What the fuck did you just say? [Student Thread]

[jordancoles]

So I've recently started into my second semester of university and let me tell you, it is a completely different animal when comparing it to the college teaching style.
Canadian colleges are practical, with field experience and paraphrasing by instructors to provide a broad understanding of intricate concepts.

University is wordy and largely impractical. We debate the roles of the oppressor and the oppressed. We consider our roles in society and how our innermost throughts are damaging to society as a whole and other SJW whatnots.
It's very wordy, and in many cases, very "stupidly-smart."

I'd like to share with you all some examples of this as I come across them in my studies. If you're currently in school like I am, please share your 'wtf is this bitch even trying to say' quotes with me. I am genuinely curious if all textbook authors have their smug heads up their asses, or if it's just in the social service fields. This sort of exclusionary language is all throughout university textbooks, and sometimes I wonder if the people writing these things even proof-read before pressing these things. If your goal is to educate people at the entry level, don't speak like you're trying to hide your ideas from the reader.

Some recent examples:

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What? When she says that she briefly explained herself in the first section, she actually means that she said the word "modernity" in a quote and then moved on

Also, this is the opening sentence of a PDF that I am expected to read:

The mission of this chapter, to borrow from Rose (1999, 20), is a “matter
of introducing a critical attitude toward those things that are given to our
present [African] experience as if they were timeless, natural, unquestionable:
to stand against the maxims of one’s time, against the spirit of one’s
age, against the current of received wisdom.”

[LadyV]

Well if they want wisdom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ2xxvGA7xE

[barra]

What are you studying? Doesn't sound like STEM.

[jordancoles]

What are you studying? Doesn't sound like STEM.

This degree is in Child and Youth Care, but I also did a semester in an Addictions degree before transferring and taking a program in Autism and Behavioural Science over the summer.

I already have a college diploma in mental health & addictions counseling.

I don't regret my education, but I am very turned off by the language used by a lot of the people who are meant to be educating us. Any teacher in the social service field will swear up and down that it is best practice to bring material down to the level of the learner and then to expand from there, but they don't practice what they preach. I've also had several courses that simply hand you a textbook, tell you to read it and then give you the exam and assignment dates with no formal instruction at all. It's just a very different teaching style which I'm not sure is very effective.

[Onep]

I hate all the garbage double-speak political correct lingo I constantly hear in the education field. One of my pet peeves is that we no longer call students "students" they're "learners" now for some god-forsaken reason? The fuck? Every single word has been changed to some other convoluted word that obfuscates the original meaning. Things are so contrived that it's simply a labyrinth of trying to understand what they're trying to say in any of my text books or classes.

Thankfully, Calvin sums it all up so neatly:

[Ysh]

Academia is cancer.

[Onep]

The thing that gets me the most is how I actually use it when I'm doing my writing assignments. I use all these words and phrases and other bullshit that I have no respect for just to get a grade and get by. Forced to meet the status quo and keep up the appearance of bullshit.

[jordancoles]

One of my pet peeves is that we no longer call students "students" they're "learners" now for some god-forsaken reason? The fuck?

The word "student" implies that they are in a lesser role and therefore the teacher is operating through the oppressor role. How is a learner meant to learn and to grow with that suffocating label looming over their heads???

Idk what it's like elsewhere, but to get into a masters program here you have to basically be the best and have an amazing GPA along with many extra curriculars and related experience. When you meet the criteria you can apply, and every year if 300 were to apply, maybe 10 would get in. Then, your doctorate is a similar process. Best in your area, and you need to contribute new ideas or build on to current ideas. I think that this is where we get all of the stupid jargon and it is the main reason for why there are 5 different words for the same shit. Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel for their thesis.

Everyone wants to 'coin a term' and get their name slapped on to a textbook. The end result is students being forced to learn jargon that will never be used outside of their learning circles and we end up being tested on literal theories that other people have had in the past, disproven or not (hello, Freud). In developmental theory land, many of the theories that are used weren't exactly scientifically tested using multiple subjects either, many were simply based on their own children and that's it.

[ricky]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little freshmam? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in harvard, and I’ve been involved in numerous post-doc research grants, and I have over 300 confirmed publications.


But for real though, some of those textbooks can get downright absurd considering diluted they get with washed up bullshit

[Jacobian123]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little freshmam? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in harvard, and I’ve been involved in numerous post-doc research grants, and I have over 300 confirmed publications.