I skipped every graduation but my high school one. Was pretty over it after that.
Yeah, my parents were all "You don't want to walk for college graduation?"
Uh no, because it's in December, you're not going to drive across the state to come, and I don't want to pay hundreds to rent a cap and gown. Just gimmie that certificate.
i wonder if i pay off my degree if I can go to the next commencement
everyone says its a stupid ceremony but I kind of wanted to go
I kinda regret not going to commencement for grad school. I was too angry to go at the time but honestly it would have been nice to have my advisor or department chair put the damn doctoral hood on me
Bam they actually put an executioner's hood on you, symbolizing your fate.
R.i.p.
meh the executioner's hood is for the beginning of grad school
the doctoral hood is to secure $$$ over what I might have been paid without said hood, and that's it
My friends and I all sat in the front row of our high school graduation and wore fake facial hair that we applied too late for the teachers to do anything about it.
Dumb, I know, but I think its held up reasonably well.
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where do we talk about sean spicer maybe engaging in holocaust denial
The...basement?
we can't talk about it because *pulls out and reads card* it is too soon to discuss gun policy while the bodies are still warm
wait shit this one's from the wrong deck
override367 on
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
in the "Spicer talked about how the Holocaust isn't real" thread, duh.
It's currently two below the "Trump's kid looked bad in that suit and body armor" thread and was started by whoever put together the
"rude photos of Ivanka's calves getting out of cars in New York" discussion.
are YOU on the beer list?
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
(we have too many political threads)
are YOU on the beer list?
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At my graduation ceremony the speaker spent a great deal of time congratulating the faculty for doing a good job, then told us the story of Bill Gates, who dropped out of college but through hard work and determination became Bill Gates, and so a degree isn't everything.
At my graduation ceremony the speaker spent a great deal of time congratulating the faculty for doing a good job, then told us the story of Bill Gates, who dropped out of college but through hard work and determination became Bill Gates, and so a degree isn't everything.
7/10 would not attend again.
What a fucking rube
Yes, on the grounds that Gates had unlimited access through his parents to one of the first mainframe PCs at the University of Michigan
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But dear god can you imagine trying to mod one of those threads
I can 100% see why they are kept to a minimum.
yeah it's a weird situation where I can't really disagree with the mod staff (not that it matters, cause it's their call anyway) but like damn we've got too many threads.
Just left my school. It's funny how my brain still gets that euphoric 'fresh start' excitement every time. My mind goes, how could I not succeed?! I'm filled with determined hope! And somehow I push down the memory of having felt this way every time; this involves months of attending class and hours and hours of work.
Feh.
Having seen you do this several times, what exactly causes the relapse do you think? At what point does it come crashing down?
Good question. I don't have a succinct answer. A few thoughts:
-I am always very hopeful at the beginning. The second, third day of class I am confident I'll be getting a 4.0.
-getting to campus is the huge step. Once I make it to campus, I very rarely skip lecture. Both times I have attended lecture the whole semester (or with only a few absences), I have passed with a GPA > 3.0.
-once I stop working and studying, I spend the next couple weeks rationalizing- I'll catch up over the weekend, once this thing at work has passed, after we get to the next topic in lecture etc.
-once that time passes, I realize I'm going to fa. It's like a Greek tragedy. I sit there looking at the wall, screaming at myself in my head to get up and go, but I don't. It makes me feel profoundly mentally ill.
I was playing the new MOO with a mod that expanded the racial traits. Including one that causes your population to always have max morale. Combine that with +BC production and you are the scary rich race.
How is new MOO vs Stellaris?
Haven't played Stellaris. I assume it's bigger in scope with more micro.
Our valedictorian was a pretty mediocre woman who got perfect grades by intentionally avoiding every advanced placement class she was eligible for.
I think she spoke for about 2 minutes.
I was annoyed at the whole system for this. I took more advanced classes and got B's, kids in remedial classes got into National Honor Society because they had great grades and yet I'm not eligible because my AP classes brought me down.
There's clearly a problem here that needs solving because damn that sucked.
Just left my school. It's funny how my brain still gets that euphoric 'fresh start' excitement every time. My mind goes, how could I not succeed?! I'm filled with determined hope! And somehow I push down the memory of having felt this way every time; this involves months of attending class and hours and hours of work.
Feh.
Having seen you do this several times, what exactly causes the relapse do you think? At what point does it come crashing down?
Good question. I don't have a succinct answer. A few thoughts:
-I am always very hopeful at the beginning. The second, third day of class I am confident I'll be getting a 4.0.
-getting to campus is the huge step. Once I make it to campus, I very rarely skip lecture. Both times I have attended lecture the whole semester (or with only a few absences), I have passed with a GPA > 3.0.
-once I stop working and studying, I spend the next couple weeks rationalizing- I'll catch up over the weekend, once this thing at work has passed, after we get to the next topic in lecture etc.
