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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 21 Apr 2010, 15:18 ---I don't want to know what I need for a job, I want to study what I care about!
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At least your objection is the right one. One of the saddest things in a university these days is seeing how it's now becoming commonplace for students when given an assignment to ask: "is it assessed for credit?"; they don't care about learning, just getting a qualification. But sometimes in later life you discover that things you learnt which seemed useless at the time do in fact have some benefits; not always, though!
Barmymoo:
I'm not actually learning latin, because the lecturers assume we already speak it. We have one guy who lectures half in latin, half in English without translating, so I'm learning it by osmosis out of necessity :(
Nodaisho:
I wonder how many students eventually go mad, yell "It's a dead language for a reason, you fucks!" and go running out of the classroom screaming.
Barmymoo:
For me it is not merely a dead language, it is a dead civilisation and as such I do not care about its law. I do not care. I DO NOT CARE. I don't care if it formed the building blocks to our civil law; if it is particuarly interesting or relevant then it will assuredly be present in one of my other (MODERN) law modules (and I'm told it does rear its head in land law).
I think I'd actually enjoy it with a decent teacher. I was thinking about that earlier - I just had a constitutional law supervision on freedom of expression and the right to privacy, and it was really enjoyable not just discussing the topic but also doing the reading for it beforehand. That's because I'm passionate about this subject, I really care. And that's due at least in part to the fact that my supervisor encourages us to discuss and think about it; she brings it to life. She does not, as my Roman law supervisor does, merely talk for an hour, telling us things that we already know from the reading. There isn't a lot else to do with Roman - lord knows it isn't a developing area of law - but still.
GAH it's so frustrating, once every fortnight I get a taste of how it can be with constitutional, and the rest of the time it is a long, cold slog up a hill in pouring rain, knowing perfectly well that when I get to the top I will just have to slide down and climb it again with another set of subjects next year.
Gemmwah:
So I've totally spent the past few weeks researching and writing a paper on "The History of Microsoft Since 1981", and after reading through my essay today and seeing that it's already 500 words over limit, and unfinished, he's forcing me to cap the dates in my title. I now have the choice of either:
[x] "The History of Microsoft between 1981 and 1995"
[x] "The History of Microsoft between 1981 and 2000"
So I've either done 10 years extra research, or 15 years extra research. I'm actually undecided which title to roll with though, with the latter I get to include Me and 2000, if I go for the former I'm missing out Windows 98, but I can do huge amounts on the NT system, and include more things about the kernel changes.
DON'T KNOWWWWWWW
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