Going Off On A Tangent About New Mexico Tech

Codiekitty · 03-22-2006, 03:49 PM

When I came here, I thought it was a blessing. Animals, fellows nerds, a chance to see what it's like living on my own...

First semester, I got the roomate from hell. I've already told you about her, so I won't waste your time with that. However, the classes weren't bad. My Chem 113 teacher knew what she was doing, my CS teacher knew about Trogdor the Burninator, Half-Life, Mr. T, Penny Arcade, and all sorts of cool stuff that kept me interested.

On my way home from the week before Spring Break I told my mother I absolutely don't want to come back next semester. Why? The classes are garbage and the teachers are beyond imcompetent.

Art Class. I dropped it because is was bogus. I went in there to work on drawing, not copy-paint an ugly adobe house on a postcard.

CS 122. I dropped it because the teacher's accent was so thick I couldn't understand a word he was saying. He also stood in the way of his presentation. I tried sitting on the other side of the lecture hall, and found on that side he was in the way of it already impossible to red scribbles on the whiteboard. And from what I hear, the man expects the class to somehow know JAVA without him teaching it. So, it was either drop the class, or get an F because the teacher's a total loser.

Chem 121. I switched to it when I dropped Art. Our homework is all multiple choice and done online, and when we get it back (six weeks after the test), all we get back is a number. We don't even get back something that says what we got wrong. We don't get an answer sheet, or even an explanation as to what we messed up on. Sure the homework is 10% of our grade, but if we don't know what we're doing on the homework, how the hell are we supposed to know what we're doing on the damn test?

Chem 121 Lab. The TA also has a heavy Indian accent, and she doesn't talk anywhere near loud enough.

College Trigonometry. I guess after Japanese, this class is going the smoothest. But just before Spring Break, rather than going over examples of Trig Identity work, she just gave us a few equations and let us out early, as an "Early Spring Break Present". Well, that's just great for those of us want to know what the hell we do with those equations.

I ran into a friend in the restroom a couple nights ago, and we talked about our Tech experiences. She said everyone was getting boned here, and the only person she knew who was staying didn't want to, but had to because this is only one of two schools (although she didn't specify "in the entire country" or "in this area of the country") that teaches Explosives Engineering and her parents didn't approve of the other. And she said something that I didn't think of when it came to wording what this school is like; "We're paying these people to teach ourselves." Right on, sister. Seriously, I was getting a better education in HIGH SCHOOL.

I'm going to TVI next semester. Not only is it not 80 miles from my cats and video games, but I picked up a catalog from them and the classes are incredible. They have a wider variety of art classes and Video Game Design Theory

. And my mom did a little bit of research and said she could only find class Instructors with English names.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

**Dylan** · 03-22-2006, 04:35 PM

I've only hated one of my professors. But look at it this way; at least you're not living with your parents and going to a community college.

~Dylan

Codiekitty · 03-22-2006, 04:53 PM

But I am living with my parents.

Okay, PARENT. My dad's never around.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

**Crazyswordsman** · 03-22-2006, 08:25 PM

I've hated about one professor on average each semester. Last year, I hated none, and this year, I've hated four of them. Do the math.

My Dynamics professors are very bad when it comes to giving partial credit, and if you screw up something, they won't give you any more points.

My DeBodies professor teaches class at 8:30 in the morning, rushes through everything (we've covered about twice as much as the other section), assigns twelve problems a week, gives four exams (at 8:30), and his TAs and he have no office hours. This is contrary to the other section, where the professor apparently teaches at a reasonable pace, only gives two exams, and only assigns six problems a week.

And that's just a start.

Good luck at your new school, Codie. I actually came to Washington University hoping to find some people who are actually interested in sports, video games, or classic TV. However, I only found science nerds. -CSM

Crazybirdanimations · 03-22-2006, 08:34 PM

TV! yay codie! sorry about that mean teacher...

Wonder Wario · 03-22-2006, 08:41 PM

Well, at least you get to go to collage.

Codiekitty · 03-22-2006, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Me

...he was in the way of it already impossible to red scribbles ...

Holy crap, I must remember to never type after eating a half pound of Skittles again.

Oh yeah, and the student body here is anything but impressive. There was my former roomate and her stupid friends who wanted to do nothing but make noise, and this semester, though I have a Single, I had issues with the dude below me and the girl across the hall from me.

