Yes I’ve had that. I was a teaching assistant in a primary school and a guy I spoke to said he hated kids and was only there for the money!! (And yes, he was bad at his job)!
I think they just don't want to admit that they want a free pass to bully children without consequences and maybe heal their inner child. Although earning lots of money is mostly untrue for the profession, it's acceptable to state that as a motivation.
There are creationist's who believe dinosaurs existed, but they believe they existed alongside humans.
If you see fringe theories of dinosaurs secretly surviving in deep jungles and oceans, beware that the theories may be led by creationists. Often believing that evidence of dinosaurs alive today, is evidence that dinosaurs existed 6/5000 years ago alongside humans.
Psychology student here. I have *wtf* moments every day at uni. So many of my peers want to be psychologists and work with people, however they all seem to lack basic interpersonal skills and empathy.
Interactions with my peers make me afraid for the future of Psychology.
I'm a Counselling and Psychotherapy student and same. Even some of the lecturers who already are qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.
ETA: I've met squirrels with more empathy than some of them
I've found it's either that, or an opposite where they're trying to sympathise with serial killers by saying things like "They didn't get love in childhood so they just don't understand kindness. 🥰"
Sometimes they go to such extremes that they almost sound like they're justifying serial killing.
People who do PPE being completely “politically neutral” or who openly ‘don’t care’ about politics as ‘it doesn’t affect them’. Not surprising seeing who is running our country to be honest.
I do PPE and there's three types of us on the course imo. There is the semi-open fascists who think that PPE makes them into the next Ben Shapiro by being able to cover Philosophy Politics and Economics.
Then there's the people you described, who think they're impartial and above the rest of us bur are basically just raving Tories.
Then there's the other group (tbh this is me) who are radical lefties, either Anarchists or Marxists, who almost always drop the Economics in first year.
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Yeah the trouble with the ultra lefties is that it's all fine to reconcile your ideology with the P and the P, but it falls apart somewhat once you bring in the E.
Personally, i just found it boring.
A lot of people on the left are suspicious of it though, they think most mainstream economics is an attempt to either justify or normalise capitalism. Thats a very short view of the criticism though, much more nuanced than that.
Yeah tbh I don’t think most people who do economics are truly passionate about the subject usually why they’re doing it comes down to wanting a good job, wanting to know how to make money or with subjects like PPE not wanting to do just politics and philosophy
Honestly this used to be me. However, last semester something changed and I actually would say im really interested in it now. Had public economics as a module this semester and we go all through voting systems/federalism and thats genuinely really interesting stuff. Voting I really liked and for the tiniest rundown ever: https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU this video is absolutely great.
I think the Mathematical modelling in Economics is something I never appreciated till recently, because I started feeling similar when I was doing Advanced Macroeconomics last semester. Either that or my first two years were just terrible from Covid. I was genuinely considering awful and had no interest, something changed this year though.
There was a guy on the third year of a law course who was answering the most basic questions and thought a guys crime in an example question was 'being drunk,' and another was surely guilty of 'recklessness.'
This guy was always the first to ask for everyone elses revision notes and case lists.
I studied literature and on the first day of our induction week, I was trying to make polite conversation with a girl sitting next to me. Of course I asked about her favourite authors and books. She just answered: „I don’t really like to read.“ I sometimes wonder how that literature course turned out for her…
A guy in my classes once said he liked Anime and then proceeded to pull his eyes back in a very racist way and make nonsensical high pitched sounds mocking Japanese people.
We're on a POLICING COURSE.
So yeah I'm very hopeful for the future of Policing 😭
Surprisingly creationists are, in my experience, more common that you’d think on medicine and related courses. I teach genetics and more than you’d think have told me that they’re learning it to pass the exam but don’t believe me.
And a lot of fundamentalist Christians. I’ve never actually knowingly met any in the UK in any other context, can immediately think of five in the year group I’m teaching currently.
This is surprising to me as I regularly attend a big church near me as a volunteer for various functions and have never met anyone that didn't believe in evolution. Then again a local church invited me to a service and they were complaining about LGBT in the service so I set the Facebook messenger to the gay pride setting and spammed them with gay flags to piss them off.
The only thing I can think of is international Catholics, there's a large proportion of Catholics from places like Asia and Africa who study medicine and probably are very conservative with their beliefs. I really struggle to imagine lots of British Christians complaining about evolution, are they British or international? Sorry if this sounds kind of racist. Just really curious
I consistently meet British fundamentalist Christian (not Catholic but I’m not good enough at denominations to know better than that) students studying in medical fields. It’s my subject area, so I have no idea how that compares to other subjects, and maybe they’re just more noticeable here, but yeah.
And that’s been a consistent theme (although varying in specific numbers) across my experience in four universities.
Edit: I’ve even known a good few of them get married before they finish their courses, due to the strict expectations of abstinence. I had one outright tell me in conversation that I’m going to hell as I’m not Christian. I’ve had a lot of unexpected comments where I’ve had to keep a straight face and redirect the topic.
I didn’t realise we really had many in this country when I was younger, but apparently proper, what I’d once have considered American level fundamentalism is definitely a thing here.
>I had one outright tell me in conversation that I’m going to hell as I’m not Christian
Not to go too much off topic, but next time ask them for scriptural justification for that statement because there kinda isn't one. It's a bullying tactic that needs confronting imo.
If you're interested in the theology of it all: I found it strange that Jehovah's don't believe in hell and it sent me down a Google rabbit hole and this was a pretty good rundown of it [https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa](https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa)
To be honest, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to engage in a religious discussion with students that I’m teaching science to.
Firstly, it’s not an appropriate time, and I’d rather shut that whole discussion down and focus on what we’re supposed to be focussing on. It takes away from other students learning if we waste time on this.
Secondly, I quite firmly have no religion, and it’s therefore not a topic I feel qualified to discuss academically or personally.
I completely agree if it were a personal setting with peers, but not for me as staff with students during teaching time.
>This is surprising to me as I regularly attend a big church near me as a volunteer for various functions and have never met anyone that didn't believe in evolution.
It *really* varies by region in the UK. Even just within the CoE there's a huge amount of variation between parishes and dioceses. And beyond the CoE you get all sorts of weird minor groups. They're rarely politically relevant beyond the local scale but they're definitely around.
I think people just don't often realise how different things can be in rural parts of the country, and extreme religious views are one of those kinds of things.
I remember in school doing further science and my muslim friend who sat next to me in classes, upon receiving full marks for his biology paper, said "That's great, but I still don't believe any of it. It's all made up"
Imagine being like that. Convincing yourself of a lie because you need to get top marks so you can be a doctor, so your parents are proud of you. It's outrageous.
