My english professor cannot spell.

Posted by Oryx My english professor cannot spell.

if this is the problem of the day, you have no bitch.

Posted by Samurai if this is the problem of the day, you have no bitch.

After giving detailed instructions for people with health insurance on how to fill out waivers for the mandatory health insurance a few months back, the university signed up about half of those people for the $370/semester service provided by a University-chosen company. Apparently their approved waiver was de-approved?

Posted by Samurai if this is the problem of the day, you have no bitch.

You're right. It's been a pretty good day, but this semester isn't promising.

The running around and paperwork if you need to do something for the institution (sick note copied in triplicate, forms for this and that taken here and there and back here, etc).

Homework pisses me off.

I pay attention in class, and do all the work I can during class. But when I get home, I want to relax, not spend 5 hours writing an essay over something I could really care less about, or solving for x-y. I rarely did homework in high school (a group of us had a system set up, one person did it and the others copied but changed some answers here and there) and still graduated with honors.

I'm worried about going back to school. I hear horror stories of people doing 12+ hours of homework, and studying for hours on end. I really don't want to put up with that BS just for a little piece of paper that, at this time, won't get me better pay.

Posted by WarBird69 Homework pisses me off. I pay attention in class, and do all the work I can during class. But when I get home, I want to relax, not spend 5 hours writing an essay over something I could really care less about, or solving for x-y. I rarely did homework in high school (a group of us had a system set up, one person did it and the others copied but changed some answers here and there) and still graduated with honors. I'm worried about going back to school. I hear horror stories of people doing 12+ hours of homework, and studying for hours on end. I really don't want to put up with that BS just for a little piece of paper that, at this time, won't get me better pay.

Get over it. It's important. Your life will never be more relaxed than it is now. 10/20 years, you'll look back on this time and wish you were still there.

Also: education isn't intended to prepare you to earn better pay.

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As for my end of this discussion:

Does trying to get a 6 year old into his fucking clothes before school...THIS pisses me off...does this count?

Posted by WarBird69 Homework pisses me off. I pay attention in class, and do all the work I can during class. But when I get home, I want to relax, not spend 5 hours writing an essay over something I could really care less about, or solving for x-y. I rarely did homework in high school (a group of us had a system set up, one person did it and the others copied but changed some answers here and there) and still graduated with honors. I'm worried about going back to school. I hear horror stories of people doing 12+ hours of homework, and studying for hours on end. I really don't want to put up with that BS just for a little piece of paper that, at this time, won't get me better pay.

Just don't take too many classes at once. Also depends on what level you're starting off at. I'm in regular english/writing (I don't do jack shit), remedial math (I don't do jack shit), and intro to philosophy (guess how much I do).

I actually wish I had more. I feel like I'm wasting my time.

A few days ago in english we learned that opera is for rich people, gothic people like black things, and punk people have funny hair. This pisses me off. I'm not exaggerating at all. This pisses me off more. With math I understand why we're going at a slow pace. That you really need a good foundation. But english... it's useless what we're learning. It's not like the professor is putting some kind of intellectual spin on it either. Gah.

4 weeks ago I started university.

In HS, I got away with playing 3 sports, being the yearbook senior editor, and student council president. And still, I graduated with honours, French Immersion, as an Ontario scholar and got numerous scholarships.

In the past four weeks I've done more homework and readings than I did all through high school.

So.... pretty much just school pisses me off at this point.

Posted by olive 4 weeks ago I started university. In HS, I got away with playing 3 sports, being the yearbook senior editor, and student council president. And still, I graduated with honours, French Immersion, as an Ontario scholar and got numerous scholarships. In the past four weeks I've done more homework and readings than I did all through high school. So.... pretty much just school pisses me off at this point.

Hell, even college I got away with working 30 hours a week and rarely doing homework. Highschool I didn't go to half my classes the last semester I was there (literally, I missed about 40 classes), and graduated with all 90's in subjects I suck at (math and sciences),

University I'm killing myself working 20-25 hours a week and trying to keep up on all the assignments and readings...half the time I don't have time to get all the readings done (I don't think I have yet). And all the teachers seem to get pissed off when you don't have the time to do everything...like today the teacher is pissed that most people didn't go see an art show she told us to.

When the hell am I going to find the time to get downtown and check out an exhibit?

They'll suggest not working and focusing on studies if you complain to them about how much homework there is...sorry, but my bills don't pay themselves...

I'm exhausted all the time. Boooo.

consider the alternatives to having an education... that'll pep you right back up.

you all think your uni is hard, try getting an engineering degree, add 120% of the work load lib art students do.. THEN complain.

