@Leibowitz Oh yeah, I can see how crazy it'd be to deal with students and their grades. I've also heard many teachers complain about dealing with parents of students in those cases. X_X
I'm in high school so I don't have college problems yet, but what I hate about school for me is homework over the holiday break. In my school we don't have finals/midterms or anything half way through the year so it isn't like we have a million tests but no homework. We still have a million tests, but combined with tests AFTER break (yes I have a friggin physics test the first day back at school) and projects and regular homework and we only get a week and 1 day off for the holidays >:(
@Aravis17 *shakes head* I don't know what professors expect you to get out of group projects. It seems like no matter how the group is made up there's bound to be more complications than it's worth.
@viprofferi Yeah, they're pretty legit prosthetics. Most of the time people can't even tell. As to the questions about my degree and such, someone else has asked me this as well, and I'll be covering it in the Question Tuesday video. :)
I'm a senior in high school who just got deferred from her ED school so I have to write like 4 essays for various college supplements in not-all-that-much time, so this is kind of disheartening because it seems like it'll just be annoying once I get there. Oh well. I'm doing it anyway!
@tammytamnov Do not let this darken your perspective of college! There honestly were lots of really awesome things about it. I'm actually planning a video like this one for the things I DO miss about school, too. :)
1 to 7 and 10 I can relate. It doesnt snow where I live (sadly) and I can´t drive so I have to get the bus. Which means:Getting up around an hour earlier that I would if I knew how to drive.
And the worst part is I still have 3 years of this ahead of me....
One more thing to hate about university/college: Those courses/classes that are completely unrelated to your profession,but are in the curriculum so have to take them anyway.
I´m studying psychology and I had statistics last semester.Yeah...
@ianswertobob Ok,the american education system confuses me a bit,What exactly are mayors and minors? In my country with have what would be bachelor degree(licenciatura), then postgraduate,followed by the master degree and finally doctorates.
@marus815 Majors and minors are just the areas where you've focused your studies. So I have a bachelor's degree in English, meaning I majored in English. Minoring in something is optional with most degrees, and it just means an additional subject you chose to study. Psychology is my minor, meaning I took at least 9 classes in it. Requirements for majors and minors vary with different subjects and different universities. I don't know whether this clarifies or just complicates. XD
All of these are so beautiful and true. Also! I had a whole class this semester where one of our assignments was to make fun of the typical, uninspired argumentative essay. 'Twas good!
@emmfan09 I had a class like that, too! It was my absolute favorite class of all time, and our professor was FANTASTIC. I miss him and that class more than anything else pertaining to my education all the way from preschool to university graduation! <3
I definitely second your comment about finals week. Getting little to no sleep, plus huge projects and essay due dates all crammed into 1-2 weeks time. Ugh. However, I did enjoy the sense of being part of it? Like, spending the whole night in a study room in the library somehow felt like the cool thing to do....Maybe that's just me xD
@kaylasturner Nope--I know exactly what you mean! There's a certain camaraderie in it. I felt the same way about having a really awful professor--the whole class bonds over the shared misfortune. XD
#5 was classic. I remember all too well a young intelligent female who thought they were always right and we loved it in class when she would say something and have everyone tear apart her logic, thus showing how not correct she really was.
i agree with all of those. except the parking one, there are hardly any students in the Netherlands who have a car. everyone's always on bikes ;)
i don't like that professors seem to think that their course is the only one i'm taking and all assign enormous amounts of reading.
And (all my classes are in English, many of the professors are Dutch) the sometimes awful English the professors speak. sometimes it's funny when they mean something different than what they say, often it's just annoying
@zaielle That sounds as if it would be entertaining sometimes! XD And I think the bike thing is awesome. Here it would not be practical for everyone to just be on bikes on campus because northern Utah is so snowy/icy/FREEZING.
I didn't have to pay for my college education but thats all about to change (just found out my masters wouldnt be free whaaa ;P) In my final year and I hate it right now but I know I'll miss it when I leave, yet another year where I wasted from not letting myself enjoy it as much as I can. I find it strange how over there you call college or university school, how does it go from being high school down to just school :~)
@IncidentalShine Haha--we just call anything pertaining to our education "school", really. Any institution of learning from the time we're three to getting a Ph.d. can be described as simply "school" if we're feeling lazy. In what country do you live?
