Notebook check in college?!

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My advisor "tricked" me in to taking a reading class to boster my skills and what not. But I already have those skills and use them more often than my peers do.

So this teacher checks our notebook to see if we have this or that, she's only done two, but needless to say, I have all the stuff I need, I'm sorry it's not in your order, and the way you have yours. Then she says she wants me to visit her next semister to see if I've improved my orginzation skills, which are actually fine.

I sware I do more work in this elective class than my regular ones!

That sucks.

Really. It does.

Courses like that, they wont stop until you are a perfect rule follower of their arbituary (and sometimes vague) rules. Then they throw you out into the real world, with "overdeveloped" (ha!) skills that are of no real use. Figures.

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Be an also-ran.

My dad made me a deal, get at least a C, and I'll pay for tuition.

I came so close to getting a D..

Uncomfortable as it may be the teacher as actually trying to help you. I am glad that he or she is impressed with you sufficiently to offer to help you, even after you have completed their class.

The issue is not whether you can find it, but whether you can learn to adhere to published standards, and adapt to a an existing organizational system. Many places where you may be called upon to work in the future will require the same thing. It may be a research notebook for your Master's or PhD advisor or lab, a commenting system in a program or device you are helping build, or simply that your company has to meet the government's ISO standards.