Actually, ‘fall’ has its origins as an Anglo-Saxon word, and was popularized for use to denote the season around the 16th century from the poetic term ‘the fall of leaf.’ In the language that would develop after 1066, words that were coded as being common or lowly generally had Anglo-Saxon roots while the ‘educated’ words of the elite had French and Latin roots. This is why, even in modern English, we use ‘cow,’ which has an Anglo-Saxon origin, for the animal out in the field and ‘beef,’ which has a French origin, for the food to be consumed. The poor handle the animal while the rich eat the meat, and that is reflected in the language. The language of the conquerors was elevated while the language of the conquered was made base and common. If ‘autumn’ sounds smarter than ‘fall,’ that is only the linguistic snobbery of history talking.
I fucking hate this post a passion anytime I see it and whenever it comes around with the rebuttal attached I enthusiastically reblog
sole survivor: every day is valentine's day when i'm with my BEST FRIEND.
nick valentine: stop that it wasn't funny the first time.
spillywolf-deactivated20190920 asked: Nick is so good at making people want to be better than they are or feel guilty about doing bad things he's such a dad without even doing it on purpose he makes you want to not disappoint him lol
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He’s a kind, soft spoken old guy who just wants to see the best in people and keep a sense of justice in an already messed up world. Even after all the cruelty he’s faced and the sheer mental trauma of waking up after the Apocalypse in a trash-heap; only to realize his minds a copy and the Nick Valentine who was a cop and had a fiance named Jenifer Lands wasn’t technically him.
I mean he said himself he was scared, confused and ‘mad as hell’ when he first woke up. Who wouldn’t be? And this was after years and years of being the institutes lab rat, honestly having most of those memories stripped was probably for the best. But just being shown a scrap of human
kindness by a group of settlers was enough for Nick to still believe
there was something to hang on to, and not to let his situation drive him to become something like Kellogg was.
So yeah when I do something bad and this amazing man shows disappointment you bet I feel like crap.
If you go to GMU, I do NOT recommend taking the IT 104 class for your requirement.
1.) It doesn’t teach you anything useful.
2.) The syllabus is condescending and lies to you about what “coding” is to make it’s “non-IT” students feel better about themselves.
3.) TA’s teach the lab and they don’t care if you learn anything or not, instead choosing to rush through the material so they can leave early.
4.) There’s obvious tension between the prof’s and the department. If I had dollar for every time my lecture professor said, “I don’t know, I’m just teaching what the department wants,” or “I didn’t design this lecture,” or “You don’t really need to know all this, just recognize it for the test,” I could earn back what I shelled out for this class.
5.) There’s no consistency or bother to make sure there’s consistency and accuracy.
If you need your IT requirement still, take a different class instead. It sounds like a good idea to take a class that teaches you about basic coding, website building, programs, etc. but that is not what you’ll get with this class unfortunately.
Yeah. But the real sham is that there is a requirement for such courses built into so many non-tech programs. Real IT people are specialists. Nobody really needs an overview course.
GMU touts that it’s important every one of their students leaves the uni “tech literate,” or at least capable of learning about technology. They don’t want anyone to leave and not be prepared, which is admirable, and you’re right that real IT people are specialists, so the idea of an “Intro to IT” is misleading. However, I was actually looking forward to this course because I’m lucky I know how to access the internet, I’m so computer dumb. I wanted to learn the basics of coding, or at least what that even means, and how computers even work so if I go to buy a new computer I know what ROM and RAM are. So far all I can remember is there are 8 bits in a byte. So someone like me that is IT dumb and wants somewhere to start, or least acquire the mental tools to learn later down the road, this class seems like a no-brainer.
I think the real problem though is that, because they require an IT class for non-IT majors, they have to shove so many people into a class and make it at a level everyone can pass that the class gets dumbed down to middle-school level. So maybe not making it a requirement is the solution, I dunno.
when you finish a paper just before the deadline and have no time to edit
the funny part is how obvious this is to so many professors. one semeser I had a professor who understood how much i had to work to pay for school, then commute over an hour to get to class, and he knew most of my work was all-nighters, but he loved my ideas so much that my faulty, raw writing just killed him. So, for my final, he gave me an extra week extension, without my asking, just to see what my work would look like if I took the time to process, digest, and edit. I poured so much into that damn paper to earn what he thought I deserved, and the end result was one of the only perfect paper scores he gave that semester.
