You definitely just have way more shit to do in general though in Uni. Highschool is just kind of like whatever, you could usually finish all your homework in class and shit. Uni you have like 5 assignments due every week, learning something new in 7 different classes every day with an 30 minutes of reading for them all every night. And if you skipped the readings you'd get to lecture and just have no idea what the fuck the guy was talking about, lol.
I found engineering difficulty not too different from highschool aside from the openbook exams meant to be curved around a class average of 30% [those are terror as fuck lol feels so bad getting a test back and you got like 24/50... then you realize that is a 4.0], but kind of felt like I was drinking water from a fire hose. It was fine if you stayed on top of things, but if you let it go for even a day and took your mouth off the hose it just became impossible to get your mouth back on. I had to tank a few classes which were quite easy tbh and barely pass them during my stay in order to catch up a couple times.
Overall though, my GPA in Highschool and Uni was about the same. I found the content higher level but easier because I was interested in 90% of it instead of like 60%. But definitely 100x more work. Way way way way more work.
Well you see that's where it's different then because I just picked all the classes i had an interest in (apart from human rights being forced upon me, fuck human rights) and never attended any lectures in my 2nd or 3rd year but was able to just make it through by using tactical sources and doing a quick gloss over the summaries.
I've never done anything in school so uni is wayyy more work for me. In hours it's probably around the same but in school I did absolutely nothing for at least 90% of the time and in uni that's 10%.
I find you can either just attend everything and it's pretty easy, but you have literally no free time. Or you can skip most things and self study and it gets really hard at times but you have lots of free time.
Depends on your discipline and ability, and how well you cope with stress/pressure
On June 14 2016 19:22 killerdog wrote: Depends on your discipline and ability, and how well you cope with stress/pressure
& university you are at & degree you are studying for. Bachelors are very different from Masters or PhD programs. US degrees are also very different from European degrees and research Masters are different from Taught Masters.
My usual problem doing a PhD is to not get stuck for too long in reading groups, research groups and administrative stuff that you want on your CV. In some weeks I barely work on my thesis at all because there is so much other stuff going on at the uni.
Went to a technical degree 2 years, then 3 years of the engineer cycle at en engineering school, we didn't really have assignments apart from "finish that before next time then we'll see how it works." The bigger stuff was assignments that'd go on several weeks or months before they're due, but they're much bigger obviously. Also exams all within two weeks, twice a year.
I struggled a bit at the start to understand what it was about, then it was stuff I was interested in so all good (which means the classes we only had for 3-6 months and the ones that wouldn't "tell" us what they're applied for till 6 months in I did shit at).
Social life wasn't there but that's because I fucked up.
Zlatan ain't no Messi/CR7/Bale. They seem to be the only players atm capable of carrying a team.
And I've heard from old Ajax/Barca players that Zlatan always has people in a team that like him and players that hate him. Which doesn't work great for team chemistry.
The Italians gave a clinic yesterday on clean, efficient football. The way their team works is just great. Not much world class talent, but Italian tactics and cheeky counters. The Belgian squad looked lost (thanks Wilmots for playing Fellaini as a 10 instead of KdB). This shows it really well:
Ciman/Vertonghen as forced wingers whilst Witsel/Naingolan/Fellaini can't do anything. If I were Wilmots I'd take out Witsel and Fellaini and get Carrasco and Mertens on the wings in the midfield. Naingolan as a 6, KdB as a true 10 and Hazard and Dembele on the wings in the attack. Hold Lukaku/Origi/Fellaini and sub them in late game to force something around the box.
Going to be rough for Belgium vs Sweden/Ireland. I still believe Belgium can make it through but not without some bloodshed.
On June 14 2016 14:00 ticklishmusic wrote: Any legal people here? I got pulled over by a cop a couple months ago and he tried to write me a ticket but his electronic system wasn't working, so he let me off with a warning. I got a letter in the mail today saying I missed a court date last week/ didn't pay a fine which I had no way of knowing I was responsible for. What should I do/ expect? Planning to call the court first thing tomorrow and try and get it sorted out.
