If the point of school is to go to get an education thus gaining both social and academic capital, then why am I surrounded by lazy couch potatoes? Every day I hear someone complain about going to class or talking about how they never go to class. My question for them is why are you paying money if all that you are going to do is sleep in and lay around all day on Facebook? There are people here who actually want an education, who are here to learn and grow and they do not appreciate it when you wander into the last class of the year, complaining that you have to attend in the first place… If you don’t like University go home, save your money. —Fellow Student
This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2011.
There goes our taxes, towards the “debt cap” that these students will benefit from. And all they’re doing is facebooking and sleeping. Shame.
Ugh, this bothers me so much (the people you’re talking about, not the actual bitch). I work in a post secondary environment, and day in and day out I listen to students whine and gripe about going to their classes, and how they dislike it so much. I have to wonder “why are you even here in the first place?”
its as if they apply for school and expect not to have to attend class? where is the fucking sense in that?! and i agree OP, they can kiss their $$$ goodbye. and for what? whatta waste.
there are too many distractions in life today, with all the social networking etc etc.
it was bad enough when we had ICQ… I can only imagine how much facebook has dwindled the young, eager-learning minds of the youth these days.
Zuckerberg… you’re a douche.
yeah. i guess some ppl failed to get that memo saying education requires a little effort and ATTENDANCE!
but im acting slightly hypocritical, if i do say so myself :S heh
It’s their parents’ money. That’s why they don’t care.
OP, be quiet. Lose the bitterness.
Also, even if it’s parental money, it doesn’t mean the student doesn’t care and appreciate it. I think it’s one of the biggest gifts parents can give their children (if financially able).
I could care less if people want to go to class or not, but what drives me nuts is when they’re in class and spend the whole time having a whispered conversation with their friends, their cellphone keeps audibly vibrating from text messages, or they very noisily pack up their belongings and stomp out of the room 10 mins before the end of every bloody lecture. It’s super disrespectful to the prof and all the rest of us who actually paid our own money to be there and learn.
Also annoying are the ones that waste everyone’s time asking stupid questions about assignments and whatnot that would be easily answered by taking all of 5 seconds to read the goddamn assignment sheet, syllabus, etc. Personally I’d be embarrassed to consistently make myself look like a lazy/illiterate moron in front the prof and entire class, but hey, that’s just me.
“their cellphone keeps audibly vibrating” oh you don’t even know how much that angers me!!!! LIKE CAN’T THEY HEAR IT VIBRATING THEMSELVES. UGHGHGHGHG
THE COMMODIFICATION OF EDUCATION
“If the point of schooling is to get an education thus gaining both social and academic capital, then why am I surrounded by lazy couch potatoes?”
The answer to the OP’s dilemma is contained in his first sentence. The reason he is surrounded by “lazy couch potatoes” is to be found in his (1) confounding “schooling” with “education” and (2) his misunderstanding the point of “education” as gaining both social and academic “capital.”
(1) While school is the institution in which education takes place, the concepts are not identical. In fact, most of what goes on in school is not education properly conceived at all, i.e., the cultivation of critical intelligence. Schooling, particularly at the university level, has become “commodified” as just another object of consumption along with entertainment, sports spectacles, pornography and the like. From the perspective of the university, the students themselves have become equally commodified, little more than units in the factory assembly-line where filling classrooms regardless of aptitude or intelligence is the priority and producing a docile labour force for industry is the unavowed but obvious end-in-view.
(2) In the same way, the OP sees the point of education in terms of gaining both social and academic “capital” meaning that education ceases to be less a means of individual transformation and more a commodification of life’s most important process. As with his “lazy couch potatoes” the OP, perhaps unknowingly, has commodified himself. He has become just another object, a cipher in the unending and philosophically pointless process of production and consumption. Like the university itself, he has become degraded in his pursuit of social and academic “capital.”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Oooh child, that was a good read.
Annie ain’t useless after all
http://boards.zchan.net/tb/src/13015357754… a regular philosoraptor.
