Random Thoughts

[Mertron]

Yay school sports. The period with the most "student"-athletes averaged a 48% on the test compared to the other periods getting a 70%

And let me be clear. The average is that low because of an inverse bell curve with two zones around 20% and 95%. There are no C's and only a handful of B's. Just a bunch of students who belong in Honors getting A's and people who don't belong getting F's

tangentially related, don’t think i told this story

when i was teaching at Rutgers i had a student who was a student athlete (nothing big, good track runner for the school). he had already taken the class once and failed, took it the second time with me. was on track to fail again

i go in for my end of year review. higher ups review our grades. they ask about students who are failing, this student comes up. they review his work and agree he doesn’t pass.

i mention he failed the class before and he is a student athlete (not to get him pity, it came up in conversation about the student and his work ethic). almost immediately, the person reviewing my grades goes “oh. well if he’s a student athlete and he’s already failed the class before, let’s not ruin his eligibility, if he showed up to every class and did all the work like your records indicate, let’s just give him a C”

[Demosthenes]

tangentially related, don’t think i told this story

when i was teaching at Rutgers i had a student who was a student athlete (nothing big, good track runner for the school). he had already taken the class once and failed, took it the second time with me. was on track to fail again

i go in for my end of year review. higher ups review our grades. they ask about students who are failing, this student comes up. they review his work and agree he doesn’t pass.

i mention he failed the class before and he is a student athlete (not to get him pity, it came up in conversation about the student and his work ethic). almost immediately, the person reviewing my grades goes “oh. well if he’s a student athlete and he’s already failed the class before, let’s not ruin his eligibility, if he showed up to every class and did all the work like your records indicate, let’s just give him a C”

LMAO!

[Zetanio]

yeah man, that's how it has been for awhile. pretty lame.

[Melena]

tangentially related, don’t think i told this story

when i was teaching at Rutgers i had a student who was a student athlete (nothing big, good track runner for the school). he had already taken the class once and failed, took it the second time with me. was on track to fail again

i go in for my end of year review. higher ups review our grades. they ask about students who are failing, this student comes up. they review his work and agree he doesn’t pass.

i mention he failed the class before and he is a student athlete (not to get him pity, it came up in conversation about the student and his work ethic). almost immediately, the person reviewing my grades goes “oh. well if he’s a student athlete and he’s already failed the class before, let’s not ruin his eligibility, if he showed up to every class and did all the work like your records indicate, let’s just give him a C”

Back when I was playing Rift, we had an Aussie attending school in the US on a basketball scholarship. He had to drop out of one raid because his dumb ass accidentally started a timed online test one night. He also mentioned how it was common for their tutors to do their work to keep their grades up and maintain eligibility.

[Ksandra]

I am not good at physics. Idk it just slithers out of my head. I had to take it for a Gen Ed course. Bombed first test. Visited the professor every single week for tutoring. Bombed every test. He knew that I was an English major, but he also knew I showed up to every class and he saw I took detailed notes. I promised him I would never switch my major to science and he passed me with a C. Lol

[archibaldcrane]

I discovered at the age of 44 that I need to buy "tall" shirts for them to fit properly. I'm only 5'10.5" but apparently I have a long torso.

I've been going ham on the Banana Republic factory Black Friday sale now.

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[Mertron]

I am not good at physics. Idk it just slithers out of my head. I had to take it for a Gen Ed course. Bombed first test. Visited the professor every single week for tutoring. Bombed every test. He knew that I was an English major, but he also knew I showed up to every class and he saw I took detailed notes. I promised him I would never switch my major to science and he passed me with a C. Lol

i suck at math but took ap calc/physics in high school. failed both for the year, but our school treats AP courses as honor courses, so they only counted as Ds

I got a 4 on both AP exams though so I got college credit for both. fun side note: i only got a 3 on the AP english exam

anyway, because i had college math credits from high school AP, I had to take exactly one math class in college: “math for the liberal arts”

it was dumb people math. like, we had a unit on pie charts/bar graphs. easiest A ever

[Demosthenes]

https://bsky.app/profile/lbyock.bsky.../3lbkelnxdw22b

[Mertron]

getting pretty tired of AI summaries being on everything

[Roranora]

the internet got lots worse in the last few years

thanks for not changing BG. i cherish how we all cunt-punt the bots around here

[Melena]

getting pretty tired of AI summaries being on everything

Same. Especially when the AI summaries half the time are also inaccurate.

[Andalusian girls]

google has never been worse the inaccurate as hell AI headlines are obscene

want a question to anything gotta type it then end with reddit and rely on the old school neckbeard denizens

[Roranora]

the best google search results are pretty far down there nowadays. it's a full screen to clear the AI and the sponsored results sometimes. i clicked on page 2 of google search results this week for the first time in 10 or 20 years

[Milkster]

Semaglutide and other similar medications destroyed the body positivity movement.

[Zealot]

Because it was an anti-effort movement at its core.

[Anoat]

If they just did some regular movement maybe they wouldn’t need it HIYOOOOO

I can joke I am a recovering fat man

[Andalusian girls]

i banged a fat chick once can i joke

[Salodin]

Semaglutide and other similar medications destroyed the body positivity movement.

Nah, just made it harder to be fat with excuses. Work hard and lose weight, or work less hard and lose weight on semaglutides. Either way, being poor is the only excuse for being fat as fuck now. And no one cares about the poors

/s

Because it was an anti-effort movement at its core.

Factsss

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[Zealot]

i banged a fat chick once can i joke

I was not previously banging a fat chick but my girlfriend has not been the healthiest with her eating the last year and I can't say I'm a fan.

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[Anoat]

See that’s the worst kind. She ain’t been single since she put on weight so she doesn’t have to put in effort. You need a sturdy gal that KNOWS what she is so she puts in more effort to please you