#isn't wrong

Bianca: "Before Wednesday hides his body"

Yoko: "Bianca, don't scare Xavier like that"

I blame @partyinthemysterymachine

You did this to me.

You can pass a module by getting 40% of things right in your assessments?? Sometimes that can actually be 30% if you do well in your other modules??

A lot of exams I've sat account for the entire module and you get to pick 2/3 questions to answer. Each question generally focuses on 1 topic so you can flat out ignore learning a topic, with the knowledge that you can just not choose that question if it comes up in the exam

I have a friend who had a module with 2 exams, one for each side of the module, weighted equally. They turned up to one exam having a real good understanding of that side of the module. They turned up to the other exam, wrote their name on the paper, and left. Their overall score for that module was 50%. That's a 2:2. That's seen as pretty decent. They fully didn't know or understand *any* of one side of that module? But it's okay because they understood the other content really well?

I recently turned in some pretty shocking coursework and my feedback was like: "you demonstrate little understanding of the concepts discussed, you didn't apply your knowledge here, you don't seem to understand your results and you largely missed the point of the assignment. 54%." How is that allowed?? Like maybe I did have about 54% worth of knowledge on that module but with that lack of understanding why am I awarded a 2:2 (which again, is seens as pretty decent) for it??

I got dead on 40% for one of my modules last year. I was able to demonstrate I knew less than half of the material. And that's seen as fine?? (It was a pretty important module! Like key electronics concepts that I still just don't get!)

Afaik potential employers don't generally ask for individual module scores so like, if I did real well on the programming side of my course, but abysmally on the circuit design side, I could still say "I have an electronics degree" and go into circuit design because you just need the degree for that.

I think my point is that either a) university is necessary for jobs because it prepares you adequately for the workplace. In which case their assessments and grading systems don't accurately reflect your ability

Or b) the assessments and grading systems do accurately reflect your ability, in which case university does not adequately prepare you for the workplace because if an engineer who understands 40% of the electromagnetic fields content (me) can get a graduate job at an electronic engineering company (also me) then what's the point?

bless!!!

tbh when they’re babies there’s not really much parenting involved anyway lmao. it’s just like, dealing with sleepless nights and keeping them alive and panicking about the future.

but yeah, it’s nice to see rob actually being able to spend time with the kid in a scene that’s not “HEY BUDDY HAVEN’T SEEN YOU IN AGES BC UR MUM HATES ME!!!!” and more along the lines of standard new dad stuff. particularly without any whites around. 

(i’m not joking, watching the show and knowing that the only white i’m gonna have to deal with is lachlan is giving me true life)