College sucks. But...holy shit you have Chad on your LJ...Chad is...mm.
Anyways, something that confused me...14-year-olds are legal in Canada? Because here it's 17(18 or 16 in other states), and that limits me from seducing my brother's female friends with my rugged good looks and dashing attitude. It's very frustrating. :(
All I can say is just try to be patient. I'm guessing the bio lab professor was reviewing some theories to make sure everyone is on the the same page. It gets more challenging as you go further into the program.
Also, you'll notice that as you progress in university that more and more people are weeded out (as in not showing up to classes or dropping out); in most cases, whiny people are the first to go :P
You think having a scary asian teacher is bad? At least that makes that class more exciting. Try have an boring asian teacher who says the word "and" after every second word for macro-economics. The entire lecture is a giant run-on sentence! -_-zzz
Course load is fine. Busy, but it's the same as usual. My piano is...really falling behind...=_=
Thankfully I don't have any professors with weird accents, but they all kinda have monotone voices and like to turn off the lights (recipe for sleep!). T_T My Japanese teacher is intimidating, but at least she's very animated when talking. It's kinda funny. :D
I don't mind reviews - I need them. But I'd like to see the reviews be on material a little more, say, -recent-. :/ If you don't know what a hypothesis or a variable is, I don't think you should be in university.
You're scaring me for Japanese 150 next semester. o_o; Hopefully our prof is less... intimidating.
Anyway, I'm sure it will get at least a little better. I think uni's very fun and interesting so far (save Philosophy), but maybe that's just the differences in the types of classes we're taking (I'm in mostly arts, and are you in mostly science like I think you are?)
So far it's a lot of review. We've been going through te-form and counters...again. It's not too bad, at least a lot of people in my class who HAVE taken the prerequisite course are worse than I am. :P Good job Tajiri-sensei! *thumbs up* You've taught us well.
Uh, wait. What's your major? (Yeah, I'm in Science. Biosci.)
Hehe...I have an intimidating sensei as well. But she gets less intimidating the longer I have her class.
My sensei's worst quality is spending 2 minutes explaining why your answer was wrong, without telling you the right answer. goes something like this:
Me: kanji o kaite suru koto ga tokui narimashita. Mano-sensei: "Ah, tsugi..if you have this type sentence, you can't use that word in it. tokui does not fit there. It isn't the right type of word, so you have to use the right time word. Try. Again." Me: *stare of absolute horror* Mano-sensei: kanji o... Me: kanji o kaite suru koto ga... Mano-sensei: *looks condescending* jouzu ni... Me: jouzu ni narimashita.
Yeah, my sensei isn't so bad now. She has funny stories. :P My old sensei's bad habit was that she couldn't stop talking. We'd go ask a simple question and end up talking to her for an hour and a half.
The other day we had this teaching assistant (some 4th year student), and we were suppose to talk about our summer (wow. I've never had that kind of topic in school before). Anyway, she and M-san (the TA) starts blabbering in Japanese. Us students stare uneasily and try to catch the whole conversation. Almost ten minutes later, she ends the conversation, whips around to face us and says, "Okay. You get it. Do it exactly like that." Us: "O___O ...*chokes*"
It has been a disappointing experience thus far. Everyone makes it sound so awesome and now it's...like...what...T_____T
You need to give it a little longer than two days!
I'd also strongly recommend that you get involved in some clubs/societies. Going to class is only part of what the university experience is all about. Meeting people like yourself; meeting people totally different from yourself; learning life skills in a mostly safe environment; there's loads of non-academic stuff to get involved in. Take the opportunity.
Yeah, I've been looking at clubs. X| I'm also planning on starting indoor climbing, that should be fun. :D I'm finding it hard to meet people, and I guess that's making this a bit frustrating. I've -met- people, but not people I'd care to know better. So many people, it's ironic.
Clubs are only good to be president/VP/treasurer/secretary of, so that you can whack it on your resume and get lots of job interviews when you graduate.
What's fun is making friends, learning that you're just as easily influenced and demotivated as each other, then skipping lectures to grab food or a coffee. :)
Ceci, I can't believe you're at university. I feel so old. :(
Clubs are only good to be president/VP/treasurer/secretary of, so that you can whack it on your resume and get lots of job interviews when you graduate.
