"SVTyler" (svtyler)
04/30/2014 at 21:37 • Filed to: None
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"SVTyler" (svtyler)
04/30/2014 at 21:37 • Filed to: None | 7
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Now it's off to study for classes actually relevant to my major. I hate gen-ed classes, I swear they're just another way for universities to screw their students out of money.
Brian Silvestro
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 21:38 |
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They are though. I have 4 finals in two weeks, and 3 of them are for bullshit gen ed classes that aren't relevant to my major whatsoever.
YSI-what can brown do for you
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 21:40 |
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I am going to study soon. Hopefully. I wanted to start today, but I have a headache and I can't think properly. . . or that is what I am telling myself.
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SVTyler
> Brian Silvestro
04/30/2014 at 21:42 |
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That sounded like my spring semester of freshman year: five finals , one for strength of materials, the rest English, Spanish, Speech, and History. Are you at least done with gen-ed after all that?
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Brian Silvestro
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 21:44 |
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No, I'm in my spring semester of freshman year!
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SVTyler
> Brian Silvestro
04/30/2014 at 21:51 |
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That sucks man, I tried to get all those classes out of the way as soon as possible so I could get to the fun stuff. What's your major? I'm an Mech. Engineering Tech. major and it seems like we have a ton of required gen-ed classes that we have no reason to take.
Anon
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 21:52 |
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That would be me after I wrote my final paper for English 1002 which had to be about Pride and Prejudice. I get nightmares just thinking about it.
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SVTyler
> Anon
04/30/2014 at 21:57 |
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I'm so sorry dude. We read that in high school and I skipped a few English classes just so I didn't have to talk about it. My paper was on religion which I find to be an extremely interesting subject, but not when you have four other finals including physics and calculus.
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SVTyler
> YSI-what can brown do for you
04/30/2014 at 21:59 |
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Man you better get on that! I've been in Hicks since Sunday, though I've been procrastinating big-time once I'm here. I've got physics and ECE to worry about, but other than that my philosophy class and polymers class shouldn't be such a big deal.
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Brian Silvestro
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 21:59 |
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Yeah I'm an Accounting major and I'm trying to get all of them out of the way as well.
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 22:01 |
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Chemistry and Physics are no biggie, and microbiology I just need to review hardcore. It is just diff eq I am worried about.
ly2v8-Brian
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 22:03 |
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I know I hate that feeling, I turned in a history paper and I felt it was just terrible.
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ly2v8-Brian
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 22:06 |
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Yeah it does seem like it. They think it makes you a well rounded individual. That may be true, but it sure makes me feel like that are taking more money than needed.
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SVTyler
> ly2v8-Brian
04/30/2014 at 22:13 |
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It's even worse because I love writing and find religion (the topic I chose) extremely interesting, but being forced to write about something rarely produces the kind of work you usually create. I dunno, I don't need to be well-rounded, I need to be educated, and taking philosophy and speech and history aren't relevant to STEM courses in the least.
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SVTyler
> YSI-what can brown do for you
04/30/2014 at 22:22 |
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You actual engineers have it tough, man, diff eq scares the crap out of me. Luckily MET kids don't have to take it, or a calc-based physics :P
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ly2v8-Brian
> SVTyler
04/30/2014 at 22:27 |
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I know, I'm in for Engineering (so I'm no English major), but I have always felt that way about papers. It is hard to say what it is exactly. I had to write about how Chinese and British diplomatic relations of the 19th century led to the end of the Chinese imperial system (a good topic), but my paper just felt so crappy after reading it.
Nick George
> SVTyler
05/01/2014 at 00:34 |
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Totally agree... I'm a civil engineering senior at Santa Clara University. My last quarter consists of: Modern Jewish Philosophy, Social Problems in the US, and Intro to Electrical Circuits.
Complete. Waste. of . Time.
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SVTyler
> Nick George
05/01/2014 at 00:47 |
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Yep, I'm taking Religions of the East next semester *eye roll*. Sounds like a cool as hell class, but that's just another $900 out of my pocket so I can claim I'm "well-rounded" on a job interview. Surprisingly I've already had one of those, and they strangely were more concerned with my understandings of the automotive transmission than my take on Descartes' ontological argument of God.