Good advice for college students

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Originally Posted by Klonoa

I know a lot of classmates who fucked themselves over by taking 15 to 18 credits (5 to 6 courses). These motherfuckers thought they were robots or something. Then came finals week and they got fucked up the ass with final exams, final papers, and final projects in the last two weeks.

If you think you can handle the workload, then go for it. I knew I couldn't so I just stuck with the minimum 12 credit semester.

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hah... If I want to graduate in 4 years I have to take 18 credits every semester.

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Originally Posted by Mr-K

Site's useless, some of my favorite teachers have gotten horrible reviews on there. Most people say "OMG SO HARD! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!" and it turns out to be only slightly challenging and in the end, much more interesting. College students are stupid.

My advice to everyone about to go to college: Go to fucking class everytime. I think I missed a single class this past semester and that was because the batteries on my alarm clock died. But going to class usually = success. Usually.

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what school do you go to? I ask becuase I've yet to have any classes that go towards my major that are like that. Wait, you're an english major, aren't you?

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

To start things off, first time students,.....grow the fuck up.

It may not be this semester, or the next, but eventually you are going to have to deal with a class that completely bust your balls. For whatever reason, you just can seem to pass.

Instead of bitching like a baby, grow up, and act. Your options are;

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This man speaks the truth. I'm lucky in that the majority of my classmates are in around their mid twenties, with some older. With that comes a level of maturity that the fresh out of high schoolers lack. Can't count how many times one of the high schoolers would bring in some obviously shitty work expecting an A or B, and then find out they failed because they didn't follow the guidelines of the assignment. Then they'll mention that their fucking high school teachers like their work. Newsflash: this ain't high school. Then you have the ones that don't pay attention in class, some even going as far as playing their GBAs while we're getting instructions on what to do for homework. When they don't know what to do, they blame it on the teacher and say they don't know how to teach.

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They're saying this about a man who held a two hour bonus Q and A session the night before the exam and answered every possible essay question that might have been on the exam. He fucking threw an underhand beachball at the class and over half failed.

What. the. fuck.

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For my photography class, for both the midterm and final, my teacher had a half hour review session, where he went over almost all the questions right BEFORE we took the test. Before the fucking test, he gave us the damn answers! And yet people still failed! This shit blows my fucking mind! What the hell else can someone possibly do to get through to you? And its photography for fuck's sake.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

what school do you go to? I ask becuase I've yet to have any classes that go towards my major that are like that. Wait, you're an english major, aren't you?

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James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, third or fourth largest school in the state methinks. And yes, as of right now I am an English major even though I'm tinkering with the idea of switching to the school of Media Arts and Design.

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Originally Posted by Lordmrw

This man speaks the truth. I'm lucky in that the majority of my classmates are in around their mid twenties, with some older. With that comes a level of maturity that the fresh out of high schoolers lack. Can't count how many times one of the high schoolers would bring in some obviously shitty work expecting an A or B, and then find out they failed because they didn't follow the guidelines of the assignment. Then they'll mention that their fucking high school teachers like their work.

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Well what are they lacking? Are they screwing up spelling or grammar? Because that really isn't there highschool teachers fault. They stop teaching kids grammar and how to spell around the 8th grade. I personally think that is a bad idea because that means a student will go 4 years with out seeing technical grammar rules before jumping into college. @_@ some college teachers are known for dropping students a letter grade for each misspelled word and/or grammar mistake.

Or do they not know MLA guidelines? Students who were not lucky enough to learn those need to head over to ebay or amazon and get a copy of the MLA guide.

I hope you aren’t getting mad at the students who are paying attention and still mess up on what you want. You are human and probably don’t always communicate what you want done on your homework as clearly as you would like to think you do.

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Originally Posted by Mr-K

James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, third or fourth largest school in the state methinks. And yes, as of right now I am an English major even though I'm tinkering with the idea of switching to the school of Media Arts and Design.

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Why not try something really hard, like rocket science, or become a brain surgeon? These days you can't swing a dead cat with out hitting a starving English major or artist.

From someone who has 200 credit hours and no degree (over an 8 year period):


Don't wait.
Live at home, or in a dorm.
Don't work (or work part time).
Take all your requirements first, then your core classes later.

It seems like common sense now. :) I failed at all four of those, and it is a big reason why I don't have a degree.

Focus on getting good grades for your core classes, and then screw the rest and be happy with C's. When it comes time to make a resume, don't put your overall GPA, just put the GPA of your core classes.

go out and have fun instead of studying for crap you'll never use. because before you know it you'll be too old, tired, and ugly to score hot punani and drink for 12 hours straight.

what are the differences between core classes and requirments?

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

Why not try something really hard, like rocket science, or become a brain surgeon? These days you can't swing a dead cat with out hitting a starving English major or artist.

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Because not everyone wants to waste the best years of their life away in the library, or work 50 hour weeks in an office for half their life?

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

what are the differences between core classes and requirments?

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I'm a journalism major, so for me core classes are stuff like newswriting, or copy editing. aside from that I have requirements, which are useless stuff like 3 semesters of science or 2 semesters of math.

So core classes go towards your future job, and requirements are the classes you take so you can talk to other people outside of your job with out looking like a sloberring idiot?

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Originally Posted by Kinopio

Because not everyone wants to waste the best years of their life away in the library, or work 50 hour weeks in an office for half their life?

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LAWL!!!