The dude below me was enjoying constant rounds of Guitar Hero with his bass and volume cranked up to max, to the point where it vibrated everything in my room and gave me a headache. When the male RA came to inspect my room a few weeks ago (which passed with flying colors) I brought it up to him, and as it turns out that's HIS room below mine. Thankfully he took the hint and stopped doing that.

As for the girl across the hall from me, she kept leaving her door open and blasting music with singing that would make Celine Dion rub her ear with her pinky and go "Ow." And thrice she still had it going at ONE IN THE MOTHER EFFIN' MORNING, once when I had to take a test that made up about 1/3 of my grade at 8. I talked to the female RA about this, she wrote them a note, and she started keeping the door closed, and even turned her volume down a little.

And everyone here sleeps until 10 and talks about staying up until 2. Great habits, guys.

Oh yes. And my History class isn't determined by how well you learn history. It's determined by how well you write.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

**L007 is Undecided** · 03-23-2006, 07:45 AM

**Writes down** Don't... go... to... New Mexico... colleges...

Got it.

Speaking of hellish teachers and idiots who try to big talk their ways but will end up bagging my groceries, I think the most hated class of mine is probably my Consumer Autos teacher for basically one sole reason (Which, if absent, would make him one of my more favorites). Because my class is filled with LOUD, CONSTANT TALKERS WHO TRY TO TALK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, he gives these moronic pop quizes that shouldn't of been given. I don't talk, yet I don't have the best knowledge on autos. I CAME INTO THE CLASS not knowing how a car works. Augh. I only got a C third quarter. >_<

**Perrin Aybara** · 03-23-2006, 06:39 PM

Ah, sorry to hear about NMTech, CK. Sorry to hear it didn't work out. Hopefully your classes at your new school are better. The important thing is to keep at it, and to get your degree.

I had a pretty rough time my first year of college. Classes really beat me up. But I kept at it, and things got better for the most part.

Yeah, I've had my share of crappy teachers, but they usually balance out, like CSM was saying. For every crappy teacher I have in one class, I end up with a great teacher in another class.

And now I have the chance to be a crappy TA myself. Heh.

Oh, and I hated dorm life the first two years. Luckily I was able to get out of the dorms after that. But dorm life...that's the worse. Nothing is worse than having to share a bathroom with two dozen losers at the end of the hall.

So yeah, good luck, CK. Hope things get better.-jay

Crazybirdanimations · 03-23-2006, 07:39 PM

codie, at least your smart, but it kinda stinks that you have to put up with all of those...

Riptide · 03-24-2006, 10:24 PM

Sorry to hear it CK. Unfortunately that seems like the typical "college experience".

I received a call at work one Autumn day, and I knew something was wrong because no one had ever tried to reach me at work before... It turned out to be my college financial adviser.

"Why aren't you in school" she said. "Because I'm not scheduled to start for another few months" I said. "That's not what your paperwork says... If you're not here by tomorrow you'll loose your financial plan and I doubt that you'll be able to attend anytime soon" she said.

The next day I left state for college. Upon arriving at the school I was confronted by my financial advisor... "Are you Marc?" she said. "Yes" I said. "I'm sorry to inform you that we misplaced your housing arrangements..." "..." I responded.

When they finally set me up in a dorm room I was promised that my housing plan covered me until my return from Xmas break, at which point they would help me find housing elsewhere. Instead, I received a letter in November saying that my plan was expiring in mid December and that I had better find a place to live before Xmas break...

Their idea of helping me find employment was to hand me a map to two bars...

The school tried to double-dip me on payments several times...

I was on the honor roll every quarter I attended, yet the school tried to flunk me three times (due to their own paperwork errors). Whenever I tried to get these problems fixed I was treated as a child and a liar...

I lost two letter grades on a final because our teacher wanted us to complete it on equipment that the school no longer had (unbeknownst to him). Everyone else in the class had access to a work around solution except me, so the teacher just wrote me off as a slacker since no one else bothered to inform him that the school did in fact get rid of said equipment several quarters prior.

Oh, and one of my roommates started out really nice but then turned out to be a drug addicted psychopath who suffered from delusions and severe anxiety breakdowns.

And don't even get me started on the city itself... Robbed at gunpoint, harassed (more than once) by the police, perpetually drunk neighbor, a car landing in the middle of the path I would routinely take to reach the bus, a city proud of it's horrible slang words, triangle shaped city blocks, people going outside to watch a tornado, a fish... a whole fish... laying there, by itself, in the middle of the neighbor sidewalk for no logical reason whatsoever... draining your last ounces of sanity... so so SOOOO MUCH STUPIDITY!

