What I've Been Up To Lately...

[figureaddict]

Extra Credit was awsome in college. Bassicall it was a way for the instructor to say, hey, here is a way to learn what you need to and get actual learning/enjoyment out of the class withought having to regurgetate all the meaningless crap that isn't needed.

[Jodo]

I agree, although I think I've only had...hmmm...maybe 4 or 5 classes that offered E.C., 2 of which were this semester!

BR, that is rediculous to no end! And I absolutely hate assigned seats either way. I understand that it may help an instructor learn named quicker, but honestly my day wouldn't fall apart if someone couldn't remember my name...In your case she was using the seating arrangement to be down right evil!

I performed A Christmas Carol today as well! Over 700 people in the first showing, with 540 reserved for tomorrow's show!

My friend John and I as Scrooge and Bob Cratchit in the good ol' office:
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[Big Red]

I performed A Christmas Carol today as well! Over 700 people in the first showing, with 540 reserved for tomorrow's show!

My friend John and I as Scrooge and Bob Cratchit in the good ol' office:

That's awesome! A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas stories. I need to start reading it to my kids again soon. There's a production of it going on locally this year but the only showings are on nights I work.

Curves were a lot more common than extra credit in my classes. A lot of the extra credit I got was because I looked at the syllabus and did projects weeks before they were due, then the professor had a change plans and came up with new or different assignments. This left me with one or several completed projects/papers and nothing to do with them. I had A's or higher in each of the classes where this happened, but the professor was always nice enough to accept them as extra credit anyway.

I did have one class where there were so many students struggling to pass that the professor, who was vehemently opposed to grading on a curve, gave extra credit for things you'd think were no-brainers, such as spelling your name, her name (which she printed on the board) and the name of the class (Geology, also printed on the board) correctly on the tests. And, yes, we actually had a couple students who didn't get any of the extra credit. However, that was also the class where the neon-wearing, mullet-sporting, constantly-flexing meat heads wanted to fight me and a friend of mine. I'm pretty sure the neon twins were two of the students who missed out on some of the extra credit. They couldn't get over the fact that my buddy and I would sit at the back of class, goof off the whole time and still ace every test and project. It got under their skin so much that they called us out in the middle of class one day. The professor--a sweet but grizzled old lady standing about 4'10"--said, "No, you'll meet me outside!" I think everyone in the building could hear her yelling at them while she waited on security to escort them off campus. After class she apologized to the two of us (it hadn't been the first incident with Hanz & Franz). She said she enjoyed having us in class and that she'd complain about us goofing off if not for the fact that we had two of the highest grades in the class.

[Jodo]

I had actually never watched it before this year! It was a good show, but our rehearsals had been going horrible before the performaces started. That's another story for a different day though!

I've never done an assignment that didn't eventually come to be required in a class. I really can't stand it when it seems we are running short on time, and assignments that the professor has seamingly forgotten about are suddenly pushed into our schedules. This has happened a few times, once with just 3 class days left in the semester, in an attempt to try and "get more points" into the class.

And wow, I've yet to have an experience with anyone acting belligerent in a class. The only people I have to put up with are the people who talk the entire class period, and are never asked to be quiet. One time in a chemistry class, there were two softball scholarship girls who sat together a few rows behind me, and they talked to one another for several minutes, in semi-hushed voices. I was already irritated at them, and had planned to say something to them at break, but then one of them answered her cell phone during class. I pushed my chair out from the table and shouted that they should shut the Hell up, as some people where trying to listen to the lecture. As I sat down I realized that everyone has stopped to look, including the professor. He looked at me smiling, nodded, and went right back to it.

[Big Red]

Belligerent classmates are one of the things that made college so enjoyable.

I guess I was lucky enough that cell phones weren't very common when I went to college. You'd see pagers from time to time, but those were mostly on drug dealers (like the one who offered to sell me an Uzi and a bunch of similar weapons, then brought some samples to class).

I had a few teachers who snuck assignments in at the last minute. I could never understand why we were expected to pay because he or she didn't follow the syllabus or forgot to add something to it.

[figureaddict]

Uzi's are big right now. You could a been a filthy rich armes dealer. Missed your chance Big Red.

[Big Red]

Ha! It was actually the second time in my educational career that I had someone open a book bag/backpack full of guns and money in front of me. I must have been doing something wrong.

[Jodo]

I always attract the people who have drugs. I will admit I probably look like I partake, but contrary to popular belief I do not.

And the semester is over! Thank God! XD

[Big Red]

And the semester is over! Thank God! XD

My son's just ended today. Now we get to put him to work around the house for the next two weeks, lol.

The ones who showed me guns were mainly known as big-time drug dealers. The guns were either a side business or tools of the trade. I had several friends who were very into the drug scene, but it never appealed to me. That didn't stop one of them from including me in a lot of his stories. For years I heard of all sorts of crazy things I did with him. Some of them sounded kind of fun, although I can't lay claim to actually having been involved. I never could figure out if he was making up the stories altogether, adding me in to make them sound more believable, adding me in to make me look bad, or if he'd been hallucinating and really thought I did all those things with him.

[figureaddict]

A couple of my friends used to once and a while smoke pot, but I never did.