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DesideriScuri -> RE: The number of snowflakes in Britain hits critical mass (8/27/2017 2:42:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
The thing I hated about academia is that the instructors needed -every last fucking thing- explained to them.
"Are you a two yr. old or a college professor?" I felt like asking them, so many times.
"You mean, you really can't figure this out?" I somehow held my tongue with that comment, too.
I transferred out of engineering after my first year and no longer needed calc-based physics. When my discussion instructor (physics consisted of 3 parts: lecture, discussion, and lab) looked at me smugly and responded, "well, you'd have to use calculus to figure that out" when I asked a question, that's when my physics grade took a turn down. I lost points for not showing up to discussion, though my lab, lecture, and test grades did not suffer at all.
The only reason I brought up having passed econ and other social science classes, was to demonstrate that, I did, in fact, have, at the very least, a slight understanding of how those relate to the real world. While you congratulated me and didn't mean it dismissively, the rest of that post was dismissive. But, hey, whatever.
I found an intense interest in economics post college, which is funny, considering my father was a HS econ teacher, and it was too boring and dry for me in my HS years.
You may not have meant anything dismissively, but it was there. Perhaps your focus on economics took away from your persuasive writing skills?
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