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| Topic | College is actually pretty easy :) |
| acesxhigh 10/08/17 7:48:42 PM #18: | Sahuagin posted... acesxhigh posted...yeah this is pretty much bullshit. like, I disagree in every way. even if you are interested in a subject, the professors will attempt to suck all joy out of learning it. mostly through final exams, which are nothing short of an institutional torture device with no logical excuse. a couple points. first of all, I'm a computer science student. computer science is nice because it lends itself very well to a kind of final "test" where you can apply the concepts you've learned to a hands-on project, but we often find ourselves drawing boxes or hand-writing Java code on a piece of paper for 3 hours instead. of course, this applies to most majors I think. next I'll assert for most people, final exams are incredibly stressful. some students just break down during exam period, you see people crying in the library, it's pretty gnarly. there would have to be a pretty good reason for us to have finals if they're so bad. so what's the reason? if there wasn't finals, so what? typically people will say it's to ensure the students understand the concepts in covered in class, or if they can retain the information. but typically students will cram just so they can pass 4 finals in a 2 week period and then forget everything anyway. I've had a few classes without finals and they were perfectly fine. I could get into more fundamental questions like what even is the purpose of "grades" or "tests" anyway but I'll leave it with a simple statement, we should avoid final exams because we can. and because they suck. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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