Dat Dude
Dennis Stamp
Wait, what?
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Post by Dat Dude on Feb 22, 2012 21:58:15 GMT -5
In my animation course in college, we were told that the student with the highest grade at the end of the course would land a internship at a local video game company (Volition). The head of the animation program apparently had connections with the company. At the end of the year I had busted my butt and got the highest grade. But when a Volition employee came by to do a guest lecture they said they didn't have any openings for interns.
To add salt in the wounds, every major at the college had an internship course, and that was what was advertised when I applied for the college. Well starting on the year that I enrolled, the one lone Major (computer animation) was the only one they didn't have it and it was the one I had picked. Long story short, I got zero assistance from the college in getting an internship in my field. I had traveled for months across the country, looked and applied for ones myself, with no success. So my associated degree in animation is just about equal to toilet paper.
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Post by Bone Daddy on Feb 22, 2012 22:03:45 GMT -5
I think learning cursive IS important. Gotta be able to sign all those checks
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 22, 2012 22:40:05 GMT -5
Just to make a point, but if you are someone who submits papers to journals for publication the writer's instructions often include a requirement to use two spaces. Fail to follow any individual instruction and your submission get rejected (not that your submissions don't get rejected once or twice anyways, but another rejection for something stupid is just infuriating). What? That makes no sense. Why would an actual journal, as in the people who pretty much set typography rules, require two spaces? There is literally no reason for two spaces if you're not using a typewriter. Why do they do that? It is a matter of personal style by the journal. Each journal has their own set of rules for how a proper submission should look. Granted, I would be shocked if a submission is rejected purely for that reason, but if you can't even get their spacing rules right they would probably find something wrong with your submission.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 22, 2012 22:42:52 GMT -5
I think learning cursive IS important. Gotta be able to sign all those checks How many checks were you signing in third grade?
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Dub H
Crow T. Robot
Captain Pixel: the Game Master
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Post by Dub H on Feb 22, 2012 22:55:36 GMT -5
i think this is somehow relevant:(big size) {Spoiler}
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 22, 2012 23:00:16 GMT -5
Skittles are AIDS? What the hell JR, pushing AIDS to WWE fans.
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fw91
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by fw91 on Feb 22, 2012 23:00:29 GMT -5
yeah learning cursive is a crock of shit. you'll never use it
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 22, 2012 23:01:10 GMT -5
I'll echo the "you won't be able to use calculators in college" one. Yes, I know people had to learn how to do derivatives and had to use log tables in the past, but even the basic math we got to use a calculator for.
Hell, in most science classes, I didn't have to memorize a single formula, unless it was a basic permutation of other formulas. The chemistry and physics classes didn't exist to make me memorize formulas. They existed to teach me concepts and how to use them.
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mizerable
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by mizerable on Feb 22, 2012 23:17:56 GMT -5
I actually had one of those "hip" teachers who thought it would be great to actually include history that isn't normally taught. So we learned about 10,000 years of Native Americans in U.S. History class, which I wouldn't normally complain about except;
1. The class was called U.S. History and a lot of the things he was talking about didn't really matter, especially since he used it as a blanket topic to also cover world religion, stereotypes/race relations etc etc.
2. He spent so much time just doing this that we didn't have time to cover Reconstruction or World War I, because "they weren't that important anyways".
The guy was a football coach (a lousy one at that, we didn't win for the 2 years that he was coach) and he was a complete idiot. Not only that, but he was such a bullshitter. He claimed that he was part of the Civil Rights movement even though he was too young and lived his entire life in the north. When someone confronted him on this, he responded with "Were you there?". The guy was an absolute joke, he even tried to give me a 0 on a poster because it wasn't colored, despite being heavily detailed. Luckily, I threatened to go above his head and he said he'd give me another day on it, if I colored it.
Just one of the many idiot teachers I had over the years.
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WWHHHD
Unicron
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Post by WWHHHD on Feb 22, 2012 23:42:49 GMT -5
I think learning cursive IS important. Gotta be able to sign all those checks I sign my name in regular print. They still cash my checks.
