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[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Bond

How did you pull a 3.98 in grad school?

I'm a genius, motherfucker!

Well, I was smart enough to use my powers of observation to determine each of my professor's personal bias' and attitudes, and then I simply mirrored them in my class discussions and papers. There is nothing a professor likes more than to have their ego validated by their student repeating their opinions back to them. It is far more important that your professors like you than it is that you actually excel at your studies. Especially when you're a graduate of the arts, and not the sciences.

That and I'm a fucking genius.

[Bond]

I can't believe you're promoting that kind of unethical behavior as an educator yourself.

[Teuthida]

Smoking weed is part of growing up. Just remember that the state of radness is proportional to one's risk of health decline.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Bond

I can't believe you're promoting that kind of unethical behavior as an educator yourself.

I didn't know telling him not to do it was promoting it's use.

I simply refuse to patronize when talking to younger people about drugs. Not all drugs are equal in terms to detrimental effects. When adults and the media try and paint pot use as the same as cocoaine or heroine, the kids don't believe their claims and therefore don't trust anything they say when it comes to drugs. Also, admitting to past drug use doesn't invalidate an opinion to NOT do them. If anything, it gives the former user more experience and credibility in the subject.

If government agencies and parent groups would just be honest about each drug and have an real conversation about them, they would get much more respect from teenagers and more would listen to them.

[Typhoid]

He'll survive as long as it's not crunchy.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I didn't know telling him not to do it was promoting it's use.

I think Bond meant promoting the cheap way of making exams/reports etc.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Angrist

I think Bond meant promoting the cheap way of making exams/reports etc.

Hardly cheap. Just smart. In today's college campuses you have two choices:

1) Voice your own opinion, defend it well, and still get average grades for "daring" to challenge the great all-powerful professor's world view

or

2) Be his parrot, work half as hard, and get all A's

If I thought I could get the same grades challenging the opinion of the professor, I would do just that. Having 7 years of undergrad and graduate work under my belt, you can be assure you will RARELY be rewarded for displaying an open mind.

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I'm a genius, motherfucker!

Well, I was smart enough to use my powers of observation to determine each of my professor's personal bias' and attitudes, and then I simply mirrored them in my class discussions and papers. There is nothing a professor likes more than to have their ego validated by their student repeating their opinions back to them. It is far more important that your professors like you than it is that you actually excel at your studies. Especially when you're a graduate of the arts, and not the sciences.

That and I'm a fucking genius.

You know, I find this to be very true and it's probably one of the more frustrating things about education. My 9th grade history teacher was the biggest prick, and if you didn't totally follow his ideas and basically give him a handjob, he would give you a bad grade. I failed my mid-term exam because I basically went head on against him, and whether my ideas were good or not, he failed me, and it was ridiculous. Then for the final exam I played into his game and I got an A on the final. When he hands back the paper he gives this asshole grin, like he knew exactly what he was doing...So annoying...

Luckily I go/went to a more liberal college where I believe this happens less, though I'm sure it still happens. I don't know, I just think I don't really learn much if I'm just jerking off my professor, but yeah, I guess you have to give it up for the grades.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by The Germanator

Luckily I go/went to a more liberal college where I believe this happens less, though I'm sure it still happens..

Germ, I hate to say this, but it was the liberal professors I had to jerk off the most. I had one that was an open communist, and I had the gall to argue against socialism in one paper, and he gave me nothing but praise in his comments but I still only got a C+. I learned my lesson and got nothing but A's from him then on out.

You can "fight the power" all you want, but in a scholoastic environment you may as well be headbutting a brick wall. Argue with your professor, accomplish nothing, cause yourself grief, and you get nothing but grades far below what you deserve.

Tickle his balls a little, make your life easy, get great grades, and then cash them in for a career you enjoy.

Easy decision.

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Germ, I hate to say this, but it was the liberal professors I had to jerk off the most. I had one that was an open communist, and I had the gall to argue against socialism in one paper, and he gave me nothing but praise in his comments but I still only got a C+. I learned my lesson and got nothing but A's from him then on out.

You can "fight the power" all you want, but in a scholoastic environment you may as well be headbutting a brick wall. Argue with your professor, accomplish nothing, cause yourself grief, and you get nothing but grades far below what you deserve.

Tickle his balls a little, make your life easy, get great grades, and then cash them in for a career you enjoy.

Easy decision.

I don't necessarily mean that the professors are liberal, but the school and curriculum are. For example, we actually don't receive letter grades unless we ask for them. You receive written evaluations from the professors instead. This at least helps the grade mongering a bit. Some say it hurts if and when you apply to graduate school, but the grades can be reexamined and managed. Anyway, not having that letter grade either lets you slack off more, or maybe makes you just concentrate on the work and not that letter or GPA...I don't know, it works okay for me.