Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[danjuno]

I was excited to start Intro to US Federal Government class on the first day, but we spent the entire time going over the syllabus instead of getting into the subject. I know it's kinda weird not to see that coming being the first day and all, but the psychology lecturer from the previous period had gotten right into the meat of his subject. I suppose that raised my expectations too high. At least I'm not doing math this semester.

 

[Lohrenswald]

So It's sunk in that my attitude a couple of days ago was stupid

but that's not all for this rantttt

new lecturer doesn't want to explain anything when I ask him questions, so I'm about to give up already

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, you had a good run (are you 17 now?), and everyone throws in the towel at some point. Better luck next life?

 

[Arakhor]

new lecturer doesn't want to explain anything when I ask him questions, so I'm about to give up already

Then make an appointment outside of lectures to talk with him.

 

[gay_Aleks]

i want to get off emotions wild ride

 

[The_J]

First world problem: My data is too big for an easy summary. I even have to run stuff like simple correlations on the server, because the data doesn't fit into memory.

 

[Lohrenswald]

So another new lecturer lectures entierly in english, despite what has been declared beforehand
also space physics sounds like it'll be pretty dreadful

so this semester seems like it'll be the worst one yet

first ex.phil lecture I feel like I learned nothing (bit Ironic since learning was one of the things that got mentioned). Lecturer there was pretty stiff, I wonder if that's more common in social science faculty

 

[Arakhor]

You're Norwegian, though. Isn't English everyone's second language?

 

[Takhisis]

So It's sunk in that my attitude a couple of days ago was stupid

It is very good to see that you are growing up.

Hope to see you back on fiftychat.

 

[Lohrenswald]

You're Norwegian, though. Isn't English everyone's second language?

yea but it's a pain to use

If I can't do the stuff in norwegian It'll make things more difficult for me

like taking notes
reading, honestly

and I can't bring myself to speak english properly or whatever

also for all the faculty knows I could be illiterate in english

but what's most nerving about it is that the study websites states black on white that the course is held in norwegian

I honestly conscider dropping out of the course

It is very good to see that you are growing up.

Hope to see you back on fiftychat.

condescending, u

while I think I acted badly, I still harbour ill will

also more rant:

In that course with the english lecturer (though I think he actually is german) I can't find what books we are supposed to get

 

[Bootstoots]

I have an 8 am class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thereby forcing me into an ungodly sleep schedule. And then I have another one at 9:30, which is about 12 minutes away and starts 10 minutes after my first one ends. How do people who have real jobs that require full days of work starting at some time from 7:00-8:30 survive? I'm clearly going to need to be a grad student forever.

Also I made hydrobromic acid using phosphoric acid + sodium bromide and tried to distill it off, but the Keck clips for my distillation apparatus melted halfway through, and boiling hydrobromic acid started steaming out of the joints. This vapor was unpleasant to breathe although it dissipated quickly enough once I got a fan running and opened the sliding door. But the equipment failure wrecked my yield; I only have some measly ~9% stuff now. And I'm really going to need to slow down with the chemistry obsession because classes are back in session and I need to do work actually related to my degree. Also I'm broke because the university only pays us 11 months out of the year, with August as the non-paid month, and it's not like I could control my behavior enough to budget for that.

 

[NovaKart]

I still don't have my passport and I called my former employer to ask him to drop the charges against me but they're all made in his wife's name and she's out of town until next week. Everything is always next week. And I just have a photocopied paper from security to prove ID so if I pass a checkpoint that may not cut it. I haven't been traveling outside the city but sometimes security alert is higher and they set up checkpoints inside the city.

 

[shadowplay]

My dog got sprayed by a skunk, now everything smells like garlic noodles and bud.

 

[The_J]

OMG

So another new lecturer lectures entierly in english, despite what has been declared beforehand

Believe me: That will definitely be a useful thing for you.
If you stay in science, you'll meet with international researchers and might go to international conferences. Getting used to English is necessary and good .

 

[Lohrenswald]

I don't care.

I don't want to work or converse in english

 

[dusters]

i want to get off emotions wild ride

Start meditating. Or taking walks in forest. Something to chill.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, I've gotten better, but since you mentioned it - I feel that I hate it when I'm not...engaged with something. Then I start thinking. Thinking is very bad, you can quote me on that, because it's almost always about regrets, things that we shouldn't have done. Or think we shouldn't have done. It's frustrating. I shouldn't dwell on it, that I know, but it just pops into my mind the moment I come off-guard.

And yes, yes, this probably sounds quite damn vague. It's...about love, I guess. Well. It was in the air, but now there's just a friendship. Which is good, as I value the person. I just can't sometimes shake the question "what could it been...", if I didn't do that or if it happened in other circumstances.

The few last days have been just a mess and I wish it just all ends. Ah, but I'm rambling.

 

[Arakhor]

I don't want to work or converse in english

As posted on a English-language forum with purely elective attendance.

 

[dusters]

Well, I've gotten better, but since you mentioned it - I feel that I hate it when I'm not...engaged with something. Then I start thinking. Thinking is very bad, you can quote me on that, because it's almost always about regrets, things that we shouldn't have done. Or think we shouldn't have done. It's frustrating. I shouldn't dwell on it, that I know, but it just pops into my mind the moment I come off-guard.

And yes, yes, this probably sounds quite damn vague. It's...about love, I guess. Well. It was in the air, but now there's just a friendship. Which is good, as I value the person. I just can't sometimes shake the question "what could it been...", if I didn't do that or if it happened in other circumstances.

The few last days have been just a mess and I wish it just all ends. Ah, but I'm rambling.

I know the feeling, I posted a rant of a bit similar situation a week ago here.

You have to decide if it's easier to see the person or not. If you are too attached it might hurt too much.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, I've already admitted my feelings to that person, but...well, all our interactions remain over the Internet and he just said what I had realised subsequently after the admission - that it would never work. We're still very good friends, it's just I felt sad and confused, yet, at the same time - calm and relieved? And now I feel bad about telling other people.