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[Reudh]

This is halfway a sad and a RRRAAAAGE moment.

Travelled two and a bit hours across the city to get to my five hour long peer mentoring lab class.

Got there.

All first years were there within the first 10 minutes, but one who got her train cancelled, then stuck in traffic, then got lost and headed to Avalon instead of Stabbies.

There were supposed to be as many third years as first, but NONE showed up. Our professor hunted around for them before giving up and just giving us the raw data for the assignment and leaving. It was an hour and a half into the class, and poor old REDACTED had just shown up only to be told "Here is the data, have fun." She fumed because she'd used $50 of petrol just getting to uni...

and I felt for her. I was annoyed too, but one bright spot was one of my pretty female friends drove me home.

[Heron TSG]

I just had a huge arguement with my mum and dad. When my dad tried to shake my hand and make peace I couldn't because of mild OCD. He mistook it for being disgusted with him just working out and being all sweaty, so he tried to grab me, just playing around. Cue me screaming DON'T at the top of my lungs over and over and feeling like a monster when I saw his face. I can't stop crying.

Did you get a chance to explain it to him? It would seem fairly strange at the time if he didn't know or forgot about your OCD. I'm sure he'll understand.

[kaijyuu]

I just had a huge arguement with my mum and dad. When my dad tried to shake my hand and make peace I couldn't because of mild OCD. He mistook it for being disgusted with him just working out and being all sweaty, so he tried to grab me, just playing around. Cue me screaming DON'T at the top of my lungs over and over and feeling like a monster when I saw his face. I can't stop crying.

D:

I give you all the internet hugs, man. If you're okay with that.

I hate family misunderstandings and arguments like that.

[miauw62]

Same here, i hate when that shit happens.

[Nadaka]

Was up till 4am with tooth pain. Mother gave me one of the pain pills they give her for where her neck never healed right. She does not take them, because if she did, she would never wake up long enough to take the other pills she needs or feed herself or do anything really. They don't seem to affect me that strongly, but half the day is gone already and I don't think I am up for driving in to work today.

[Jopax]

There was a long and ranty post here, but I decided to get rid of it, I guess writing it down made me realize how silly it was. Still, parents, can't live with them, can't really live without them :/

[Lord Shonus]

Disclaimer: If you wanna feel happy at the moment, do not read this. This is horrible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

...
Why the dear fuck would they follow those orders? I guess this clears up any doubts about the results of the Milgram experiment.

Police state mentality :/

Hardly. You get to be a manager in a chain establishment of that sort by being willing to follow orders from corporate HQ. This means that, as a class, such positions are usually filled by subservient folks that obey Authority instinctively. This is most prevalent in small communities, where the chain leadership pays much more attention (in a city, any given chain will have multiple locations, so it's not too damaging if one screws up. If you only have one McDonalds or Stop and Go location in a town, that location is the company to the populace in that region.) In other words, the caller deliberately picked establishments where he knew that the managers would be highly inclined to obey someone they believed to be the Law.

[MaximumZero]

Disclaimer: If you wanna feel happy at the moment, do not read this. This is horrible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

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Why the dear fuck would they follow those orders? I guess this clears up any doubts about the results of the Milgram experiment.

Police state mentality :/

Hardly. You get to be a manager in a chain establishment of that sort by being willing to follow orders from corporate HQ. This means that, as a class, such positions are usually filled by subservient folks that obey Authority instinctively. This is most prevalent in small communities, where the chain leadership pays much more attention (in a city, any given chain will have multiple locations, so it's not too damaging if one screws up. If you only have one McDonalds or Stop and Go location in a town, that location is the company to the populace in that region.) In other words, the caller deliberately picked establishments where he knew that the managers would be highly inclined to obey someone they believed to be the Law.

People are fucking morons.

[kaijyuu]

As long as submission to authority for submission's sake is seen as a sort of virtue, they will continue to be.


