I got a B on my midterm.....ask me anything

[slinkerwink]

Feel free to ask me anything under the sun!

:toast:

[slinkerwink]

1. :kick:

[Systematic Chaos]

2. What was the midterm about, and what did you miss to not get an A?

Are there some questions that you just had to go "DOH!" when you saw how you answered them wrong?

[slinkerwink]

3. the midterm was about the president's foreign policy approach

It was an essay----and the professor was new to my college. He's a bit of a sanctimontious a-hole. In class before he passed the midterms out, he kept on harping about how terrible most people's essays were, and read out a few bad essays to the class. He even wrote on the board all the most commonly misspelled words.

People tuned out during that class. College kids don't like being scolded or ranted at. That's what the professor did. He was shrill and stringent. You should've seen him rant. It was like he'd never come across bad collegiate essays before.

I bet with time, he'll stop critiquing all the essays, just give a brief run-down, and suggest we go to the writing center. That's what most professors do.

[bigwoody]

4. Why don't you drop out, get divorced twice, blow up to 300#, and then get

your own radio show (and big$$$) by convincing everybody what a genius you are? And maybe throw in a stint in rehab, just to show your vulnerable side. Oh wait, that's been done already. Sorry:spank:

[slinkerwink]

7. I can't be in a radio show, I'm deaf

So that pretty much defeats the point of becoming a radio host.

:nopity:

[GOPisEvil]

12. Not necessarily.

Calls can be transcribed. You could take e-mail questions only.

Or, just go on extended rants, and never take calls. :D

[Fenris]

18. So's Rush, but that doesn't stop him!

[LincolnMcGrath]

22. Do you know ASL

One of my best friends son is deaf. (3% hearing) He and his wife refused to teach Kris (the son)ASL and more or less force him to read lips. Kris learned sign on his own in high school to communicate w/other hearing impared. His speech is amazing to me, he cannot hear a car horn while his head is under the hood. Teaching Kris and his H I friends to wakeboard and ski was a true joy to me.




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[slinkerwink]

23. No, I don't know ASL

I was taught in an oral school where they emphasized speech. I have a cochlear implant so I can hear others very well and carry conversations with them for hours except in an extremely loud restaurant where it's just shouting over the din.

[LincolnMcGrath]

24. I lost about

35-40% percent of my hearing in my old job. I can relate to the loud-restaurant-thing.

[Paragon]

5. Did all the guys in the classroom have their hands up?

:silly:

[slinkerwink]

8. It's a women's college

No guys had their hands up. We were all overworked from midterms, and a lot of us slept through the professor's tirade.

I'm sick of how professors forget we have other midterms to write and act as if their midterms are the only ones we're doing.

[mac56]

10. It seems to be a rule in academia.

Each professor must believe that his or her subject and specialty is the MOST IMPORTANT @#$%&* THING YOU WILL EVER LEARN, and that everything else is just a colossal waste of time. Academics have to believe that, or else they can't get out of bed in the morning.

(looks about sheepishly, steps off of soapbox)

[slinkerwink]

11. ha, it's academia megalomania

some professors I know are absolutely convinced that they're the best experts ever, and won't even listen to other dissenting viewpoints.

This professor I have is new, and freshly out of grad school......no wonder why he has a bad case of that.

[pmbryant]

14. That's a job requirement for academics, I'm afraid

That's one reason why I had to bail out of that field. ;-)

--Peter

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Hey neighbor!

I saw in your profile that you're just down the road from me! I sent you a pm. Howdy neighbor and a belated welcome to DU! :toast:

[slinkerwink]

15. awww, thanks

:hi:

Sure, I'd like to get a DU gathering in Western MA :-)

[Kamika]

6. Is that good?

I dont know much about this college edumucation

[slinkerwink]

9. It's alright, because honestly I expected to get a worse grade

that's why I was surprised I got a B. We're all hard critics on ourselves, I guess.

[Skittles]

16. WHO GAVE YOU A B

YOU KNOW YOU DESEVED AN A; I'LL KICK THEIR ASS.

[slinkerwink]

20. aww, thanks

Somehow I don't think my professor will enjoy being kicked in the ass, although he might have a huge BDSM fetish..

[LincolnMcGrath]

17. Have you seen this?

Great job on the schoolwork. :thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=367111

[commander bunnypants]

19. Why didnt you get an A?

Now study harder!!


Congrads on the B



DDQM

[slinkerwink]

21. sorry but the.....

Coronas in my fridge are calling me......:beer: