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[Warning: this is a babbling rant]
...but I was wrong.
Specifically I thought I had become a better student during the last fall. In short, I thought I became committed to school. It wasn't rare for me to spend 12 hours there. Which was a huge change from high school, and a significant change from my first two years of college.
I thought that meant I had gathered some internal strength. Like, through my own willpower I had decided to be a better person. lool, no.
It turns out I may have even less will power than before, and that all that had happened was I had good classes (interesting subject, fun classes, good teachers...). I realized this was the case when during this second summer semester term I took this early american history class.
For some fucking reason, I could only satisfy my two remaining non-major (biology that is) credits with this class, as it counts as a "diversity" credit and a history credit. I guess a history class mostly revolving around white people has more diversity than the asian art history class I took.
US universities = rip off. General education is a huge scam, that not only is painful, costs time and money, but worst of all, distracts you from the area you want to specialize in. This puts us at American universities at a disadvantage with our competitors from Europe and elsewhere.
So... here I am in this history class. I'm taking it at a community college (cheaper, easier classes, shorter class meetings, and only needs a 2.0 since it is a transfer credit). Right now I'm struggling to get that 2.0 because I can't bring myself to get participation points (30% of grade). I sit myself down with the material, but for some reason my neurons stop firing, and I can't force myself to do it.
I'm supposed to be posting on the class's online forum :/ About things like "1. Why do you believe that Jefferson is trying so hard to build a wall between the Church and the State? Do you that this concept has been successful in our country today? Should the state be separated or should the government be have some religious influence?"
I just can't! "4. Do you agree with Jonathon Edwards' view of a perfect society? What does Edwards say about finding heaven on earth? How do you think his preaching effected society?"
I'm not sure if it is because I have no will power for things that don't interest me as I alluded to at the beginning, or if I legitimately should be disgusted with having to suffer through this nonsense when it's keeping me from progress in my future career. :/:/:/ :/:/:/:/:/
Wish I could find someone I could pay to do this retarded ape shit.
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Dang that sucks, what are you majoring in?
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wait u can't get 2.0 in community college?
a lot of great opportunity elsewhere
you can become a great line cook in some serious food chain for instance( burger king got great benefits)
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[QUOTE=il0seonpurpose]Dang that sucks, what are you majoring in?[/QUOTE]
I'm majoring in biology 
[QUOTE=Terranesque]How much?[/QUOTE]
Well, I have a level of hate for this that is beyond my ability to express in words, so I might go quite high. :p
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On July 24 2008 11:14 iakNab wrote:
wait u can't get 2.0 in community college?
a lot of great opportunity elsewhere
you can become a great line cook in some serious food chain for instance( burger king got great benefits)
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On July 24 2008 11:14 iakNab wrote:
wait u can't get 2.0 in community college?
That's exactly it.
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It sounds like you might be a bit burned out or something. If you are, you should just take a break for a couple minutes, if you can spare it anyways.
Good luck with your online discussion. Sounds as boring as a college online discussion...
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im trying to get 3.0 lmao i sucking suck. im almost borderline to it.
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I get no sympathy whatsoever!!
Whenever someone asks me why I look down I say "I have to go to my my early american history class." All they do is laugh.
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Dude, if you're going to suggest working fast food chains, suggest corporate work (ie. Corporate McDonald's like management) and not flipping burgers...
Anyways, the most important thing is to stay motivated, whatever it takes. And yea, a lot of humanties is bull and how to bullshit 101 (especially if you're not interested in what is taught), but as long as you know that, writing should be a lot easier (you don't have to agree with what you wrote, you don't even have to like it). As long as you show some line of reasoning it should be okay.
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I'd like to see one of you try commenting on this poem by a Puritan woman from New England.
"If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold."
Of course you can't either.
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Serves myself right. I feel your pain. Uninteresting shit is just impossible to focus on :<
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Whole minds of gold, huh? I guess that's like, a lot.
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What? History owns.
You just have a shitty prof.
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Most of college is just a hurdle. The degree simply says that you are motivated enough and have enough work ethic to get through all the bull shit.
I used to be the same way, My first 3 semesters in University I got usually between a 2.0-2.5. Since then I've gotten on deans list (3.5+) 3 of the last 4 semesters while narrowly missing one of the semesters, and it's not like the classes got much more interesting - something just clicked inside me and I felt the desire and motivation to succeed in school so that I could succeed after it.
