I use "whining" for good or ill...typically to refer to any writing/posting on LJ that occurs before the sun rises.
I take your points about the "cheats," though I tell my students that if they can make a class project work for their outside life, they will learn more than just doing something for a grade, after which they will promptly forget the entire experience. That said, you worked with the sciences while all of my tracks have been within the liberal arts. Liberal Arts...no wonder the "New Taliban" (to quote Robt Kennedy, Jr) of the heartland are all for getting rid of foreign language programs, cultural studies, and assorted other "identity-biased" lines of inquiry (see recent law in Arizona. Fuck Arizona.)
I did get my MA first, rather than beginning a PhD program that "awards" (as though you didn't fucking earn it) an MA if you do NOT complete the dissertation.
Again, I say there is nothing wrong with gaming the system. But yes, cheating AND gaming...well...I only slept with my professors after I was no longer their student.
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I take your points about the "cheats," though I tell my students that if they can make a class project work for their outside life, they will learn more than just doing something for a grade, after which they will promptly forget the entire experience. That said, you worked with the sciences while all of my tracks have been within the liberal arts. Liberal Arts...no wonder the "New Taliban" (to quote Robt Kennedy, Jr) of the heartland are all for getting rid of foreign language programs, cultural studies, and assorted other "identity-biased" lines of inquiry (see recent law in Arizona. Fuck Arizona.)
I did get my MA first, rather than beginning a PhD program that "awards" (as though you didn't fucking earn it) an MA if you do NOT complete the dissertation.
Again, I say there is nothing wrong with gaming the system. But yes, cheating AND gaming...well...I only slept with my professors after I was no longer their student.