Not a lawyer or legal person, however I did just finish writing my PEng exam a month or so ago, which is a huge test on Contracts, Legal systems, and Liability. That said, I have no idea how different the laws in the US are from Canadian Law. I assume they are similar. Take this with a grain of salt;
Its a shit situation, but if they were to give you a ticket in person that is considered in most jurisdictions being "served". In most jurisdictions if you have been "served" there is no potential excuse of ignorance and it is on you.
The only way you could get out of it is if you had some sort of proof you weren't actually served, but I'd guess that is likely impossible at this point unless you have dash cam video with the conversation where he said he'd let you off with a warning. Effectively it would be your word against his, and given that you didn't show up to the court date (I know it is kinda bullshit, zzz), he would likely win that. At which point you are likely (depends on judge) looking at extra court fee's being added on top of whatever the ticket / charges against you are.
I'd probably just pay and get it over with personally, but if its a matter of principle, you should talk to a lawyer. They'd give you much better advice than anyone here ever could. I'd shoot a quick and dirty BCC email to the first couple lawyers that show up when you google "[your location] traffic court attorney". One of them should likely give you a quick answer of whether its worth pursuing or not.
You don't normally get given your court date during the traffic stop though do you? I thought they ticketed you, then you received a court summons at a later date. If you did receive the summons and ignore it/didn't notice, then your defence is a fair bit weaker
Well, I got no notification at all about having to show and the police officer pretty explicitly told me I got off. I showed and got a new court date, and since I'm young (or look young, hooray for being Asian) I get a court appointed solicitor to help me out. The notice I got about missing court just said to respond in 20 days, and apparently there's no prejudice If I do so. Either way won't worry about it until it happens.
On June 14 2016 18:05 iCanada wrote: I think difficulty depends on what you take.
You definitely just have way more shit to do in general though in Uni. Highschool is just kind of like whatever, you could usually finish all your homework in class and shit. Uni you have like 5 assignments due every week, learning something new in 7 different classes every day with an 30 minutes of reading for them all every night. And if you skipped the readings you'd get to lecture and just have no idea what the fuck the guy was talking about, lol.
I found engineering difficulty not too different from highschool aside from the openbook exams meant to be curved around a class average of 30% [those are terror as fuck lol feels so bad getting a test back and you got like 24/50... then you realize that is a 4.0], but kind of felt like I was drinking water from a fire hose. It was fine if you stayed on top of things, but if you let it go for even a day and took your mouth off the hose it just became impossible to get your mouth back on. I had to tank a few classes which were quite easy tbh and barely pass them during my stay in order to catch up a couple times.
Overall though, my GPA in Highschool and Uni was about the same. I found the content higher level but easier because I was interested in 90% of it instead of like 60%. But definitely 100x more work. Way way way way more work.
This was fairly close to my experience. A couple major differences from high school was that it was so easy to get distracted by stuff going on and because you have so much freedom - hanging out with friends, volunteering, going to a party, etc. that you do have to prioritize things whereas in high schools things were pretty straightforward - classes, club/ sports, homework, etc. And there's just a much bigger group of people and so much variation in background and personality. You meet some insanely smart people, some people who are just weird, and some people that make you happy that there's only one like them out of 10k.
I think gen ed classes are a little silly (made it hard for me to finish my double major), though I did end up taking some pretty interesting classes as a result. I had some really great professors. If you're going to an American uni (dunno if this applies to others), make sure to develop relationships with your good professors. Some suck, but others love teaching and love the subject they're teaching. Plus you might want dat rec. I got dinner with a professor a couple weeks ago and it was a ton of fun.
On June 14 2016 14:52 iCanada wrote: Depends what you mean by worse.
