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you like SCHOOL in the summertime (TFS&AMP'D COME TO SENSES, SAY AMERICA IS BEST)
Skull Man
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school thread
finals this week aaaaugh
anyone taking any summer classes?
I'm writing a paper on perception's role in the search for enlightenment and need a more scholarly word for video games than video games
I tried "interactive digital fiction" but that makes me feel like a douchebag
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I am so pitiful at bio, I hope I passed into it
three A-'s and one B+
4h 15m
and then one saturday
and then i'm done with law school :O
Where are you going to work after this?
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Currently I will be working a summer camp up in Maryland but if I find something here that pays better I ain't goin'
don't have a job lined up
don't want to be a lawyer
i'll figure something out
maybe i'll sell blowjobs on the street
when I got home I got an alert from Gmail calendar saying I missed my economics final
five minutes of panic until I looked it up and realized it had sent me the final date for a different section of the class
except when it's good.
Hopefully, my two classes this summer will have very little to no group work because people suck.
Otherwise I am considering going back for my Master's in a year or so.
times are tough, man
that's just the way it is
cmon people
Interactive narrative.
Counterpoint! I had 100s in every grade on my finance class yesterday, so I could have made a 50 on the final and received an A. But I didn't, it was a 90!.
In related news, some classes are way too easy.
I was looking on Facebook recently on my schools graduating year list. I went to two high schools, actually so I looked at both. I was curious to see what my former classmates were up to, you know.
So I painstakingly created a spreadsheet of their current locations.
80% of them are still living in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana area (where we were from). That's crazy. At this point in their life, it's safe to say that they're staying there.
And this was in both the private school that I went to and the public school. The pubic school was in a fairly poor area and most everybody was from working class families. So you might not be too surprised by the 80% but that still seems insanely high to me. But even in the private school where there were people from moderately well-off families, and certainly most everybody was from better off families than the public school, it's still 80%. Crazy.
I mean, if you told me 15 years ago that 80% of the class was going to still be in this crappy area 15 years from now, I wouldn't believe it. I knew I was getting out of there and I suspect that all but the most pessimistic of my classmates also thought they were getting out.
Not so. They're still there in that...well, I think the word "ghetto" is tossed around too freely but it's certainly an economically-depressed area and on a steep decline. And even if they moved to some cow town suburbs around there it's still not remotely impressive.
A few people who managed to get out of there did so through the military. So...well, that's not impressive.
Anyway, only ONE person managed to leave the country. And that person is a certain LearnedHand who currently resides in London, England and has been here for almost half a decade. So I win the game. The high school success game.
My job is also better than possibly everyone's that I saw. But I didn't really chart that so I don't have empirical data for that.
Anyway, yeah. I spent years researching and planning and scheming all in an effort to get out of that hole. My classmates for whatever reason did not. These are the sort of practical lessons that they should be teaching in schools instead of all that nonsense about past participles and ph paper and whatever that you'll never use in your life.
boy, I wouldn't be able to hold my head up in the morning
i got this far and sadly shook my head
Some people use that stuff
That's why they teach you different things in high school, because nobody knows what they're going to do with their lives yet
yaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnn
Also I have my cap and gown and am feeling all smug and collegiate.
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1500 words at least on Origin and Return in Mulla Sadra
however we can bring in any other media we want so I am exploring the themes of Return to Origin as Enlightenment in The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, Silent Hill 2 and Bioshock
And yet these losers didn't spent god knows how long making a stalker spreadsheet. Maybe your victory isn't as complete as you think.
I'm proud of getting out of there, yes. And my hometown is...not a good place.
But just speaking generally, moving away from your hometown is a universal measure of success. See for example, the "Alumni Who Traveled the Least Distance to Get Here" or whatever award that Homer won in that Simpsons school reunion episode. It's well established.
And 80% of the people still living there. This isn't just something for my high schools. It's probably typical of high schools everywhere. I find it very surprising and this is an example of the sort of things people should be taught in high schools. Maybe shock some of them into action. Like that "Scared Straight" special (which has been debunked many times, but I'll still use it as an example) where they take troubled youngsters into prison and some big prisoner takes their shoes.
I think by high school unless you're interested in being a scientist or mathematician or something, you shouldn't have to take math or science courses. They're totally useless for most people and only serve to make school a painful and unpleasant experience for those who aren't proficient in those areas.
In any event, more practical things should certainly be taught instead of some of these esoteric pursuits. Doing your taxes, how to get a girlfriend, job interview techniques, typing, cooking, personal hygeine, whatever.
It's called Life Skills
It's for remedial kids too dumb to figure those things out on their own and who are probably getting menial labor jobs out of high school
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but coincidentally many high schools already teach that
Chicago is awesome though