The Bitching Thread

[Board of Command]

Linear Systems and Signals

Fourier Transforms, Laplace transforms, Z-transforms, filter designs, magnitude/phase sketching...etc.

Most of my classmates feel the same way. The prof made this year's exam way harder than before. I studied a lot and felt ready, but it turns out that nothing could have prepared me for that ordeal. It was ridiculous.

[RyougaZell]

O_O

Reminds me of Algorythm Analysis... (programming languages wise...)

[Board of Command]

Algorithm-wise, you probably did Fast Fourier Transforms. We only did the standard stuff.

[Buffalobiian]

Two hours ago I ate 3 mega-heaped plates of pasta.

I feel like I'm going to burst (>o<)"

[Xelbair]

Learning German is pain in ass for me, especially when there is guitar near me and 3 episodes and half series of anime waiting.

[Death BOO Z]

Art teachers: they have become far too rude for their position. they actually make kids bring A3 pictures of themselves and tell their students to buy the 'blue' brand of drawing pencils and not the 'red' brand. back in my days, art-class was the time where you goof around for two hours, and then the teacher leaves the room crying in the third one, because she has realized that she'll never amount to be neither an influential artist nor an inspiring teacher, and she'll always be sub-mediocre. and that would happen every week, every year until high-school.

also, people who buy shitty Mp3\4 players. what's wrong with them? is a 30$ discount a good enough reason to buy a complete shit player? sure, for the price of Sansa-clip you can buy an mp4 in the local language that promises the moon, but you're going to come to the store twice a week with complains, and have it spend at least two months a year shipping...
just put out a few more NIS and get something decent, dumbasses. and those are the people who buy an IPhone just to be 'IN!'. dumb cunts.


Edit: beer. spell check.

[XanBcoo]

also, people who buy shitty Mp3\4 players. what's wrong with them?

My mom wanted an Ipod for her birthday, but my brother and I didn't want to spend the money on one that we knew she wouldn't use. We bought her a Samsung MP3 player for almost literally half the price and she never used it again after about 2 months. Money well saved, in my opinion.

[saman]

Art teachers: they have become far too rude for their position. they actually make kids bring A3 pictures of themselves and tell their students to buy the 'blue' brand of drawing pencils and not the 'red' brand. back in my days, art-class was the time where you goof around for two hours, and then the teacher leaves the room crying in the third one, because she has realized that she'll never amount to be neither an influential artist nor an inspiring teacher, and she'll always be sub-mediocre. and that would happen every week, every year until high-school.

yeah! how dare teachers try to take their subjects seriously and actually attempt to make something meaningful out of their careers! and they are getting very particular about what they want. i mean, it's not like the rest of the teachers are doing the exact same thing or anything!

[Kraco]

The last art teacher I remember was a real artist. He had an opinion in everything and ruined some student works because he apparently couldn't swallow a student coming up with something he wouldn't have suggested (happened to me as well). At one point it was found out he had used the town hall's colour photocopier (this was before really good personal colour printers were that common) to make clones of some of his paintings and sold them as originals to different people for easy extra money. Shortly after he drove his tractor to a river with final consequences.

[complich8]

Lemme tell ya, that shit sounds like high school art class to me... you know, with the teachers being all like "you should use this type of pencil". In fact, back in high school I remember the teacher for drawing class insisted that we go out and get those Ebony pencils for the class. Of course, they were like less than a buck each, and had a nice wide semisoft lead that was just amazingly good for shading, but .... damn that teacher for making me spend a buck on the right tools for the job!


At my university, art classes were serious business though. You take the basic freshman-level art and design class and you just signed up for 10-15 hours of homework a week and about $250 in supplies. Lots of people who take that class end up taking a GPA hit because of it because they think "oh, art classes are easy A's like they were in high school"...

[Animeniax]

I've always felt that if a teacher or company has particular requirements of its students or employees that they provide the tools needed.

Art is a tricky subject to place requirements on the tools you use to create with, particularly if they demand you use a particular company's products. If the desired effect is shading then the true test of artistic ability should be able to create the effect using whatever tool is at hand, not a particular brand or type of tool.

Since it seems we're talking about low level art classes for beginners, it's even more ludicrous to require they purchase specific art supplies.

[saman]

it is ludicrous. but the thing is, it's not just art teachers. all teachers are getting like that, even in elementary school. you should see some of the school supply lists we at staples get from schools during back to school. you have to get the "venus" brand of pencil, and it has to be a 2" blue binder, not a 3" or a red one, and only smilemaker crayons will do, etc etc. my point was that it's unfair to come down on only art teachers for something they're not alone in doing.

hmmm, i started to agree that university art teachers should supply the tools needed for their courses, but then i realized that med and biochem and organic chem students have to buy their own lab coats and scrubs and dissection kits and molecular model kits, and not to mention the cost of textbooks, so i think the point is moot.

[Animeniax]

I think university level anything requires you buy your own stuff, like textbooks and supplies. But high school and below, especially elementary school, shouldn't require specific anything for any class. That's what we pay local taxes for, so schools can afford the materials they need for students, among other things.

[Xelbair]

Wow, teacers demand that in US? Thank god that its not the same in Poland.
Getting back to that god damned annoying and uninteresting German language... God i hate it.

[Animeniax]

I've always wanted to learn the German language. Along with Japanese, it has this authoritative quality to it that can make it command and terrify without raising your voice or waving a gun. Also similar to Japanese, it has words that embody concepts, like spannungsbogen and fahrvergnugen. We need more of those in the English language.

[XanBcoo]

I've always wanted to learn the German language. Along with Japanese, it has this authoritative quality to it that can make it command and terrify without raising your voice or waving a gun. Also similar to Japanese, it has words that embody concepts, like spannungsbogen and fahrvergnugen. We need more of those in the English language.

English has plenty of words that embody concepts which are not present in other languages.

Also you forgot to mention Schadenfreude.

[Animeniax]

English has plenty of words that embody concepts which are not present in other languages.

Name 25 or your argument has no merit.

[Death BOO Z]

I've got the "how to speak German" mp3s somewhere.. I could never take the time listening to all of them.

just to make myself clear, I couldn't care less if art teachers asked their students to use endangered species feathers as paintbrushes. I just wish the students wouldn't come at the middle of the rush hour and make me spend ten minutes looking for the right 'red' pencil and the good level of brightness in the A3 copy (stupid photocopy! I wish the damn machine was destroyed!). one of my co-workers is an art student herself, and she says that higher level art classes are even bigger douches. but that's acceptable, since that's what they're paid for.
my biff is with elementary school art teachers that make their student (most of them still single digits in age) buy all sorts of crap.

also, I'm annoyed by people who don't realize that when you pay for a product of a brand that costs half the price of the brand you've heard about. you're going to get that kind of quality. jerk fucks. don't believe the salesman. he has no idea what he's talking about.

I guess this is the week of non-stop bitching for me.

[Board of Command]

You mean like douche?

[Xelbair]

As a Polish guy i have something like "mental blockade" against German language, well you know, 2 world wars, 3 complete occupation of our country, Teutonic order wars etc. have took its toll on our minds and influence our hate for this language.
Now I wish I took Spanish(I played tibia that time(don't kill me please) and had a very big aversion for Spanish, and now I'm paying for it.
I would give a lot to have my school let me take my additional Japanese lessons(not in school) into account instead of German.