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Happy Glaceon day yall! I rushed this so it's quite messy.

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Annabeth had a complex color coding system that involved several different sheets of sticky notes. They were different sizes and colors, with pens to match. Percy had to assume it was easier for her to look for colors than trying to read her own handwriting and spelling all the time. All of her letters ended up squished together, and the heights were all the same. Even on a good day, Percy couldn't tell the difference between her lower case n and h.

Percy was doing his best to stay focused in the NRU library study room. But Annabeth was prettiest when she was concentrating. Some kind of Athena gene, he assumed. He wondered if he looked best underwater. He should ask her.

"Can I borrow a post-it?" he whispered, trying not to distract her. She handed him a sheet of gray and blue tabs (where did she get gray tabs?) without a word, and without lifting her eyes from the book. I was something by Marcus Aurelius in Latin. He could tell by the look on her face that it didn't come nearly as naturally as the Greek. She just needed to finish her Latin studies GE course, but Classics was Percy's whole major.

"You know, I can just do your homework for you," Percy offered, "if you want to do my Math homework?" He was stuck in a GE of his own. It was the most basic math class that would cover his degree requirements.

Annabeth looked up, but past him, thinking on his words.

"If we finish early, we can get Panda Express before it closes," Percy added, trying to tempt her. He didn't understand fractions in fifth grade or now. Annabeth did though. She had no issue with algebra or geometry, or any other kidn of fancy math she needed for Architecture. Percy didn't have any trouble with Latin. "Not like you need Marcus Aurelius to build a skyscraper," he added.

"Yeah," she said, pushing the book towards him and stealing his math notebook from him. "Just, don't mess up my system," she said. "The key is in the front cover." It was hand written key, so Percy did his best to follow what he understood.

"Aye aye," he said.

They finished half an hour ahead of scheduled and managed to pick up enough orange chicken to feed a small army.

"Thanks for you help today," Annabeth said, planting a kiss to Percy's cheek. They were eating on the couch like true Romans.

"Happy to," Percy said. "Thanks for finishing my fractions."

"I went ahead and did next week's assignments for you too. I figure if fractions are hard, you're really going to struggle with percentages."

"You are correct," he said. He went to kiss her on the cheek, returning the affection, but she turned her head to say something, and he caught her mouth instead.

"Omp -- hey!" Annabeth said with a smile. "First you steal my egg roll and now my kisses?"

"Happy accident, both of them," Percy said, leaning in to kiss her for real and on purpose this time.

"You owe me an egg roll," she said.

"Or I can do you Cicero translation?"

Annabeth considered it. "Fine, it's a deal."

[ms-demeanor]

This is very, very different than my first community college, which I spent 5 years at because I was busy being a fuckup and I needed the time and low pressure school to get my shit straightened out.

And honestly I think this semester is the worst so far. My online math professors have been very good (Algebra 150 professor my beloved; she was an angel, I love her), and as annoying as I found my anatomy professor at least he wrote his own (absolutely devious) exam questions. My Spanish professor and my art history professor last winter term were both good, my stats professor and composition professor were good, my oceanography and bio professor were good. The media studies professor was good. There have been good professors, this term has just happened to have two really really lackluster professors and three professors who never provided a schedule for their class (maddening). My one good professor this term is a professor whose other class I liked last year. There are at least five professors who I would cheerfully take more classes from if it fit in my plan.

Unfortunately not a single one of them teaches any of the things that I need beyond basic GEs or transferable electives. But literally anything else that algebra teacher teaches I will take. If she teaches trig, if she teaches calculus, if she teaches physics i don't care I will take any class from her she fucking rules. (so far it looks like she just teaches math 150 at this school).

Hm. I should actually go through and look at this.

okay since Fall of 2021 I've taken 23 classes (...okay when you break it down that's 78 units and perhaps i should take a class on how to fucking chill. I won't, but perhaps I should).

Of those I've had 11 professors who I'd say were solidly good, 4 who were mid, and eight who were quite bad. And actually one of those eight was the same guy for two classes.

So it's actually the opposite of how it feels, the slight majority of my professors are quite good. It's just that the ones who are bad are the ones who are actually in my field of study OR I'm getting semesters where the majority of the professors are bad and it makes everything seem bad.

