What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

That is much more the model now.

 

Pure knowledge is less important with the rise of Google scholar and access to information - we now aim to get students to develop their higher level skills - project work, self management, team work etc.

 

I have been running leadership classes with Augmented Reality elements all created by students. This has been up to them to create in their own time, they learn far more than me standing talking at them for 2 hours.

 

 

I started Uni 10 years ago (Where the Hell did all that time go?!) and most of what we did required far, far more than just knowledge.  Most of it was skills-based, programming, pattern recognition, logical reasoning, problem-solving, etc.  It was a very weird degree but the level of freedom we were given over our work was remarkable.  I'd have an idea for a project, tell my supervisor, they'd ask to see a prototype or a proof-of-concept and I'd report back to them, with some lectures on the way guiding us.

 

Bizarrely, it was a music technology degree at Lancaster.  With that said, I mostly made mine aesthetics and composition - which are not what most of those creative arts degrees are like.  Knowledge was never really a problem but what was difficult was learning (for instance) how to write software for motion capture.  I did some that tracked motion and translated it into sound, either generating or manipulating samples based on XY co-ordinates of a selected tracking point using a webcam.  One guy called David on my course wrote software using the original Kinect that tracked dancers (he choreographed and wrote music for them) that then projected manipulated 3-D images of the dancers in real-time onto a muslin screen that was in front of them.  In the glasses, it looked like they were dancing around versions of themselves.  Really amazing stuff - especially when you consider he was an Undergrad. 

 

He's now a freelance technology consultant...

[robinmasters]

I don't often watch television at the moment, but I'm currently watching Fifth Gear, and it appears that Jason Plato has turned into James May.

 

[The Moog]

 

 

There are some great ones but over the last ten years the number that are just far too far off making the level we need has increased massively to the point where our induction length has nearly doubled. (Speaking on Science graduates)

It's a numbers game now as well once the university caps have been removed. Got to fill courses so lower entry requirements combined with and unwillingness to fail people.

 

Interestingly the trend is for generation Z to skip uni altogether. We are looking a steep drop in numbers with people frightened to take on debt linked with high number of unemployed grads. Anyway all for another discussion

 

In good news got my start date for my PhD - starting in January so just enjoying my last bit of free time

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Moog, that's bloody great news.  Best of luck with the PhD!

 

I think I saw the beginning of the 'numbers' game, if I'm honest.  We were in the second-round of student fees (£3,000ish a year) and there were a couple of people that I knew that had absolutely no business being at that University.  They should have been kicked out in their first year but got marked very low - but not quite low enough to actually get rid of them.  Funnily enough, the two in particular I can think of (over two different courses) both left of their own volition anyway... but they should have been failed months before then and told to go home.  Made an absolute mockery of the rest of us.

[Sir Snipes]

I don't often watch television at the moment, but I'm currently watching Fifth Gear, and it appears that Jason Plato has turned into James May.

 

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With a bit of Clarkson mixed in there too...

[Fumbler]

I haz made a goods internets.

[DVee8]

[Fumbler]

I've heard of the Mary poem before. That is a good one.

[dozeydustman]

 

 

London Bridge is falling down,

falling down, falling down,

London Bridge is falling down,

Blame Balfour Beatty

[Tamworthbay]

Mary had a little lamb

She kept in a bucket

Every time the lamb got out

The dog tried to......

 

Or

Mary had a little lamb,

Her father shot it dead

She still takes it to school

Between two pieces of bread

 

Those childhood nights used to fly by........

[Fumbler]

Surely you could say Carillion Bridge is falling down...

[DVee8]

Mary had a little lamb

She also had a duck

She put them on the mantlepiece to see it they would?

[Craig the Princess]

Moog, that's bloody great news. Best of luck with the PhD!

 

I think I saw the beginning of the 'numbers' game, if I'm honest. We were in the second-round of student fees (£3,000ish a year) and there were a couple of people that I knew that had absolutely no business being at that University. They should have been kicked out in their first year but got marked very low - but not quite low enough to actually get rid of them. Funnily enough, the two in particular I can think of (over two different courses) both left of their own volition anyway... but they should have been failed months before then and told to go home. Made an absolute mockery of the rest of us.

That's me you are describing, but thanks for your understanding*.

[DodgeRover]

Georgie Porgie, Puddin’ and Pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry,

When the boys came out to play

He kissed them too, cause he's funny that way.

 

I think I may have picked that up from a folk band my dad used to like, along with

 

My uncle billy had a ten foot willy,

He showed it to the lady next door,

She thought it was a snake

So she hit it with a rake

And now it's only three foot four.

[AMC Rebel]

Saw a lot of Morgans around here today - I assume there was a show on somewhere - also a very tidy Austin Healey 3000.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Seeing this at a show yesterday:

 

 

and this:

 

[The Moog]

Collecting filing cabinets from a birthday boy

 

Thanks hairnet!

 

[Fumbler]

And very nice Bisley (I think) cabinets they are. You can buy those a Home Sense for 120 big ones. For £139.99 I could get a more practicle, while cute, tumble dryer. More fun too.

[somewhatfoolish]

One I remember from from my childhood;

 

Mary had a little lamb,

She tossed it up a pylon;

11,000 volts went up its bum

and turned its wool to nylon.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've been spending too much time on this forum, it's started to bleed into unrelated apps.

 

[108]

Seeing this at a show yesterday:

 

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and this:

 

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S and VS? Is the third one a Q? Which show?

 

(Too many questions. )

[stonedagain]

Mary had a little pig

She couldn't stop it grunting

She took it down the river bank

& Kicked it's little cunt in.

[stonedagain]

Sing a song of syphyliss, a foreskin full of scabs

Four and twenty abscesses, and twice as many crabs

When the scabs burst open, the crabs begin to grunt

What a fucking horrible thing to ram up someone's cunt

[Split_Pin]

Felt a bit shit this morning, have to endure a week of work with some awful folk that are too cool to talk to me. I did however have the prescence of mind to kick the 172's cunt in on the way to the train station this morning. Thats me set up for the day now

[Guest Hooli]

Mary had a little pig

She couldn't stop it grunting

She took it down the river bank

& Kicked it's little cunt in.

 

 

Sing a song of syphyliss, a foreskin full of scabs

Four and twenty abscesses, and twice as many crabs

When the scabs burst open, the crabs begin to grunt

What a fucking horrible thing to ram up someone's cunt

 

 

Not heard either of them since school, thanks for cheering my morning up.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

S and VS? Is the third one a Q? Which show?

 

(Too many questions. )

 

Correct. The third one is a "PP".

 

All of them have working inside valve gear.

 

The show was Scaleforum - held every year in Stoke Mandeville.

[Volksy]

Mary had a little skirt
with splits right up the sides
and every time that Mary walked
the boys could see her Thighs
Mary had another skirt
twas split right up the front
but she didn't wear that one very often.

[New POD]

Art? I'm Computer Science

Or Dark Arts and witch craft as I like to call it

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after receiving the result of the first PPI reclaim: £1200.    That'll go towards the cost of rebuilding the CX auto 'box.   

 

Easy come, easy go....

[Guest Hooli]

Talking of Heinz, there was a really interesting documentary on BBC about their factory at Wigan, if you missed it you can get it on ketchup.