Random Rants LIII: F My Life

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I feel like for the most part what I currently do in school is a complete waste of time, I'd learn much faster on my own, without useless bloat nobody remembers in a couple of days.
 
CKS said:
The siren went off here (Belleville) just moments after my alarm, making this the first time in ages that anyone else has gotten up on time.

Are things okay where you are? The weatherman says that a tornado touched down in University City. I hope that wasn't close to you.
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Well, my aunt lives in U City. I think she's alright, since no injuries were reported. I went down to my dorm's basement at 5:30 in the morning, but luckily the tornado didn't reach my school. UMSL's usually safe, but between the odd tornado, crime (a woman was robbed at the Metro the other day), and sooner or later the New Madrid Fault, it sometimes doesn't feel like it.

Cool that you're from Belleville! :) It's good to see there are not a few CFCers around me. I know someone who lives there, and I sometimes go to the archery store to buy arrows there.
 
A chastity belt should never be compared to a Play-Doh mold. I did not need that particular mental image.
 
LamaGT said:
I feel like for the most part what I currently do in school is a complete waste of time, I'd learn much faster on my own, without useless bloat nobody remembers in a couple of days.
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That's probably more a matter of motivation than the classroom setting itself. We remember things better when we're personally motivated to remember them because they're interesting. Aside from total year-long immersion, nothing and I mean nothing can match a 2-3 year language course series in terms of remembering and learning to use a language properly.

Also if you're complaining about high school: lol just stick it out till college, most of your problems (i.e. taking disinteresting classes) will be solved. If you are in college: why are you taking classes that aren't interesting to you?

In either respect, the best thing for you is to stop approaching the situation as though the class isn't going to offer anything for you. You're spending valuable time and money being there. You need to find a way to invest yourself in the class; I guarantee you you'll get a lot more out of it than you think you might.
 
Update: Just got off the phone with my aunt, who lived half a mile from where the tornado touched down. It knocked down some trees and did some property damage, but she couldn't see how much what with all the emergency personnel.

Not ten minutes after I got off the phone, I got an automated call and heard the siren. Again. There's another tornado some ways west of here, so I'm down in the basement again.

Yaaaay
 
Owen Glyndwr said:
Also if you're complaining about high school: lol just stick it out till college, most of your problems (i.e. taking disinteresting classes) will be solved. If you are in college: why are you taking classes that aren't interesting to you?
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So I'm curious, this seems to imply that in the US you have complete freedom to take whatever classes you want at college. That's not the case in Australia; in one of my degrees I have no electives, but a small amount of choice as to what courses I take for my major (there are four options, I have to do three of them). In the other, I have no choice at all until the last year, when it's all electives. There's also gateway subjects that can be a complete waste of time in themselves, but necessary to do before you can take second or third level courses. So it'd be entirely possible to have to take classes that really suck and are of very limited interest or value.
 
I'd have to wonder then if you did pick the right major. The only course I really didn't want to take was Plant Physiology.
 
The last course I hated is a statutory requirement for my degree, the rest of which I love. My point is more that no matter what degree you're pursuing, your choices are quite limited. Either push through a sucky class or drop out and start over. That you enjoy a particular field is no guarantee that the quality of every class you're in is going to be great. But perhaps that's not the same in the US system, which I gather is fairly different?
 
Camikaze said:
The last course I hated is a statutory requirement for my degree, the rest of which I love. My point is more that no matter what degree you're pursuing, your choices are quite limited. Either push through a sucky class or drop out and start over. That you enjoy a particular field is no guarantee that the quality of every class you're in is going to be great. But perhaps that's not the same in the US system, which I gather is fairly different?
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I had 0 electives and 3 technical electives (choose an extra class in the college of engineering or sciences to take)

which is 9 credit hours out of 130 the way the system works (typically 1 class = 3 or 4 credit hours at my school; schools define them differently since that is a bit arbitrary).
 
Camikaze said:
The last course I hated is a statutory requirement for my degree, the rest of which I love. My point is more that no matter what degree you're pursuing, your choices are quite limited. Either push through a sucky class or drop out and start over. That you enjoy a particular field is no guarantee that the quality of every class you're in is going to be great. But perhaps that's not the same in the US system, which I gather is fairly different?
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It really depends on the degree programs. Some programs are very structured (STEM, some Social Sciences, Education, and the Arts) and some are very open ended (some Social Sciences and Humanities).

I'm in an Arts program (Music) which is rather structured. All of my classes are decided for me. I'm also going to be dual majoring in either History or Political Science. History is very open ended, I just need to take enough classes and enough upper level classes in whatever I want to get the degree. PolySci is a little more structured but still rather open.
 
Camikaze said:
Just ordered two dozen Rekorderligs at less than €1 each, including delivery. Compares to about $6 each if you get them on sale at home.
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So although I was home all day the delivery guy just dropped it off yesterday with a neighbour and left a note on my door telling me where to pick it up. I've been twice to collect it but no-one's been home. :mad:

Edit: third time lucky.
 
You know what is frustrating?

You talk with some great people at a career fair, you are sitting down to write a thank you email to follow up, and you realize they gave you a card that just has a general recruitment department on it, no individual person's email. I've got like three of these.

Guess I just have to name-drop in the a cover letter and submit that with my resume next week.
 
Welp finally got sick after almost two years of non-sickness. I'm leaky all over. Better go outside and drink.
 
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