School -- The Good And The Bad

[dr_phil_physics]

Real School

Tuesday was Exam 3 in my PHYS-1070 class. Next Tuesday is the Final Exam. Summer sessions -- seven and a half weeks in and out and gone. Don't blink or get sick or break up with your dog, because there isn't time.

May and June goes fast this way, but I love doing this.

Faux School

Got this e-mail today. Decided to copy it, typos and bizarre use of diacritic marks and all, rather than delete it. I did decide not to quote the header, with the Geocities e-mail address (Geocities? sn*cker) with one name in the tag and a completely different name in the e-mail address, plus the university e-mail addresses it was spammed to. Why give this idiot the business?

Subject: Business Admin-Degree

No Exams/Books/Tests/Interview/classes
100% No Pre-School qualificatïon requirëd!

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Inside USA: 1-646-xxx-xxxx
0utside USA: +1-646-xxx-xxxx
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Bacheelor, Degree, MasteeerMBA, PhD]) (non acçredited) available in the Fie|d of your choice so you can even become a dooctor and receive All the beenefits That comes with it!

Please lëave beloww 3 Info in Voîcemáil:

1) Yóur name
2) Your country
3) Yôur phone no. [please include Coµntrycode]

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Inside USA: 1-646-xxx-xxxx
0uutside USA: +1-646-xxx-xxxx
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Our Staff will get back to You in 1-3 workingg days

If this degree is non-accredited, then what benefits (beenefits?) could possibly come with it? If you are waiting for my call 24/7, then why is it going into voicemail hell and you'll get back to me in a coupla days? I want that diploma mill PhD like now!

And why would I want to deal with either someone this illiterate or a scam trying to avoid the spam filters by using tons of odd spellings? Idiots.

There -- I feel better now.

Dr. Phil

Comments

[steve-buchheit.livejournal.com]

The beenefits are chicks and beer, obviously. Must be the College of Prinsetown, NJ.

And for summer classes, my wife had one student who was going to take off the final week to go on vacation, and she wanted to take her final after she came back. "... but, but, but, the tickets are like non-refundable..." Fortunately she has in her syllabus that there are no makeup exams. The argument about missing 1/4 of the material didn't make such an impression.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

I have that all the time. My favorite is the one asking to take the final a week early -- like before we've covered all the material. I don't do early exams. You take the final on time, you take it late by a day or two, or you get an incomplete and then struggle to get back up to speed at sometime in the next year.

Not Good Choices.

Parents are the worst at creating conflicts with their darling children's schedules at university, closely followed by employers

On the other hand, being away with the WMU Flying Broncos flying team is something I have more sympathy with, as that is a university function.

Dr. Phil

[chamoatman24.livejournal.com]

Well hell...looks like that Bachelor's in Earth Science I am getting next week could have been comming to me much sooner;) Guess I can tell the WMU Geoscience to go to hell on accepting me for that Master's degree program....and well hard working men like you that got their Doctorate are obsolete apparently...WHAT A FLAMMING DOUCHE BAG....SIGH....PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOULD BE CHEMICALLY CASTRATED SO THAT THEY DON'T PRODUCE OFFSPRING AND CREATE AN "IDIOCRACY" LIKE FUTURE. :)

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

What really amuses and inflames my goat is that it's either a crappy diploma mill or the whole thing is a credit card scam and you don't even get the worthless diploma.

At least with WMU you do get the piece of paper, if you've completely all your requirements. THEN they hit you with the alumni fundraising campaigns, so they don't want to screw you with a credit card scam. (grin)

NOTE: In fairness, I do give money to NU and MTU, so I'm not knocking the Alumni Associations. (double-grin)

Dr. Phil

[stonekettle.com (from livejournal.com)]

Chicks and beer, like Steve said.

I get these all the time and think, doh! If only I'd known before I spent all that time and money and effort on that stupid accredited masters. I'm such an idiot, for a couple of bucks and a phone call I could have had a creatively spelled doctorate from a non-accredited Nigerian internet cafe! Chicks and beer would be mine! Fame, fortune for the asking! Alas and damn my foolish short sightedness.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you're smarter than everyone thinks you are...?

Dr. Phil

PS- I was talking about the non-accredited Nigerian Internet Cafe & Diploma Mill people. What?