It's a problem with your motivation, or lack thereof. The first step to getting better grades is admitting it's not the class being uninteresting (which it may be, but to no consequence), but you being lazy.
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You should try reading some history by "radical historians" and you'll gain a whole new interest in the subject.
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Gah, I had a similar school year this past year, but it's not as bad for me because I'm still in high school. I think we can all agree that a number given to you by a stranger isn't a very accurate way of measuring someone's intelligence, but it's not like you can do anything about it anyway, right? You're only real option is to just try your best to get by and it'll be over sooner than you think! Also, when you get your diploma you can always be like:
"gg no re n00bs!"
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On July 24 2008 12:11 ploy wrote:
Most of college is just a hurdle. The degree simply says that you are motivated enough and have enough work ethic to get through all the bull shit.
I disagree. This really varies with majors. In some you are actually doing real stuff that you will continue to use.
Also, outside of the US, this type of thinking is non-existent (and rightfully so, imo). You're supposed to be specializing, not going through some sort of trial by bullshit.
Compare a US undergraduate degree in science to one in the UK. The US will take four years, the UK 3 years. And that extra time is not paying off; half of it was spent on so called "general education". That leaves the UK guy with the advantage of finishing faster and even spending more time on his specialization. He's way ahead.
Or worse, compare with a Chinese university (the types seen 10 years ago but gone now). Their tuition was free, as was the dorm and food. So they could spend 4 years studying all day and only going back to the dorm to sleep! For years of specialized study in classes generally harder than those in America!
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well good luck with the history thing but i have to say that i kind of regret? (no not really regret).. giong to UK for university. im currently in my 3rd year of law but i've decided that i actualaly want to pursue a career in art and im going to work really hard for that ^__^ ofcourse im going to work hard and finish my law degree first but yea. both US and UK have their pros and cons i guess. haha
lol good luck iwth history i always liked hstory 
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On July 24 2008 12:44 alffla wrote:well good luck with the history thing but i have to say that i kind of regret? (no not really regret).. giong to UK for university. im currently in my 3rd year of law but i've decided that i actualaly want to pursue a career in art and im going to work really hard for that ^__^ ofcourse im going to work hard and finish my law degree first but yea. both US and UK have their pros and cons i guess. haha lol good luck iwth history i always liked hstory
I have a friend who just finished his law degree in the UK :O. A lot of it seems boring, but he motivates himself with the future prospect of, as he puts it, "crushing newbs" in court (which was also his exam motivation... starcraft mentality gone too far :p).
Another advantage I'd say the UK has is their assessments of grades. As I understand it, it is standard over there for exams to be anonymous, and graded by two people who don't know the student, separately. That sort of objectivity is not really seen in the US, at least, that I have ever seen. Also, the UK type of grading seems to do a better job of making meaningful distinctions, IMO, but perhaps that's something that varies quite a lot.
I just took the LNAT practice test for fun a few days ago, got 26/30 on the multiple choice part :p I was studying for the GRE so my law acquaintance gave me that for a comparison, while he did a practice exam for the GRE... but he quit after the analogy section put him off:
worship:sacrifice
a)invasion:massacre
b)foresight:augury
c) d)
He put a) but it was b). I'm inclined to agree with a) being better. ~.~ :p
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you can do it servolisk =]
remember you can fb me any time you have a question or want to discuss
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On July 24 2008 11:27 Servolisk wrote:I'd like to see one of you try commenting on this poem by a Puritan woman from New England. "If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold." Of course you can't either.
its about some lady
and her love
and stuff
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On July 24 2008 11:27 Servolisk wrote:I'd like to see one of you try commenting on this poem by a Puritan woman from New England. "If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold." Of course you can't either.
What's the issue? By today's standards it would be a sappy love poem, but taken in context of highly constrictive puritan society it's a risky sappy love poem because it's a woman showing her emotions. She was probably a well-to-do woman and fairly strong and independent. Lonely maybe?
It's not profound or anything, it's straight to the point.
I love you and you love me
You are worth a lot to me
THE END
If I had to write a commentary on it, I would say the context of her poem (it being a woman writing it in that time period) is impressive and worth noting, but the content of her poem totally sucks.
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