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MorisUkunRasik · World's Strongest Millionaire

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Jason · Only in cartoons

If I were going to be a barista for the rest of my life, I would be the best ****ing barista you have ever seen. If I do something, I'm going to give it my all. It's the only way I know how to live.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Do they have frats in England?

Whatever I end up doing, I plan on actually giving a **** about it. I can't imagine wasting so much money and time to do something I don't give a **** about. I can't imagine then giving my whole life to it.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Jason wrote:

If I were going to be a barista for the rest of my life, I would be the best ****ing barista you have ever seen. If I do something, I'm going to give it my all. It's the only way I know how to live.

MLK had a good quote about if you're a street sweeper, be the best damn street sweeper you can be. Make people say "That was the best street sweeper ever"

That dumb monkey ****** sure had his moments.

MorisUkunRasik · World's Strongest Millionaire

Jason wrote:

If I were going to be a barista for the rest of my life, I would be the best ****ing barista you have ever seen. If I do something, I'm going to give it my all. It's the only way I know how to live.

you musta ripped that right out of some 80's flick. Especially that last line.

MorisUkunRasik · World's Strongest Millionaire

I didn't choose what I was going to do completely based on passion and interest. Its also very compatible with my lifestyle. So maybe pink likes not going to work on MLK Day.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

-- Edited by DEATHPIGGIE at 03:38, 2009-01-14

Pinkafro · Senior Member

Jason wrote:

Why do you want to be a teacher, when you clearly don't plan to excel at it?

i could be really good at the actual teaching part, its just that i'll leave stuff to the last minute always.. i would still mark the papers well, when i do it isnt really of much consequence. the majority of essays i've done so far got ok to good marks, hence why i havnt been motivated enough to change my ways.

admittedly i'm not overly enthralled with sociology, which is the only subject i'd be able to teach to a high level, but i'd like to think i could make it an interesting subject by teaching it well. i've had a couple of actual good lecturers who are really interesting and funny, so i'd like to be like them and make the subject better.

Pinkafro · Senior Member

MorisUkunRasik wrote:

I didn't choose what I was going to do completely based on passion and interest. Its also very compatible with my lifestyle. So maybe pink likes not going to work on MLK Day.

i like the idea of long holidays :D so i can spend summer doing fun stuff. i also like that i can have children and work the same hours and days they're at school

Andy001 · Spaghetti

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:
Graduating with a 2.1? I got a 2.1 my first semester. Thankfully I've gotten better and better at the whole college thing, especially considering I hardly had a high school education.

A 2.1 is a good grade, don't be a pompous prick.

Jason · Only in cartoons

2.1 on a 4.0 scale? That is unacceptable by my standards, or by anyone who will claim to be an expert of any degree in the field. A 'C' is fine if your plan is to successfully graduate with a degree in a subject you will never apply to your life.

I'm speaking, of course, about the liberal arts at universities in the United States, the only kind of schooling I have experience in. It's my understanding that, for example, engineering schools are harsher in their grading and so you could get a 2.1 GPA and still be a competent engineer. If you graduate with a 2.1 in, say, political science, you know dick about political science, and your opinion in matters of political science should be trusted to no higher degree than a person who regularly reads newspapers and popular non-fiction books on the subject.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Pinkafro wrote:
i've had a couple of actual good lecturers who are really interesting and funny, so i'd like to be like them and make the subject better.

That's refreshing to hear, but don't you think the subject should be interesting on its own merits as well?

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Andy001 wrote:

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:
Graduating with a 2.1? I got a 2.1 my first semester. Thankfully I've gotten better and better at the whole college thing, especially considering I hardly had a high school education.

A 2.1 is a good grade, don't be a pompous prick.

I understand that schooling is different over there, and that you guys organize classes differently than the U.S, but if my cumulative GPA at the end of 4 or perhaps 4.5 years is 2.1, I'm probably going to be ashamed of myself. 2.1 here is like a C average. That is barely making the grade.
I'm not being pompous. I've been a rotten student because I've just been filled with dispassion until like mid-way through last semester.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

And hey, maybe she is good in her **** but ****ed up in other subjects. I don't know. I know that my first semester GPA was dragged down heavily by math and a major **** up on my part in English, so it isn't always good at showing how you are in your own subject, but after 4 years?
It is clear she is not a dedicated student though. And that is fine, but why spend that much time doing something you are not that concerned with? I'd certainly not be drinking at such a time. I procrastinate, and so do most college students...But damn.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

And finally, I'm taking a Sociology class this semester.

I was saying "Boo-urns"

AssGrinchReturns · Guru

There is nothing wrong with a 2.1

MATHSEX · MASTER BATOR

Jason wrote:

2.1 on a 4.0 scale? That is unacceptable by my standards, or by anyone who will claim to be an expert of any degree in the field. A 'C' is fine if your plan is to successfully graduate with a degree in a subject you will never apply to your life.

I'm speaking, of course, about the liberal arts at universities in the United States, the only kind of schooling I have experience in. It's my understanding that, for example, engineering schools are harsher in their grading and so you could get a 2.1 GPA and still be a competent engineer. If you graduate with a 2.1 in, say, political science, you know dick about political science, and your opinion in matters of political science should be trusted to no higher degree than a person who regularly reads newspapers and popular non-fiction books on the subject.

i agree with everything except for the competence of an engineer with a 2.1 gpa.

if competition is the cause of tougher grading, then all i have to say is that i'd rather hire an engineer with a significantly higher gpa from a less competitive state school than hire an engineer with a 2.1 gpa from a more competitive school. as long as the accredidation is present, the higher gpa wins in my book

MATHSEX · MASTER BATOR

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:

And hey, maybe she is good in her **** but ****ed up in other subjects. I don't know. I know that my first semester GPA was dragged down heavily by math and a major **** up on my part in English, so it isn't always good at showing how you are in your own subject, but after 4 years?

if anything, general education courses are supposed to act as padding against any character your gpa has earned through upper division classes within your major.

Pinkafro · Senior Member

Jason wrote:

2.1 on a 4.0 scale? That is unacceptable by my standards, or by anyone who will claim to be an expert of any degree in the field. A 'C' is fine if your plan is to successfully graduate with a degree in a subject you will never apply to your life.

I'm speaking, of course, about the liberal arts at universities in the United States, the only kind of schooling I have experience in. It's my understanding that, for example, engineering schools are harsher in their grading and so you could get a 2.1 GPA and still be a competent engineer. If you graduate with a 2.1 in, say, political science, you know dick about political science, and your opinion in matters of political science should be trusted to no higher degree than a person who regularly reads newspapers and popular non-fiction books on the subject.

oh, I looked it up, our degree system is different. Here you get a first, upper second class honours, a 2.1, lower second class honours, a 2.2, third class honours, an ordinary degree.. just a pass, or fail.

so a 2.1 is the second best, and explains why me and andy thought you were mean.

as for sociology being interesting, the basics just.. really arnt.. I never did it for AS/A level, but first year stuff was pretty boring. you just have to cover the basic stuff to be able to apply it to the more interesting stuff. however, my sociology of death lecturer is an awesome guy from australia, and his first lecture in the course just covered putting things in a sociological perspective, and he was actually really interesting, which makes me think i could also make it so. if i taught it in the right way..

Pinkafro · Senior Member

you try sitting through an entire course telling you the difference between qualitative research, and quantitative research. then a course just on qualitiative research, to make sure you understand. then one on quantitative, in case you forgot what that was.

argh just talking about it makes me want to kill myself....