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One of the things I hate most is when presentations are literally read from the powerpoint.
Guys use the powerpoint to HELP your presentation, not read the entire powerpoint verbatim.
The whole FUN in speeches is not having to read off papers and screens. I can't comprehend people doing that, particularly when it always comes off worse.
I liked stats in math for some weird reason
There kinda fun.
Aside from that I'm kinda bad at it.
Best presentation I ever did was an oral practice/memorization thing for Latin.
I had to memorize a passage from Paradise Lost in Latin then present it to the class. Seizing the opportunity, I promptly recounted Lucifer's fall in my best Tim Curry impersonation while making Master Xehanort-esque hand gestures. It was awesome.
I like stats that can help me view the problem as a whole, provide a visual comparison between each part of that whole.
My favorite presentation was when I had to act like the god Hephaestus telling everyone about himself. I even had a cane and everything to support my two limp legs, and I was as bitter as hell. I also apologized for making the world's first woman to the class, and that got a major laugh. It's fun being jaded sometimes.
About the Power Point thing: One time, we were supposed to do group projects involving power points, but I got stuck by myself because I sucked at approaching people. Everyone else had their shit together and just read what was on the presentation. I only had about five pages worth of my powerpoint subject and had to bullshit the rest.
I got a B @_@.
Grades can be good for your self esteem as well.
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I liked stats in math for some weird reason
There kinda fun.
Aside from that I'm kinda bad at it.
Same. Stats is basically logic. The only thing aside from listmaking that I can do on that side of the brain.
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Grades can be good for your self esteem as well.
Yeah, at the time you get them.
Then try wasting your social opportunities, and possibly any chance at happiness for five years for what are essentially worthless letters, THEN see what that does for your self esteem.
As I've said before, the only lasting thing I got out of college were the classes I took to help with my storytelling. Probably one of the few times I've ever preserved notes in a folder for reference.
One of the things I hate most is when presentations are literally read from the powerpoint.
Guys use the powerpoint to HELP your presentation, not read the entire powerpoint verbatim.
Try doing that while having your professor ask you to read everything. Yes. I had that happen to me. It was the only time I did it and damn, it was my WORST presentation ever. And it wasn't even a powerpoint one. It was a summary type project where we had to present each chapter of the book we had to read. A theory book. On a certain sociology ideology. claws eyes out at the memories
I still wonder why the fuck she gave full marks to that abomination. Then again, the particular Professor is insane. Literally. No, really. She is. 0_0;
Statistics are a piece of cake and fun. Get Geometry the fuck away from me.
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@Cuddles:
Yeah, at the time you get them.
Then try wasting your social opportunities, and possibly any chance at happiness for five years for what are essentially worthless letters, THEN see what that does for your self esteem.
As I've said before, the only lasting thing I got out of college were the classes I took to help with my storytelling. Probably one of the few times I've ever preserved notes in a folder for reference.
… I... I'm still kinda proud of my grades....:ermm:....
(Ok, I was a fucked up lazy kid, so they're not as good as they could have been..)
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I loved math. I was a year to two years ahead in math all through middle and high school. One of the reasons it always really appealed to me was that with Math, you're either right, or you're wrong. There's no in between. You're teacher can't be all wishy washy when they grade you and it's nice to know if you do something the one way and it works, it'll probably always work. I love the certainty and absoluteness of it.
Try doing that while having your professor ask you to read everything. Yes. I had that happen to me. It was the only time I did it and damn, it was my WORST presentation ever. And it wasn't even a powerpoint one. It was a summary type project where we had to present each chapter of the book we had to read. A theory book. On a certain sociology ideology. claws eyes out at the memories
I still wonder why the fuck she gave full marks to that abomination. Then again, the particular Professor is insane. Literally. No, really. She is. 0_0;
My speech professor made us write notes, take quizzes and only allowed 2(of the supposed weekly) speeches throughout the whole term. I would not describe her as insane, but probably a failure.
She was probably doing that shit to meet this "Gordan's Rule" requirement I'm tired of putting up with..
@JERK:
Same. Stats is basically logic. The only thing aside from listmaking that I can do on that side of the brain.
I don't know…
Once I got into Binomial, Poissan, Geometric, Normal, etc Probabilities...it pretty much hate Statistics forever.
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-Literature
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-Aesthetics
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Still a long way to go.
Any other suggestion?
I loved math.I love the certainty and absoluteness of it.
You obviously haven't done Number Theory yet, have you 
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@THE:
In order to be a cartoonist, or, in order for my work to meet my minimal expectation, I need to master:
-English. Possibly Japanese.
-Literature
-Psychology
-Sociology
-Philosophy
-Logics
-Painting and drawing
-Photoshop
-Am efficient knowledge of Interweb, Architecture, Physics, Biology, World History.
Still a long way to go.
