The Second Coming

[Caliga]

Well, where I come from ex-military people are not considered good poetry teachers.

We consider them uneducated scum and don't let them anywhere children.

Given Poland's military history I'm not surprised the Poles consider their soldiers scum.

[garbon]

I wish I knew how much of a role those classes played into getting me into college. I would like to go back and do the bare minimum required!

[Caliga]

Yeah I got all 4s and 5s.  A 4 is just as good as a 5 in getting those Ps out of intro classes.

In retrospect I think I just should have taken those easy classes and gotten the As

In retrospect I should have used the 32 credits I had going into college to do a year abroad with a light schedule instead of picking up a minor.

[Valmy]

In retrospect I should have used the 32 credits I had going into college to do a year abroad with a light schedule instead of picking up a minor.

I took a double major.  What was wrong with us?

[Fate]

Sounds like a lesson in pointlessness. I wasn't really interested in my high school teachers' pet theories.

I would note that this was an AP class.  I wouldn't have expected the typical student to get it, and in fact I rather suspect that if I tried it in my regular history classes, the students there would react exactly as you have.  They would be trying to figure out what the poet "meant' and my "pet theory" was, rather than using the poem as a tool to explore what they already knew.

Why would a student of an AP class explore what they already knew? I would rather suspect if an AP student understood the historical facts required to get an A in the class, they wouldn't waste time with a poem (unless you're a prick and put it on the test.  )

[Ed Anger]

do a year abroad

yay! Youth Hostels!

[garbon]

Why would a student of an AP class explore what they already knew? I would rather suspect if an AP student understood the historical facts required to get an A in the class, they wouldn't waste time with a poem (unless you're a prick and put it on the test.  )

[Caliga]

I took a double major.  What was wrong with us?

I dunno.

CAL = I'll use the extra time to take a comp sci minor!

CAL'S BRO = I'll use the extra time to study in London, intern in the Crown Court of England and Wales, and bang a hot Malaysian broad! 

CAL'S BRO = WIN

[Ed Anger]

I took a double major.  What was wrong with us?

I dunno.

CAL = I'll use the extra time to take a comp sci minor!

CAL'S BRO = I'll use the extra time to study in London, intern in the Crown Court of England and Wales, and bang a hot Malaysian broad! 

CAL'S BRO = WIN

MONO = Who makes more money now?

I had to do that. 

[grumbler]

The problem is that if grumbler is to his students anything like he is on this board, it is emphatically not fun. He appears to combine his "alternative interpretation" approach with an insistence that the alternative approach he thought up is the only correct one - which is quite flummoxing and must be deeply frustrating to students.

Actually, this is not the way I am on this board, and not the way I am in class.  You would, indeed, find my class difficult and frustrating, though, as your inability to read and comprehend English (at least) is marginal, and you lead to delusions based on the misapprehension that you understand.

[Ed Anger]

I love grumbler. 

[Caliga]

MONO = Who makes more money now?

I had to do that. 

Probably me, but I dunno for sure.  He's very tight-lipped about shit like that.  He's a siting consultant with a firm contracted exclusively to T-Mobile, so I imagine he does pretty well.  He just bought a 2009 Accord straight-up, no loan.

[Ed Anger]

MONO = Who makes more money now?

I had to do that. 

Probably me, but I dunno for sure.  He's very tight-lipped about shit like that.  He's a siting consultant with a firm contracted exclusively to T-Mobile, so I imagine he does pretty well.  He just bought a 2009 Accord straight-up, no loan.

Not bad.

I'd never pay for a new car like that though.

[Caliga]

Not bad.

I'd never pay for a new car like that though.

[Caliga]

I love grumbler. 

He's a complicated man, and no one understands him but his woman.