In my previous profession a guy who was on the fast track nearly lost his job becaues of this outlook, was tasked with training up 6 individuals and told them if all of them pass he's not doing his job. Failed ALL of them because they didn't do the exam in the order he told them and was booted from training people forever. What a b*****d

I am one of those three people

Perhaps your soulmate is in the administration building.

Nothing traumatized me more in college than having to take 2 math classes due to a "general education" requirement. And one of them was freakin' calculus! I still can't believe I passed it :D

..for the rest of my life.

Dying of thirst in the desert: "Well, at least we aren't in middle school."

Scholarships summed up pretty much perfectly

Priorities.

I did it. All it take is discipline and not getting hammered the day before. No big deal

Update: oops, I was just in the cafeteria

Workplace relations the next year discussed the "Trail mix incident"

Why is this so true though? Can someone explain. Is it because of aging?

I am 61, with a PhD, was a professor for 20 years and I still have those dreams!

As a non-American I had to google what the ACT was and then went into a rabbit hole of googling SAT vs ACT . It feels alien because round my parts we all take the same test, the "bac" short for "baccalauréat", an exam instituted in France by Napoleon himself in 1808 and then widely copied continent-wide under many different names. As it happens, in my country, Romania, it's named the exact same. And that's just to finish high-school and get your diploma. And then, because I decided to be an architect, I had to take an extra admission exam specifically for that university. And for the latter, I even remember the date: September 9, 2001. You can probably guess why I remember it - the next day after the test I went out with friends to celebrate, got back early in the morning and slept until 3 something PM. Walked in the living room just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC...

First, ask her if one of their parents owns the company where her "dream job" would be located. One never knows.

I went to a college with more students than my entire town's population. Overwhelmed, on the first day I stood in the quad with a map in my hand crying. Finally, someone stopped and asked me what was the matter. I said I couldn't find my class, and they said, that's nothing to cry about and walked away.

This is something that college/university DOES teach you: you're not the hot-shot you thought you were, lower your expectations.

My college had "Happy Friday Guy". Dude riding on an electric scooter (like Razor brand stand up scooter, no seat), dressed in a superhero cape & eye mask. Shouting as loud as he could around campus "HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!" Someone eventually gave him a Tshirt with the official HFG logo superman style. We loved him.

I still wonder what happened to 1000 word essay on Byzantian Christianity me 10 years ago and me now that takes a day to reply to "wyd"

yep. No-one cares. Just get through the course.

Do this in the breakroom at work too. Throws the whole room off when a newbie doesn't know better and everyone moves their seat because of it.

Just try bookng a seat on a british train. Very low chance that you get the seat you actually booked.

I still think about a student I sat beside in into to astronomy back in 2001. We talked every week, but never exchanged info.

One high school teacher determined the seating chart every 6 weeks by placing us in the order of our most recent grades. That would probably not be allowed today, labeled as shaming. But it motivated this slothful student to absorb more than in other classes. Several decades later, hers is one of the few faculty names that come easily to mind. In a good way.

I never had that problem

THIS lol I think it gets programmed into us at a young age, so we get so used to it being the norm and do it as adults too 😆

Okay, Sheldon, take a chill pill...

Except it’s middle school vs. high school

Covid times.

This has carried on post-college for me...

wow that's advanced. Our idiots are still emailing attachments around with no version control.

LMAO so true!! 😆

This is the most nutshelled nutshell I've ever read.

You really shouldn't skip English class.

Serious: One of my professors escaped out of East Germany and came to the US. Gives you a whole different perspective on life.

Heh, some of my college photos, taken in the dorm room, do have visible collections of empty wine bottles sitting on top of the wardrobe, like they are trophies :D

Sounds about right

Sometimes I do this on work meetings, e.g. "(colleague) sneezed twice."

I'm about to be a freshman... for high skl--everything comparing HS to college here is making me nervous, is it really that bad?

Oh my God. Why are all these so true??!!!

*blinks in European*

away?

'No boys past 2am'? Is that code for 'your boyfriend can do anything you both consent to under this roof, except wake up here'?

Feels like a minor annoyance in high school... but like vile torture in college.

Upvoted for mario kart

Will granted where I live

Can't post right now. Changing router name...

Miss the days of eating random junk whenever because you're pope, gain no weight, not constipated from it and your body doesn't feel like it's dying because you skipped veggies for a day.

More students should use office hours. It's a great opportunity to stand out in the professor's mind, to get your questions addressed, to earn participation points, to get one-on-one tutoring, and to get hints about how to most effectively study the course material.

To be fair, classes in college are harder and likely longer. For example, some of my classes back then were 3 hours long, with small break in-between. So I could only take like 2 classes max a day.

Priorities

One thing that was better than high school was that people's opinions of you mattered less and less as time went on.