And yet, part of me misses it... because most of the teachers were awesome, I made more friends there than I ever had in my entire life, and I learned a great deal.

Codiekitty · 04-05-2006, 09:12 PM

Oh by the way, I somehow forgot to mention this. The hot water here often changes color, ranging from urine to dilute coffee. I once got some of it in my mouth; I think I was water picking. I could definitely taste something wrong.

Today a kid at dinner told me what was in the water. It's nothing to worry about, really. Just calcium, rust, a little arsenic, and supposively nonradioactive uranium.

All the more reason not to come back here.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

Wonder Wario · 04-05-2006, 09:15 PM

Wow Codie, it sounds like such yummy water.

Lucky gal.

**Dylan** · 04-06-2006, 09:38 AM

They should totally sell that.

~Dylan

Metal Man · 04-07-2006, 02:24 AM

"New Mexico Sludge: Die of Cancer Today!"

My experience rocks. However, I have been burned by this topic because I have the evilness of living at home and having both a Community College and a super-powered University just 3 blocks from my hours. Anyway...

My school employs a vast number of people, and thanks to this, 3/4 of the teachers are good, and the other fourth are naaasty. You got the German teacher who utters the dreaded "It's my first time teaching here" who gives insanely hard quizzes (harder than the other class by a mile) and teaches you how to write some german, but never has you speak it.

Then there's the class that shouldn't exist: COBOL. I took it, thinking it would be useful. I soon discovered that only if I was in the Navy 30 years ago would I have use for it. Plus, it was an online class with so many shifting deadlines, I had to fight to the death to get a B. And now I have a computer instructor who's got a few screws loose and doesn't exactly know what she's teaching.

However, the substitute teacher saw me helping clueless students in action and immediately hired me as the highest level TA-sorta job you can get without jumping up a category, so, that rocks. Plus I get to see how his superior night class goes for teaching.

All in all, should a miracle happen, I will never have to live in a dorm and may be able to stay employed throughout my entire College experience while living at home.

*Shields self from possible assassination bullets*

Codiekitty · 04-07-2006, 09:38 AM

Okay, I was just informed there's no such thing as non-radioactive uranium, and there would be no way uranium would be in the water and not have the government all over it. There's still something screwy with the water here.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

Codiekitty · 05-01-2006, 06:08 PM

Just one more week left at this dump!

The ice cream: All the garbage I'm getting from the school mentioned in this topic.

The whipped cream: Constant moving has killed my interest in everything that used to bring me joy, be it playing video games, watching movies, or drawing. I've been able to rekindle my interest in video games with replays of Aria and Dawn of Sorrow, and frequent AIM chats with Double Dubya has helped my interest in drawing, but what I really need is to be in one spot.

The cherry: My being away all the time has done a psychological number on one of my cats. She was already skittish because she hates one of the other cats, but now all she ever wants to do anymore is hide under my mother's bed and do her business down there.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

Lord Reid · 05-01-2006, 09:24 PM

I use ratemyprofessors.com to make sure I don't get any awful professors.

***Heroine of the Dragon*** · 05-01-2006, 11:57 PM

WOOOT!!! SEVEN SLEEPS TO GO!!!

One banana and we'd be all sharing a banana spilt with you and forgetting all these woes. Unfortunately, I ate the last banana for breakfast.

I hope your new College is tonnes better... and that your cat feels comforted having you around lots more again.

Codiekitty · 05-04-2006, 09:54 PM

Tomorrow's the last day of classes (finals start Saturday), and guess how they want us to celebrate.

Go the day WITHOUT ANY PANTS ON.

What the hell? I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. They want us to walk around campus in our underwear, be it in bikini briefs, boxers, thongs (ew), whatever.

No way in hell am I partaking. Not just because of my dignity, but I don't support a damn thing about this school.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

