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LostInEmulation
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: I'm losing faith in humanity due to college |
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Okay, this is not an easy post for me but several things happened at my college:
* verbal bullying against me (this kinda subsided after a lot of teacher intervention but not completely)
* various kinds of vandalism (writing expletives on the teacher's table, destroying a 'window' in the entrance door)
* various occasions of theft (computers and projectors disappeared from classrooms without a trace)
* rigging teacher's computers with keyloggers to get the exams early or edit the marks
This leaves me... speechless and with a huge amount of distrust towards college and my fellow students. It makes it hard for me to mentally touch the subjects as well. I don't want my education to go down the drain because of retards and atavisms... But I didn't even tell my parents yet about this, still it really bugs me. I do not want to change college again 
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JerryHatake
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Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college?
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LostInEmulation
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I don't know what you mean... There are rules of behavior, the students are expected to adher to but this does not help if it is unclear who did it.
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abstrusemortal
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| JerryHatake wrote: | | Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college? |
Yeah, Jerry and I go to GMU and there's an honor code there. On most of the exams there is a paragraph at the top explicitly stating the honor code; a signature is required for the exam to be graded.
Of course, it's much broader than this.
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JerryHatake
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| abstrusemortal wrote: | | JerryHatake wrote: | | Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college? |
Yeah, Jerry and I go to GMU and there's an honor code there. On most of the exams there is a paragraph at the top explicitly stating the honor code; a signature is required for the exam to be graded.
Of course, it's much broader than this. |
I know. Maybe you could explain it better to Lost here.
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:35 am Post subject: |
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i lost faith in humanity in grade 3. 
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: |
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I haven't lost faith in all of humanity, just the people I went to school/college with. If these people are supposed to be the future of this country, then we're all screwed!! 
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wolphin
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I suspect there may be a disconnect here. I think the "college" that he refers to is more like high school for us - that is, he's not in a "Universität" but something along the lines of a "Gymnasium" or some such under-university study.
(sorry, I'm not that familiar with the german educational system. But one of my classmates went to school in germany and came here to attend my university)
If this is the case, well, "high school" or whatever you might call it, sucks pretty much everywhere. It's a bastion of immaturity, and frankly university is a lot better in all those ways you pointed out |
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LostInEmulation
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| wolphin wrote: | I suspect there may be a disconnect here. I think the "college" that he refers to is more like high school for us - that is, he's not in a "Universität" but something along the lines of a "Gymnasium" or some such under-university study.
(sorry, I'm not that familiar with the german educational system. But one of my classmates went to school in germany and came here to attend my university)
If this is the case, well, "high school" or whatever you might call it, sucks pretty much everywhere. It's a bastion of immaturity, and frankly university is a lot better in all those ways you pointed out |
It's an 'international college' according to it's own name and I will graduate as bachelor of computer science. So, no, I would not just chalk it up as immaturity of some people.
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wolphin
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Oh, well, never mind that theory then 
Some people (well, a lot of people) are just really shallow, I guess.
I mean, it's like you said, once you get to that level it's not immaturity...Once you hit 20, and haven't realized that it's not right to picking and bullying people and doing vandalism, you're kind of a loser. |
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| You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world. |
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LostInEmulation
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| kraken wrote: | | You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world. |
I started to get somewhat nearer to grasp that number. Do I need to say that I am suddenly no longer in favor of democracy?
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| LostInEmulation wrote: | | kraken wrote: | | You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world. |
I started to get somewhat nearer to grasp that number. Do I need to say that I am suddenly no longer in favor of democracy? |
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken |
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LostInEmulation
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| sinsboldly wrote: |
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken |
This guy speaks the truth (not only for the USA).
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