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[ SECRET POST #3320 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3320 ⌋

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(Rick and Morty)

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03. http://i.imgur.com/u0ymbUk.gifv
[moving gif]

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[Steven Universe]

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[Hanna Barbera Comics Reboot]

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[The Flash]

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[Renaud]

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[The Shannara Chronicles]

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11. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]

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12. [WARNING for incest / underage]

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13. [WARNING for rape]

[Okane Ga Nai]

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14. [WARNING for rape]

[Hockey RPF]

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I hate it when one of my professors asks me a question, and I say "I'm sorry, I don't understand the question" and they repeat the same exact question, louder. I don't understand the fucking question, man, louder isn't helping.

YES.

Also, those people who are only taking the course because A) Common Core or B) Easy A (or so they think). Looking at you, laughing men in the back of my WGS course.

I can add academic pet peeves! just finished grad school and fuck academia. lol

-Professors who are late (like, over five minutes). I actively chose to pursue this master's degree, and I'm paying a fuck ton of money, not to mention holding off on a career, to do this course. We only have ten seminars a semester, the least you could do is show up to class on time! And then, professor (you know who you are, you bastard) don't show up half an hour late and waste another ten minutes telling us the ever-so-hilarious story of why you were late.

-Professors who are up their own ass. I can take arrogance if it is deserved (well, sort of) but the fact that you wrote a handful of shitty, lesser-known articles doesn't mean you have to work into the lecture as often as possible that you're one of the "experts" in this topic and mark off students for not citing your shitty, irrelevant articles in their essay.

-Professors suddenly assigning a chapter to read from a book which was not on our syllabus, and there's only one copy in the library

-Other students who show up to the tiny seminar of six people without having done any of the reading, and waste all of our times by trying to talk even more to the hide the fact that they clearly have no idea what they're talking about but are still desperately trying to impress the professor

-Professor who had me prepare an extra presentation for the seminar, gave me about an entire book's worth of article to prepare a week in advance... and then runs out of time and has me run through the PowerPoint in like three minutes.

A supervisor of mine used to love to say, "A turkey with a PhD is still a turkey."

In my country if profs are more than 15mins late you can leave. If they do show up later and teach anything, they have to repeat it the next time, because that first time doesn't count since they were so late. I remember a few times in my college days when we'd be looking anxiously at the clock, only for the prof to walk in with a minute to spare.

I'm so sick of the elitism in the sciences. I'm tired of hearing people look down on other disciplines.

It's kind of funny - I do history and my best friend is finishing her master's in archaeology. Archaeology is apparently FULL of this elitism. Despite theoretically incorporating both "history" and "science", apparently the elite archaeologists turn their nose up at history disciplines. It's the weirdest thing to me.

This is not just how archaeology works. This is how psychology works between the arts side and the science side.

Well, I could see how psychology has to battle with pseudoscience all the time, and that could create a resentment toward anything not seen as "sciencey" enough. Flaky "inkblot", "tell me about your dreams" Freudian and holistic, homeopathic shit vs actual science supported psychological techniques. Could kind of understand why the psychology field is so defensive about the sciences.

Re: Academic pet peeves!

herpymcderp - 2016-02-06 02:11 (UTC) - Expand

Speaking as an archaeologist, when I was in grad school, the cultural anthropologists always used to look down their nose at the archeologists and were really hostile towards science, so it wouldn't surprise me if some archaeologists take a reactionary attitude. Also, it doesn't help when people think what you're doing isn't ever real science because you're lumped in with anthropology.

Also, I see a continuity between archaeology and history because there's no real break in the past, it's just that people started writing things down, or we picked an arbitrary dividing line between "ancient" and "not ancient," or we pretended like everything started over anew when white people showed up somewhere. I have to deal with whatever I come across, which can include sites recent enough to show up in historical records. Checking old maps is standard practice. Plus, sometimes when the ancient past was all mangled to hell by the recent past, the only record you have of the ancient past is historical documents from the recent past.

There is elitism throughout academia. Many people there are very egotistical and arrogant

I always hated working in groups where no one in the group actually did group work. I don't mean "no, I want to text all my friends, you do it." I mean, "yeah, we're all going to do our own thing and see what we come up with in the end."

Meanwhile, you can hear all of the other groups are actually discussing the text and coming up with great stuff.

