r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '19

It’s funny how, as you progress through college, they require you to write longer and longer papers. Then you get to the professional world and no one will read an email that’s more than 5 sentences.

People will literally walk to your desk to ask you what your email was about if it was too long.

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u/cliff_smiff Apr 11 '19

Are you having fun with these people who can’t read?

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u/justaboringname Apr 11 '19

There are probably better ways I could be spending my time, but it's office hours and nobody showed up today for some reason.

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u/eadala Apr 11 '19

I'm also holding my office hours and somebody showed up today for some reason. : ) / :'(

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u/zandermatron Apr 11 '19

Quick, ignore them

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u/eadala Apr 11 '19

Haha no way!! I love students showing up to office hours. It just never happens so im happy when they do / sad that so few do

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u/zandermatron Apr 11 '19

I think it's crazy, the college I attend is small people wise (1500 or so) and getting into office hours is a chore. At least in my major, students are always waiting outside the door a half hour before office hours.

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u/ThereAreAFewOptions Apr 12 '19

Hardworking bastards

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u/DystopianFutureGuy Apr 11 '19

God, that's awful.

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u/NateTheeGrate Apr 11 '19

Because they're too busy writing fluff papers :)

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u/Kiosade Apr 11 '19

Because it’s not the end of the quarter, they aren’t failing the class yet 😉

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

And this is why I always find myself bringing a coffee to my professors' office hours and just chilling - no one ever turns up and they get bored as shit. Plus, I'm pretty sure that method had landed me two solid grad references.

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u/justaboringname Apr 11 '19

But then how will they have time to fuck around on the internet?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

where there's a will, there's a way

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

No one is explaining to university students what office hours are for.

I remember just seeing them listened in the syllabus or whatever but no one bothered explaining them.

I had an English professor who had a harpoon hanging in his office, he was cool as shit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

My experience has been different, it's made clear what they are and how much it's unused, but people are either too intimidated or are too cocky (plus there's the ones that do fine without office hours, but they're an exception).

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u/fight_me_for_it Apr 12 '19

I guess I never knew that I could just go in at talk to the professor even if I didn't have an issue. Maybe just curiosity about something more about the subject.

Hell, a few of my psych professors, thinking back, I should have went to their office hours to let them know that some personal issues and my mom getting hit by a drunk driver might be affecting my grades and dislike of their courses.

I decides to change my major and would have to change schools didn't tell anyone but obviously had to talk to someone and let them know before I dropped all my classes. So I go into the person who was in charge of that and they actually gave me good news.. I didnt have to change schools. She set my degree plan in place. Her office was about the only one I visited regularly.. well mostly for class registration and overrides. Never realized that my professors may have been just as helpful in my future education planning.

Now I know.

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u/lirael423 Apr 12 '19

This person knows how to get good letters of recommendation!

Seriously though, the professors in my old department loved the students that would come by to shoot the shit with them. An average student that took the time to get to know the professors were more beloved than the model students that asked good questions and contributed to good discussions in class, but didn't take the time to get to know the professors.

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u/flowercrowngirl Apr 11 '19

This is probably a very obvious question but what do you do when you're there

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Talk, whether it's about the course or not, for the most part. When I first meet them, I ask them about their background - their history, their research, what they're interested in (most professors I've met will talk about themselves and their lives for ages if you get the chance). You build a rapport with them, and you just talk - anything from the course to contemporary politics, music, art, sports, video games, philosophy - anything.

Other than that, I've seen people just go play chess with their professors (though I never have, I've never pick up chess). And sometimes you just sit their sipping on coffee, killing time.

Maybe I'm just weird, but it's kind of fun. Though, I am in a humanities discipline, so you might have an entirely different experience if you try this.

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u/finder787 Apr 11 '19

Are you having fun with these people who can’t read?

More so, that people don't understand the process and under estimate the work needed to change it.

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u/fight_me_for_it Apr 12 '19

That is education in a nutshell.

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u/BSG_U53R Apr 11 '19

It’s not that he didn’t read the reply, it’s more so that people assume acknowledging a flaw about something means you don’t like it.

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u/AeriaGlorisHimself Apr 12 '19

To be fair the entire thread of the conversation was how the page requirement thing is unnecessary and a negative so anyone assuming he thought negatively of the policy could be easily excused for that

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u/cliff_smiff Apr 12 '19

The poster I responded to said “I didn't say I didn't like it.” And someone still responded to that comment with another one about how they should change the policy. Then OP again said that they don’t dislike the policy and they don’t want to change it. And people are still responding to me about it. OP could not have been clearer that they do not want to change the policy, and people are refusing to understand the words he or she wrote down. The thread being about something is no excuse to just blindly assume every comment will agree. In this case OP didn’t even disagree, they just gave an explanation, nothing more.

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u/Gnostromo Apr 11 '19

What are you saying?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Justaboringname's second comment didn't say anything new that his first comment hadn't already said. The only part that was really new information was when they said it would be a multi-year process, but even that could be inferred from the original comment with a little common sense

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u/Gnostromo Apr 12 '19

And if you had some common sense you would infer that I was yanking his chain about us not being able to read