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Post by B'Cup x on Feb 23, 2012 5:36:48 GMT -5
My drivers ed teacher told me that parallel parking was a very important skill. I have never parallel parked once since I got my license. really? assuming parallel parking is the same thing as reverse parking, I have to do it all the time. do you live somewhere with a lot of parking lots/drive ways? x
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mcd
Don Corleone
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Post by mcd on Feb 23, 2012 7:13:23 GMT -5
My drivers ed teacher told me that parallel parking was a very important skill. I have never parallel parked once since I got my license. really? assuming parallel parking is the same thing as reverse parking, I have to do it all the time. do you live somewhere with a lot of parking lots/drive ways? x I have rarely had the need to parallel park myself. About the only time it was useful (and I had to basically relearn) was my time in Germany, and even then it wasn't too often. I was pretty lucky to have decent teachers. Even in our tiny-ass school, (I graduated with 15 classmates) the material was as decent as they could afford, and we are talking 486 computers at a time; 95, that other schools were miles ahead on cirriculum and equipment.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 23, 2012 7:42:10 GMT -5
When writing avoid using the word "said" as much as possible and instead use descriptive words like "exclaimed", "shouted", "yelled", "murmured", "bellowed", "ejaculated", "snarled" etc as much as possible.
Turns out when I start writing, that is something that you should not do and that it's the norm to mainly use said rather than the descriptive terms. Thanks school!
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 23, 2012 8:58:02 GMT -5
When writing avoid using the word "said" as much as possible and instead use descriptive words like "exclaimed", "shouted", "yelled", "murmured", "bellowed", "ejaculated", "snarled" etc as much as possible. Turns out when I start writing, that is something that you should not do and that it's the norm to mainly use said rather than the descriptive terms. Thanks school! I'd say your mostly right about that, but it also kind of depends. In a newspaper article for instance, you almost always use "said." However, for creative writing and stuff like that you can mix it up a bit more, but it is still good to use said a lot. Otherwise changing the word just for the sake of changing the word gets distracting.
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Post by dlg3000 on Feb 23, 2012 12:22:30 GMT -5
Columbus discovered America. The Native Americans, then the Vikings, then the Portuguese I believe discovered America. So why did Columbus get all of the credit?
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JLAJRC
Don Corleone
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Post by JLAJRC on Feb 23, 2012 12:58:04 GMT -5
That algebra was important. HAHAHAHA.
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JLAJRC
Don Corleone
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Post by JLAJRC on Feb 23, 2012 12:59:38 GMT -5
I think learning cursive IS important. Gotta be able to sign all those checks That's the only time I ever really use cursive, is signing my name on checks/birthday cards/documents (which for some reason want your name in BOTH cursive and print).
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 23, 2012 13:14:37 GMT -5
That algebra was important. HAHAHAHA. Math in general. I have only ever had to use basic adding and subtracting since leaving graduating high school.
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JLAJRC
Don Corleone
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Post by JLAJRC on Feb 23, 2012 13:28:38 GMT -5
That algebra was important. HAHAHAHA. Math in general. I have only ever had to use basic adding and subtracting since leaving graduating high school. Really? How do you balance of checkpoint/money? I do use a calculator, but for the easy basics I can simply do it in my head/piece of scrap paper.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Feb 23, 2012 13:31:33 GMT -5
I got the permanent record bit, too.
I also got the "prepare you for high school/prepare you for college" bit.
Acid rain was going to destroy everything, we were heading for another ice age, and a massive earthquake could strike any day, with the teacher being kind enough to point out structural weaknesses in the school. Damn, is it any wonder I ended up having anxiety problems?
You have to decide in 8th grade what you want to do with your life and begin preparing for it immediately, that way you can take the right courses in high school. Even though they only offered basic courses in high school, except for trade classes (auto mechanics, auto body, building trades, etc.)
And of course, I can't forget my elementary school lesson in race relations, which my teacher said with a smile, like it was all a big joke that everyone was in on: "We call them n*****s and they call us honkies."
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