you clearly stated previously you despised your time in the army.
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I hated the military, but I enjoyed myself on the weekends. You can hate your job but still have fun in your off time you know.m3thod wrote:
you clearly stated previously you despised your time in the army.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
i am happy and fulfilled and totally zen, actually, riding a serious victory parade after these last few months. no misery here! i just enjoy your posts - why don't you enjoy mine?
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enjoying life 2/7 of the time doesnt sound like a fun ride.
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rofl. how can you just post the two things you posted one after another? you said you had just as much fun as a typical undergrad, but then said "i hated the military, but i enjoyed myself on weekends"... hahaha. um, undergraduates love what they do ALL THE TIME, it's fun. i had no responsibilities and partied every day of the week... why are you arguing over this?Jay wrote:
I hated the military, but I enjoyed myself on the weekends. You can hate your job but still have fun in your off time you know.m3thod wrote:
you clearly stated previously you despised your time in the army.
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but just as good as a normal 18 year old moving away to university!m3thod wrote:
enjoying life 2/7 of the time doesnt sound like a fun ride.
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It wasn't. Which is why I didn't re-enlist.m3thod wrote:
enjoying life 2/7 of the time doesnt sound like a fun ride.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
right. but then 2 minutes ago you JUST SAID that you had just as much fun as me (or a typical undergrad)
so which is it?
so which is it?
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It's nice that you took the easiest path that you could through college so you could have time to party. Some people, like those with degrees in the maths and sciences, actually had to do homework on weeknights (and weekends).Uzique wrote:
rofl. how can you just post the two things you posted one after another? you said you had just as much fun as a typical undergrad, but then said "i hated the military, but i enjoyed myself on weekends"... hahaha. um, undergraduates love what they do ALL THE TIME, it's fun. i had no responsibilities and partied every day of the week... why are you arguing over this?Jay wrote:
I hated the military, but I enjoyed myself on the weekends. You can hate your job but still have fun in your off time you know.m3thod wrote:
you clearly stated previously you despised your time in the army.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
rofl. post of the year.
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I wouldn't want to party every night Uzique. That shit got boring when I was around 21.Uzique wrote:
right. but then 2 minutes ago you JUST SAID that you had just as much fun as me (or a typical undergrad)
so which is it?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
"i did an engineering degree and it is the toughest degree possible and all other degrees and life choices are for slackers and cannot possibly involve much mental skill or intellectual ability because they are not engineering and my engineering textbooks were really difficult let me tell you and i cannot imagine for one second how any other discipline or university level course can involve this much staggering superhuman complexity"
this galt spiel again! lovely.
this galt spiel again! lovely.
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Honestly, university would have been shit if I'd lived at home.Uzique wrote:
i love how a guy from a naval college downtalks to me about the typical 'undergraduate student' experience, as if he ever had one, and then uses some spurious knowledge about me partying and having a great time to discount my own experience. i rinsed 3 years for all they were worth and i'm crazy nostalgic about university. i had the best time of my life, better than anything i could have hoped as a naive and immature 18 year old. who is jaded and bitter here? sounds like you, galt. all i said was that it's ridiculous imo to live away from uni, you're missing out on the most formative experience of your young adult life.
most graduates are just-21. 18-21 is the undergraduate period. so now you're basically agreeing with me and my post? awsm!!!!Jay wrote:
I wouldn't want to party every night Uzique. That shit got boring when I was around 21.Uzique wrote:
right. but then 2 minutes ago you JUST SAID that you had just as much fun as me (or a typical undergrad)
so which is it?
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Do you feel that your degree was as difficult? Did you expend the same amount of effort? Did you spend as much time studying? These last two are easily quantifiable. So, did you? If the answer is no, then your degree was clearly not difficult.Uzique wrote:
"i did an engineering degree and it is the toughest degree possible and all other degrees and life choices are for slackers and cannot possibly involve much mental skill or intellectual ability because they are not engineering and my engineering textbooks were really difficult let me tell you and i cannot imagine for one second how any other discipline or university level course can involve this much staggering superhuman complexity"
this galt spiel again! lovely.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Maybe you just weren't very good at it.Jay wrote:
Do you feel that your degree was as difficult? Did you expend the same amount of effort? Did you spend as much time studying? These last two are easily quantifiable. So, did you? If the answer is no, then your degree was clearly not difficult.Uzique wrote:
"i did an engineering degree and it is the toughest degree possible and all other degrees and life choices are for slackers and cannot possibly involve much mental skill or intellectual ability because they are not engineering and my engineering textbooks were really difficult let me tell you and i cannot imagine for one second how any other discipline or university level course can involve this much staggering superhuman complexity"
this galt spiel again! lovely.