@ianswertobob Ireland, yeah started college in 2008 so its taken a few years for the cuts to come in, still ridiculous that it was free for me and can cost someone else 100k
Tuition and books and stuff. Hands down the WORST part of my college experience.
As for your #10, as your "Quotes from Professors" series proved, sometimes the funniest quotes from classes are because of the strange/stupid professors.
@feitocomfruta I wish education could be more affordable. I graduated debt-free, but I know so many people who have TONS of student loans that will take forever to pay off.
Most of the "My Professors" quotes actually came from the professors I really liked for their quirkiness, but a few of them came from two particularly silly ones who had no idea what they were doing.
Yup you summed it up nicely. I felt that the teachers who didn't act like they knew everything taught me the most. They allowed for the students to come up with ideas and possible theories. Just because we don't have a phd doesn't mean we don't have good ideas. Oh under grad I don't really miss you that much (except for Shakespeare class, I want to finish analyzing all the plays).
@AlleyWater YES! I agree with you absolutely about the good teachers. The best teacher I ever had used simple language, was very humble, and left most of the conversation up to the students; he's probably the smartest person I've ever actually known, yet he constantly undermined his own intelligence and told US that WE were brilliant. I miss his class so much--that man taught me A LOT.
Oh gosh, I HATE group projects! Education is a dog eat dog world, why should the people who actually care need to drag everyone else with them? Also, general "busy" homework sucks. First, I learn nothing from doing that work at home, and second, in one class this year homework is graded, in any other class it would just be practice, but not this time. -.-
The biggest thing I hate about school is how from midterms onward the entire soul of the student body is stripped from them to prepare term projects and study on finals. Everyone gets so boring...
@toddgreener This is very true. And spending several months with boring people while briefly turning into a boring person yourself is a torture not fit to be endured.
Yeah, that thing about writing papers tailored to the opinions of professors... that's me right now. I'm currently writing a paper on the Catholic discipline of celibacy for a very Protestant, very anti-Catholic, and shockingly stupid professor of mine. OH, yeah; I'm DEFINATELY tailoring that one...
Dude. I hated group projects so much. One time, one of my partners didn't show up on the day of our presentation. But I put together her part of the presentation (because she was the worst) so I just did her part of the presentation too. I definitely don't miss that at all.
I hate it when a professor in a discussion course shoves their own ideas down your throat all semester and then writes a final with questions they have specifically picked and worded so that you can only regurgitate their opinions back at them. This is not real learning and it is elitism at its worst. I hate it when a professor talks down to a class or makes you feel that they are infinitely and irreversibly better than you because they have a two letter abbreviation in front of their name.
number 5 there is a girl in my class who today raised her hand and asked the teacher if she could make an anouncement to the class this bg thing she had to share was "Im not Jewish!" my half of the room all muttered "discriminater"
@hangover844 Bwahaha. Those classmates are so awful. In a weird way I almost miss them sometimes because some of the things they said/did were so ridiculous.
For some reason, tests always seem to sneak up on me and I end up pulling an all nighter to cram for said test.
The number one thing I hate about college? Finals week. Although I'm probably just saying that because it is finals week...If it weren't, I'd probably say presentations/debates...unless you have one of those professors who don't really care and would just let you read straight off of your notecards...
@Monobueno18 Agh. I forgot about oral presentations--probably because I've attempted to erase them from my memory for all time. They've never been a pleasant experience for me unless I have the option to make a video for them instead of actually standing in front of the class talking.
@crimsong19 I'll answer your questions in the Question Tuesday video! :)
I bought a lot of my books online as well, but sometimes they were STILL really expensive. You can't really win with a brand new edition of a textbook since there are no used ones. UGH.
I've had some finals weeks that were much worse than others--my problem is usually procrastinating on final papers and then having to write several 10-20pagers over the span of two or three days.
