Group projects, what a mess.

These types of assignments are the worst that you can get for a big project in school because you always find yourself coming across the issue of scheduling conflict. If you can all meet together it may only happen for one time, and that may not be enough time to be able to get anything done whether it's a simple research project or something artistic. It's also a chore trying to find one person who will able to get the whole group on task in order to do the project in a timely manner. If you can't get together you'll find yourselves scrambling to dived the work evenly amongst every person in the group. Once you do this it's also hard to collaborate and incorporate everything into the same overall presentation. It's especially hard to be able to do these types of projects when you are in college and you commute from an hour away while also having work on many weekdays and a full schedule while you're at school. Basically put it is near impossible for group projects to go smoothly and it's just a real pain and hassle when teachers assign them.

Solve this problem, oh, it's only half complete.

Algebra is one of the most irritating forms of math that for the most part none of us will be able to use practically in our every day life. I don't even see how I could use it any day of my life. Now, before I go and outright declare it's useless let me put one example on where you can actually use it.

If you're going on a trip with 3 friends and you're traveling 50 miles in a car that gets 24 mpg you can use an algebraic equation to figure out the money needed from each person so you each spend the same amount and it comes out to be a fair cost for all involved. Gas is 3 dollars a gallon, you have three friends, and you're using 2 gallons of gas. I'm not gonna do the equation but you get the point.

Besides this one type of basic equation every other part of algebra is just complete and utter useless nonsense.

Half Assing is LAME

I can't stand it when people half ass something, they don't work hard or do the best they can and often times they don't even

Time to change the way time is viewed.

Time is one of those things that everybody loves to hate. We can't live without the fabric of time and space and we organize and run our lives based off of schedules within time. Time is merely a way to split the day into equal parts so that everybody can be on the same wavelength.

It is true that time exists due to the fact that there are seasons and day and night. It's very convenient that we were able to work these two things into a 24 hour day. Ever since man has known about time he has tried to come up with ways to keep track of it. The sun dial is the earliest form of this and is still used in some places today, not for telling the time but for decoration.

The one method of telling time that has lasted the longest is the analogue clock. Now that we have digital clocks though the analogue system is rather useless. Sure it's classy or classical to have a grandfather clock or a wall mounted pendulum clock but what's the point?

Now, let's entertain a ridiculous idea for a second here. What if we were to display an analogue clock using a digital display? Genius right? WRONG. I'm just going to end now.

Displaying analogue clocks digitally is dumb and pointless.

General Education, why it SUCKS.

If there was one thing that I could do to forever change the way that my college operates, let alone all colleges, it would be doing away with stupid Gen Ed courses. Now, I'm not saying that I think learning is stupid or that it's not important to have general knowledge about the world, it's just the way in which you do in at college doesn't help you with your life nor does it make you a more knowledgeable person. Let's sum it up in three.

1. No New Material
One of the biggest reasons that these classes are so unimportant is because of the fact that ninety percent of the time you are being taught things that you more than likely already know. I've read the book Frankenstein once in seventh grade, senior year of high school, and then a third time my freshman year of college. Every time we read it we always look at it from the same aspect, that of Frankenstein abandoning his creation thus making the creature evil, or did the creature choose to be evil? It's always the same dumb conversations with the same stupid ending to them and it's a waste of time.

2.Waste of Time
That brings me to my second point, these classes are a waste of time. Since I already know all of the basic math that I'm going to need to use to be able to function properly in the real world, all of the math that they would be able to teach me is just useless and stupid. When on earth am I going to have to figure out this certain equation without knowing what this variable is? Never, that's why these courses are a complete and utter waste of time.

3.Distract From Important Classes
The greatest reason why I feel these classes are not only unneeded but in many ways harmful to your education is because they take time away from the courses that you are taking so you can get your study completed. I didn't go to college to be a science math or business major, I am going to become a composer. Why should I have to take two writing and rhetoric classes that are making me write more research papers that I've already done in the past. Having to take over six courses in a single semester with only two of those being major courses is still a hard thing to have to do because every other class that isn't a major and isn't even an English class for that matter of fact requires that you do some form of major project or paper, which is a bull crap waste of time.

Gen Ed courses are the worst thing ever invented in the educational history of man.

Grammar much?

I hate those facebook updates that start with is and are followed by a sentence that makes no sense because of it. Just because it's only an online thing doesn't mean you shouldn't use good english. If you start using poor grammar and a worse vocabulary you're only harming yourself, so why start that bad habbit. Always do everything as best as you can because the second you start slacking off you lose knowledge and skill.

So, whether it's a slight grammatical error or a dropped word don't let those seemingly small things ruin you.

No eating allowed in lunch room!

Wow was I shocked today when I walked into the student lounge on the third floor of the music department at my college. There are signs hanging on the wall stating "no sleeping allowed in lunch room". First off, I'd like to say that though this is the lunch room it is more so a student lounge thanks to the computers and such. I don't understand just why it is that we're not allowed to take a minute to get some shuteye during our down time.

I pay 16,000 dollars a SEMESTER to go to this place, so why is it that they think they can dictate what I do during my free time between classes? Maybe I've had a full day of class followed by a full night of work the previous day and I didn't get much sleep. Maybe I had a lot of homework to do and I had to stay up late to finish it all and make sure I did a great job on all of it. Whatever the circumstance, I feel that I should be able to do whatever publicly appropriate act I please in the student lounge that I pay for.

The main thing that irritates me is that there's nothing they can do about it besides wake us up. They can't write us up or kick us out the building so what's the point of waking us up just to ensure we're not sleeping in the lounge?

I can understand not sleeping in here during lunch time when it's crowded and there are many students trying to eat here, but the rule is otherwise very unnecessary bullcrap.