University/college experience

[hashtag45]

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.

Wow.
I was quite good at math but strangely enough and despite my efforts, I always struggled understanding computers.
But both came so easy to my cousins, and they did a similar degree to yours. I always admired them for being able to do both. Plus they always had the same job satisfaction that you described.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I was good at everything, but I hated school, would do anything to get out of it and when forced to go everything I could to disrupt it. I affected other kid's grades, but never my own. I was the kid that everyone would excuse the bad behavior of because, "He has so much potential." Then again, so does a boulder on a mountain top. Hell I was in both college and high school because my teachers thought the greater challenge would force me to buckle down. Not a chance...



Because of this, I never developed the discipline required to be successful in college (or, most likely, life). It was the Marine Corps and martial arts that developed the discipline required to truly be successful in life. Once I was able to focus my energies (and work as opposed to mind-numbingly boring study), I was successful in everything I did (If you don't count my first marriage, that undisciplined hot mess was bat-guano crazy, no doubt about it.).

 

[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...

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.

I was good at everything, but I hated school, would do anything to get out of it and when forced to go everything I could to disrupt it. I affected other kid's grades, but never my own. I was the kid that everyone would excuse the bad behavior of because, "He has so much potential." Then again, so does a boulder on a mountain top. Hell I was in both college and high school because my teachers thought the greater challenge would force me to buckle down. Not a chance...



Because of this, I never developed the discipline required to be successful in college (or, most likely, life). It was the Marine Corps and martial arts that developed the discipline required to truly be successful in life. Once I was able to focus my energies (and work as opposed to mind-numbingly boring study), I was successful in everything I did (If you don't count my first marriage, that undisciplined hot mess was bat-guano crazy, no doubt about it.).

Folks, that's just in this thread.

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Let's skip the whole "I was 16 and turned 17 at the end of the year" of University/College part and focus on the rest of this happy horseshit.

 

[bronzeage]

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.

It's nice of you to spare your alma mater the embarrassment and not actually naming the institution.

 

[RoryN]

My first year was

Imaginary.

This might be your most embarrassing display, ever. (Funny as shit, though.)

 

[Disgustipated]

Imaginary.

This might be your most embarrassing display, ever. (Funny as shit, though.)

Dude.
All karate masters finish their first year of college at 16. What are ya? Stewpid?

 

[Mike_Yates]

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.

Bill Gates went to Harvard.

 

[phrodeau]

Folks, that's just in this thread.

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Let's skip the whole "I was 16 and turned 17 at the end of the year" of University/College part and focus on the rest of this happy horseshit.

I don't get it. Does he expect me to out-horseshit him?

 

[Saint Peter]

Dudes. AJ is so fucking smart that he did not need school. He was only there to disrupt others. So they gave him his diploma early and he set out to get degrees and shit. Well, after the marines. Then bouncer. Then bigtime rock band security. Somewhere in there he was a union stew at a meat processing plant. Stay at home mooch/child raiser. Now third shift assistant manager at the QuickieMart.


Why is this so hard to understand? Do we need some ultra high end super duper smart math equations formulated with tweezy math symbols to help you dumbasses figure all of this out???

 

[Disgustipated]

This is the band he claims he was security for. Folks, he does this to himself.

http://i.imgur.com/45RYk8c.jpg

 

[Saint Peter]

Thank the good lord that security was there to keep the fans from beating the shit out of the band while demanding ticket refunds.

 

[Disgustipated]

Thank the good lord that security was there to keep the fans from beating the shit out of the band while demanding ticket refunds.

You just won the world. Holy fuck, I fell outta my seat laughing so hard.

 

[doowdniw]

The most important lesson I learned my first semester in college was to never again schedule an 8 o'clock class, least of all Introduction to Political Science.

 

[Mike_Yates]

People with below average IQ scores (71-84) such as myself, either do extremely poorly in college or fail it completely, even when given individualized assistance.

There are not too many people with below-average intelligence who have college degrees, and if they do, they passed the easiest concentrations by the skin of their teeth at a 3rd rate university.

Most of these folk end up not going to college and spending their whole lives doing low-wage and low-skill labor because they have no other choice.

Unfortunately some people are forced into certain lifestyles simply because they're stupid, and well..... you just can't fix stupid....

Welcome to society's waste bin.

 

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[Mike_Yates]

I could have all of the money in the world but I still wouldn't be able to go the college.

I have mild cognitive disabilities.

 

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[sr71plt]

I could have all of the money in the world but I still wouldn't be able to go the college.

There's always Walden College.

 

[Mike_Yates]

You could always try Cambridge. I gather they will take simply anyone.

Forrest Gump went to college, I have no idea how, but he did.

Never saw the movie so I don't know.

 

[pollynova]

Forrest Gump went to college, I have no idea how, but he did.

Never saw the movie so I don't know.

Forrest Gump was good at football. If you're good at sports, they'll find a way to pass you.

 

[underguy1]

I was good at everything, but I hated school, would do anything to get out of it and when forced to go everything I could to disrupt it. I affected other kid's grades, but never my own. I was the kid that everyone would excuse the bad behavior of because, "He has so much potential." Then again, so does a boulder on a mountain top. Hell I was in both college and high school because my teachers thought the greater challenge would force me to buckle down. Not a chance...



Because of this, I never developed the discipline required to be successful in college (or, most likely, life). It was the Marine Corps and martial arts that developed the discipline required to truly be successful in life. Once I was able to focus my energies (and work as opposed to mind-numbingly boring study), I was successful in everything I did (If you don't count my first marriage, that undisciplined hot mess was bat-guano crazy, no doubt about it.).

This is parody I hope.

 

[underguy1]

I loved university. All was right with the world in the late 90s: I paid no tuition fees and even had a small maintenance grant (and at the end of my first year a book grant), paid for out of general taxation as the Good Lord intended.

Many, many members of the Thatcherite lumpenproletariat had to pay their taxes in the sweat of their brow so that I can could sit under a willow tree by the Isis, drinking Meursault and reading Keats. All gone now, of course, when the average student leaves university with a £30,000 debt and, ironically, is far less likely to be employed.

One girl in my year mentioned, in passing, in a specific final year session dedicated to Finals, whether or not the topic would 'help me get my 2.1'. For this functionalism and materialism she was ostracised for the rest of the year, and I don't think any of us are in touch with her now. We really were, idealistic as it seems now, there for the love of learning.

None of that is true though.

Taxes don't actually pay for anything. The UK government is the issuer of pounds sterling.

 

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[BotanyBoy]

None of that is true though.

Taxes don't actually pay for anything.

Then why do they take them?

Why not fight poverty by just not taxing anyone anymore??

 

[Sean]

Trust me, the wine and river and poetry and general wonderfulness of it all was absolutely true. As, less frivolously, was the idea that higher education was a public good, rather than a way for individual students to make lots of money.

You'll never explain that concept to these Philistines.