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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:45:46 AM EDT
College personnel everywhere are struggling with students' increased neediness
Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices This bodes well for our future and definitely makes the case for expansion of student loan programs 
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:47:51 AM EDT
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The Libtards have created some real losers in colleges these days. My students get the grade THEY EARN !
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:48:22 AM EDT
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Hard times make hard people
Hard people make good times Good times make soft people Soft people make hard times ...guess where we're at in that? |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:51:16 AM EDT
[#3]
*snort*
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:55:03 AM EDT
[#4]
That's pretty funny.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:55:11 AM EDT
[#5]
Graduated in 2008 from OSU...
Definitely saw some people who couldn't cut it in the real world. We had a very cool international studies/history professor. Army in Vietnam... Was talking about the war and brought an AK47 in to show people what it was. (Pretty sure it was fake. Probably airsoft.) So may libtards complained then dropped the class because they were frightened. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:57:19 AM EDT
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See it every day.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:59:12 AM EDT
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This is the result of happens when every one gets a trophy.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 8:59:39 AM EDT
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I can believe it. A lot of people I know who are in their early 20's (friends of my wife) are still hung up on the idea of things being 'fair'. Thankfully now that most of them are out of college and in the real world, they are wising up pretty quickly.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:00:46 AM EDT
[#9]
EEK! a mouse!! 
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:03:20 AM EDT
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Too many people are not being told "Just Fucking Deal With It" when it comes to simple things in life.... |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:04:46 AM EDT
[#11]
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Too many people are not being told "Just Fucking Deal With It" when it comes to simple things in life.... Where did that "Modern Man" list go... |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:04:50 AM EDT
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College personnel everywhere are struggling with students' increased neediness Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices This bodes well for our future and definitely makes the case for expansion of student loan programs They aren't preparing students for a career, they are preparing retards for voting. If they understood this fully, the instructors would feel accomplished. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:08:21 AM EDT
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Faculty also noted an increased tendency for students to blame them (the faculty) for low grades—they weren’t explicit enough in telling the students just what the test would cover or just what would distinguish a good paper from a bad one. LOL. I went to a Catholic college where I took a course in Moral Theology of St. Paul. The monk teaching the class told us that to prep for the final exam, "be prepared to vomit back anything and everything we have covered this semester." On the other hand, in law school our Evidence professor gave a 100 question multiple choice exam. He held a review session two days prior for FOUR HOURS. The questions at the review session were nearly identical to the ones on the exam. He STILL had people get Fs. Invariably, when questioned, those F students admitted they had NOT attended the review session. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:10:29 AM EDT
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It is a direct result of the war on boys waged in the educational system.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:10:51 AM EDT
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Where did that "Modern Man" list go... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Too many people are not being told "Just Fucking Deal With It" when it comes to simple things in life.... Where did that "Modern Man" list go... 25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will. 26. The modern man cries. He cries often. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0 |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:10:53 AM EDT
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Hard times make hard people Hard people make good times Good times make soft people Soft people make hard times ...guess where we're at in that? This |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:11:03 AM EDT
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Hard times make hard people Hard people make good times Good times make soft people Soft people make hard times ...guess where we're at in that? I've never heard that. I like it |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:11:15 AM EDT
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there.
Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:13:27 AM EDT
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I know a high school student who finished in the top 1% on the SAT who turned down a free ride from Cal Tech because he wanted to go to college locally so he could live at home with his mom. Sad. A nation of wimps.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:14:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:15:36 AM EDT
[#21]
The modern man child. Maintains his condidence so that other always think things are going swimmingly. Meanwhile he's in counseling for getting drunk and flunking out of advanced art history and deep fryer operation 101.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:16:02 AM EDT
[#22]
Its OK, Bernie Sanders will make sure that the government takes care of all those issues for them.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:16:43 AM EDT
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Life sucks, get a helmet.
- Denis Leary |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:18:17 AM EDT
[#24]
my oldest son is tragically as ugly as I am.
but he is scoring girl friends waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of his league. this article finally figured it out for me. he is a man amongst boys. Raise your boys to be men and the world will kneel before them. and enjoy the lamentations of the feminists. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:20:01 AM EDT
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Let's see, they create this environment with "microagressions", "triggers", "speech codes", etc., and now they're worried about students who can't deal with everyday life?
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:21:08 AM EDT
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School my kids go to allow "therapy" animals to live in the dorms. Daughter's roommate was looking to bring in her mid-sized family mutt. Both she and I were beyond pissed... picturing chewed-up laptops, dog hair all over my daughter's clothes, inescapable dog-sitting when roommate decides she wants to go spend a weekend with a friend...
