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General => General Chat => Topic started by: Slim on March 04, 2009, 06:51:47 pm
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Why is there always one no it all jack ass in every university lecture / tutorial?
Have started a bachelors degree in Defence Studies at Massey. (Turns out recessions reduce job prospects for unskilled, un-educated people.) The class is pretty cool, bout 6 Kippenburger officer cadets, few ex military guys and some random arts students. But there is this one know it all random "look at my massive collection of guns" guys who goes home at night and watches DVD's of tanks. I just want to hit him right in the jaw.
But its not just now. In almost every class I have ever had there is always one guy that just has to try and get one up on the lecturer, interrupt classes, argue with classmates in a non-constructive way, make loud stupid jokes that no one gets and are just general weirdoes.
Is this just an arts thing, or are they in all classes? Anyone else had any esperiences with these kind of people?
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yeah, look in the bf2 area here, its full of them
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Why is there always one no it all jack ass in every university lecture / tutorial?
Have started a bachelors degree in Defence Studies at Massey. (Turns out recessions reduce job prospects for unskilled, un-educated people.) The class is pretty cool, bout 6 Kippenburger officer cadets, few ex military guys and some random arts students. But there is this one know it all random "look at my massive collection of guns" guys who goes home at night and watches DVD's of tanks. I just want to hit him right in the jaw.
But its not just now. In almost every class I have ever had there is always one guy that just has to try and get one up on the lecturer, interrupt classes, argue with classmates in a non-constructive way, make loud stupid jokes that no one gets and are just general weirdoes.
Is this just an arts thing, or are they in all classes? Anyone else had any esperiences with these kind of people?
I fuckin hate that guy...I call him: Me
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theres one in every class during every level of education
normaly the completely up themselves retards who think they are great but end up failing hard
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Yeah, in my experience they fail early and leave.
Oh yes, douches fail.
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during my electrotechnology class at unitech, there was this one chap who was like that his name was... i dont know what his name was. but we nicknamed him Angus. mainly because he kept bitching about how the class was always having fun, and how the teacher isnt doing a good job teaching.
most of us passed, he just managed to scrape through.
There was this one lecturer called Nigel, at unitech. Fuckin really good teacher. Explained everything clearly with a practical real world senario. This angus guy contacts the head of department and complains about him. the teacher evaluation cards get passed out, and what do you know, everything BA>
no one liked him. And thus, classes did everythign together but didnt invite him.
what a dick head
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Lecturers encouraged students to argue with them in classes I took. Some classes were spent entirely arguing an aside point. Despite this, these classes were always popular and waitlisted at university.
The pass rate remained high, and the experiences were one of my more enjoyable at uni. I read the rationale behind [it] is:
That it forces you to better your argument by increasing your own level of knowledge in order to win.
I think our forum trolls give a fine example of this. They seem to live to pick and refresh the webpage in order to pick up some pedantic point they can Google. They are tenacious, whereas probably a lot of us just cbf doing the research and work.
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during my electrotechnology class at unitech, there was this one chap who was like that his name was... i dont know what his name was. but we nicknamed him Angus. mainly because he kept bitching about how the class was always having fun, and how the teacher isnt doing a good job teaching.
most of us passed, he just managed to scrape through.
There was this one lecturer called Nigel, at unitech. Fuckin really good teacher. Explained everything clearly with a practical real world senario. This angus guy contacts the head of department and complains about him. the teacher evaluation cards get passed out, and what do you know, everything BA>
no one liked him. And thus, classes did everythign together but didnt invite him.
what a dick head
I have a kid like that in some of my classes, but his name IS Angus and instead of nicknaming him Angus we call him "anus"
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It's the pricks who ask the smart arsed questions that they already know the answer to that pissed me off. Wasting the classes time just to try and impress the class, sorta like Jordy does here.
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Is this just an arts thing, or are they in all classes? Anyone else had any esperiences with these kind of people?
All classes anywhere.
Sometimes it's actually a good thing though, such as smegmacheese has already pointed out.
Sometimes they are fail early dropouts because they think they're better than they are.
Other times they're only annoying because they interrupt the flow of the lecture. They ask relevant and probing questions... but it's just the quantity. A good lecture can be like a river ride. You can go down smoothly and take in all the scenery... or you can go down and hit every fucking rock on the way...
I had a lecturer who used to ramble all class on tangets... and when he finally got back to his notes it would be a case of flicking through them going "already covered that, already talked about that... done that..."
I actually really enjoyed his lectures. Others found it really shit, because the ramble style made them switch off when he started on his tangent, and thus they missed all the cleverly disguised pearls of wisdom.
They are tenacious, whereas probably a lot of us just cbf doing the research and work.
Some of us troll because we cbf doing work.
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I am first year at Canty uni. It's only a few weeks in and hardly anyone has said a peep. Admittedly some of the lectures are really massive. But the tuts have just started, so things will change soon enough.
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lol, first year.
Such such such a good time.
I got kicked out of R&R :(
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Havnt had any in 2nd or 3rd year papers at Auckland uni. Maybe its just 1st year papers or your uni?
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They're a little less common at uni, I only had one in one out of all the classes I did. Unfortunately he was in about 3 papers that I did. Fortunately he wasn't all that annoying at all, and often asked good questions.
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one of my older brothers has done the exact same thing, was in the territorials at the time. now currently in the police.
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Probably the reason he is tbh. So he has the 'authority' on his side when he says "yes it is!" when really it's not.
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I am first year at Canty uni. It's only a few weeks in and hardly anyone has said a peep. Admittedly some of the lectures are really massive. But the tuts have just started, so things will change soon enough.
You doing engineering?