03-22-2006, 03:49 PM	#1
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Going Off On A Tangent About New Mexico Tech When I came here, I thought it was a blessing. Animals, fellows nerds, a chance to see what it's like living on my own... First semester, I got the roomate from hell. I've already told you about her, so I won't waste your time with that. However, the classes weren't bad. My Chem 113 teacher knew what she was doing, my CS teacher knew about Trogdor the Burninator, Half-Life, Mr. T, Penny Arcade, and all sorts of cool stuff that kept me interested. On my way home from the week before Spring Break I told my mother I absolutely don't want to come back next semester. Why? The classes are garbage and the teachers are beyond imcompetent. Art Class. I dropped it because is was bogus. I went in there to work on drawing, not copy-paint an ugly adobe house on a postcard. CS 122. I dropped it because the teacher's accent was so thick I couldn't understand a word he was saying. He also stood in the way of his presentation. I tried sitting on the other side of the lecture hall, and found on that side he was in the way of it already impossible to red scribbles on the whiteboard. And from what I hear, the man expects the class to somehow know JAVA without him teaching it. So, it was either drop the class, or get an F because the teacher's a total loser. Chem 121. I switched to it when I dropped Art. Our homework is all multiple choice and done online, and when we get it back (six weeks after the test), all we get back is a number. We don't even get back something that says what we got wrong. We don't get an answer sheet, or even an explanation as to what we messed up on. Sure the homework is 10% of our grade, but if we don't know what we're doing on the homework, how the hell are we supposed to know what we're doing on the damn test? Chem 121 Lab. The TA also has a heavy Indian accent, and she doesn't talk anywhere near loud enough. College Trigonometry. I guess after Japanese, this class is going the smoothest. But just before Spring Break, rather than going over examples of Trig Identity work, she just gave us a few equations and let us out early, as an "Early Spring Break Present". Well, that's just great for those of us want to know what the hell we do with those equations. I ran into a friend in the restroom a couple nights ago, and we talked about our Tech experiences. She said everyone was getting boned here, and the only person she knew who was staying didn't want to, but had to because this is only one of two schools (although she didn't specify "in the entire country" or "in this area of the country") that teaches Explosives Engineering and her parents didn't approve of the other. And she said something that I didn't think of when it came to wording what this school is like; "We're paying these people to teach ourselves." Right on, sister. Seriously, I was getting a better education in HIGH SCHOOL. I'm going to TVI next semester. Not only is it not 80 miles from my cats and video games, but I picked up a catalog from them and the classes are incredible. They have a wider variety of art classes and Video Game Design Theory . And my mom did a little bit of research and said she could only find class Instructors with English names. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there! Last edited by CodieKitty; 03-22-2006 at 03:55 PM.

03-22-2006, 08:41 PM	#6
Wonder Wario Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Gender: Posts: 2,089 Thanks: 65 Thanked 37 Times in 23 Posts Points: 5,920.75 Bank: 1,284.12 Total Points: 7,204.87 Donate	Ah Well, at least you get to go to collage.

03-23-2006, 07:45 AM	#8
L007 is Undecided Axe Shreddin' Mod Join Date: May 2001 Location: Farmerland. Gender: Posts: 7,383 Thanks: 95 Thanked 310 Times in 180 Posts Points: 3,654.58 Bank: 18,698.70 Total Points: 22,353.28 Donate	Writes down Don't... go... to... New Mexico... colleges... Got it. Speaking of hellish teachers and idiots who try to big talk their ways but will end up bagging my groceries, I think the most hated class of mine is probably my Consumer Autos teacher for basically one sole reason (Which, if absent, would make him one of my more favorites). Because my class is filled with LOUD, CONSTANT TALKERS WHO TRY TO TALK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, he gives these moronic pop quizes that shouldn't of been given. I don't talk, yet I don't have the best knowledge on autos. I CAME INTO THE CLASS not knowing how a car works. Augh. I only got a C third quarter. >_< __________________ Can I has signature?

03-24-2006, 10:24 PM	#11
Riptide Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: NW Ohio Gender: Posts: 236 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 393.41 Bank: 7,917.64 Total Points: 8,311.05 Donate	Sorry to hear it CK. Unfortunately that seems like the typical "college experience". I received a call at work one Autumn day, and I knew something was wrong because no one had ever tried to reach me at work before... It turned out to be my college financial adviser. "Why aren't you in school" she said. "Because I'm not scheduled to start for another few months" I said. "That's not what your paperwork says... If you're not here by tomorrow you'll loose your financial plan and I doubt that you'll be able to attend anytime soon" she said. The next day I left state for college. Upon arriving at the school I was confronted by my financial advisor... "Are you Marc?" she said. "Yes" I said. "I'm sorry to inform you that we misplaced your housing arrangements..." "..." I responded. When they finally set me up in a dorm room I was promised that my housing plan covered me until my return from Xmas break, at which point they would help me find housing elsewhere. Instead, I received a letter in November saying that my plan was expiring in mid December and that I had better find a place to live before Xmas break... Their idea of helping me find employment was to hand me a map to two bars... The school tried to double-dip me on payments several times... I was on the honor roll every quarter I attended, yet the school tried to flunk me three times (due to their own paperwork errors). Whenever I tried to get these problems fixed I was treated as a child and a liar... I lost two letter grades on a final because our teacher wanted us to complete it on equipment that the school no longer had (unbeknownst to him). Everyone else in the class had access to a work around solution except me, so the teacher just wrote me off as a slacker since no one else bothered to inform him that the school did in fact get rid of said equipment several quarters prior. Oh, and one of my roommates started out really nice but then turned out to be a drug addicted psychopath who suffered from delusions and severe anxiety breakdowns. And don't even get me started on the city itself... Robbed at gunpoint, harassed (more than once) by the police, perpetually drunk neighbor, a car landing in the middle of the path I would routinely take to reach the bus, a city proud of it's horrible slang words, triangle shaped city blocks, people going outside to watch a tornado, a fish... a whole fish... laying there, by itself, in the middle of the neighbor sidewalk for no logical reason whatsoever... draining your last ounces of sanity... so so SOOOO MUCH STUPIDITY! And yet, part of me misses it... because most of the teachers were awesome, I made more friends there than I ever had in my entire life, and I learned a great deal. Last edited by Riptide; 03-24-2006 at 10:34 PM.

