Man I hate school...

exalted512
exalted512 Posts: 10,735
edited March 2007 in The Clubhouse
Actually, thats about it...6 tests in a one week period when I'm only taking 4 classes sucks big time...
-Cody
Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2007
    I don't feel sorry for you, get your **** educated, suck it up, you're a Polk trooper.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited February 2007
    yea what Doro said
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  • Kris Siegel
    Kris Siegel Posts: 309
    edited February 2007
    Hey, I drive 72 miles to work one way, drive back (another 72 miles). Then I have to drive to school, which is about 40 miles from my house. Depending on traffic and if I have to take different routes, on days I go to school I average about 180-200 miles. Thankfully I can work at home some days :)

    I don't want to hear ANY complaning! heh
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  • m00npie
    m00npie Posts: 697
    edited March 2007
    exalted512 wrote:
    Actually, thats about it...6 tests in a one week period when I'm only taking 4 classes sucks big time...
    -Cody

    I used to say a lot of things like that in college because at that time, big tests, presentations, 7:00 am classes on a hangover was the toughest thing life was throwing at me...

    10 years later and now I face...
    keeping the wife happy, big mortgage, keeping the wife happy, big taxes, keeping the wife happy, kids, keeping the wife happy, running my own business, keeping the wife happy, still paying my school loans, Weddings - 8, Funerals - 10, etc...

    No doubt it sucks to have 6 tests in one week and don’t let anyone tell you different, but in 1, 5 or 10 years after school, I have feeling you will look back and say I never had it so good.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2007
    No pity here either. Hard work now will pay off down the road. Trust me.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2007
    Be thankful you have it so easy. Now get your butt back to studying!
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited March 2007
    m00npie wrote:
    I used to say a lot of things like that in college because at that time, big tests, presentations, 7:00 am classes on a hangover was the toughest thing life was throwing at me...

    10 years later and now I face...
    keeping the wife happy, big mortgage, keeping the wife happy, big taxes, keeping the wife happy, kids, keeping the wife happy, running my own business, keeping the wife happy, still paying my school loans, Weddings - 8, Funerals - 10, etc...

    No doubt it sucks to have 6 tests in one week and don’t let anyone tell you different, but in 1, 5 or 10 years after school, I have feeling you will look back and say I never had it so good.


    That about sums it up right there. I would much rather be in the back of a classroom right now, anonomously dealing with a latent drunkeness segueing into a midday hangover, swearing off alcohol until the next time I drink. Which would probably be around 3 this afternoon. Instead I'm at a job I can tolerate, making sufficient money, planning a wedding, going home to a house I own where I have a a few sets of Polks and electronics to make 'em sing. You know what, that's all good, too.
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  • tommyboy
    tommyboy Posts: 1,414
    edited March 2007
    Sorry for the derail exalted. Hey guys, I really need your help. I have been looking to find the worlds smallest violon. do you guys know where I can find it?
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited March 2007
    exalted512 wrote:
    Actually, thats about it...6 tests in a one week period when I'm only taking 4 classes sucks big time...
    -Cody

    Well, you could always quit and join the military?:p Hell, they will even pay for you to go to school when you get out.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2007
    WIMP!!! 8 finals in 4 days and the final one was at 7AM on my 21st. No problem! You either paid attention and know the material or you're screwed. Either way, you shouldn't be stressed.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited March 2007
    m00npie wrote:
    No doubt it sucks to have 6 tests in one week and don’t let anyone tell you different, but in 1, 5 or 10 years after school, I have feeling you will look back and say I never had it so good.

    +1

    out of school in 2001. I think I started missing it a year or so ago. :(
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2007
    Last semester I had 4 finals on one day. Our school has a rule that if you have more than 3, you can get them changed. Unfortunately, one was at a community college around here so the rule didnt apply...Still did fairly good though.

    I dont necessarily have it 'easy' I'm still working full time as well as being a full time student so I can pay for my college, living expenses, etc.
    -Cody
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2007
    Just had 6 exams last week (one per class) and I can't complain. Last term in my electrical engineering course, I had a question on the final that asked:

    "The optimal frequency response for an audio amplifier should be"
    (a) Flat
    (b) Sine wave
    (c) 20Hz-20kHz
    (d) Neither (a), (b), or (c)

    I almost fell on the floor laughing! Too easy.
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  • Bill Ayotte
    Bill Ayotte Posts: 1,860
    edited March 2007
    MikeC78 wrote:
    Well, you could always quit and join the military?:p Hell, they will even pay for you to go to school when you get out.
    Haha........Most of the people I know who have ran the other way had a real hard time in school, mostly getting used to not dropping the f bomb to their professors, but also the whole social atmosphere. A lot of colleges are kinda anti-military nowdays. I considered going to school, but I think that my A&P license will do me just fine.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,804
    edited March 2007
    Dude, college ain't easy. It's good preparation for the real world. Your deadlines and work won't get any easier. Just be glad you can go to school. There are alot of people out there who want to go but can't for one reason or another. I had to work two jobs while in school just to keep up with the tuition payments that my financial aid didn't cover.

    It sucks having a bunch of tests in one week but you know what? At least they are done and out of the way. I use to love having all my tests in the first two days of mid-term or finals week because then I had 3 days off.
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited March 2007
    tommyboy wrote:
    Sorry for the derail exalted. Hey guys, I really need your help. I have been looking to find the worlds smallest violon. do you guys know where I can find it?