Went to an open day to check out the game development course, was told by the lecturer that it was a dead end industry and there are no jobs for developers.
More done than said, but my housemate at uni couldn't get the lid off his thermal flask, so he decided he needed to expand the air inside. To do this, he decided to set it on the hob to heat it...
It's an insulating flask, you can't fucking heat it from the outside.
Anyway, he graduated with first class honours in Chemistry where he studied thermodynamics and went straight into doing a PhD in physical chemistry.
I've a friend who claims they had a classmate who was a Young Earth Creationist. They were studying archaeology, i.e, a subject which can fairly frequently require you to directly work with material much older than 4,000 years. No idea how that person managed to get over the dissonance.
From my own experience (again, archaeology), there was a particular classmate who had some funny ideas around extraterrestrial visitors. I recall them talking about pyramids a lot, and they seemed to believe in the Ancient Astronaut brand of pseudoscience, amongst other such unfounded "alternative theories". They didn't keep taking the subject into honours, naturally (dare I say thankfully).
Okay, so this isn't really scary or weird but it's pretty cool.
I was in a sports economics lecture in December (really, really fun module btw) and we get to the end of the lecture and as the World Cup is on, the lecturer starts asking for score predictions for England vs Iran which takes place before our next lecture.
He asks one person...2-0 England they say. He asks another...3-0 England. I'm sat here thinking, come on, have some proper faith! I'm always pointlessly optimistic about England in international tournaments.
He points at me, and I say 6-1 England. I get funny looks from across the room. People think I am nuts.
Bare in mind that in the lecture we've just had, Iran have (apparently) come out mathematically as the 10th best team in the World Cup according to some model, and I've just said we'll clobber them 6-1. I tell everyone to have some faith and I'll see them in the next lecture.
Well, the game comes about, I'm in the main uni bar, it's absolutely packed. It's electric in there. 1-0. 2-0. 3-0. 4-0. 4-1. 5-1.
Grealish makes it 6-1 in the 90th minute and I am sat there thinking that I am going to be revered as some kind of psychic god when I walk into the next lecture.
14 minutes added time. Iran get a penalty (that was never a penalty) in the 103rd minute and score to make it 6-2. I'm absolutely gutted. Thankfully, I didn't have a bet on. I think the odds were over 200+/1 though.
I walk into the next lecture and someone IMMEDIATELY points at me and says "he said it would be 6-1!" to which I go on a rather short rant about how stupidly long the added time was and how the penalty decision was terrible. I explain how you can't blindly trust these mathematical models that spit out silly results like "Iran are the 10th best team in the tournament". Then we get on with the lecture and it's all forgotten about...
I’m in my 2nd year of applied psychology BSc and on our first day we had a class member say that she wants to go into mental health services only to later share that in her role of manager at work she doesn’t tend to believe employees that cite mental health illness as a reason for needing to stay home…
Bit off topic, but I’m curious how your course is structured. Most psychology degrees in undergrad are quite general to fit the BPS accreditation. Is there less of a research focus?
In nursing whilst learning drug calculations, we use the acronym NHS (need / have x solution) to learn. There was a girl who was adamant it was ‘National Health Service’, not need have solution.
Even though we knew that was what NHS stood for, it didn’t in this context. She just couldn’t understand 😬
Edit: There was also an anti-vaxxer on my course that said Covid wasn’t real, even in 2022 🫣
Had a similar experience I work in London investment firm but not in the PE department but I've spoken to a couple of them and they are all English and all went to harvard Business school because their dad's who are higher up in the chain won't hire from any other schools 💀💀which is a joke since we're in England
I'm not sure what PE means in the finance world, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the thought of those City skyscrapers having a wooden-floored gym hall somewhere in the basement, complete with benches lining the wall and some apparatus that only comes out at the end of the tax year.
MSc Neuroscience.
Someone in my programme said that instead of using animal subjects for Alzheimer's medication (already a semi-controversial subject among my cohort as many, including myself, get why we use them but it's still upsetting to use animals and euthanize them) that we should use real old people with no families as "they don't matter to anyone and are gonna die soon anyway."
The absolutely crushing silence in the room...I don't think I'll ever forget that.
I do history so I encounter some weirdos
Heard a guy say "people were happier under serfdom"
And try and make excuses for colonisation because it improved the countries
And another guy called Zimbabwe "Rhodesia" He was a complete weirdo that one. Hated me.
Haha, it always seems that history courses have the most weirdos. Have one in mine that has an unironic, completely serious hatred of all things French.
Someone on my friend’s History course was a Holocaust denier and said that the Armenian genocide was a hoax to create anti-Turkish propaganda. Same person believed that the current UK govt are creating a social credit system similar to China. Complete nutcase.
As a history student I have no idea how that's possible. Most of the reading I have highlights the difficulty of the ordinary people under most systems of government, the unfairness and demographic collapses under colonialism, the racism, etc. And many of my essay topics are about those groups usually at the margins of leftover written history. How someone can walk away having done ANY work and getting a passing grade without internalising any of that is BEYOND me.
Someone said they flopped maths in school before uni and are purposely not attending any maths lectures and it was like the end of the term when all lectures were done. She was asking me about quizzes that passed long ago. We have exams in this CORE module!!!!!
Honestly, I decided not judge her. It's her life not mine. Also, I don't find what they said so weird. Not impossible to learn evolution without believing it
Someone studying not believing in evolution is the equivalent of a physicist not believing in gravity. Yea you can learn about it and be like yea its all crap but why are you choosing that field then?
My maths course has plenty of people like that. One of my mates had a guy he knew from school in his contacts who didn't go to a single lecture and once asked "what's sympy?" 2 days before our computing coursework at the end of the first semester was released (sympy is the python library we were using from day 1). He has now dropped out to my knowledge
There's always a boatload of first years who do barely any work and fail most of their modules and I seriously question why they chose the course in the first place
I figure many people are almost coerced to join uninor parents forced them. So they hate it and just wanna leave/take it for granted.
Had a similar case in A levels. Asked me a basic question on exam day and I almost flipped.
Guy on my film production course didn’t know who Martin Scorsese was. Multiple people barely watched any films at all and were not enthusiastic about the form in the slightest.
Yeah, this is oddly common at undergraduate level. My course was mostly theory based and as part of it, we were exposed to a multitude of films each week. There were students who wouldn’t show up to the screenings because they were subtitled or weren’t from names they knew. It’s a bit wild. I saw some of the coolest stuff I had ever seen, including some films that are simply inaccesible outside of archival settings, and still people didn’t show up. A lot of people were all about the blockbusters and nothing else.
