++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[MotF Bane]

Or, as I like to call them, GPA boosters.

I prefer to call them wastes of time.

 

[Barfo]

 

[MotF Bane]

But I got a printout of what gen.ed's were open to me for EE reqs, I think I've lost it, but if I haven't, it'll be helpful. The Arts & Humanities stuff is really annoying. Their history section is bland and uninteresting, and arts... fuck arts. "yay let's discuss this book by some long-dead egotistical asshole" or "omg look at these exquisite brush strokes can't you feel his rage?"

 

[MotF Bane]

FEEL MY RAGE!!!! :awe:

 

[alfa147x]

My meeting at 1:00 is remedial training for a group of idiots who can't seem to read documentation. Meeting at 2:00 is to have a webinar about another app. I don't have much time today to do actual work.

Mine is a web "strategy" meeting

The last 3 have been canceled...

 

[MotF Bane]

Actually, an addendum to my beer gut theory - if you're severely fat before age 25, you fail life.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I prefer to call them wastes of time.

Most are. Mine were all either Econ or Spanish. Econ, because I had some interest and Spanish, because I knew those 3 courses would be easy As with very little effort required. After the first test in one of the Spanish courses, the professor got mad and reminded the class that this was a beginner Spanish class and if you have Spanish in high school and did well, you need to sign up for the more advanced ones.

Screw that -- I just needed an easy A.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I lost all respect for Econ when I took a course titled "Econ and behavior" and realized the Econ was not an exact science.

 

[MotF Bane]

If your waist measures higher than your height, you're a fucking disgusting blob.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I signed up for another Econ course and the first day, the professor mentioned a semester project with a large paper due at the end. I dropped that course the next morning. :awe:

 

[MotF Bane]

Most are. Mine were all either Econ or Spanish. Econ, because I had some interest and Spanish, because I knew those 3 courses would be easy As with very little effort required. After the first test in one of the Spanish courses, the professor got mad and reminded the class that this was a beginner Spanish class and if you have Spanish in high school and did well, you need to sign up for the more advanced ones.

Screw that -- I just needed an easy A.

I like econ, but I don't mind a lot of the other social sciences. Econ is hilarious, watching people trying to figure out graphs and multiplication and such.

 

[MotF Bane]

Oh, and foreign languages? EECCHHH. I'd like to know a few, it's all babble to me.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I like econ, but I don't mind a lot of the other social sciences. Econ is hilarious, watching people trying to figure out graphs and multiplication and such.

I took my first econ course during a summer session. The prof spent a day explaining y=mx+b to many baffled students. I just sat there and laughed.

That was the course where, at 9:00 PM the night before the final, I decided I might want to study. At 10:00 or 11:00, I was tired and said "Fuck it." I didn't do great on the test, but I did enough to keep my A in the class. When I went to the prof's office, he said "ICF, what happened on the final?"

 

[MotF Bane]

Nearf.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Oh, and foreign languages? EECCHHH. I'd like to know a few, it's all babble to me.

I got As and A+s in Spanish in high school so I knew the introductory Spanish courses which qualified for EE electives were just a formality.

 

[MotF Bane]

I took my first econ course during a summer session. The prof spent a day explaining y=mx+b to many baffled students. I just sat there and laughed.

That was the course where, at 9:00 PM the night before the final, I decided I might want to study. At 10:00 or 11:00, I was tired and said "Fuck it." I didn't do great on the test, but I did enough to keep my A in the class. When I went to the prof's office, he said "ICF, what happened on the final?"

Lulz.

I can count on one hand the number of professors who could recognize me.

Actually, let's try...

 

[IndyColtsFan]

To be honest, I miss school. Even more so lately, as I found out one of my all-time favorite teachers (jr. high English) died over the weekend. He was only 57 or so.

 

[MotF Bane]

One...
Two...

That's it. One was my calculus professor for an entire year at RIT, and possibly the best teacher I've ever had. Two was my writing professor from the previous semester.

 

[MotF Bane]

To be honest, I miss school. Even more so lately, as I found out one of my all-time favorite teachers (jr. high English) died over the weekend. He was only 57 or so.

 

[alfa147x]

1211

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Who knows -- had I not gotten married, maybe I would've said "Fuck it" to the whole corporate world, quit, and gone back to school full-time and maybe worked as a consultant part-time.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Maybe I could've finished my MSEE (dumb, dumb, dumb) and gone on to a PhD or something else entirely.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Another problem with aging is that you don't learn as fast. It is pretty frustrating when you're used to learning with no effort.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Maybe I could've finished my MSEE (dumb, dumb, dumb) and gone on to a PhD or something else entirely.

Are you referencing dumb dumb dumb as in leaving without completing the MSEE?