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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Marmot on March 31, 2009, 04:14:17 am
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peeps and geeks post ur frustrations in this thread and what are u currently seein at school and how this contributes to the enlargement of your anus.
i am trying to decipher this
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Classical_Waves/Classical_Waves_files/image043.gif)
solution to the schrodinger equation of the hydrogen atom heh its all gobbidygook to me gotta drink some beer instead
also to makes this thread interesting elaborate a little on what you are seeing. for example if you are writing a paper, tell us a bit about what the paper is about
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remember when you where in highschool and there was some shit about how there is an electron cloud because we cant know with absolte certainty the position of an electron? well its this bullshit. basically in the subatomic level the laws of quantum mechanics govern momentum and position. it makes more sense to think of the electron as a standing spherical wave and the peaks of the wave are where you will most probably find the electron. that wavefunction is the solution to that differential equation i just posted
now its ur turn to explain what you are seeing right now
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the cat is both alive and dead duh thanks to the wavefunction.
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peeps and geeks post ur frustrations in this thread and what are u currently seein at school and how this contributes to the enlargement of your anus.
i am trying to decipher this
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Classical_Waves/Classical_Waves_files/image043.gif)
solution to the schrodinger equation of the hydrogen atom heh its all gobbidygook to me gotta drink some beer instead
what.
Man, this part of the semester is horrendous.
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what.
its the schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom. basically, after doing a lot of nasty symbols dance you can get an expression that can give you the probability of finding the electron at a certain coordinate. all of this also has to do with the shape of the orbital, the quantization of the hydrogen energy levels, etc
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its really fascinating but ive never been challenged mentally so much throughout my life until starting to do physics seriously
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gotta make an entire 12 page comic book, fully printed and everything, in about 3 weeks fuckkk
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also to makes this thread interesting elaborate a little on what you are seeing. for example if you are writing a paper, tell us a bit about what the paper is about. if ur writin a troll paper tell us about ur troll
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Studying for my vertebrate cell biology exam - its mostly on neurogenesis (formation of neurons) but also on chondrogenesis (cartilage formation) and connective tissue and such.
fun fact: study found that london cab drivers all had ridiculously huge hippocampuses (hippocampi ???) which helped them navigate through the streets of London without maps or the aid of parallel/perpendicular streets like in NYC
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also tomorrow i ahve some bullshit astronomy exam about really boring stuff like observation techniques. also i will have a star test where i will go otuside and will have to name the constellations :(
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ase you are premed right
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i could bitch about what i'm studying but i rather not after hanging out wit sum engineering/science phd's today and hearing what they have to do
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ase you are premed right
not anymore. physics and orgo killed my gpa. biochem major now
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dude academia science life is horrible. those dudes have it the worst. most of them are non tenured and they get paid the equivalent of senior janitors and survive in 3 year contracts
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/hydsch.html
it's the middle of the first semester, i have an assignment due friday that seems pretty easy but i'm competing with a bunch of honors kids so i should start it soon
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not anymore. physics and orgo killed my gpa. biochem major now
dude those are only two classes who cares
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premed is really competitive and entrance is based on gpa. i don't think he thought 'oh darn if i can't ace these two classes i'm not cut out to be a doctor'
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dude those are only two classes who cares
two semesters of each. my overall gpa is a 3.2 but my science gpa is ridiculously bad. i dont wanna talk about it. why the fuck did I decide to do this
yeah what climbtree said. you pretty much can't get into med school unless you have like a 3.6-3.8 science gpa.
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two semesters of each. my overall gpa is a 3.2 but my science gpa is ridiculously bad. i dont wanna talk about it. why the fuck did I decide to do this
become a patent laywer instead. you get boatloads of money although its boring and you sell your soul
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two semesters of each. my overall gpa is a 3.2 but my science gpa is ridiculously bad. i dont wanna talk about it. why the fuck did I decide to do this
yeah what climbtree said. you pretty much can't get into med school unless you have like a 3.6-3.8 science gpa.
i was reading some averages and its generally around 3.5 in mid tier schools. so it probably means theres some people enterin below the 3.5 benchmark
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orgo
Orgone energy doesn't exist, Reich was a quack, stop studying it.
