[ SECRET POST #2785 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2785 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Tenth Kingdom]


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03.
(Orange is the New Black)


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04.
[Dresden Files author Jim Butcher, Shannon Butcher]


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05.
[Panic! at the Disco. Brendon Urie]


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06.
[BBC Robin Hood]


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07.
[Chasing Life]


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08.
[Rooster Teeth]


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09.
[Hawkeye 2012]


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10.
[Legend of Korra]


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11.
[QI]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #398.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Time-management

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Time-management

[a_potato]

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.

Re: Time-management

[nyxelestia]

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.

Re: Time-management

[(Anonymous)]

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.