College, too easy for its own good

[TeyshaBlue]

Teysha agreeing with Butons is like a sign of the apocalypse. Good thing that post didn't happen on May 20th.

[101A]

When teaching was considered as part of the equation, student course assessments tended to be the method used to evaluate teaching, which tends to incentivize lenient grading and entertaining forms of instruction.

Gospel.

[DarrinS]

Oh, and Darrin directing the comment about critical thinking to me is about as laughable as things get. Darrin displays about as much critical thinking as my cat and my cat is about the dumbest animal I've ever owned.

Aren't you the same person that said the hardest class you ever took was a biology course at SAC?

[DarrinS]

Manny,


Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.

[MannyIsGod]

Aren't you the same person that said the hardest class you ever took was a biology course at SAC?

Manny,


Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.

Do any of those classes teach you critical thinking? Your lack of critical thinking in this very thread is on display, Darrin. You can't even help yourself but then again we don't expect a bird to change its feathers.

[MannyIsGod]

Also, I'm curious as to why you think a Biology class at SAC couldn't be harder than those courses. Explain.

[DarrinS]

Do any of those classes teach you critical thinking? Your lack of critical thinking in this very thread is on display, Darrin. You can't even help yourself but then again we don't expect a bird to change its feathers.

Let me know when your cat gets an engineering degree and masters a dozen programming languages.


EDIT> By the way, do you really own a cat? Why would that not surprise me?

[MannyIsGod]

My cat also doesn't get owned here on a daily basis. I'm sure you've had accomplishments in your life, Darrin, but what you somehow can't grasp is that you display many of the faults in that very article you linked here on a daily basis. You may very well be the poster child for the problems in the article and yet after posting something that rails about the lack of critical thinking in achieving degrees you then try to use your degrees as a proof that you have intelligence?

Do you not see the you do? I mean how is that possible?

Also, are you saying an alpha male can't own a cat, Darrin? The cat is actually my GFs but since we live together and I enjoy the cat, I consider it mine as well.

[MannyIsGod]

Darrin in OP: College educations aren't all that.

Darrin later in the thread: I have a college education so I'm smart!!!!!!

[DarrinS]

Also, I'm curious as to why you think a Biology class at SAC couldn't be harder than those courses. Explain.

Well, I never took undergrad bio at the prestigious SAC (Mecca for critical thinking), but I did take it.

[MannyIsGod]

You know, I would actually give you credit for showing critical thinking by your continual dodging of questions if you actually performed it with any skill. The same could be said for your constant erection of strawmen.

So, why don't you think a biology class at SAC coudln't be harder than the courses you mentioned?

[DarrinS]

So, why don't you think a biology class at SAC coudln't be harder than the courses you mentioned?

A graduate-level bio class that included a healthy dose of stats might be difficult, but your standard bio 101? Not so much.

[TeyshaBlue]

Manny,


Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.

lol @ transcript smack.

[MannyIsGod]

Obviously it wasn't your standard Bio 101 if it stood out. Are you saying that all undergraduate biology courses are equal? Are you saying that it is impossible for a professor at SAC teaching this course to apply a very high bar?

You see, a person who has critical thinking skills would actually have thought of these questions.

[TeyshaBlue]

18th century part-writing ftw!

[MannyIsGod]

lol @ transcript smack.

Thats not even the kicker though. First, Darrin posts the OP then goes to transcript smack. Obviously, Darrin displays the ultimate level in critical thinking.

[TeyshaBlue]

Oh you plebians with your biology and engineering classes. Positively gauche!

[desflood]

The cat is actually my GFs

A true alpha male wouldn't have felt the need to point that out

[MannyIsGod]

A true alpha male wouldn't have felt the need to point that out

good call.

[TeyshaBlue]

A true alpha male wouldn't have felt the need to point that out

[LnGrrrR]

Darrin, do you consider your critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing ability to be at a high level?

[Blake]

As this year's crop of college graduates leaves school, burdened with high levels of debt and entering a severely depressed job market, they may be asking themselves a fundamental question: Was college worth it?

I don't think this question was ever really given a straight answer.

If you go to college for the sole purpose of learning, I think it may be whatever you put into it, (with several variables involved of course, like course content and university choice/staff, etc.). If you learned what you went to school to learn, then yes, college was worth it.

If you go to college with the purpose of becoming an engineer, and you get a job as an engineer, then yes, college was worth it.

If you go to college with the idea that getting a degree in any subject will help you land a job later on, in my experience, 99+% of the time you are going to screw yourself over with a ty job that you probably could have landed without the degree
.....not to mention the student loan that will come with that for many ignorant fools. In this instance, college would definitely not be worth it.

I can't stand how society forces the notion down on kids that they need a college education when many really don't.

[DarrinS]

^good points. I agree 100%

[DMX7]

Easy or not, a college degree still greatly increases the probability of getting a good job. It was not, nor will it ever be an assurance of employment especially when fewer jobs are available.

[LnGrrrR]

Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.

Don't you work in software? (confused)