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i thgink i got 3.5 in both my general chem courses but it was just because it was full of dumb premed people who could care less about the subject so the curve was ridiculous
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i dont think i went to more than 5 chem classes last semester. it was just like hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm read the practice tests and code some nifty ti89 programs that do me all the work and that display all the stuff i was supposed to memorize
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none of my classes were ever curved and my chem professors were twisted bastards who didn't allow anything more than a simple scientific calculator on any of the exams
that was at community college. When I got to university, I found out that the kids there got a curved grade and got to use graphing calculators and a note card on their tests :argh:
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i bombed honors em with a 2.5 last semester but that wont happen again because i thought i just could cruise through it like all my kiddy freshman classes
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hm dietcoke it wasnt curved but the scale was ridiculous i think 4.0 was an 80 percent and 3.5 above 74 percent and i think i barely made the cut for the 3.5
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i've got one 2000 word essay to hand in by thursday and that's all. then in may i've got three 2 hour exams spread over a month. 2nd year looks just as light on coursework and exams. this degree is really easy.
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man every week i have atleast 30h of homework. a few sets of difeq problems, a set of mechanics, a set of modern physics, a lab write up, and some astro homework. jesus i feel like a fucking premed student
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you know whats the best thing about physsics. you get to work in trivial problems nobody cares about. like pendulums inside thin spherical shells or or a block sliding and hitting a harmonic oscillator
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premed students got it easier than you man. It's pretty smooth sailing until they hit medschool
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yo marmot what school do you go to i think we might go to the same one (university of michigan?)
anyway no one really cares but my comic is pretty much a Batman ripoff missing a lot of what makes Batman interesting and adding a bunch of crap. either way i hope to self-publish a trade-sized book before i leave college, but 12 fully done pages is a lot to do in 3 weeks.
also i plan on being a patent lawyer :cool:
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do you think premed people really care about helping people or the money? i dont know, the ones i know dont seem very interested in the material like all the physics geeks i know who stay after class to ask questions about what would dhapen if plancks constant was zero
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yo marmot what school do you go to i think we might go to the same one (university of michigan?)
anyway no one really cares but my comic is pretty much a Batman ripoff missing a lot of what makes Batman interesting and adding a bunch of crap. either way i hope to self-publish a trade-sized book before i leave college, but 12 fully done pages is a lot to do in 3 weeks.
also i plan on being a patent lawyer :cool:
no iam ur enemy. i go to MSU. although i think the msu physics program is like second in the nation (heh u engineers suck it)
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not really, only in grad school. undergrad is prolly about the same as UM
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why would you pay for a class where all you do is draw batman cartoons?
wouldn't it make more sense to just do that on your own time and learn something useful??
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why would you pay for a class where all you do is draw batman cartoons?
wouldn't it make more sense to just do that on your own time and learn something useful??
:shrugs: all science majors are useless except chemistry so we arent behind..................... unless you go to grad school or like IT work
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*pays a university hundreds of dollars to sit in a room and fold origami*
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*pays a university hundreds of dollars to sit in a room and fold origami*
i had a marxist professor who was begging me to switch to the humanities.............but if i had i would have felt like this lol
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he was alsoa critical theorist so hee was the worst type of humanities major
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yeah, i really haven't used my major at all and keep falling back on my chemistry education when it comes to getting jobs. it sucks because if I'd have just majored in chemistry I could be making two to three times what I am now
:( it's getting to the point where I'm gonna either have to man up and go to grad school or work mediocre jobs until my wife finishes pharmacy school knock her up and be a stay-at-home-dad
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why would you pay for a class where all you do is draw batman cartoons?
wouldn't it make more sense to just do that on your own time and learn something useful??
the professor of that class is legitimately one of the smartest and most open-minded people i know, and despite like homework of DRAWIN' CARTOONS in class we pretty much just talk about a ton of different stuff which i've taken a lot from. i mean i'm and english major so yea can't learn anything useful.
also after making boatloads in patent law i'd want to try and break it as a writer/artist of comics anyway
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yeah, i really haven't used my major at all and keep falling back on my chemistry education when it comes to getting jobs.
