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Ladybug:
The easy-to-pass rule definitely doesn't apply to the 5-year integrated masters degree (I have no idea what the integrated-part means, maybe that it's a "direct" master without having to take a bachelor first) in computer science that I'm currently trying to get through, so yeah, there are definite exceptions, and I would guess that there are quite a lot of them.
ampersandwitch:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 22 Jun 2008, 14:12 ---Man, you should've added that into your calculations when you decided to stay.
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I did! It was under the pro column: "treated as an adult." A certain someone viewing this said "great, now we just have to wait for you to start acting as such!" And followed it with a bah-dum-ptsh.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 22 Jun 2008, 13:23 ---I'd say that just proves that the people who check ID in those bars were either lazy or racist.
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Not necessarily. It turns out that your brain will generally not pay attention to individual differences in people's idiosyncratic facial features if that person is of another race/ethnicity/nationality/whatever you want to call it. Basically unless you are paying attention, which most bouncers do not, then anyone who is different from them will pretty much look the same. It's not racism, it's just your brain grouping people together to make things easier when you're not concentrating.
vegkitkat:
This was my Dad's advice to me: if you're going to make some mistakes (like crazy drunken night mistakes), make them in university. Obviously, try not to make too many of them though.
Also, I want to emphasize the know your professors thing. Most profs won't fail a student by one or two percent; they'll either bump your mark up to a pass or lower it to an obviously. ( If a pass is 60 and you get 58, you'll either be given a 60 or a 55). If your prof knows you, and knows that you've made an effort during the semester, you're more likely to get bumped up to the passing grade.
ruyi:
This article may be interesting to some of you: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.
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