REALLY!!?!?!



Saw this at Wal-mart the other night and just really didn't understand why it existed.

Hurray for bitchy professors.

I get my grade for a lab assignment back in my graphics communications class, which I got a 90 on. It says they took off 5 points for my typography choice. I emailed the professor and asked why since she said if we didn't change it we wouldn't lose points (the assignment was to modify a website she had already made). So she says the TA graded mine and she would regrade it for me.

I check my grade a few hours later and she gave me an 88, taking off 10 points for contrast instead of the 3 the TA did.

Thanks lady, you're a real help.

Nobody gives a shit about professor reviews. Nobody. They make absolutely no difference. You might as well not waste your time with them, unless you can manage to defecate on one and slip it into the return envelope with nobody noticing.

Your college, like mine, might have an also-largely-meaningless procedure for challenging grades. I think I was the first person in my college's history to challenge a grade. They upheld my challenge, and then still gave me a lower grade than I deserved to make it more like a compromise. Wouldn't want to hurt Dr. Fuckhead's feelings.

Fuck higher education.

And don't forget, all of this costs everyone a LOT of money.

The ONLY time these things might come into play is when a prof is being considered for tenure, but they'd probably need a mountain of bad reviews for it to make a difference.

oh ya fyi I quit my job today.

why? You got to travel a lot n stuff.

Fuck higher education.

QFT

This has been my mantra for as many years as it has been since I dropped out of community college to pursue a real job... My goal is to advise every single high-school graduate I come in contact with to don't bother with college, or if they already enrolled to drop out. EVERYONE on earth is telling them that they MUST engage in higher education... why? Fuck if I know.

"But you'll be passed over for promotion by people with degrees!" is a common whine from the folks with the school-loans who need to validate or justify their crushing debt. Well, I've never been passed over for a promotion. The only time I non-voluntarily left a job was when I was an active student. Go figure.

Anyways kids, drop out. Don't waste your time. Will Hunting said it best when he said "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."

What is your current salary?

$43,000 + 15% annual bonus + ~3.2% cost of living increase.

Whats yours?

be away from home all the time, have a limited social life, no real time off- u need a real vacation bro. go on one of those 6 month cruises around the world

I have heard you can live on 10 grand a year at some of these places.

This has been my mantra for as many years as it has been since I dropped out of community college to pursue a real job... My goal is to advise every single high-school graduate I come in contact with to don't bother with college, or if they already enrolled to drop out. EVERYONE on earth is telling them that they MUST engage in higher education... why? Fuck if I know.

"But you'll be passed over for promotion by people with degrees!" is a common whine from the folks with the school-loans who need to validate or justify their crushing debt. Well, I've never been passed over for a promotion. The only time I non-voluntarily left a job was when I was an active student. Go figure.

Anyways kids, drop out. Don't waste your time. Will Hunting said it best when he said "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."

$43,000 + 15% annual bonus + ~3.2% cost of living increase.

Whats yours?

I wouldn't tell kids that. First, not everyone will have the same abilities / circumstances / fortune as you when seeking their first job. Second, while a degree may not help them get a job, it certainly can't hurt. And be realistic, I'm sure there are other jobs you could have applied to where you would have been passed up for someone with a degree. Gay but true, especially in bigger companies. What if you had wanted one of those jobs? And then there are some fields where you absolutely have to have a degree (e.g. medicine or law), so what about kids who want to go into one of those fields? Also, some companies (like the one that hired me) increase your salary based on education. I'm making 53k in my first job, which as I understand it isn't too bad at all. I know that after that first hire, experience probably matters more than education, but again, it certainly can't hurt.

All that is to say, the system is in place and it's not going anywhere, so students have to weigh the benefits of an education versus the lost time and debt it can bring.

THAT said, the system is still bullshit. Students should also be fully aware that it is almost completely a waste of money and usually of time and that in almost every case, if an education is what they're after, they have to get it their own damned self. Most professors won't give a shit about them nor conferring any knowledge on them. Many times there's no rhyme nor reason to the process that eventually delivers the magical piece of career-bestowing paper to them. They, their parents, their fellow taxpayers, their creditors, and probably every living being on the planet dump money into this institution that somehow finds a way to waste almost all of it.

So my advice would probably be, go to college if you can. Give yourself the education.