In other news, where’s Brendon?
smurf, smurf, smurf, some go to school to get all those students loans for 4-7 years so they can party, knowing they’ll never pay it back.
Bwa-Ha-Ha-Ha Donk. *mouse ears* “Philosoraptor”
Our nerd-boy was around in the A.M. but I haven’t heard from him since about mid-morning.
o.p., it will be like that forever with some people. the lessons they learn while younge, stay with them forever. and that is thr fucking reality of it.
and if some of these assholes, are our future doctors, lawyers, and politions, then we are fucked for sure. when i did my class back in the 90’s, i had not too many words for people like this, get out, and stay out, because you just flunked. too bad your parents went into debt for your lazy sorry mootherfucking ass.
yep people, this is your future today, enjoy it.
“it was bad enough when we had ICQ”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. “UH OH!”
I’m sorry, but this is hilarious on SO many levels. Remember the wired classrooms before wireless? Such a novelty! ROFLZ. Fucking ICQ. Best thing about “the network” was acquiring music off of others network drives (before third year when the mofos switched to XP and everyone stopped using their drives). Or ICQing your friend in the library that’s sitting right beside you, On the first floor that was like a non alcoholic version of the Axe at any one point of any day. AHAHA. Oh how I miss those days 🙁 Well worth the $40k. ahaha.
Anyway…
Thing *is*, OP, some programs require the most useless classes ever. I remember my org behaviour class… the prof read the powerpoints produced by the text book company. I found my time was much better spent sleeping in for an extra hour or so and reading the text chapters with a bit of energy than sitting in a class where, no matter HOW hard I tried, I’d start to get drowsy and ultimately not really get any benefit. Instead of an hour bus ride back and forth I chilled at home in my jammies and spent the time reading the chapter we were covering in class that day. The tests were from a test bank from the text book company so reading the book was all I really needed to do.
HOWEVER, how many classes of my advanced soviet seminar or my honours seminars did I miss? I remember missing ONE (soviet seminar) because I had to go to a specialist. I was so dedicated my prof actually sent me his notes for the class (and he’s not the type to do that, yo’).
My point? Just because some undergrads aren’t dedicated in some classes, doesn’t mean they’re not in others.
Though, you ARE right — there are some lazy asses in there.
Haha. ICQ.
you think that’s funny ms kitty, the bear used cobalt
Also: estimatedwarbear: I work in a post secondary environment too. Same bus, same line of work…. freeeaky! LOL
bro tim bro tim bro tim….i rly don’t know what to say to that, other then you’re probably right.
and it’s pitiful/sad that our education has become such a joke. i partially blame it on the parents, the student(s) and our education system.
HOWEVER, ill be honest, i’ve skipped a class er two, here and there *looks around*
i apologize it that post makes no sense or is just plain dumb. it’s past my bedtime *yawn*
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yep, all those that fuckup/fuckedup, can blame everyone and everything, except themselves. oh he who is without blame, cast the first lecture at them. fuck’s sake people, i never want a doctor under 35 working on me, not even for a fucking hangnail. and as to the rest of you fucking slackers, if you don’t wanna do the college thing, then stay the fuck away, and let those that really want to better their lives do it and study. or do some of you even know what that fucking word means anymore.
i wish the fuck i had the time and cash to finish of what i started back in the day, fuck me, i would be making a shitload of cash now.
http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/images/funny-…
OP, who cares. Let them waste their money, fail classes, pay more money, and repeat the cycle.
You rang, Donkster?
PK – that is freaky! Also, I looked for you on the bus today – couldn’t find you! Granted, some very tall dude was sitting right in front of me, so it’s entirely possible that his height obscured my view. 🙂
Lol, jsut wondering where you were. Thought I hadn’t seen your virtual face around these parts, but apparently it was just me.
lol Ok then.
it’s important for us to keep track of the inmates 195^^http://englishrussia.com/images/cool_illus…
Painey’s right Brendon. You might have made it over the wire and we wouldn’t have known:
http://jamesriverfilm.files.wordpress.com/…