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Hot Stott Bot
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| Can't say I've ever had this problem. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:02 pm |
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| dongle: For me it is all about putting myself in a situation where there is lots of outside pressure to make me do what I want. Like I could never do a videogame on my own, I need the pressure of a schedule and a workplace to do that. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:17 am |
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| zak wrote: |
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| zak: In general, college is not what it's cracked up to be. Tends to be fairly useless for anyone who actually wants to live a life. Unfortunately, those little pieces of paper they give you at the end are pretty valuable, not least because colleges have a pretty vested interest in making sure they stay that way. Studying philosophy in a regular school would drive me fucking nuts, but your mileage may vary. I say go for it headfirst. If nothing else, your little piece of paper might enable you to get a job that doesn't require the subway and two busses for shitty pay. (Money doesn't matter much in this life, but it does matter.) |
Well yeah, that what my parents keep saying, that I need to get a degree. And I'm perfectly fine with that; I understand. You need something to fall back on.
The thing is that when something doesn't work you stop (after you've tried it for a while and it just can't seem to make it work), you don't keep going at it. Doing two more years of literature of english would have been a complete waste of time, because the ultimate goal of that college was to turn me into a teacher, so that I could go on and teach kids the same crap I was taught. I learned all sorts of lingustics, ethnology, and various other useless things that I would just forget after the exam. I didn't even have time to work on my writing.
So philosophy is a better choice for me, because it really filters out some of the things I don't really want to waste time learing. Sure, there are useless thing there too, but it's better than literature and english. I've allready met a really cool teacher (we exchanged some books and had drinks), and I'm turning in my application next month. I'm really gonna give it a go.
And about the job thing, I don't really want a real job. I want to make money from my writing, and it may take a while. I don't really have the mental discipline for holding down a real job (I sleep at irregular hours, get easily, etc), and working from nine to five would most surely break me down in a few months. So, since my family can support me, and I have a vague talent for what I want to do, I'm going to try. |
Why don't you get a job in which you write then?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:20 am |
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| shrugtheironteacup wrote: |
I almost went to Saint John's as well. Then they told me I could afford to pay them over $20,000 a year for the privilege. Eventually I stopped attending to the high school that bored me and my grades plummeted and I got a lot of talks about not living up to my potential.
My refusal to go into debt has led in large part to my listless blue collar existence. |
There ain't nothing wrong with going into debt. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:24 am |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
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| When did you graduate? |
Last May.
zak: In general, college is not what it's cracked up to be. Tends to be fairly useless for anyone who actually wants to live a life. Unfortunately, those little pieces of paper they give you at the end are pretty valuable, not least because colleges have a pretty vested interest in making sure they stay that way. Studying philosophy in a regular school would drive me fucking nuts, but your mileage may vary. I say go for it headfirst. If nothing else, your little piece of paper might enable you to get a job that doesn't require the subway and two busses for shitty pay. (Money doesn't matter much in this life, but it does matter.) |
Money is pretty damn awesome, man.
The pursuit of money is a pretty worthwhile goal in my opinion.
Also, you shouldn't go to college just for a piece of paper. I feel you should go for the experience. To learn something.
However!
The piece of paper is still a representation of that, and as such, is important as well. But I think you should know what you want that piece of paper to represent... |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:50 am |
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| Well, obviously there are bad things about being in debt, like paying it back, but it is certainly not necessarily a bad thing. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:06 am |
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It is also because you go to a decent Australian tech school which is several orders of magnitude more challenging (or at least time consuming) than a typical American college such as Joe's....
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:14 am |
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Physics?
I'm not so good at physics, that's what I know.
My weakest science subject. >_< |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:10 pm |
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| joe wrote: |
| shut it HSB. u of louisville is a fine institution that's well respected in quite a few fields. i'm not going to some ass fuck ivy league prestige factory but i'm not going to a community college. i live off loans and grants during the semester, to facilitate spending as much time on my studies as possible. |
And you should chill the fuck out.
I didn't say your school wasn't well-respected.
I never said anything about it being bad that you weren't doing a CS degree either.
I simply pointed out that the kind of school toto goes to is pretty fucking hard compared to americna colleges, and that's the truth. The point is that if he hears about some american kid working and going to school at the same time and doesn't understand how that's possible, he shouldn't feel bad about it.
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| a bunch of shut-in pervert stalkers |
And it annoys me that every time I say something you happen to not like you always fling back with this bullshit which just isn't true, so fuck off. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:36 pm |
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| When I consider somebody my friend, I usually will defend them, yeah. |
I'm sure they appreciate it
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I mean, I would sort of not really like it, having someone presume I couldn't defend myself and do a poor job of defending me. and then I would be judged by the kind of ineloquent, presumptious and overzealous friends I keep, and that wouldn't be so sweet. |
Well, in general, one does tend to be judged by the friends they keep... |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:51 pm |
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| joe wrote: |
| Hot Stott Bot wrote: |
| joe wrote: |
| shut it HSB. u of louisville is a fine institution that's well respected in quite a few fields. i'm not going to some ass fuck ivy league prestige factory but i'm not going to a community college. i live off loans and grants during the semester, to facilitate spending as much time on my studies as possible. |
And you should chill the fuck out.
I didn't say your school wasn't well-respected.
I never said anything about it being bad that you weren't doing a CS degree either.
I simply pointed out that the kind of school toto goes to is pretty fucking hard compared to americna colleges, and that's the truth. The point is that if he hears about some american kid working and going to school at the same time and doesn't understand how that's possible, he shouldn't feel bad about it.
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| a bunch of shut-in pervert stalkers |
And it annoys me that every time I say something you happen to not like you always fling back with this bullshit which just isn't true, so fuck off. |
i think you should chill the fuck out too, cowboy.
i don't really hold any ivy leaguers in bad regard, or think i'm cool for attending a public university. frankly, i go to the best university i can afford. i can't afford ivy league, so i don't go there. you guys keep on rockin, i'll keep on rockin yer boat. |
I paid for most of my schooling with a little something called need-based financial aid and student loans! Uuuh... I'm a little worried though that I'm making a lot of money this year and next year, so I'm thinking that might make my financial aid go bye bye. :-(
Also, I'm not in the ivy league man. (Way too hardcore for that. ^_^)
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:59 pm |
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| At my school they just shovel how much money everyone and their parents made over the last 4 years and how many gov't loans they can get into a big equation and pump out how much everyone has to pay. The rest is covered by some endowment or another. Very few people have to pay full tuition. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:12 pm |
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I DON'T REMEMBER MY DREAMS.
;_;
(The ones I do remember, which is very very rare, are very unpleasant...) |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:43 pm |
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| extrabastardformula wrote: |
Joe, I find honor to be a sick and selfish concept and hold it in utter contempt. why do you feel like living with your so called honor makes you better than these hikikomori? Perhaps they have honor. Perhaps not. Perhaps you don't care what sort of honor they may have if they are hikikomori.
Fuck you and fuck your so called honor. |
This is a valid point. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:48 pm |
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| zebadayus wrote: |
Also, honor shouldn't even be in this discussion.
It has nothing to do with any of it really.
Seriously.
C'mon. |
Sure it does! Honor as the primary reason why one should move out and get a job and support themself has been brought up a number o times in this discussion already. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:56 am |
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| Mr Mustache wrote: |
| I am superior to others. |
No me. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:38 pm |
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| Oh joe you little perv you. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:09 am |
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| zebadayus wrote: |
| On the internet, we are all douchebags. |
No you. |
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