:( it's getting to the point where I'm gonna either have to man up and go to grad school or work mediocre jobs until my wife finishes pharmacy school knock her up and be a stay-at-home-dad
you should go to grad school man. do it before you knock her up and have to feed someone. i am leaning towards medical physics right now.
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im gonna buy a lottery ticket
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who wants to join the peace corps with me? they'll pay for grad school and all you gotta do is help some unmotivated mud-people for a couple years
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lol some kids went in some dumb charity study abroad program to guatemala here from msu and they got kidnapped. :(
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i can imagine that they stood out like sore thumbs in whatever place they were helping us poor mud folk
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I am writing two papers. One is a scientific paper for biology on fermentation. Basically we just did a lab on it and we have to write a scientific paper on it. The second paper is for Anthropology and it's about how civilization completely fucked the Australian Aborigines.
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doktorzerzan
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zerzan- fightin civilization from his typewriter since the 70s?
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I am writing two papers. One is a scientific paper for biology on fermentation. Basically we just did a lab on it and we have to write a scientific paper on it. The second paper is for Anthropology and it's about how civilization completely fucked the Australian Aborigines.
It's not nice to exclude the Aborigines from civilization, you racist.
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who wants to join the peace corps with me? they'll pay for grad school and all you gotta do is help some unmotivated mud-people for a couple years
i am joining the peace corp when i get out of school
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i have been thinking about going to grad school and getting a masters either in education or in music
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marmot quit double posting so much. it is getting annoying and i will either start warning you or deleting your posts. this is not a request
edit: as yiou can see ima faggot :fogetcool:
no but seriously as of now don't double post so much
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Ryan, don't join after school. Finish your undergrad and get accepted into a grad school with a peace corps masters international program.
You'll do the peace corps thing, get credits, tuition gets covered, and you get a living stipened throughout grad school in addition to your readjustment money upon return.
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It's not nice to exclude the Aborigines from civilization, you racist.
no such thing as race lolol
Also honestly I haven't read anything from Zerzan other than one article on the internet. I liked the article but have yet to check out his books. I'm currently reading Jensen though.
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no such thing as race lolol
Also honestly I haven't read anything from Zerzan other than one article on the internet. I liked the article but have yet to check out his books. I'm currently reading Jensen though.
Jensen is a fucking fruit and Zerzan is just an idiot. It's not in anyone's interest to abandon technology/civilization and Zerzan idealizes the pre-civilized human experience by making shit up. Primitivism and all that green-anarchism stuff is a load of bullshit created and followed by a bunch of antisocial idiots.
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marmot: making gw embarrassing to browse in public since 2004
have you done an internship yet? I'm trying for one this summer and I remember you were/are an engineering guy so I'm curious how it went for you?
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how is he making it embarrassing? i find it embarrassing anyway because you can see avatars and photos and banners and shit and its obvious youre ON A MESSAGE BOARD but all he did was post text
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iwould never browse gw outside of home or the tiny screen on my phone in a semi-private/boring situation
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i mean i'm and english major so yea can't learn anything useful.
what can you do with an english major anyway? teach more english?? i feel like all the humanities are this way. just keep perpetuating and like 1% of people in that field manage to get high enough to then contribute while the 99% continues the perpetuation
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how is he making it embarrassing?
i find topics with rape/abortion/faggot in the title pretty embarassing actually. it's very middleschool.
so i raped a faggot at halo...
gettin teh rapeface at school XD.
which is more uncomfortable: browsing a topic with "pwned" in the title or "raped"? this is the new subject. getting pwned by the school, man that even makes me feel bad just glazing over it. but then rape is such a much more rolleyes thing at best and insensitive as worst. these are the questions of our posting lives.
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i am sorry magical negro
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young 4ever suckahs
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eh I don't really care I just figure thats what he's talking about. and it is a little crass but who cares too much anyways. it just made me sigh when I saw it.
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I don't think he used it in the sexual manner
Rape:
4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.
