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I don’t even get it
You don’t know what Portal is? :O
haha and then the day after that is 4/20 @_@
I don’t even get it…
double post my bad
That’s a trippel
That’s a nipple
That’s a ripple
C-c-c-combo breaker
that’s a cat.
This can’t be real! The post is a lie!
looks like something one of my old profs would so lol
He forgot to say that there will be cake at the makeup lecture.
They could have been playing Mortal Kombat…
Or Portal Kombat
DAmn, Thats a Prof that knows how to keep his students up right. LIKE A PRO!
No, Like a Boss!
so now those idiots have class on 4/20? Makeup lecture fail.
Your post is fail.
so wait..when do they have class, cuz 420 wendz, idk idk man
Uh huhhhhhh. It says “There will be no class April 19″ and “makeup lecture is Wednesday 5-7″
yeah, 5-7 *PM* as in tomorrow in the evening
Meaning that half the class will be completely baked AND exhausted from staying up all night playing Portal XD
Portal>4/20
translation:
the teacher is skipping class to play Portal 2 as well, but that wouldn’t look good to put in his time reporting to payroll
Haha that was my assumption as well. He gave into the temptation.
They are all playing hooky so they can see who can beat it the fastest!
Fail. Should have given a mandatory pop quiz with a required doctor’s note for missing.
Idiots skipping class for a video game = fail. Learn priorities.
you obviously haven’t played portal…
Play Portal, Then judge you ass.
its life changing.
You haven’t played Portal? Your life is a lie, mate.
Agreed. Go to class, play the stupid game later. Western civilization is hosed. These kinds of posts make me want to go back to school again and earn my PhD just to distance myself a little more from the idiots.
When these fools get to the workplace and find themselves first in line to get the boot during a downturn, I hope they understand it’s a reflection of their messed up priorities and nonexistent work ethic.
FYI the Japanese skip school and work to play video games at home too. So eastern and western civilization is hosed.
I live in Hachinohe, Japan.
FYI The Japanese also go to school 6 days a week. When they get into high school they finish classes for the day, will go to sports or activity practice, then go to ‘cram school’ where they study, receive tutoring, and practice academics until 9 or 10 at night. If they don’t do well in academics they end up going to a vocational school.
すみません, your point is invalid.
and yet get whooped in sports/business/(nonrobot)technology continuously by America, USA! USA!
Cultural and demographic issues. What America lacks in discipline, we have in sher numbers (talent pool) to draw from, as well as a more impulsive, creative streak. The Japanese aren’t as creative, but will take an existing product and perfect it.
I also think you might want to take a good hard look at the demographics of American companies, and see how much of our talent is imported.
As to sports… it’s good for keeping masses of drunken idiots sedated (myself included) but isn’t a viable metric for intellectual power. Unless you are measuring the IQ gap between sports team owners and the foolish city politicians they snooker into hosting their money pits.
Hey, just pointing out that USA is better at everything but robots, color that however you want to make yourself feel better! AMERICAAAA!!!
that will change soon, when the US loses its AAA credibility status …
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Like it has been for decades now right? its funny, people have been crying about the downfall of america for years and years yet it continues to kick ass, but hey, maybe next decade! yeah! that will be the one! I’m sure of it!
Pride often plays a big role in the downfall of things like countries. It’s one of the seven deadly sins for a good reason.
Keep being unrealistic!
Actually, we’re catching up in that field too. Just ask the automated Toyota plant in San Antonio, Texas. It’s only a matter of time Japan. Better get your Gundams ready now.
Only because you’re defining things in a way that makes you feel better.
Japanese win at traditionally Japanese sports, and Americans win at traditionally Western sports.
Japanese business is stronger than American business per capita (and that’s how you measure business).
As for technology, I dunno about you, but every piece of technology I’ve seen in years is mostly Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, sometimes with an American name stamped on the front. Try opening up that iPhone and looking up the names of the companies you find printed on the parts.
