Hey Students: Rant About Your Classmates

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Years ago I took an entry level business law course at a local CC. I was the only “adult” or “non-traditional” student in a class of 18-20 year olds.

The instructor graded the course on a curve, and additionally, all quizes and exams were open book.

No big deal right? Just read and comprehend the material, and do some pre-exam review. That prepared you to be able to use the textbook effectively during the exam…which would ensure that you ace the test.

I scored 98-100 on every single test and exam. The other students were openly angry toward me for blowing the curve.

Fuck them.

I wasn’t going to sandbag in order to pick up their slack. I helped those that asked for help by explaining some of the material and by advising them as to how they should prepare for the tests.

Fifty percent of the class failed the course. It wasn’t my fault you fuckers.

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Oh, good. Someone else here who knows of the Noon / Classics /Cobb/ Reynolds Gauntlet. Thank the heavens for side entrances.

My gripes:

–The girl in my econ class who tries, on EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM SET, to sponge off me. Look, just because we’re not only in the same section, but live in the same house does NOT mean you’re entitled to copy word-for-word, equation-for-equation off my homework. If you want help, I’ll be happy to do what I can for you, but dammit, I spent an hour and a half on my own on that problem set, on top of the three hours with one of the college tutors. If you’re not even willing to go to the TA’s problem sessions, Harper tutors, prof’s office hours, or even start the damn homework at midnight the night before it’s due, don’t come crying to me.

– To the girl in my Soc class: We are NOT debating whether or not Communism or Socialism or Capitalism, or whatever-ism is the best economic system, ok? We’re looking at power relationships and hierarchies within ALL the systems. See? Analysis, not value judgements. Hopefully you’ll pick up on this before NEXT quarter, or else I will be forced to hurt you.

– The guys in my math class: I know I’m the only girl in the section. Back the fuck off anyway. Leeches.

Ahhh… much better. Until I go to class again.

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Make that “even start the damn homework BEFORE midnight the night before it’s due.”
::wanders off, grumbling to herself::

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My sweet spaced-out classmate from chemistry lab. She is, as I said, spaced out, and even when she knows the answers she will ask. Now, I have no problem with people being confused and asking, I do that too. But I don’t go to the classmate’s workstation, especially if its on the other row, and look through the pages of their lab. Not the page the student(in this case, ME) is working, but the ones already completed!!! She did this only once, and I don’t really dislike her, but oh did that put me angry!!

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I go to an upstate NY community college

Oh god could I tell you stories…

I really think that colleges should not only test for academic level but also maturity.
I am a nursing student and I am worried that some of my fellow classmates (ouch that even hurts sayin it) could actually hurt someone because they are WAY to immature to handle the cirriculum.
We have had about 10 kicked out for cheating…
And last week during clinical I had a patient that required two of us students. All she did is stand in my way or took it upon herself to be the social butterfly that she assumes that she is…actually no one can stand her. And I am frickin sick of hearing people complaining about tests and homework…here’s a hint …YOUR IN FRICKIN SCHOOL!!!
Sorry bad week…but boy that felt good!
:rolleyes:

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Feh… during a Senior level Computer Science course, we were talking about the behind the scenes conecpts for setting up a database. To help keep it from being one of those ‘classroom things to do’ that have no relation to real life, we decided that we’d base the database on the needs of a e-retailer who sells computers. We get to talking about what things should be part of the base-line computer: ie- if you walked into Circut City, Best Buy, etc., and asked them to give you the basic no-frills computer, what would it have? This way, we could have the database split: one part to take care of standard things, one to take care of optional things. (I personally didn’t agree with this split, but that’s a different story.)

Here’s where the fun starts: there was this one chick who claimed that she had built computers herself, and that YOU DIDN’T NEED AN OPERATING SYSYEM in a basic no-frills computer! WTF?!?! So what the hell are you going to use it for, a paperweight? Space heater? Channel the spirits of those students who weren’t able to pass Operating Systems class? Sure, it’s going to ‘run’: you can check the BIOS and fiddle around with that, but do anything useful (to the average person that is)? ARRRGH! This ate up about a half-hour’s worth of classtime.

Same class, same class session in fact, we had another chick who just couldn’t understand why you wouldn’t want more than one item of data in each cell of a database. (“Couldn’t you just parse it out?”) This took up ANOTHER half hour worth of time. :mad:

And these people are supposed to be Computer Scientists? Aieee!

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I sit by a girl in one of my classes who is addicted to eye drops. Seriously.

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In “Regional Geography of Canada” there is a woman who just makes me insane! EVERY SINGLE THING discussed in the class must be pointed out for the sham that it is, since as a Native Woman, she knows all about the lies and horrors comitted by The White Man. While discussing, say, treaties and land claims, this is fine, she offers perspectives that others might not think of. No problem. But, come on, the growth of industrial and manufacturing sectors of Southern Ontario?
One day we were discussing population and demographic changes in Canada over the last 200 years or so, and came across the following statement:

"In the mid 1800’s the area that is now Canada was primarily populated by people of French or British descent"

Well, she had to put here hand up right away and mock that statement for being “Eurocentric”` Others helpfuly found a chart that listed a Canadian census from the 1850’s,showing 92% of people were French or British. That was no good at all, she claimed, since it totally ignored the huge contributions made by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the development of Canada. WTF??? OK, so even if there were huge cities in Saskatchewan settled by the Portuguese, how would ignoring that be “Eurocentric”??? Are Portugual and Holland not part of Europe? Wahhh!

The worst part is the professor - when the woman in the class starts going on about how everyone in Canada who is not a Native is oppressive and terrible, (yes, everyone, if you emmigrated to Canada last week from Moldova, you, too are part of THE PROBLEM) the professor APOLOGIZES!

Now, don’t get me wrong, there are a multitude of ways in which Native people have really been fucked over, I’ll be the first to admit it - the residential schools are the tip of the iceberg. And like I said, I welcome her perspective when the class is discussing things like land claims, the Hudson Bay Company, Treaties, etc. But please, please, please we didn’t pay to be in this class to be a captive audience to her soapbox rants. If, God forbid that anyone should question one word of her all knowing wisdom, the “racist” lable immediately gets flung out.

Yet for some reason she has latched on to ME as her class buddy. She’ll say something like “Well, we think that…” while pointing to me and spurting off some weird outrageous claim. I have no idea how this happened, but every time she does it I make sure to exclaim “What the hell are you talking about? I’ve never said that. I haven’t even spoken to you! Where are you getting these ideas?”

It’s getting a bit weird in that class, I gotta say.