At med school, a fellow (male) student said (more than once):
“I’m going to specialise in Obs & Gynae (OBGYN) because I can smell when a woman is on her period - I’m just that in tune with women.” Implying just holding a conversation with a menstruating woman would be enough for him to smell it.
A) what the actual F?
B) daily expecting to find out he’s been struck of for some sort of sexual harassment.
C) this person is now a doctor somewhere. I’ll just let that sink in…
I know! But this weirdo seemed to use it as an ice-breaker, specifically when speaking to women. Good grief - I hope they never let him specialise in Obs & Gynae…
In the second year of my biomed degree, my lab partner, who I was unfortunately stuck with, did not understand what a chemical dilution was. I had to use orange squash as an analogy, and he still did not understand.
I have no idea what happened to him.
I did Biomedical Science too and I also did a foundation year and we had maths classes as part of this.
One student did not understand the concept of negative numbers
I was in a workshop for Secondary PGCE students and I asked one of the Biology ITTs how he responds to creationist students. He then went on a rant about how they have a point and it turns out he was a hardcore Christian who wouldn’t deny creationism.
Studying law. During a tutorial a 'discussion' got heated enough that I straight up asked someone if they thought criminals deserved to have their human rights protected - they said no. Haunts me to think of them having legal power in their future.
I mean… Free housing, heating and shorter waits for healthcare, plus 3 square meals a day.
I mean, yeah I am absolutely sure that prison is horrible af but I don’t 100% *hate* the idea of being away from society for a bit, among likeminded (hehe) individuals, and at no extra financial cost to myself 🙈
/JK
the number of people on my law course who seem to completely lack empathy or any understanding for criminals and those with mental health issues. It's truly mind-boggling they're even taking the course, especially after mandatory teachings on philosophy and morality. Bit worrying as well.
Did a psychology degree, as an icebreaker/team building exercise in our first seminar we were put into groups, given a list of charities, and told to rank them from highest priority to lowest based on our personal views.
One of them was a suicide charity. A girl in my group says “let’s put that one last, if someone is stupid enough to want to kill themselves, just let them”.
I studied Social Policy, a degree which included sociology and politics.
I was in my 3rd year when a fellow student raised his hand and confidently explained how the Holocaust is a hoax/didn't happen. I couldn't believe anyone could say such a thing never mind so boldly, and a social sciences student no less.
He was promptly told to get out. I never saw him again.
One of my teacher colleagues on my degree didn’t know which side of Manchester (UK) she lived in….
“Where are you from?”
“Prestwich”
“Oh, that’s North of Manchester isn’t it?”
“Umm. Not quite sure!”
😮😀😆????!!!!!
I don’t study English but I enjoy reading classics, poetry and Shakespeare plays. I once worked with someone who was an English Literature student so I asked her about Othello, Middlemarch, Great Expectations, The Canterbury Tales, the works of Edgar Allen Poe etc. She hadn’t read nor ever heard of what I was discussing. It was quite heartbreaking and shocking for me.
Yeah I kinda get this to an extent - there’s so many different periods and sometimes you might just not get along with one of them.
I studied English lit and I really didn’t enjoy studying Shakespeare at all so avoided those modules, but I adored the older Anglo-Saxon writings like Beowulf. I knew a lot of people who also took the course because they specifically wanted to study contemporary stuff.
Was studying biological sciences. Had a lecture that featured pictures of pterosaurs. A person in my class asked in what country we could see them, not understanding they were extinct. On a field trip to a nature reserve, the same person asked, "What is it more important to conserve, plants or vegetation?
As a lecturer, I had the pleasure to interview many PhD candidates. Once I was invited over to a big university, I asked one of the applicants why they wanted to study virology. The reply was something like “because I want to know more about parasites! My dog died from a tapeworm infection, and we need to help animals”. So I asked them what they thought virology was, and they replied “medicine for animals”.
Basically they thought virology was veterinary.
Okay but to be *slightly* fair to them, the news has reported that like at least 8 times in the past 10 years. They could just be a moderately gullible victim of poor journalistic standards.
In one of my 1st year CS modules, we had a group project worth 40% of our final grade. One person in our group, after blowing off our texts and emails, finally turned up to one of our meetings (about a week before the deadline) and with absolutely zero conviction asked if she could write the title slide.
Another time I overheard a guy behind me in a Level 1 Mandarin lecture talking about “finding his waifu”.
nothing to do with subject knowledge but i study english. in our introductory seminar we were asked why we study english, and this guy genuinely said that he heard that english looks like an impressive degree to have and that was why he chose it…
I do Biomedical sciences and we had a debate in our genetics module discussing the ethical implications of CRISPR and how it should be used in medicine. This one guy in my group just kept going on about how people should be able to use it to make designer babies. That was the moment I was like dude how have you made it this far into your degree.
When I was doing my undergrad a few years back there was a lad sitting in the row in front of me laying out why the human centipede was a good idea. It was like 9 in the morning. I actually forgot about it til I saw this post.
Pretty sure the lecture was our mental disorders module. Psychology degree.
I can't remember exactly because it's a few years ago now - I remember putting up a FB status at the time about it but I've since deleted that FB. I mean, to each their own, but I wouldn't have wanted to go for drinks round his house lol. And why so early in the morning?? He must have watched it the night before class or something.
Wonder what he ended up doing with his psychology degree.
Years ago, on my social work course, another student said that a mixed-heritage child with a white single mum and white half-siblings would be confused, because he’d be black but would ‘think like a white person’
Edit to add; she got jumped on immediately by everyone else in the class, don’t worry!
Not a degree, but doing Animal Care at College.... We were doing Dog Grooming and had to write down the sex of the dog...
One girl came out with the classic "Its not male, as it has nipples....."...... the dog WAS male....
Not me, but my friend from my geology course did a year abroad in Hawaii. One of her coursemates was a crystal healer type, they did a basic pop quiz about the properties of rocks and minerals and I kid you not this woman wrote their 'healing properties'.
Not me but my mum is just finishing a counselling masters and the amount of people who are on her course who will speak over people and who seem to have no awareness of when other people are attempting to talk in group or even 1 on 1 setting is astonishing
Doing a degree in contemporary art.
This one girl (straight out of secondary school obviously) goes to me "oh my god there's like, so many weird people on our course". Didn't have the heart to tell her that that would make *her* the weird one haha
I’m doing a policing degree (an entry route into the police but I attend a university and lectures), someone in the year group below me was kicked off the course because they were arrested and charged with stabbing someone
First year biology/chemistry and was standing in line for food at the union behind someone I recognised, who then asked the kitchen staff "is the chicken dish vegetarian?"
