academia pet peeves

emanhattan · November 25, 2009 10:02 PM

^that is exactly what someone told me in class when he explained me what memes are (like if i didnt know) and then explained me how they are funhey

Philip K Dick · November 25, 2009 10:14 PM

oye eman, como va

emanhattan · November 25, 2009 10:15 PM

que transa mi carnaval que rollo que se cuece

Jeinu · November 25, 2009 10:32 PM

i have no peeves with students. i don't like how the typical school system is set up

i don't think everyone's able to be the perfect well rounded-out student so many schools aim for. problems are going to arise when you make a student that learns kinetically try to learn some advanced calculus without adapting to their learning method. ok well this problem happens a lot more in younger children, which is where you often get the misbehaving kiddos that just don't seem to learn anything. i've hardly seen any teachers that are willing to adapt their lesson plan to every student in their class to whatever helps them the most. mistakes made are scrutinized, punished, from a young age, which injures children's creative initiative. people grow up learning that if they're wrong, they'll be embarrassed or put down. schools too often cut their art, dance, music, etc, programs when they're just as important as math or science. this isn't a problem so much for colleges, but i think there's got to be a creative outlet for ev

ok that's enough for one post pardon

trent bortknob · November 25, 2009 10:37 PM

stop speaking in gay ass mexicano slang esa chingado idioma no vale una vegra

emanhattan · November 25, 2009 10:57 PM

lol

Philip K Dick · November 25, 2009 10:59 PM

usted es la fuente de mi ser

Hnilmik · November 25, 2009 11:19 PM

Quote from: Jeinui have no peeves with students. i don't like how the typical school system is set up

i don't think everyone's able to be the perfect well rounded-out student so many schools aim for. problems are going to arise when you make a student that learns kinetically try to learn some advanced calculus without adapting to their learning method. ok well this problem happens a lot more in younger children, which is where you often get the misbehaving kiddos that just don't seem to learn anything. i've hardly seen any teachers that are willing to adapt their lesson plan to every student in their class to whatever helps them the most. mistakes made are scrutinized, punished, from a young age, which injures children's creative initiative. people grow up learning that if they're wrong, they'll be embarrassed or put down. schools too often cut their art, dance, music, etc, programs when they're just as important as math or science. this isn't a problem so much for colleges, but i think there's got to be a creative outlet for ev

ok that's enough for one post pardon

I have to agree that the school system has a bunch of stupid flaws.

I swear I was able to learn much more at a high school with an average class size of 20-ish (2-3 teachers taught 2-3 subjects each and they wanted us to clarify to them how each of us wanted to be taught) than at a high school with classrooms that regularly hit the 30-40 students range (the "I can't map out my lesson plan for every single student" excuse comes up too often, especially with 6 different teachers).

It's interesting listening to how school works in other countries though. They apparently still teach you home ec in several countries.

rtil · November 25, 2009 11:25 PM

our public high school system is fundamentally flawed and really does stifle creativity. you're given a set of courses everyone else in the country has to take as well - most of it probably having little or nothing to do with what you are really interested in. or in some cases you don't know what you like yet, and the school does nothing to help you find it. there needs to be more breathing room in the public school system for letting high schoolers pick things that interest them early on, instead of going straight into a college or university having no clue what you're good at while accumulating mountains of debt in student loans.

ClockingSnails · November 26, 2009 12:09 AM

When I'm sitting in a desktop publishing class and the guy next to me prods my neck with his untrimmed fingernails and asks "What did the teacher say? Haha heraccent is so not understandable, i didn't understand. So...what do we do? WHAT do we DO?". Jesus christ man, wash your hands and learn some proper sentence structure.

DrRumack · November 26, 2009 12:40 AM

my spanish teacher was sick for months and the school finally decided to line up a permanent substitute just a few weeks ago

we are a marking period behind and nobody is even fucking trying to learn because they are stupid asshole freshmen who want the period to be their recess
and naturally they blame the teacher, as if its her fault none of them will shut the fuck up and pay attention for once

The Good Ole Ant · November 26, 2009 04:40 AM

im convinced the kids in my greek class think im a retard :'- (

ZekeySpaceyLizard · November 26, 2009 07:11 AM

caw

Ying · November 26, 2009 05:59 PM

in art class, when some of my friends and I are working on another friend's personal laptop, we always get these socially inept retards that will literally stand behind us for 50 minutes looking at the computer screen even if we're not doing anything interesting. they're so fucking addicted to the warm gray glow of the computer screen that they have to hover over my head and breath on me with their neck beards and gggg

oh yeah and that same group of people won't bother to do their art projects but will instead tell jokes related to "over 9000" and "ima firing my lazor" over and over again. my friend secretly turned on his microphone and the conversation went AND I QUOTE:
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A: I saw this one image and it said (in deep voice) "IMA FIRING MALAYSIA!" (both A and B giggle uncontrollably)

B: Oh yeah, I saw this one where it said, "YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE LAZERS" and then in the next frame there's Cell and he says, " IMA FIRING MY LAZER!" (both A and B giggle uncontrollably)

A: Oh yeah, I saw this one where it had a kitten and it said (in deep voice), " IMA FIRING MY LASER!" (Both A and B giggle uncontrollably)
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Their laughter is so canned that it sounds like they're training themselves to enjoy the same joke over and over again so they'll feel accepted by the other person. It's like telling a knock-knock joke 10 times over without changing the punchline.

ansel · November 26, 2009 08:14 PM

i'm listening to pogo

shura · November 28, 2009 10:35 AM

i hate it when i do the homework for the day its due, but none of the other lazy goddam students did it, so the teacher pushes back the deadline to accommodate them instead of giving them a bad grade B(

creamcorn · November 28, 2009 01:42 PM

school is shit fuck you

DrRumack · November 28, 2009 08:37 PM

Quote from: chickenschool is shit fuck you

ansel · November 28, 2009 08:38 PM

Quote from: sashai hate it when i do the homework for the day its due, but none of the other lazy goddam students did it, so the teacher pushes back the deadline to accommodate them instead of giving them a bad grade B(

if nobody but u did the homework that is a sign you are workin too hard!!!

rtil · November 28, 2009 09:12 PM

Quote from: ansel
Quote from: sashai hate it when i do the homework for the day its due, but none of the other lazy goddam students did it, so the teacher pushes back the deadline to accommodate them instead of giving them a bad grade B(

if nobody but u did the homework that is a sign you are workin too hard!!!

i think it's a good thing
all the people in my school who never finished stuff on time came in shitty artists and they are still shitty artists