EPTOn December 16 2009 12:11 Mekhami wrote:I plan on using this experience to improve
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My email to a Professor. - Page 4
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Eiii
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This is a fantastic, fantastic thread. Man stupid people are hilarious <3 | ||
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On December 16 2009 12:18 Eiii wrote: omg did he just get banned You can be stupid, you just can't be stupid and insulting. | ||
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you are a massive tool later fool | ||
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[...]because nerds like you think you know EVERYTHING[...] I am not far off from a D at all, I'm very close[...] depending on my grade on the final today[...] which I think I did alright on[...] no, I highly highly doubt it[...] I am one of the best cellists at my school[...] which is a very well-known music school[...] I'm a great asset to the university.[...] That's all they need to know.[...] If it comes to it, I can talk to the next level and stay in school.[...] Don't assume things, it makes you look like an ass. Edit: Listing assumptions is a fun thing to do for a math student. | ||
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Lets say you were right, and that English classes have changed where they are more geared towards searching for the most probable interpretation, rather than opening the text to further discussion. If we take your style of thinking, then the rampage of potential ideas, some of which could be so "out there" that the work itself would be destroyed. For example, a majority of the class with strong evidence supports on interpretation, then you follow up with more interpretations, both good and bad..........eventually you will arrive at the point.....all literature can just be "BS'ed" and any interpretation and thought works. Even in English, there are certain restrictions based on heavy support from the text, not just based on small details. You're most likely so caught up in small things to even understand the main focus of a work anyways. Also, as for style.............if everyone write like you...........then it would be like anarchy. No control, no strong focus, and ultimately no memorable moment because the entire paper would be too long anyways. Thats why we have fundamental guidelines for writing beneath the elaborate nature of an analytical essay. Your professor, having a Ph.D and having written many papers in order to get there, have seen in all, so he probably understands interpretation and style better than you can right now. I wouldn't exactly criticize his decision when hes more experienced than you (unless you truly have a justification............you're fighting for a ....enough said) I don't think your lazy but I think your artistic nature has blinded you to the actual focus of your class in general.......... To all other readers..........I hope you appreciate my ironic use of his style into my writing....... Some of you might be annoyed with this post.......but I'm juxtaposing his style to prove a point that long stuff is a pain to read. Hopefully my humour is to your liking XD | ||
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On December 16 2009 12:23 The Burn wrote: Correction: You can be insulting, just have to insult people that the mods disagree with, then you can ban said person, and everyone gets to laugh and be happy nerds together. Don't pretend like your moderation policies are in any way legitimate... not that I expect them to be, I just want to be sure you aren't operating under false pretenses.. Bye again! tdot is that you? | ||
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aleun
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On December 16 2009 12:23 The Burn wrote: Correction: You can be insulting, just have to insult people that the mods disagree with, then you can ban said person, and everyone gets to laugh and be happy nerds together. Don't pretend like your moderation policies are in any way legitimate... not that I expect them to be, I just want to be sure you aren't operating under false pretenses.. Bye again! I can't believe he so strongly felt the need to get in this last word that he made another account (aptly named "The Burn" LOL). Way to go, jackass. | ||
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LosingID8
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On December 16 2009 12:11 Mekhami wrote: I mean I'm in a far-off profession from English... thank you for this feedback, truly, but I don't need these academic standards, they don't help me at all. They provide nothing to my education, truly. I made mistakes re: deadlines, assignments, backups... this is because I don't have a background where this has every been an issue, I'm a musician, all of my courses in my university have been music-centric and my mindset fits perfectly there; in fact my music-only GPA is 3.6. I'm very good at what I do, it just doesn't translate into this other required course. did you not attend high school? also, assuming you aren't a 1st year university student, you had at least a couple terms to figure this out in your other non-music courses. i don't buy that crap of an excuse and i doubt you'll find anyone else who will agree with you. I'm not saying I earned an A+ here, though. I plan on using this experience to improve, and I implemented strategies half-way through the semester (upon realizing the severity of the situation and my own failures) that helped me improve my grade through the last half of the course. I have learned a lot from the situation, but don't you think that the educator's discretion is important? my guess is that you probably said this last semester, when you failed this class the first time. Do you think my failure in this course is worth me losing the rest of my education and my career? isn't it your responsibility to not put your own education in jeopardy, not your TAs or professors? the other 2 classes I failed in that first semester I passed this semester; my GPA will, in all likelihood, be completely fine, I just wanted to cover my bases here. But I think discretion is important for an educator and if she chooses to exercise it, I'll be much better off. Discretion will pass me the course, or, if I'm lucky and did exceptionally on the final today, maybe I actually earned my passing grade. OK WTF? you failed this class AND 2 other courses last semester? how is your GPA going to be "completely fine"? This is a tough situation for me, because I learned a bit late how to get done what had to get done. I just wholeheartedly believe that those small failures are heavily outweighed by my great successes in the rest of my academic and musical life. yeah, you did learn a bit late. all the other college students figured this stuff out in high school. ps: failing 3 courses in one semester, and failing one of those courses on a 2nd attempt is not a SMALL failure, especially when it's due to things like lack of attendance and not doing something as simple as submitting a paper on time. | ||
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jalstar
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what if he mailed him othello.scx that was my first thought anyway | ||
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Salv
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On December 16 2009 12:11 Mekhami wrote: I mean I'm in a far-off profession from English... thank you for this feedback, truly, but I don't need these academic standards, they don't help me at all. They provide nothing to my education, Obviously you don't get Nony's argument. You cannot simply write off the top of your head as if it were a conversation and hand that in. Like Nony said, things in your head will make sense to you because you have access to all your knowledge on the topic. The poor person reading anything you write however doesn't have access to all your knowledge on the topic, they can only mark what is on the paper. The point isn't that academic writing is critical for you understanding your own information, but that it helps others know just what the fuck you're even trying to communicate. People that absolutely refuse to write academically hand in awful, awful papers. I doubt very highly that a paper of yours would be marked down severely because it doesn't meet academic standards regardless of excellent points and evidence. If a paper was handed in and it was written poorly, the point is that even if you actually had good evidence and had good points, no one can understand it except yourself, thus how can any marker ascertain whether you know the information or not? If you have to consistently point out your evidence and points in a paper because your writing was so terrible, you should just write properly the first time and save the fucking hassle. Try to understand this because this problem you're having now will continue to persist. | ||
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