Do you ever listen?

Do people ever listen to the ridiculous shit they say?

Once in a while is excusable but every sentence only opens the door for others to make fun of you.

This question never ceases to amaze me. I am walking between classes at university (keyword: university) and am approached with, "Hey what are you doing here?". What? I hope you get cancer.

"You should love me the way I am."

Yes, but I am still allowed to verbally abuse you.

Fundamentally wrong

I think one of the biggest problems in this society is that people are not humble enough to accept honest criticism and use it constructively but rather take it as a personal attack and use it to fuel their own anger and naiveness. It has been mentioned that perhaps it could be approached in a much "nicer" way but I have always found the impact of these nicer ways tend to end up useless as the importance and impact is lost upon itself.

People should be prepared to hear anything once they ask a question. Don't try to fish out compliments from me. Disappointment awaits those who do.

If you're going to correct me or insult me...

... do it properly.

___"I helped edit an essay for a student who I believe has great potential but lacks self-confidence in their own natural ability due to reasons only known to itself. "

there's a few grammatical errors in that sentence, I'm suprised that (itself) accepted your help after posting that entry. tsk tsk___

First of all, it's there are. Not there is. Are for plural. Suprised is spelt surprised and the sentences are structured correctly. Use your brain please.

Even if it costs me.

I helped edit an essay for a student who I believe has great potential but lacks self-confidence in their own natural ability due to reasons only known to itself. So to try and boost their self-confidence and hopefully help teach the individual to see their own mistakes, I edited the essay only in sections I thought needed much attention and to see if they could pick up all their own mistakes and maybe now they can see that they can do a perfectly fine job themself without having to later rely on others which would greatly benefit under exam conditions though I don't think they quite got the point. Nevertheless, I understand the benefits to ask for additional opinions other than your own but ever so more useful if you do your best first then ask so you can see where your flaws are.

I don't want to have to explain the reasons why I do certain things to try to help people all the time. If you don't understand why but benefit from it, that's okay. I have come to accept that people will take it for what they see first hand and not realize the fabrications laid and rather see it in a different point of light. Even if you never see it, if you learn that's all that matters.

Surprise?

I always find myself in unnerving circumstances especially when it boils down to talking at inappropriate times about inappropriate things. For example today I was telling a friend of mine on how ridiculous the subject Biochemistry 2 was initially. So much information to process at the one time was mind boggling. As soon as I had mentioned "Biochemistry is fucking spastic." the lecturer who taught it was standing right beside me and replied "I hope you weren't talking about Biochemistry.." then thought I said disgusting instead of spastic. Then I had to follow on explaining myself..

I'm dead.

DEAD!

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Ask Google.

Google knows all.

Oh and if you were wondering what $150,000 tuition & 4 years of a college education can achieve look no further.

And on an interesting yet disturbing look in the past take a look here..
What it's made out of stone? That's..

Ten ways to help me fail Organic Chemistry 2 by Robyn Crumbie

1. Miss lectures. All kinds of useful explanations are given in lectures, so not being there will help me NOT to understand a lot. I’ll also miss the answers to questions asked by other students about things I didn’t even know I didn’t understand.

2. Miss practical classes, or at least waste so much time that I don’t finish. Completion of all pracs if a compulsory unit requirement – so if I do not do so I automatically.

3. Don’t prepare for a prac. Class. Not knowing what I am doing really helps me to stuff the experiment. Not doing a flow diagram – or copying someone else’s – is a sure fire way to do this.
4. Leave all assignments to the last minute. That way I don’t do a good job and I don’t learn anything either.

5. Work in assignments with other people. That way I only do a fraction of the work myself, so I can only learn a fraction of the material.

6. Hand in everything late. The penalty for lateness is -10% per day. Better still, don’t hand in assignments or prac. reports at all. Since completing each assessment task is again a compulsory unit requirement, not handing something in makes it so easy to fail.

7. Ask questions only of people repeating the unit. The fact that they are repeating means that they know little, so it is highly unlikely that they will know the correct answer.

8. Don’t ask Robyn or any of the demonstrators any questions because they might know the answers and might actually help me to learn.

9. Don’t go over lecture notes after the lecture. That way I won’t realise I don’t understand so I will be totally lost in the next lecture.

10. Leave studying to the last minute. In this unit, the latter topics rely on understanding the earlier ones. If I do not work consistently from the beginning of semester, I won’t able to cram successfully at the last minute, and so will certainly fail the final exam.

So I am enthusiastically welcomed by this encouragement stuffed turkey of a message on the first day of my spring session semester. This topic eventually was going to be written but the organic chemistry lecturer beat me to it.

And you thought lecturers had no sense of humour..

Welcome to life in university.