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I'm taking an accounting class and the professor says we need a financial calculator for an upcoming project that we will do at home. She says its okay if we download an app for it. Little Suzy Snowflake over here complains that it isn't very academic to be using a phone in place of the real thing. The professor tells her that we won't be using it in class or anything like that but it is too late, Suzy is already offended!
Arrived to class today to find out that we will need to buy a financial calculator. The professor tells us that the business dean has notified her that using an app is unprofessional and unacademic. The calculator is an extra $50 on top of the program we had to purchae which was already at a whopping $140. Fuck you little Suzy!
filben7
You are an adult, do what ever you want anyway. These school program bullshit stops having meaning after highschool,you can do what you want
ZaDoo22
Can you just buy the app and use it anyway? If they give you shit for it maybe you now that would be your chance to give your opinion.
Bla13d
She probably already bought one
Ilikestyx
When you go into an exam and you're only allowed to bring a calculator, how are you going to use your cell phone app?
RavioliRavioliEndMyExistenceoli
Rally the other students, get them to change it back.
kilo38
Remedial fiscal responsibility for everyone
WolfKnifeLaserBacon
Quit being passive aggressive tell the bitch off.
kilo38
Remedial fiscal responsibility for everyone
BlakeMP
As a teacher, we all hate this kid just as much as you do.
Betanaut
If you never use it in class, how will anyone know you just used the app?
Steelwind
What the fuck is unprofessional about using something that does the job?
Riese89
Sounds like it's time for a sock party, teach little Suzy to stop being a fucking cunt.
Lamech777
jamandtoast
Either the school gets a kickback or they have a contract with the calculator company.
LokeGroundrunner
Outdated leaders propose outdated solutions
JosephVissarionovichStalin
Suzy is in an economics class for a reason. Suzy is not economically adept. Don't be like Suzy.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Haha, unprofessional to use software instead? If I used a fin-calc at work, I'd be fired.
thedonnerparty
I hate people that do that. More so if it's suzys parents just buying her it anyway. But seems like you could just use the app on the dl.
Janglz
Berate and ridicule suzy into the ground every time you see them...
mehimbored
Have everyone just glare at her the whole time every day in class. Get the teacher to have just a class where you glare at her, no work.
FlintstonesChewableMorphine
Also constantly say "they should make an app that does this"
MathiasTolerain
I'm surprised they don't have you use Excel or some more specialized accounting tool.
Duckfan91
Maybe because other info can be stored or accessed on a small handheld computer attached to the internet.
moldboy
For take home assignments I tended to use my foll sized feature rich computer. (I also went through school before everyone had iphones)
Duckfan91
Ditto
manicsparkle
I'm an adjunct instructor. I encourage my students to use any resources available. They are assessed on quality of thought, not memorization
manicsparkle
I also allow "one minute google breaks" if they don't understand something I'm lecturing on. THEY find the answer, often with their phones.
DontLookAtMeIJustWorkHere
I can see the merits of her argument. Where she fucked up was dragging everyone else into it.
hilhas1
I'm having a hard time believing a calc app would be seen as unprofessional in 2017. (Source: I'm a grownup professional)
trbobrk
I've been told I must use the 10 key on my desk to check our math adds correctly. One guy used his phone; he no longer works for the firm.
IAmArthurKingOfTheBritains
Go Speak with the Dean. Better yet Have you upset Parent go speak with the dean.
moldboy
NEVER have your upset parent speak to the dean. You are supposed to be an adult.
IAmArthurKingOfTheBritains
Unless you're an adult student No one in college is actually an adult nor will they be buying that calculator with their own money.
nexunus
Just use the app anyway. I'm not gonna buy a$50 calculator for one class.
HansImaginationStar
I used to have a eur 20 calc for entire highschool. Nowadays the required ones are 120 and they change each 2-3 years. /1
HansImaginationStar
So parents find themselves buying new ones for their second/ third kid for the same classes over and over
ScuseMeWhileIWhipThisOut
Make Suzy buy them all.
blahblahthis7
it's not suzy. your prof. is getting a kickback......
NuclearButtPlugFromPlanetX
Plot twist: Suzy isn't even enrolled in the class. She randomly dropped in to fuck shit up.
