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[schnitzel_bob]

Discuss: Majors, Minors, Shit classes, useless academic advisors, etc.

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[SuperDavidGT]

Major - Psychology. Used to do a double degree in Business, but I got bored with that and ended up failing thanks to A) poor attendance and B) not doing the exams.

Minor - Human Biology

Shit classes - Nothing so much this semester. The physiology labs can be fun, when we're butchering the organs of dead animals or hitting one another with reflex mallets, but other than that it's pretty mundane.

Good classes - I'm loving evolution studies. 3 hours a week of solid bible bashing, testosterone debates, watching animals fuck in comical ways, and a trip to the zoo.

Useless academic advisors - last semester I had a fat, lesbian lab demonstrator who didn't know what the fuck she was doing, wasn't respected by the class, and ended up bailing out a few weeks before the end, leaving the professor to pick up our class. Funnily enough, everyone went from failing to distinctions in barely seven days.

Best professor - Last semester I did a biomedical type unit, all on diseases and epidemics. Every week this guy would present us with new and wonderful pathogens that could potentially wipe out the human race in a shitstorm of gore and suffering. Highly entertaining.

[Smapdey]

Major - I don't have a major yet. I was planning on going into creative writing, but instead I'm thinking about creating a game design or game development major, I don't know. My school is sort of like that in the sense that you can kind of do whatever you want.

Shit Classes - Alternative Perspectives to Education, we didn't have tests, so there was no reason to take notes in class. I spent most of the time writing poetry, it was great. The class itself was totally worthless, apart from the fact that I got a division credit for it. Introduction to Astronomy was the worst class I have ever taken in my life, simply because the professor didn't speak English, read straight out of the text book in class which took about ten times the amount of time it took to just read the text book, and also just didn't know what he was talking about. One time on a test I got the question, "The sun does not rise in south pole half of year why is so?"

Good Classes - So far my English classes have been pretty good, and my Australian History course is just awesome. My computer science course is nice because I don't study much.

Worst Professors - My Zoology professor was pretty bad, not because he wasn't an intelligent guy, but just because he usually got so off topic that we never actually learned anything about birds or mammals, something that really bummed me out, because those seem like important classes of animals. He's pretty pissed at me for the time I stayed up all night working on a paper, I think for his class, and then came to class the next day completely baked off my ass. The trouble was that we were only giving class presentations and it was pretty worthless information because none of it was on the final. Speaking of the final for that course, I didn't study at all, I actually went out the night before and got completely hammered on Sierra Nevada Pale Ale at a Kegger, and then took the final unprepared and with a hangover. I managed to get a B+.

One time in another class, which was a pretty good class with a total stoner/pillhead for a professor I had an acid flashback, and that cost me some points, but whatever, I still got an A.

Best Professor - I have no idea, I haven't really had too many terrible ones, nor have I had any that completely blew me away every day. My Oz History teacher is a cool guy, and the guy I took creative writing with last semester was awesome. Same with the Pillhead dude. College has been a lot of fun.

[Downfall]

Major: Communications with Emphasis in Public Relations
Minors: Sociology
Shit classes: Comm Law, anything math
Best Class: Case Studies, sociology of work (the guy wandered the globe and had various jobs...also was like 90),
Useless Advisor: - the one i had was awsome, no rant here.

[Roq]

Major: Media Arts and Animation (bachelors)

Eight more classes to go, and I have to create a demo reel before I graduate.

[General Edor Crespin]

Finished high school last year, not going to college for a couple years yet, so just my job right now.

[epsilon]

I'm in college right now. Studying computer graphics. Have to say it's pretty easy since I'm ahead of everyone due to my knowledge of Photoshop. Meeting a lot of cool people, I discovered that it's very to make friends in college when you're a smoker, all sorts of people ask you for either a lighter or a cigarette and so a great conversation begins.

[Downfall]

i dont even smoke and i carry a lighter just for that reason

[Smapdey]

I smoke a pack a day. Most people don't carry lighters. People need to carry lighters at all time because this is mankind's first defense against the elements, fire.

[King Speedy]

If I carried a lighter around, I'd probably find a way to light my pants on fire, also an excellent conversation-starter.

[schnitzel_bob]

Just dropped an Intro to Bio class. I thought I needed it complete my degree requirements, but someone suggested I take intro to spanish instead, so I'm gonna. Good thing too. I'm a third year Poli Sci student and I haven't done any science since first year, so I'm completely out of practice for that kind of studying: memorizing exact facts, etc. Ask me to write an essay about Neo-Liberalism, I'm fucking gold, but ask me to memorize the workings of a cell and I'll fall asleep. Fuck biology.

[tisl]

Memorizing stuff is completely unnecessary, I can't understand what it's meant to accomplish. If it's in my fucking notes, why the hell do you want me to memorize and write it on the test again? It was one of my (many) problems with school.

[MrBored]

What a bunch of hippies, anyone studying anything important?

[RAY16]

I plan on going for a G.E.D. soon. Haven't been to school since 5th grade, but somehow I think I was better of leaving as I wouldn't have learned much either way what with America's public school system is useless and all. A popular culture that promotes stupidity doesn't help, either.

I could get an actual high school diploma from the Primavera Online High School (http://www.primaveratech.org/), but that probably requires more work...and I have no self-discipline.

[schnitzel_bob]

What a bunch of hippies, anyone studying anything important?

Allright, what counts as important to you then?

[blind_mad_cow]

Majors: Computer Maint.
Minors: None, but going back for Networking next year.
Shit classes: Display Monitors - CRTs
useless academic advisors: none :)

College life is good this semester...next semester will be hell. Ill have to do my practicum :mad: Fucking freeloaders..i work for noone for free!

[Smapdey]

I'm membership chair for a fraternity. My life revolves around meeting all of the freshmen and trying to get them to join. Not that I would tell them to join if I didn't think it was a good idea and wouldn't do it again myself, it's just a lot of work when less than a third of the chapter helps you with something everyone should be concerned about.

[caregirl]

Major: Education

Minor: I guess I don't have one that I know of.

Best Class: All of them have been pretty good. Nothing to complain about at the moment.

Worst Teacher: Dick Hawls, his name says it all. But I passed.

I will graduate in Fall of 08'... just doing all I can to make it till then. I'm so tired of going to school. But if will all be worth it eventually.