As a BSc with a major in biology - I want her out of the fraternity! Honest to god. She's not worthy of the white lab coat.
I don't know how it is elsewhere with science, but where I studied? if you could not write a coherent essay (with proper punctuation and references) then there was a good chance you would fail the course and have to repeat. And scientific essays are a tough beast to write - you have to be coherent, pursuasive, intelligent and get all your research across in a succinct manner. You have no real room to waffle on and dance about the point - you make your point, you back it up, you move on. It's taught me how to write with brutal efficiency. Also, I pwn at essay writing.
Other disciplines aren't quite so tough on essay writing - I know in psychology you could get away with fudging a bunch of stuff so long as you had evidence to back up your opinion.
And for creative writing (yes, I did that too!) - that was the class I slept through and got high distinctions. Mostly because A) I'd learned how to write the Essays of Doom, B) can do it without excess fluff, and C) know thy punctuation and spelling.
Every time I read about how she/Merita have a biology degree, I imagine her saying it in a Ralph Wiggum voice. "I'm a scientist!"
No, lady, you're not. You're an embarrassment to the sisterhood. It's hard enough to be a woman that studies science, and it's people like you that give us all a bad wrap. Get off my fucking island. Now.
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I don't know how it is elsewhere with science, but where I studied? if you could not write a coherent essay (with proper punctuation and references) then there was a good chance you would fail the course and have to repeat. And scientific essays are a tough beast to write - you have to be coherent, pursuasive, intelligent and get all your research across in a succinct manner. You have no real room to waffle on and dance about the point - you make your point, you back it up, you move on. It's taught me how to write with brutal efficiency. Also, I pwn at essay writing.
Other disciplines aren't quite so tough on essay writing - I know in psychology you could get away with fudging a bunch of stuff so long as you had evidence to back up your opinion.
And for creative writing (yes, I did that too!) - that was the class I slept through and got high distinctions. Mostly because A) I'd learned how to write the Essays of Doom, B) can do it without excess fluff, and C) know thy punctuation and spelling.
Every time I read about how she/Merita have a biology degree, I imagine her saying it in a Ralph Wiggum voice. "I'm a scientist!"
No, lady, you're not. You're an embarrassment to the sisterhood. It's hard enough to be a woman that studies science, and it's people like you that give us all a bad wrap. Get off my fucking island. Now.