Disagree. Clubs are great in their own right for meeting like-minded people. Though I ended up dropping out of the ones I was in, for a variety of reasons. (I guess it was inevitable; being a member of clubs isn't exactly compatible with the whole "loner computer nerd" thing :-)
What's fun is making friends, learning that you're just as easily influenced and demotivated as each other, then skipping lectures to grab food or a coffee. :)
Didn't work for me; all my friends were motivated :-(
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Anyways, something that confused me...14-year-olds are legal in Canada? Because here it's 17(18 or 16 in other states), and that limits me from seducing my brother's female friends with my rugged good looks and dashing attitude. It's very frustrating. :(
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14 is the age of consent here. But I don't think that people 18+ can have sexual relations with minors. Sorry. :P
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Happy birthday! Grandpa. :D
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I'm guessing the bio lab professor was reviewing some theories to make sure everyone is on the the same page. It gets more challenging as you go further into the program.
Also, you'll notice that as you progress in university that more and more people are weeded out (as in not showing up to classes or dropping out); in most cases, whiny people are the first to go :P
You think having a scary asian teacher is bad? At least that makes that class more exciting. Try have an boring asian teacher who says the word "and" after every second word for macro-economics. The entire lecture is a giant run-on sentence! -_-zzz
By the way, how's your course load?
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My piano is...really falling behind...=_=
Thankfully I don't have any professors with weird accents, but they all kinda have monotone voices and like to turn off the lights (recipe for sleep!). T_T My Japanese teacher is intimidating, but at least she's very animated when talking. It's kinda funny. :D
I don't mind reviews - I need them. But I'd like to see the reviews be on material a little more, say, -recent-. :/
If you don't know what a hypothesis or a variable is, I don't think you should be in university.
How's your schedule going? :D
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Anyway, I'm sure it will get at least a little better. I think uni's very fun and interesting so far (save Philosophy), but maybe that's just the differences in the types of classes we're taking (I'm in mostly arts, and are you in mostly science like I think you are?)
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Uh, wait. What's your major?
(Yeah, I'm in Science. Biosci.)
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My sensei's worst quality is spending 2 minutes explaining why your answer was wrong, without telling you the right answer. goes something like this:
Me: kanji o kaite suru koto ga tokui narimashita.
Mano-sensei: "Ah, tsugi..if you have this type sentence, you can't use that word in it. tokui does not fit there. It isn't the right type of word, so you have to use the right time word. Try. Again."
Me: *stare of absolute horror*
Mano-sensei: kanji o...
Me: kanji o kaite suru koto ga...
Mano-sensei: *looks condescending* jouzu ni...
Me: jouzu ni narimashita.
And this happens at least twice every class.
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My old sensei's bad habit was that she couldn't stop talking. We'd go ask a simple question and end up talking to her for an hour and a half.
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The other day we had this teaching assistant (some 4th year student), and we were suppose to talk about our summer (wow. I've never had that kind of topic in school before).
Anyway, she and M-san (the TA) starts blabbering in Japanese. Us students stare uneasily and try to catch the whole conversation.
Almost ten minutes later, she ends the conversation, whips around to face us and says, "Okay. You get it. Do it exactly like that."
Us: "O___O ...*chokes*"
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You need to give it a little longer than two days!
I'd also strongly recommend that you get involved in some clubs/societies. Going to class is only part of what the university experience is all about. Meeting people like yourself; meeting people totally different from yourself; learning life skills in a mostly safe environment; there's loads of non-academic stuff to get involved in. Take the opportunity.
-Stephen
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I'm finding it hard to meet people, and I guess that's making this a bit frustrating. I've -met- people, but not people I'd care to know better. So many people, it's ironic.
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What's fun is making friends, learning that you're just as easily influenced and demotivated as each other, then skipping lectures to grab food or a coffee. :)
Ceci, I can't believe you're at university. I feel so old. :(
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Disagree. Clubs are great in their own right for meeting like-minded people. Though I ended up dropping out of the ones I was in, for a variety of reasons. (I guess it was inevitable; being a member of clubs isn't exactly compatible with the whole "loner computer nerd" thing :-)
What's fun is making friends, learning that you're just as easily influenced and demotivated as each other, then skipping lectures to grab food or a coffee. :)
Didn't work for me; all my friends were motivated :-(
-Stephen
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