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Incompetence rules...
Sikotic™:
That's the sad dilemma: acquiring knowledge vs. beating the system. It's becoming almost impossible to do both now. For example, I WANT to take a Biochemistry course this fall. Not only will I gain a lot of valuable knowledge from it, but it would give me a head start when I begin graduate school. The downside: it is highly likely to lower my GPA because of the difficulty of the course, thus limiting my options for medical school. I've been advised by most people I've talked to not to take it because it will hurt my numbers.
How retarded is that?
LyRiCaL_G:
--- Quote from: King Sikotic on March 09, 2008, 04:47:02 PM ---That's the sad dilemma: acquiring knowledge vs. beating the system. It's becoming almost impossible to do both now. For example, I WANT to take a Biochemistry course this fall. Not only will I gain a lot of valuable knowledge from it, but it would give me a head start when I begin graduate school. The downside: it is highly likely to lower my GPA because of the difficulty of the course, thus limiting my options for medical school. I've been advised by most people I've talked to not to take it because it will hurt my numbers.
How retarded is that?
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I feel you homie, i already done my degree but right now im taking a gap year and then imma do my masters but basically what u said there is part of the reason. I did a joint degree so i had to choose my courses very carefully and at the same time i was trying to get great results and shit which matters to me aswell but i think you will find a balance. Also in my last year of uni i had to do TWO fuckin dissertations, (one was on the role and importance of culture within international business in terms of mergers and aquisitions in a globalised world...dang the literature review i had on that never ended,lol) most muthafuckas only do one so i was kinda phased out after that. This year taking a gap year before i do my masters is hella refreshing, i can do things i want to do, aquire knowledge about shit i wanted to do in uni but didnt because of the politics of the marking system and shit like that. Its also a nice way to get pre-knowledge about shit you are going to learn and shit in the future but again like you say, because of the way the system works, im now one year behind because of the way the system works and me taking a gap year leaves me a year behind in my career but ofcourse because its something i decided to do myself and feel i have achieved what i set out to do within my gap year i feel a sense of peace feel me?
Another point about the thing u said about more is less and less is more...i aint tryna be against the "student" because i still feel like one but that i can understand because you have to understand even though you may not like it and its the life career they have chosen, lecturers and the people who grade your work have lives aswell. If there was no word limit one scenario is that everyone starts writing novel size material for minor random assignments and the people who mark them do not have the time to teach/grade and have a life of there own aswell. Anothe point is that people could write up so much yet it could be complete bullshit...again a waste of time so word limits are done to please both the people who grade the work and people who write it aswell. It also gives people a basic blueprint into what you really are capable of...how much quality shit can u right within the word limit? how rich is your work? ya dig homie?
I didnt know you was studying medicine though homie...what you want to do when its all done? I know a few cats who study medicine, one wants to be a spinal surgeon and the other a doctor! Dope shit homie! keep it up, but always remember your roots!
Thats what my homies always tell me! haha
pz!
Sikotic™:
I feel what you're saying. The thing is though, I didn't write bullshit just to get the grade, I demonstrated that I fully understood the topic. Some people wrote bullshit and didn't understand the topic at all, but just because they only wrote a little bit, they got full credit for the assignment. She never even specified the length of the paper. My only gripe is that I proved that I learned something, but I was punished for it and not given a fair reason, but fuck it I'm over it: life isn't fair.
Congrats on the degree. Two dissertations is a crazy achievement, I would probably take a year off two if I were you. I still haven't decided what I want to go into specifically because there are so many options. I'm thinking either emergency medicine at the moment, but the more experience I gain, the more other fields interest me.
Australian Bastard:
--- Quote from: 7even on March 09, 2008, 04:02:28 PM ---In the big tests with hundreds of people participating, it is always annoying to me that eloquent writing is useless or even hurtful because they will just look for certain things to be mentioned and move on...
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Word. Thats exactly how it is, I learnt the hard way....for my first two years at university I always went into exams with the intention to make my writing interesting and to demonstrate how in my own way I understood the knowledge of the course......but Ive realised that that takes too much time and nobody cares... so now I just regurgitate the specific shite we supposed to know.....at the end of the day you just a box they gonna either put a tick or a cross against.
http://www.youtube.com/v/M_bvT-DGcWw
LyRiCaL_G:
--- Quote from: King Sikotic on March 09, 2008, 06:38:03 PM ---I feel what you're saying. The thing is though, I didn't write bullshit just to get the grade, I demonstrated that I fully understood the topic. Some people wrote bullshit and didn't understand the topic at all, but just because they only wrote a little bit, they got full credit for the assignment. She never even specified the length of the paper. My only gripe is that I proved that I learned something, but I was punished for it and not given a fair reason, but fuck it I'm over it: life isn't fair.
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thanks dawg, appreciate it but on the real what you just said there if FUCKED UP,lo...i'd be pissed too at first, but i be like that too, i just get over it,lol
pz
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