College and all the benefits!

[fett]

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College... what's that?
I'm a high school drop-out.
Maybe it's the 140 IQ,.

[/ QUOTE ] Well, I tested out at 135, but they said it would have been higher if I didn't have a fight with my mom the day of the test. Hell,I could have been a fukking jeanius [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[fett]

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The professors / teachers are so full of themselves and arrogant they just care about running their mouth. They don't care about their students learning.

[/ QUOTE ] You, my dear, have hit Socrates on the head. There are two ways to get through college: 1, You apply yourself to get what you want. 2, You figure out what those pompus (sp) asses want and feed it to them. The bottom line is get the degree. Because, in real life, all they want to see is the sheepskin. If you are smart enough, you can figure out any job. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] The "Skin gets you in" [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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Stupid college trick: Honor societies usually consider you as soon as you have enough hours to be a junior, what they don't tell you is that it doesn't matter where those hours come from. Do 2 years anywhere, transfer to a university (hours transfer, grades usually don't), take a feather-light load of super-easy classes (look for courses popular with the university's football & basketball teams) for a semester or two, join every honor society that'll have you to boost your resume, proceed to spend the next couple of years cutting class and drinking. Don't ask me how I know this. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Women: psychology & education are where you'll find the chicks. Someone mentioned law but those are women of a different sort. There were basically 3 types of chicks in my law school classes: 1) unwashed hardcore feminists and other assorted lefty-crusaders (avoid at all costs); 2) the ones who were screwing everyone from the local pro football / baseball / hockey teams that would give them the time of day, and 3) ones who smoked stogies, drank scotch, & liked titty bars. Surprisingly there were an awful lot in that third group, unsurprisingly most of 'em had issues.

Studying: Pointless. Your campus bookstore will have excellent commercial outlines for almost every class. They're not only worth their weight in gold, they're money better spent than that you spend on actual text books and time better spent than that you spend in class. Fraternities and sororities have excellent files on pretty much every prof/class at your university, join one to get access to this treasure trove of time-saving information, this shouldn't be too difficult as the houses that tend to get good grades are filled with dorks and are easy to join (remember, all you want are the files). In law school, the less I attended class the higher my grades were until my 3rd year when I achieved zen by finishing in the top 10%, attending probably less than 10% of my classes, and never actually purchasing a textbook (of course that was my 3rd degree and 5th university, YMMV). Use the force Luke.

[rjohnstone]

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Well, I tested out at 135, but they said it would have been higher if I didn't have a fight with my mom the day of the test. Hell,I could have been a fukking jeanius [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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ROFLMAO.... parents always have to screw it up for us don't they.

[fullshred]

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No time to party in college here. I had my own off-campus apartment and was on my school's meal plan. I had the best of both worlds; carrying tons of food out in my bookbag after chowing down, on the cheap. I got tons of grant $$$ to go to school, so my jobs at the time help pay my bills and the apartment landed me any poontang that drifted by. No wonder I graduated with an economics degree.. BTW, it's 'Rhoads Scholar' fwiw [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[fullshred]

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Nothing like returning those 300+ page text books to the campus bookstore that you shelled out $60.00 for initially only to find out it's practically worthless on the pro-rate because the staff changed books for the next semister! M'Fers! Anyone wanna buy some used accounting and economics books still? They're only 15 years old, but minty [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[fett]

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YetAnotherOne; You crack me up. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] You must have gone to a real school. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] My whole "University Degree" cost less than one year of the cost of books now adays. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] I trully feel sorry for you guys. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[fullshred]

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One of the girls I was doing happened to be the admin assistant to the Dean of the business school. Boy, did that prove advantages! LOL After I graduated, I dumped her azz [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]

[fett]

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One of the girls I was doing happened to be the admin assistant to the Dean of the business school. Boy, did that prove advantages! LOL After I graduated, I dumped her azz [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ] Well, based on your avartar, did you, at least, Trump her? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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I call 'em like I see 'em fett and university education is mostly just a game. Once you learn to play it it can be a pretty good time.

[fullshred]

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[/ QUOTE ] Well, based on your avartar, did you, at least, Trump her? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Well, yes....come to think of it- I did boink her in the caboose, much like what the Donald does to the gamblers that patronize his casinos on a daily basis! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[fett]

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I call 'em like I see 'em fett and university education is mostly just a game. Once you learn to play it it can be a pretty good time.

[/ QUOTE ]I agree. Cal State Hayward was on a hill. And all the ants went up the hill and down the hill. I had way more fun at the JC I went to. College is not college without something more than bricks and books. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[fullshred]

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I must admit that I hated most of my liberal arts-based professors, and they didn't like me. Too clean-cut and conservative for their liking. I knew of several first-hand instances where some of the 'flower_power' libs in some of my classes received better grades for inferior work. Some of the 'professors' (some adjunct, some tenored) were, totally biased. Luckily I had my business-related classes to balance them out. Those 'core' curriculums are a necessary evil at some of the liberal arts schools, imo

[fett]

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Read my lips: The best way to get through each class is to feed those profs what the want to hear. I had a :Phil of Religion class. I did my paper on (Oh, I forgot) some guy. It didn't matter. It was want he wanted to hear and I got an "A". The best one was, I had a big report due for a Poli Sci class. It just so happened that this prof used to work for the UN. The paper was due the next day, so I stayed up till 2Am typing on a real typewriter and cranked out a paper on a UN agency that he wanted to keep "FOR HIS FILES". He gave back the papers on the day of the final. "D" on final, "A" on paper= "C" in course [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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Read my lips: The best way to get through each class is to feed those profs what the want to hear.

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+1 and a prime example: while clerking at a big firm out-of-state after my 2nd year in law school I enrolled in a new internet-based class offered by my law school. The prof was deaf since birth (and as a result had extremely poor verbal skills), very bitter about it, and a waaaaay-left feminist who pretty much just hated all things male, so taking her course over the 'net as opposed to being tormented with a semester of completely unintelligible and hostile lectures was a very good thing.

Oddly the university instituted an "attendance" requirement for the internet course that consisted of logging into a web site every class day, downloading the lecture transcript and outline for that day, and submitting a set of non-graded short answer questions over the previous day's "lecture". Since the questions were never intended to be graded I cut and pasted a random sentence or two from each lectur transcript into each question and submitted them. Then I'd paste the day's outline into my master outline document and the day's lecture transcript into my master lecture document and call it a day, typically this was a 2-3 minute process but never more than 5. Naturally I didn't bother to read any of the stuff.

The 3-hour essay final consisted of 20 short essay questions to be downloaded at 8AM and returned via email timestamped no later than 5 PM. For the first 19 questions, I searched for keywords in my master lecture document and cut-and-pasted one paragraph verbatim from that document into each answer space. The 20th question very pointedly asked for my own opinion so I gave it. The entire final took about 90 minutes from start-to-finish. My grade was 95%, the 2nd highest grade in the course on a total time invested of less than 2 1/2 hours. Anybody care to take a guess as to which question scored me zero credit and accounted for the entire 5 points I didn't receive?

Getting good grades is an entirely different thing than actually learning anything, one has very little to do with the other.