I still need a few more points to fulfill my psychology class research experience requirement. For this last bit, I need three people who would be willing to fill out a questionnaire about me. It'll take about 30 minutes according to the website. I won't be told what you say about me, so no worries there. If any of you guys are interested, I'll ( Read more... )

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Apparently everyone in my class is failing the Electronic Instrumentation course. We had failed an earlier test so bad, that we were given a second, take home test to boost our grades. Well, the TA mistakenly sent out everyones grades to everyone in the class and I find that almost everyone failed again and that this time I didn't have the lowest ( Read more... )

.. or at least fellow classmates also bitching about how impossible yesterday's Instrumentation exam was, went a little ways to making me feel better about my
masochismchoice of degree. If even the grad student is saying that it was a difficult test, then maybe my failure to fill in about half of the answers isn't so overwhelmingly horrid. Sure, ( Read more... )

.. if it weren't for the fact that I really enjoy electronics, I'd seriously consider rethinking my major. Underwater Basket weaving might actually be easier and less stressful.

Actually, do I really need to subject myself to extra-curricular research lab? Granted, it'll look good on the resume, and it gives me a chance to do more than just classes, but I don't really care to get wrapped up with my professor's drive to get more undergrad / graduate research papers done in his name. It's definitely one area of academia ( Read more... )

8am is too fucking early for a calculus 3 final exam.

I'm writing up a report for my anthro class that's due tomorrow - we're 'conducting' a forensic anthropology investigation with only a short summary and a handful of photographs to go by. I have to come up with the sex, age, race, cause and time of death for the skeleton in the photographs ( Read more... )

Instructor: So should the government fund archeologists?

Student: Yeah so that we can find the Stargate before the Ruskies do.

.. no, that student wasn't me.

... and anyone else watching who happens to fit the bill ( Read more... )