I distinctly recall about 10 years ago, I was in a sunday school class, and the teacher of all people had to convince the rest of us religious kids that you shouldn't do whatever people in authority tell you to. The example he used was Bill Clinton (as one you shouldn't submit to, because this was a religion class), and one of the kids vehemently disagreed the entire time. He was raised in a family where you do whta people above you say, no matter what, and that was supposed to be a good thing.

Makes me sick nowadays to think about it.

[freeformschooler]

Wow, I suddenly realize I don't know fucking everything and, in fact, am nowhere near the "logical genius" I thought I could live up to. Two weeks in and I'm pulling ~76% in chem, somewhere around ~85% in math and... I guess 95-100% in all my humanities and writing courses.

Honestly, I thought I was a nerd. A real computery, mathy nerd. You know, programmer type. But my first hint should have been that I can't stand programming, am easily confused by higher math and just generally hate logic-intensive subjects. In essence, I am the very portrait of my Meyers-Briggs personality type. I want to help people, not stare at a computer in a dark room all day. OH GOD WHAT DO I DO IM NOT AS SMART AS MY BLOATED TEENAGE EGO LED ME TO BELIEEEEVE.

[Shinotsa]

Wow, I suddenly realize I don't know fucking everything and, in fact, am nowhere near the "logical genius" I thought I could live up to. Two weeks in and I'm pulling ~76% in chem, somewhere around ~85% in math and... I guess 95-100% in all my humanities and writing courses.

Honestly, I thought I was a nerd. A real computery, mathy nerd. You know, programmer type. But my first hint should have been that I can't stand programming, am easily confused by higher math and just generally hate logic-intensive subjects. In essence, I am the very portrait of my Meyers-Briggs personality type. I want to help people, not stare at a computer in a dark room all day. OH GOD WHAT DO I DO IM NOT AS SMART AS MY BLOATED TEENAGE EGO LED ME TO BELIEEEEVE.

Blame the education system teaching to the lowest common denominator.

Funny enough your situation reminds me of my Social Psych professor's story of when he went to grad school he realized that he was just average when compared to the rest of the grad students. It's a shock to have your ego messed with, that's for sure. But it kinda takes some pressure off to realize you're human. Do the best you can and be happy knowing that you did.

Also, suck up to professors

[ChairmanPoo]

It's actually much simpler than that: smarts only get you so far by themselves. In uni you'll realize that to get good marks your wits will help, but won't equal a "get out of hard work" free card anymore.

[Tellemurius]

It's actually much simpler than that: smarts only get you so far by themselves. In uni you'll realize that to get good marks your wits will help, but won't equal a "get out of hard work" free card anymore.

this

I had to finish a 750 word essay for history in one night already, 6 pages of notes from english 101 which i have once a week, im literally playing classical music everyday for assignments in Music, and now im under pressure to join a club next week -_____-

[i2amroy]

It's actually much simpler than that: smarts only get you so far by themselves. In uni you'll realize that to get good marks your wits will help, but won't equal a "get out of hard work" free card anymore.

I don't know about that. I find that the difference isn't so much that smarts can't get you out of the hard work, it's more that the professors no longer teach you everything in the class, expecting you to learn some of the things yourself by reading the book, etc. As such being intelligent will still get you out of hard work, it's just that many intelligent people never had to do anything outside of class before (as opposed to high achievers, who are the people working their butts off outside of class to get the 100%'s), where the majority of people have already been studying out of class so they are used to it.

You can think of it like this: If an intelligent person only needs to work on something for 50% of the time as a normal person to understand it, then in lower education they can get by without studying because the average person might spend a total of 1 hour studying for every 1 hour in class (2 hours x .5 = 1 hour, which can be done in class). When you get to college the workload has finally increased to the point where .5x the workload is greater then the amount of class time (i.e. 3 hours studying + 1 hour in-class = 4 hours; 4 x .5 = 2; 2>1). As such intelligent people have to go from 0 to a small number of hours of studying, which is a much more shocking change then going from 12 hours of study time a week to 18.

[SirAaronIII]

Blargh I don't want to go real-life rafting I can't cast magic what if goblins jump on the boat
I'm just being silly. Doesn't change that I don't wanna go, though.