Posted by alexandra_k on July 1, 2014, at 21:46:06
In reply to Re: aargh!!, posted by alexandra_k on July 1, 2014, at 18:36:22
i just... i don't understand labs. i understand group work where one thing gets handed in by a bunch of people and i understand individual work... but i don't understand this thing where we pretend it is individual (that people are recording what they found or drawing what they saw) but where really people are copying with slight modification... maybe people are better at it than i give them credit for... i think with the water thing... people were... just easy going about it, really. take a recording every 30 seconds... or so... that recording was a little late... but never mind... extrapolate a little, modify the answer a little, you can see the general trend...
i can't. see the general trend. because of the numbers thing, i guess. and it says to take a recording every 30 seconds... so... i'm feeling very literal about that. do it properly. and it's not supposed to matter. rough and ready... 30 or 40 minutes you do it for... talking and joking and so on to make it bearable... fun... apparently. and all i want is a quiet room where i can focus on doing the task properly.
i'm seeing this selection process... it's a little bit of luck... and mostly it's investment.
it's about overpopulation. here we are, tiny little country... not many more people than the population of sydney... and we have issues of overpopulation. crowding in accommodation. though they are starting to say that it is a cultural difference rather than a substandard living accommodation thing. it is concerning...
the mushroom child raising strategy... cast your progeny into the wind and see what sticks. law of averages... some of them will be able to support you in your (relatively young) old age - right? struggle themselves up, somehow... so we get over 1,000 wanting to do science... run the class... see what sticks... and there is a combination... of people who don't know they are expected to study / do any revising / learning outside of class... of people who don't know they can't study effectively in front of the television / with all the overcrowing noise... all kinds... and you make it... or you don't... whatever... nobody gives a sh*t. expendable.
that's the trouble. in being so f*ck*ng reverent about life... we end up treating it like a cheap piece of sh*t. so much more where that came from...
forget the ecosystem... from a person perspective... massive human diebacks would be good...
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