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To: Moominoid who wrote (63325)	5/4/2005 1:52:29 AM
From: blind-geezer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

how many classes do I have to take to get a degree in economics ... you think I can be an assistant to Larry Kudlow ???

To: Moominoid who wrote (63325)	5/4/2005 2:43:00 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Moo, I got a CS degree from state university - A in my Major only one time in my college career did I get less than a B - was intro economics course - very easy stuff - good teacher too though - but just 1st year intro you know - 4 tests - 1 final - made high 90's on the 4 tests - the final was on tuesday - like einstien and edison I must have been too focused on a coding assignment that week and got into my head it was thursday and even had that in my calendar software. Entered it wrong I guess. Showed up thursday and prof said you get a ZERO - I said huh - where is the test - she said it was tuesday - I check my calendar on my PDA - nope prof - I got it for thursday - she says check the syllabus - I said yep you right - syllabus says tuesday - can I take it now - I will ace it - she said no - you get ZERO - at this point I was still taking my assured A in that course for granted, the reality had not set in that I was not going to get anything but a ZERO. I talked to her calmly a few more minutes - she said what part of ZERO dont you understand, I said I made a mistake obviously - I am sorry - let me take the test - 10 more minutes and things were not calm anymore - I was getting irate that I could only get ZERO - I was a young 1st year freshman - I argued this did not reflect my knowledge or committment to the course - this does not reflect what I know or learned - this will ruin my college record and cost me the HOPE grant which it did - I argued I live in AMERICA where people are not commie robots that never make mistakes under a god like dictator - she had been calm to that point - then she started getting irate - anyways at the end she told me to get out of her office before she called security - I went immediately to the department head and head of the college. They heard my case - looked at her syllabus - we were in the deans office a few weeks later - she said the ONLY way to give you the test and it even be REMOTELY fair would be for you to contact EVERY STUDENT I have ever taught and ask them is it fair and OK for you to take the test 2 days late when none of them could and if even one says no you couldn't take it so drop this - she had been teaching 5 years - I said give me the list of your students - I will contact every one of them and convince them my cause is just - she started laughing at me - I looked over at the Dean he started a small grin too - he said go see the counselor - I went - the counselor said she had a doctor she could send me to that would give some kind of medical mental problem - a nervous breakdown I guess - that would excuse the class somehow and let me take it later and the D not go on my record. It was at this point I learned first hand the value of liberal bleeding heart democrats on your side - hehe. I said screw all that and just got my part time job and started paying for my college after losing the hope grant. I wonder how the american people are gonna react when the gubbment says ZERO and they don't get it initially like I didn't get it - that is one of the maybe 5 times in my life where I was emotionally able to have picked something up and throw across the room to vent my anger. I look back now on how silly it all was. But at the time it was a learning experience for how so many years of hope and expectation and ego building could be destroyed with one act and how the parts of the brain that control certain chemicals can make a person respond in the short term.