But, yeah, like I got that question about how to find a good nutrition program to study the other day and yeah all of the nutrition professors I've had at this school have been Hot Garbage. I'm considering a pivot to computer science and A) the computer science department at this school leaves a lot to be desired and B) the one computer science class I've had so far has been bottom of the barrel and half of the CS classes are taught by the professor whose videos and quizzes make up this class (though this class is being run by someone else for some reason?)

So. Hm. It seems like, for the most part, the GE classes are fine. Inoffensive to Actually Quite Good, generally speaking. Like if you were undeclared and just wanted to get your GEs out of the way before transferring to a state school to focus on a major, this school would mostly be fine and you'd probably have one or two shit classes but some of your electives would be really cool and you might have a GE class or three that was exceptionally good and made you reconsider what was possible for you as a career (my oceanography professor was genuinely radicalizing AND genuinely educational and when I started my algebra class I was regularly crying over the homework and by the end I was ready to study calculus as long as that professor was the one teaching it). BUT if you want an associate's degree or if you're looking to go on a very specific path to transfer, that's where shit gets messy.

It's really hard to take my classes seriously when it is so staggeringly obvious that a lot of the professors don't take them seriously.

It's possible to get at least 95% in my C# class without ever opening the book or doing any of the actual programming exercises. The whole thing is based on quiz scores and you can take the quizzes an unlimited number of times and it shows you the correct answers after every attempt and then asks you the exact same questions - it doesn't even scramble up the multiple choice options between attempts. My professor isn't even using their own material. All the lectures were recorded by a different professor, who also wrote the quizzes.

The last assignment my art teacher graded was turned in over 2 months ago. It was still summer when I did that assignment. We only have 13 students in the class and it's not like the professor is reading essays or writing long comments on the work. They have only graded *checks notes* two of the eight assignments we've turned in. All of the lectures were filmed in 2020, as has been the case with lectures in nearly all of my online classes (programming lectures were filmed in 2018, and I don't know if that's better or worse).

These professors are more checked out than the students and it's tremendously demotivating.

A huge number of my classes have had quizzes and exams where all the questions were pulled verbatim from the textbook with no references to lectures. The answers can all be found on "study" sites because the professors didn't even bother to reword them. One of my classes was a political science class in winter of 2022 that asked "how many US presidents have been impeached?" And the "correct" answer was 2.

I hope my school just sucks. I really hope it isn't like this everywhere. Not even all of my classes are like this, but probably 60% of them are like this and it is making me nuts.

[avesblues2]

All of my GE's were pointless. I was forced to take gender theory, womens studies, black history (basically revisionist history), all these pointless indoctrination courses which added no value to my degree or education. Instead, I got kicked out of one of my classes for questioning the professor on her merit and the articles she was making us read. Almost all of them were opinion-based and had zero citations and were not peer reviewed yet she was passing them off as factual think pieces. I was told I was disrupting the class because I asked questions about real sources for the topic at hand. If you didn't agree with the professor you were 100% discriminated against in class. Probably didn't help I went to a very VERY liberal state college. GE's do not make you critically think, they tell you HOW you should think and what you should believe. Also, why did I need to take algebra again as a GE? They are just utterly pointless and way to grab onto the children they cannot have themselves.

[thedovahcat]

Gorillas at the College

Went to look at the campus today at where I applied.

 It’s a community college so that’s pretty much automatic enrollment if you ask me.

Was able to talk to a few people. Looks like I’ll need access to the student resources account email thing they give you before I can move forward. Elsewise I was telling them I already have an AS so at least going by their reactions I may be able to skip MANY of the core/GE type classes and not be there so long. This I can tolerate. And it’s a better move in the long run.

I’m going to keep studying college algebra and try to get as high/far as I can on my own before fall of course. I’m sure they have some sort of placement exam for math/english important things like that. English I’m not terribly worried about but if you ask me the technicalities of it well.

Lol.

Anyway! I feel the bags forming under my eyes after being social today. My dad says I acted perfectly normal but I’m like on the verge of needing to sleep for two days after having like 2 or 3 short 10 minute conversations with people.