Any other suggestion?
Some bits and pieces from Film I guess.
@THE:
-Philosophy
One of my biggest loves~ 
Study different cultures. ^^ Customs, habits and such.
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Algebra and Geometry is cocaine to me. Calculus bothers me, but I can survive.
Advanced Statistics and Physics. I'm totally fucked.
EDIT: I'm in a Philosophy class myself, right now. I've been slacking off lately, which has been punching me in the gut lately. Gotta pick back up. Although, I don't think I've ever been in a class where my entire class bitches RELENTLESSLY about how horrible the class and professor is….IN FRONT OF THE PROFESSOR!
I don't know…
Once I got into Binomial, Poissan, Geometric, Normal, etc Probabilities...it pretty much hate Statistics forever.
Out of curiosity, what did you hate about those distributions?
I have never had a philosophy class, but I never wanted to, just as sociology, because the debates that I hear happen in these sound like monstrosities. I hear so many horror stories.
Out of curiosity, what did you hate about those distributions?
I'd get questions that would make me mix and match them for a word problem. So when I'd have a question where I'd have to use Binomial for the first bit, then take that bit and use Geometric, and then take THAT ONE and then use Normal Distribution by searching the stupid little graph.
My issue wasn't doing it. My issue was that if I made one TINY issue in my math, the entire problem was wrong.
Granted, you could say the same about a lot of math, but jesus christ, was it so much easier to make that mistake.
@Holy:
I have never had a philosophy class, but I never wanted to, just as sociology, because the debates that I hear happen in these sound like monstrosities. I hear so many horror stories.
Mines much more studying in 'what is Critical Thinking' and 'how to apply it effectively'. It's not a bad class, but the teacher teaches by having us read the book. Students are seriously OUTRAGED that we have to read the book instead of hearing him lecture.
My God people are spoiled.
My issue wasn't doing it. My issue was that if I made one TINY issue in my math, the entire problem was wrong.
This is pretty much my reason for disliking statistics.
Only value I get from school is learning to do a multitude of different things and the social aspect. I have never studied or took notes or shit like that. I'm a hopeless slacker though. I've got three research papers backed up on me now :{
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Study different cultures. ^^ Customs, habits and such.
Basically any social science.
Anthropology
Business studies
Communication studies
Criminology
Demography
Development studies
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History
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Law
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Some bits and pieces from Film I guess.
Cinematology, right?
And I added aesthetics.
@Mrs.:
Could be I used it too generally or specifically, I was referring to the free market system.
Ah, yeah, too general.
I imagined a shaking fist going off over your head.
EDIT: I'm in a Philosophy class myself, right now. I've been slacking off lately, which has been punching me in the gut lately. Gotta pick back up. Although, I don't think I've ever been in a class where my entire class bitches RELENTLESSLY about how horrible the class and professor is….IN FRONT OF THE PROFESSOR!
The 2 Philosophy classes I had (1 obligatory and 1 I picked myself in second year though it was for the 4th years) were brilliant! And the professor, Mister Theodorides, isn't just an excellent professor and one of the calmest people I've met, he also has the sweetest, sexiest voice ever. totally has a crush on him
Out of curiosity, what did you hate about those distributions?
It's a bitch to work with. I took a statistics course for my Business Admin. degree and holy shit did that stuff kick my ass. I've got a couple of excerpts from the formula sheets here somewhere:
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And that was the easy stuff. Employing and actually understanding that stuff was a pain.
This reminds me I remember being so scared of getting a GED sooner than I would graduate high school, because I thought a high school diploma would be some huge benefit I would be missing for the sake of getting out of school sooner
and then it turns out nobody cares.
@THE:
Cinematology, right?
And I added aesthetics.
Yup yup. In good animation and movies, there's always a reason behind angles. Not always deep reasons, but techniques used to communicate to the viewer. There's more to it but it's an interesting study.
I think I am a better philosopher than my philosophy teacher.
Cartoons constantly break common cinematography rules. It use to annoy me at first before I trained my brain to ignore it.
The 2 Philosophy classes I had (1 obligatory and 1 I picked myself in second year though it was for the 4th years) were brilliant! And the professor, Mister Theodorides, isn't just an excellent professor and one of the calmest people I've met, he also has the sweetest, sexiest voice ever. totally has a crush on him
My Philosophy professor looks, talks, and acts a bit like Cameron from Modern Family.
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He's not gay, but I wouldn't be shocked if he started talking about how he's a trophy wife. 
EDIT: Cam's the fat one, btw. Sorry.
@Holy:
This reminds me I remember being so scared of getting a GED sooner than I would graduate high school, because I thought a high school diploma would be some huge benefit I would be missing for the sake of getting out of school sooner
and then it turns out nobody cares.
