Wait a second. If your leg was being gnawed by rabid lions, you’d still go to class? You can’t be a simple ninja. You must be Chuck Norris.
No, wait, that doesn’t make any sense. No lion, mad or otherwise, would dare gnaw on Chuck Norris’s leg. That’s what being Chuck Norris means. the most this hypothetical hydrophobic feline would do would be to humbly request permission to gnaw on its on (just in case Chuck was planning on eating the leg itself). You must be Batman.
No, that doesn’t make sense either. Batman would be prepared for the attack of a rabid lion. That’s what being “Batman” means.
You must be Jack Bauer. Or possibly Xena, depending on your penis situation.
We are very glad that you contacted us, as we have also been most concerned with correcting this egregious oversight on our part. We have attempted to mail you diploma several times, but without your address, or your last name, or your first name, or which field of study you would have been involved in, or what degree you you were going to be planning on pursuing if you had been pursuing a degree. As such, both the diploma and the mailing labels have proved to be sorely lacking in information, and the post office keeps returning our packages - as you can surely understand, this has a very direct impact on our “postage stamp” line item on next semester’s budget.
Alas, if only we had been able to secure your mandatory nonrefundable donation to the Campus Life committee, we may have been able to employ the services of UPS, Fedex, or even (god help us) DHL.
In any event, we wish to assure you that we have got top men working to address this issue as soon as possible. Why, just the other day, we left an entire stack of blank diplomas outside our front door, on the off chance that you might stop in. We regret that this, too, has proven unsuccessful and wish to once again offer our assurances that this will be resolved soonest.
If he learns that, it would be one of the msot valuable lessons of his life, and probably much mroe valuable than the tested material (no offense to you, unstrung, just calling it like it is.)
A tangential issue (it appears all posters here take this for granted): A course in basic MS Office proficency? at an university (as opposed to a trade school)? Should someone who doesn’t just RTFM be considered university material?
Well, the manual isn’t always that helpful, especially for those who have somehow avoided using computers (I actually have a friend who bought/used their first computer ever about a week ago - oh, boy, did I laugh at that guy). But I too am sometimes amazed that some people don’t have more of a computer background in this day and age.
Anyway, I don’t think that lack of computer skills should necessarily prevent someone from going to University; however, it makes sense that they should have to attend a mandatory course right away to get that taken care of. So, my school requires any and all attendees to take the course my prof is teaching (people who already know this stuff can take a waiver exam so that they don’t have to bother with it).
The undergrad class going on right now has a mix of people who are extremely un-savvy with MS Office, and people who have used it enough to perform basic functions, but want to be able to utilize the full functionality of the software. Add that to the significant differences between Office 2007 and Office 2003, and its easier to see how this could be a worthwhile course (assuming, of course, that people show up for their exams).
M.A. English. They gave me a room with a bunch of boxes containing “Rainbow 100” micros. The project had two tasks – see if they could communicate with a mainframe (thus the walks through the snow), and determine if there was any future in word processing software.
There’s a LOT more hand-holding at American universities compared to German ones. I had classes that took attendance and would even mark your class grade down if you missed more than 3 classes (and three tardies would count as an absence for this :rolleyes:).
I took a class like this in college (Actually, I believe it was a lab to our basic accounting class). Probably one of the more valuable classes I took…I actually use what I learned every day!
One of my buddies didn’t show up for a final exam his last semester of college because he thought the Final was on Thursday. It was on Wednesday. And because he had not had any exams scheduled on Tuesday, he was way off-campus visiting his girlfriend.
Fortunately, the professor liked him, and agreed to let him take a make-up exam.
But I made a phone call to his girlfriend’s parents’ house and confirmed with her sister that he was alive and well and oblivious–and suggestingthat she have him contact the professor as soon as possible.
A lot of this is individual professors, though. In fact, I’d say all of it’s individual professors. And pretty much all of them are “Humanities” profs who are pissed that people don’t care about their classes.
And yes, compared to German universities, there is a lot more infantalizing of adult studnts here. There, it’s assumed that you are an adult capable of figuring out your study schedule to take the one single test at the end of the course. There are no quizzes, midterms, extra credit (and I believe no graded homework). The profs here who run their classes like that have been a major exception to the rule, IME.
Professor Unstrung will also be happy to keep you updated via text messages.
Does that work for you? We so want you to be satisfied, since you perceive yourself as a dissatisfied customer.
No doubt, man - my .pptx remark above was very much tongue-in-cheek. FWIW, I agree with you, regardless of the squeals of my fellow grad students.
Many people complain about the Office 2007 suite because of menu changes and whatnot - I can understand that the changes might be frustrating, but that’s really just a learning curve thing.
The new document formats are the real problem with the new version - in using the software for business, you will almost always need to save the file in the older .ppt format to ensure that everyone who needs to open the document/presentation/spreadsheet/etc will be able to.
But one question - why would they slam you for using the older format? It’s not like their Powerpoint 2007 would have any problem opening it…
Tonight was the next meeting of that class. The guy that was my original pitting subject came in and spoke with the professor (didn’t say a word to me, but I overheard). He said that he did not make it to class for the exam, would like to take the test today, and understood he would have to take a (fairly significant) penalty for missing the original test date.
So, the kid stepped up and took responsibility. Good man for showing some character, bud.