I just hate group projects. A lot of the time they aren't even helpful and the work would have been better done individually.

I hate when professors will keep asking someone the same question after they've given multiple wrong ones. You aren't helping them because they clearly don't know. You aren't helping any other students because they're hearing wrong answers. Ask someone else or give the answer.

I also hate the Socratic method. Modified Socratic where one student is asked a few questions and then the professor moves on is fine. But asking only one person all the questions isn't helpful for anyone. You aren't helping the student you are asking because you're just making the nervous. And other students don't get the chance to answer questions or interact with the professor.

I hate law professors for this specific reason. One professor, who is completely up his own ass, started grilling me for 10 minutes about a case, until I was completely turned around and humiliated. He acted very smug when I didn't get an answer, raising his eyebrows and looking around. People were actually asking me if I was okay - I was that shaken up. I had to run into a bathroom after class so I wouldn't start crying in front of them. Yes, I'm that weak, shh.

I only had one law professor who did this. Most of mine did either modified Socratic or assigned us days we'd be on call at the beginning of the quarter or semester.

That's not weak at all. Some people can't deal with that sort of thing. And given that not all lawyers plan on being a litigator, there is no reason to force every student to deal with the Socratic method. Especially when it doesn't even move. My law school got rid of it for the most part specifically because of studies showing that it wasn't actually useful for teaching students.

People who think that asking for academic writing to be clear and concise, avoiding jargon unless it's necessary, are "dumbing down" academia and it's not my fault you can't understand how the fuck I connected Levi-Strauss's concept of the mytheme applies to musicals you're just STUPID.

I ran into problems with a partner on a project because I always felt like she was trying too hard to sound formal and extra smart. She'd congratulate herself on finding some wordy way of revising what I came up with that sounded impressive to her and pretentious to me.

There's this weird, elitist idea that making your writing incomprehensible to the "lower classes" by trying to sound extra complicated makes you more intelligent, as opposed to just bad at explaining things clearly.

A side reason for this is probably that less people will bother to argue with your writing (meaning you're more likely to get away with bullshit) if said writing is unnecessarily hard to decipher in the first place.

If you're writing something in my field and I have to read it more than twice to understand it and I'm not tired or having an off day, then you're being unnecessarily obtuse.

I hate when students get all miffed about their grades.

Like I'm sorry what got you an A in your shitty high school doesn't get you an A here, Einstein, but you have no idea what all these long words you tossed in there like potpourri connote, your quotes have little to do with the argument you're making, and you didn't proofread.

And you got a FUCKING B why are you bothering me

And no you didn't get a bad grade because you're conservative you got a bad grade because you didn't answer the goddamn essay question

Edited 2016-02-06 04:46 (UTC)

I only once had a professor I couldn't stand. The guy would not speak up. I would sit in the front row and be almost in tears because I'd maybe catch one word in four as he mumbled at top speed into his beard.

And if students are included: classmates who ask questions just to hear their own voice, or worse, to tempt the instructor into a long digressive monologue. I had a Latin professor who could very easily be sent off on a tangent this way, and some of my classmates definitely used this to their advantage.

I hate it when I ask a teacher a question, and then they tell me that I already know the answer.

Professors who go off on unrelated tangents for the whole class and never get to teaching what they meant to teach. Then they rush through all the actual material in like 20 mins the class before the test.

Professors who like to bring their political agenda into things. Please don't tell me why you're pro-life, I'm not here for this.

Both these things were the same professor unsurprisingly.

lol were/are we in the same lecture?

In my first uni, I was very used to the science profs (huge lectures)to get straight into the material, crack a few jokes along the way, answer a few questions.

My post bacc prof, and while now I appreciate his style a bit more, shares life stories for the first quarter of class, will occasionally inject the lecture with his beliefs (which even if I agree with, now is not the time, let's stick to the info, and perhaps share some clinical stories, ok, cool). Sigh. I have to leave early from class to get to another class, so those 15-20 mins you share your life with us... could you leave it for the end? Feel free to share clinical knowledge...but...c'mon.

Sorry for the rant. But I will say that I do appreciate his clinical experiences, and how he tests the clinical applications of our knowledge even if we won't use it (i.e. critical thinking, not just memorization and parroting).

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