Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

Originally Posted by Connemara

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History. I like my major and it's not really a part of the problem. The issue is all of these stupid ******* gen. ed. requirements. They are ruining my life, particularly Italian. I like the language but my instructor this quarter is a huge *************, a ****** teacher, and it all just sucks. I feel like I have a quarter's worth of work to do, but only 2-3 weeks to do it. I need to go somewhere secluded and yell for about 5 minutes, I'll feel better.
It's just part of school. Some professors are great, and even life changing in terms of their positive impact and some suck money's balls. I had a managment professor who said that Toyota and Lexus were not part of the same company. And when the class members expanded on the fact that Toyota Motor Corporation was the whole owner of Lexus, he still stated that we were incorrect. I reiterate that he was a business management professor. So I just and went on to finish the class as fast and with as little consequence to my life as possible. So, just deal with it. Does it sometimes suck and seem pointless? Yes. Is it sometimes actually pointless? Yes. But sometimes its worthwhile. Sometimes it's worth the effort to get past the pointless to acquire / achieve something meaningful. Look at it this way: at least you don't have to do any complex math.

Originally Posted by imageWIS

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My best advice is to find a good one night stand and just do it until she can no longer move; that should cheer you up a bit.
Yeah, I can't really do that at the moment because of where I am located, but I should be moving in a bit and then yes. Very yes.

Originally Posted by Connemara

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History. I like my major and it's not really a part of the problem. The issue is all of these stupid ******* gen. ed. requirements. They are ruining my life,
I feel your pain, I am done now thank god, I loved what I went there to study but all the other bullshit, I felt I had been conned, this wasn't advertised. The stuff you don't care about always seems to take twice as long, and never seems worth doing anyway. If I ever have to study the urinary tract of a fish again I will simply top myself.

Sick at work.

A fried of mine got married this weekend. He had a destination wedding, so everyone had to travel to attend. Some friends and I took this as an opportunity to have a mini-vacation, and we decided to rent a beach house. There were five people in the house: My wife, me, one of my best friends, his wife, and one of our mutual (single) guy friends. My wife and I have traveled with the couple in the past, and we've had some of the best trips. In fact, we plan to start traveling together more in the future, which is awesome because the guy is one of my two best friends in the world, and his wife and my wife get along great. We also live 500 miles apart, so trips are a great way to see a good friend I don't see often.

Now, the part that is pissing me off. The fifth wheel, the single guy, is a friend of ours from way back, and he was a complete idiot for most of the trip. To start, he was drunk before noon on the first morning. We all decided to go walk around the historic/shopping district, and we ended up having to watch him the whole time to make sure he didn't do something stupid. He also spends every moment we're downtown, including in shops and tourist areas around children, uttering streams of profanity that would make a sailor blush. My language can be pretty foul, but I have a sense for context. He, on the other hand, just let it rip. It got so bad that every person in our group had to take him aside and ask him to stop. Then, we all decide to go watch some football at a bar, and he takes us in circles for half an hour while using his iPhone GPS looking for a bar a local told us was across the water (about three miles from where he was leading us).

On to day two, the wedding. He is completely faced before the wedding even began. We had all been drinking for the better part of the day, but he somehow managed to be the only one who was out of control. He flat-out told me at the beginning of the reception that his plan was to annoy the bride and groom so much that it screwed up their wedding. He then starts banging his knife on his glass telling me that he was going to bug them as much as possible by making them kiss. A friend's wife had to take away his knife for the duration of the evening, and I had to sit with him and explain why I wasn't going to let him do this.

He also spent the better part of the weekend making fun of my clothes, particularly the suit/shirt/tie I was wearing to the wedding. Of course, he wore a button-down he'd picked up at Target on the drive and a pair of black pants.

So, that's what's pissing me off. I spent a month looking forward to a great weekend, and it wound up ruined because I had to babysit a 30 year old man. Now I'm back at work thinking about how disappointed I am over my weekend off, rather than how great the trip was.

Man, that'd piss me off too.

But right now I'm consumed by being pissed off at my headache and people who put me on speakerphone when they're the only one on the line.

b

I know I mentioned this already but ******* hell this prednisone is ******* with my GI so bad. *****, gas, more *****.

Worst of all, the prednisone seems to be getting less effective at solving what it was intended to solve (nasal polyps) as anosmia appears to be setting back in.

Originally Posted by imageWIS

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I wasn't judging and no comment regarding your comment

. A good friend of mine is finishing up her doctorate in medicine at UM at the moment. What are you studying?

