I think everyone already called crap on this story so I don't have to do it myself. Sorry, but no alarmist idiocy is going to guilt me into using an equivalent to sandpaper on my butt. Especially given that toilet paper comes from trees that are planted for that purpose.
And some of us Americans use both paper and bidet.
My issue with it is not so much using different ways to teach, but the gimmicky name would make me embarrassed to sign up for the class.
The use of media is not really the problem, it's the media used. Why would I waste my money on a class that's going to make Judge Freakin' Judy a requirement? It's not about relating to reality so much as it is scraping the bottom of the barrel of pop culture to dumb something down for someone. Why not raise the bar and make sitting in a courtroom part of the class requirement, or at the very least, use footage from a real trial, not a show whose main focus is a hardline old bat that hams it up for ratings. Plenty of those are televised.
I will be the first to say that philosophy is not limited to a canon, and it shouldn't be, but that too gets incredibly dumbed down when you attach it to too much pop culture. It's Hollywood, and while some profound statements can be found in Star Trek, the old Twilight Zone, and a few other shows, there are far better places to look that might actually be slightly more high brow and horizon expanding for students. The university is meant to challenge people and make them learn something beyond what comes on TV each day.
I'm 35. I heard it loud and clear and can promise I wouldn't be hanging around anywhere that was playing this sound. My ears don't hurt now so much as my head does.
Exactly, Matt M. I was a philosophy major and had to take a pretty intense critical thinking class myself that had required reading as opposed to required watching. I think that this just lazy and gimmicky, and not at all what what university should be about.
While it's easy enough to change one's name, there are to big reasons I did not change my name, as much as I hate it:
1. No one in my family would ever use the new name if I had changed it. It would have been a major point of conflict, especially with my mother. Ultimately, not worth the hassle.
2. By 18, unless your name is REALLY awful, you get used to it. I hate my name, but getting used to a new one is just not something I would find very easy to do.
That doesn't mean that when it comes up, I don't remind my mother what a stupid name I have. And that sort of ammo is priceless. And yes, I have a good relationship with my mother.
I'd like to see solid evidence for this, and have it factor in things like job satisfaction and genetic disposition, blah blah blah, over the course of a decade or so, which someone mentioned.
These are hilarious, but very cruel and unfortunate. I thought I had it bad with my unusual name, but it doesn't even begin to compare to these. I wonder about parents who do this sort of thing, if they do it on purpose at all.
That said, when I was a kid, some of my neighborhood friends had the last name Ho. Their mother was named Ida. We all called her Spud. She was apparently fine with this as she took her husband's last name and had a good sense of humor about her nickname. She even began introducing herself as Spud.
And some of us Americans use both paper and bidet.
The use of media is not really the problem, it's the media used. Why would I waste my money on a class that's going to make Judge Freakin' Judy a requirement? It's not about relating to reality so much as it is scraping the bottom of the barrel of pop culture to dumb something down for someone. Why not raise the bar and make sitting in a courtroom part of the class requirement, or at the very least, use footage from a real trial, not a show whose main focus is a hardline old bat that hams it up for ratings. Plenty of those are televised.
I will be the first to say that philosophy is not limited to a canon, and it shouldn't be, but that too gets incredibly dumbed down when you attach it to too much pop culture. It's Hollywood, and while some profound statements can be found in Star Trek, the old Twilight Zone, and a few other shows, there are far better places to look that might actually be slightly more high brow and horizon expanding for students. The university is meant to challenge people and make them learn something beyond what comes on TV each day.
I'm glad I'm not in school anymore.
While it's easy enough to change one's name, there are to big reasons I did not change my name, as much as I hate it:
1. No one in my family would ever use the new name if I had changed it. It would have been a major point of conflict, especially with my mother. Ultimately, not worth the hassle.
2. By 18, unless your name is REALLY awful, you get used to it. I hate my name, but getting used to a new one is just not something I would find very easy to do.
That doesn't mean that when it comes up, I don't remind my mother what a stupid name I have. And that sort of ammo is priceless. And yes, I have a good relationship with my mother.
Either way, glad I'm a housewife.
That said, when I was a kid, some of my neighborhood friends had the last name Ho. Their mother was named Ida. We all called her Spud. She was apparently fine with this as she took her husband's last name and had a good sense of humor about her nickname. She even began introducing herself as Spud.