Professionals Discuss 10 Career Paths That Are Glorified By Society, But Are Actually Miserable in Reality: ‘Too many people think farming is idyllic and simple.’

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College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’

Have you ever taken part in a group project in which everybody did an equal share of the work? If you have, well then, congratulations, you are truly one in a million. Most of us, the unlucky regular folks, usually find ourselves doing all the work for people we barely know, just because we want …
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Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don’t do it: ‘It’s 40% of the total grade.’

How much easier could they have made this assignment? There’s something so refreshing about a teacher or a college professor who is actually strict. They state upfront that they know that all of the emails about losing your childhood dog that are conveniently sent the week of midterms are phony, and they won’t capitulate to …
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Professor fails to inform student of test rescheduling, causing student to miss the exam, student demands to choose a new date: ‘I got told to reshuffle my life’

Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you simply have to accept your fate.  When a college professor makes a mistake towards the students, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that those who pay the price are, in fact, the students, even though they did nothing to deserve it. For example, every student had this one …
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Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: ‘They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher’s assistant is AI.’

Anyone who thinks that critical thinking is not important should not be a college professor. What is the point of attending college? A great deal of the population thinks that college should be akin to trade school, where you train for a specific job and only that job. You get a Nursing degree to become …
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Student secretly reports cheating to teacher, after group of boys in her Spanish class shared exam paper in advance, later criticized by classmate who claims they “needed to pass,” forcing her to rethink her actions: ‘Should I have let karma do its job?’

No one ever wants to be the snitch, but when their dishonesty is affecting your results, we understand how one might walk down the route of betrayal. This student is dedicated to her Spanish class and has been studying for months…Learning a language is never easy, so when you finally start to pick it up, …
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25 Comforting College Memes For The Students Who Are Always One Step Behind

We’ve all been there: In desperate need of a private secretary to inform us of paper deadlines, ensure we are gracefully awoken for our 8 a.m.s, to place our textbooks gently under our pillows at night, and pray that some sliver of knowledge enters our brains.  Some of us are lucky enough to have those …
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‘He had plenty of chances’: College student gets ghosted by their partner on a group project, does all the work, and only credits themselves on the final paper; slacker gets the 0% grade they deserve

Group projects in college are supposed to teach students how to work in a team with another person, but what they truly teach us is to resent the slackers/freeloaders of the group. Funnily enough, this is a life lesson that will follow us forevermore in the workplace, with family, and in our friendships, but this …
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‘Nikolas, if you’d like to teach the class, let me know. Otherwise, I’m going to need you to stop interrupting every 5 minutes’: 22-year-old student constantly interrupts his professor’s lectures, complains to the department when she finally calls him out

If you’ve ever taken a humanities class in college, you know That Guy. That Guy could be any person of any gender, but one thing is very clear: they are incredibly annoying. They always think that their opinion is of the utmost importance, chiming in whenever they can about anything that comes to mind. It …
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‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out

Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out