Another funky thing I noticed too on the way to the car? I decided to wear my rings today so my hand was so busy just CLINKING THEM AWAY- I was like...damn bro. That’s some flappy hand shit you got going on there. It’s Almost Like Stimming Or Something, Hmmmmm! I wonder what it could be!!!

Two more weeks until my assessment. The more I’m starting to pay attention to my habits and things and way I go about stuff, the more and more I’m starting to convince myself that all that’s kind of autistic. I don’t know what’ll happen if a professional doesn’t agree, but I hit so many of the signs of even just being minorly on the spectrum. Or maybe it’s something else! I won’t rule that out either!! Just because I’m productive and can hold a job and a conversation and not have this shit be stopping me from living (though it definitely is not easy), doesn’t mean I’m NT.

We’ll see.

[diwangpalaboy]

New Development Studies Curriculum

CORE GE Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas Wika, Kultura, at Lipunan Critical Perspectives in Communication Ethics and Moral Reasoning in Everyday Life Science, Technology, and Society Mathematics, Culture, and Society

PRESCRIBED GE SocSci II (Social, Political and Economic Thought)

FOUNDATION COURSES Comm I/Kom I (Communication Skills I/Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon I) Comm II/Kom II (Communication Skills II/Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon II) Math 11 (College Algebra) Bio 107 (Biodiversity and Sustainable Development) Anthro I (General Anthropology) Psych 101 (General Psychology) Socio 101 (General Sociology) PolSci 11 (Introduction to Political Science) PolSci 14 (Philippine Politics) Philo 11 (Logic)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CD 100 (The Philippine Community) CD 112 (Rural Development) CD 113 (Urban Development)

DEVELOPMENT STUDIES DS 100 (Introduction to Development Theories) DS 111 (Development of Capitalist and Socialist States) DS 112 (Third World Development) DS 121 (Study of Philippine Underdevelopment) DS 122 (Philippine Development Strategies) DS 123 (Filipino Identity and Culture) DS 125 (International Aspect of Philippine and Third World Development) DS 127 (Natural and Physical Environment and Development) DS 141 (Political Economy of Health) DS 151 (Development Planning and Policy Formulation) DS 152 (Program Implementation and Project Management) DS 190 (Practicum) DS 199 (Research Methods in Development Studies) DS 200 (Thesis)

ECONOMICS Econ 11 (Introductory Economics) Econ 101 (Macroeconomics) Econ 102 (Microeconomics) Econ 109 (History of Economic Thought) Econ 115 (Philippine Economic History) Econ 141 (International Trade) Econ 151 (Public Finance)

SOCIAL SCIENCE SocSci 120 (Directed Readings in Social Sciences) SocSci 192 (Statistics in the Social Sciences)

DS ELECTIVES (Options) DS 124 (Nationalism and Development) DS 126 (Politico-Administrative Institutions and Behavior) DS 128 (Human Resource Development) DS 140 (Special Problems in Development)

ECONOMICS COGNATES (Options) Econ 116 (Economies of Asia) Econ 121 (Money and Banking) Econ 161 (Industrial Organization) Econ 171 (Agricultural Economics) Econ 181 (Labor Economics) Econ 191 (Development Economics)

LEGISLATED PI 100 (Life and Works of Rizal) NSTP 1 and 2

PHYSICAL EDUCATION PE 1 PE 2 PE 3 PE 4

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A long rant/story. Moral: A strict biblical interpretation can cause religious & cultural predjudices, academic closedmindedness, as well as falsely-percieved moral superiority among children. via /r/atheism

Submitted May 22, 2019 at 08:33AM by MuchosWaffles (Via reddit http://bit.ly/2X3DAAs) A long rant/story. Moral: A strict biblical interpretation can cause religious & cultural predjudices, academic closedmindedness, as well as falsely-percieved moral superiority among children.

Im on mobile, sorry for formatting.

