Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job

[Scaffa]

Originally Posted by Citten

I finished with a 3.64 recently. Not so amazing considering I was in a creative field, but my work was always some form of A.

Curving in general is running rampant; I'm a little bit concerned that my GPA is too low to look appealing to an employer competitively. Somewhat hoped I'd be able to bypass the '2-4 years necessary experience' because I have a pretty solid resume of internship and media relations experience with my personal work but I don't really know what competing candidates are looking like and if their grades being higher even matters.

Minor derail for the kind FoHians:

Question: Is following up for a job a good thing, or do credentials need to sell themselves? If so, email or phone best?

Question: Is location discrimination a problem? Like, is it legal for an employer to not consider you because you're X miles away? I normally mention in my CL that I'm interested in relocating, looking forward to relocating to where they are - basically not anywhere near the jobs I've been applying to.

Bad news for you, friend. Nepotism is back, and this time it's personal.

Not that it wasn't personal beforehand.

[Lenaldo]

Originally Posted by Eomer

And massive workloads dumped on engineers. You pretty much had no choice but to either miss handing in assignments, or better yet, splitting up assignments and lab work between a few guys and then combining forces so that you could actually live somewhat of a normal life. Not to mention that hard science stuff is MUCH easier to plagiarize than humanities shit.

This is definitely the case in engineering(at least for me as a EE). During my undergrad degree(graduated with a 3.5 so "okay") it was a constant battle of which homework assignment to finish and which one to turn in half-done. I never believed in "splitting the work" and rarely even worked with others. I found that the more i worked with others the less deep my understanding of the material was. I am the type of student that gets 70% on homework(because most of its not "all" done) and then sets the curve on the exam(because I actually bothered to learn it).

Funny, now that I'm TAing I see the same shit. Theres a group of kids that almost always turn in the exact same homework each week. On the first exam one of them got an excellent score and the other 4 failed. This tends to be the norm for kids who work together. At my undergraduate university the cheating got so common that they made homework essentially worth nothing(5%) which worked great for me... but lol at the kids bitching "I DONT TAKE TESTS WELL!!!". Thats just a bullshit excuse for "I have no fucking idea what I learned in this class".

[Eomer]

At the University of Alberta it was basically understood and even condoned that people would "work together" on homework and lab shit. Provided you weren't handing in photocopies, or changed around some of the notations in a coding assignment, they didn't much care. Exams in most classes were 80-90% of your mark anyway.

[Wrathcaster]

I was a poli sci major now studying law and I still agree with most of the posts stating that a greater educational emphasis needs to be placed on math and science in the US. I have a very specific career path in mind, however, and wasn't seeking to enter the workforce as a standard lawyer or office worker.

Still, it would probably be better for the country if there weren't so many of my kind around. College was a breeze for me as I only had to take entry level science and math classes. I was able to avoid physics, chemistry, and for the most part biology almost entirely. Same deal with math, I did what I had to for my gen-ed requirements. Wasn't because I couldn't do the work or understand the concepts, I simply wasn't interested in pursuing that educational tract.

That being said, it doesn't work for everyone and it shouldn't. I didn't choose my major because it was particularly easy for me, but because I found it most interesting and didn't want to get stuck doing something I wouldn't enjoy for the rest of my life. End of story. Unfortunately most end up getting BA's for an entirely different reason, that it usually is easier to get by with a decent GPA in these academic areas. For these people, a college degree simply means a better chance of employment with a higher salary.

[Kreugen]

Sounds to me like someone with a hugely inflated sense of entitlement.

Must be a fat black woman.

[yoshimura]

Originally Posted by Chips

Leave Obama's birth certificate out of this

I was actually referring to the previous one, but oh well

[Pavor Nocturnus]

lets get a pic up of this person. I bet I know what she looks like already

[schwein]

Pancreas: i really have been considering surveying. not a lot of physical work outside but get to be outside and just standing there and walking. i seen it listed as the best jobs for people who cant sit still or something. decent pay grade it pretty even across the country so i can move to place away from the city and wont see my salary drop by 50%.

been doing IT work for 9 years and need something different haven't found an IT job i can stand for more then a year before i hate the job and hate to go to work every day.

[Zennin]

Originally Posted by schwein

Pancreas: i really have been considering surveying. not a lot of physical work outside but get to be outside and just standing there and walking. i seen it listed as the best jobs for people who cant sit still or something. decent pay grade it pretty even across the country so i can move to place away from the city and wont see my salary drop by 50%.

been doing IT work for 9 years and need something different haven't found an IT job i can stand for more then a year before i hate the job and hate to go to work every day.

BUT HOW WILL YOU BROWSE FOHSS AT WORK MAN?!

[tikkus]

Originally Posted by Zennin

BUT HOW WILL YOU BROWSE FOHSS AT WORK MAN?!

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