Intolerance...it grows like a wild fire.

[gabeneutrino]

Tolerance. This would be something i have none of for stupidity and the audacity to think one is smarter than a teacher (among other things). I am currently working the graduate level Environmental History class. Reiger is teaching. I am in the undergraduate level class and it seems that our class is far smarter than these masters candidates. I

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[spookypixe]

Ah college. I remember there was a born-again Christian(yes this is important) in my English 102 class who wrote a paper that pretty much was chalked full of nothing but fallacies. Ms. Williams (amazing professor) told him when he disputed his grade in front of the entire class he was bigoted, closed-minded, and had resorted to nothing but name-calling and false information which led to his horrible grade. Which was true. The paper was on homosexuality (oh yeah you can believe I stirred that shit kettle during in-class debates) and he still thought he deserved a better grade because it was written well (really it wasn't I had proof-read one of the drafts and tore it apart!) even though he didn't abide by any of the of the actual guide-lines for the paper. While I miss school I don't miss the people like that, that strive for nothing but 4.0 GPA's. As you said it shows nothing more than extreme book-smarts and no actual common sense or personality or even true problem solving skills. I even have had professors explain to entire classes that they would NEVER EVER hire some one with a 4.0 GPA because that means they have no general people interaction skills it just shows they didn't learn any actual life lessons that could be used in real-world work environments and that they probably wouldn't work well in teams (which a lot of jobs thinks is the greatest thing ever!! ha!) Having worked in retail for as long as I have (and the times I know you did as well) which do you think is worse; the people who argue for what they want in school, or those that argue for it as a consumer in a retail environment believing they are entitled to every discount possible because there is a OMG a crying baby in aisle 5?

[gabeneutrino]

Well as much as i hate to say it, due to that damned "The customer is always right moto" *which i hate* i'd say retail customers have more right to that. College students trying to squeeze a higher grade out of a tenured professor are like cockroaches to me. I just want to step on them or catch them on fire. Have i ever told you about that insane brainwashed christian girl that was in one of my geology classes. This doens't really matter to the conversation but she literally thought the earth was 5 or 6 thousand years old. Dont' even get her started on the big E...EVOLUTION!!! *insert dramatic music*.

Day by day i hate stupidity and audacity more and more.

~~ Hydro

[spookypixe]

Yeah, but that whole "customer is always right" moto is being kicked out left and right by both business schools and businesses. Which couldn't make me happier. Because 9 out of 10 times the customer is actually WRONG hehehehe. I wouldn't say a consumer has more validity in the assumption of being right on something. I can see a student arguing that their grade was too low IF they truly felt that way and put a considerable amount of effort into their answers. VS this woman you are in school with who just doesn't want to hurt her precious GPA.

Yeah you told me about that girl. Wasn't she the same one that seriously at like 19 thought the Earth was flat?