How difficult is it to effectively use pepper spray?
There’ve been three reported sexual assaults on my uni’s campus in the past week and I’m only taking night classes this semester. I either have to walk a mile through two construction zones or wait up to 30 mins for a shuttle in order to get to the only parking lot I could afford. I’ve never used pepper spray before, campus doesn’t allow us to carry weapons for self-defense (not that I’d know what I’m doing anyway), anyone have suggestions or insight? Is pepper spray easy to screw up? Thanks!
I’m not sure which wins worse story I’ve had to proofread for my class, the one with the tiger titties or this one where a girl is forced to eat herself alive.
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.
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.
So my astronomy lab professor has old vet syndrome and likes to just ramble on and on and make random comparisons to the army that no one gets.
But last night he couldn’t get the computer to stop refreshing a program, so when the window popped up it would chime, but he just decided to ignore it and carry on lecturambling.
Well eventually he gave up and went over to the computer and said louder than he should have, “shut up, you damn communist!”
And in that moment I realized I too have old vet syndrome.
Proofreading classmates’ work for my fiction writing class got me like
Day one of my American Lit Class
Prof: Please write your name on the index cards, I keep a detailed note system on every one of my students. That way if someone calls asking asking about you for a job or if you ever said anything critical of the government, I can say, uh... yes, I remember Miss... Weiler, was it?
Me: Yes. And hundreds of times. I'm doomed already.
Prof: ... Right. And on that note, if you don't want your information documented, please pass up $75 with your named index card.
I know everyone rags on the “70-year-old professor with tenure” archetype, but I’ve honestly always had the best experience with those profs. Their syllabus and classes are simple and direct, you know what to expect, and they’ve always been the most forgiving with me when I come talk to them about late assignments because I work or commute. Also, if they’ve been teaching for over forty years then heck, they must REALLY LOVE what they’re teaching!
I mean they really only ask two things of you, respect them and do the readings.
My English professor likes to make casual and barely relevant discussions of his pet political beliefs in class the main discussion, do you think he’d take it kindly if I did the same in my papers for his class, providing opposing viewpoints to his?
My drawing prof’s absurd size requirements make me not want to do the assignments. 36"x48" is too cumbersome for drawing, I don’t have a full studio to work on this, nor do I live on campus and can use the uni’s studios.
I’m just gonna do a series of smaller drawings that add up to that requirement. Harumph.