Posted by JBuss you all think your uni is hard, try getting an engineering degree, add 120% of the work load lib art students do.. THEN complain.

I was a lib arts student at a school where a prof went bonkers and killed a bunch of engineering profs about a month before classes started. I was actually in a phone booth on the corner of Broadview and Danforth talking to someone who was in that building at the time, and I was inquiring as to the state of my acceptance letter...as in 'where is it'...and was put on hold, and then asked to call back because 'apparently, there's someone with a gun shooting people in the building.'

That said, engineering is what...expensive math, yes? I mean expensive professional mathematics, which you can a) do, or b) not do. I fall into the last category, as do most of the rest of us.

Meanwhile, liberal arts isn't exactly a cakewalk. Ever take a university level art history class? Obtuse mathematical formulas are tricky, but try recalling the finer points of a discussion concerning the differences in aesthetics re: Greek urns, or the significance of a particular brush-stroke on Flemish masterworks, or the harmonic scales and the mathematics involved in their application in Gregorian chant. Might seem useless (generally, it is unless you plan on becoming an art history prof), and know that unless you achieve B+ or better on your first in-class quiz, the next four years of your university life will suck ass, and that you're probably better off taking something way more linear, like engineering.

Posted by KublaKhan I was a lib arts student at a school where a prof went bonkers and killed a bunch of engineering profs about a month before classes started. I was actually in a phone booth on the corner of Broadview and Danforth talking to someone who was in that building at the time, and I was inquiring as to the state of my acceptance letter...as in 'where is it'...and was put on hold, and then asked to call back because 'apparently, there's someone with a gun shooting people in the building.' That said, engineering is what...expensive math, yes? I mean expensive professional mathematics, which you can a) do, or b) not do. I fall into the last category, as do most of the rest of us. Meanwhile, liberal arts isn't exactly a cakewalk. Ever take a university level art history class? Obtuse mathematical formulas are tricky, but try recalling the finer points of a discussion concerning the differences in aesthetics re: Greek urns, or the significance of a particular brush-stroke on Flemish masterworks, or the harmonic scales and the mathematics involved in their application in Gregorian chant. Might seem useless (generally, it is unless you plan on becoming an art history prof), and know that unless you achieve B+ or better on your first in-class quiz, the next four years of your university life will suck ass, and that you're probably better off taking something way more linear, like engineering.

Been there KK. My degree on paper is in Math and Sci, but I was only 4 credits away from an AAS in Liberal Arts on top of the Math and Sci degree because I spent an extra year in school waiting for them to offer the math and science labs I needed to graduate. Art History sucked balls, as did drawing and music appreciation. I spent 4 years in high school playing second year conservatory material on the C Flute. I was either bored to tears or driving myself batshit crazy trying to memories Flemish paintings and painters.

I'd love to go with an Art History major if I knew I could get a decent job with that degree. I'm one of the few that enjoys studying all sorts of useless details of Flemish paintings. Jan Van Eyck <33

But... I'm just a physics major.

Another thing that pissed me off about my english professor: She compared Gothic culture to Twilight and the Columbine shootings. Also, we haven't written ANYTHING yet and it's been a month into the semester. This is a waste of time and money.

i got a $24,000 scholarship and... DID NOTHING WITH IT.
dropped out after the first year and have been kicking myself in the balls ever since.

I just found out NOW (three months into my first semester of college) that my financial aid was randomly taken away. WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUUCCCKKK????

Posted by KublaKhan I was a lib arts student at a school where a prof went bonkers and killed a bunch of engineering profs about a month before classes started. I was actually in a phone booth on the corner of Broadview and Danforth talking to someone who was in that building at the time, and I was inquiring as to the state of my acceptance letter...as in 'where is it'...and was put on hold, and then asked to call back because 'apparently, there's someone with a gun shooting people in the building.' That said, engineering is what...expensive math, yes? I mean expensive professional mathematics, which you can a) do, or b) not do. I fall into the last category, as do most of the rest of us.

I wish it was just alot of math. electrical Engi is alot more than just math and every single fucking class has a fucking lab attached to it. 4 years for a degree? only if you take 20 units a quarter + labs... more like 5 1/2 years... glad I'm done with all that bull shit, and I don't even USE my degree.

Posted by Oryx I just found out NOW (three months into my first semester of college) that my financial aid was randomly taken away. WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUUCCCKKK????

What??? How can they take it away randomly? Did they give you any advanced notice? This is just f* up.

Posted by jacunda What??? How can they take it away randomly? Did they give you any advanced notice? This is just f* up.

here in NY, this happens quite frequently.