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Drill King:
I get crushes at least 10 times a day.
Spluff:
quit hogging all the crushes andy
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Drill King on 20 Oct 2009, 18:00 ---(I have always been hot for teacher, I seem to keep getting at least one attractive teacher a year. Yeaah.)
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I have yet to have a teacher I have found attractive, and that's extremely likely to continue. There was one history teacher who wasn't completely unattractive, but that's it (there were a number of attractive teachers at my undergrad institution, just none of them taught my classes).
On the subject of Universities, I have an interesting point of view. I got two undergraduate degrees: physics and music. Neither is particularly useful for a job, but both teach things that are useful to get a job. I've made a living for several years applying what I learned in music school and now I am going to graduate school for a PhD using knowledge acquired from my physics education.
Now, I also had general education requirements. My college had more than the average, because they called themselves a "liberal arts" school. Why should I pay money to take classes that have no value when it comes to getting a job? Well, my general education classes help me be a person who can have an intelligent conversation about multiple subjects. They also help me be an informed voter when it comes time to cast my ballot. Both of these result in me having a life that is more enriched, which has value to me.
Now on to my PhD. I am not going into academia. I am going into industry. "Why are you getting a PhD? That's just going to help you do research!" I hear you exclaim. Actually, it teaches me to solve problems in my area of expertise. It teaches me to think fundamentally, so that I know what sort of results I'm getting. It also teaches me the fundamentals so that I can apply them in a way different from just "attach these things together and this happens because that's what I was told." Both of these combine to result in making me able to do things. As a result, people with PhD's are given more responsibility and cooler assignments than people with only a bachelor's or even with a master's.
Alex C:
I just wish there was more middle ground between votechs, community colleges and universities, that's all.
JD:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 20 Oct 2009, 19:41 ---I quite liked my old history teacher. She read Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman books, and had half naked photos of herself on Facebook. We also went out drinking with her when we finished the school year!
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Pretty sure she couldn't get a job in the states if she had photos like that on public domain.
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