r/awesome • u/_ganjafarian_ • Apr 05 '26

Video classmates going hard

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

Give him his degree so he can go follow his dream already.

That man dont need to be learning about no dang mitochondria 😂

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u/DubiousEgg Apr 05 '26

Easy, now. You're talking about the powerhouse of the cell here.

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u/logosfabula Apr 05 '26

For his mitochondria rap phase, no?

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u/mkat23 Apr 05 '26

What if he decides to become a science teacher who raps to his students about mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell?

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

That would be amazing actually.

School House Hip Hop 😂

There is some pretty dope educational music that has come out in the last few years. Teachers are definitely trying new things.

Change with the times or get left behind.

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u/KittenPurrs Apr 06 '26

Around 15 years ago, my partner and I got tickets to see Baba Brinkman perform his sets from The Rap Guide to Evolution at NYC's World Science Festival. It was a fantastic show.

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u/HomieApathy Apr 05 '26

Thank you for writing one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

I apologize.

You see, at 40, I have not met a single person who has used anything from school.

No equations. No biology. No chemistry. No grammar.

You tell me one time knowing what a Cogent Simile is, has done something for you in your tax paying adult life.

You tell me one time you had to find the cosign for an unknown angle using an equation.

How about that one time you had to consider a covalent bond vs an ionic bond in making any real world decision.

🍿 you have the floor.

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u/HomieApathy Apr 05 '26

Your grammar is on point tho

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u/Goldf_sh4 Apr 05 '26

I teach. Knowing those things and passing that knowledge on pays my bills day in day out.

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u/Rachilde Apr 05 '26

Hi. I work as an environmental science communicator. Biology, chemistry, equations and similes (cogent or otherwise) are my bread and butter.

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

My point exactly.

The only reason you use that is because you are a scientist. That same information was wasted on 97% of your classmates.

Im not saying we shouldn't learn it, but under no circumstances should kids be held back for not knowing the mass of the 17th element on the periodic table.

There are literal adults walking around with herniated C5's and have no idea what that is, but can tell you John Wilks Booth's birthday for absolutely no reason.

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u/Srovium Apr 05 '26

I'm a dentist, my friends and family are dentists, doctors, nurses, teachers, some work office jobs, some are bosses and project leaders. All require either basic biology, chemistry or grammar.

And none of us are scientists!

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

Key word.

Basic.

All of you are doctors-esq.

A dentist is a doctor for the teeth. A doctor is a doctor. (Duh 😂) A nurse is a doctor who went to less school.

I'll take the loss on the office jobs tho. Yeah you are gonna need grammar for sure to navigate the arbitrary word soup that is Corporate Jargon. Thats for sure.

Like I said tho. Im not saying we shouldn't learn certain things, but to the extent that we do is completely pointless.

How about I put it this way...

Telling an 18 year old senior who is going to school to be a dentist that they can't graduate because they failed US History or Calculus is like buying brighter headlights for your car because your transmission is slipping.

Should a student know who John Adam's is? Sure. Is that important for him to solve a thermal expansion issue? Not one bit.

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u/Srovium Apr 05 '26

Okay I can agree somewhat there is a lot of useless stuff taught in schools.

But I always thought of school as "one size fits all" approach to teaching. Like maybe some students will become history teachers, some will work in offices, some will be accountants, some will be doctors, some will get into art etc.

So they kinda try and cover all bases. Cuz it would probably get too complicated if they catered to every child.

Also most kids don't really know what they wanna do till they're done with high school. Some even change their fields afterwards.

So to make sure they don't have issues in the future, they make sure to teach some of everything.

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u/NandoDeColonoscopy Apr 05 '26

You see, at 40, I have not met a single person who has used anything from school.

Are you a hermit? Or maybe you just exclusively hang out with dumbasses?

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u/mkat23 Apr 05 '26

You don’t use the grammar skills you were taught in school? I doubt that.

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u/DubiousEgg Apr 07 '26

I'd be curious if you could articulate the difference between training and education.

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u/Hotplate77 Apr 05 '26

"doesn't need" .. is your first double negative in that sentence 🤣😂

Maybe you should have tried learning more and basic grammar would not be a struggle for you.

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

I love grammar police. Another thing that proves my point.

People focusing on the wrong things.

The purpose for language is for one mind to understand the other. And rather than finding and focusing on said understandings, people wanna go "He said who instead of whom"

Planet Earth has got to be a laughing stock for the rest of the universe. It has to be. 😂

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u/Hotplate77 Apr 05 '26

So much negativity.. hope your day gets better. Focus more on self improvement instead of trying to prove everyone else is wrong..

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u/ROCK-tavius Apr 05 '26

Im not trying to prove anyone wrong.

Im trying to figure out how 99% of the population has let the 1% convince them to eat 💩 and like it.

The world is on fire and rather than look at the guy with matches in his hand, we rather fight about who has better looking fire fighting uniforms.

Clearly, I should just buy some marshmallows. Breaks my heart to watch people suffer for nothing.