Luckily it didn't pan out for her, but the whole idea is patently ridiculous. ETA: I'm pretty convinced that this is a result of a childhood based on video games, social media and texting instead of sports, chores and summer jobs. Yes, I'm a crusty old fart. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:21:31 AM EDT
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I see the same thing with new members of the military.
They break under pressure of a standard work load, or calling them a dipshit when they fucked up and they report you for workplace harassment. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:26:52 AM EDT
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my oldest son is tragically as ugly as I am. but he is scoring girl friends waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of his league. this article finally figured it out for me. he is a man amongst boys. Raise your boys to be men and the world will kneel before them. and enjoy the lamentations of the feminists. This gets true as he gets older too. Im and engineer and have some friends/co-works, all in their late 20s to early 30s that are some awkward, ugly dudes (Im one of them ) yet most are dating/married to some very good looking women. I can only attribute it to the fact that they have their s**t together in life. A guy with good career, life goals and a desire for a family becomes more desirable to a women the older they get.
The high school football team captain may have been hot stuff in high school but now that hes 30+ and still delivering pizzas women have little interest. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:27:26 AM EDT
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Quote HistoryQuoted:
This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Hey now I lost my scholarship AND got booted out of honors the first semester, what now biatch 
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:27:32 AM EDT
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25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will. 26. The modern man cries. He cries often. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0 Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Too many people are not being told "Just Fucking Deal With It" when it comes to simple things in life.... Where did that "Modern Man" list go... 25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will. 26. The modern man cries. He cries often. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0 Lol @ #16 vs. #25. That whole list is pretty fucking stupid. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:27:34 AM EDT
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Quote HistoryQuoted:
This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Ahh but if less people went to college then there would be less need for college professors. Can't have a lot of blowhards non practitioners without jobs. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:35:19 AM EDT
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Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices Contributing to the whiner's problem they are whining about.  Not really a new phenomenon. I saw it in the late 70's in college. In the 80-90-00's in the various company tech schools. Perhaps not total meltdowns, just a number of people attempting to manipulate for a better grade than was earned. For the most part, the company tech schools were OPEN BOOK for GOD's sake. 20 minutes worth of material review prior to a test was all it took to score an ace. The crisis cult types were the ones I knew I'd never have to compete with in the work place. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:35:55 AM EDT
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Hey now I lost my scholarship AND got booted out of honors the first semester, what now biatch Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Hey now I lost my scholarship AND got booted out of honors the first semester, what now biatch Hey me too, i was put on "Academic Probation" after my freshman year. Which is anything below a 3.0 gpa for students in the engineer department, I think i had a 2.5 gpa. By the end of my sophmore year i got it up to a 2.9, at which point i lost my scholarship as I had to maintain a 3.5 Think i graduated with a 2.7 gpa. Needless to say i have not donated a single penny to my school since i graduated. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:37:07 AM EDT
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Great article, OP. My wife and I have discussed the topic of helicopter parenting fucking everything up many times, and have unerringly reached the same conclusion as the author. If this kind of pantywaistedness is the shape of the future, my children will walk the earth like gods.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:38:25 AM EDT
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Great article, OP. My wife and I have discussed the topic of helicopter parenting fucking everything up many times, and have unerringly reached the same conclusion as the author. If this kind of pantywaistedness is the shape of the future, my children will walk the earth like gods. I cant wait to have kids just so i can say "Man the f**k up" to my son someday. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:39:13 AM EDT
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Student loans, no middle class job future, declining economy. Oh the Noes. If they can't handle the little fish (small issues), what happens when the balloons pop? They're f*cked.
Next stop, cannibalism. 
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:45:24 AM EDT
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I cant wait to have kids just so i can say "Man the f**k up" to my son someday. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Great article, OP. My wife and I have discussed the topic of helicopter parenting fucking everything up many times, and have unerringly reached the same conclusion as the author. If this kind of pantywaistedness is the shape of the future, my children will walk the earth like gods. I cant wait to have kids just so i can say "Man the f**k up" to my son someday. lol Your last two posts sound kinda conflicting. You haven't donated to your school cuz they were hard on you and you graduated with a "meh" GPA, and then post this. Plus, the way things are going people (and their kids) hardening up is going to be pretty common. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:48:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hard times make hard people Hard people make good times Good times make soft people Soft people make hard times ...guess where we're at in that? |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:48:33 AM EDT
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Does this really surprise anybody, that these little, pampered, special snowflakes can't understand a world which doesn't revolve around them?