04-07-2006, 09:38 AM	#16
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Okay, I was just informed there's no such thing as non-radioactive uranium, and there would be no way uranium would be in the water and not have the government all over it. There's still something screwy with the water here. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there! Last edited by CodieKitty; 04-07-2006 at 09:52 AM.

03-22-2006, 04:35 PM	#2
Dylan Banned Mod Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Teenage Wasteland Gender: Posts: 6,216 Thanks: 905 Thanked 922 Times in 424 Posts Points: 30,484.51 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 30,484.52 Donate	I've only hated one of my professors. But look at it this way; at least you're not living with your parents and going to a community college. ~Dylan

03-22-2006, 04:53 PM	#3
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	But I am living with my parents. Okay, PARENT. My dad's never around. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

03-22-2006, 08:25 PM	#4
Crazyswordsman RPG Mod Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Booyaville (yeah!) Gender: Posts: 8,042 Thanks: 541 Thanked 378 Times in 260 Posts Points: 132,229.48 Bank: 30,063.17 Total Points: 162,292.65 Donate	I've hated about one professor on average each semester. Last year, I hated none, and this year, I've hated four of them. Do the math. My Dynamics professors are very bad when it comes to giving partial credit, and if you screw up something, they won't give you any more points. My DeBodies professor teaches class at 8:30 in the morning, rushes through everything (we've covered about twice as much as the other section), assigns twelve problems a week, gives four exams (at 8:30), and his TAs and he have no office hours. This is contrary to the other section, where the professor apparently teaches at a reasonable pace, only gives two exams, and only assigns six problems a week. And that's just a start. Good luck at your new school, Codie. I actually came to Washington University hoping to find some people who are actually interested in sports, video games, or classic TV. However, I only found science nerds. -CSM

03-22-2006, 08:34 PM	#5
Crazybirdanimations Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California Gender: Posts: 4,652 Thanks: 233 Thanked 200 Times in 166 Posts Points: 12,595.34 Bank: 9,511.32 Total Points: 22,106.66 Donate	TV! yay codie! sorry about that mean teacher...

03-23-2006, 06:39 PM	#9
Perrin Aybara LLLUUUCCCCCCAAA!!! Ban HotD Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Alone....so terribly alone... Some... where... out... there... dies Gender: Posts: 11,795 Thanks: 184 Thanked 357 Times in 178 Posts Points: 62,741.84 Bank: 151,320.92 Total Points: 214,062.76 Donate	Ah, sorry to hear about NMTech, CK. Sorry to hear it didn't work out. Hopefully your classes at your new school are better. The important thing is to keep at it, and to get your degree. I had a pretty rough time my first year of college. Classes really beat me up. But I kept at it, and things got better for the most part. Yeah, I've had my share of crappy teachers, but they usually balance out, like CSM was saying. For every crappy teacher I have in one class, I end up with a great teacher in another class. And now I have the chance to be a crappy TA myself. Heh. Oh, and I hated dorm life the first two years. Luckily I was able to get out of the dorms after that. But dorm life...that's the worse. Nothing is worse than having to share a bathroom with two dozen losers at the end of the hall. So yeah, good luck, CK. Hope things get better.-jay

03-23-2006, 07:39 PM	#10
Crazybirdanimations Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California Gender: Posts: 4,652 Thanks: 233 Thanked 200 Times in 166 Posts Points: 12,595.34 Bank: 9,511.32 Total Points: 22,106.66 Donate	codie, at least your smart, but it kinda stinks that you have to put up with all of those...