So my one friend is a hardcore christian. He blindly follows what his religion and parents tell him and take it as fact without question. His views on questioning religion are kind of like a NAZI youth camp's views on questioning Hitler's intentions. He also pushes his religious beleifs onto everyone else, too. (I dont dislike those decent people who are religious. I just think that you don't truly have faith in your religion if you haven't fully questioned it. Once you've questioned each aspect of your faith and can support it, you really know that you believe it. I also don't think that you need to be a part of the next crusade.) But anyway, I recently found out he was a creationist. Honestly idk why I thought this, but I thought those were about as rare as flat-earthers among my generation because of the school's science classes that taught basic evolution at a young age, but aparently I was wrong, there's a lot at my highschool. He says he "doesn't believe in evolution". So I ask him what he means by he doesn't believe in it. Aparently discrediting a proven scientific theory based on a fairytale doesn't take much thought because he hadn't even considered the evidence for evolution. Aparently he's completely clueless as to what evolution actually is. He knows the very basics of what it is, but he didn't really understand how slow the process was or much about natural selection or really anything other than "monkeys became humans".

So I'm wondering how he managed to avoid actually learning about evolution four 15 years.

(He's not entirely stupid either. He takes the highest available classes for my grade. AP physics I, Honors English I, Honors Algebra II, etc. )

It turns out he didn't even know what a neanderthal was or how mutation works despite have specific lessons about evolution last year.

So I ask him what he believes, and ge gives me the basic genesis story and I find out that he also thinks Hetm created the sun and ALL that, too. He takes the whole bible as fact. ALL OF IT.

So I question him a bit more about what he thinks about the science that contradicts his beliefs and find out he knows practically nothing about the "big bang", cosmic background radiation, not even a basic idea of how planets and solar systems are formed, etc... NOTHING. His class had studied these at some point, but because he didn't believe in evolution or the big bang, he didn't care to learn them because to him, they were just false theories.

I know about both sides, the bible and the science against it. I don't just ignore that it exists because I don't believe in it. I took 8 long years of CCD/religious prep. I'm confirmed into the catholic church for my years of suffering. I was once religious, too and still have to go to church and pretend I believe that shit in front of my family.

The next thing I found out was that his mom is an anti-vaxxer. She "stopped believing in vaccines" right before he would've gotten his tetanus shots before 6th grade and his poor little brother wasn't even vaccinated as a baby.

His older brother, who I also know, pretty much gave up on his parents and practically disowned them. I don't blame him. He says that whenever he tries to explain how vaccines work and that they are beneficial, she doesn't listen, calls him disrespectful, etc... and acts as though he was directly insulting her.

I asked him who he believes goes to heaven. Of course, he says those who beleive in and accept jesus (not mentioning good people). So I ask him about Ghandi. And because the bible says so, Ghandi, fucking Ghandi, is apparently in hell. And he's fine with that. Completely apathetic. The "merciful" god of his is the most morally fucked up role model for any child if taken straight from the bible without interpretation.

His family also forces so many religious and cultural predjudices on him and his siblings. He grew up with parents with such a strict interpretation of their bible so he was given role models that reflect the culture from centuries ago and are prejudice against other beliefs and cultures from a young age. His parents and family are extremely racist and he doesn't even realize it.

I grew up with a looser interpretation of the bible because my parents understood that a lot of it was morally twisted and they believed that good people go to heaven and really bad people go to hell, regardless of religion. That's often what CCD/religious prep programs teach children because it takes away a lot of the "you don't believe what I do so rot in hell" aspect of religion and reinforces that kindness is rewarded.

I think that too many parents and churches teach children to look down on others and that Christians naturally have a moral highground, which often ironically leads to morally fucked and arrogant crusaders, not the "kind-hearted and merciful children of god" that they preach about. That's one of the main things that drove me away from religion. Everyone preached of a merciful god, but then showed all of these biblical stories of god not giving sinners a second chance and killing and punishing them. The people also pretty arrogant.

[mhksa]

