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 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I love learning, but don't like school

Dingletron
Posted: 09 May 2011, 11:37 pm 

Replies: 29
Views: 5,483
As it should be... you'd have to be a creatively devoid sheep to enjoy school as is. The acquisition of knowledge is encouraged, but only alongside nonsense like grades and mandatory tuition fees that fund football stadiums for a losing team.

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: New flatmate is too friendly

Dingletron
Posted: 02 May 2011, 7:42 am 

Replies: 9
Views: 1,830
Never underestimate the diplomacy of declining an invitation with a smile. Privacy, cordiality, and money are some very universal languages. If it ever seems difficult to muster a smile, just remember that she's inviting you out for a reason (that being, you must come off as a pretty nice person!) :)

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: Do you feel that this graph describes your learning rate?

Dingletron
Posted: 01 May 2011, 7:46 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 4,696
Very much so. I characterize my learning process as based around a threshold point of knowledge acquisition; at first, I'll learn everything I can about a subject in a strictly recitation sort of way, and then at some point an "Aha!" moment hits and I realize why it matters. Afterward, I fit every b...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: I'm going to fail

Dingletron
Posted: 01 May 2011, 6:10 am 

Replies: 5
Views: 3,222
I was terrified for two of my finals last semester. A very close friend of mine had died on Friday, and I had an 8am test on Monday, then a 10am test on Tuesday. And, I hadn't really been to either class for about two months. I somehow did fantastically on both (which were not easy tests, by any mea...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Will this explain my childhood?

Dingletron
Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 4:21 am 

Replies: 12
Views: 2,570
If I weren't a behavioral science student surrounded by fantastic disability advocacy professors to lend their advice, I'd probably have blown a gasket a by now; the revelation of ASD's likely application to myself is only two months young, and your ruminations pretty precisely match my own (even af...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: How do we learn?

Dingletron
Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 3:21 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 3,123
Wikipedia + unemployment ;)

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: What is/was your major in college?

Dingletron
 Post subject: cool story bro
Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 3:10 am 

Replies: 104
Views: 18,482
I'm majoring in Rehabilitation Studies with minors in English/Substance Abuse & Addictions, and I also plan to pursue a third minor in Applied Behavior Analysis (but won't 'officially' declare that one until after my diagnostic testing in May 'officially' helps to elucidate my behavioral science...
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