College students being immature

[Gawdzillers]

Just yesterday, I was in Bio Lab, and we were doing blood testing the old-fashioned way, put drops of blood in A, B, and Rh dishes and add the appropriate reagents to each sample to tell what blood type your sample is.

The girl next to me chirps up, "Is that REAL BLOOD? EWWWWW!"
I understand that lots of people can't stand the sight of blood, but when you're in a BIOLOGY LAB CLASS, you have to be prepared to handle unsavory things like blood and dissection and the smell of vinegar.

It doesn't stop there. In English, we read and discussed Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Live Oak, with Moss, both of which are well-known for being very homoerotic in nature. I didn't much like the poems because I felt that they were too abstract and hard to comprehend (I prefer stories and reading for entertainment, sorry English majors on this board ), but upon discussion, it was revealed that many students didn't like the poems simply because of the homoerotic imagery (particularly the scene with 28 young men bathing).

You're in college now. Time to put on your big kid undies and quit giggling at every utterance of "penis" and "vagina".

[linguist]

Just yesterday, I was in Bio Lab, and we were doing blood testing the old-fashioned way, put drops of blood in A, B, and Rh dishes and add the appropriate reagents to each sample to tell what blood type your sample is.

hah. i did that lab in my healthcare science class in high school, and one of the students discovered that she was adopted. i hear they stopped letting students use their own blood after that.

[Greenday]

The more people whined during my bio lab, the more I made them do during dissections. It's dead. It's not coming back to life. Let's make some use of it instead of it being waste.

[AdminAssistant]

You're in college now. Time to put on your big kid undies and quit giggling at every utterance of "penis" and "vagina".

Oh lordy, you've described some of my students to a tee. We read very new plays in our Intro class (within the last 10 years or so, except for the shows in production). The first play that we read, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, contains the line, "Keep your goatfucking hands off me you motherfucker." (Yes, it's a play about bestiality.) That usually weeds out the students who can't deal with language without the giggles.

[Rageaholic]

It doesn't stop there. In English, we read and discussed Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Live Oak, with Moss, both of which are well-known for being very homoerotic in nature. I didn't much like the poems because I felt that they were too abstract and hard to comprehend (I prefer stories and reading for entertainment, sorry English majors on this board ), but upon discussion, it was revealed that many students didn't like the poems simply because of the homoerotic imagery (particularly the scene with 28 young men bathing).

That's very funny because I had to read the same damn poem today. As an analytical person, I hated it, but he did have a good message. And I can understand being grossed out in biology since I am pretty squeemish. I think the problem lies with those classes being required for all degrees. When it's required for all, you're going to get those who are not as into it as others.

Still, that doesn't make the immature people any less annoying. I've been in classes with some real assholes. I just love when these students bitch out the professor for not giving them a perfect grade on their paper. I've actually seen some beg for extra credit WHEN THEY ALREADY HAD A 4.0!! They just wanted to be able to say "I got over 100%!!!".

Anyway, in my experience, when you get away from the intro classes and into more advanced stuff, the students are not as annoying.

[Cats]

I'm not the most mature person out there, and in the right mood with my good friends, yes, we will make sexual and fart jokes and laugh like idiots, but at the same time, we can talk about them seriously when need be.

Now, the year I was in college, I noticed the same thing, and I couldn't believe how immature some people were. Seeing a pic of breasts doesn't always qualify for a bug-eyed look uttering "boobies!" while walking down the magazine aisle at the local grocery store. It's fine when you're 13, not when you're 20.


We were dissecting stuff in bio in 10th grade, and no one really raised much of a fuss (though it was small stuff, like a roundworm and a mussel, not like frogs or anything). We didn't do the blood thing, since the schools wouldn't allow it anymore due to the whole bio-hazard thing. To this day, I still don't know what my blood type is.

[BlaqueKatt]

hah. i did that lab in my healthcare science class in high school, and one of the students discovered that she was adopted.

Did you go to school with me?

my mom-type O
my "supposed father"-type O

Me-Type A

Not at all genetically possible-confirmed with the biology teacher-actually had a partial breakdown and had to be taken to the nurse's office to wait for a guidance councilor to calm me down. Yeah it was very traumatic. Turns out my mom cheated on her husband.....not sure which is worse actually.....

[linguist]

Did you go to school with me?

my mom-type O
my "supposed father"-type O

Me-Type A

Not at all genetically possible-confirmed with the biology teacher-actually had a partial breakdown and had to be taken to the nurse's office to wait for a guidance councilor to calm me down. Yeah it was very traumatic. Turns out my mom cheated on her husband.....not sure which is worse actually.....

not unless you went to high school in central texas around '95. the girl in question typed herself as o, and both of her parents were ab, again a biological impossibility.

[HYHYBT]

Are biology labs required for all majors? We had to have however many courses it was in two different sciences, but no general requirement about which ones. I took geography and physics specifically to avoid dissections.

Never have developed a taste for poetry... but then, we didn't get to read about a bunch of men bathing together either.

[guywithashovel]

When I was in college, I sometimes dealt with this in classes with a lot of freshmen. And now, working for a college, I get it sometimes. One time, I was talking at an orientation, and this one student kept putting his head down and letting out those deep, bored sighs that teenage boys are so good at. One time back in college in a history class, the students kept griping about how boring the reading material was and actually asked why we couldn't talk about MTV instead. In both cases, I wanted to ask them why they were even there. Seriously, college isn't mandatory. If you don't want to do it, why waste the time and money, especially if all you're going to do is disrupt other students like a 15 year-old.

[Gawdzillers]

Are biology labs required for all majors? We had to have however many courses it was in two different sciences, but no general requirement about which ones. I took geography and physics specifically to avoid dissections.

Never have developed a taste for poetry... but then, we didn't get to read about a bunch of men bathing together either.

I don't know about all majors, but it's required for mine...which is Biology.

[Greenday]

I don't know about all majors, but it's required for mine...which is Biology.

It was required for both my major and my minor (Forensic & Toxicological Chemistry major, Biology minor).

A lot of people just choose intro bio because of the sciences, it's probably the easier intro course. Intro physics and chemistry involves math.

[Rageaholic]

Are biology labs required for all majors? We had to have however many courses it was in two different sciences, but no general requirement about which ones. I took geography and physics specifically to avoid dissections.

Never have developed a taste for poetry... but then, we didn't get to read about a bunch of men bathing together either.

Unfortunately for me, it's a gen ed requirement (along with the lit) meaning that no matter what I major into, I have to take it. Can't speak for others though.

[linguist]

Are biology labs required for all majors? We had to have however many courses it was in two different sciences, but no general requirement about which ones.

that's been my experience, too. additionally, almost every science has two levels: one for science majors and one for non-science majors. the classes for non-majors generally don't have a lab requirement and are easier than the ones for majors.

[AdminAssistant]

A lot of people just choose intro bio because of the sciences, it's probably the easier intro course. Intro physics and chemistry involves math.

That's why I chose it, although I took Honors Biology and Honors Bio Lab because of the professors involved. (That was a crazy awesome class, the lab was a bit meh though.) I did make it through Physics and Physics lab, although that professor was a raging asshole. It was an 8 am class and he called us all dumbasses for taking a class that early.