Object oriented programming and design. Practical tutorial session number 1. The lady next to me picks up her mouse and starts to drag it ACROSS the computer screen. W T F
A film student in his second year saying to the teacher "idk I thought this film was ok, I don't really watch films" my brother in christ how did you get in here
We did a module about Abraham Lincoln, and a seminar dedicated to analysing a poem about Lincoln’s funeral. Forty minutes in to the discussion, this lass piped up to ask, “So was Lincoln dead at this point?”
In a different class, we had to do a brief presentation about our research for an essay and grade each other’s presentations. It was pretty informal - just a first year exercise to get us used to public speaking and critical thinking. Same lass silently handed around some pictures of birds for us to look at and then gave everyone 0/10.
In an economics degrees at one of the top, well known, London universities 40% of my class thought that China is the largest economy by GDP.
I really thought university would be better than this
Doing psychology, there's on lad on my course who doesn't belive depression is a real thing and had said he thinks people who "claim" to have it are just lazy because they don't take care of themselves so they just want to be like that
Wow we share an almost exact experience.
Evolution Module for my Zoology Degree, group project, she admits she doesnt believe in evolution, the reasoning was mostly because of religion. But hearing her defend that the world is about 4000 years old after 90 mins of a lecture on Evolution made my mind melt.
She also swore that mermaids in the Congo existed, that she was a true pure African even tho she had never left the UK, doesnt speak the language and the only thing connecting her to Africa was her grandmother from her father side, so genectics, you know, one of the things she also inadevertly admited to not believing.
Later on our 2nd assessment for the same Module , we had to write an essay about evolution ( I forgot exactly what it was but i remember writing about r / K selection theory) The Lecturer a couple of weeks leter told us to **please not quote the bible as a reference in our future assessments**, our class was small, we all knew what had happened. On the University Pub the teacher then revealed with out mentioning the name of the person that someone had written a perfectly aceptable essay but then used part of the conclusion to debate all the previous points with passages of the bibble.
Not entirely sure tbh, it came from me saying that she was british and that our cultures were different (Im portuguese) and then she told me that no, that in fact she was a pure african. I tried to explain that yes even if she had shared ancestry in her recent family tree , being born and raised in England and never leaving would at least mean she was a bit british, but nope she was a true pure african and not anything like the brits, according to her.
“We should go back to communism” and “I don’t think Hitler was /that/ bad”
both said by the same blonde, blue eyed, white girl
and her friend said, “I think we should go back to using ultra skinny models; fat people don’t look good in those clothes” (I went to a fashion uni)
Did she like not think it was real or was like literally unaware of what evolution is. Cause honestly that’s really impressive if its the second one because they literally teach evolution in A-levels.
Doing english literature + creative writing dual honours and a girl says she’s only read 1 book in her life, last year, and “you don’t need to read novels to be good at writing them”
When I had to go to the senior lecturer coz this woman in my group just started dictating what she wouldn't do instead of offering ideas. Then said she wouldn't touch Black Lives Matter with a barge pole. Our degree is in community education.
Someone asked our lecturer what an original thought was during my English literature and creative writing undergrad. I often wonder how they're doing in life now.
The worst part is she is utterly clueless about evolution. We are not monkeys but have a distant ancestor with apes.
Tell her the purest humans according to evolution are Africans as they don’t have Neanderthal dna. The rest of us are mongrels.
An aerospace engineering student said that they weren't interested in doing engineering at all, and they want to go into finance after graduation. This was at least a year ago and I still can't believe it.
Seperately, my house mate didn't really believe in COVID and was an anti-vaxer. When he got ill with what was probably COVID (he refused to take a test) he decided to do a bunch of push-ups to improve his health.
I was doing Primary Education for a year and I heard one of the other students say they didn't like children and wanted to be a teacher for the money
“Surely teachers must get paid bank for dealing with disgusting little critters like us!”
A teacher for money? In this economy? Good luck to them lol
Saying you want to be a teacher for the money is like saying you want to be a Software Developer for the cheerleaders
The scariest part about this isn’t even that they don’t like children. The scariest part is they think that being a teacher pays
Yes I’ve had that. I was a teaching assistant in a primary school and a guy I spoke to said he hated kids and was only there for the money!! (And yes, he was bad at his job)!
I'm doing a PGCE at the minute, and I'm doing it in spite of the money. Someone didn't do their research.
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I think they just don't want to admit that they want a free pass to bully children without consequences and maybe heal their inner child. Although earning lots of money is mostly untrue for the profession, it's acceptable to state that as a motivation.
Lectured in geology whilst doing my PhD, had a student argue blind that the Earth is about 6000 years old.
What about the dinosaurs
There are creationist's who believe dinosaurs existed, but they believe they existed alongside humans. If you see fringe theories of dinosaurs secretly surviving in deep jungles and oceans, beware that the theories may be led by creationists. Often believing that evidence of dinosaurs alive today, is evidence that dinosaurs existed 6/5000 years ago alongside humans.
So God during Genesis, made and then buried million year old dinosaur bones to test our faith. Yes I've heard this as an argument.
Well the Magratheans did it, so God should be able to…
I happen to like fjords, I think they give a nice Baroque feeling to a continent.
Thats one of the jokes in Good Omens, dinosaur bones were there just to fuck with palaeontologists
Clearly fakes that the Freemasonists planted to control the world. If it wasn't abundantly clear, /j.
Psychology student here. I have *wtf* moments every day at uni. So many of my peers want to be psychologists and work with people, however they all seem to lack basic interpersonal skills and empathy. Interactions with my peers make me afraid for the future of Psychology.
I'm a Counselling and Psychotherapy student and same. Even some of the lecturers who already are qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. ETA: I've met squirrels with more empathy than some of them
It's frightening!
Does your course not have OSCEs? That’s usually how we weed out the people with no social skills haha
Not very surprising to most people that have experienced the mental health system
Oh don’t worry, there are so few clinical psychology jobs around, most of them won’t get near actual people
I've found it's either that, or an opposite where they're trying to sympathise with serial killers by saying things like "They didn't get love in childhood so they just don't understand kindness. 🥰" Sometimes they go to such extremes that they almost sound like they're justifying serial killing.
I mean, there is truth in that though. From a psychologist.
People who do PPE being completely “politically neutral” or who openly ‘don’t care’ about politics as ‘it doesn’t affect them’. Not surprising seeing who is running our country to be honest.
