The Seven Signs
The Seven Signs that you shouldn't be in college:
- You feel the need to ask how many questions will be on a test. It doesn't matter at all. There will be a test, you'll take it. If you know the material, you'll do well. Asking how many questions are going to be on the test is like asking how many guys the girl you're after has slept with. It's rude and no way is it an indication of how good in bed she is.
- You ask what the ISBN of the text book is. That just makes you a huge geek that can't use google. A geek that cannot use google is, in fact, a contradiction. Therefore, if you ask that question you may not actually exist in this universe of discourse. You may want to consider moving to a tesseract house.
- You ask for the reasons behind basic facts. 1 + 1 is 2 by definition. Sometimes the answer is because.
- You can't get to the class website. It's called a web broswer.
- You bitch about having to do footnotes. Citing sources isn't hard, and it's something that you should just expect when writing a paper in college. They take almost no time if you do them while you're doing your research, so just do them already.
- You turn a paper in with just your first name. I'm grading for a computer science class right now, and I swear that someone did this. The average CS professor at eastern has around 150 students at any given moment. If your name is Steve... well... you're probably boned.
- There is no seventh sign. Deal.
Comments
How about 7.) You always ask if there will be partial credit given, even on multiple choice questions.
Posted by: Kyle // January 21, 2006 8:04 AM
8. If you say a source is reliable, you have to be able to back it up. just saying its trustworthy does NOT nessecarily make it so. (ex. Wickipedia)
9. Content is more important then format. For instance, putting one or two spaces after a period does not matter. What your saying in those sentences does.
10. If the professor is explaining a point, and you have to raise your hand and ask if it will be on the test, you are probably going to fail it reguardless.
...This is what I get for taking ENG 201 my last semester.
Posted by: caitie // January 23, 2006 4:23 PM
I'd add:
8a. (You shouldn't be in college if...) You complete a "research paper" without cracking open a single book. (ie. Don't do all your research online!)
11. You try to electronically turn-in an assignment after the due date. (I can't even tell you how many times I ran into this the year I was a CS TA. It is YOUR fault if you didn't try turning it in until the last minute and then had a problem with the system.)
Posted by: Anitra // January 25, 2006 4:10 PM