School Sucks

[REDVAN]

Hey everyone,

Just went back to university (of Calgary) today. I have 3 500 level cores (4th year), 1 400 level core, and 1 300 level option.

My schedule goes from 9am to 7pm. With some breaks between nearly every class. Brutal set-up!

So here's a thread for ranting about how much you dislike your classes, your schedule, or your program!

I know other post-secondary started a week ago... so got any complaints yet?

[Jayems]

What if I really like my program... can I still post?

My schedule is pretty lax this year... I only have 4 courses, but 1 is a 5 credit one that requires an exorbitant amount of work, and another is extremely in-depth with projects etc...

I did manage to get into a physed class (PHED 1215 - MRC) that you just go do activities, and for 1 class in the year, you have to teach students how to participate in the activity. I've got "innertube water polo" I get credit for this? Sweet.

[corporatejay]

3 days a week I have a 3 hour+ break. I live about a 5 minute drive from school so no big deal on the days I drive, but on the days I don't......ugh, the bus is just a pain in derriere.

How much is parking in lot 10 now??? Lot 32? UofA's rates are ridicurous.

[STeeLy]

I started a week ago back at Carleton... Things aren't doing so bad... I'm part time schooling to catch up to second year... 3 courses this semester... fairly relaxed... no complaints so far...

but I'm sure there will be later on about all the labs I have to do for these 3 classes.

[evman150]

I started on the 3rd at UVic. Just ridiculous. I have only three classes but they're toughies. An upper level Astronomy, a graduate Astronomy and a upper Ethics class.

And I have a three hour break between classes on Monday and Thursday and only one class on TWF. And I take the bus both ways so going home isn't an option.

[CaptainCrunch]

You damned kids and your complaining about school.

My school was a work camp and we lugged coal up a hill all day long, and then carried the burning coal up another hill.

Lunch was from 12 to 12:05 and we don't know what it was but it was hot, brown and gave you gas.

Physed class involved carrying bigger lumps of coal up a mountain.

Then we had to take a marketing course which consisted of us doing hundreds of cold calls under the fear of the lash.

So there we were everyday, black from coal dust trudging up the mountain while passing gas and making phonecalls.

You punks have it easy.

[gottabekd]

I can't complain too much...of my four lectures, two junior first year classes (GEOG and ANTH), Business Ethics (well see what that is about today. Seems like an oxymoron). Oh, and last one is The Music of Led Zeppelin. If you ask me...pretty lax semester to graduate on...

[Ironhorse]

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.


-- With apologies to Monty Python's.

[disco_inferno]

I go 9-noon, or 930-1230 every day, and 4/5 classes have 3 hour labs all running 2-5, but..they alternate weeks!!!

so i dont HATE school, i do, however hate a class on SOIL MECHANICS...what the point of that is (espically to a mining guy who won't build anything)...this still beats the 7 classes both terms of last year.

[CaptainCrunch]

Hey Fotze, I think you misspelled P$%^ in your signature, I think your missing a %

[toonmaster]

Originally Posted by fotze

Is Dr. Wong teaching?

he's teaching my applied geotech course this semester, as for soil mechanics, i'm going to guess its Dr.Wan?

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You damned kids and your complaining about school.

My school was a work camp and we lugged coal up a hill all day long, and then carried the burning coal up another hill.

Lunch was from 12 to 12:05 and we don't know what it was but it was hot, brown and gave you gas.

Physed class involved carrying bigger lumps of coal up a mountain.

Then we had to take a marketing course which consisted of us doing hundreds of cold calls under the fear of the lash.

So there we were everyday, black from coal dust trudging up the mountain while passing gas and making phonecalls.

You punks have it easy.

Luxury.

[J pold]

3 courses 3 days a week with only one really though class…God I hate accounting but other than that school is cool

[Russic]

I've been out of school for 2 years now and I've never been happier. I actually work at the uofc right now and seeing the hordes of students return just makes me so pleased to not be among them anymore. Everybody told me to live it up and enjoy the best years of my life. Personally I much prefer the working world. I hated school . . . i've never been so stressed about things that mattered so little in all my life.

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Blah blah blah I am pretending to be old

I always wondered how old you really are, and now I wonder if you have a post-secondary education, or are you just yapping?

[Rathji]

My schedule is pretty good, but one 5 hour break every Thursday is gonna suck. Friday makes up for it though with a single class! Even noticed a Cal puck poster in the first row of my Phil 379 class yesterday, so all is not lost.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

I always wondered how old you really are, and now I wonder if you have a post-secondary education, or are you just yapping?

Older then dirt, and yes I have a post secondary education.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by Russic

I've been out of school for 2 years now and I've never been happier. I actually work at the uofc right now and seeing the hordes of students return just makes me so pleased to not be among them anymore. Everybody told me to live it up and enjoy the best years of my life. Personally I much prefer the working world. I hated school . . . i've never been so stressed about things that mattered so little in all my life.

That really should be the takeaway for every student complaining about their student life. In reality the marginal percentage point on an exam/paper/assignment means so very little in the big scheme of things that I find it very comical to hear about student grievances. Like their concerns should somehow be as important to governments as national defence, health care, etc.

Another thing that bothers me is when UofC/UofL/UofA students complain about tuition costs. The real cost of education is multiple times more than what students pay in tuition, plus if one actually cares enough about school to bother getting a decent GPA the province will give them a few grand in bursararies (We're not talking only high achievers here, Jason Lang scholarship anyone! plus many more ). In other words compared to many other places in the world students here are already getting an amazing deal.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

That really should be the takeaway for every student complaining about their student life. In reality the marginal percentage point on an exam/paper/assignment means so very little in the big scheme of things that I find it very comical to hear about student grievances. Like their concerns should somehow be as important to governments as national defence, health care, etc.

Another thing that bothers me is when UofC/UofL/UofA students complain about tuition costs. The real cost of education is multiple times more than what students pay in tuition, plus if one actually cares enough about school to bother getting a decent GPA the province will give them a few grand in bursararies (We're not talking only high achievers here, Jason Lang scholarship anyone! plus many more ). In other words compared to many other places in the world students here are already getting an amazing deal.

Agreed. And in the grand scheme of things, lack of finances aside, being a student isn't such a bad lifestyle. Lots of flexibility to set your own schedule, attend class as you see fit, plenty of scenery walking the halls, etc. etc. Overall I didn't mind being a student. That being said, I wouldn't give up my current pay-cheque to go back. But I also work in a post-secondary institution, so I may have the best of both worlds.....

[Torture]

Only taking 4 courses (At UofC) this year because I've heard that the ones I'm taking are a lot of work.

Acct 317
MGIS 317
MKTG 317
Aaand GOPH 375 to keep the GPA up

Not too bad a schedule this semester either...start every day at 11 with 2 classes each day.