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Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills
PeterAitch writes "According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)." The class is taught by a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
"According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into ..... a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
I flirt with that hot female blood elf on WoW, you insensitive clod!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Don't start conversations by shouting "first post" after someone mentions a subject.
Each week the nerds will be tested on a combination of technical ability and geek trivia to win immunity to the social challenge. The loser of the challenge will have to leave the show to the bellow of Ogre from "Revenge of the Nerds."
According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into ... a superficial model, who will ... love ... the end ... after realizing that he is ... inside.
he is beautiful on the inside.
... And he has the X-Rays to prove it.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
> ...how to write flirtatious text messages and emails...
And get arrested for sexual harrassment.
> ...impress people at parties...
"Impressive! I bet he took courses in being a boor!"
> ...and cope with rejection(s)...
Sulking works fine. Go away and leave me alone.
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Though on the other hand I've never got myself a carrier since I've been looking for love & friendship instead but never found any...
It sounds like a modem problem to me.
I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
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I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
Shut up, kidspeak is a legitimate dialect, just like ebonics and legalese. /satire
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Ignoring the women and pretending you're sexually ambiguous or gay".
Wear the french-style beret, the artsy-fartsy turtleneck, always be polite and quiet ... and you won't be able to beat them off with a stick.
In other words, maybe the Mac Fanbois are on to something ...
Kevin Smith on Prince
(that's not to say there aren't a fair share IN those cities, but the ratio is far higher in what is colloquially referred to as "middle america".
Yes, Kansas City is well known for the percentage of its residents in therapy and the percentage of low-income employees who are really performers and just doing this to make ends meet.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
As a public-school kid with an IQ of 165 and who was reading at a college level at age 9, I'll give you a hearty fuck-you on your "pity". I spoke with an adult's capacity of vocabulary about then. And it caused scorn and ridicule. And unlike the stunted homeschoolers I've met (every single one of them--something like half a dozen who came into my high school throughout the years I was there, plus a few more here at college), I learned and grew from those experiences.
As for "favoring" private or Ivy universities: I got into Cornell and Harvard for my undergraduate degree and chose not to go because I didn't have the money (though I'll be applying again as a grad student). I'd suggest that many homeschoolers have parents that can afford those schools, or are on the opposite end of the spectrum where their parents are poor enough/one-moderate-income enough to have the bills covered. The incomes are probably skewed to the minima and maxima when it comes to homeschoolers, I'd guess.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
More to the point, the rest of this subthread is worthless without .torrents.
Without going into too much detail, it paid off
Sounds like someone's been talking to their lawyer. I'm guessing you either became a drug dealer or started tapping some underage ass. Either way, good for you.
The more interesting question would be if she feels there is any relation between playing a poorly drawn character in a poorly plotted Star Trek series and her eventualy speaking out about said Republican politician's more questionable activities, effectively putting the nail in said Republican's Senate campaign, leading to the election of his Democratic opponent, who would then use said Senate seat as a launching pad to a successful presidential run.
In other words, would she agree with the statement that Star Trek was, through a long an complicated chain of events, the ultimate cause of Obama's presidency?
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Sometimes the best skill is knowing when to shut up.
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