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Buttfranklin:
In my public speaking class we have discussed: "skullets," bestiality, motorboating (not the kind involving water), homosexuality (one student asked a lesbian in class "how can you knock the wee wee before you've tried it?" << not mean-spiritedly, btw), abortion, our teacher telling us he hasn't dropped acid in 27 years, poisonous spiders, inception, how a woman was married to the eiffel tower, whether Adam named all the animals in one day or not in the Bible. And those aren't the speeches.
God I love this class.
Buttfranklin:
He said he only stopped because of he didn't like the bad trips.
He's also only missed 7 days of class in the past 10 years, and those 7 days were because he was paralyzed and he literally could not make it to school to teach for 7 class class periods. He's kind of a badass in many ways.
Darkbluerabbit:
University Thread, with your wealth of experience and wisdom: What do people think about working during grad school? I just got into a grad program and everything is happening very fast and I have decisions to make.
I'll have 12-13 credits my first semester, and the courses are structured in blocks so I'd only be attending classes three days a week. This is based on the course sequence that basically every full time student follows. I always took 17-18 credits as an undergrad, so 12 seems like a fairly light courseload, but I know grad classes are supposed to be much more demanding. I know on paper it looks like I have four days off a week to do what I need, which could include going to work, but I figure I'll need time for all the reading and writing and projects.
I've read that some grad programs actively discourage students from working, and some even forbid it, so maybe the very idea of having an outside job is foolish. I don't know! I'd rather not work but I'd also like to reduce the amount of debt I need to go into. Decisions are hard.
StaedlerMars:
I did it and so far I'm passing. But that is probably because my course is pretty easy because a lot of the technical stuff we covered in the MSc I covered in my undergraduate.
Method of Madness:
I had a part time job my first semester, and this semester I substitute teach occasionally, but this fall when I student teach there'll be no time to work. So in other words, if you must have a job, get something part time with flexible hours.
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