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Originally posted by Alchemist
Yeah I'm in college, Stony Brook University, you're at MSU right? I think that the teacher's here seem to make things more complicated than they need to be and take a long time to get to the point.
One time in politics the teacher said that Realists view actors such as countries as self centered. Some guy asked a question saying that he viewed that as pessimistic and he went on and on about this and in the process repeated what the professor said. I wanted this guy to stop talking and then some girl sitting next to me said "shut the fuck up" under her breath. After he finished his question the teacher then started talking even more about the topic we just covered without really getting anything done.
Yep, i was at MSU last year but transferred to University of Michigan.
The realist view you stated sounds familiar. In policy debate in high school, a critique people would run was realism and the realist viewpoint extended into politics was that all countries ultlimately are self-serving. I can agree with that. We all are self-serving, i am not sure about self-centered though.
Profs here at UofM seem to make things harder than they need to as well. The community here is interesting, no one helps each other as willingly as they did in MSU, and i have heard stories from friends about how they bought "test answers" but really they were fake solutions. People do underhanded things like make fake test answers, sell them, so they can be ahead of you in college or something. The community seems more unfriendly, and a tad bit arrogant on a whole level. I think mostly wrongfully arrogant, for when i talk to these people they just seem average. All my classes are curved or bell curved, something of another that makes an A harder to get. In all, it just seems unnecessarily competitive. I have to say i liked MSU better as of now. Though one thing i do like about this place is that there are so many asians, and even a lot of south asians here. We do not get special points for admission if people are thinking that. Special points are given towards the favored unrepresented minorites which include: african-american, latino, and native americans. Not asians.
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09-11-2004 12:26 AM
