You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See, for me at least, my high school classes took a fairly lax approach to such things and the teachers didn't really care whether we conformed to whatever style guide as long as we nominally said we understood it
So I can see why they'd reiterate that stuff in a first-year college course
I know at my school and many like it is was basically AP/Dual wherein you write a lot of papers always, or not-that and it's basically extremely tedious and easy.
Source: Got put in an awful math class when I transferred to Texas and then he disparity between me with learning geometric shapes and my trig friends was real. Also physics and chemistry. So I had a good idea of what the easier lit courses world be.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
the thing is, I'm confused about how people wouldn't have learned this in high school, or even middle school? didn't they ever have to write papers?
I had to write essays in high school but I definitely never had to follow a particular style guide. They were happy enough if you could spell correctly and avoid contractions and comma splices.
Again, different subject, but I learned trig identities in high school, in first year calculus, in second year calculus, and I still can never remember basically any of them. I relearned a bunch last semester when I was TAing calculus, and have already forgotten them again.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
None of my high school teachers really cared about style, so...
But yeah, it's probably a good idea to review stuff on the first year, not only do some students need it, but it's also a chance to learn stuff right as opposed to the high school version.
That said, I do remember for circuits (4 semesters in) class one of our professors would go out of his way to explain every single derivation, even if it's just something like isolating I from V = R I
Also one of our thermodynamics II profs., although he didn't do the above, he says 'somehow' as a verbal tick of sorts, so he ends up saying stuff like 'we multiply density times volume to somehow get mass'.
I dunno my first year of college I took a bunch of remedial courses and still managed to fail almost every single one before essentially being kicked out.
It bothers me more than it should that this community has dropped off the shows (Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, MLP) that you guys used to love, in favor of new interests. I was used to things being the way they were, dang it!
I mean, I can stay entertained by the same stuff for years (been playing Age of Empires since I was five), and still be game for discussion, but other people lose interest in things so quickly...
I like SU and would be happy to discuss it on here!
I thought about bumping the thread when the show was on but didn't get around to it. Anonus and/or Aliroz, maybe you should make a point of doing that next time it's on.
while I still do like SU I haven't been current with it in months and I feel like putting it on a pedestal as this thing that we all have to experience together as it airs doesn't really work because it just leaves behind those of us who aren't able to keep up with it for whatever reason (in my case, being really quite bad at actually sitting down to watch regular television)
(to be clear, I'm not knocking group watches or anything like that, those are great, but I do want to make a note that really good TV, at least for me, can be a very personal sort of experience that I try to experience at my own pace rather than forcing myself to binge through everything in one go; I spread out my P&P watch over the course of a few weeks and I felt like that made the experience more satisfying than it would have been had I tried to just blow through it all)
also most of the stuff I dig doesn't ever really becomes part of the zeitgeist, be it here or otherwise, but I think of that as being less "oh I gotta get everyone to play this! read this! watch this! etc." and more of it just being something I can like on my own. (I know I've shown behavior that kind of goes against this at first, but it's how I feel now after having gotten used to flying solo and everything, and I feel like I talk about the stuff I've been enjoying recently out of love for them rather than with intent to coerce people to like them with me.)
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ime a large fraction of first years absolutely do need this kind of thing explained
the worster part is that some people need it and still fuck it up
Source: Got put in an awful math class when I transferred to Texas and then he disparity between me with learning geometric shapes and my trig friends was real. Also physics and chemistry. So I had a good idea of what the easier lit courses world be.
i learned metric prefixes like eight times it just goes one ear and out the other
Again, different subject, but I learned trig identities in high school, in first year calculus, in second year calculus, and I still can never remember basically any of them. I relearned a bunch last semester when I was TAing calculus, and have already forgotten them again.
But yeah, it's probably a good idea to review stuff on the first year, not only do some students need it, but it's also a chance to learn stuff right as opposed to the high school version.
That said, I do remember for circuits (4 semesters in) class one of our professors would go out of his way to explain every single derivation, even if it's just something like isolating I from V = R I
Also one of our
thermodynamics II profs., although he didn't do the above, he says 'somehow' as a
verbal tick of sorts, so he ends up saying stuff like 'we multiply
density times volume to somehow get mass'.
I'm admittedly still sore that people here don't complain about the fandom of the Big Communal Interest
I feel like I missed out on Steven Universe's heyday, and nothing that suited to my tastes will catch on ever again
It's just...stuck with me
I thought about bumping the thread when the show was on but didn't get around to it. Anonus and/or Aliroz, maybe you should make a point of doing that next time it's on.
(Luluco, as good as it was, was too minor a work to become that.)
I'm more into video games, anyway
Talk games to me, people
18 years.
I think.