Western sports? oh you mean REAL sports, ok we’re on the same page now. BTW, what is a “japanese sport”, watching anime? And i measure business based on the fact that the US has the largest economy and GDP in the world almost 3x bigger than china or japan. Go cry about population or whatever again to feel better. As for technology, everything is designed here, the cheap manufacturing is overseas so yeah, that cheap plastic part will have a “made in china” on it
Imo the only thing americans are best at is patriotism (you can think of it both negative or positive)
*facepalm*
Waggle, just stop. You’re only reinforcing negative American stereotypes. So quit being a culturally insensitive and retarded douchebag.
Sincerely,
An American
That sounds like a horrible, stressful, unhappy upbringing, and not something to be proud of in any way shape or form.
The Japanese also have a MUCH higher depression and suicide rate than the Americans ^_^; Also, Americans have much different educational values. This class seems to be a large lecture class, which many Americans feel okay with skipping for more trivial things, while they wouldn’t skip a smaller and more personal seminar class (something that I understand Japanese schools lack because of the sheer number of students there). The emphasis put on small discussion groups makes lecture classes seem less important to American students.
Students in Japan and America have different motivations as well. In Japan you HAVE to get good grades and go to a good college if you want a career, and the way the business world is structured, a career with a good company is everything. American students can get jobs without necessarily having a college degree or a degree from a top-notch school, as the much more flexible system of employment allows for a lot of job-switching, so they can go for better jobs once they’ve gained work experience, and not just right out of college, when college grades are the only credentials they have. So some of those studious Japanese students aren’t necessarily doing all this for a love of learning– they’re doing it because if they don’t, they’re financially sunk. If you see an American student in a college class, chances are (s)he really WANTS to be there and isn’t just going for the grade and the money to be gotten out of it. Sure, there are Japanese students who love learning for its own sake too, but class sizes and attendance are inflated by the ranks of students who are just there for the eventual money.
tl;dr Japanese are not “better” students, plz to take cultural differences into account kthx
I like you. We should make babies. MAGICAL ONES!
Japanese don’t take university with stereotypical seriousness. The goal is to get *into* a good one, after which they usually coast through to graduation. After the pressure-cooker of Japanese primary and secondary education, that’s hardly surprising, but that pressure-cooker also means they’re pretty thoroughly educated before they even get to university. I imagine students in technical fields need to take it more seriously, but otherwise they’re relaxing and catching up on the social lives they just didn’t have time for in high school.
A friend of mine from Europe is in Japan attending university on an art scholarship, and her instructors are amazed at how hard she works. They just don’t see this kind of thing from Japanese students. She’s often the only student to complete assignments on time.
I love how the comment section erupted into a TL:DR war about japan vs US university students for a picture taken from a post about the professor cancelling the class so he, as well as his students, could all go give in to the temptation of playing a game that nobody who played the first one and is not a hipster/critic would be able to resist anyways.
My point is not invalid, I stated that Japanese skip school on game release dates, as well.
stuff it. John doesn’t sound like a very Japanese name anyway. Being a weeaboo doesn’t make you Japanese.
dude, live a little.
U MAD?!?!?
PORTAL 2 FTW!
I was a 4.0 student and would have never had the nerve to ask the teacher to copy notes for me because I missed class–even if I was legitimately sick! Instead of enabling the immature, irresponsible students, the professor should have slapped them with a high-value pop quiz and let them know that a college degree should mean something. We already have enough idiots devaluing college degrees thanks to grade inflation; we definitely don’t need to make things worse.
You see, the problem with your post is that everyone knows College is fake school. I’ve been there, done that. Now I’m off to university (real school) to learn real things
Today’s students would not survive through what us old dogers went through.
… Back when my mom went to college in the 80s… they only HAD to show up for tests and as long as they passed them they were fine. Now, if I miss more than a specific number of days, I automatically fail the class. Yes, if I have proof I missed for “important” reasons, I don’t fail… But I have to go through a bunch of crap to fix it.
Today’s students don’t have it as easy as you’re trying to make it seem.