Uni will work you 100x harder than highschool did, I can tell you that. On the same token, I think most Universities have a much much wider variety of people than highschool does. I definitely had a significantly better social experience in uni. I think people are much more likely to fit in and find likeminded peers than in highschool.
Trying to afford food, housing, tuition and books and shit was hella stressful though. Not sure if that is an issue for you or not.
i meant more with stuff outside my control/non-school stuff. i've basically had to do most things academic-wise myself last 2 yrs but that is a long story not fit for lounge threads. i don't have a lot of good memories of my HS (not their fault though).
historically i've been a procrastinator but junior/senior years forced me to be a lot more diligent but we'll see with uni i guess
On June 14 2016 14:00 ticklishmusic wrote: Any legal people here? I got pulled over by a cop a couple months ago and he tried to write me a ticket but his electronic system wasn't working, so he let me off with a warning. I got a letter in the mail today saying I missed a court date last week/ didn't pay a fine which I had no way of knowing I was responsible for. What should I do/ expect? Planning to call the court first thing tomorrow and try and get it sorted out.
Not a lawyer or legal person, however I did just finish writing my PEng exam a month or so ago, which is a huge test on Contracts, Legal systems, and Liability. That said, I have no idea how different the laws in the US are from Canadian Law. I assume they are similar. Take this with a grain of salt;
the professional practice examination or w.e.? how was it? I meet all the other requirements to becoming a PEng and i was considering it but I dont really think it would advance me in my current possition and I would just end up paying them every year. would get a cool stamp tho.
Haven't posted anything yesterday so let this be my tuesday tune. And the proof that you don't need goddamn overused choirs and full symphonic orchestra and stuff to get an ominous crescendo going. :[
On June 14 2016 14:00 ticklishmusic wrote: Any legal people here? I got pulled over by a cop a couple months ago and he tried to write me a ticket but his electronic system wasn't working, so he let me off with a warning. I got a letter in the mail today saying I missed a court date last week/ didn't pay a fine which I had no way of knowing I was responsible for. What should I do/ expect? Planning to call the court first thing tomorrow and try and get it sorted out.
Not a lawyer or legal person, however I did just finish writing my PEng exam a month or so ago, which is a huge test on Contracts, Legal systems, and Liability. That said, I have no idea how different the laws in the US are from Canadian Law. I assume they are similar. Take this with a grain of salt;
Its a shit situation, but if they were to give you a ticket in person that is considered in most jurisdictions being "served". In most jurisdictions if you have been "served" there is no potential excuse of ignorance and it is on you.
The only way you could get out of it is if you had some sort of proof you weren't actually served, but I'd guess that is likely impossible at this point unless you have dash cam video with the conversation where he said he'd let you off with a warning. Effectively it would be your word against his, and given that you didn't show up to the court date (I know it is kinda bullshit, zzz), he would likely win that. At which point you are likely (depends on judge) looking at extra court fee's being added on top of whatever the ticket / charges against you are.
I'd probably just pay and get it over with personally, but if its a matter of principle, you should talk to a lawyer. They'd give you much better advice than anyone here ever could. I'd shoot a quick and dirty BCC email to the first couple lawyers that show up when you google "[your location] traffic court attorney". One of them should likely give you a quick answer of whether its worth pursuing or not.
You don't normally get given your court date during the traffic stop though do you? I thought they ticketed you, then you received a court summons at a later date. If you did receive the summons and ignore it/didn't notice, then your defence is a fair bit weaker
Well, I got no notification at all about having to show and the police officer pretty explicitly told me I got off. I showed and got a new court date, and since I'm young (or look young, hooray for being Asian) I get a court appointed solicitor to help me out. The notice I got about missing court just said to respond in 20 days, and apparently there's no prejudice If I do so. Either way won't worry about it until it happens.
I'd note I have zero idea if that's how it actually works, so don't base your legal defence on my baseless wonderings :p
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