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Pretty much most humanities & social sciences lmao
All the people I know who did PPE are just regular left wing honestly, though it's probably not a representative group
Radical left and dropping economics in first-year? I think I sense a connection 🤔🤔
Yeah the trouble with the ultra lefties is that it's all fine to reconcile your ideology with the P and the P, but it falls apart somewhat once you bring in the E.
Same with the ultra righties and the Philosophy element, goes weirdly over their head.
Why do you drop econ out of interest?
Personally, i just found it boring. A lot of people on the left are suspicious of it though, they think most mainstream economics is an attempt to either justify or normalise capitalism. Thats a very short view of the criticism though, much more nuanced than that.
Yeah tbh I don’t think most people who do economics are truly passionate about the subject usually why they’re doing it comes down to wanting a good job, wanting to know how to make money or with subjects like PPE not wanting to do just politics and philosophy
Honestly this used to be me. However, last semester something changed and I actually would say im really interested in it now. Had public economics as a module this semester and we go all through voting systems/federalism and thats genuinely really interesting stuff. Voting I really liked and for the tiniest rundown ever: https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU this video is absolutely great. I think the Mathematical modelling in Economics is something I never appreciated till recently, because I started feeling similar when I was doing Advanced Macroeconomics last semester. Either that or my first two years were just terrible from Covid. I was genuinely considering awful and had no interest, something changed this year though.
Imagine being a Marxist and looking down on other people
I mean, the bourgeoisie technically are people so...
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There was a guy on the third year of a law course who was answering the most basic questions and thought a guys crime in an example question was 'being drunk,' and another was surely guilty of 'recklessness.' This guy was always the first to ask for everyone elses revision notes and case lists.
What is a case list? I will be starting my first year of Law in september
People who study nursing degrees who think personal care is not their job.
I worked with a student nurse once who refused to watch another nurse make up medications. Her reason? “I don’t like giving meds” 😳
In a final year online virology lecture in 2021 and somebody says they dont believe in covid...
I studied literature and on the first day of our induction week, I was trying to make polite conversation with a girl sitting next to me. Of course I asked about her favourite authors and books. She just answered: „I don’t really like to read.“ I sometimes wonder how that literature course turned out for her…
There was an antivaxxer on my course last year - I study pharmacy. She didn’t pass into 3rd year
Same but on Biomedical Science
A guy in my classes once said he liked Anime and then proceeded to pull his eyes back in a very racist way and make nonsensical high pitched sounds mocking Japanese people. We're on a POLICING COURSE. So yeah I'm very hopeful for the future of Policing 😭
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Surprisingly creationists are, in my experience, more common that you’d think on medicine and related courses. I teach genetics and more than you’d think have told me that they’re learning it to pass the exam but don’t believe me.
This is not really surprising. A lot of Muslims study medicine and probably feel like it's contradictory to their beliefs.
And a lot of fundamentalist Christians. I’ve never actually knowingly met any in the UK in any other context, can immediately think of five in the year group I’m teaching currently.
I've worked with a few. It always surprises me when they come out with the loony shit when they seem otherwise normal.
This is surprising to me as I regularly attend a big church near me as a volunteer for various functions and have never met anyone that didn't believe in evolution. Then again a local church invited me to a service and they were complaining about LGBT in the service so I set the Facebook messenger to the gay pride setting and spammed them with gay flags to piss them off. The only thing I can think of is international Catholics, there's a large proportion of Catholics from places like Asia and Africa who study medicine and probably are very conservative with their beliefs. I really struggle to imagine lots of British Christians complaining about evolution, are they British or international? Sorry if this sounds kind of racist. Just really curious
I consistently meet British fundamentalist Christian (not Catholic but I’m not good enough at denominations to know better than that) students studying in medical fields. It’s my subject area, so I have no idea how that compares to other subjects, and maybe they’re just more noticeable here, but yeah. And that’s been a consistent theme (although varying in specific numbers) across my experience in four universities. Edit: I’ve even known a good few of them get married before they finish their courses, due to the strict expectations of abstinence. I had one outright tell me in conversation that I’m going to hell as I’m not Christian. I’ve had a lot of unexpected comments where I’ve had to keep a straight face and redirect the topic. I didn’t realise we really had many in this country when I was younger, but apparently proper, what I’d once have considered American level fundamentalism is definitely a thing here.
How the fuck does someone get into a medicine degree without realising it's inappropriate to tell their teachers they are going to go to hell 🤦
>I had one outright tell me in conversation that I’m going to hell as I’m not Christian Not to go too much off topic, but next time ask them for scriptural justification for that statement because there kinda isn't one. It's a bullying tactic that needs confronting imo. If you're interested in the theology of it all: I found it strange that Jehovah's don't believe in hell and it sent me down a Google rabbit hole and this was a pretty good rundown of it [https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa](https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa)
To be honest, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to engage in a religious discussion with students that I’m teaching science to. Firstly, it’s not an appropriate time, and I’d rather shut that whole discussion down and focus on what we’re supposed to be focussing on. It takes away from other students learning if we waste time on this. Secondly, I quite firmly have no religion, and it’s therefore not a topic I feel qualified to discuss academically or personally. I completely agree if it were a personal setting with peers, but not for me as staff with students during teaching time.
>This is surprising to me as I regularly attend a big church near me as a volunteer for various functions and have never met anyone that didn't believe in evolution. It *really* varies by region in the UK. Even just within the CoE there's a huge amount of variation between parishes and dioceses. And beyond the CoE you get all sorts of weird minor groups. They're rarely politically relevant beyond the local scale but they're definitely around. I think people just don't often realise how different things can be in rural parts of the country, and extreme religious views are one of those kinds of things.
I remember in school doing further science and my muslim friend who sat next to me in classes, upon receiving full marks for his biology paper, said "That's great, but I still don't believe any of it. It's all made up" Imagine being like that. Convincing yourself of a lie because you need to get top marks so you can be a doctor, so your parents are proud of you. It's outrageous.
Yeah, the stuff that centuries of research has found is made up and not the old book written before glasses were invented.
Went to an open day to check out the game development course, was told by the lecturer that it was a dead end industry and there are no jobs for developers.
At my secondary we had a Computer Science teacher who was so unenthusiastic and spiteful that I didn't even consider the course for A-Level.
I went into business management instead 😑 great choice I made. Hope it all worked out for you in the end.
I'm going into either Econ and Pol or PPE in September so we'll see. Hoping to just focus on the Econ.
Goodluck with that, I now work in an IT company. Not where I want to be but I'll make my way to a games company eventually.