5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
I mean I didn't see anything about anyone fucking him in the ass in the op so
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Ryan, don't join after school. Finish your undergrad and get accepted into a grad school with a peace corps masters international program.
You'll do the peace corps thing, get credits, tuition gets covered, and you get a living stipened throughout grad school in addition to your readjustment money upon return.
not to mention valuable language skills that can further your career/education to new heights
and btw there was an incident in the british sporting press recently over a sportscaster who used the word 'raped' to describe a tackle during a football match. if you want to see why using the word rape in the public sphere is not a good idea, just google about that whole situation, sit back and watch the fireworks
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i know rape has other meanings dude (the rape of the lock) it is just kind of gauche to use it. sort of like if at gw meet toronto they told someone to gather faggots for a fire only not as archaic.
I use this example because in Herzog, one of the characters says "she's got more faggots at her feet than Joan of Arc" when describing a faghag and it made me lol.
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pwned is worse for sure. raped is bad too but it's at least not fuckin INTERNET SLANG and means something. something like getting completely worked over despite you're best efforts to overcome.
so yeah raped is better
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if you're already on the internet internet slang isn't too bad. i'd much rather be seen looking at internet slang on the internet than rape on the internet.
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I know marmot is a really smart guy which makes his juvenile comments pretty funny cuz I know he knows he's being dumb.
Uhrbudy else can suck a dick if they don't get it
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i dont think anyone can see the title dude. i wouldnt worry about that. it was pretty bad before when he had faggotmexican in huge bold caps tho
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That's pretty cool assignment StandardToaster.
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casually using rape is pretty much the same as faggotmexican but yeah, smaller. mostly with the window minimized, all you see is "gettin raped by..."
answer my question about internships marmot or I'll say something you'll regret.
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I have my Digital Media Final. Here's the list of shit I have to do:
2 Picture edits in Photoshop
1 Picture from scratch in Photoshop
3 Images made in Illustrator
3 Files made in InDesign
2 Movies made in Premiere
2 files made in After Effects
2 Flash files -- Animated
2 Files made in Director
All of these files accessible through a Dreamweaver-made web page
A webpage for a local business made in Dreamweaver, Director, or Flash
*a 2 page paper on Diversity
**Some retarded Proficiency test
Thank God I can use my finals from my other classes for these, and all I REALLY have to make is the Webpage that links the shit, and the local business web page
* I have no idea why this is even required since the teacher even said herself. I WILL NOT BE GRADING THIS.
** Required by state law. According to the teacher we took a similar one in SIXTH FUCKING GRADE.
Oh Well, I have 2 months or so to do it... Should be enough time
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casually using rape is pretty much the same as faggotmexican but yeah, smaller. mostly with the window minimized, all you see is "gettin raped by..."
answer my question about internships marmot or I'll say something you'll regret.
iam not an engineer but ill prolly end up working at the observatory this summer following the magnitudes of variable stars..........
marmot kepler-
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Name a star after me
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Or name one something silly like 'ButtZone55'
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I have my Digital Media Final. Here's the list of shit I have to do:
2 Picture edits in Photoshop
1 Picture from scratch in Photoshop
3 Images made in Illustrator
3 Files made in InDesign
2 Movies made in Premiere
2 files made in After Effects
2 Flash files -- Animated
2 Files made in Director
All of these files accessible through a Dreamweaver-made web page
A webpage for a local business made in Dreamweaver, Director, or Flash
*a 2 page paper on Diversity
**Some retarded Proficiency test
Thank God I can use my finals from my other classes for these, and all I REALLY have to make is the Webpage that links the shit, and the local business web page
* I have no idea why this is even required since the teacher even said herself. I WILL NOT BE GRADING THIS.
** Required by state law. According to the teacher we took a similar one in SIXTH FUCKING GRADE.
Oh Well, I have 2 months or so to do it... Should be enough time
shit, this is for majors right? I had a digital media class and all we had to do was make a webpage in dreamweaver and somehow integrate flash animation (eg complex flash buttons, for my page I had surgical tools popping out of a drawer), and even then most people complained and got away with some static vector image on the front page.