It even tells them "no" which is a completely new experience, for many of them. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:49:41 AM EDT
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College personnel everywhere are struggling with students' increased neediness Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices This bodes well for our future and definitely makes the case for expansion of student loan programs Well, look on the bright side----if there ever is some cataclysmic end of society as we know it, you will be in a far better position to be a powerful warlord with a large harem. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:53:15 AM EDT
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lol Your last two posts sound kinda conflicting. You haven't donated to your school cuz they were hard on you and you graduated with a "meh" GPA, and then post this. Plus, the way things are going people (and their kids) hardening up is going to be pretty common. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Great article, OP. My wife and I have discussed the topic of helicopter parenting fucking everything up many times, and have unerringly reached the same conclusion as the author. If this kind of pantywaistedness is the shape of the future, my children will walk the earth like gods. I cant wait to have kids just so i can say "Man the f**k up" to my son someday. lol Your last two posts sound kinda conflicting. You haven't donated to your school cuz they were hard on you and you graduated with a "meh" GPA, and then post this. Plus, the way things are going people (and their kids) hardening up is going to be pretty common. I worked my a$$ off in college to get that degree. I didnt take fluffy poofy art history. When i was struggling and my grades were sucking I can remember my dad telling me to suck it up, study more and get my grades up. He is an engineer and got through it and said if he could do it i can do it too. I can count the number of parties i went to after freshman year on one hand, my weekends were spent in the library studying, not at the frat house trying to pick up chicks. The reason i dont donate is because i think 3.5 GPA is pretty ridiculous for a scholarship, especially something in a hard science/math degree. I had professors that the first day of class said something along the lines of "I havnt given out a A grade in 20 years, one or two of you will get Bs, if you try hard you should be able to get a C but many of you will a D or F." hmm yeah good luck maintaining that gpa with professors like that. There is a disconnect, the school thinks all students should be getting As &Bs but the professors think they should be giving out Cs & Ds. As a result i had to work part time while i was at school and full time during summers to pay for it all. I figure i dont owe my school any money as it was all donated my junior and senior year in the form of 100% full tuition, which was literally tens of thousands of dollars. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:53:35 AM EDT
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Not bragging. But my closer to 50 ugly ass has increasingly drawn the attention of 20's and 30's again.
I have had them come out and say they're not enough "men" available their own age. Interesting times indeed. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:56:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does this really surprise anybody, that these little, pampered, special snowflakes can't understand a world which doesn't revolve around them? It even tells them "no" which is a completely new experience, for many of them. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 9:58:40 AM EDT
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my oldest son is tragically as ugly as I am. but he is scoring girl friends waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of his league. this article finally figured it out for me. he is a man amongst boys. Raise your boys to be men and the world will kneel before them. and enjoy the lamentations of the feminists.   That's fucking beautiful, man.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:03:17 AM EDT
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Ahh but if less people went to college then there would be less need for college professors. Can't have a lot of blowhards non practitioners without jobs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Ahh but if less people went to college then there would be less need for college professors. Can't have a lot of blowhards non practitioners without jobs. This depends on the major. Most professors I know in the sciences would be perfectly happy to not teach undergrads at all. For them teaching is only a small part of their job. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:03:36 AM EDT
[#46]
victimhood is a highly competitive field.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:04:27 AM EDT
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This depends on the major. Most professors I know in the sciences would be perfectly happy to not teach undergrads at all. For them teaching is only a small part of their job. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is what happens when you push anyone and everyone with an IQ higher than a goldfish to go to college. You end up with a lot of people who dont have the motivation, maturity or intellectual ability to be there. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world. Ok well when you have to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher to keep your scholarship students start getting really upset with anything less than a A. Even straight Bs would cause you do loose your scholarship. And with the cost of education its understandable for them to panic. Again this problem could be solved if less people went to college....less demand for college = lower tuition rates. Ahh but if less people went to college then there would be less need for college professors. Can't have a lot of blowhards non practitioners without jobs. This depends on the major. Most professors I know in the sciences would be perfectly happy to not teach undergrads at all. For them teaching is only a small part of their job. In the words of a prominent academic, "fuck the undergrads" |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:12:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Graduated in 2008 from OSU... Definitely saw some people who couldn't cut it in the real world. We had a very cool international studies/history professor. Army in Vietnam... Was talking about the war and brought an AK47 in to show people what it was. (Pretty sure it was fake. Probably airsoft.) So may libtards complained then dropped the class because they were frightened. |
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:13:20 AM EDT
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25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will. 26. The modern man cries. He cries often. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0 Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Too many people are not being told "Just Fucking Deal With It" when it comes to simple things in life.... Where did that "Modern Man" list go... 25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will. 26. The modern man cries. He cries often. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0 Holy shit.
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Posted: 10/1/2015 10:14:40 AM EDT
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College personnel everywhere are struggling with students' increased neediness ...Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices Sounds to me like the faculty can't handle their own emotional problems when dealing with students. |
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