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October 07, 2004
I hate the Borg Students
OK this is a super pet peeve of mine when it comes to school. So far both in undergrad and in now in graduate school I have gone to schools where the primary amount of students are non English speaking. Mostly they are here from other countries and are here just for school. And usually they are ALL from the same country, and what country depends on the university. Anyway.....
I am not the only one to notice this either so its not must be being a racist ass, it's actually fact. All these students operate on a single mind. Like when they do homework, they all do it together, they all get 100%. And its not because they all know what they are doing, its because one of them knows what thy are doing, or collectively they know what they are doing. Anyway this pissed me off cause it fucks up the curve. For instance I have the lowest grade in the class right now. Mind you I do make mistakes on my homework so it's not like I did "good" on them or anything but I can't compete with the Borg perfection here.
But this is the kicker here. When we have a review session in class for the midterm everyone kept asking questions on the homework as if they had NO idea what the hell was going on. How could that be? I mean they all got 100% didn't they? Shouldn't they all know this stuff? Grrr..... The one thing that makes it semi ok is that they will crash and burn on the midterm and I will excel, because I actually did the homework myself and learned, even if I did bad on it, I learn fro my mistakes cause they are MY mistakes, not someone elses.
Anyway tonight is our first midterm, and I hope those Borg students crash and burn as they are forced to do actual work on their own and not as part of the collective.
Posted by Scott at October 7, 2004 09:21 AM