@ianswertobob Eeeeeech. I'm finishing up a 15 page (well, 15 is a goal) due later today and I'm just about at 11. I can probably get it to 11 and a bit over or thereabouts, which should still be good. Bumping it from 7 and a little over in the rough draft up to 11 and a little over or thereabouts should still be good. And there's the 5 page that I have to finish up for later too. XD XP
@SpinDashpro YESSSSS. Preach. It's awful when you have several of those teachers all at the same time. And they always have huge things due on the same days or in the same week.
I learned quickly that I don't need my textbooks unless the homework problems assigned are in the textbook. Earlier this week I realized that I had a textbook that I completely forgot I had bought.
@unquestionablelogic That's the worst! I've definitely had that happen before, too. It's so frustrating when you've paid between $50 and $100 for a book that you don't end up using, particularly when it's one you have a really hard time selling after the course is over. >_<
1) Forgetting your meal card and not having time to go back and get it so you starve. 2) Having common bathrooms in dorms and trying to time your poops when no one is in there. 3) Racing against the entire school at the same time to register for classes online. 4) Having that one class on the complete other side of campus. 5) Walking to said class in the dead of winter. 6) Being broke. 7) That class where you swear the teacher doesn't like you but your friends say you're crazy.
@evmoneyTV As always, Ev, your comment is golden, and I laughed out loud the first time I read it. I can relate with most of these.
I had so many of those classes where I could just *tell* the teacher resented my being in his/her class. It always drove me nuts and made me feel self-conscious every time I made a comment in class or passed those teachers in the hallways.
my biggest complaint about school was that you weren't in it!
... actually I would say it was having to take classes for things I will never have to use again... that and the fact that the only recreational activity Penn College students take part in is drowning in alcohol.
@ckXcore Aw, Cody! It's so good to see your username online again. :)
I hear ya on the unnecessary classes thing. There were quite a few generals I had to take that were absolutely useless. That sucks about the drinking. When your friends are a bunch of English majors in Utah recreational activities include speaking in bad English accents and watching film adaptations of classic novels or Shakespeare plays. XD #PartyinHardLOL
@WhatTravisSays You caught me--I taped this yesterday, planning on posting it this morning... then I just posted it as soon as I finished editing it instead. "Eh, probably no one will notice that I say 'today' when I mean 'tomorrow'." WRONG. TRAVIS NOTICED.
1) Students who are loud and obnoxious to get more attention
2) Getting up early
3) Students who think they deserve a way better grade than they actually do
4) Never having no work!
As a teacher, my work is never finished. There is always something more i could do, prepare lessons better, organize projects, correct homework...
I have to stop at some point and try to be content with what i did, but there always is that nagging feeling that i should have done more...
Leibowitz 2 months ago
@Leibowitz Oh yeah, I can see how crazy it'd be to deal with students and their grades. I've also heard many teachers complain about dealing with parents of students in those cases. X_X
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I'm in high school so I don't have college problems yet, but what I hate about school for me is homework over the holiday break. In my school we don't have finals/midterms or anything half way through the year so it isn't like we have a million tests but no homework. We still have a million tests, but combined with tests AFTER break (yes I have a friggin physics test the first day back at school) and projects and regular homework and we only get a week and 1 day off for the holidays >:(
llamaindisguise 2 months ago
@llamaindisguise DANG IT! That does suck. :( I hope you still get to enjoy most of your break! <3
ianswertobob 2 months ago
#10 = my philosophy professor. Thank God that's over.
And I totally agree with the group project thing. Without fail, I always end up doing all the work.
Aravis17 2 months ago
@Aravis17 *shakes head* I don't know what professors expect you to get out of group projects. It seems like no matter how the group is made up there's bound to be more complications than it's worth.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
gr8 fitting prosthetics, must have paid a fortune for them ;D congratulations on your graduation, what will you do next.? Lit degree was it?
viprofferi 2 months ago
@viprofferi Yeah, they're pretty legit prosthetics. Most of the time people can't even tell. As to the questions about my degree and such, someone else has asked me this as well, and I'll be covering it in the Question Tuesday video. :)
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Best quote from Intro to English major (pre-1500 term) from, let's say, an elder classmate: "Does this have anything to do with the subliiiiiiime?"
froregon 2 months ago
@froregon Hehehehe. Sounds like one of those classic discussion moments that everyone still remembers at the end of the semester.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I'm a senior in high school who just got deferred from her ED school so I have to write like 4 essays for various college supplements in not-all-that-much time, so this is kind of disheartening because it seems like it'll just be annoying once I get there. Oh well. I'm doing it anyway!
tammytamnov 2 months ago
@tammytamnov Do not let this darken your perspective of college! There honestly were lots of really awesome things about it. I'm actually planning a video like this one for the things I DO miss about school, too. :)
ianswertobob 2 months ago
1 to 7 and 10 I can relate. It doesnt snow where I live (sadly) and I can´t drive so I have to get the bus. Which means:Getting up around an hour earlier that I would if I knew how to drive.