Don't get me started on how many students I'd eavesdrop on, and hear about how their taking forty million classes for fun, just so they can get the job that the want, blah blah blah.
Then, I'd panic internally. Now? I laugh.
It's a bitch to work with. I took a statistics course for my Business Admin. degree and holy shit did that stuff kick my ass. I've got a couple of excerpts from the formula sheets here somewhere:
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Those are autocorrelation tests right? Never really looked into them but they do seem a pain. Distributions were relatively easy to work with. Either way, I prefer to stay away from stats and probability theory.
My Philosophy professor looks, talks, and acts a bit like Cameron from Modern Family.
Mine is a thin man, in his mid 40's, maybe early 50's, with graying hair and beard. He always dresses pretty simple, in a shirt that is obviously too big for him but dunno.. makes him look cuter so I don't complain. :ninja:
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He's not gay, but I wouldn't be shocked if he started talking about how he's a trophy wife.
EDIT: Cam's the fat one, btw. Sorry.
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A study studying things like panel transition using coincidental dialogue or overlapping, exploiting the juxtaposed nature of pictorial images in the medium and develop the harmony between words and picture.
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I've learned that I genuinely enjoy mechanical systems. I actually have fun doing work in Strength of Materials and such courses. The work can be difficult, but it's like one giant puzzle and all the pieces can be related. Even more complicated things can be traced back to simpler equations, so you always have ways to advance forward in a given problem. Not to mention that the information is highly practical. Only music is more beautiful than working physical systems.
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I've learned that I genuinely enjoy mechanical systems. I actually have fun doing work in Strength of Materials and such courses. The work can be difficult, but it's like one giant puzzle and all the pieces can be related. Even more complicated things can be traced back to simpler equations, so you always have ways to advance forward in a given problem. Not to mention that the information is highly practical. Only music is more beautiful than working physical systems.
Are you (planning to become) a Mechanical Engineer?
One of my biggest loves~
Study different cultures. ^^ Customs, habits and such.
That's anthropology.
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When I die I want to get shot out of a cannon. Scare the hell out of someone.
@JERK:
That's anthropology.
Well, a branch of it at least. Anthropology covers quite a lot of fields.
Are you (planning to become) a Mechanical Engineer?
Definitely. That's my current aim right now. The only issues I'm having is making it past required courses that aren't really mechanical, like chem and materials science. I just find those courses boring as all hell and hard to put any effort into. Otherwise, I feel confident.
You could be like me who barely tries and gets a 4.0
Hey, not all of us are born brainiacs.
I don't remember jack shit from high school. Only some stuff involving politics, big science words, and a little geometry.
That's it.
It's not that he's a brainiac. It's that he fits the systems set up inherently.
Yeah. Brainiac wasn't a good choice of words. He's probably just naturally good at those things.
To be honest, until like halfway through freshman year of high school that was pretty much me.
Also for some weird reason I am a god among men in giving presentations. Even when I barely know what I'm talking about. Not complaining though.
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I liked stats in math for some weird reason
There kinda fun.
Aside from that I'm kinda bad at it.
I have been terrible at math from the start of my academic life to the present point in time. Stats saved my life, though; it was the only thing in math that made sense to me, though I'm not sure how either. I was even able to come up with my own methods and steps, instead of following my teacher's.
EDIT: I'm in a Philosophy class myself, right now. I've been slacking off lately, which has been punching me in the gut lately. Gotta pick back up. Although, I don't think I've ever been in a class where my entire class bitches RELENTLESSLY about how horrible the class and professor is….IN FRONT OF THE PROFESSOR!
Ah ha, I took a Philosophy introductory course a year ago. We studied Plato's Third Dialogue or something along those lines, I think. Honestly, it was a really slack module. The lecture was at 8AM so i went for like two during the entire semester. Tutorials were one hour every other week, which is half the norm. Final was comprehension MCQ, and the exams often reused passages and questions from the previous years - and it was an open-book test, so you could bring in said past year papers. It was honestly more about having a decent command of English and good comprehension skills than about having a profound sense of logic or even understanding Plato well. I didn't even read the textbook.
Regarding how I study - it varies depending on the module. For one module I'm taking, the information is so all-over-the-place that it's really difficult to just read and understand the general ideas. So I try to jot down notes or key points while going through the articles. Like someone else mentioned, writing (or typing, because I used to write notes and got bad hand cramps right before my History exam) notes helps me to remember, and being able to look back on them helps. A lot. I occasionally do try to memorise certain key points, to commit them to memory, or at least to remember the idea so that I'll be able to retrieve it during the exam.
The best way to memorise something is actually not to keep reading it over and over again, but to look at it really hard and try to relate it to some other concept or idea you already have. It'd also be very good if you can relate it to something about yourself. E.g. this war happened during this time my grandpa was in this war and he was this age blah blah blah (if you're actually trying to memorise dates).
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