[OT] destroy all software (was Programming language WATs)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:klssvtelbzdqkrfbuafh at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
> Oh crap, I did it again. Sorry for the useless
> post, I clicked in the wrong place and it ended up
> being the send button :(
>

Don't you like having the "Send Message Before I'm Done Writing It" button? 
It's a pretty standard feature. I just made use of it myself talking to my 
brother the other day.

>
> It was cold and windy; upstate New York winter, and we
> all had to wait outside for... I think twenty minutes or
> so, maybe longer on short notice so we couldn't get properly
> dressed to be outside.
>

Yea. Northern Ohio here, which probably isn't much better.

Some of us suspected one of the problems may have been students who didn't 
know/care about dryer lint traps.

>
> (Actually, I liked high school, but meh.)
>

It was a living hell for me. I'm not going to get into it though: If you 
think I get all worked up about *college*...well, whew!!!

>
> 2) They transferred a lot of stupid classes from the
> HS credits and the other school, including two English
> credits. English 102 and 204 or something like that.
>
> But they did *not* count any of it toward English 101!
> Oswego was willing to, but JCC wasn't. And, it was, of
> course, required.
>
> What the hell. It's so arbitrary, and apparently changes
> every other year.
>

Yea, that doesn't surprise me. From what I've seen (this literally is from 
direct personal "in the same room" observation), a big part of credit 
transfer really amounts to a judgment call on the part of your assigned 
student counselor. Although to be fair, I'm not sure how else they could do 
it: There's so many colleges people could be transerring in from, and there 
isn't much standardization on classes/curriculum (which may actually be one 
of the *good* things about college vs high school).

>
> Ah, yes, the sunk cost fallacy. (I learned that term on the
> Internet, btw. The college philosophy and logic classes
> were pretty poor.)
>

I genuinely believe logic should be a standard required class in high 
school. It's a shame that it's not.

>> Talk about narcissism.
>
> They make you well rounded!

Argh! I had manged to totally forget about that line until now! ;)

I can't even begin to count how many times I got the "well-rounded" speech, 
especially in HS (I was very narrowly-focused on computers until sometime in 
college. Still don't regret it though, it was the right thing for me at the 
time.)

But I still like my old standard "well-rounded" response: "I'm 300lbs: I'm 
round enough already!!" (Ok, yea, that sounds really bad, but I'm tall too, 
so it's not *that* bad.)