I think college was devalued when entry-level positions required a degree for you to do nothing of any value. Back when I was a kid, I thought finishing college actually meant something and would get you somewhere. Now it’s just a lame required piece of paper for even the worst of jobs. Unfortunately by the time I went from kid to young adult status, the transformation was already complete.
Completely agree. You need a 4 year degree just to get hired, and now a Master’s is becoming increasingly demanded for hire into positions that really don’t require it.
I think another big factor is that there isn’t enough delineation between good and bad schools, and good and bad programs. An engineering degree from MIT is very different from an engineering degree from “Your State U.”
Wait a minute… are you seriously claiming that an engineering degree from a state university is meaningless and just for the worst jobs? Do I need to haul out the list of alumni from my alma mater? UT is a top-ten school, buster.
…smackdown machine now charging…
He isn’t saying that it is an inferior school, just that some schools are better. There is a reason saying ‘I have a degree from Harvard’ is more impressive than ‘I have a degree from K-state.’
It’s because primary and secondary education fail now. My grandfather could have a long, rewarding management career on only an 8th grade education; now we get high school graduates who can’t make change without a calculator. You need 4 years of university just to ensure people are minimally competent.
I’m not sure that is necessarily true either. There still are plenty of kids in jr and high school that can way out-wit a college grad.
In fact, I’m unfortunate enough to know several college grads who still can’t spell or “math good”.
It’s really quite depressing, because the jobs go to these morons who slept and drank their way through college (that mommy and daddy paid for), and there are likely plenty of fine people who couldn’t afford or didn’t go to college who aren’t getting hired just because they don’t have a piece of paper.
Someone that is very close to me is a half-wit who is climbing up the corporate ladders just because of his piece of paper. Meanwhile I’m stuck in retail because “_personal reasons listed here, tl;dr_”.
No class on Tuesday for portal, and skipping class on Wednesday to smoke pot all day. Ohh yeah!
Smart students know to ask for the lecture notes *after* class. (Of course, smart students already know the material, and don’t need to show up for lectures recapitulating what’s in the assigned reading….)
people actually read what is assigned?
I just show up for the finals and get A’s because even upper level business courses are a joke.
Smart students go to class, because good classes are ones where the primary source of learning is in class instead of a textbook. Lecture notes are used to verify the accuracy of the notes taken in class.
I first thought this was the professor being mean to kids wanting 4/20 off, but oh yeah Portal 2 did just come out! I guess pothead gamers are missing a bunch of class!
Can’t comment now, too busy playing Portal 2.
^ You guys seriously need to calm down. It’s one day of class, any retard can make that up. Relax and stop getting your panties in a bunch.
FAIL. 4/20 is when i feign illness! ya know what i mean?
I played through the single player of Portal 2 today. I understand wholeheartedly why they’d want to skip, I just feel sorry for the ones forced to play it on a laptop.
WE’RE GOIN TO THE MOON, B*TCHES!
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU– justkidding.jpg. I also played through the whole thing.
And yes, I am one of those who was “forced” to play it on a laptop, because my desktop system is over 2 years old (but it gets 10-15fps more on other Source Engine games, so I’ll have to see if it can play Portal 2). It is quite playable (average 20-25fps according to cl_showfps) when you turn most of the settings to medium, which actually doesn’t uglify it as much as you’d think. Sure, you don’t get cinema-quality graphics, but the quality on medium is a little higher than Portal 1, and the important thing is it’s playable.
Fake. In the to field it only has one recipient even though the email is addressed to “class” which is (most likely) plural.
Look up and understand how e-mail clients treat BCC and try again.
Haha, brilliant! Portal 2′s a good game, although I don’t think it should be a reason to miss lectures. The teacher obviously knows how not to waste his time.
I agree and disagree with the majority of you.
In terms of education it’s not the greatest, missing a lecture, but given the fact it’s being re-run (unlike some of mine because of sick lecturers) is good and while it’s a ‘day off’ they still have their project for the same deadline which means that the sensible students of the group, would hopefully use the day to work on it, or already have it finished, and would then play Portal 2!
