• PP_GIRL_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      868·
      2 months ago

      My personal experience has also been that the students who don’t understand the material never say anything, fall behind to the point where they just give up because it would take too much effort to remediate, and post Rick Sanchez “school isn’t for smart people” quotes on Facebook with a high school diploma.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        392·
        2 months ago

        Yep.

        A major problem that people don’t understand with college is that it is far more willing to let you fail compared to high school. A lot of young adults aren’t used to dealing in a environment that doesn’t provide immediate negative feedback on failure or non-performance. They hit one hiccup, can’t come back from it, then spiral out until they flunk out.

      • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
        151·
        2 months ago

        This seems pretty unfair. I definitely remember students going to office hours, attending study groups, working with tutors.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          25·
          2 months ago

          Yes, that’s not those people. I’ve been both of these people. Quiet and ashamed me had bad grades and disappointed teachers. When I went to office hours for some reason the teachers got way nicer when I screwed up, almost like they saw me putting in effort and were happy to teach me

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      No, but they might easily run out of time to help one student understand if the rest of the 25 kids in the class are ready to move on.

      • Patches@sh.itjust.works
        161·
        2 months ago

        I feel this is how half of the classes I was in went.

        Let’s explain to Donna why 2 + 2 = 4 even though its a pre-req. The content of the test won’t be easier. I just won’t cover the new material. I’ll waste all my time on Donna who will end up not understanding it either way.

    • dumbass@leminal.space
      10·
      2 months ago

      Look at you there, having nice teachers that don’t bully you in front of the class for their own personal pleasure.

    • Ioughttamow@kbin.run
      9·
      2 months ago

      I think I knew one teacher that might, but he was a bit of a nut. Listened to imus, so that tells you something

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        A guy I knew in school became a college professor. He’d absolutely call his students stupid. A friend of mine sent me a link to his “Rate my Professor” page and apparently his class is mostly full of people failing miserably. A load of Quality=1 and Difficulty=5 and complaints about how he makes fun of students who don’t know things. The only good thing people had to say was that he had clear grading criteria.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 months ago

      I was having trouble with long division in school in the fifth grade. I had a piece of shit tell me ‘I give up’. He did it too. For the rest of the year he ignored me. When I was in high school he was dying of cancer and the rest of the class got upset that I wouldn’t donate anything or sign their card. They refused to believe he ever did that.

    • Rin@lemm.ee
      6·
      2 months ago

      I had a teacher who told the class that atheists are stupid if that counts.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    486·
    2 months ago

    I love the nearly racist truth that there are clear tiers for countries and helpful YouTube content.

    Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.

    Computer scientist? Indian man.

    Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.

    Physics? White girl; geographic region not important. Or black American man.

    Mental Health: woman either American or vaguely from geographic region of India.

    Mathematics? British accent or Asian descent.

    I am not sure why this pattern seems to exist, but it feels present. If you seek help on YouTube with any of these subjects I imagine you’ve seen it.

    Like if I’m looking for an explanation on Colombs Law, I want a guy that sounds like ElectroBoom. If I need to know about Discrete Finite Automata, Ill click the first guy with a turban. If I want to know about the poincare conjecture, Im looking for snaggletooths. If I want the latest from James web, I’m looking for a ponytail or Sabine.

    🤷‍♂️

    I feel like even SEO acknowledges this prejudice.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        102·
        2 months ago

        Iranians and Slavs are both Indo-European, which is almost what I wrote. And literally after googling ElectroBoom’s accent/nationality

    • dmalteseknight@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Well it has to do with culture/educational systems.

      For example in Japan they still teach the abacus(soroban) as they see it helps visualise calculations which makes mental mathematics easier.

      On the flip side Japan barely teaches spoken english and focuses mostly on written tests. So the typical japanese person can read/write english but can barely form an english sentence when speaking.

    • Ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      I feel called out by the electrical engineering part, I did tinker with electrical stuff ever since I was a kid and know a ton of shit about it >!(Also explains why I suck at programming but that’s not the point)!<

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Indian man on YouTube put me through college 10-14 years ago. He’s a real one.

    It wasn’t that my instructors were discouraging me or anything. Indian man just has a way of explaining things.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      212·
      2 months ago

      I tried so hard to listen but the accents are too thick sometimes. You should get a certificate for being able to understand after all that.

        • penquin@lemm.ee
          3·
          2 months ago

          I laughed so hard at this 😂 I grew up amongst Indians and I know every word they say. This made me laugh.

        • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          My first job taught me to understand Indian accents, and my second taught me the tiny differences between Mexican and Castilian Spanish

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    When I was young we had a Smith-Corona PC. It was like a suitcase.

    Anyway, I had two things I could learn from - Lotus 1-2-3 and Leisure Suit Larry.

    I didn’t learn spreadsheets.

    Edit: add pic of Primitive portable PC preceding Passionate Patty’s play.

  • TotalSonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Nearly every time I’ve needed to learn how to get around an issue in flashing a custom ROM onto an Android device, it’s been South Asian YouTubers’ tutorials that saved the day.

    • Persen@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      What issues can you have. I have never had any problems with flashing roms to phones.

      • TotalSonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Well, that’s nice that you’ve never had problems. But issues I’ve seen over the years, range from not having certain functions working after the flash (generally needed specific firmware upgrades prior to the flash), not having the device recognized by the PC without additional steps, needing specific custom recoveries, bootloops, being stuck on splash screen, needing extra steps to unlock the bootloader (e.g. Xiaomi), not being able to easily downgrade Android version (sometimes needed as a first step prior to installing alternate OS’s like Ubunu Touch), even soft bricking. Plus, in learning how to flash custom ROM’s in the first place, guess who provided me with the info on how to do it.

        • Persen@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I guess I was lucky with my mi 11 lite, but i wasn’t lucky with the hardware working. Well the 2017 redmi is way better anyway.