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Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#1 - 2013-09-19 14:42:59 UTC
What was the most boring college assignment that you had to do?

Mine so far is about writing a two page report on Listening. How am I supposed to do that? :P

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#2 - 2013-09-19 15:04:52 UTC
Welp, if it's no more specific than that, I'd do a quick paper on the difference between listening to a conversation and listening to music.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#3 - 2013-09-19 15:15:30 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Welp, if it's no more specific than that, I'd do a quick paper on the difference between listening to a conversation and listening to music.


Great suggestion! Thanks :).

So, what was your boring college assignment that you can remember?

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2013-09-19 15:29:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Jade III wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Welp, if it's no more specific than that, I'd do a quick paper on the difference between listening to a conversation and listening to music.


Great suggestion! Thanks :).

So, what was your boring college assignment that you can remember?



I only took subjects I was interested in, so I never actually faced the problem ! Big smile Thank you Rice U.

edit: High School was where that problem was. And too many to even begin to remember after 30 years now.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#5 - 2013-09-19 15:42:21 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Jade III wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Welp, if it's no more specific than that, I'd do a quick paper on the difference between listening to a conversation and listening to music.


Great suggestion! Thanks :).

So, what was your boring college assignment that you can remember?



I only took subjects I was interested in, so I never actually faced the problem ! Big smile Thank you Rice U.

edit: High School was where that problem was. And too many to even begin to remember after 30 years now.


Right now, the problem is that I have to take generals. But next semester I will go on with my Bachelor's degree in Computer Programming.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#6 - 2013-09-19 15:49:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Had to read the entire Old Testament of the Bible over a summer session. And take exams on the content, of course. The first few books are interesting-- lots of angels, fish swallowing prophets, pillars of flame, wars, evil tyrants, massacres, etc. But the later ones... many pages of endless lecturing to the Israelites about how sinful and crappy they are.

(Went to a Christian university (Baylor U.). Arts or sciences majors had mandatory Old Testament and New Testament classes. Business majors just had one class in "Business Ethics." Kind of ironic, science majors were forced to read religion, but business/commerce guys apparently didn't need religion.... Smile)
Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#7 - 2013-09-19 15:57:52 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Had to read the entire Old Testament of the Bible over a summer session. And take exams on the content, of course. The first few books are interesting-- lots of angels, fish swallowing prophets, pillars of flame, wars, evil tyrants, massacres, etc. But the later ones... many pages of endless lecturing to the Israelites about how sinful and crappy they are.

(Went to a Christian university (Baylor U.). Arts or sciences majors had mandatory Old Testament and New Testament classes. Business majors just had one class in "Business Ethics." Kind of ironic, science majors were forced to read religion, but business/commerce guys apparently didn't need religion.... Smile)



Yes, that can get quite boring. Especially Isaiah, he can get confusing most times, but he does speak truth. I'm sorry you had to go through that, must've been a pain.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#8 - 2013-09-19 16:00:35 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Kind of ironic, science majors were forced to read religion, but business/commerce guys apparently didn't need religion.... Smile)



Welp, that's Texas for you most indeed. Now they teach in classes all about Jesus walking with the dinosaurs..........

The business types have already been ceremonially inducted with the proper white, conservative, God-fearing paradigms.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#9 - 2013-09-19 16:03:16 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Had to read the entire Old Testament of the Bible over a summer session. And take exams on the content, of course. The first few books are interesting-- lots of angels, fish swallowing prophets, pillars of flame, wars, evil tyrants, massacres, etc. But the later ones... many pages of endless lecturing to the Israelites about how sinful and crappy they are.



I tried re-reading the Old T on a lark a few years ago and got up through Deuteronomy.

At that point I remembered the promise to myself never to waste time reading anything more incomprehensible than Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". To outdo that is really an accomplishment considering the age of the text.

They were on some really wild mushrooms found in those deserts before writing, is all I can ever ultimately conclude.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#10 - 2013-09-19 16:18:25 UTC
Jade III wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Had to read the entire Old Testament of the Bible over a summer session. And take exams on the content, of course. The first few books are interesting-- lots of angels, fish swallowing prophets, pillars of flame, wars, evil tyrants, massacres, etc. But the later ones... many pages of endless lecturing to the Israelites about how sinful and crappy they are.

(Went to a Christian university (Baylor U.). Arts or sciences majors had mandatory Old Testament and New Testament classes. Business majors just had one class in "Business Ethics." Kind of ironic, science majors were forced to read religion, but business/commerce guys apparently didn't need religion.... Smile)



Yes, that can get quite boring. Especially Isaiah, he can get confusing most times, but he does speak truth. I'm sorry you had to go through that, must've been a pain.