my degree was extremely difficult and extremely fulfilling. i read more books and exposed my mind to more theories and disciplines than i even knew existed when i was a fresh-faced, precocious 18 year old. i had to spend pretty much 4-5 hours a day every day reading, researching and hitting class. much other time was spent digesting shit and just trying to wrap my head around things, as well as branching off into all of the other areas of knowledge that a literature degree encompasses: background secondary reading in theory, philosophy, politics, history, sociology, psychology, linguistics, logic, etc. it goes on and on. i sure as hell do not feel that my degree was a doss. i don't know how it is over there with 'liberal arts' degrees but you are worked very hard here and squeezed like hell for time. most people don't read all the stuff on the reading lists because it is simply too many pages to flick and too much shit to take in and retain, so they pick and select as appropriate/interesting to them. i don't see why that's a problem or a 'weakness', either. tbh if you go to any prestigious russell/1994 uni over here and do any 'proper' subject, you're in for 3 years of real mind-opening academic testing. that's what it's all about. what do you think i did, swanned around and made up some shit about metaphors at the end of 3 years for an easy pass? it's not a community college.
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and my university/department/course doesn't even have the easy-employment ticket of being extremely vocational, like yours is, and it still has the same yada-yada statistical bullshit to speak of as you do: "The University's graduate unemployment rate has been judged to be "consistently among the very lowest", with only 3.2 per cent of graduates unemployed.[7] Furthermore, Royal Holloway is second out of 90 universities in England and Wales for the amount of its students who go into graduate employment".
and i read books for 3 years in a purely academic course that cared nothing for the workplace. i guess it was real easy, though, and i should look up to science/math majors!!!!
and i read books for 3 years in a purely academic course that cared nothing for the workplace. i guess it was real easy, though, and i should look up to science/math majors!!!!
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I thought you went to Oxford >_>
Maybe it's different in the UK than it is here. Here, people that go to school for liberal arts, be they english, political science, sociology, are equivalent to the same people that get a degree in physical education. They're considered cakewalk degrees for people that don't really have any skills. They also happen to be dominated by females, so there is a double stigma attached to male holders of those degrees. There's a running joke that people with liberal arts degrees become hipsters, until they get tired of being poor and go to law school. Then they become yuppies and politicians. This probably has a lot to do with why every American you argue with throws your degree in your face. It's not considered to be much better than a high school diploma here.Uzique wrote:
my degree was extremely difficult and extremely fulfilling. i read more books and exposed my mind to more theories and disciplines than i even knew existed when i was a fresh-faced, precocious 18 year old. i had to spend pretty much 4-5 hours a day every day reading, researching and hitting class. much other time was spent digesting shit and just trying to wrap my head around things, as well as branching off into all of the other areas of knowledge that a literature degree encompasses: background secondary reading in theory, philosophy, politics, history, sociology, psychology, linguistics, logic, etc. it goes on and on. i sure as hell do not feel that my degree was a doss. i don't know how it is over there with 'liberal arts' degrees but you are worked very hard here and squeezed like hell for time. most people don't read all the stuff on the reading lists because it is simply too many pages to flick and too much shit to take in and retain, so they pick and select as appropriate/interesting to them. i don't see why that's a problem or a 'weakness', either. tbh if you go to any prestigious russell/1994 uni over here and do any 'proper' subject, you're in for 3 years of real mind-opening academic testing. that's what it's all about. what do you think i did, swanned around and made up some shit about metaphors at the end of 3 years for an easy pass? it's not a community college.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
galt that link you provided placed literature grads on the same earning power as architecture school grads. same level as physical education? you feign stupidity sometimes, honestly.
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and yeah i agree a summa cum laude degree in a classical academic subject from one of the top schools in europe for literature is "not much better than a high school diploma". 'maybe it's different in the usa than here', but over here people that go to naval colleges and vocational-focussed colleges basically attend things that are called 'polytechnics', which are LITERALLY not much better than high-schools, and are considered entirely sub-standard to classical universities. guess it's an atlantic divide, eh?
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obama is going to propose legislation that will extend tax subsidies to private corporations hiring veterans of GWOT. I need a job.
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