eh, diet mtn. dew is better anyway. at least I think it is. Everyone at my school waits till school's over (or before school. either way.) and goes to the shell to get their coke.
Leoj wrote:You don't learn much new stuff in your first year or two of college either. Need to get to those upper level classes.
The sheer repetitiveness is what bothers me. I think school would be a lot better if I was at least learning something new in the classes that I had to take.
I also hate how the school says that I'm not supposed to go on facebook or skype ever, but the algebra teacher has facebook bookmarked and the biology teacher is on skype during class.
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impmon08 wrote:eh, diet mtn. dew is better anyway. at least I think it is. Everyone at my school waits till school's over (or before school. either way.) and goes to the shell to get their coke.
Leoj wrote:You don't learn much new stuff in your first year or two of college either. Need to get to those upper level classes.
The sheer repetitiveness is what bothers me. I think school would be a lot better if I was at least learning something new in the classes that I had to take.
I also hate how the school says that I'm not supposed to go on facebook or skype ever, but the algebra teacher has facebook bookmarked and the biology teacher is on skype during class.
Well because our summer vacations are so long, we tend to forget things we learned the year before and have to be re-taught it. Also repetition is a great way of learning something despite it being really annoying. Not to mention its hard to learn the more advanced stuff if you can't get the basics right or you keep forgetting basic things.
I teach a physics lab class, and people who have had physics before in high school are just as clueless as people who have never seen this stuff before when it comes to the homework and/or doing the labs. Most people learn how to get a good grade without actually learning the concepts. This is one of the biggest problems with high school is that people just try and get a good grade and not try and learn the stuff. In college its a little different as you have to pay for the classes and the material is may be more relevant to your future career choice and therefore people pay attention more and actually try to learn it.
As for the teachers using stuff, its because they are the teachers and you are the students, if you are on facebook or skype you are probably not working, while most of the time if they are on it they are not actively teaching at the moment and may be sitting around waiting for the students to do things. For example I am in the aforementioned physics lab and I am on the AZ forums posting as my students are doing the lab themselves. If they have a question I will go help them out but if they don't then there is nothing for me to do.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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There are exceptions. Mainly, people who focused on maths-related subjects for secondary education. Those people genuinely know what the heck they're doing!
Plasma wrote:There are exceptions. Mainly, people who focused on maths-related subjects for secondary education. Those people genuinely know what the heck they're doing!
True, but thats because its hard to BS your way through math, or at least a lot harder than it is to BS your way through english. Especially if you have to show your work.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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I can't get that dick of a Wi-Fi stick installed on my laptop, even the new driver for vista compability gets stuck shortly before it's complete. Seriously, what the crap!
Plasma wrote:There are exceptions. Mainly, people who focused on maths-related subjects for secondary education. Those people genuinely know what the heck they're doing!
True, but thats because its hard to BS your way through math, or at least a lot harder than it is to BS your way through english. Especially if you have to show your work.
Plasma wrote:There are exceptions. Mainly, people who focused on maths-related subjects for secondary education. Those people genuinely know what the heck they're doing!
True, but thats because its hard to BS your way through math, or at least a lot harder than it is to BS your way through english. Especially if you have to show your work.
Dude what happened to becoming a doctor
Its still happening. In fact my dad got mad at me because I haven't done my med school applications yet. I am pretty sure I want to take a year off but he still wants me to apply this year.
However it doesn't matter what your major is in order to go to Medical School (at least in the US) as long as you take the pre-reqs. For example I am majoring in astrophysics. Also my college has a writing and social science and arts/humanities pre-req for graduating with a science major. There is also a science pre-req for graduating with a non-science major. The classes are not as hard as the classes for the major but they do still involve writing or science. Also I took an english course once (big mistake) because I like to try and be a well rounded person.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Myk wrote:Well rounded is pretty boring, and never turns out good in the long run
Med school is extremely expensive too :U
Hell ya it is. On average its like $100,000 for all 4 years. Grad schools (at least for physics) will give you a stipend and pay you for going to them, while you actually have to pay for med school. Although the payout at the end is larger when you actually have a real job.
Med schools also like well rounded applicants. In fact if you have like an english or classics major and apply to med school, you have a higher chance of getting accepted than if you have a science major. I am pretty sure that the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine holds at least 30% of its entering seats for non-science majors and since not that many non-science majors apply you have a good chance of getting accepted. Remember an entering class for a med school is like no larger than 250-300.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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