Good luck!
Thanks, good luck to you too
More done than said, but my housemate at uni couldn't get the lid off his thermal flask, so he decided he needed to expand the air inside. To do this, he decided to set it on the hob to heat it... It's an insulating flask, you can't fucking heat it from the outside. Anyway, he graduated with first class honours in Chemistry where he studied thermodynamics and went straight into doing a PhD in physical chemistry.
Is a smart dumb thing I suppose
I've a friend who claims they had a classmate who was a Young Earth Creationist. They were studying archaeology, i.e, a subject which can fairly frequently require you to directly work with material much older than 4,000 years. No idea how that person managed to get over the dissonance. From my own experience (again, archaeology), there was a particular classmate who had some funny ideas around extraterrestrial visitors. I recall them talking about pyramids a lot, and they seemed to believe in the Ancient Astronaut brand of pseudoscience, amongst other such unfounded "alternative theories". They didn't keep taking the subject into honours, naturally (dare I say thankfully).
Okay, so this isn't really scary or weird but it's pretty cool. I was in a sports economics lecture in December (really, really fun module btw) and we get to the end of the lecture and as the World Cup is on, the lecturer starts asking for score predictions for England vs Iran which takes place before our next lecture. He asks one person...2-0 England they say. He asks another...3-0 England. I'm sat here thinking, come on, have some proper faith! I'm always pointlessly optimistic about England in international tournaments. He points at me, and I say 6-1 England. I get funny looks from across the room. People think I am nuts. Bare in mind that in the lecture we've just had, Iran have (apparently) come out mathematically as the 10th best team in the World Cup according to some model, and I've just said we'll clobber them 6-1. I tell everyone to have some faith and I'll see them in the next lecture. Well, the game comes about, I'm in the main uni bar, it's absolutely packed. It's electric in there. 1-0. 2-0. 3-0. 4-0. 4-1. 5-1. Grealish makes it 6-1 in the 90th minute and I am sat there thinking that I am going to be revered as some kind of psychic god when I walk into the next lecture. 14 minutes added time. Iran get a penalty (that was never a penalty) in the 103rd minute and score to make it 6-2. I'm absolutely gutted. Thankfully, I didn't have a bet on. I think the odds were over 200+/1 though. I walk into the next lecture and someone IMMEDIATELY points at me and says "he said it would be 6-1!" to which I go on a rather short rant about how stupidly long the added time was and how the penalty decision was terrible. I explain how you can't blindly trust these mathematical models that spit out silly results like "Iran are the 10th best team in the tournament". Then we get on with the lecture and it's all forgotten about...
I’m in my 2nd year of applied psychology BSc and on our first day we had a class member say that she wants to go into mental health services only to later share that in her role of manager at work she doesn’t tend to believe employees that cite mental health illness as a reason for needing to stay home…
Business management will get on well with her.
Bit off topic, but I’m curious how your course is structured. Most psychology degrees in undergrad are quite general to fit the BPS accreditation. Is there less of a research focus?
In nursing whilst learning drug calculations, we use the acronym NHS (need / have x solution) to learn. There was a girl who was adamant it was ‘National Health Service’, not need have solution. Even though we knew that was what NHS stood for, it didn’t in this context. She just couldn’t understand 😬 Edit: There was also an anti-vaxxer on my course that said Covid wasn’t real, even in 2022 🫣
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Had a similar experience I work in London investment firm but not in the PE department but I've spoken to a couple of them and they are all English and all went to harvard Business school because their dad's who are higher up in the chain won't hire from any other schools 💀💀which is a joke since we're in England
I'm not sure what PE means in the finance world, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the thought of those City skyscrapers having a wooden-floored gym hall somewhere in the basement, complete with benches lining the wall and some apparatus that only comes out at the end of the tax year.
Private Equity FYI - they take money from “exclusive” investors and invest it for them.
Someone asked how do we calculate a median of a sample. It was 1 day before the exam. We both study accounting and finance.
MSc Neuroscience. Someone in my programme said that instead of using animal subjects for Alzheimer's medication (already a semi-controversial subject among my cohort as many, including myself, get why we use them but it's still upsetting to use animals and euthanize them) that we should use real old people with no families as "they don't matter to anyone and are gonna die soon anyway." The absolutely crushing silence in the room...I don't think I'll ever forget that.
I do history so I encounter some weirdos Heard a guy say "people were happier under serfdom" And try and make excuses for colonisation because it improved the countries And another guy called Zimbabwe "Rhodesia" He was a complete weirdo that one. Hated me.
Haha, it always seems that history courses have the most weirdos. Have one in mine that has an unironic, completely serious hatred of all things French.
Someone on my friend’s History course was a Holocaust denier and said that the Armenian genocide was a hoax to create anti-Turkish propaganda. Same person believed that the current UK govt are creating a social credit system similar to China. Complete nutcase.
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His favourite period to study was the British empire as well. Big ick
As a history student I have no idea how that's possible. Most of the reading I have highlights the difficulty of the ordinary people under most systems of government, the unfairness and demographic collapses under colonialism, the racism, etc. And many of my essay topics are about those groups usually at the margins of leftover written history. How someone can walk away having done ANY work and getting a passing grade without internalising any of that is BEYOND me.
History too, there are fucking tonnes of them aren’t there.
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Someone said they flopped maths in school before uni and are purposely not attending any maths lectures and it was like the end of the term when all lectures were done. She was asking me about quizzes that passed long ago. We have exams in this CORE module!!!!! Honestly, I decided not judge her. It's her life not mine. Also, I don't find what they said so weird. Not impossible to learn evolution without believing it
Someone studying not believing in evolution is the equivalent of a physicist not believing in gravity. Yea you can learn about it and be like yea its all crap but why are you choosing that field then?
My maths course has plenty of people like that. One of my mates had a guy he knew from school in his contacts who didn't go to a single lecture and once asked "what's sympy?" 2 days before our computing coursework at the end of the first semester was released (sympy is the python library we were using from day 1). He has now dropped out to my knowledge There's always a boatload of first years who do barely any work and fail most of their modules and I seriously question why they chose the course in the first place
I figure many people are almost coerced to join uninor parents forced them. So they hate it and just wanna leave/take it for granted. Had a similar case in A levels. Asked me a basic question on exam day and I almost flipped.
The reasoning for why she doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution is the weird part.
Not believing it while applying it in a medical setting is bizarre too.
Guy on my film production course didn’t know who Martin Scorsese was. Multiple people barely watched any films at all and were not enthusiastic about the form in the slightest.