    :D That's great! My father-in-law does that with both hands and says "This is my rendition of 'My heart bleeds for you,' and at no extra cost, it's in stereo!" It's a little sarcastic, but pretty funny to see in person.
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  • wallstreet
    wallstreet Posts: 1,405
    edited March 2007
    Yeah whatever. Talk to me when your on Spring Break at South Padre gulping down whammies at Louie's Backyard hitting on some chick from Arizona State where later that night your boinking her in someone's condo or hotel room you don't even know. Yeah, I hated college too.
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  • polka boy
    polka boy Posts: 13
    edited March 2007
    Gut it out. Remember to buy high end electronics the 1st year after you graduate and get a job. It's taken me 20 years to working/wife/kid/house/minivan/window treatments/to get back into the financial state that I can but audio gear.

    Good luck. BSME UW
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2007
    6 exams only affect you...................wait until that many deadlines at work affect your company's future or 100s or 1000s of people that depend on your ability to pull it off. School becomes sweet memories...........
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2007
    exalted512 wrote:
    Last semester I had 4 finals on one day. Our school has a rule that if you have more than 3, you can get them changed. Unfortunately, one was at a community college around here so the rule didnt apply...Still did fairly good though.

    I dont necessarily have it 'easy' I'm still working full time as well as being a full time student so I can pay for my college, living expenses, etc.
    -Cody
    Cody, I went back to University full-time in my 30's to do 2 degrees back to back. 7 years. I held down 4 & 5 jobs (at the same time) and my work/school week was about 90 hours every week. Was I busy, you bet. Did I do well, sure did. GPA 4.0 for the first degree (Computer Science) and 3.75 (Commerce) for the second. Two things got me through. Desire and Time Management. Learn priorities Sir. Which is more important, your social life or school. I was dirt poor during University but the "nose to the grindstone" attitude paid off. Sorry, I do not mean to rag on you but school is easy. Real life is hard. I hope I do not sound like a parent, but if you think it is hard now you are in for a surprise. I am now in my 50's raising a 7 year old. And yes I do about a 60 hour work week and attend school and social functions for my son. The good thing is I still find time for audio. Good luck and keep at it.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,804
    edited March 2007
    polka boy wrote:
    Gut it out. Remember to buy high end electronics the 1st year after you graduate and get a job. It's taken me 20 years to working/wife/kid/house/minivan/window treatments/to get back into the financial state that I can but audio gear.

    Good luck. BSME UW

    No, he'll buy some hot rod of a car or get that ubiqoutous BMW/Acura/Audi and go and get his 9 to 5'er job. Everyone does. They all say they won't do it but they do. Every single one of them does it. It's the 'Mericun Dream!
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited March 2007
    janmike wrote:
    No pity here either. Hard work now will pay off down the road. Trust me.

    Yeah...that's when it all pays off all right.......40 hrs a week (or more) for the next 40yrs or so...whoopee, bet you can hardly wait! :eek:
    :D
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2007
    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! So true. But at least you will have a job & some money to go with it!:eek: :D

    dragon1952 wrote:
    Yeah...that's when it all pays off all right.......40 hrs a week (or more) for the next 40yrs or so...whoopee, bet you can hardly wait! :eek:
    :D
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2007
    dragon1952 wrote:
    Yeah...that's when it all pays off all right.......40 hrs a week (or more) for the next 40yrs or so...whoopee, bet you can hardly wait! :eek:
    :D
    It depends on the career you select. When you love what you do and make 6 digits it's called enjoyment. When you hate what you do and make $8/hr it's called career change. Education can sometimes HELP that selection process.
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, I was just poking a little fun from the 'retiree's perspective'. :cool: It's easy to hate school but then you look back later and it was a breeze compared to the present. I enjoyed what I was doing for maybe half the 30 some years I worked but still how many days do you wake up at 6AM (or earlier) and say 'Crap!'. You get to work and go 'Damn...didn't I just leave this place?' :confused: It's like the movie 'Groundhogs Day'. :rolleyes:
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2007
    I like school. I guess maybe because I am interested in what I am learning. Physics and Electrical Engineering (my majors) are fun to me.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited March 2007
    I love school too. I was walking out of my calc class today, feeling very good because somehow calc is making sense to me (now i know you engineers are way beyond calc but i'm only a sophmore) and i realized that i loved going to school. Learning about something and actually knowing it and remembering it is such a great thing and it will seperate you from the annoying ignorant people when you are older. Education is freedom.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2007
    Which Calc are you in?
    Airplay355 wrote:
    Learning about something and actually knowing it and remembering it is such a great thing and it will seperate you from the annoying ignorant people when you are older. Education is freedom.
    Amen!
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited March 2007
    One for now. My degree (medical biology) only requires I take pre-calc but i might just keep taking math because I know if i take some time off and then try to do it again, I will have forgotten things and it will be much harder then if I just continue taking it.

    So far I have an A...I'm just trying to keep it the entire semester.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2007
    Cool beans. It sounds like you really understand the importance of UNDERSTANDING the material instead of just making the grade. I highly recommend you focus on really learning it, from here on out. I got a B in Calc 1 & 2, but didn't really learn it that well. Now Calc 3's really kicking me. :(
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