-once that time passes, I realize I'm going to fa. It's like a Greek tragedy. I sit there looking at the wall, screaming at myself in my head to get up and go, but I don't. It makes me feel profoundly mentally ill.
-???
Me and you have the same post high school academic careers.
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I was annoyed at the whole system for this. I took more advanced classes and got B's, kids in remedial classes got into National Honor Society because they had great grades and yet I'm not eligible because my AP classes brought me down.
There's clearly a problem here that needs solving because damn that sucked.
I went to a tiny school in north Spokane county with like 60 kids in the graduating class. Something like 25% went to college out of school. Most of the seriously capable students went through Running Start so they weren't eligible.
Our valedictorian was a pretty mediocre woman who got perfect grades by intentionally avoiding every advanced placement class she was eligible for.
I think she spoke for about 2 minutes.
I was annoyed at the whole system for this. I took more advanced classes and got B's, kids in remedial classes got into National Honor Society because they had great grades and yet I'm not eligible because my AP classes brought me down.
There's clearly a problem here that needs solving because damn that sucked.
hah my school did not have a valedictorian because too many people took a gazillion AP classes and got straight As and it just became too dumb to try to figure out who technically had the highest gpa
It was definitely for the better without that competition
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Yeah, my parents were all "You don't want to walk for college graduation?"
Uh no, because it's in December, you're not going to drive across the state to come, and I don't want to pay hundreds to rent a cap and gown. Just gimmie that certificate.
pleasepaypreacher.net
meh the executioner's hood is for the beginning of grad school
the doctoral hood is to secure $$$ over what I might have been paid without said hood, and that's it
as he calls it, "bedroom eyes"
No where, it didn't happen.
pleasepaypreacher.net
here, I think.
Or the Live Events thread if that is still around
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Dumb, I know, but I think its held up reasonably well.
The...basement?
we can't talk about it because *pulls out and reads card* it is too soon to discuss gun policy while the bodies are still warm
wait shit this one's from the wrong deck
It's currently two below the "Trump's kid looked bad in that suit and body armor" thread and was started by whoever put together the
"rude photos of Ivanka's calves getting out of cars in New York" discussion.
7/10 would not attend again.
He's a good dog, bront
I think she spoke for about 2 minutes.
And yet, still not enough.
But dear god can you imagine trying to mod one of those threads
I can 100% see why they are kept to a minimum.
What a fucking rube
Yes, on the grounds that Gates had unlimited access through his parents to one of the first mainframe PCs at the University of Michigan
yeah it's a weird situation where I can't really disagree with the mod staff (not that it matters, cause it's their call anyway) but like damn we've got too many threads.
whattayagonnadothough?
Good question. I don't have a succinct answer. A few thoughts:
-I am always very hopeful at the beginning. The second, third day of class I am confident I'll be getting a 4.0.
-getting to campus is the huge step. Once I make it to campus, I very rarely skip lecture. Both times I have attended lecture the whole semester (or with only a few absences), I have passed with a GPA > 3.0.
-once I stop working and studying, I spend the next couple weeks rationalizing- I'll catch up over the weekend, once this thing at work has passed, after we get to the next topic in lecture etc.
-once that time passes, I realize I'm going to fa. It's like a Greek tragedy. I sit there looking at the wall, screaming at myself in my head to get up and go, but I don't. It makes me feel profoundly mentally ill.
-???
Super delayed cause we just bought the baby home, but y'all are going hard in the paint on the whole change of pace thing.
I have a friend that lives in Clinton and the area in general is pretty nice though.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
Haven't played Stellaris. I assume it's bigger in scope with more micro.
I was annoyed at the whole system for this. I took more advanced classes and got B's, kids in remedial classes got into National Honor Society because they had great grades and yet I'm not eligible because my AP classes brought me down.
There's clearly a problem here that needs solving because damn that sucked.
Me and you have the same post high school academic careers.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
no you aren't wrong; we've been talking about it for a few hours at this point if you scan back through chat
it makes me really quite angry that someone would say those things
I went to a tiny school in north Spokane county with like 60 kids in the graduating class. Something like 25% went to college out of school. Most of the seriously capable students went through Running Start so they weren't eligible.
hah my school did not have a valedictorian because too many people took a gazillion AP classes and got straight As and it just became too dumb to try to figure out who technically had the highest gpa
It was definitely for the better without that competition
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Neco that's a mirror
You also weren't eligible for valedictorian or salutatorian at my high school unless you took every AP
every AP?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-11-british-terror-hoaxer-charged-after-us-gamer-shot-by-cops
Thank goodness charges are actually being pressed and the culprit is known.
Fuck that shit.
EDIT: Dude not dead, just want to avoid the headline painting it different. Rubber bullets, badly injured.