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⌈ Secret Post #2785 ⌋

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[Tenth Kingdom]

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(Orange is the New Black)

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[Dresden Files author Jim Butcher, Shannon Butcher]

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[Panic! at the Disco. Brendon Urie]

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[BBC Robin Hood]

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[Chasing Life]

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[Rooster Teeth]

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[Hawkeye 2012]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[QI]

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Like this, which reminds me I have to create a new calendar soon as lectures start up again and the one I've been using will not work as well this semester as it did earlier.

Well that is an old picture of my calendar, but blue is stuff I have to do (cleaning, food, bedtime and such), purple/pinkish is television shows, red is Formula 1 and the rest (green and the darker purple) is lectures, and I just plot in whatever else I have to do during the week around it, or move it as I see fit.

My Mac, iPad and phone are all connected with it (and my Mac gives me a 15 min warning) so I know what I have to do at all times.

~~I also realise I probably go to a lot less lectures than most of you guys, I am a full time student, but I take one subject at the time (or two as you can see from this week)...~~

Edited 2014-08-18 23:36 (UTC)

Question: how are you a full time student with 1 or 2 classes? Not trolling or sarcastic, just curious.

Because I am Norwegian and we all do it that way? I take 30 points each semester (as all full time students do), a subject is worth either 7.5 or 15 points (usually), and my semester is split into two, so I take two 15 points subjects each semester, one after the other.

Normally a 7.5 point subject has 2 lectures a week and a 15 points subject has 3, each lecture is 2 hours, we might also have an additional 2 hours of "group work" where we are split into smaller sections and solve questions or just discuss or have oral presentations.

So I usually go to school for something between 6 and 8 hours each week, the rest is independent studying.

To clarify a bit more: We only study subjects that are relevant to our Bachelor's degree + 30 points of subjects from another field of study. We finished our general education in all subjects when we graduated High School and are not required to further those studies, which frees up a lot of time.

Oooh this is interesting. (Not sarcasm, tragically I'm genuinely interested . ;))

Is it different across the subjects? Here in the UK, a timetable like yours would be standard for a humanities subject such as English or History where there are huge reading lists. For a science subject the timetables are usually around 25 hours of lectures a week.

I'm forever curious about how Higher Education (and education in general) is done across the globe.

I do humanities, I guess? Film and Television Studies, so we have a huge reading/watching list, and not many lectures which is normal for all of the Humanities studies*, people doing science obviously needs to do lab work and such and tend to have more of a busy schedule, also people studying practical stuff (in my Uni, cameramen and the practical film/tv studies) spends more time at their lectures.

Also here is another random fact: I don't have to go to my lectures (we might have a subject where we need to show up to 80% of the group study things because of oral presentations and such) they don't take attendance and I will not be marked based on it.

Actually I will never be marked by my Profs. under my name an external office creates numbers and we sign with those on our exams (Except Oral Exams, but they always bring in one examiner from a different University to sit with our regular Prof.), which are the only things we get graded on.

So my final grade is just that, it is my only grade in that subject (or one of 2 if I have a written and oral part)

We have one big assignment for each subject that we have to pass to get to take the exam, but that is it (the group study thing if mandatory will also count)

*With some exceptions, but I am not familiar with them, I know people studying to be a teacher tend to go to their University Colleges from 8.30 to 16.00 or something like that.

woops sorry Anon, that was a lot more than what you asked for, I get a bit carried on

~~Also going to sleep now, I'll reply in time for the next post.~~

Edited 2014-08-19 00:18 (UTC)

Chiming in again because this is really fascinating to me.

There were some classes where it didn't matter whether I turned up for lecture, and others where it did; professors were given leeway to grade on whatever criteria they deemed appropriate, and some of them valued attendance more than others. On top of that, the grades that one got in a particular course impacted one's entire academic career. How one did on an exam mattered less than how one did in the class as a whole. You could ace the final, but still drag down your grade point average due to how you performed during the rest of the semester.

Basically just sharing experiences at this point, since you seem interested, yourself. Hope you sleep well. :)

That was really interesting, thanks! I would write a reply with my own experience, but I am also off too bed, as it's almost 2am.

Will drop by tomorrow before the next post and reply properly. Goodnight!

We only study subjects that are relevant to our Bachelor's degree + 30 points of subjects from another field of study. We finished our general education in all subjects when we graduated High School and are not required to further those studies, which frees up a lot of time.

I am so jealous over this. I had to take so many completely worthless gen eds when I was in college, and the fact that they were required (despite the fact that they had nothing to do with my major) combined with the fact that there weren't enough professors to teach them all resulted in me having to take an extra semester.

I even had to take a basic algebra course because I got a 14 instead of a 15 on a useless test, and it was for a grand total of zero credits. If I hadn't taken that class, then I wouldn't have been able to take the calculus and statistics classes that I needed for my major. This, despite the fact that one can understand calculus and stats without understanding algebra.

/bitter, sorry

I am forever resentful of college gen ed classes because I knew from the moment I entered college what I wanted to major in. I could've taken so many more classes that were relevant to my major if I hadn't had to waste time on stuff I didn't care about/already knew/wasn't useful to me.

I feel you, anon. I wasn't quite like you; I had only a vague idea of what I wanted when I entered college, but once I figured it out, I wanted to focus on that and cast aside everything else.

I feel like the problem with universities in the US is twofold. First of all, high schools have kind of scaled back when it comes to what they teach. A lot of what's taught in gen eds in college should have been taught in high school, but it hasn't been, and I think this is partially due to degree escalation and partially due to the fact that class stratification has intensified over the past few decades. Diplomas should be viewed as important, because they are important, and skills should be viewed as meaning something in and of themselves rather than as things that mean something only if they're attached to a piece of paper. Second of all, there's this notion that once you pick a major, you still have to meet all of these peripheral standards. Really, once you specialize, you should be able to specialize. You should be judged based on how well you do in that field, rather than on how well you do in a smattering of irrelevant fields.

There's also the fact that the more classes you have to take, the more classes you have to pay for. Even the "we want well-rounded students" argument doesn't cover half the bullshit I had to take.

What really bugs me about them, though, is that I had to take an English class I tested out of for no good reason beyond "you need to take at least one at this school to get a degree". I had enough AP English classes to get out of my lower-division English requirement entirely, and on top of that my placement test told me I didn't need to take an English class. But if I wanted that/those Associate Degrees, I had to take an English class at my school (and I couldn't even just take a specialty literature class or something interesting, because those were humanities, I needed to take an English "skill-building" class >.<)

My father is from and went to school in India, and I think the first time he started to really get just how messed up the American education system was when he saw me taking yet more science classes I had absolutely no need of as a social sciences student. ~~That or The Conic Equations Story.~~

Exactly. My major was humanities-based; I had no need for any math beyond algebra/geometry/trigonometry, really. The vast majority of people will never need precalc or calculus in their lives, so the idea that everyone needs to learn those things is kind of stupid and pointless. Teach kids the skills that will actually be useful to them in the real world, not skills that will only be useful if you go into a particular field.

I'm not making_excuses, obviously, but college/university is different in Scandinavia/Europe. Full-time students there typically only do one to two classes at a time, at a more intensive pace than American students.

Well, not here in Belgium. It might change as they're doing a lot of reforms, but I had a shitton of subjects.

Oh? That's interesting! How many subjects would you typically take in a semester? I took between five and six when I was in school.

Eh, I don't know by heart anymore (it's been a while). Pretty sure more than six, though. But some subjects spanned the whole year while others were just over the course of a few weeks.

I think that may be a key difference. In the US, all classes at university share the same time frame, which usually amounts to four months.

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