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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:00:21 GMT
Just a board that will hopefully make some of you laugh. I'm currently at university (being the old lady that i am) and i have one... *cough* lets say 'eccentric' lecturer who has some rather quirky ideas about the world.
All the following quotes are taken directly from him... word for word. I kid you not...
1. If you can't do a calculation in your head then it's not worth doing.
2. Statistics are also completely useless.
3. Grades don't matter. They're completely pointless. They don't show your understanding of a subject and that's what's important.
[Last time i checked... only people that understand a subject score highly in it?]
4. You don't need to bother turning up to lectures. I didn't. I hated learning science in classes.
5. 22s probably higher than 9. It's well... twice as high as 9.
6. I'm a much better lecturer than the lecturer at Cambridge. She's rubbish. That also means you're all much better students than the student's at Cambridge doing biochemistry.
[Might i add for none Brits that Cambridge and Oxford are the most prestigious universities in England... whereas my own is erm... second rate. It's not a dumping ground for Mickey Mouse courses... but it's not one to jump for joy at.]
7. All science textbooks that you look at, they're all wrong.
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:03:27 GMT
I remember reading somewhere that someone got a perfect score on their S.A.T, and another person said to them, "If you really believe your intelligence and future can be decided on a piece of paper, clearly you're not all that smart."
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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:05:41 GMT
It's rather foolish really. 95% of jobs hang on whether you can prove you're better than the other guy.
Would you hire the one who got a 1st degree or the fellow that only got a 3rd?
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:07:57 GMT
And you're forgetting there's all these little prejudices about height, race, and complexion. It's kind of funny when you look at it.
Maybe I've just been reading "The Most of P.G. Wodehouse" too much.
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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:11:04 GMT
Depends what job you're going for to be honest. And also where you're situated.
I don't think people are that concerned over here about who's going into the labs.
In the North of England i can't say i've noticed that much animosity against black folk. Asian folk on the oriental side of life aren't pushed away either.
As for asians, there's the whole predudice thing going on but then again you've got the whole weird idea that asians make great doctors and must therefore be very good at science. I guess that evens them out.
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:15:32 GMT
Yes, but from what I've seen even teachers in schools favor the "prettier" students over the less good-looking ones. Everyone here in America likes to pretend there's no animosity against a good number of races, but we know how true that is. I go to England pretty regularly, and I find it a pretty nice place. The whole 'Asians are smart' prejudice can unwittingly set standards for some people they can't achieve. But I've seen the stereotype to be true more than once. And false more than twice.
I've never been to France, though, and since most of my family is French I do want to go.
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Post by Lawwr on Feb 20, 2008 15:20:15 GMT
The prettier students in my school are complete air heads though, and come out with the most stupid remarks ever. "What's a verb" and "Do sheep have ears" Are two things someone said in my English and science class - And I'm supposed to be in G+T. pfffffffffft. The teachers certainly don't favour her..
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:23:03 GMT
There was a group of pretty students in my class a few years ago. One was Asian, and completely defied the stereotype. Honestly, there is NOTHING in these people's heads.
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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:23:22 GMT
That caught out a good friend of mine. She applied for a number of medicine based degrees... didn't do quite as well as she expected in her A levels... and was rejected by every university she'd applied to. Major ouch.
I was told by a fellow college student in biology that she was going to a really posh party where they'd be eating 'goats eggs and loads of other fancy food'.
*cough* Goats eggs? o_0
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:24:24 GMT
Goat's eggs? Whatgifuh?
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Post by Lawwr on Feb 20, 2008 15:25:30 GMT
Umm female ovulation? :S I suppose that's fairly close.. But you'd have eat like an ovary for it  |
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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:26:02 GMT
Yeah. Unsurprisingly she failed the course.
She also asked me once if microscopes worked in colour... whilst looking down a microscope... at a quite clearly green leaf.
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Post by Zachariah on Feb 20, 2008 15:27:21 GMT
Fail.
That's it.
Just fail.
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Post by Lawwr on Feb 20, 2008 15:28:50 GMT
ahahahahaha. Wait is this at uni? As in this girl?  |
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Post by engelbert on Feb 20, 2008 15:32:33 GMT
Nah.. that was in my second year of college. though we do have some relatively dense people at university too. I generally seem to attract them as lab partners. I'm not sure why.
Please God tell me... when i ask someone to get more acid... and there are only two VERY CLEARLY labelled jars... how do you choose the wrong one?
Hmm... Hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide... which could possibly be the acid?
/facepalm.
Wasted 20 minutes of my time restarting that particular experiment after trying to find the equivalence point by adding alkali.... to alkali. *sigh*
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