And the worst part is I still have 3 years of this ahead of me....
One more thing to hate about university/college: Those courses/classes that are completely unrelated to your profession,but are in the curriculum so have to take them anyway.
I´m studying psychology and I had statistics last semester.Yeah...
marus815 2 months ago
@marus815 Yeah, those pointless generals do suck. I actually minored in Psych, so I have had to take my fair share of stats classes as well. 0_o
ianswertobob 2 months ago
@ianswertobob Ok,the american education system confuses me a bit,What exactly are mayors and minors? In my country with have what would be bachelor degree(licenciatura), then postgraduate,followed by the master degree and finally doctorates.
marus815 2 months ago
@marus815 Majors and minors are just the areas where you've focused your studies. So I have a bachelor's degree in English, meaning I majored in English. Minoring in something is optional with most degrees, and it just means an additional subject you chose to study. Psychology is my minor, meaning I took at least 9 classes in it. Requirements for majors and minors vary with different subjects and different universities. I don't know whether this clarifies or just complicates. XD
ianswertobob 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@ianswertobob hahaha no,it helped,thanks!!!
marus815 2 months ago
All of these are so beautiful and true. Also! I had a whole class this semester where one of our assignments was to make fun of the typical, uninspired argumentative essay. 'Twas good!
emmfan09 2 months ago
@emmfan09 I had a class like that, too! It was my absolute favorite class of all time, and our professor was FANTASTIC. I miss him and that class more than anything else pertaining to my education all the way from preschool to university graduation! <3
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I definitely second your comment about finals week. Getting little to no sleep, plus huge projects and essay due dates all crammed into 1-2 weeks time. Ugh. However, I did enjoy the sense of being part of it? Like, spending the whole night in a study room in the library somehow felt like the cool thing to do....Maybe that's just me xD
kaylasturner 2 months ago
@kaylasturner Nope--I know exactly what you mean! There's a certain camaraderie in it. I felt the same way about having a really awful professor--the whole class bonds over the shared misfortune. XD
ianswertobob 2 months ago
#5 was classic. I remember all too well a young intelligent female who thought they were always right and we loved it in class when she would say something and have everyone tear apart her logic, thus showing how not correct she really was.
drifter01z 2 months ago
@drifter01z Haha! That's always a beautiful moment. XD
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Why are you so adorable? Answer that!
tetsubo57 2 months ago
@tetsubo57 *smirks* *shrugs*
ianswertobob 2 months ago
i agree with all of those. except the parking one, there are hardly any students in the Netherlands who have a car. everyone's always on bikes ;)
i don't like that professors seem to think that their course is the only one i'm taking and all assign enormous amounts of reading.
And (all my classes are in English, many of the professors are Dutch) the sometimes awful English the professors speak. sometimes it's funny when they mean something different than what they say, often it's just annoying
zaielle 2 months ago
@zaielle That sounds as if it would be entertaining sometimes! XD And I think the bike thing is awesome. Here it would not be practical for everyone to just be on bikes on campus because northern Utah is so snowy/icy/FREEZING.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I didn't have to pay for my college education but thats all about to change (just found out my masters wouldnt be free whaaa ;P) In my final year and I hate it right now but I know I'll miss it when I leave, yet another year where I wasted from not letting myself enjoy it as much as I can. I find it strange how over there you call college or university school, how does it go from being high school down to just school :~)
IncidentalShine 2 months ago
@IncidentalShine Haha--we just call anything pertaining to our education "school", really. Any institution of learning from the time we're three to getting a Ph.d. can be described as simply "school" if we're feeling lazy. In what country do you live?
ianswertobob 2 months ago
@ianswertobob Ireland, yeah started college in 2008 so its taken a few years for the cuts to come in, still ridiculous that it was free for me and can cost someone else 100k
IncidentalShine 2 months ago
Tuition and books and stuff. Hands down the WORST part of my college experience.