Right on, it was around Isaiah and Jeremiah that the going got slow. I don't really mean to bash the old scriptures of whatever religion, though. What made this course much worse was that the prof was a fundamentalist preacher. He didn't just teach the content, he was a Reaganite conservative who'd lecture us on how verses related to current politics (abortion, single mothers, welfare, environmentalism, etc.) Pretty grueling 8:00 AM summer class. Smile

Yep, Krixtal, that's Texas for you. Ugh
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#11 - 2013-09-19 16:23:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Micheal Dietrich
Not sure about boring but I remember one of the most frustrating which also involved writing an essay. I think the topic I chose was Evolution versus I.D. The main issue was that we had a couple of these before but we changed teachers in Comp 2. In any case this was a multi week project and each week we had to turn in our current work and she kept coming back saying that I was still showing too much emotion or that my writing leaned towards a rant, so each week I had to tear it down and make my words more bland sounding. 6 weeks she did this to me. By the end I still got a ok grade but reading it, like in your head, was like listening to the science teacher in wonder years.

Edit: My saving grace in that class was that I murdered the opposing team in debate.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#12 - 2013-09-19 16:38:32 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Not sure about boring but I remember one of the most frustrating which also involved writing an essay. I think the topic I chose was Evolution versus I.D.


ID. Sigh. Any attempt to merge religion and science is nothing more than Middle Ages Mysticism re-written. Neal Stephenson in his novel "Anathem" calls it "mystagoguery". "The Rise of the Mystagogues" and all that, and the accompanying dangers.

When I hear about such crap coming from our educational institutions, I'm just glad I was done with school 30 years ago when they used to teach at least some real science, not wishful-thinking by these mystics.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
voetius
Grundrisse
#13 - 2013-09-19 21:08:58 UTC

I didn't realise Neal Stephenson had done anything since Cryptonomicon. As for Intelligent Design I rather enjoyed reading The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (more than you ever wanted to know about teleology etc).

To the OP: wow Listening, really, I would hand in an essay about how teachers are lazy and just pick random vague words from a thesaurus because they are .... arrrgh, you know.
Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#14 - 2013-09-20 01:27:47 UTC
any of my math

only recently did I decide to enjoy it by whooping it and spanking my exams (also first to finish, etc)

I'm developing a liking for math like I developed for running. it sucks, the only benefit from doing it is being able to do it more--but when you excel at it, people respect you (albeit they look at you funny).

tl;dr: I learned to love math by whooping its ass

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#15 - 2013-09-20 11:14:42 UTC
voetius wrote:

I didn't realise Neal Stephenson had done anything since Cryptonomicon.



He has written a 2900 page trilogy called the "Baroque Cycle" set from 1660 - 1720.

"Anathem" - probably the best SF novel ever witten.

And most recently "ReamDe" (typo for 'readme') about a software developer of MMO games.

Upcoming is another series of linked historical novels. 2 volumes coming so far. No specified time period revealed yet.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-09-20 12:00:18 UTC
My Masters Thesis.

My prof didnt like my initial idea and demanded I do something that she said would pass muster so i spent 8 months researching the inner workings of the chinese foreign policy bureau and its machinations and whether they are a threat to the west.

Worst bloody paper of my life. All 60k words of it.

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Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#17 - 2013-09-20 13:55:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade III
Graygor wrote:
My Masters Thesis.

My prof didnt like my initial idea and demanded I do something that she said would pass muster so i spent 8 months researching the inner workings of the chinese foreign policy bureau and its machinations and whether they are a threat to the west.

Worst bloody paper of my life. All 60k words of it.


I'm sorry you had to go through that. I bet you learned something that you didn't want to about the Chinese Foreign Policy.

I just read my listening paper guidelines, and it says that I have to write my own personal experiences that demonstrated listening. At least it is double spaced. But nonetheless, it is VERY boring to write about.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-09-20 14:01:04 UTC
Eh, it is kind of useful in my job now so i dont totally regret it.

Just all the information was so damn dry.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Mr Pragmatic
#19 - 2013-09-21 10:07:56 UTC
Right now I am in English 102. I have to write a 4 page essay on a 20 line poem. I hate trying to find meaning where there is none.

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Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#20 - 2013-09-21 16:00:56 UTC
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
Right now I am in English 102. I have to write a 4 page essay on a 20 line poem. I hate trying to find meaning where there is none.


Yikes, I would hate to do that for my homework.

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