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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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The Psychology of Presence
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I finished college two years ago, and it was not a very pleasant experience.
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It was bad enough that, to this day, while having the desire for a second
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degree, I would never seriously consider returning to college.
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I am a knowledge junkie. The popularity of the Internet and World Wide Web
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would have people define this as someone addicted to the Web. But, I am
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different. I hate the Web. Biology. Chemistry. Mathematics. Philosophy.
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Psychology. Sociology. These are the subjects which interest me, and college
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prevented me from learning them.
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All colleges have a policy which stipulates that the grade one ultimately
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receives must be based, in part, upon a certain pre-defined attendance
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rate. In order to recieve a "C" in any class, you must attend at least
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70% of the class sessions, regardless of all other factors. You may be
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earning a perfect "A" in the class, but if you only attended 70% of the
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lectures, you will be recieving a "C" instead.
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On the surface, this seems like a reasonable policy. The more lectures you
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attend, the more you will learn. The less you attend, the less you will
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learn. But, this policy is seriously flawed, and it is destroying the
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academic records of many students.
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I do not restrict my learning solely to the classroom. While others can be
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found in the local bookstore perusing the best-seller of the week, I can
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be found in the science section debating whether I should buy a book on
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chaos theory, or a book on human anatomy. If I am able, I purchase them
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both, and eagerly run home to begin learning something new.
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A student often registers for his next-semester class schedule several
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months in advance. Being excited about learning a new subject, I would
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often return to the bookstore to buy something along the lines of my
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future class subjects. By the time I appeared for the first day of class,
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I usually had a solid background on what was to come.
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Instructors spend way too much time beating the same basic principles to
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death. The class moves slowly as a result, and those who understood the
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concept earlier are quickly bored. Those who understood it months earlier
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become extremely bored. When a sharp student asks a thoughtful and
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intelligent question on the topic at hand, and the rest of the class may
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not understand it yet, the anger of others becomes readily apparant.
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Some think you are just trying to show off. You lose faith in your ability
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to learn what you need from the class. You start missing classes. Eventually,
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you only do the homework and show for the tests.
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I failed many classes in college. I failed the same philosophy class twice. I
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failed because I never attended class. I completed all of the assignments on
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time. I took every quiz and test. I read the entire textbook...twice. I often
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called the instructor on weekends to debate very esoteric topics of
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philosophy, ethics and society. She said she had learned a couple of things
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from our debates. She said I knew my subject cold. At the end of the
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semester, I had 997 out of 1000 possible points. I received an "F" in the
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class based on my 28% attendance rate. She was upset that she was forced to
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give me this grade.
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This scenario played out in every class, every semester. Then I took
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Psychology. On the first day of class, we filled out the basic questionaire
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as to who we were, what we wanted to do with our lives, and what our
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interests were. We turned them in, and after glancing through them, she
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called a few students outside for a few minutes each. I was one of them.
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"You don't belong here," she said. "Get out of here. See me during office
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hours later this week."
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Wondering what was going on, I went to her office a few days later. Why would
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an instructor throw me out of her class without cause?
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"You're too smart to be wasting away in this class. You stated your interest
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was in medicine on your questionaire. I want you to read the textbook and
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show up for all of the quizzes and tests. Other than that, I don't want to
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see you in class. But, since the law requires a certain amount of hours in
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the classroom to receive a grade, this is what we are going to do. You will
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spend one hour for each hour of class you miss researching any topic you want
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tying psychology with medicine. Then write me a report. Keep a log of your
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hours. Agree?"
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I could not believe what I was hearing. This was too good to be true! "Yes."
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I said to her, and went home.
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I did what was asked of me. I missed 51 hours of class, yet spent 132 hours
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researching and writing a report on "The Psychology of Steroid Abuse in
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Athletes." I received an "A" on every quiz and test. I received an "A" on my
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report. I received an "A" in the class. I was ecstatic!
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This instructor somehow recognized a student that shouldn't have been there.
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She had an alternate idea, and it worked for the both of us. I had learned
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more about psychology than any student could ever have learned by attending
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every class and taking notes. And it gave me hope for my other classes.
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The following semester I approached each of my instructors on the first day
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of class with this idea in mind. None of them wanted to hear it. It was
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ludicrous to them. I had to attend class or fail. End of story.
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By definition, the grade of "A" means "demonstrated mastery of the course
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subject and material." Colleges don't care about the definitions contained in
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their own policy guidelines. So what if you are a master of "subject x" or
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"subject y?" So what if you are doing "A" level work. You missed "x" number
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of classes, so you are getting an "F." This is contrary to the definition of
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"A" work. Where is the logic in this?
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Smart students with a desire to learn are being destroyed by irrational
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policies like attendance requirements. I graduated with a GPA of 2.02. I
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should have graduated with a 3.80+ GPA. I received offers from almost every
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one of my current, and previous, instructors for "Letters of Recommendation."
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I became friends with many of my instructors, and even some I never took a
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class from. But my desire for knowledge destroyed me. I was different. I
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didn't conform. And I was punished for it.
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se7en
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(11/23/96)
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