Ya Ya

I've seen what tittwriter83 has described a bit. A member of my cohort is from the Ivies (we're at a public R1 state school) and he gets a lot of criticism on his work if it isn't done to a particular standard. But this just occurs in one course with a prof who's an Alum at said Ivy. I don't know how his grades look in comparison to ours but there does seem to be a bit more pressure on him to produce.

With that said, I would never complain about what I got in comparison to others. I just seems to be a waste of energy. Why alienate your classmates by being an ass? I do believe that our prof has different expectations of us based on our experiences, interests, and past work but I have yet to hear anyone feel like they have been penalized for it. He just wants to push us to do our best work.

"There's no crying victim in grad school!"

This last paragraph is a joke right? Yes, it must be...good one! I mean it's not funny haha, but it's definitely good for a chuckle..."bullshit classes...do well...a little shaved off of...tuition.." Damn, that's rich.

I think I did bad in my aesthetics class. Dammit, the last thing I want to do in art school (besides being there at all, of course) is needing to study and take written exams. I took more than enough art history classes in undergrad that were worthless and this class was equally ridiculous. We even got a quiz on the first day of class and were still taking notes the day of the final and were expected to have stuff memorized from those notes because that information would be on the final!

I'm not going to be an art historian, so I fail to see why I need more art history classes. Especially something as specific as aesthetics - my instructor was a smart and funny guy, but I don't give a damn about the triangular forms in Raphael's 'mother and child' paintings. I love how colleges jam-pack their programs with completely useless classes - I bet if you cut down on the BS in any program and at any degree level, people could get their degrees a lot faster. But then the school can't milk you for more money, so they keep you there and tell you that dumb shit like dolphin hugging and glass blowing are required credits for a geology degree.

IMHO, I think the bullshit classes should all be electives and maybe offer an incentive to take them. Like if you take that class and do well, you get a little shaved off next semester's tuition costs. Or the class itself costs less than core classes. It was the bloody "normal" exam and notes classes that made me not get straight A's more than once in undergrad too. But that's a rant for another day. My GPA in grad school has gone down from 4.0 to 3.6 in less than a year and I know it's going to go down even more once I get my grades for this year's summer semester.

I've seen what tittwriter83 has described a bit. A member of my cohort is from the Ivies (we're at a public R1 state school) and he gets a lot of criticism on his work if it isn't done to a particular standard. But this just occurs in one course with a prof who's an Alum at said Ivy. I don't know how his grades look in comparison to ours but there does seem to be a bit more pressure on him to produce.

With that said, I would never complain about what I got in comparison to others. I just seems to be a waste of energy. Why alienate your classmates by being an ass? I do believe that our prof has different expectations of us based on our experiences, interests, and past work but I have yet to hear anyone feel like they have been penalized for it. He just wants to push us to do our best work.

"There's no crying victim in grad school!"

for what it's worth, i was trying to be rude to tittywriter83. whenever i read/hear someone complaining that they are unfairly graded because they're so brilliant and their peers with higher grades are let off easy, i think they deserve a bit of rudeness. people think too damn highly of themselves. and while i appreciate sigaba sticking up for me, i can also handle myself and any negative recs that may come my way. sometimes delusional people need to be told that they're delusional, and i'm always happy to provide that service.

eco_env I completely understand where you're coming from. I'm having a similar issue but within my lab. Everyone is either married, older, with children, or in such an advanced standing that they don't have time to hang. Except that they tend to hang out with a member of my cohort (who is also in my lab) whose in his late 40s. So I don't really get invited to there little outings but I kind of doubt I would have too much fun considering that I'm in my early 20s. But it would be nice to be invited. Oh well. The guy in his late 40s is having the same problem but with our young cohort.

I've been going to all the social events that I can, and still I find that the rest of my cohort has social get-togethers without me. Not only is it depressing that I don't have anyone to have causal interactions with (no spouse or family around either), but I could be missing out on networking opportunities if I don't interact with other EEB-ers.