EPTIt's also weird how you guys refer to universities as colleges.
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
It's also weird how you guys refer to universities as colleges. | ||
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Kyrie
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also freshman, sophomore | ||
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mordek
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red_
United States8474 Posts
On April 10 2014 04:54 caelym wrote: yup, the key is to be aware of what is "passing". I've had classes where 70+ is a B and failing is like 45. I had a few professors that skewed the pass/fail scale the other way. One guy was a huge dissenter of the D grade, but since it's technically required to be a possible grade, he made it a .1% range on his scale. Failing was a 69.8%. I've never been bothered by exams, I suppose I test well. Firsts tests/quizzes for me have always been about feeling out how the professor is creating their tests with regards to how they teach the class/presented us information. In undergrad I would start at literally 0 effort beyond any required homework(I fucking despise graded homework) and ramp up as required to keep my A. | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
LOL my duo queue partner's car broke down and the first person he contacts is me. I live in a different city 150km away and have never owned a car. That thought process. | ||
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Kyrie
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this is why liberal arts schools like williams, reed, pomona etc end with college and not university - they don't offer grad programs | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:22 Alzadar wrote: Wtf kind of word is sophomore anyway. LOL my duo queue partner's car broke down and the first person he contacts is me. I live in a different city 150km away and have never owned a car. That thought process. What a god. | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
By hilarious coincidence, his car broke down about a block from my parents' house. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:29 Alzadar wrote: By hilarious coincidence, his car broke down about a block from my parents' house. You know that's destiny. | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:25 Kyrie wrote: to my knowledge college refers to undergrad, anything afterwards is university. most universities have colleges (harvard undergrads technically are part of harvard college, for example), but a college is not necessarily a university this is why liberal arts schools like williams, reed, pomona etc end with college and not university - they don't offer grad programs Pretty sure this isn't a thing. In Canada it's just University -> usually 4-5 years, ends with a bachelor's degree (also post-graduate studies are included here) College -> community college, 1-2 years, for slower folks like plumbers and such  Which is why it's so weird that Americans use college indiscriminately. A Canadian university student would never say that they go to college. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:25 Kyrie wrote: to my knowledge college refers to undergrad, anything afterwards is university. most universities have colleges (harvard undergrads technically are part of harvard college, for example), but a college is not necessarily a university this is why liberal arts schools like williams, reed, pomona etc end with college and not university - they don't offer grad programs I went to a "college" and when I was graduating they were in the process of getting accreditation to become a university instead so that's what I'm going off of  | ||
AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
My alma mater took great pride in being a college (meant profs were there to teach instead of do research). | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
College college college college. College? College! | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:38 Alzadar wrote: I'm getting massive semantic satiation for the word college from this page. College college college college. College? College! Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:39 Requizen wrote: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo anti-anti-college buffalo buffalo anti-buffalo Buffalo College. I think this actually has meaning. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On April 10 2014 05:46 mordek wrote: I would really like to get a USA chant going. I'm wearing a Canada shirt today. | ||
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
Close enough | ||
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
On April 10 2014 04:42 sung_moon wrote: Anyone here ever taken a class where you did terribly first exam, took the second and thought you did well in, only to find out you did terribly and are in danger of not passing? I had a class where everyone studied hard for the first test and over half the class failed. I thought I did really well on the test... nope. Second test I was like "whatever", didn't study at all, and almost aced it, as did most of the rest of the class. Some profs grade really oddly. On April 10 2014 05:22 Alzadar wrote: Wtf kind of word is sophomore anyway. It's from Greek roots. The soph- part is from sophos, for wisdom, and the more is from morus, for foolish (same root as moron). So sophomores are wise fools. | ||
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