A lot of what we learn or do in college determines how we turn into adults, and what we will be like later in life. It can be some of the best times of your life.
So what great memories of college pop into your head when you think of that time again?
(for those that didn't attend college, what were your H.S. memories)
Skor's Question of the Week (9/26)
no not necessarily specific things, cuz I know some people had "memory problems" due to the things they were into at that time in their life...X'an Shin wrote:I'm supposed to remember specific examples?
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Skorixor
- Grand Moff
I remember Pabst Blue Ribbon was $5.34 a case. And I drank a lot of it. I also remember not putting in in the fridge because it didn't help the taste.
Then there was my introduction to grain alcohol. That is for another time though.
Rugby parties. Football and basketball games. Oh and there was this fine ass female state trooper that was stationed in the student section at the UK Basketball games.
Watching people almost get killed everynight by doing something stupid while drunk. Walking to football game with my dad and tossing are empties in the beds of the pickup trucks as we walked. And my dad getting busted with beer at the entrance gate to the game. That was funny. I told him to just fill up a flask and stick it under his shirt... BUT NOOOOO. Father knows best lol.
Drinking a 6 pack in calculus in the back of class with my friends. Not going to chemistry class. Going to English class just because I enjoyed arguing with the teacher. (it was a class on writing arguments. and I disagreed with her opinions on almost every topic)
Most of all learning that college was bullshit and all you really have to do is regurgitate everything the instructors say no matter how full of shit they are because the only thing that matters is getting a degree. They don't really care what you think about anything and you are almost guaranteed an A if you feed their ego.
Then there was my introduction to grain alcohol. That is for another time though.
Rugby parties. Football and basketball games. Oh and there was this fine ass female state trooper that was stationed in the student section at the UK Basketball games.
Watching people almost get killed everynight by doing something stupid while drunk. Walking to football game with my dad and tossing are empties in the beds of the pickup trucks as we walked. And my dad getting busted with beer at the entrance gate to the game. That was funny. I told him to just fill up a flask and stick it under his shirt... BUT NOOOOO. Father knows best lol.
Drinking a 6 pack in calculus in the back of class with my friends. Not going to chemistry class. Going to English class just because I enjoyed arguing with the teacher. (it was a class on writing arguments. and I disagreed with her opinions on almost every topic)
Most of all learning that college was bullshit and all you really have to do is regurgitate everything the instructors say no matter how full of shit they are because the only thing that matters is getting a degree. They don't really care what you think about anything and you are almost guaranteed an A if you feed their ego.
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E-bo Obi
- Grand Moff
- Server
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Good topic...
- Never, never, never quit upon meeting your first obstacle or even your second.
- If you believe in your question, keep asking it. 9 out of 10 times, you'll probably get "No". But on that 10th you may get a "Yes". Make it stick until you get what you want.
- There are "crusaders" among most college faculties who know where "the bodies are buried" and know where the money is. Find them. They will be your key to the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Scholarship that could get you your books for next semester.
So many times, so I'll try to boil it down. Of all of the bureacratic arenas that I've had to rumble in, the college campus was the one that, for me, most validated the saying "Where there's a will, there's a way." Short on funds many time, I had to hunt down money. I got on the phone and was just a constant annoyance. I showed up in offices until the staff got to know me. Seeing that I gave a damn, they started giving a damn and wanted to help.
Strapped for book money one semester, I had one scholarship that supersceded another grant. I couldn't take both of them. After a few calls a Professor told me "Looks like you have some money there. Do you see a problem? I don't. We never had this conversation." *phone click* This guy and a few other faculty turned out to be like X-Files "Deep Throat" for me.
A buddy of mine came across one of the most obscure scholarships you could imagine. I think it had something to do with an association of carpet manufacturers or something odd like that. It was easy as hell to qualify for. The difference between him and 10,000 other on campus who could have gotten it? He asked! Everbody else was just too lazy to go down and inquire.
This phenomena I have seen carried over in adult life so many times:
"If you don't ask, they won't tell you. But if you do ask, they're hesitant to lie."
There's alot more but from this I've learned alot about bureacracies and how they deal. It's paid off alright too. To this day, I can still cut me up some red tape, buddy.
- Never, never, never quit upon meeting your first obstacle or even your second.
- If you believe in your question, keep asking it. 9 out of 10 times, you'll probably get "No". But on that 10th you may get a "Yes". Make it stick until you get what you want.
- There are "crusaders" among most college faculties who know where "the bodies are buried" and know where the money is. Find them. They will be your key to the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Scholarship that could get you your books for next semester.
So many times, so I'll try to boil it down. Of all of the bureacratic arenas that I've had to rumble in, the college campus was the one that, for me, most validated the saying "Where there's a will, there's a way." Short on funds many time, I had to hunt down money. I got on the phone and was just a constant annoyance. I showed up in offices until the staff got to know me. Seeing that I gave a damn, they started giving a damn and wanted to help.