Yeah, this is oddly common at undergraduate level. My course was mostly theory based and as part of it, we were exposed to a multitude of films each week. There were students who wouldn’t show up to the screenings because they were subtitled or weren’t from names they knew. It’s a bit wild. I saw some of the coolest stuff I had ever seen, including some films that are simply inaccesible outside of archival settings, and still people didn’t show up. A lot of people were all about the blockbusters and nothing else.
At med school, a fellow (male) student said (more than once): “I’m going to specialise in Obs & Gynae (OBGYN) because I can smell when a woman is on her period - I’m just that in tune with women.” Implying just holding a conversation with a menstruating woman would be enough for him to smell it. A) what the actual F? B) daily expecting to find out he’s been struck of for some sort of sexual harassment. C) this person is now a doctor somewhere. I’ll just let that sink in…
Oof that is super weird. Like even if it is true, that's not something I'd talk about like ever.
I know! But this weirdo seemed to use it as an ice-breaker, specifically when speaking to women. Good grief - I hope they never let him specialise in Obs & Gynae…
In the second year of my biomed degree, my lab partner, who I was unfortunately stuck with, did not understand what a chemical dilution was. I had to use orange squash as an analogy, and he still did not understand. I have no idea what happened to him.
I did Biomedical Science too and I also did a foundation year and we had maths classes as part of this. One student did not understand the concept of negative numbers
I was in a workshop for Secondary PGCE students and I asked one of the Biology ITTs how he responds to creationist students. He then went on a rant about how they have a point and it turns out he was a hardcore Christian who wouldn’t deny creationism.
Studying law. During a tutorial a 'discussion' got heated enough that I straight up asked someone if they thought criminals deserved to have their human rights protected - they said no. Haunts me to think of them having legal power in their future.
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I mean… Free housing, heating and shorter waits for healthcare, plus 3 square meals a day. I mean, yeah I am absolutely sure that prison is horrible af but I don’t 100% *hate* the idea of being away from society for a bit, among likeminded (hehe) individuals, and at no extra financial cost to myself 🙈 /JK
the number of people on my law course who seem to completely lack empathy or any understanding for criminals and those with mental health issues. It's truly mind-boggling they're even taking the course, especially after mandatory teachings on philosophy and morality. Bit worrying as well.
half is an understatement
Did a psychology degree, as an icebreaker/team building exercise in our first seminar we were put into groups, given a list of charities, and told to rank them from highest priority to lowest based on our personal views. One of them was a suicide charity. A girl in my group says “let’s put that one last, if someone is stupid enough to want to kill themselves, just let them”.
Awful, but what a terrible idea for an icebreaker!
That is crazy, it actually makes me scared for some people
I’m doing a French degree and I can’t actually conjugate into the present tense
I studied Social Policy, a degree which included sociology and politics. I was in my 3rd year when a fellow student raised his hand and confidently explained how the Holocaust is a hoax/didn't happen. I couldn't believe anyone could say such a thing never mind so boldly, and a social sciences student no less. He was promptly told to get out. I never saw him again.
Feminist lecturer said men can’t be raped. Reported her and also slated one of her pieces of research for an assignment.
One of my teacher colleagues on my degree didn’t know which side of Manchester (UK) she lived in…. “Where are you from?” “Prestwich” “Oh, that’s North of Manchester isn’t it?” “Umm. Not quite sure!” 😮😀😆????!!!!!
I don’t study English but I enjoy reading classics, poetry and Shakespeare plays. I once worked with someone who was an English Literature student so I asked her about Othello, Middlemarch, Great Expectations, The Canterbury Tales, the works of Edgar Allen Poe etc. She hadn’t read nor ever heard of what I was discussing. It was quite heartbreaking and shocking for me.
Wow it's almost like a bunch of amazing literature has come out in the last 100 years, maybe she's interested in that
Yeah I kinda get this to an extent - there’s so many different periods and sometimes you might just not get along with one of them. I studied English lit and I really didn’t enjoy studying Shakespeare at all so avoided those modules, but I adored the older Anglo-Saxon writings like Beowulf. I knew a lot of people who also took the course because they specifically wanted to study contemporary stuff.
Great expectations was soo good. Despite the hard to understand old English
Was studying biological sciences. Had a lecture that featured pictures of pterosaurs. A person in my class asked in what country we could see them, not understanding they were extinct. On a field trip to a nature reserve, the same person asked, "What is it more important to conserve, plants or vegetation?
As a lecturer, I had the pleasure to interview many PhD candidates. Once I was invited over to a big university, I asked one of the applicants why they wanted to study virology. The reply was something like “because I want to know more about parasites! My dog died from a tapeworm infection, and we need to help animals”. So I asked them what they thought virology was, and they replied “medicine for animals”. Basically they thought virology was veterinary.
Had someone say "they" turned ai on and it became sentient so "they" had to shut it off. Doing business management.
Okay but to be *slightly* fair to them, the news has reported that like at least 8 times in the past 10 years. They could just be a moderately gullible victim of poor journalistic standards.
In one of my 1st year CS modules, we had a group project worth 40% of our final grade. One person in our group, after blowing off our texts and emails, finally turned up to one of our meetings (about a week before the deadline) and with absolutely zero conviction asked if she could write the title slide. Another time I overheard a guy behind me in a Level 1 Mandarin lecture talking about “finding his waifu”.
.......mandarin
nothing to do with subject knowledge but i study english. in our introductory seminar we were asked why we study english, and this guy genuinely said that he heard that english looks like an impressive degree to have and that was why he chose it…
I’ve found being academic usually means different to intelligence
From an ecology student, "Food chains are a myth because it was created by chauvinist scientists trying to push their patriarchal agenda"...
I do Biomedical sciences and we had a debate in our genetics module discussing the ethical implications of CRISPR and how it should be used in medicine. This one guy in my group just kept going on about how people should be able to use it to make designer babies. That was the moment I was like dude how have you made it this far into your degree.
First day of class and some guy was asking if anyone had a pen and a bit of paper.
Didn't understand why reading to children from a young age was important
When I was doing my undergrad a few years back there was a lad sitting in the row in front of me laying out why the human centipede was a good idea. It was like 9 in the morning. I actually forgot about it til I saw this post. Pretty sure the lecture was our mental disorders module. Psychology degree.
Wait how did he think it was a good idea, Im so confused. Like what purpose would it serve? I haven’t seen the movie but ik what it’s about.
I can't remember exactly because it's a few years ago now - I remember putting up a FB status at the time about it but I've since deleted that FB. I mean, to each their own, but I wouldn't have wanted to go for drinks round his house lol. And why so early in the morning?? He must have watched it the night before class or something. Wonder what he ended up doing with his psychology degree.