04-05-2006, 09:12 PM	#12
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Oh by the way, I somehow forgot to mention this. The hot water here often changes color, ranging from urine to dilute coffee. I once got some of it in my mouth; I think I was water picking. I could definitely taste something wrong. Today a kid at dinner told me what was in the water. It's nothing to worry about, really. Just calcium, rust, a little arsenic, and supposively nonradioactive uranium. All the more reason not to come back here. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

04-05-2006, 09:15 PM	#13
Wonder Wario Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Gender: Posts: 2,089 Thanks: 65 Thanked 37 Times in 23 Posts Points: 5,920.75 Bank: 1,284.12 Total Points: 7,204.87 Donate	Wow Codie, it sounds like such yummy water. Lucky gal.

04-06-2006, 09:38 AM	#14
Dylan Banned Mod Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Teenage Wasteland Gender: Posts: 6,216 Thanks: 905 Thanked 922 Times in 424 Posts Points: 30,484.51 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 30,484.52 Donate	They should totally sell that. ~Dylan

04-07-2006, 02:24 AM	#15
Metal Man Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Gender: Posts: 6,737 Thanks: 74 Thanked 197 Times in 135 Posts Points: 9,445.78 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 9,445.78 Donate	"New Mexico Sludge: Die of Cancer Today!" My experience rocks. However, I have been burned by this topic because I have the evilness of living at home and having both a Community College and a super-powered University just 3 blocks from my hours. Anyway... My school employs a vast number of people, and thanks to this, 3/4 of the teachers are good, and the other fourth are naaasty. You got the German teacher who utters the dreaded "It's my first time teaching here" who gives insanely hard quizzes (harder than the other class by a mile) and teaches you how to write some german, but never has you speak it. Then there's the class that shouldn't exist: COBOL. I took it, thinking it would be useful. I soon discovered that only if I was in the Navy 30 years ago would I have use for it. Plus, it was an online class with so many shifting deadlines, I had to fight to the death to get a B. And now I have a computer instructor who's got a few screws loose and doesn't exactly know what she's teaching. However, the substitute teacher saw me helping clueless students in action and immediately hired me as the highest level TA-sorta job you can get without jumping up a category, so, that rocks. Plus I get to see how his superior night class goes for teaching. All in all, should a miracle happen, I will never have to live in a dorm and may be able to stay employed throughout my entire College experience while living at home. Shields self from possible assassination bullets

05-01-2006, 06:08 PM	#17
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Just one more week left at this dump! The ice cream: All the garbage I'm getting from the school mentioned in this topic. The whipped cream: Constant moving has killed my interest in everything that used to bring me joy, be it playing video games, watching movies, or drawing. I've been able to rekindle my interest in video games with replays of Aria and Dawn of Sorrow, and frequent AIM chats with Double Dubya has helped my interest in drawing, but what I really need is to be in one spot. The cherry: My being away all the time has done a psychological number on one of my cats. She was already skittish because she hates one of the other cats, but now all she ever wants to do anymore is hide under my mother's bed and do her business down there. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

05-01-2006, 09:24 PM	#18
Lord Reid Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 152 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 3,568.54 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 4,068.54 Donate	I use ratemyprofessors.com to make sure I don't get any awful professors.

05-01-2006, 11:57 PM	#19
*Heroine of the Dragon* The Grinnie Fool! ♥ VGFCodes Staff Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: In a pretty place surrounded by sparkly faerie dust!! Gender: Posts: 27,687 Thanks: 266 Thanked 277 Times in 200 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 21,172.90 Bank: 2,147,094.94 Total Points: 2,168,267.84 Donate	WOOOT!!! SEVEN SLEEPS TO GO!!! One banana and we'd be all sharing a banana spilt with you and forgetting all these woes. Unfortunately, I ate the last banana for breakfast. I hope your new College is tonnes better... and that your cat feels comforted having you around lots more again.

05-04-2006, 09:54 PM	#20
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Tomorrow's the last day of classes (finals start Saturday), and guess how they want us to celebrate. Go the day WITHOUT ANY PANTS ON. What the hell? I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. They want us to walk around campus in our underwear, be it in bikini briefs, boxers, thongs (ew), whatever. No way in hell am I partaking. Not just because of my dignity, but I don't support a damn thing about this school. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!