As for your #10, as your "Quotes from Professors" series proved, sometimes the funniest quotes from classes are because of the strange/stupid professors.
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@feitocomfruta I wish education could be more affordable. I graduated debt-free, but I know so many people who have TONS of student loans that will take forever to pay off.
Most of the "My Professors" quotes actually came from the professors I really liked for their quirkiness, but a few of them came from two particularly silly ones who had no idea what they were doing.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Yup you summed it up nicely. I felt that the teachers who didn't act like they knew everything taught me the most. They allowed for the students to come up with ideas and possible theories. Just because we don't have a phd doesn't mean we don't have good ideas. Oh under grad I don't really miss you that much (except for Shakespeare class, I want to finish analyzing all the plays).
AlleyWater 2 months ago
@AlleyWater YES! I agree with you absolutely about the good teachers. The best teacher I ever had used simple language, was very humble, and left most of the conversation up to the students; he's probably the smartest person I've ever actually known, yet he constantly undermined his own intelligence and told US that WE were brilliant. I miss his class so much--that man taught me A LOT.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Oh gosh, I HATE group projects! Education is a dog eat dog world, why should the people who actually care need to drag everyone else with them? Also, general "busy" homework sucks. First, I learn nothing from doing that work at home, and second, in one class this year homework is graded, in any other class it would just be practice, but not this time. -.-
ntcssj 2 months ago
@ntcssj Oh yeah, busy work. -_- I hate that with an intense passion.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
The biggest thing I hate about school is how from midterms onward the entire soul of the student body is stripped from them to prepare term projects and study on finals. Everyone gets so boring...
toddgreener 2 months ago
@toddgreener This is very true. And spending several months with boring people while briefly turning into a boring person yourself is a torture not fit to be endured.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Yeah, that thing about writing papers tailored to the opinions of professors... that's me right now. I'm currently writing a paper on the Catholic discipline of celibacy for a very Protestant, very anti-Catholic, and shockingly stupid professor of mine. OH, yeah; I'm DEFINATELY tailoring that one...
PolesitterPictures 2 months ago
@PolesitterPictures Hahaha. YEP. Sounds like you'll have to. Worst kind of writing assignments EVER.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
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PolesitterPictures 2 months ago
Dude. I hated group projects so much. One time, one of my partners didn't show up on the day of our presentation. But I put together her part of the presentation (because she was the worst) so I just did her part of the presentation too. I definitely don't miss that at all.
rebexington 2 months ago in playlist More videos from ianswertobob
@rebexington Grr. SOOOOO obnoxious. Did you give her a quick kick to the shins the next time you saw her? Because she deserves that!
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I hate it when a professor in a discussion course shoves their own ideas down your throat all semester and then writes a final with questions they have specifically picked and worded so that you can only regurgitate their opinions back at them. This is not real learning and it is elitism at its worst. I hate it when a professor talks down to a class or makes you feel that they are infinitely and irreversibly better than you because they have a two letter abbreviation in front of their name.
bwink239 2 months ago
@bwink239 YES YES YES. THIS. I could not agree more.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
number 5 there is a girl in my class who today raised her hand and asked the teacher if she could make an anouncement to the class this bg thing she had to share was "Im not Jewish!" my half of the room all muttered "discriminater"
hangover844 2 months ago
@hangover844 Bwahaha. Those classmates are so awful. In a weird way I almost miss them sometimes because some of the things they said/did were so ridiculous.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
For some reason, tests always seem to sneak up on me and I end up pulling an all nighter to cram for said test.
The number one thing I hate about college? Finals week. Although I'm probably just saying that because it is finals week...If it weren't, I'd probably say presentations/debates...unless you have one of those professors who don't really care and would just let you read straight off of your notecards...
Monobueno18 2 months ago
@Monobueno18 Agh. I forgot about oral presentations--probably because I've attempted to erase them from my memory for all time. They've never been a pleasant experience for me unless I have the option to make a video for them instead of actually standing in front of the class talking.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Feel better, Mariah!
