a great big huge WTF to these people

[NT!]

ok so i go to grad school. i am taking a summer course on research methods (required, pretty boring, requires little effort). it is a condensed course (takes place over 6 weeks, meets twice a week).

my professor was gone for both classes last week (or 1/6 of the total course) because his DOG DIED. he sent some doctoral student who just read from his lecture notes (which are totally unintelligible) in literally the most boring and uninformative way you could possibly imagine. we were supposed to be running data sets in SPSS, but this kid definitely couldn't help us with that, and now we have a whole project due this week for which we haven't done a major part. why? because my professor's [censored] DOG DIED.

and yes, he looks like i imagine big steve would look, in case you are wondering.

that's not it though. there is another girl in my class (in my group actually) who thinks this is TOTALLY FINE. why? because she dropped all of her classes last semester when... yep... her dog died. this woman is in her thirties and has these absurdly huge fake [censored], she went to law school, and now she wants to be a social worker. and she basically flushed like 20k down the toilet because she was too depressed to go to class when her [censored] DOG DIED.

what in the sam [censored]. a week off from work for a dead dog? at my old job you got less than that for most family members. i calculated how much i paid for this guy to sit at home with his [censored] dog remains or whatever and it came out to like 1200 bucks. awesome.

[econophile]

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we were supposed to be running data sets in SPSS

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beat

[tuq]

Cliff's Notes: graduate students and professors are emo weirdos that are out of touch with the world. Hell I could have told you that.

[mbillie1]

lol this sort of thing is really pathetic IMO. I had a neighbor who had 1 of her 2 dogs die and she wanted us to come over and have a ceremony (she was like 60, I was like 18 probably and said [censored] no) for the stupid thing. I mean am I bummed when one of my pets dies? Definitely. Am I so grief-stricken and incapable of functioning in normal human society that I forsake my job and any other responsibilities I have? No.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

what kind of dog?

[onthebutton]

I hate to say it, but this is so standard. And it sucks. It's academia though, so what can you really expect?

[BillNye]

you trying to tell me that theres a lot of stupid ppl out there? no [censored]. sucks tho, obv irrational. Is professor a girl that looks like big steve or a boy? I say this cuz most of the times chicks do that dumb stuff, hard seeing a guy taking time off for a dog.

[disjunction]

We all respond to grief in different ways. I'm sorry you go to grad school. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[2/325Falcon]

Take up a collection to get the dog stuffed. Easy A+.

[NT!]

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what kind of dog?

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the dead kind obv