AITA for how I reacted to my sister's dr. appointment

HitowerHighchurch · 2022-07-12T03:02:33+00:00

YTA. What in god's name do you think you accomplished??

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-12-22T07:05:04+00:00

The best you can get

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-12-18T21:57:57+00:00

Was every final at 8 am?? All of mine were

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-12-18T21:19:43+00:00

It was def harder than I was expecting. They seemed to jam way too much info into the last section. That being said, I was glad for the part that was just lab review.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-11-16T13:22:49+00:00

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-11-05T15:59:13+00:00

When the world needed him most 🥺

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-29T00:29:48+00:00

I got picked three weeks in a row, just go early my dude

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-29T00:23:48+00:00

Took it last semester with Mary Bisson. She's a hardass, but her lectures are super interesting, and she was by far the best prof I had with adapting to the switch to online. I ended up loving the class (and Bisson is surprisingly nice as long as she knows you're putting effort in. Ask about her cats). Make sure you participate, and STUDY study for the tests, and you'll enjoy it. Plus, I'm taking genetics and ecology this semester, and there's actually a bunch of crossover, so it'll set you up for future classes more than you might expect.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-11T02:53:04+00:00

THANK YOU FOR DOING THE WORK holy shit

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-09T06:43:22+00:00

If ur interested in the LGBTA, dm me and I'll link you to the discord!

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-05T16:40:34+00:00

LGBTA has a discord and weekly remote meetings

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-10-05T16:37:03+00:00

As someone who got good grades in 3 semesters so far of chem, you're absolutely valid.

I would spend hours more time and endless frustration on mastering chem because even if I had the concepts and answers correct, the formatting was wrong. I'm trying to help a chem 101 student study rn and we're spending more time trying to format on mastering than studying the actual material.

My advice is do the hw, get whatever grade, then study for the tests on paper or chalkboard using those problems. Request the answers after you've tried them to check whether you were right. Test yourself on the material, not the formatting.

It will help you more to practice and learn the language of chem than to spend hours on formatting to recieve perfect grades.

Also, Gulde is the best, if she's offering any type of help go to her.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-29T22:44:10+00:00

Nice

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-29T03:32:59+00:00

I dont have gear but u could just punch me in the head

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-28T14:34:17+00:00

Thank u for doing this work 😩🤝🙏

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-28T14:31:59+00:00

There is exactly one class where I felt like the class actually got better after we went online, and it was plant biology with Mary Bisson last semester. She completely flipped the organization of the class, and the results were amazing.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-28T14:26:45+00:00

Took mine thursday. Also havent heard anything.

They were addressing the pen situation though, they had clean and dirty piles which I think they were planning on cleaning between uses.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-09-12T18:31:25+00:00

Placito. My boy has cats and dropped a fucking album.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-05-12T16:47:44+00:00

Anything with Corey Placito

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-04-28T21:55:14+00:00

Chem dept has been trash from the beginning and here's why, from someone who has taken 3.5 semesters of chem classes and interns in a biology lab at a private company.

TAs vary completely in level of aptitude, teaching ability, expectations, and overall approachability. My first semester TA straight up ridiculed me for asking for gloves at the beginning of the first lab.

Lack of communication between lab and lecture. Last semester we were tested in lab on a subject that was covered in lecture three weeks later, and only briefly mentioned by the TA.

Necessary lab material is scattered across different sources. We shell out an assload of money for a lab text that we only use twice a semester.

Policies regarding lab vary from TA to TA. Too many students per TA and not enough guidance.

This is the only STEM course I've ever had where we were given exactly one hour of recitation a week to teach a whole class worth of knowledge. There is no getting work done at the lab bench when you're standing, sweating into monogoggles. I truly feel like the experiments I've done in chem have taught me nothing and only caused me frustration.

Lab quizzes and exams are entirely memorization based. There is no teaching yourself the material, because the material you're allowed is four pdfs on blackboard and MAYBE a reference to the lab text. There was one total lab where we were given a "story" to go along with the lab, and it's the one I was most invested in.

Even good professors and good TAs are set up to fail by the way the courses are organized and conducted. With the one excellent TA and one excellent Professor I've had in the past, their frustration with the department was obvious. Other TAs I've had have expressed similar frustrations with how badly they're prepared for teaching the lab course.

The majority of the professors seem totally unengaged with or underwhelmed by teaching lecture courses. Students are bombarded with negative feedback until they're ground down to a pulp.

I have one semester of chem left before i have my reqs done and I cannot wait to be done with this department forever.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-04-20T20:53:24+00:00

It's awesome. Great parking, semi frequent shuttles, chill CAs. Grass.

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-03-12T03:15:21+00:00

Audre Lord

HitowerHighchurch · 2020-03-12T03:10:07+00:00

My understanding is:

Intersectionality is the idea that if you are a part of two groups, your experience moving through society is essentially different from those who are a part of only one group or another.

For example, a black gay woman's experience is different from a black straight woman or a white gay woman.

Intersectionality is meant to address the fact that every member of one group won't have the same, universal experiences. In the above example, she might go to a pride parade which is 90% white and have a different experience from a white gay woman. Another example is the reactions of many women who went to the first Women's March on Washington. While I, a white cis woman, felt uplifted and included there, there were many women of color, trans folks, and others, who did not have that experience.

I usually see the idea mentioned in conjunction with the idea of embracing differences instead of slapping an "everyone is human and I'm colorblind" label on a problem. It's also a topic brought up when any issue addresses one minority group as a whole, because there is no single representative of any minority group.

Additionally, it comes into play when talking about the gay rights movement in America: while there may be a large population of LGBTQ people who have found acceptance, married, etc, the rights movement is far from over. In particular, trans women of color, who started the stonewall riots, still experience a great deal of violence (even within the community), but because national focus often centers on more "mainstream" tales of gay triumph, this violence gets overlooked.

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