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Posted by
jadedraven on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 04:04 AM PST
I go to a very small state college about an hour away form where i grew up. I chose to go there because it wasn't to far away, so I would be familar with the territory, it was about my best option, money wise, and the university was just across the street so that in two years, I would be able to transfer over there and it wouldn't be as big of a hassle. Not to mention I thought I would get a better education from a smaller school. Boy, was I wrong.
The town where the college is located is a little nothing place that was founded by seventh day baptists a long time ago, and it is still quite religious and conservative. I thought, "not a big deal, right?" Wrong, I have been threatened in class, I have had people yelling shit out their windows, and so on. Not to bad for me to deal with, as I choose not to fight, or bring myself down to that level by awknowledging them at all, it stops very quickly. On the other end, some people are scared of me, and this would be incredibly funny if you knew me. I do know HOW to fight, I believe in being able to rely on yourself, BUT I am one of those annoying people that weaves on the sidewalk when it is raining to aviod stepping on the worms, and if there is a bee in my room, I pick it up and take it to the window down the hall to let it outside, and I do the same anywhere, even if people look at me wierdly, so its funny that i have had RA's who are scared to say anything to me. All of this I can deal with, no problem, most people like me once they get to know me, and the ones that don't, well, they don't really matter to me in the least anyway so I don't much care. What really bugs me about this place is that it is so small.
I know people in large colleges who say that attendance isn't taken in classes, and not worth any points to your grade. Here, classes are so small, that is really not an option. I can do all of my assignments, do well on tests, everything, but fail a class because I didn't attended a certain amount of classes. I don't skip class cause I am getting stoned or drunk or sleeping it off, i skip classes becase the teachers here are horrible. This is mostly a tech school, so being in the liberal arts and social sciences major, I am in the minority. Those two departments are an afterthought. Most of the teachers loathe what they are doing and it is obvious form their teaching methods. They don't care that you know the material, or that you are going to walk out of that classroom with greater enlightenment, they just want to see a body in the seat, even if that body is sleeping, or not paying attention, or whatever. Last time I checked, much of the information in classes comes from books, and I really don't need some moron to reread to me the chapter that I already read myself, I don't need someone to hold my hand while explaining how babies are made or whatever, and it really upsets me that what college (here at least) has boiled down to is just that, someone who hates their job, holding your hand and reading a chapter of the book out loud. I guess I never realized how DUMB some people are until I got to college, some people actually NEED this, and not for anything major, but like basic psychology or sociology, practically high school courses. While on the other end, I don't need this, so I don't attend every single class, and even though I KNOW the material better than anyone else there, I get punished for being smart enough to do it on my own. ARGHHHH!
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Re: small colleges SUCK!
by Ironboots on May 05, 2002 - 09:00 AM
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Good for you, not stepping on the poor little worms and escorting the bees out! There should be more people like you in this world...
But can you not transfer to another school?
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Oooh...ouch
by Dolorosa on May 05, 2002 - 09:19 AM
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Man thats gotta' suck...I don't think I'd last five minutes. I can kinda' relate though, Navy College classes are taught on the eighth grade level, I shit you not. Yuck....yuck. Also, I would like to applaude your actions to the worms, bees and equivilant human types...ie: not crushing them. I'm rather short tempered, and if I had been in your situation...would most likely be doing time somewhere. I'd get the hell out of dodge as soon as you can and head to a bigger college...still, remember, no matter where you go, you'll always find problems.
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Re: small colleges SUCK!
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on May 05, 2002 - 10:23 PM
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oh man I hear you...I went to green river community college (I'm a drop out *snicker*) and I quit JUST FOR THAT...it was BOORINGGGG...most of my classes had a grade for attendence and such, which I can understand, but most of my teachers were tolerable to wonderful. I had an anthropology teacher called "mr. Bob" who actually worked with Ivan and the B & I and was one of the people that got him released from his concrete cell to a real zoo with an environment that didn't consists of straw and concrete and bored spectators...and he had STORIES for EVERYTHING.
I also had a wonderful comparative religion teacher that actually FORCED you to think, consider other viewpoints etc. He actually laughed and pointed out that on the first day of delving into xianity, half the class brought bibles with them, whereas before nobody showed any interest in any of the other religions, and they all of a sudden had something to say :) Made them turn red...he also remarked how the class was divided in two..the half with the bibles and the half that had payed attention from day one...made them turn redder :)
One of my most UNBEARABLE teachers was my pacific northwest teacher...god this guy was AWFUL...DULL as a sack of wet oatmeal, hated his job, did JUST what you said....but I snowed my way through that class easier than anything...I fudged all three book reports we had to do (which were a major part of our grades) by picking and "interesting" book, read the liner notes and the middle of each chapter, then threw in some names and what I got from the liner and got A's on all three...he even wrote on one "you really showed interest and comviction on this topic...wonderful job!" and I hadn't even read the book *snicker*
Never mind the single size larger than the allowed font and a fraction larger line spacing than allowed..barely detectable, took about a half a page off altogether *snicker* Man that guy was a MORON.
Change schools if you want a good education...I just quit, and now if I want to go back I have to pay it myself and when I show my mother passing grades THEN I get reimbursed *frown*
You'll be okay. Start carrying a lead pipe..that'll shut them up quick like...
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Re: small colleges SUCK!
by jadedraven (smithsm@alfredstate.edu)
on May 05, 2002 - 10:44 PM
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I would LOVE to go to a larger college, but that would involve moving far away, I always thought that i would want to, but the reality is, I LIKE being an hour away from home, I am not really close with anyone there (except my cats), and I don't go there often (only on school breaks), but if for some reason I had to be there, it wouldn't be a five hour car ride. Also, I kind of have the home court advantage, I know the area, this is my home, and I am not going to let a bunch of closed minded moronic pricks kick me out. I figure it like this, yes, it might be easier somewhere else, but if I can do it here, I can do it anywhere...
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