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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 3, 2011 2:35:59 GMT -5
I managed to glide through my junior and senior english classes on discussion alone. I don't usually speak up in class if I can help it, but I also always seem to be the only one in any of my classes that has any idea of what's going on. I'd pause after a question was asked because I was waiting for /anybody/ else to answer and it's just the most awkward thing ever when people turn to look at me like they're asking 'well, aren't you going to answer?'. I did this all last semester. I'd bring my dinner (it was an evening sem) and munch through the first half of the class, which would be full of awkward pauses and hesitant answers, then spend the second half dominating the discussion. The best part was that I hadn't even done the reading most of the time -- I just listened to what the other people said about it, formulated my own conclusions based on that, and extrapolated. |
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Post by inarikins on Jun 3, 2011 10:08:23 GMT -5
I did this all last semester. I'd bring my dinner (it was an evening sem) and munch through the first half of the class, which would be full of awkward pauses and hesitant answers, then spend the second half dominating the discussion. The best part was that I hadn't even done the reading most of the time -- I just listened to what the other people said about it, formulated my own conclusions based on that, and extrapolated. I didn't even have to do that. I guess I was just the queen of bullshitting when it came to that class. I never read, and aced the tests just in discussion. Apparently I also had 'good test-taking skills'. -shrugs- |
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 6, 2011 8:03:54 GMT -5
I don't really like physical books as anything but an aphrodisiac.
(... C'mon an otherwise empty and forgotten wing of a university library... Shiver... yum...Anyway, moving on.)
I read virtually everything on the computer, or create audio books from text files. If an eBook does not exist for the material I am working with, I actually make e-versions of books before sitting down to spend time turning inked up sheets of dead tree. I can't remember the last physical book that I actually read cover to cover.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:12:43 GMT -5
I'm a bad English major because I don't read nearly as much as I should.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 8, 2011 19:50:00 GMT -5
I never dominate class discussions. I get jittery when I have to talk in public and everything thing I say just sounds like nonsense. When I have something to say, I talk with my professor after class. I am the exact same way. I admire the people who boldly contribute to the discussion, but I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack if I even raise my hand. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 20:23:57 GMT -5
I'm the kind of asshole that dominates class discussion to the point that it makes people uncomfortable haha. There are only two or three other male English majors at my school right now, and whenever we're in a class together, we get a little too excited and really gang up on people.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 22:03:20 GMT -5
I'm the kind of asshole that dominates class discussion to the point that it makes people uncomfortable haha. There are only two or three other male English majors at my school right now, and whenever we're in a class together, we get a little too excited and really gang up on people. There were... two male English majors in my graduating class? I don't think they ever had overlap, that I've seen, but I somehow doubt they'd get along. I think there's one in the class below us? Why aren't there as many guys in the department? I new thread, I say! |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 22:25:49 GMT -5
I'm the kind of asshole that dominates class discussion to the point that it makes people uncomfortable haha. There are only two or three other male English majors at my school right now, and whenever we're in a class together, we get a little too excited and really gang up on people. There were... two male English majors in my graduating class? I don't think they ever had overlap, that I've seen, but I somehow doubt they'd get along. I think there's one in the class below us? Why aren't there as many guys in the department? I new thread, I say! I'm lucky I get along with the other males. They're actually two of my best friends. We go hard in the paint. |
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Post by Umbvix on Jun 8, 2011 23:38:44 GMT -5
I'm a bad English major because...
...I'm actually an Art major. >w>
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Post by shaunanigans on Jun 12, 2011 9:31:20 GMT -5
My largest fault as an English major is my habit to write how I think, that is, with lots of pauses...therefore my writing has lots of inappropriate commas.
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Post by meggieinluckey on Jun 14, 2011 21:15:52 GMT -5
I never finished a book for my literature class this past semester, yet still managed to dominate the discussion. Oh, and I found myself despising most ENGL majors this semester, due to their racist/classist/sexist comments.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 21:56:39 GMT -5
Oh, and I found myself despising most ENGL majors this semester, due to their racist/classist/sexist comments. For me, it's mostly when they impose religious views on a text. Yes, I know that a lot of these authors were Christian, but if you get to read it from a modern standpoint, then I get to read it from a Pagan standpoint, dammit. Bite me. /eyetwitch |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 22:02:53 GMT -5
Oh, and I found myself despising most ENGL majors this semester, due to their racist/classist/sexist comments. For me, it's mostly when they impose religious views on a text. Yes, I know that a lot of these authors were Christian, but if you get to read it from a modern standpoint, then I get to read it from a Pagan standpoint, dammit. Bite me. /eyetwitch Agreeing with this! There are more interpretations out there of a text than just a Christian one. |
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 15, 2011 0:29:53 GMT -5
Oh, and I found myself despising most ENGL majors this semester, due to their racist/classist/sexist comments. For me, it's mostly when they impose religious views on a text. Yes, I know that a lot of these authors were Christian, but if you get to read it from a modern standpoint, then I get to read it from a Pagan standpoint, dammit. Bite me. /eyetwitch I certainly feel this way when talking about Narnia. So many pagan things but nooo Christian only.  I guess I'm a bad English major because I have barely read any of the canon. I'm working on it now though! |
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Post by shaunanigans on Jun 15, 2011 8:19:17 GMT -5
I never finished a book for my literature class this past semester, yet still managed to dominate the discussion. Oh, and I found myself despising most ENGL majors this semester, due to their racist/classist/sexist comments. I hate most of my other English majors. The ones at my school are so damn pretentious. |
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