First lecture, first bitch and moan. Woohoo!
RemadE
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So I swaggered down to the lecture, knowing I had a meeting with the rest of my course "buddies" with the new head of Faculty.
My heart sank as I came into that room as it was the one lecturer I have not got on with since my first day at University. As he declared with his shit-eating grin that "I am your new boss" and then talked some more, my facepalm urge was getting more and more.
Anyway, he then asked "would anyone be interested in meeting some Graduates from here who have actually succeeded in life?" and to which everyone bar me put their hand up. What a loaded question.
He looked at me, and singled out my response.
"Well looks like someone will be on welfare here" he smirked.
"[Lecturer's name]" I replied
"I know you've waited for years to get this promotion, and I've waited all Summer to speak to you. It's only fair that I give you the chance to piss away your promotion, and you've done it. There's a complaints system, and combined with unfair treatment towards me on your part, I will be making a complaint. Get bent."
I stayed the rest of the lecture and people actually moved away from me. It all came out as a garbled rush, but I think I got the message across.
I now have to go see him at 4:30pm today. Seriously. Is this world built for Students who sit there and nod, accepting everything as Gospel? I can't wait to be done here. Panama?
Panama.
My heart sank as I came into that room as it was the one lecturer I have not got on with since my first day at University. As he declared with his shit-eating grin that "I am your new boss" and then talked some more, my facepalm urge was getting more and more.
Anyway, he then asked "would anyone be interested in meeting some Graduates from here who have actually succeeded in life?" and to which everyone bar me put their hand up. What a loaded question.
He looked at me, and singled out my response.
"Well looks like someone will be on welfare here" he smirked.
"[Lecturer's name]" I replied
"I know you've waited for years to get this promotion, and I've waited all Summer to speak to you. It's only fair that I give you the chance to piss away your promotion, and you've done it. There's a complaints system, and combined with unfair treatment towards me on your part, I will be making a complaint. Get bent."
I stayed the rest of the lecture and people actually moved away from me. It all came out as a garbled rush, but I think I got the message across.
I now have to go see him at 4:30pm today. Seriously. Is this world built for Students who sit there and nod, accepting everything as Gospel? I can't wait to be done here. Panama?
Panama.
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It's unbelievable the amount of bullshit people are willing to swallow if it comes from a lectern. I wonder why it happens. The ability to critically analyse what's being said just disappears. It could just be apathy or the 'yes man' syndrome. Seeing as they all moved away from you it's probably more the latter.
In all honestly mate, you may just want to hang low and not stir too much shit. No one really gives a shit about academic stimulation and you're not going to reform him. Echo his view on everything and be done with it.
Sometimes i lament the death of university/college as a 'place of ideas'. Since the late 60s (after the Wests cultural revolutions) the institutions have been slowly eroded.
Things like that don't happen in my course, the classes are too big. I'm identified by student number like everyone else.
I am guessing you do not have a lot of students on you course who would stand up for themselves. This is the problem with university. It is full of wanker students who go to get some shitty letters after their name 95% of them would never have call to use. Sure, they can advance career prosepects with a degree, but the real purpose of doing a degree is that you learn to challenge everything that is put to you. You seem able to do this, but to get a real edge - do it in a thoughtful and reasoned way.
Simply question everything that is not 100% clear and even stuff that is. Life is not about finding the answers, it is about asking the right questions.
I'll be keeping my head down but I don't want this guy marking my Dissertation. He isn't related to the modern History my work is related to, and so that combined with his (and my) attitude will just cause me to leave with the bitter aforementioned spunky taste in my mouth....and debt.
Fuck. It seems like university turns you into a slut of the Man.
/moment of realisation
Put up with it, but don't ever swallow that bullshit, until you're at a stage where you want to be and TURN on everything they tried to force on you with full politically incorrect fury. I'll be amongst the greats like Galton one day, and leading the crusade of realism with those such as Lynn-Jensen-Rushton. Seriously, I'm sick of people like you and their shit whining threads about their not as exciting as they'd wish/make out, not to mention when it's repeatedly. If someone cannot overcome the problems of this life, how can they hope to be ready for the much greater problems of Life and what lies beyond it?
Because you only hear the negatives. It's not often I brag about the successes of my life here.
However your views on Lefties at University is damn true. As for life? Well I was told I'll be dead at the age of 30. If that isn't motivation then I don't know what is.
Luckily, my course is flexible and I can do a lot of it from home.
It was my second Math teacher that completely ruined the college experience for me with his half-assed teaching where half the class was failing. How this asshole didn't get reviewed and fired for allowing half the class to fail prior to the Final Exam is beyond me. My sister told me that most likely he did some professor tricks to at least raise people to a D or C to avoid any counseling by his boss.