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Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
Joined: Jan 26 2007
Location: Private Areas
Posts: 5672
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First day of classes for the semester...already have about $6000 in tuition and "Fees" on my account for this semester. Add to that the fact that I just spent $170 to park in a hardly ever uncrowded parking lot, and the $500 in books I just bought (4 of em...4!!!). I didn't even bother to buy all the books "required" because of last semester. I didn't even OPEN half of them. Then they won't buy them back for the ridiculous amount they usually give.
I for the first time went to half.com and bought my books AGAIN because I can return the ones I just bought. The total was about $80 cheaper. Fuck school, Fuck the economy, I just wanna live in a van down by the river. [/rant]
Vent your frustrations here.
FUCK COLLEGE!!!!
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
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I agree. Fuck college. And I am just going to junior college. The level of Ass-ramming the regular ol' colleges give is haunting me. I can't sleep well.
Damn though. I'm at midterm right now and only own maybe half the books. Oh sure I NEED the rest but I'll tell you what I tell my teachers when they bitch. "I am a pizza delivery boy. That is my only source of income. And I am here, paying for tuition. And you want me to buy a $180 book? Then start tipping better. I am broke as hell."
Most of them appreciate it.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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Last year I had to spend $250 on a single book, Gardner's Art Through The Ages. Apart from being more expensive than most of my guitars, the fucker weighed more than my dog. Thank God it's a kickass reference book (not coffee table book, most tables couldn't handle it), so I kept it. If I ever need $30 though...
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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1.5 semesters in, I concurred with your sentiment.
I packed my bags and went home never to return... until I went to work for a university.
Five years later, I packed my bags and left never to return... until I went to work for yet another university.
Here I sit. Working at a university. There are perhaps a hundred like me here... Managerial & Professional status workers without degrees.
It is an odd thing. Odd indeed.
But, on the bright side, I make 1.5x the tuition that they charge! So I am winning!
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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Wait, you make 1.5x the tuition they charge at---  Golly.
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
Joined: Nov 01 2005
Location: Away from Emerald Weapon
Posts: 2815
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I'm gearing up to try to go back to school this year or next and you guys are scaring me! I may end up doing online or correspondence courses though, that way I don't get pissed off at an idiot in my class and destroy what little makes them a human being. I'm sorry but I hate stupid people, especially in an educational setting. My education has been held back most of my life because of teachers having to slow down for the stupids, so I'll have my revenge... or something.
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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Yeah I hear you there... but sadly I've got no choice but to goto school or else I'm out on the streets according to my parents. >_>
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APLETHORAOFPINATAS
Joined: Jun 10 2008
Posts: 172
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College was the best four years of my life. I'd go back in a heart beat, bills and all. its expensive but unless you did squat for research you knew that going into it and can't do anything about it because thats how it works. So why are you worrying/stressing/complaining about something you have absolutly no control over and knew was going to occur?
If these are classes that are important to you and your future I would probably keep the books anyways.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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College was a great time. Well not at first, but after two transfers, it was fucking awesome. I learned a lot and grew as a person.
If I wasn't in my late twenties, I'd love to go back.
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
Posts: 2889
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
If I wasn't in my late twenties, I'd love to go back. |
I am and am n the college library now, going back  I decided I didn't want to be stuck in a rut job for the rest of my life and figured this was the best way to get out.
Currently, things are moving well and slowly, the Federal stuff is moving even slower.
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Mr. Bomberman
2009 Forum Champion
Title: (still) token black.
Joined: Jan 27 2006
Location: Home of the lost towers
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| Yeah I hear you there... but sadly I've got no choice but to goto school or else I'm out on the streets according to my parents. >_> |
This =/ If not college, then my parents are gonna send me to the army, navy, or Air Force, or Job Corps. Fuck no.
I'm suprised I failed none my classes last semester.
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
Location: California
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hehe, when I went to college, I fucking hated it. Even though most of my classes were pretty fun, I still loathed going. I got my two year, and some change (about a years worth I think). I work doing what I love, but it's still work. In retrospect, college was so easy and fun. I've been thinking that I would return to finish up and get my bachelors, because even though I have the skill, and a decent job, it never hurts to have the schooling to back it all up. The hard part is going back to school because it's out of town, so I would be forced to quit my job, and working part time or as an intern for 10 bucks an hour while i attend school, would be tough for me now being used to a certain income.
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Chrisby
Joined: Mar 31 2006
Location: Where my computer is.
Posts: 1262
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I went to college and all I got for it was a lousy degree!
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Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
Joined: Jan 26 2007
Location: Private Areas
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I'm in my mid twenties and I'm doing it so banks will actually look at me as someone who can eventually pay back a loan for a substantial amount of money. Degrees are everything nowadays...sadly. I mean I make a very decent amount of money, it's like having 3 full-time jobs at McDonalds, but it's definitely not a job I love. Hence the additional loan when I get my student loans paid off. I WILL open a video game store and it will be grand!!! GRAND I SAY!!!
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
Posts: 2889
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"Please! Everyone knows 20th century colleges were basically expensive daycare centres."
--Leela; Mars University; Futurama
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Hacker
Banned
Joined: Sep 13 2008
Posts: 3129
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| Douche McCallister wrote: |
| I just wanna live in a van down by the river.! |
Well you'll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river when..... Your living in a van down by the river.
My health teacher showed my class this clip today.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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I lasted two semesters, slacked off partly due to being able to play Dreamcast with my buds in the student lounge (mostly GGX, MvC2, Soul Calibur, and CannonSpike) and had to get a job to pay for school myself after that point.
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Arlock41
Title: Naunie
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| I lasted two semesters, slacked off partly due to being able to play Dreamcast with my buds in the student lounge (mostly GGX, MvC2, Soul Calibur, and CannonSpike) |
Was GGX actually released over here on the DC? Or was this a burned ISO?
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
Posts: 1123
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| lordsathien wrote: |
| I lasted two semesters, slacked off partly due to being able to play Dreamcast with my buds in the student lounge (mostly GGX, MvC2, Soul Calibur, and CannonSpike) |
Was GGX actually released over here on the DC? Or was this a burned ISO? |
Oh god. Cannon Spike is one of the best games for the system. Gah. I wish my copy wasn't broken. 
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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Counting undergrad, the Master's degree, and my progress on my Ph.D., I'm currently in year (umm... carry the one) ten of college. As of September of this year, I will have been in some form of college (whether undergrad or grad school) for a decade.
Someone shoot me in the face.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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"Please! Everyone knows 20th century colleges were basically expensive daycare centres."
--Leela; Mars University; Futurama |
yes but this is the 21st century
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| lordsathien wrote: |
| I lasted two semesters, slacked off partly due to being able to play Dreamcast with my buds in the student lounge (mostly GGX, MvC2, Soul Calibur, and CannonSpike) |
Was GGX actually released over here on the DC? Or was this a burned ISO? |
A burned ISO, I borrowed the disc from my friend while he borrowed Sonic Adventure from me and after a few plays the thing degraded into nothingness.
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
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| Kubo wrote: |
Counting undergrad, the Master's degree, and my progress on my Ph.D., I'm currently in year (umm... carry the one) ten of college. As of September of this year, I will have been in some form of college (whether undergrad or grad school) for a decade.
Someone shoot me in the face. |
their aint shit else to do except flip burgers and sleep with women you aren't going to marry
at least your nearing the finish line
I will be a senior at University of Tenneessee next semester
3.5 GPA i wanna keep up
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