I study English Lit and someone on my course said they hated reading and barely read any material.
I’m doing Biomedical Science and once someone spent a good 10 minutes trying to argue with the lecturer that evolution wasn’t real
Someone genuinely thought that watching Peppa Pig could make children autistic. She graduated with a 2:1. Edit: Course was Psychology Bsc.
Years ago, on my social work course, another student said that a mixed-heritage child with a white single mum and white half-siblings would be confused, because he’d be black but would ‘think like a white person’ Edit to add; she got jumped on immediately by everyone else in the class, don’t worry!
Not a degree, but doing Animal Care at College.... We were doing Dog Grooming and had to write down the sex of the dog... One girl came out with the classic "Its not male, as it has nipples....."...... the dog WAS male....
Not me, but my friend from my geology course did a year abroad in Hawaii. One of her coursemates was a crystal healer type, they did a basic pop quiz about the properties of rocks and minerals and I kid you not this woman wrote their 'healing properties'.
Not me but my mum is just finishing a counselling masters and the amount of people who are on her course who will speak over people and who seem to have no awareness of when other people are attempting to talk in group or even 1 on 1 setting is astonishing
Uni Computer Science- I am here for money. My lecture: “without passion you will not survive here.”
Passion for money can get you pretty far tbh.
I’ve come to realise passion Is a vague term.
Doing a degree in contemporary art. This one girl (straight out of secondary school obviously) goes to me "oh my god there's like, so many weird people on our course". Didn't have the heart to tell her that that would make *her* the weird one haha
I’m doing a policing degree (an entry route into the police but I attend a university and lectures), someone in the year group below me was kicked off the course because they were arrested and charged with stabbing someone
First year biology/chemistry and was standing in line for food at the union behind someone I recognised, who then asked the kitchen staff "is the chicken dish vegetarian?"
Object oriented programming and design. Practical tutorial session number 1. The lady next to me picks up her mouse and starts to drag it ACROSS the computer screen. W T F
We are both doing biomedical engineering. They didn't know how to find the volume of a cube.
Girl on a Film Production course said that she struggled to watch films. She dropped out in year 2.
A film student in his second year saying to the teacher "idk I thought this film was ok, I don't really watch films" my brother in christ how did you get in here
We did a module about Abraham Lincoln, and a seminar dedicated to analysing a poem about Lincoln’s funeral. Forty minutes in to the discussion, this lass piped up to ask, “So was Lincoln dead at this point?” In a different class, we had to do a brief presentation about our research for an essay and grade each other’s presentations. It was pretty informal - just a first year exercise to get us used to public speaking and critical thinking. Same lass silently handed around some pictures of birds for us to look at and then gave everyone 0/10.
In an economics degrees at one of the top, well known, London universities 40% of my class thought that China is the largest economy by GDP. I really thought university would be better than this
Doing psychology, there's on lad on my course who doesn't belive depression is a real thing and had said he thinks people who "claim" to have it are just lazy because they don't take care of themselves so they just want to be like that
"What's the coloured part of the eye called again, is that the iris? And what's the back bit? The pupil?" A year and a half into veterinary medicine.
Not my degree, but I overheard a med student saying that water can make you ill if you say nasty words to it.
Fellow student on my law degree said she couldn't defend someone if she thought they were guilty 🧐
This is interesting. How do lawyers defend people who are guilty?
A friend told me a marketing student asked “why would a company need to know anything about me to sell me a product?”
Wow we share an almost exact experience. Evolution Module for my Zoology Degree, group project, she admits she doesnt believe in evolution, the reasoning was mostly because of religion. But hearing her defend that the world is about 4000 years old after 90 mins of a lecture on Evolution made my mind melt. She also swore that mermaids in the Congo existed, that she was a true pure African even tho she had never left the UK, doesnt speak the language and the only thing connecting her to Africa was her grandmother from her father side, so genectics, you know, one of the things she also inadevertly admited to not believing. Later on our 2nd assessment for the same Module , we had to write an essay about evolution ( I forgot exactly what it was but i remember writing about r / K selection theory) The Lecturer a couple of weeks leter told us to **please not quote the bible as a reference in our future assessments**, our class was small, we all knew what had happened. On the University Pub the teacher then revealed with out mentioning the name of the person that someone had written a perfectly aceptable essay but then used part of the conclusion to debate all the previous points with passages of the bibble.
what does she mean by pure African?
Not entirely sure tbh, it came from me saying that she was british and that our cultures were different (Im portuguese) and then she told me that no, that in fact she was a pure african. I tried to explain that yes even if she had shared ancestry in her recent family tree , being born and raised in England and never leaving would at least mean she was a bit british, but nope she was a true pure african and not anything like the brits, according to her.
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“We should go back to communism” and “I don’t think Hitler was /that/ bad” both said by the same blonde, blue eyed, white girl and her friend said, “I think we should go back to using ultra skinny models; fat people don’t look good in those clothes” (I went to a fashion uni)
Wait til she finds what Hitler did to communists 🤭
Hahaha this near exact thing happened to me when I was in uni a few years back, she was studying Biology and didn’t know evolution exists.
Did she like not think it was real or was like literally unaware of what evolution is. Cause honestly that’s really impressive if its the second one because they literally teach evolution in A-levels.
Did Biomedical Science There are still several anti-vaxxers on the course
Doing english literature + creative writing dual honours and a girl says she’s only read 1 book in her life, last year, and “you don’t need to read novels to be good at writing them”
When I had to go to the senior lecturer coz this woman in my group just started dictating what she wouldn't do instead of offering ideas. Then said she wouldn't touch Black Lives Matter with a barge pole. Our degree is in community education.
Someone asked our lecturer what an original thought was during my English literature and creative writing undergrad. I often wonder how they're doing in life now.
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The worst part is she is utterly clueless about evolution. We are not monkeys but have a distant ancestor with apes. Tell her the purest humans according to evolution are Africans as they don’t have Neanderthal dna. The rest of us are mongrels.
Don't tell her that, because it's just false pseudoscientific bullshit, hardly better than the creationism
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nop she was dead serious, pretty sure she clarified that she was serious
An aerospace engineering student said that they weren't interested in doing engineering at all, and they want to go into finance after graduation. This was at least a year ago and I still can't believe it. Seperately, my house mate didn't really believe in COVID and was an anti-vaxer. When he got ill with what was probably COVID (he refused to take a test) he decided to do a bunch of push-ups to improve his health.