University/college experience

[renard_ruse]

Of course the best thing was all the hot chicks all over the place.

Other than that, I can't say there much positive about the experience.

I would put my university experience as the second worst years of my life, after middle school.

It started bad the first day when they made the white students attend an orientation seminar with a black activist who told us that "only whites can be "racist"" and how evil we are. I knew this was going to be 4 years of bullsh*t at that moment.

And this was in the freaking late 1980s for crying out loud, I can only imagine what its like now.

 

[pointless]

christ, you boring fuck. get a new angle.

 

[Noor]

Mine started with a week of just freshman activities.
Kayaking, climbing, non competitive trust building games, protesting the kkk and being assigned to a tripping dorm with a couple of resident heads who had vicious happy dogs.
Other than the injuries, being woken up at 3am by sax killing tripping dorm mates and getting bitten by thoses horrid dogs, I did OK.
I convinced a few guys to be part of a three room dorm switch and moved my rookie and I out of the tripping dorm and things got much better.
I had a lot of fun.

 

[Disgustipated]

Hi, Mr. Ruse.
Were you in middle school or college in the late 1980's?

 

[HoHoBomb]

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[NOIRTRASH]

8 years of college was the greatest waste of time and money

The dummest mother fuckers on Planet Hillary I met at college.

 

[txgent101]

An Alternate Experience...

I go back a longish way...started college in 1955 and graduated in 1960. The program was a five year co-op system, academics plus practical industry experience. My major was Chemical Engineering, a long hard pull. But I count getting my college degree as one of the smartest decisions I made in my life. I had a great working career, raised a family, worked with smart people, got to travel overseas, and now have a good retirement. Things may be different today, but still highly recommended.....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My first year was a total waste of time and foosball.

I was 16 and turned 17 at the end of the year. Then I joined the Marines.

When I finally went back, it was very enjoyable because my maturity and age led many of my professors to take me under their wing and involve me in their pet projects. I got more out of that aspect of college than anything else I believe.

I'm very anxious to hear FroDOH! wax long and eloquent on his university experience...

 

[Disgustipated]

My first year was a total waste of time and foosball.

I was 16 and turned 17 at the end of the year. Then I joined the Marines.

When I finally went back, it was very enjoyable because my maturity and age led many of my professors to take me under their wing and involve me in their pet projects. I got more out of that aspect of college than anything else I believe.

I'm very anxious to hear FroDOH! wax long and eloquent on his university experience...

There be lies in them hills.

 

[Noor]

I go back a longish way...started college in 1955 and graduated in 1960. The program was a five year co-op system, academics plus practical industry experience. My major was Chemical Engineering, a long hard pull. But I count getting my college degree as one of the smartest decisions I made in my life. I had a great working career, raised a family, worked with smart people, got to travel overseas, and now have a good retirement. Things may be different today, but still highly recommended.....

Sounds like we may have both gone to similar colleges in the corn fields.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I invited one stupid bitch perfesser outside and said to her...I PAY OUT THE ASS FOR THE CIRCUS YOURE RUNNING,AND I KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT THAN YOU DO


She taught MEMORY, I wrote a paper on Gerlad Edelman's theory that memory is nonsense, and she wrote on my paper HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO GRADE SOMETHING I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!

Edelman won a Nobel Prize and wrote the book on explaining the biology of consciousness.

 

[Queersetti]

christ, you boring fuck. get a new angle.

Don't be so harsh with him. College is tough for stupid people.

 

[Disgustipated]

Don't be so harsh with him. College is tough for stupid people.

Especially if you pay $95K for an ITT.edu email.

 

[Not Normal]

Don't be so harsh with him. College is tough for stupid people.

As usual, Queersetti gets right to the crux of the biscuit.

 

[Wrong Element]

I learned quite a bit in college. Some of it in the classroom.

 

[Mike_Yates]

When I was in high school, I was put into special education because it was determined that I had a low IQ.

I'm not going to ANY college, EVER.

 

[pollynova]

College was so awful for me. I did terrible, I only passed a few classes. I didn't make any friends. And I have nothing to show for it except all this debt that I now have to pay back as punishment for 2 terrible years. If I could go back in time, I would never have gone.

 

[Mike_Yates]

College was so awful for me. I did terrible, I only passed a few classes. I didn't make any friends. And I have nothing to show for it except all this debt that I now have to pay back as punishment for 2 terrible years. If I could go back in time, I would never have gone.

It's a requirement to have a college degree in order to be employed in the United States.

 

[pollynova]

It's a requirement to have a college degree in order to be employed in the United States.

For certain jobs. But I've had jobs since I've worked since I was in high school and am still have a job right now.

 

[Mike_Yates]

For certain jobs. But I've had jobs since I've worked since I was in high school and am still have a job right now.

If you want to be rich, then you require copious amounts of education from elite schools.

 

[pollynova]

If you want to be rich, then you require copious amounts of education from elite schools.

Well, having an education helps you make money. But if you are smart and save, you can do okay too. You might never be Bill Gates, but you can still have some money in your pocket.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I advise people, all the time, to learn what their job aptitudes are. With that info you know what training to get.

I took the test and scored research physician, petroleum engineer, landscape architect, sheet metal worker, etc. I loved sheet metal work..

 

[underguy1]

There's a huge bovine smell around this thread.

 

[hashtag45]

I advise people, all the time, to learn what their job aptitudes are. With that info you know what training to get.

I took the test and scored research physician, petroleum engineer, landscape architect, sheet metal worker, etc. I loved sheet metal work..

I was naturally inclined towards the more abstract disciplines (I loved and aced math in school, and was drawn to and loved literature and philosophy). And despite my efforts, I sucked at the more practical ones, like physics and so on.
Yet I kept the herd mentality and did what my parents expected me to do.

Which, despite the fact that I ended up liking many aspects of my job, lead to many years of an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and a nagging feeling that this isn't something that fullfills me 100%.

Do I regret it?
Not at this stage. I feel that I gained the right life experience in this way. As they say, "suffering makes you a better person", and it makes you question things or understand and relate to issues that you wouldn't have otherwise.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My first year, I went for the "soft" science of psychology, a field where bullshit is more important that rigorous logic and mathematic proof, because that shit was hard and I was smart, but lazy and really hated school.

When I returned to school after many years, I had spent all of that time studying martial arts and had come to understand that you do not win/prevail in the ring, or life, if you do not do the hard work and "polish the nail."

So, I took on a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics. I also worked nearly full-time and kept up my teaching. It was, as I stated earlier in the thread, a very fulfilling time and since the university hired me to do work, I left school with very little debt which was easily paid off because I was working in a very well-paying field.