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12 May 2008, 7:50 am

Okay, this is not an easy post for me but several things happened at my college:

* verbal bullying against me (this kinda subsided after a lot of teacher intervention but not completely)
* various kinds of vandalism (writing expletives on the teacher's table, destroying a 'window' in the entrance door)
* various occasions of theft (computers and projectors disappeared from classrooms without a trace)
* rigging teacher's computers with keyloggers to get the exams early or edit the marks

This leaves me... speechless and with a huge amount of distrust towards college and my fellow students. It makes it hard for me to mentally touch the subjects as well. I don't want my education to go down the drain because of ret*ds and atavisms... But I didn't even tell my parents yet about this, still it really bugs me. I do not want to change college again :cry:


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12 May 2008, 9:26 am

Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college?


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12 May 2008, 12:13 pm

I don't know what you mean... There are rules of behavior, the students are expected to adher to but this does not help if it is unclear who did it.


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12 May 2008, 12:54 pm

JerryHatake wrote:
Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college?


Yeah, Jerry and I go to GMU and there's an honor code there. On most of the exams there is a paragraph at the top explicitly stating the honor code; a signature is required for the exam to be graded.

Of course, it's much broader than this.


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12 May 2008, 11:22 pm

abstrusemortal wrote:
JerryHatake wrote:
Isn't there an Honour Code and Honour Code Board for such offfenses at your college?


Yeah, Jerry and I go to GMU and there's an honor code there. On most of the exams there is a paragraph at the top explicitly stating the honor code; a signature is required for the exam to be graded.

Of course, it's much broader than this.


I know. Maybe you could explain it better to Lost here.


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13 May 2008, 12:35 am

i lost faith in humanity in grade 3. :(


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14 May 2008, 1:36 am

I haven't lost faith in all of humanity, just the people I went to school/college with. If these people are supposed to be the future of this country, then we're all screwed!! :x


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14 May 2008, 5:38 am

I suspect there may be a disconnect here. I think the "college" that he refers to is more like high school for us - that is, he's not in a "Universität" but something along the lines of a "Gymnasium" or some such under-university study.

(sorry, I'm not that familiar with the german educational system. But one of my classmates went to school in germany and came here to attend my university)

If this is the case, well, "high school" or whatever you might call it, sucks pretty much everywhere. It's a bastion of immaturity, and frankly university is a lot better in all those ways you pointed out



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14 May 2008, 8:23 am

wolphin wrote:
I suspect there may be a disconnect here. I think the "college" that he refers to is more like high school for us - that is, he's not in a "Universität" but something along the lines of a "Gymnasium" or some such under-university study.

(sorry, I'm not that familiar with the german educational system. But one of my classmates went to school in germany and came here to attend my university)

If this is the case, well, "high school" or whatever you might call it, sucks pretty much everywhere. It's a bastion of immaturity, and frankly university is a lot better in all those ways you pointed out


It's an 'international college' according to it's own name and I will graduate as bachelor of computer science. So, no, I would not just chalk it up as immaturity of some people.


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14 May 2008, 9:08 am

Oh, well, never mind that theory then :)

Some people (well, a lot of people) are just really shallow, I guess.

I mean, it's like you said, once you get to that level it's not immaturity...Once you hit 20, and haven't realized that it's not right to picking and bullying people and doing vandalism, you're kind of a loser.



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14 May 2008, 10:54 am

You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world.



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15 May 2008, 1:12 am

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15 May 2008, 1:47 am

kraken wrote:
You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world.


I started to get somewhat nearer to grasp that number. Do I need to say that I am suddenly no longer in favor of democracy?


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15 May 2008, 10:32 am

LostInEmulation wrote:
kraken wrote:
You'd be amazed at the number of losers in this world.


I started to get somewhat nearer to grasp that number. Do I need to say that I am suddenly no longer in favor of democracy?


"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken



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15 May 2008, 1:56 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken


This guy speaks the truth (not only for the USA).


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15 May 2008, 5:31 pm

LostInEmulation wrote:
Okay, this is not an easy post for me but several things happened at my college:

* verbal bullying against me (this kinda subsided after a lot of teacher intervention but not completely)
* various kinds of vandalism (writing expletives on the teacher's table, destroying a 'window' in the entrance door)
* various occasions of theft (computers and projectors disappeared from classrooms without a trace)
* rigging teacher's computers with keyloggers to get the exams early or edit the marks

This leaves me... speechless and with a huge amount of distrust towards college and my fellow students. It makes it hard for me to mentally touch the subjects as well. I don't want my education to go down the drain because of ret*ds and atavisms... But I didn't even tell my parents yet about this, still it really bugs me. I do not want to change college again :cry:


there will always be losers whereever you go, but do not let that get in the way. Most humans are not losers so just try to make it through college.