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sigh...
here's the rant.
I just had my first midterm (microeconomics) last friday, and to be honest right after I got out of that room I was feeling pretty down and depressed. Seriously, fuck..how is it possible that in an exam room of 150+ ppl that 20 ppl left within the first 20 minutes while I sat there stuck on question 9 out of a 30 multiple choice midterm racking my brain to remember what I studied last night..
Ok sure, this is the University of Waterloo and ppl here are pretty damn smart, but goddamnit..i got a phone call from my roommate who also took the midterm, and guess what he says to me?
"OMG i raped that shit easiest shit in my life 1a2a3a4a ez"
But I admit, he's a pretty smart guy. That's not the point I'm trying to make. This guy is seriously the laziest motherfucker I've ever known...the guy sleeps til noon everyday, skipping all his damn classes, plays games ALL DAY LONG, occasionally screaming MOOTALISKKKKKK, and treats life like a long chillz vacation. Guess how long he studied for this midterm? ONE FUCKING HOUR! THE FUCK? and he occasionally dozes off too wth is this...So I stick my ass to a chair in the library chewing my ass off of this book, with my study guide open and searching on the internet for Practice MCs to do...all this hard work and i get analed by the midterm...
I once said to myself: "it's ok, life isn't about tests and shit and grades..social life is important too. As long as I live everyday being as happy as I can, then it's all good."
My ass, easier said than done.. I have Coop soon and who the hell wants to hire a dumbass kid like me.. UGH i'm screwed TT
I guess the real problem is that I've done really really well in high school, and now I come to university I get the ass-whipping of my life..I know you guys are probably gonna call me a whiner or something similar..but have any of you guys feel the same way? You put in so much effort into something and you get raped, while you see those other ppl who OBVIOUSLY dont put any effort into ANYTHING and get better than you..
I don't know...maybe ppl are good at specific things..but I can't help but feel really down right now... I make the effort to do what I can, but I never seem to get there. Nobody said life is fair..but how do you guys deal with this? I feel like I've lost all my motivation..
 
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your friend studied. everyone who left before you studied. they all studied. hard.
next time, study more.
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I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless.
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On January 26 2010 13:41 Soledad wrote:
I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless.
yeah well... I'm not even good at anything..i guess life is meaningless for me then
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On January 26 2010 13:42 Mr.Maestro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2010 13:41 Soledad wrote:
I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless. yeah well... I'm not even good at anything..i guess life is meaningless for me then
You're good at not being good at anything. I guess that's something. We can all make a somebody from a nobody, but not a nobody from a somebody.
I don't know if you get what I'm saying, and I don't either.
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On January 26 2010 13:42 Mr.Maestro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2010 13:41 Soledad wrote:
I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless. yeah well... I'm not even good at anything..i guess life is meaningless for me then
awwww how sad you aren't gifted and so you're going to give up.
Sorry but if you're TRYING to improve the last thing you should do is waste time feeling sorry for yourself. The time you spend ranting can be spent trying to improve.
Edit: I reread that and yeah thats incredibly harsh, but my intentions are good. Don't give up on yourself if you want to get somewhere thats the LAST thing you want to do.
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On January 26 2010 13:41 Soledad wrote:
I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless.
what?? this doesn't make any sense to me.
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Ask your friend how he studies for the test. It doesn't really matter how much you study, it's how you study.
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As some consolation, some (probably the majority lol) of the guys who left early are people who have no clue what they hell they are testing on.
But here's something to cheer you up. Intelligence can help you a lot, but once you get out of introductory level courses, or even the hell out of education itself, there are a lot of people in this world who value hard work way more than intelligence. One of two things will happen; your roomie will learn to work, maybe a bit less than others nonetheless, or he will fail later in life (maybe).
Just be proud that your work ethic is so good so young! lots of people coming fresh out of high school spend their first year partying and failing -.-
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Tons of people play off how hard they study, this is more likely whats is causing you to feel this way than actually being less intelligent than them.
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This is econ 101? It's like the exact same course as the high school course lol. But dont feel bad. beacuse
1. Some people have taken it before
2. Some people lie (actually a lot)
3. Econ 101 is pretty much all about how much you read/listen in lectures. good memory helps but there is no way someone who skips class everyday can learn everything in 1 hour. He's either 1 or 2 above.