I'm first year at Canty....again. Doing Fine Arts though, so smaller classes, no one says in anything in lectures, because our lecturer won't shut up lol, but tutorials and studio is great for discussion. A lot better than CompSci.
Havnt had any in 2nd or 3rd year papers at Auckland uni. Maybe its just 1st year papers or your uni?
Yea I had a few in my 100level papers when I was doing CompSci (computer nerds are dicks :P ), but my 200 level Maths papers were all good. Fine Arts is better as well.
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Watch out for man students - they love to interrupt. I'm second year at Canterbury.
Pyro... of all the halls, you got kicked out of R&R? how in hell did you manage that? *sits down for epic story of drunken action*
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Probably the reason he is tbh. So he has the 'authority' on his side when he says "yes it is!" when really it's not.
I think Chef was referring to the qual (Defence Studies).
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Ive got a fag like that in my class who always annoys my awesome economics teacher, well the other day this dick started choking and he was seriously sick and he asked my teacher if he could get a drink of water
My teacher said 'yes' and wen he stood up (still choking) he said 'no sit down'
and made him choke for the rest of the time
ROFL teaches him right.
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Havnt had any in 2nd or 3rd year papers at Auckland uni. Maybe its just 1st year papers or your uni?
Maybe peole just drop out after 1st year ?
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*sits down for epic story of drunken action*
That IS the story.
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yeah, look in the bf2 area here, its full of them
Well played, good sir.
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I like watching DVD's of tanks
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They have a Massey in Perth?
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No, I'm pretty sure that means Slim is not only back, he's probably in Palmy.
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I am first year at Canty uni. It's only a few weeks in and hardly anyone has said a peep. Admittedly some of the lectures are really massive. But the tuts have just started, so things will change soon enough.
It'll happen at some point. You'll get some older students (30,40,50+ers) who sit there arguing everything with the lecturer and always trying to be smart. There's been some hilarious Letters to the Ed in Canta last year singling out people who do it.
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I'm one of those 40+ ppl that will argue with tutors, especially when I find out that they have no real life experience in what they are teaching...
When I started my IT career we had a guy in our 'group' who thought PC's were a waste of time and everyone should be using 'Amigas' as the tool of choice. He was a real 'Angus' as well, thought he knew everything and all those around him were wrong. He is still kept in a dark room programming away as no-one can work with him.....
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On a side note, what job are you hoping to get from doing the defense studies course, i was looking at doing it but unless your going to be in the armed forces its not much help, is it?
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Academics thrive on analysing situations they'll never be in.
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I remember sex ed at school from the fattest and most unlikely teacher in the school to ever actually have sex.
"Boys there are two types of men in this world, wankers and liars and you're no exception Jimocles"
and that was pretty much it.
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lol, bl.
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On a side note, what job are you hoping to get from doing the defense studies course, i was looking at doing it but unless your going to be in the armed forces its not much help, is it?
Well put it this way. In otago i was doing a BA majoring, at various points, history, politics and english. There were probably close to 4000 people at some point in the 3 year degree. At Massey, there are maybe 15 people in my year doing a Bachelor of Defence, and half of those are officer cadets. i had a chat with one of my lecturers today who is an officer, and is trying to understand the influx of civilians. He told me there is quite a nice niche in Wellington for policy analysts.
But by my thinking there are the following jobs/careers:
- Policy analyst of other government type job
- Civilian employee within the defence force, which is quite common
- Pure academia
- Actually just join the army
- Journalism
- Writer for journals, magazines, books etc
- My dream job: Working in a video game, film or television company as a researcher/adviser in terms of military or historical accuracy.
- Private security contractors - a huge global market.
Some of these jobs are far fetched I know, but I am a lot more excited and confident about my career prospects that I was when i was just another BA clone.
The course isn't just pure military studies. It also comprises of history, politics, law, logistics and philosophy. I really think it makes you stand out a bit from the crowd.
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I remember sex ed at school from the fattest and most unlikely teacher in the school to ever actually have sex.
"Boys there are two types of men in this world, wankers and liars and you're no exception Jimocles"
and that was pretty much it.
At least he didn't say you were both.
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Zarkov is the one in this class.
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I'm the brainiac.
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But you're a cat
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All i remember from when I did my degree is the drinking.
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All i remember from when I did my degree is the drinking.
Student loan well spent eh plas? :P
awww 1338 posts :D
anyway, end of the day for me :D so you guys have a good friday night :chuckle:
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All i remember from when I did my degree is the drinking.
That's why i didn't do a degree, so I could focus more on the drinking!
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one of my older brothers has done the exact same thing, was in the territorials at the time. now currently in the police.
Probably the reason he is tbh. So he has the 'authority' on his side when he says "yes it is!" when really it's not.
you neg rep me because my brother chose the police..after doing time in the army? sigh.
he simply felt that he would do more good for New Zealand being in the police.
when there are still shortages of police...you best change your attitude pyro. im sure you wouldnt be saying that if someone broke into your house...stole all your shit, you bank details and left a few death threats to boot.
sorry for raging everybody, but pyro...your fucking ignorant
:cussing:
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*waits for you're pic* :asian:
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*waits for you're pic* :asian:
like this one?
(http://ed.bloghi.com/img.hi?id=11889)
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I think our forum trolls give a fine example of this. They seem to live to pick and refresh the webpage in order to pick up some pedantic point they can Google. They are tenacious, whereas probably a lot of us just cbf doing the research and work.
Necromancers (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/necromancer.htm) and Archivists (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/archivist.htm) are good for this too.
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god danm you TIWA isnt their a dead steak in your freezer you should be shagging rather than necro'ing long dead threads
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