RxPro
Let me just say that Suzy ain't paying for shit. Daddy's credit card might be but no one who works for their money would do that
MisterHead
Because the dean is probably a relic and thinks apps are for children.
halfofyouaredumberthantherest
Professional exams like the CPA and CFA you can only use a financial calculator, it's better to get used to using the real thing early on.
capricornstunner
NotAnIroningBoard
Just like "you'll never have a calculator in your pocket all the time" sometimes people need to embrace the change.
chloramphenicolderivative
Allowing phones in exams, makes detecting cheating pretty hard.
Jophis
I'm a CPA and we can't use a financial calculator on the test. Only the four function calculator built into the test computer.
bamcockseverywhere
Ouch, guessing no orders of operations either
Jophis
It's nice actually. They keep the math simple and focus on the principles and/or laws.
cobrapup
Next time make sure little Suzy is dressed professional or ask her to leave the clase for being an unprofessional distraction.
ILikeToBowl
There's the problem with "academics". In the real world, it's about getting the job done as efficiently and for the least cost
megagreg
Which is why professionals don't dick around, and just get the right tool for the job, before the substitute tool creates more problems.
MouseTheFooDog
VP at gf's law firm takes no e-communications of any kind. Only deals with paper and he mails responses, including to out-of-state offices
MouseTheFooDog
That has to do with people in authority, not the field (academic or otherwise). Many execs have ludicrously out-of-touch requirements
kofoed
This. Too often education is misleading. Been there myself! Good grades, totally useless at the job xD..
burgerandy
I've worked enough jobs to know that ain't always the case. Some people are happy feeding that money pit. 'Cause ego > logic
forsale90
As an academic: Nobody f***ing cares. Getting sth done in a certain way is the opposite of academic freedom. You have the find your way.
cheeseguy3412
As someone in the business world, shit is held together with dried shit, paperclips, twine, rubber bands and whining. Sometimes staples.
LivingInYourIntestines
I'm a doctor and I use apps all the time for everything. Anything to make care more efficient and better for the patient.
robotzombies
True in some fields, not in others, and often dependent on the individual rendering the goods/services.
korvazor
I'm in an engineering class and my instructor wants us to do all our math by hand, no calculator.. he thinks they make us lazy..
Thehonesttwooth
Had a teacher do this for the first half of the semester to make sure we knew the math. Then we could use whatever
NixonDidNothingWrong
If you aren't using it in class what difference does it make? Just use thea pp.
jtb1313
Yea I love using my pp
omgitsadamz
Heh, pp.
CraftmaticAdjustibleBed
Yeah, this story smells like bullshit
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
Or just a really stupid finance major.
lcreppel
I didn't even buy books for most my classes
wouldstilldoit
That's what I said
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
Like he's saying just don't buy the calculator. How is the prof gonna know which one you used?
rokkerboyy
The teacher is not going to come into your dorm and make sure you are using one.
HessianGhost
No, he means don't buy the calculator and just use the app instead. Who would even know?
ilsalta
Suzy, apparently.
vampyrita
I had professors who literally checked to make sure you'd bought a white two- inch three ring binder, college ruled paper,and highlighters.
vampyrita
You would lose a letter grade if you weren't prepared by the second time the class met. She was a cuuuunt.
sendmeyourbriskets
IDK why your comment got down-voted. Is it that hard to believe? Teachers/professors go on power trips all the time.
bigbootybigfoot
Was she an ugly 6'2 blonde with dutch boy hair?
weliveinaspaceshipdear
In COLLEGE?!
jarjarbinkswasthebestcharacterinstarwars
Can they do that? That sounds like bullshit
Spikelf
Well they can make you buy a book they wrote so I would say so. BS
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
As long as it's outlined in the syllabus that it is a requirement of the class, the prof can set any rule really. You need a to bring a frog
jarjarbinkswasthebestcharacterinstarwars
I'm sure you could bring it to someone higher up though and get your deserved grade over something ridiculous like that
vampyrita
She had tenure, she could do whatever the fuck she wanted.
jarjarbinkswasthebestcharacterinstarwars
Tenure doesn't mean invincibility,if they break college rules they can still be fired and lowering your grade for no reason is bullshit
sweetfeetpete
Meanwhile, I bought old editions of textbooks for like 5 bucks
vampyrita
In my major, you were lucky if you could find the current version, let alone an old one.
DavidBrooker
The syllabus for the course I'm teaching now has a handy little chart for chapter changes between editions.
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
Wow. I never saw that in any textbook I had. Would've been great as it's hard to do hw when I'm assigned pages 10-20 and really they're 5-9