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I am starting my researches for 4 papers I have to do by the end of April. They are (and I will give butchered translation):
An analysis of a 2005 episode of Masters of Horror, H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House by Stuart Gordon for my Horror movie class
An analysis of Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000) from Bahman Farmanara for my Iranian cinema class
An analysis of the figure of reprise (don't know if the term is the same in english) in the movie I'm not there by Todd Haynes for my contemporary cinema class
An analysis of characters in the different XVIII century theatre comedies for my history of theatre: XVIII to XX century.
Lots of work on my hands.
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shit, this is for majors right? I had a digital media class and all we had to do was make a webpage in dreamweaver and somehow integrate flash animation (eg complex flash buttons, for my page I had surgical tools popping out of a drawer), and even then most people complained and got away with some static vector image on the front page.
As I said. It's my final class, as in when I pass I'll have my degree. I basically have to prove I can still do everything I did in my previous classes. The only thing I have to make is a website that links to all my projects. Something that will take me all of an hour to do.
However the local business page will be a pain, since my stepdad (who I'm making the site for) is an idiot and doesn't understand "The site is what YOU want, act as if you hired me to make you a website" He also doesn't understand how to use the text tool in photoshop, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Good luck to me, i still need to come up with a layout for my "portfolio" site
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i'll be honest half the shit you listed would be hella fun to do.
i mean i know there's more requirements than what you said and some of it looks boring but fuck around in photoshop hell yea. i've done half this stuff just for fun.
how totally insensitive!!!
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Most of it is fun, but I absolutely HATE Director, and After Effects. Which I believe I have to make something from scratch in both, unless my finals are saved elsewhere. (Probably on the flash drive I lost)
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However the local business page will be a pain, since my stepdad (who I'm making the site for) is an idiot and doesn't understand "The site is what YOU want, act as if you hired me to make you a website" He also doesn't understand how to use the text tool in photoshop, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
sorry bro but this is what working in website design is like in real life too
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I wasn't going to bother saying anything about the casual use of rape in the title but I'll say this: I don't approve. I don't approve one piece.
I know marmot is a really smart guy which makes his juvenile comments pretty funny cuz I know he knows he's being dumb.
Uhrbudy else can suck a dick if they don't get it
It doesn't really matter if you're a smarty. I make fun of dumbos daily, but I don't use words like faggot, rape, etc as hilarious jokes ever cos it's just something that shouldn't be done. It's a little cabal of internet terrorists here at GW, but there are better ways to be funny than just use the words idiots use. It's not even ironic, cos you'd totally expect that kind of thing to come out of a gw poster now and that just normalizes the word rape and makes it a funnyword which...is the whole problem in the first place!!! Plus it isn't funny, anyway. So...quit it!!!
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im sorry
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That's why I didn't bother saying anything before.
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no i get the argument. it was probably in bad taste because it offends people. that could be said about a lot of words though including retard. i generally am pretty lax with the way i speak unless something like nigger jokes cuz the latter is just racist. the former is more insensitive than anything else though. i am sorry though!
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You've got nothing to be sorry about marmot
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sorry bro but this is what working in website design is like in real life too
Yeah, but most people have a general idea about what they'd want something to look like, and not ask: "What does the page need for your class?"
I'm also used to working for morons, I've been cashiering for 6 years (at different places, but yeah)
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You've got nothing to be sorry about marmot
I'm not trying to make it a dramatic YOU BAD HUMAN thing at all, but why would you want to defend the casual comedic use of words like rape?
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Would you be as upset if he said something like "man I'm gettin murderd by finals"?
Should we avoid all violent metaphores lest we seem insensitive?
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When they directly reference discrimination that's widespread, subtle and ugly, and encourage an ironic attitude towards it as if it doesn't matter, then yeah I think I'd want to avoid using metaphors like that except in their proper context. There's a reason this stuff comes off as dumb beyond how high school it all sounds.
Murdered isn't a term that is associated with any particular group of people, and don't throw "male rape!" at me because nobody thinks of men when they see the word rape as anything but the aggressor no matter how the reality of the situation is.
