It just never ends.

[pepperlandgirl]

Like every single class I have ever had in my life, we have a 7-8 page research paper due at the end of the semester in Sex and Gender. This is so common, so redundant, so goddamned normal that I don't think we should even have to discuss it. Go, write a research paper. Turn it on the day of the final. It's the same process over and over and over. It never changes from class to class.

So why the fuck is such aproblem?

Oh right, because everybody in my sex and gender class is a fucking idiot.
Oh yeah, and about 95% of them are seniors. And yet, writing a paper is a mystery to them. My professor used a big word liek "hypothesis" and said "I don't want a book report" and it completely threw them for a loop. They had no idea.
"Should we state our opinion?"
"A research paper isn't a term paper."
"Do you want a term paper?"
"So we should write a book report?"
"We need to have scholarly sources? Will birth control pamplets do?"
I don't like complaining about these people but good god almight!

I don't understand why they didn't understand that a hypothesis is a thesis statement. But then, most of them didn't know what a thesis statement was either. Some days, I'm so overwhelmed. And appalled. Mostly appalled.

Also I'm pissed because the only Dryars Fruit Bar the Circle K had was Lime and it's all...well...limey. But I paid $1 for it, so I will eat it...I will presevere.

I need a "You're a fucking idiot" icon. Or something.

Comments

[redqueen6238.livejournal.com]

I don't like complaining about these people but good god almight!

Oh, yes you do. Admit it.

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's scary when a senior comes into our library and says "Can you help me, I've never used the library before." WTF?? How on earth did they survive the past 3 years? Most students have library instruction classes but I'm not sure how many of them listen to any of it. This is a selective college too. To many students the library's just a place to check their e-mail and IM. Mind boggling.

[sailorlum.livejournal.com]

Great googly-moogly! Didn't those people go to High School?! How did they escape HS without learning what a hypothesis is?! No wonder you're appalled.

GOING TO HS IS NO GUARANTEE

[(Anonymous)]

15 years ago - yeah, this is one of those when I was in college stories - my photography teacher called me over to look at a freshman's paper on 'Why I'm Taking Photography.' He knew I was the editor of the campus paper. He was appalled by the paper and wanted to shock me with the knowledge that a high school graduate had written a paper that was one run-on sentence - let's not even mention the improper spelling, missing punctuation, misplaced capitalization and lack of indentation.
No shock at all. Students who couldn't string two words together much less learn not to use ain't in conversation and think it's okay were routinely passed and graduated. Just because they're insane enough to go to college doesn't mean they'll improve. They aren't there to learn. They're there to get a piece of paper to get a bigger salary. The ones that are there to learn, learn. That and spend four years rolling their eyes in Buffy-like fashion at the idiots they're surrounded by. I did it so much I almost rolled my eyes permanently backwards in their sockets. Yuck!
Drakontaskyria

[(Anonymous)]

"You're a fucking moron" also feels very good.

[curetpillargirl.livejournal.com]

Again, this is LaVerne. This is a place hwere business people come to bs their way through class so they can make money and be capitalists (see what happens when I sit through Cook for four hours?)This is a place where no one goes to class unless there's a test. These people are morns Haley. Feel better by knowing you are superior to their utter nonsense.

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

That does, in fact, make me feel better.

Did you notice Cook kept dancing around the logical conclusion the Misfit?
If Jesus exists, he paid for our sins. Therefore, nobody should be punished because Jesus takes it on.
If Jesus doesn't exist, it doesn't matter.
Either way, Jesus won't save your sorry ass when there is a gun to your head.
Therefore, everybody should be like the Misfit.Or everybody is the misfit except the misfit.
Or something.
It's late and I'm tired, lol.

[curetpillargirl.livejournal.com]

Do you think that girl Esther bf writes her papers for her? That just popped into my head during class.

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

I think there is a very good chance that he does. Though, would she be so stupid to flant her obviously much smarter BF in front of the professor, almost begging the suspicion?

[curetpillargirl.livejournal.com]

Yes.