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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
@JT: Well, I disagree with that.
My college life was spent in a state of constant, unending panic about deadlines.
edited 27th Feb '14 8:39:08 PM by edvedd
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My meltdowns occasionally continued after turning stuff in.
My literature classes were alternately really good and really bad.
The low-level ones, my notes for the first several weeks consisted of the words "masturbating over flowery language" followed by ten pages of doodles. To put things into perspective, we read Dante's Inferno and didn't talk about who any of the people in Hell were.
Once I got into 300-level electives though it was pretty good. We had an Israeli professor, and he'd intersperse the usual Typical English Reading List with some stuff from the Middle East, and his priorities in analysis were right where they should be for the subject.
edited 27th Feb '14 8:52:03 PM by Pykrete
It's funny because calculus is more useful to non-mathematicians than mathematicians. Which is why they teach it.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayCounterpoint A: Calculus makes it really easy to do mental math that demonstrates very clearly that when it would've been impossible to stop at a yellow light and that you shouldn't get a ticket.
Counterpoint B: The same calculus makes it easy to estimate your "I shouldn't stop for that yellow light" distance at a given speed while accounting for weather conditions.
edited 27th Feb '14 8:56:29 PM by Pykrete
@Ed: Same here. I was basically "Lesson Zero" Twilight only without the magic. Which is good, because my college would be a smouldering crater.
RE: Calculus: Okay, maybe that wasn't the best example, seeing as I never actually took it. I took one semester of pre-calc, passed the class by a two-point margin (I am not, nor will I ever be, a math person; my brain just doesn't think like that), and promptly got the hell out of it. I then transferred to Super-Senior math and spent the rest of the dicking around in the computer lab.
@Pykrete: General entry level courses in general tend to be pretty bad, often because they're full of people who are only there due to requirements and have no real interest in learning anything. They're designed to give the bear minimum of information. The best one I ever took started with the teacher saying "I know most of you are only here for the credits and wouldn't take this course otherwise, so let's just have some fun with this".
Reaction Image RepositoryI guess I'm lucky to be the opposite. Though you wouldn't really know until trying to learn it on your own.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI have precisely zero motivation to do so. I recognize the importance of high level mathematics as a subject that needs to be studied, but for me personally it's just not going to happen.
And it's not really a matter of luck either. If I was a math person I'd probably just complain more about how pointless stuff like history and art are.
Different people just have different interests. It's not like my personal disinterest in mathematics means that I think it's less important, just that it's not going to be my area of expertise.
And now I must go to bed.
edited 27th Feb '14 9:27:33 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryAnd what would the problem with that be?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayThat's... that's like half the reason he wrote the Divine Comedy in the first place. To comment on the political situation in Italy at the time by showing which famous politicians were damned and which weren't. Hell, he put people that weren't even dead yet in Hell just to show what he thought of them.
Actually, as it so happens, I've been watching Crash Course's
World History series over the last couple days. I'm just up to #24, the Atlantic Slave Trade. If any of you haven't seen these videos, you should totally check 'em out. They're only about 10 minutes long each, but have very cool information.
Seconding Crash Course World History. It's history the way it ought to be taught.
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edited 27th Feb '14 10:39:31 PM by KylerThatch
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...The primary purpose of understanding history is to understand the context of the world at the times certain things occurred, to map out the way current events are going and (theoretically) avoid the mistakes of our forefathers. He who does not learn from the past...
That, and to shut up that one really obnoxious friend everyone has who claims that religion is the cause of all wars by pointing out almost all wars, up to and including the crusades were fought over primarily economic reasons first.
And even if it didn't have a point, history is neat! It's not for no reason that so much media involves historical figures and professions.
edited 28th Feb '14 4:17:26 AM by kegisak
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
I'm currently sitting on an idea for a novel that's basically "The Punic Wars, In Space!"
@ Luminosity: I feel that that your assessment that all writers merely pillage history for their own purposes is a tad misleading. I'm not arguing that an author isn't influenced by history, whether world history or their own personal experiences, but to imply that authors utilise a formula where they simply plug a hodgepodge of ideas into each other (ie The Vietnam War IN SPACE) is a tad trite. I admit some authors do approach writing in that manner, but your statement cast a rather wider net than I think you may have intended.
Or perhaps I'm once again reading intent that does not exist into your post as a result of the whole thread maligning the usefulness of my degree. Which seems to be the case. My apologies.
edited 28th Feb '14 4:57:50 AM by Thirikal

It got so bad, because I just couldn't write, especially about myself or what I thought. That by the end of the year, it would just be "Alright now you all write an assay on x' Chris, just write something." They just wanted me to put any words on the paper in a way that made sense.