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On January 26 2010 13:45 jiabung wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2010 13:41 Soledad wrote:
I didn't read your entire anecdote, but I have one shred of advice to offer you: If life were not fair, then life would truly be meaningless. what?? this doesn't make any sense to me.
if life were fair then everything would basically be 'easy', someone who grew up around a sport, compared to someone who wasn't if they both work hard, hypothetically equally, it's more likely the person who grew up around it is going to be better.
Is that fair? Is it the latter person's fault for not growing up around the sport, no its just what he was given. If everyone was given the same thing at the start, then the challenges we face now would be nonexistant.
I'm pretty sure if everything were fair, we'd all speak one race, have one religion and basically be a giant monolith of the SAME because if anyone is different they'll have an advantage/disadvantage over someone else. (AKA Unfair)
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ECON 101 was the easiest course I've taken, high school/middle school/kindergarten all considered.
Seriously, that course was a freaking joke. I slept till noon, I played SC all day, and I studied for 30 min before the mid-term and final. Guess what I got for the course? 97.
So if you thought it was hard, then I seriously doubt you studied as much as you said, and I seriously doubt how well you did in high school.
That's not my point, however, I don't mean to brag at all.
What I want to say is, even though I'm one of the 20 people that left after 15 minutes (20secs average for each question, and a minute or two to check over answers) for an easy first-year course, I got rofl stomped in my second term.
I still didn't study, slept till 3pm everyday, skipped all classes, and played SC all day and drank all night. I got anally brutalized hard by all the exams, because, there was just too much shit to cram and shit got harder as well.
What you'll realize is, as you progress through university, the 20/150 people that breeze through exams are going to become rarer and rarer. Eventually, only the 1 or 2 fucking geniuses in the class would be able to do that in the 4th or 5th year, while the rest of us are royally fucked unless we studied our balls off.
True story, think about it.
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tbh I think the reason there are people who find university ezmode and leave exams after 20 minutes is because there's this stupid push to make university for 'everyone' even though clearly not everyone belongs there. So, they have to dumb down the material and make it easier.
To make things worse, there's tons of people who don't give a fuck and are just there to party, and tons of others who are there because there's some ridiculous pressure to go because it's the 'highest' level of education or something, as if it makes you better to have a degree than a trade certificate or whatever else you choose to pursue.
Basically, university needs too be harder to get into, and senior level highschool classes need to better represent university. Of course that won't happen either, since senior highschool classes are getting dumbed down every year too.
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This WAS my first semester of college.
Don't worry about it, I'm only in my second semester right now. My roommate is the exact same way. I also feel like the only engineering student with a life outside of the library.
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On January 26 2010 13:53 WheelOfTime wrote:
ECON 101 was the easiest course I've taken, high school/middle school/kindergarten all considered.
Yup, if you took calculus (and you're an idiot if you went to university without it), microeconomics is a joke.
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The guy you described sounds like me XD lazy mother fucker who just plays SC all day, but, hand me college work and it's like PvZ, fast expand and snipe the ovies with corsairs before they get speed.
I see other people studying around me all the time and I think to myself, wow, shouldn't I be doing that? Then I actually go and take the same test I see those mother fuckers studying for and I get a 95 and they get Bs or Cs. Like, wtf were they doing when they study, reading their blank sheets of paper? I just try to play back every moment of the lecture that the teacher gave us in my head and it all becomes clear. Even tests are fucking easy to do without even studying for them, just remembering some notes and the lecture. I smoke pot all day and have some memory problems but I can still remember entire lectures, woaah XP
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On January 26 2010 13:39 lazz wrote:
your friend studied. everyone who left before you studied. they all studied. hard.
next time, study more.
hahaha I doubt it. his friend sounds like me.
man, i remember one time coming into a test I had barely studied for. girl ahead of me has this huge note book of notes, everything written out by hand, like 20 pages of stuff. I look over her shoulder and see a few things I forgot / didn't know about in the first place and get worried. Test is hard as hell. I get an 82% and feel like shit. Then the prof says he will curve it so that the highest grade out of the 80 people will be boosted to 100%. My grade is changed to 100%. lmao.
sometimes teachers and tests are just bullshit. I remember one test where about 7 people out of 120 finished it before time ran out. I didn't finish half of it. The teacher wasn't doing her job and I wasn't gonna let her make me feel terrible over it. So I withdrew; I don't regret it at all.
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I always thought like 95% of the people who leave really early (ok well not so much in multichoice tests) are the dumbfucks who didn't know anything and are bound to fail.
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