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And you forget Uzi, I read one your papers as well, and was completely underwhelmed. You make over-ample use of your thesaurus and fill your sentences with nothing but air. Maybe some professors are impressed by your bludgeoning, and overwhelmed with the prospect of having to actually read the trash you produce, but from what I read, it was perfectly representative of your personality. Completely empty of substance with an over-abundance of peacock-like style attempting to distract the reader and mask how shallow you really are.

Jay wrote:

And you forget Uzi, I read one your papers as well, and was completely underwhelmed. You make over-ample use of your thesaurus and fill your sentences with nothing but air. Maybe some professors are impressed by your bludgeoning, and overwhelmed with the prospect of having to actually read the trash you produce, but from what I read, it was perfectly representative of your personality. Completely empty of substance with an over-abundance of peacock-like style attempting to distract the reader and mask how shallow you really are.

sorry but i'll take the marking and assessment expertise of 20+ world-leading academics through a 4 year period over a dumb-as-fuck naval academy graduate who thinks i am "peacocking". was good enough for oxford admissions and my academic supervisor there, too, when i submitted written samples. it really breaks my heart though that it doesn't meet the Jay Standard.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-05-23 16:34:46)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Jay wrote:

Have to remember its a Baz Luhrman movie so it's not for people like [                 ].

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:

at the theater i had a hard time choosing a flick to watch, really nothing on i want to see.. but no need to defend tom cruise.. i try to put up movies i *think* would relate to the bf2s audience..  action related...

anyone see this one? Mud http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935179/ heh  the choices at the theater right now im not happy about.... Reese Witherspoon caused this one to not get any advertising, 'don't you know who i am?'

I like Tom Cruise just fine. I just thought Jack Reacher didn't quite mesh. I haven't seen Oblivion yet and to be honest, am looking forward to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. more.

Never heard of Mud.

no

Jay wrote:

Most teachers use the same lesson plan for twenty years.

say what? you actin cray cray maaan


yeeah i have a feeling this Hangover is meant for rental purposes.   

moonraker arrived today  007 you're up next

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

sorry but i'll take the marking and assessment expertise of 20+ world-leading academics through a 4 year period over a dumb-as-fuck naval academy graduate who thinks i am "peacocking". .

You've succeeded in regurgitatiing the opinion they want to hear, ie their own, thats hardly an achievement.

went to a school that charged $60,000 a year. do you think the teachers there were lousy?

Me too, the teachers were uniformly lousy.

In my experience the only useful teachers are those who have a good amount of real world experience in their field behind them, not a life spent learning to regurgitate groupthink.

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Dilbert_X wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

sorry but i'll take the marking and assessment expertise of 20+ world-leading academics through a 4 year period over a dumb-as-fuck naval academy graduate who thinks i am "peacocking". .

You've succeeded in regurgitatiing the opinion they want to hear, ie their own, thats hardly an achievement.

went to a school that charged $60,000 a year. do you think the teachers there were lousy?

Me too, the teachers were uniformly lousy.

In my experience the only useful teachers are those who have a good amount of real world experience in their field behind them, not a life spent learning to regurgitate groupthink.

actually my work is original, thanks. fucking idiot.

also "real world experience"? how the hell does a history teacher gain "real world experience"? you want him to go fight in a medieval battle or something? join a re-enactment society? "today kids i am going to be teaching you about the atlantic slave trade... which is fortunate, because i've just come back from a 6 month vacation, being a slave". the only experience that most kinds of teacher needs to benefit his students is experience/training in teaching and instruction. i don't need an iraq vet to teach me macbeth, thanks.

christ some things you say are fucking stupid. you and jay should get together and write a book. 'the engineers guide to being a successful intellectual'.

oh and i still don't believe you went to a public school. so far everything you've said about it has reeked of bs. with a surprising lack of any fact or reference at all. other than the "me too, and it sucked lol" talk.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-05-24 03:26:54)

Look, I'd love to bore you all to death with theorists like clausewitz, collier and kilcullen, quoting my essays and marks too but I doubt any of you are interested in the intricacies of conflict and war or my academic performance. As for grading and having a 'top of the class' GPA being proof of your grand intellectual capacity - sorry but that's a load of shit. All it really proves is that you have some rudimentary academic competence in your field of study. If you're 'in training' at a university your education won't provide you the time and leeway to produce truly original, quality work. 90%+ of it will consist of covering old ground, reiterating and compiling other academics' input and opinions with maybe a paragraph or two, three of your own conclusions and work. Which is fine, as the entire point of a university education is simply to bring your reasoning and knowledge within a certain field up to an acceptable level. And that bar isn't set terribly high, really. From that point on (IF you choose to continue working within the field) it will take many years, maybe even decades of hard work until you actually 'prove your worth' - producing something that is definitely worth publishing and reading. Some people still never do.

That goes for you too uzi. Maybe 10, 20 years from now when you've written a few books will I care for your 'excellent academic resumé' and acknowledge the achievement. By that time though this forum will be long dead and I hope none of you idiots will feel the need to constantly engage in glorified dick measurement contests on internet fora anymore.

thx

I'll do my best

shocking i don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. speak for yourself please. it is perfectly possible for people at postgraduate level to produce original work. work that is encouraged for publishing precisely because it contributes something new. perhaps not a 'new idea' on the scale of a grand theory like hegel's, but certainly a new and fresh contribution. i am one of them. i am far from unique. please tell me more about how you understand the academic world though, from your vantage as a bottom-feeding undergraduate. i'm sure you have it all figured out.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-05-24 07:37:52)

Ultrafunkula wrote:

Some weird ass movie reviews in here...

yeah every fucking thread is some form of unrelated debate so i just pop in, confirm that it's a debate, and leave. sad really

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