Fall 2016

When I first started college in 2012, I was a physics major and thought that my college life would be pretty regular and boring? But things never really go ask planned, by the time junior year had come I switched to being an Earth and Planetary Science major (with a physics minor since I already completed all but one class requirements). I still thought that I would complete a thesis though, but by senior year I realized that I was gonna attempt our school internship instead. Obviously, the prerequisite for this internship was an intro to field geology class. Honestly, this class changed my life, and really changed who I am. There were two weekend field trips where we went out into an area and mapped/surveyed the land. During the two weekends we were out, we camped in the area. It was really hard but I somehow managed to survive. Through the difficulties though, I found a new passion in camping due to the togetherness feeling. I've never done something like this with a group of people and so it was really fun. Fast forward to the end of the quarter we had to write a paper and it was tough work, but after 36hrs of nonstop work, I chugged out a good report. One thing I'll never forget is my professor because she really believed in me, and I did well as a geo newbie. This quarter, I also decided that I didn't want. A math minor. When I was a physic major, the math minor was easily attainable due to some overlap in classes. But when I switched I was very unsure if I wanted to take more math classes. Math classes were never really my thing, and I didn't do so hot in my proofing class. But I decided to give it a try with an intermediate abstract algebra class. Let's just say, I dropped the class two weeks in. I decided not to suddenly add another class since I was two weeks behind. Since I was way ahead in units, I could afford to take less units this quarter. I took a history of premodern Asia class which I've been meaning to take since forever ( I wanted to minor in East Asian studies but the physics major program didn't quite allow enough wiggle room). So I took it as a GE, and it wasn't exactly the easiest class, but I tried hard and boosted my GPA.

[diwangpalaboy]

New BA Development Studies curriculum (UP)

FIRST YEAR

FIRST SEMESTER (18 units) GE 1 (Core) - WIKA 1 (Wika, Kultura at Lipunan) GE 2 (Core) - KAS 1 (Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas) GE 3 (Core) - ETHICS 1 (Ethics and Moral Reasoning) Comm I / Kom 1 (Communication Skills / Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon) Math 11 (College Algebra) Political Science 11 (Introduction to Political Science) PE 1 NSTP 1

SECOND SEMESTER (18 units) GE 4 (Core) - MATH 10 (Math, Culture and Society) GE 5 (Core) - COMM 10 (Critical Perspectives in Communication) GE 6 (Prescribed) - SocSci II (Social, Political and Economic Thought) DevStud 100 (Introduction to Development Theories) Economics 11 (Introductory Economics) PE 2 NSTP 2

SECOND YEAR

FIRST SEMESTER (19 units) GE 7 (CORE) - STS (Science, Technology and Society) Bio 107 (Biodiversity and Sustainable Development) Anthropology I (General Anthropology) DevStud 121 (Study of Philippine Underdevelopment) Economics 101 (Macroeconomics) Political Science 14 (Philippine Government and Politics) PE 3

SECOND SEMESTER (19 units) DevStud 111 (Development of Capitalist and Socialist Countries) DevStud 123 (Filipino Identity and Culture) DevStud 127 (Natural and Physical Resources and Development) Economics 102 (Microeconomics) Philosophy 11 (Logic) Sociology 101 (General Sociology) PE 4

THIRD YEAR

FIRST SEMESTER (18 units) DevStud 112 (Development in the Third World) DevStud 122 (Philippine Development Strategies) DevStud 151 (Development Planning and Policy Formation) Community Development 100 (The Philippine Community) Community Development 113 (Urban Development) Economics 109 (History of Economic Thought)

SECOND SEMESTER (18 units) PI 100 (Life and Works of Jose Rizal) Psychology 101 (Introduction to Psychology) Social Sciences 192 (Statistics in the Social Sciences) Community Development 112 (Rural Development) DevStud 141 (Political Economy of Health) DevStud 152 (Program Implementation and Project Management)

MID-YEAR DevStud 190 (Practicum)

FOURTH YEAR

FIRST SEMESTER (18 units) Economics 115 (Philippine Economic History) Economics 141 (International Trade) DevStud 125 (International Aspect of Philippine and Third World Development) PND Elective Social Science 120 (Directed Readings in Social Sciences) DevStud 199 (Research Methods in Development Studies)

SECOND SEMESTER (15 units) Economics 151 (Government Finance) Cognate Cognate PND Elective DevStud 200 (Thesis)

POOL OF DS ELECTIVES DS 124 (Nationalism and Development) DS 126 (Politico-Administrative Institutions and Behavior) DS 128 (Human Resource Development) DS 140 (Special Problems in Development) CD 122 (Community Organization)

ECONOMICS COGNATES (partial list) Econ 121 (Money and Banking) Econ 161 (Industrial Organization) Econ 171 (Economics of Agriculture) Econ 181 (Labor Economics) Econ 191 (Development Economics)

Cognates can be chosen from higher Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology courses.