What have you been doing in terms of jobs/employment? You majored in English, too, right?
Ugh, overpriced books ... I've mostly used Half.com or used on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Meh, didn't really have too many issues with group projects.
Ugh, finals week ... well, they haven't been too bad, usually.
Oh, I've faced the reading issue this semester ... and I was annotating more.
- Jason
crimsong19 2 months ago
@crimsong19 I'll answer your questions in the Question Tuesday video! :)
I bought a lot of my books online as well, but sometimes they were STILL really expensive. You can't really win with a brand new edition of a textbook since there are no used ones. UGH.
I've had some finals weeks that were much worse than others--my problem is usually procrastinating on final papers and then having to write several 10-20pagers over the span of two or three days.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
@ianswertobob Eeeeeech. I'm finishing up a 15 page (well, 15 is a goal) due later today and I'm just about at 11. I can probably get it to 11 and a bit over or thereabouts, which should still be good. Bumping it from 7 and a little over in the rough draft up to 11 and a little over or thereabouts should still be good. And there's the 5 page that I have to finish up for later too. XD XP
crimsong19 2 months ago
Oh, GOD number 5. There are too many people like that in my school. Except, they don't raise their hand. :/
I also have another one: Teachers that think you spend 90% of your time on their class, not any of your other classes.
SpinDashpro 2 months ago 7
@SpinDashpro YESSSSS. Preach. It's awful when you have several of those teachers all at the same time. And they always have huge things due on the same days or in the same week.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
I learned quickly that I don't need my textbooks unless the homework problems assigned are in the textbook. Earlier this week I realized that I had a textbook that I completely forgot I had bought.
unquestionablelogic 2 months ago
@unquestionablelogic That's the worst! I've definitely had that happen before, too. It's so frustrating when you've paid between $50 and $100 for a book that you don't end up using, particularly when it's one you have a really hard time selling after the course is over. >_<
ianswertobob 2 months ago
1) Forgetting your meal card and not having time to go back and get it so you starve. 2) Having common bathrooms in dorms and trying to time your poops when no one is in there. 3) Racing against the entire school at the same time to register for classes online. 4) Having that one class on the complete other side of campus. 5) Walking to said class in the dead of winter. 6) Being broke. 7) That class where you swear the teacher doesn't like you but your friends say you're crazy.
evmoneyTV 2 months ago 5
@evmoneyTV As always, Ev, your comment is golden, and I laughed out loud the first time I read it. I can relate with most of these.
I had so many of those classes where I could just *tell* the teacher resented my being in his/her class. It always drove me nuts and made me feel self-conscious every time I made a comment in class or passed those teachers in the hallways.
ianswertobob 2 months ago
my biggest complaint about school was that you weren't in it!
... actually I would say it was having to take classes for things I will never have to use again... that and the fact that the only recreational activity Penn College students take part in is drowning in alcohol.
ckXcore 2 months ago
@ckXcore Aw, Cody! It's so good to see your username online again. :)
I hear ya on the unnecessary classes thing. There were quite a few generals I had to take that were absolutely useless. That sucks about the drinking. When your friends are a bunch of English majors in Utah recreational activities include speaking in bad English accents and watching film adaptations of classic novels or Shakespeare plays. XD #PartyinHardLOL
ianswertobob 2 months ago
Why were you planning on posting a Question Tuesday video on a Monday? O.O
Also, I'm watching this to avoid writing papers. So, thanks for that.
WhatTravisSays 2 months ago
@WhatTravisSays I'm watching this to avoid doing your video clips! Actually, I'm just waiting for them to copy to my computer...
ckXcore 2 months ago
@ckXcore I THOUGHT YOU WERE WATCHING THIS TO SEE MY FACE! TRAITOR!
ianswertobob 2 months ago
@WhatTravisSays You caught me--I taped this yesterday, planning on posting it this morning... then I just posted it as soon as I finished editing it instead. "Eh, probably no one will notice that I say 'today' when I mean 'tomorrow'." WRONG. TRAVIS NOTICED.
Hope your paper writing eventually got done!
ianswertobob 2 months ago