tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post7502656621532866808..comments2023-10-28T09:10:11.749-04:00Comments on To define is to limit.: i'm coming cleanSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04020549348509508380noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-54395648216115026072011-12-06T10:49:22.999-05:002011-12-06T10:49:22.999-05:00i'm starting to think that i'm the one wit...i'm starting to think that i'm the one with the lofty expectations, too. i dunno, i just always thought that i should feel like i learned something, and i never did. maybe because of the way everything just builds off everything else it all seems old and learned to me? but seeing how a lot of other people feel the same way, maybe i can just smoke and mirror my way through everything.<br /><br />and it all made perfect sense.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020549348509508380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-85891223689163486342011-12-05T10:55:12.832-05:002011-12-05T10:55:12.832-05:00Ha. I can relate to this a lot. I learned in col...Ha. I can relate to this a lot. I learned in college that to survive as an English major you have to know how to do two things: spout bulls**t in class, and then transfer that same bull into ten page papers. <br /><br />I asked one of my professors what I could do to better my writing style once, and she said, "The only thing that will help your writing is living. Your 'style' will come from life experience. You're not going to learn that in a classroom." (I'm paraphrasing, of course.) There's very little room for anything "authentic" in a classroom, because all teachers want to hear is repeated facts and methods... There's hardly any real learning going on.<br /><br />I guess where I'm going with this is...college in general IS smoke and mirrors. The stuff you learn is kind of pertinent to a future job, but the things that really matter about that job will be learned once you're actually doing it. (So for me, the things that will really matter about my writing will be learned through life experience.)<br /><br />The day I told my favorite professor I was dropping out, I expected to get a lecture about how I was throwing my future away, but she (as well as some other professors) just smiled and said she hoped to see me again sometime. There was no doubt, or judgement or disappointment. Just, "Oh, you'll be fine. You can always come back for this later if you want." I like to think she was thinking, "There's some life experience!"<br /><br />I think the only person who had unrealistic expectations, in my case, was me. And the expectations had to do with what I was going to get out of a fancy degree.<br /><br />Also, if you can smoke and mirrors your way though school, you can probably do it in the real world too...just saying, you're not going to fall flat on your face. Put those skills to work to get a foot in the door, and then really work to be good at whatever you want to do once you're inside. ;)<br /><br />Gah. I don't even know if any of that made sense.Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12511570901260704079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-85339472040565193942011-12-04T09:11:43.179-05:002011-12-04T09:11:43.179-05:00oh no i loved it during school. good studentitis a...oh no i loved it during school. good studentitis allowed me to go through tenth grade with only doing my english homework twice and never losing any points because "i was a good student, and she knew i never forgot my homework." she let it slide a lot. it helped me so much during school, but i feel like now that school is over, everyone has unrealistic expectations of what i'm going to be because of it.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020549348509508380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-62651673239332320262011-12-04T06:44:19.853-05:002011-12-04T06:44:19.853-05:00People assume I'm a good student, because, and...People assume I'm a good student, because, and only because, I read in class. And sometimes I write, and they hink I'm writing notes. I don't think I mind good studentitis though. It's good hallway cred.Lujainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01466640734733349667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-42107416317808141652011-12-03T09:04:14.751-05:002011-12-03T09:04:14.751-05:00the good student symptoms? it's seriously like...the good student symptoms? it's seriously like how a cough or headache can mean a gazillion different diseases. people need to stop assuming we have good studentitis just because we share a few symptoms.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020549348509508380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-73248995417992570232011-12-02T21:09:28.204-05:002011-12-02T21:09:28.204-05:00That third paragraph, man. Or is it the fourth? I ...That third paragraph, man. Or is it the fourth? I don't, but yeah. Spot on.Lujainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01466640734733349667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-68626942615826762882011-12-02T09:07:02.859-05:002011-12-02T09:07:02.859-05:00anonymous hippopotamus: i'm breaking your comm...<b>anonymous hippopotamus:</b> i'm breaking your comment into two parts. first, thoughts on being a good student. student is always listed as an occupation, so i'm going to think of it as a job. and in a job, doing it well means doing what you're supposed to be doing. as a student, what you're supposed to be doing is studying and whatnot. so if you do that, you are automatically a good student, regardless of what you do or do not learn. you may be right about school, though. and that no one really learns much after the basic reading and writing is picked up. <br /><br /><b>Hannah:</b> i have that problem, too. and i could never understand how people could not know stuff that we had already taken three hundred times before. hmm... maybe that means that i did learn something.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020549348509508380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-12823636488309305752011-12-01T18:04:20.046-05:002011-12-01T18:04:20.046-05:00I'm an awful student... I do nothing all the t...I'm an awful student... I do nothing all the time - but I put that down to the fact that when we are actually being taught something I either already know it or pick it up so fast that I am bored after 10 minutes >.> Had that problem all the way through school and having it now at uniAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02957143973705266887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503236164406200711.post-52895882401149902072011-12-01T14:55:33.984-05:002011-12-01T14:55:33.984-05:00I dont think there is such a thing as a good stude...I dont think there is such a thing as a good student. I mean the ones who study and stuff only do that because if they didn't they'd fail and they need to put all that effort. I also don't think anyone really learns anything from school. We take away things that interested us and then when thrown into the working world we are forced to learn new skills in order to apply them. But school..I think school is just a way to keep younger people occupied for 16 years or so, so they can stay out of the grown up people's way. lool thats my two cents.anonymous hippopotamusnoreply@blogger.com