[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by August

Sorry i'm a bit late to the thread but Hap and the others pretty much nail it. You went badly off topic right from the start and didn't even get around to answering any of the assigned questions until the last three paragraphs.

That does it, then. Final nail in the coffin. Damn.

My intent was to go off topic right from the start. I just don't see any point in proffering a solution to anything until the underlying mechanisms are understood, first. If you don't know exactly how a thing works, you can't very well do much with it, can you? I always thought that kind of mindset was a virtue, but it has come back to bite me in the butt time and time again.

My other problem is that I continually exceed text limits. I lost 10 points on this assignment just for that, but what good is ananswer if it is only a partial answer? I have enough trouble just keeping my posts around here within reasonable tolerance, and now I'm supposed to discuss a case study onm ethical theory in 500-700 words? I just can't do that. It would be unethical.

Originally Posted by August

Ask yourself this, if this was something you had to do for a job instead of just a school assignment would you have gone on such a tangent?

Yeah. I've done it many times. It's a little different when you're talking to a person face-to-face in a specific context, of course, but I always presenet the same kind of attitude. The usual response is "We think you're management material", or "Welcome aboard", but damnit, I just cannot seem to get over this higher-education hurdle.

<sigh> Have you ever read Flowers for Algernon? There are times when I feel like I'm seeing the academic world through a keyhole, while everyone inside has a complete view. I just don't understand how I can be so wrong when many people think I am so right. Perhaps I need a complete re-evaluation of my perspective. I just don't know.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

I don't know whether to be honored, tell you to get out more, or just advise you that your situation is now hopeless.

Well I certainly hope that my situation isn't hopeless, but since my usual peer groups consist of lazy union workers and Marines, I can say with confidence that this is the most intelligent group of people I am exposed to on a regular basis.

Originally Posted by AngusJS

Oh, and I'd give it an F--- for excessive libertarian fundamentalism.

Blow me People have won Nobel prizes for the same junk I espouse on a regular basis. I would know, I copied most of it from them.

You're right about me going with what I already knew, though. Maybe that's my problem. But damnit I did a lot of reading to get where I am today! I certainly don't owe most of my education to public schools. Especially not Texas public schools. Most people here can't even spell correctly. My only solace is that there are better-funded states that perform even more poorly.

I swear, I just don't know anymore. This university crap is the military all over again. I'd better stop before I go off on a more of a rant than this thread already is.

Thank you all for the advice, I really appreciate it. I'll try to put it to good use, but I can't promise anything. I'm a person of principle, and I worked hard to obtain those principles. I'm not about to sacrifice everything I beleive just because some professor who doesn't even know me says that I'm a failure because I "have the wrong attitude" or that I "have no idea what is going on". If that is the case, he can explain why, rather than simply give me a failing grade. If a handful of subsimmers can be bothered to explain where I was wrong and why, then I certainly expect a paid academic professional to do the same.

I think I shall write him a very courteous and professional e-mail detailing my concerns, and we'll see where it goes from there. In the meantime, I'm off to go punch something, or maybe up my post count.

Thanks again, y'all.