraph, find a way to break it up, please. Otherwise, I simply gloss over whatever you say.

 
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Enhance89 said:
I hate when people don't use proper sentence structure and paragraphs. I realize this is the internet, and people who complain about grammar or use it as a means to insult are just annoying. But, whenever I see someone post nothing but one large paragraph, putting all their ideas into one pot like it's gumbo, I lose my patience. I don't even want to read it.

Even if your statements does make sense as a 20 sentence paragraph, find a way to break it up, please. Otherwise, I simply gloss over whatever you say.
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i have never used a period or comma it is just easier that way obviously

 
Enhance89 said:
HuskerShark said:
MLB 51 said:
Marf said:
Enhance89 said:
College rant coming up.

I hate that some classes take up way too much time despite how many credit hours they're worth. Case in point - I have a class that's worth only three credit hours, but we spend about 10 hours in class one day a week and then had about four to six hours worth of homework outside of class this past week. One three credit hour course equals almost 16 hours of my free time each week? That's bullsh#t.
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I feel you man. I have a f'ing drawing class that is Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 4-8. She keeps us there the wholllleeee time as well. 12 hours a week for 3 f'ing credits. I'm even more pissed off that I have to pay for this bullsh#t. f#*k general ed, I'm not retarded. Why am I paying MY money to fulfill the college's bullsh#t standards of what my 'well-rounded' education should be? I've taken all of my pre-medicine science courses, I'm ready to apply for medical school, everything required within my major in my degree audit is fulfilled, but instead I'm stuck here another 2 f'ing semesters taking all these ridiculous mandatory gen ed courses like art and f'ing literature. Are you kidding me? f#*k this place.
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This. I took all that general ed. stuff in high school. Why make me take that sh#t again. I didn't really learn anything new from those classes.
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I second everything that you all have said. This^^^ is the #1 issue I have with college, and it needs to be changed IMO.
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I think some gen ed classes are worthless, but not all. What they need is a more flexible system that takes less time and lets the student focus on exactly what they want to do. For example, in UNL's journalism school, you could probably graduate in three or four semesters if your only focuses were journalism based classes. If I'm remembering correctly, there are eight core broadcasting courses and then four, eight-week-long mini courses (you can do two at a time, so basically knock all four out in one semester). Without gen ed classes you could easily complete all of these in a few semesters.

Instead, it takes four years, because you need three concentrations (basically three focuses in which you take four classes - i.e. four political science courses equal one political science concentration), and then all the gen ed classes.

I think it'd be better if college was simply about getting degrees and double or even triple majoring. If you did only broadcasting, english, and political science core courses, you could graduate with three degrees in the time it takes to earn one.
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This is a very good idea. I also think this could be based on PSAT and ACT scores. If you score high enough you should be allowed to skip most if not all Gen. Ed. classes.

 
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