Welcome to my hell..

[katster]

Access class, again. I'm sorry, I don't care what everybody thinks of her, I don't like her. The class is all about nitpicky details, stupid things, and well...

took a quiz today. some of it was stupidly easy, some of it was ridiculously nitpicky. Like the buttons you use to navigate between fields. There's Four of them, they look sorta like this in ascii. << < > >>

What are they called? Why does it fscking *matter* what they're called, as long as I know what they do? :P

*sigh* and then I accidentally printed in the middle of lecture.

Teacher: "Who printed?"
Me: "It was an accident, I'm sorry."

*sigh* Welcome to my hell.

Comments

[tropism.livejournal.com]

God. I always suck at classes -- and quizes -- like that. Asking you about stupid, nitpickey shit that doesn't matter -- like in your example; who the fuck -cares- what they're called? And then they ignore the larger picture and don't ask you about stuff that's actually important.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

"On what day of the week did Rome fall?"

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Monday. Everyone knows that mondays are evil.

But, yeah, that's exactly the reason I loathed history in elementary, middle, and high school. Tests full of stupid shit like "What date was this bill passed?" "What date was this person killed?" Etc, etc, etc. %P

And when it comes down to it, who the fuck cares? I mean, you should know things like "When did *significant war or event* occur?" to within a few years...but having to pin it down exactly, especially for really nitpickey stuff, is fucking rediculous.

[primis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in today's education there's too much emphasis on the When of History instead of the Why and How.

Part of the reason that really old texts like TAoW are so effective is because the writers could have cared less about specific dates. Granted, now centuries later we can't pin down exact dates and it would be nice to, but in the end it's all irrelevant. You can sit and argue whether Sun Tzu existed or not, and when, but that's so missing the point of the whole thing...


-- Primis.