the truth about college (forwarded)
--this was forwarded to me by a friend. this one's authored by a UP Professor.--
College is a bunch of rooms where you sit for two thousand hours or so and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years. You spend the rest of the time sleeping, partying, and trying to get dates.
Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college:
1. Things you will need to know in later life (two hours).
2. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours).
The latter are the things you learn in classes whose names end in -ology, -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life.
After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means you must not major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, or geology because these subjects involve actual facts.
If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind, you fail.
The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this.
So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology -- subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each:
ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in your paper, you say Moby Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English.
PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs.
PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology.
SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.
Unknown
----dagdag ko diyan (especially for my dear health science students----
MEDICINE. If you like slicing up frogs, cats, sharks and everything else that is presumed to have had life, take medicine. But first you have to memorize nerves (and drink so much coffee till you get nervous), differentiate lateral from occipital (till you turn 'mental--case, that is), make staph aureus cultures in gelatinous media and/or differentiate them by staining technique, then use numbers to determine how fast these guys multiply to be called epidemic/endemic, then proceed to cut up fellow human beings as you munch your lunch sandwich, learn to know who is sick or well by palpating, auscultating, etc and make differential diagnoses of coughs, fevers, chest sounds, heart murmurs, etc., till you yourself catch the virus If you like to spend your family fortune but promise to pay them back in 20-25 years, take medicine. But of course the shorter route to repay them and to get rich yourself is by dropping out of med school or finishing it ala Intarmed, and by taking up nursing to go abroad taking care of sick old Canadians, Americans, Brits, abandoned by their thoughtful children. Or you can just walk the beaches of Puerto Galera or Boracay in your cutest (smallest) attire and pretending to like a vacationing bum. Go ahead and see the world. Make my day-- and don't come back. Please lang.
---- xxxx --- xxxx
Once, a student sat in my class and proceeded to become a speech therapist. Then I saw him in all-white doc's clothes taking a quick lunch in cheap place near where I live. I saw him again last June and he said that he and his wife were leaving in September for London to work as nurses.--this, of course is no lie.
---------xxxx---------xxxx---------
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
--"Master of the House,"
Les MisRoli Talampas
DSS, CAS, UP Manila
Telefax (00 63 2)524-1556
College is a bunch of rooms where you sit for two thousand hours or so and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years. You spend the rest of the time sleeping, partying, and trying to get dates.
Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college:
1. Things you will need to know in later life (two hours).
2. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours).
The latter are the things you learn in classes whose names end in -ology, -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life.
After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means you must not major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, or geology because these subjects involve actual facts.
If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind, you fail.
The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this.
So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology -- subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each:
ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in your paper, you say Moby Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English.
PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs.
PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology.
SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.
Unknown
----dagdag ko diyan (especially for my dear health science students----
MEDICINE. If you like slicing up frogs, cats, sharks and everything else that is presumed to have had life, take medicine. But first you have to memorize nerves (and drink so much coffee till you get nervous), differentiate lateral from occipital (till you turn 'mental--case, that is), make staph aureus cultures in gelatinous media and/or differentiate them by staining technique, then use numbers to determine how fast these guys multiply to be called epidemic/endemic, then proceed to cut up fellow human beings as you munch your lunch sandwich, learn to know who is sick or well by palpating, auscultating, etc and make differential diagnoses of coughs, fevers, chest sounds, heart murmurs, etc., till you yourself catch the virus If you like to spend your family fortune but promise to pay them back in 20-25 years, take medicine. But of course the shorter route to repay them and to get rich yourself is by dropping out of med school or finishing it ala Intarmed, and by taking up nursing to go abroad taking care of sick old Canadians, Americans, Brits, abandoned by their thoughtful children. Or you can just walk the beaches of Puerto Galera or Boracay in your cutest (smallest) attire and pretending to like a vacationing bum. Go ahead and see the world. Make my day-- and don't come back. Please lang.
---- xxxx --- xxxx
Once, a student sat in my class and proceeded to become a speech therapist. Then I saw him in all-white doc's clothes taking a quick lunch in cheap place near where I live. I saw him again last June and he said that he and his wife were leaving in September for London to work as nurses.--this, of course is no lie.
---------xxxx---------xxxx---------
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
--"Master of the House,"
Les MisRoli Talampas
DSS, CAS, UP Manila
Telefax (00 63 2)524-1556
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