- May 16, 2000
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are traditional students under 24, especially the running start ones who are 16 or 17. I have no problem with you being in school to further your education and experience but please PARTICIPATE! You have the greatest computational device ever conceived between your ears if only you'd use it when the professor speaks rather than assuming they know it all and treating education like a one-way process. Not only does it make you look dumb to see you sit there like a rock not answering or taking part, but you are competing for grades against people who are likely smarter and definitely have more life experience.
I've had those 18 year old 'new adults' in my classes who are 'too cool' to take part. The only time they open their mouth is to spout sports statistics, set up a WoW raid, or brag about who they banged at last night's kegger. They're totally uninvolved in their own education and are essentially wasting years of their life and thousands of dollars in exchange for a piece of paper with no value underwriting it. They actually sound and act like 13 year old pubescents now that I think about it.
We'd be having a discussion about core theories of society and politics and they won't say anything. They don't even ask questions even though they're probably voting for the first time in their lives and may be missing knowledge vital to fulfilling their civic duty. Meanwhile everyone else in class is looking at them with hope and pity as to why they won't just trust and value themselves enough to be hears.
Moral of the story is, if you're going to expend the resources to attend college, grow up and act your age. Losers.
That is all.
Post Script: I'm also incensed by college students who get on a public forum to rant about their superior ability and positions, but can't conjugate their way out of a paper sack. They say 'college students who Is a non-traditional student', or 'every time the professor speak'. Then they show that they can't use conjunctions or form compound sentences with 'Holy shit that's annoying, not only it makes you look dumb', and 'able to see through clothing, he was literally yelling'. Don't even get me started on tense failures such as 'actually sounded like a 16 year old kid the more he talks now that I think about it', or the verbal abortion which is 'I got this mid 40 year old guy'. Seriously, if you can't even write in proper English as a college student given an infinite amount of time and resources you have no business telling others how dumb THEY look.
I've had those 18 year old 'new adults' in my classes who are 'too cool' to take part. The only time they open their mouth is to spout sports statistics, set up a WoW raid, or brag about who they banged at last night's kegger. They're totally uninvolved in their own education and are essentially wasting years of their life and thousands of dollars in exchange for a piece of paper with no value underwriting it. They actually sound and act like 13 year old pubescents now that I think about it.
We'd be having a discussion about core theories of society and politics and they won't say anything. They don't even ask questions even though they're probably voting for the first time in their lives and may be missing knowledge vital to fulfilling their civic duty. Meanwhile everyone else in class is looking at them with hope and pity as to why they won't just trust and value themselves enough to be hears.
Moral of the story is, if you're going to expend the resources to attend college, grow up and act your age. Losers.
That is all.
Post Script: I'm also incensed by college students who get on a public forum to rant about their superior ability and positions, but can't conjugate their way out of a paper sack. They say 'college students who Is a non-traditional student', or 'every time the professor speak'. Then they show that they can't use conjunctions or form compound sentences with 'Holy shit that's annoying, not only it makes you look dumb', and 'able to see through clothing, he was literally yelling'. Don't even get me started on tense failures such as 'actually sounded like a 16 year old kid the more he talks now that I think about it', or the verbal abortion which is 'I got this mid 40 year old guy'. Seriously, if you can't even write in proper English as a college student given an infinite amount of time and resources you have no business telling others how dumb THEY look.