Hehe can't help it. Just a friendly dig. I have plenty of old high school buddies at FIU. I'm a Mechanical Engineering/Physics major. In other words, a nerd.

Originally Posted by Connemara

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History. I like my major and it's not really a part of the problem. The issue is all of these stupid ******* gen. ed. requirements. They are ruining my life, particularly Italian. I like the language but my instructor this quarter is a huge *************, a ****** teacher, and it all just sucks.

I feel like I have a quarter's worth of work to do, but only 2-3 weeks to do it. I need to go somewhere secluded and yell for about 5 minutes, I'll feel better.

Gen ed. requirements are a huge crock of ****. Like i'm going to be a more well rounded person taking PHI 101. Writing requirements are even more marsupialed.

Originally Posted by Helix

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Hehe can't help it. Just a friendly dig. I have plenty of old high school buddies at FIU. I'm a Mechanical Engineering/Physics major. In other words, a nerd.

Originally Posted by Helix

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Gen ed. requirements are a huge crock of ****. Like i'm going to be a more well rounded person taking PHI 101. Writing requirements are even more marsupialed.

I love how 19 year old know better than the people that've been running higher ed for thousands of years. I do not miss the likes of you guys now that I'm no longer teaching.

You see, you are in no position to judge whether those gen. ed. requirements will make you a more rounded person or enrich your life in any way. You're still young. Wait until you've 40 and answer the question again. And if the answer is the same, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you're doing with your life.

As for the writing requirements, believe it or not, your future job just might require you to write. And you probably write like ****. I work with engineers and trust me, their jobs require them to write and write well.

b

Originally Posted by rdawson808

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I love how 19 year old know better than the people that've been running higher ed for thousands of years. I do not miss the likes of you guys now that I'm no longer teaching. You see, you are in no position to judge whether those gen. ed. requirements will make you a more rounded person or enrich your life in any way. You're still young. Wait until you've 40 and answer the question again. And if the answer is the same, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you're doing with your life. As for the writing requirements, believe it or not, your future job just might require you to write. And you probably write like ****. I work with engineers and trust me, their jobs require them to write and write well. b
None of that stops it being a massive pain *********** when you actually have to do it. Also for those of us who found some aspects of school work (highschool) very hard or dull you look forward to University you think you can just study what you enjoy. Then you find you can't and people are still telling you to do stuff you can't stand or are terrible at. It is pretty annoying. I only had to do a limited amount of study outside what I applied for, I can't imagine having to do as much as people do at some US colleges. I do understand the point of a more rounded education and I genuinly worry that my generation (early 20s), myself included, is alarmingly ignorant about so much, but it doesn't make studying some stuff that I hate any less of a bad time.

Originally Posted by rdawson808

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As for the writing requirements, believe it or not, your future job just might require you to write. And you probably write like ****. I work with engineers and trust me, their jobs require them to write and write well.

b

+1, maybe your the exception, but a large percentage of the undergraduates I know need more writing.

Originally Posted by Gradstudent78

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+1, maybe your the exception, but a large percentage of the undergraduates I know need more writing.

qfi

Originally Posted by rdawson808

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I love how 19 year old know better than the people that've been running higher ed for thousands of years. I do not miss the likes of you guys now that I'm no longer teaching.

You see, you are in no position to judge whether those gen. ed. requirements will make you a more rounded person or enrich your life in any way. You're still young. Wait until you've 40 and answer the question again. And if the answer is the same, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you're doing with your life.

As for the writing requirements, believe it or not, your future job just might require you to write. And you probably write like ****. I work with engineers and trust me, their jobs require them to write and write well.

b

+1

****, they should be in the army, not in some candy-assed school at that age, anyway. education should be a pain **********, to prepare you for life.

Originally Posted by rdawson808

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I love how 19 year old know better than the people that've been running higher ed for thousands of years. I do not miss the likes of you guys now that I'm no longer teaching. You see, you are in no position to judge whether those gen. ed. requirements will make you a more rounded person or enrich your life in any way. You're still young. Wait until you've 40 and answer the question again. And if the answer is the same, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you're doing with your life. As for the writing requirements, believe it or not, your future job just might require you to write. And you probably write like ****. I work with engineers and trust me, their jobs require them to write and write well. b
21 TYVM I understand the whole point of gen. ed requirements and love the idea in theory, but in practice (at least as far as i've seen) it's just another way for unis to suck money out of people. I learned nothing in any gen. ed. req. class that I didn't already know and really didn't have a whole lot of choice in the matter. I agree most engineers do write like **** and it is pathetic but what passes for a writing credit doesn't much improve the situation. What most kids get an A or a B for is just