I don't know if you're trolling or let's say you went through a stage of thinking like I do and got over it but I think that argument is really stupid.
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rape means never having to say i'm sorry
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I sorta am trolling but its kinda silly because "rape" is used A LOT as a metaphore(a couple days I was reading an article that mentioned "the rape of the land" in reference to environmental degredation) and I think you're being way over the top here.
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Well I'm trying not to be over the top, but it's hard to articulate the tone of my voice on forums so you know. I'm pretty suspicious of the use of the word rape in any context other than actual rape. I'm just saying the reasons why I don't think it's a good idea to use words like this in these kinds of ways and it sounds dramatic no matter how you explain it. It's better than just saying "ahhhh fuck it" and acting like a dumb idiot though. The words are dramatic sounding cos it's a pretty dramatic kind of discrimination and I wish people who I otherwise think are smart people would not engage in that kind of crap.
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Well I really don't see a problem.
Honestly, when I look into the rape metaphore as used in the title here, I'm not thinking man on woman violation that you seem to have your tits in a twist about. I think of child rape as the school is something of a paternal institution and marmot is the vulnerable supple young innocent boy.
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I think he's being attacked by a book monster. Rape is also used for violent seizure and plundering. So if I was accused of raping my neighbors farm i'm not being accused of going into the middle of his field sticking my dick in the ground and doing the nasty, i'm being accused of taking his crops and burning the rest that I can't carry with me.
I had to do three art projects in three months once, taught me that procrastination is bad.
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Rape is also used for violent seizure and plundering.
already covered this
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Yeah, but most people have a general idea about what they'd want something to look like, and not ask: "What does the page need for your class?"
no they don't dude, i mean they don't ask you what you need but i'm in a class right now that is making a website for a nonprofit organization and the guy basically said "here's the content, i don't know anything about websites so you know better what to do than i do"
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1. you're being really silly if you don't think marmot used it in a technical context well.
2. you aren't being silly if it struck you as a little gauche as well.
I don't think he has to feel sorry, just a little heh whoops about it! like I get someone saying "dammit marmot *sigh*" but I think an overarching statement of WAY TO GO when yes, rape is used as non sexual a lot, is kind of stretching the boundaries of linguistic correction.
in my personal life I once got somewhat berated for saying something was an abortion (some play of 1984), and while I got where they were coming from, it was one of the stupidest arguments ever as abortion definitely STILL has a meaning used all the time in non-sexual contexts. abort retry fail!!!
but no I don't think it's the same as murder at all just because using rape is crass. the comparison to PWNED actually makes some sense because it's kind of a nerdboy thing to do atm. heh got raped by x.
I really didn't think this argument had more steam than the like two comments earl and I made on it! don't feel bad marmot.
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i hear the term "rapeshit" everyday in my programming classes.
"Did you get a new helm on your raid last night?"
"Yea I got the Helm of Blastulon. Shits rapeshit"
"Man I wish i had rapeshit gear"
"yea when you get 80 you get pretty rapeshit as a Dee Kay"
edit: i guess you could say my classes are raping my ears and my ability to suppress rage
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i couldn't figure out what any of those statements meant rajew
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Yes well that is just a transcribed conversation. It actually happened today. The gamers are developing their own language...
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i feel like a grandpa reading an ipod manual
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i couldn't figure out what any of those statements meant rajew
i think theyre talking about wow and i think rapeshit means good. some guy in a guild i used to be in also used RAPE to describe things as good and also said HOLY RAPE a lot (LoL what a character) so that seems pretty much the same. it was v. lame
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I guess it's pretty popular then. the only time I ever saw it used was a long time ago, when a friend of mine told me about a gaiaonline outfit that was total rapeage while he was browsing weasl.net
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Headphonics don't play wow you're better than that!
I had no idea that "rape" was such a thing on the internet. I don't think marmot was using it in such a way but jamie is right in that we shouldn't encourage that garbage!
The internet is passing me by, I think I'm gonna go retreat into reading academic newsgroups.
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The internet is passing me by, I think I'm gonna go retreat into reading academic newsgroups.
We are not hip young men anymore.