american undergrad education is generally regarded very lowly here, as being quite amateurish. foreign US students are advised that their undergrad degree content/work-load is more like our pre-uni exams (a-levels). 3,500 words as your longest piece of work is crazy. i had to produce that every single 2 weeks for non-examined term-papers.
I would expect you had to do something like that what with all the reading you did. I only had to write those sorts of papers for my history classes, whereas my science classes would require a scientific paper dealing with what I had been doing in lab. However, a fair amount of those classes also were rather exam-heavy and rarely assigned homework of any consequence. I had more free time at college than at any other point. High school was buttloads of busywork, but at university I only had to do weekly assignments/lab reports and do well on exams. Only one course had me in over my head, which was a genetics one that covered all I previously knew about the subject in the first week.
my longest term paper was 3,000 words. apparently they encourage you to "compact your ideas" in aussieland. degrees here are 3 years but you can take on an extra honors year if you have good enough marks in your major.
3,000 words is like a D&ST post for some people.
My longest term paper/project ended up being about 70 pages.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
a lot of graphs and diagrams though in science papers.
also you know you're at the very pits of academia when they specify assignments in 'page-lengths'. that's like still being at high-school.
also you know you're at the very pits of academia when they specify assignments in 'page-lengths'. that's like still being at high-school.
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The writeup portion of the project only took up maybe ten pages, the rest was all excel calculations, curve fits and line drawings. Still, it was a shitload of work, that one.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
a lot of graphs and diagrams though in science papers.
also you know you're at the very pits of academia when they specify assignments in 'page-lengths'. that's like still being at high-school.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
I've read MIT PhD papers which would barely pass as an undergraduate thesis in the UK, and a UK qualification pales into nothing compared with a German degree.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
american undergrad education is generally regarded very lowly here, as being quite amateurish. foreign US students are advised that their undergrad degree content/work-load is more like our pre-uni exams (a-levels). 3,500 words as your longest piece of work is crazy. i had to produce that every single 2 weeks for non-examined term-papers.
My Msc thesis was 10,000 words IIRC, plus graphs and pictures.
Fuck Israel
Really. MIT PhD papers don't even match up to UK undergrad thesis. MIT. The best science school in the world. lol kk.Dilbert_X wrote:
I've read MIT PhD papers which would barely pass as an undergraduate thesis in the UK, and a UK qualification pales into nothing compared with a German degree.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
american undergrad education is generally regarded very lowly here, as being quite amateurish. foreign US students are advised that their undergrad degree content/work-load is more like our pre-uni exams (a-levels). 3,500 words as your longest piece of work is crazy. i had to produce that every single 2 weeks for non-examined term-papers.
My Msc thesis was 10,000 words IIRC, plus graphs and pictures.
you can't really compare german/french degrees to anglo-american ones, because their entire system and structure is different. not to mention that germany and france don't have a problem in divorcing people who do technical/practical degrees away from academia and the research-scene proper. they have prestigious 'polytechnics' or 'technical schools' that are just as good - if not better - at equipping people with real skills and real graduate employability. the essay styles and workload at those is different to their ancient/classical universities.
and then at the german/french 'high' academic institutions, their academic style is, again, very different to other western institutions. the 'continental tradition' comes into play, where essays and research are professionalized in a very different way to the UK-US axis. also their job occupation itself and training entails many different things. it's hard to say if it's 'harder' or not; french and german postgraduate education have really fallen in international repute/impact over the last 30-40 years or so.
and then at the german/french 'high' academic institutions, their academic style is, again, very different to other western institutions. the 'continental tradition' comes into play, where essays and research are professionalized in a very different way to the UK-US axis. also their job occupation itself and training entails many different things. it's hard to say if it's 'harder' or not; french and german postgraduate education have really fallen in international repute/impact over the last 30-40 years or so.
I lost my keys but found them again
pay day
didn't have to do jury duty - apparently owning tickets to a baseball game for tomorrow was a good excuse
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
Does that mean they rescheduled you or you just don't have to do it at all?
they excused me totally, so i'm off for 3 years :3_j5689_ wrote:
Does that mean they rescheduled you or you just don't have to do it at all?
i actually wanted to serve, but i paid for the tickets already so...bummer
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
bullshit.Brasso wrote:
didn't have to do jury duty - apparently owning tickets to a baseball game for tomorrow was a good excuse
shop is done with my motorcycle. gonna pick it up tomorrow, just in time for summer
/northern hemisphere
/northern hemisphere
Last night I processed a veterinary specimen test requisition form for a dog named Happy Wang. Another processor said he did one for a cat named Crackhead one time. This job is gonna have some funny moments I think.
This felt like the longest week of my life between the dog thing, adjusting to the night shift some more, and having an anxiety attack this morning from all the changes and other crap my supervisor dumped on me that I'll be doing next week.
So glad it's all over with
So glad it's all over with
Steam started without hedging about in limbo for two minutes.
Until next week..._j5689_ wrote:
This felt like the longest week of my life between the dog thing, adjusting to the night shift some more, and having an anxiety attack this morning from all the changes and other crap my supervisor dumped on me that I'll be doing next week.
So glad it's all over with
Finally managed to silence Uzique.Uzique wrote:
lol. don't even know how to respond to such idiocy.
Fuck Israel
lol. it's the way you're comparing the uk tourism industry to france's. like they are even comparable. paris is a very different place to visit as a tourist from london. most of france's most famous sights are products of the repubic, anyway. london's quaint tourist attractions are all regal.
Uzique The Lesser wrote:
lol. it's the way you're comparing the uk tourism industry to france's. like they are even comparable. paris is a very different place to visit as a tourist from london. most of france's most famous sights are products of the repubic, anyway. london's quaint tourist attractions are all regal.
Fuck Israel
sure is fine when a wheelchair-bound live-at-home lonely 40 something with a creaky heart that's going to kill him soon tells me to "kys".
take a deep breath of that summer breeze. ain't it wonderful.
take a deep breath of that summer breeze. ain't it wonderful.