@Rottiluv & The rest of the elders
- I doubt in your day you had to put up with numerous amounts of the older generation ranting about the student stereotype and completely ignoring the fact there are still students (myself) that attend college/university that want to learn and achieve.
I think you’ll find because of the internet, we’re all under a little more pressure to get things done, and we’re constantly reminded through things like email, you can’t just go home and think well that’s the day over because it only takes 5 minutes for a lecturer to send you another assignment/brief/meeting/guest lecture etc, through the web, and we have to keep up with student blogs and check something called student blackboard daily for annoucements. Some lecturers these days are crafty enough to leave new annoucements an hour before they happen and expect everyone to devote themselves to the internet 24/7, I think not.
‘Back in your day’ there was at least a mental detachment when you went home, you were told all the information you needed while you were in the buildings only associated with your education and could properly escape any associated feelings being away from there.
I agree, I think the teacher made a wise decision (aside from calling them out on their fake illness) not to go to class. It would be a waste of his time to go that day considering a lot of students would be out. Teachers have lives too, and some teachers actually want to see their students do good. Plus, the students that don’t skip school for a video game (like me! I do play them but I dont’ take days off) enjoy a surprise day off too.
Some even want their students to do well.
So, what happens if you boycott cellphones? you don’t know class is cancelled?
God forbid we can’t check emails on our cellphones. How else will we access our messages?
Hmm, I’m tempted to say fake because if you’re the type of student who would skip class to play video games, are you also the type of student to let a teacher know ahead of time that you are “sick” and won’t be there?
If it’s real, my guess is that the teacher couldn’t finish the game in one day, hence the email around 1am in the morning.
Portal 2 is a perfectly valid reason to skip a class that probably won’t teach you anything anyways. All college is anyways is a way to make you pay for a piece of paper that says you can do work. It has no real value anymore unlike in the past.
McDonalds: We are now hiring janitors. No PhD? Nope, not qualified.
Restaurant: We are now hiring cooks? No Master’s? Nope, not qualified.
Burger King: We are now hiring cashiers. No BA? Sorry, you aren’t qualified.
Even jobs that shouldn’t require college degrees to do (capability to do the work) are requiring it (mandatory for being hired).
Overexaggeration much?
this is a fail, imho
You’re all a bunch of potatoes.
Yeah? Well your a towel!
Did someone say towel?
If you’re going to the beach, you better bring a towel.
+1 to the lecturer.
Last year I had 4 out of 16 turn up to my lecture because “its double points on COD this mornin, innit”
Honestly, I would have been upset had a teacher done this when I went to university. I was a kid who had to work her way through her upper education. The timing of the make-up lecture would have required me missing the lecture or work purely because a bunch of idiots decided gaming was more important than class AND had the gall to ask the teacher for notes.
So this teacher, whether he realizes it or not, is punishing those students who are going to school to learn and still have to work (or have lives in other ways). I am a gamer, but I have priorities.
That Professor puts the E in Paedo.
They’re not skipping for portal 2, folks. The next day is 4/20. They’re skipping for pothead 2. lol.
I’ve finished it already. took me 6-7 hours without classes.
It would make more sense to ask for 4/20 off lol
fake…
if this is true its just cool
best teacher ever
more proof america is even more retarded and getting worst every day. america land of the fail andnew home to china and russia when they invade and kick our asses.
“I have already have had”?
Oh lord people calm down. I just finished my degree and yes every once in awhile we got a day off due to something ridiculous (usually teacher related life drama) and we would have to check blackboard for assignments. I was a 3.8 gpa student but I still liked days off, because I’m not a damn nerd and who doesn’t like a few free hours for ice cream or napping? I worked full time and went to school full time and took both very seriously, but thank god for those who really didn’t (students and teachers) it gave me an opportunity to relax every once in awhile.
Get the stick out of your butts.