Strapped for book money one semester, I had one scholarship that supersceded another grant. I couldn't take both of them. After a few calls a Professor told me "Looks like you have some money there. Do you see a problem? I don't. We never had this conversation." *phone click* This guy and a few other faculty turned out to be like X-Files "Deep Throat" for me.
A buddy of mine came across one of the most obscure scholarships you could imagine. I think it had something to do with an association of carpet manufacturers or something odd like that. It was easy as hell to qualify for. The difference between him and 10,000 other on campus who could have gotten it? He asked! Everbody else was just too lazy to go down and inquire.
This phenomena I have seen carried over in adult life so many times:
"If you don't ask, they won't tell you. But if you do ask, they're hesitant to lie."
There's alot more but from this I've learned alot about bureacracies and how they deal. It's paid off alright too. To this day, I can still cut me up some red tape, buddy.
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Keer
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Well as I attended college as an adult and am still attending college, the thing I've learned is that I'm learning a bunch of crap I don't need.
I mean really, when I tell someone they're going to owe the IRS 1,500 in back taxes or that the IRS owes them 1,500 do you think they're going to care that I can identify all the internal organs in a pig? Or that I can give them the degree, and decleration at which Venus is most visable in the night sky? I think not.
However I can also say that I regret not having attended college after graduating HS. I've found school is much harder when working full time and having a family.
I mean really, when I tell someone they're going to owe the IRS 1,500 in back taxes or that the IRS owes them 1,500 do you think they're going to care that I can identify all the internal organs in a pig? Or that I can give them the degree, and decleration at which Venus is most visable in the night sky? I think not.
However I can also say that I regret not having attended college after graduating HS. I've found school is much harder when working full time and having a family.
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Hashum
- Jedi Correspondent
-Bad movie Thursdays.
My roomies and I would rent the shittiest movie we could find at the grocery store and get loaded while we watched it and made fun of it.
-Getting a better grade than I deserved .
I had the same professor for 2 of my upper level psych courses. The first one, first semester, was a joke. I couldn't have asked for an easier course, and I got an "A" without breaking a sweat. I spoke up a lot in class, and in the lecture of maybe 300 people, she knew who I was and seemed thankful that someone answered her questions other than that irritating chick who sat in the front and asked questions so far removed from the course content that it seemed she only spoke to hear herself talk.
The second class, the next semester, I skipped a few more classes, cared a little less, but still kept up participation in discussion...when all was said and done, I had bombed the final and dropped my "A-" down to a solid "B-". She offered to give back the tests and show you your final grade if you stopped by her office, so I went just to see what I got in the class. Her exact words were, "Well, your final wasn't really up to par with your typical standards of excellence, and it dropped your grade down a bit. Soooo, I am gonna go ahead and just round that up to an 'A'."
That's pretty good news for a graduating senior.
-Studying for finals with google.
People who go to school now have never had it so easy...I don't know how many concepts I missed when they were presented in class that ended up on review sheets, but google was a savior for that final.
My roomies and I would rent the shittiest movie we could find at the grocery store and get loaded while we watched it and made fun of it.
-Getting a better grade than I deserved .
I had the same professor for 2 of my upper level psych courses. The first one, first semester, was a joke. I couldn't have asked for an easier course, and I got an "A" without breaking a sweat. I spoke up a lot in class, and in the lecture of maybe 300 people, she knew who I was and seemed thankful that someone answered her questions other than that irritating chick who sat in the front and asked questions so far removed from the course content that it seemed she only spoke to hear herself talk.
The second class, the next semester, I skipped a few more classes, cared a little less, but still kept up participation in discussion...when all was said and done, I had bombed the final and dropped my "A-" down to a solid "B-". She offered to give back the tests and show you your final grade if you stopped by her office, so I went just to see what I got in the class. Her exact words were, "Well, your final wasn't really up to par with your typical standards of excellence, and it dropped your grade down a bit. Soooo, I am gonna go ahead and just round that up to an 'A'."
That's pretty good news for a graduating senior.
-Studying for finals with google.
People who go to school now have never had it so easy...I don't know how many concepts I missed when they were presented in class that ended up on review sheets, but google was a savior for that final.
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Krusshyk
- SWG Tales Founder
- Porn Night. Pumpkin Farm will go down in legend.
- Dooo's sleepwalking. "Why does my mouth taste like pizza?"
- Dooo's sleepwalking. "Why does my mouth taste like pizza?"
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X'an Shin
- SWG Tales Founder
Binary 101 equals 5 decimal. Base 2 math was the first test I aced at school. Dunno why I remember that.
Oh and that bottle of evian I filled with vodka and took to class with me to keep the buzz between parties.. and then there was that one guy in my loop campus class that snorted coke from under his fingernails on the red line after class. He must have taken three snorts between Jackson and Fullteron. He was really quiet.
Somewhere along the line I graduated.
Jabe
Oh and that bottle of evian I filled with vodka and took to class with me to keep the buzz between parties.. and then there was that one guy in my loop campus class that snorted coke from under his fingernails on the red line after class. He must have taken three snorts between Jackson and Fullteron. He was really quiet.
Somewhere along the line I graduated.
Jabe
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Jabe Adaks
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