GrumpyMan
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- May 14, 2001
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<< im so lost god i know someone here can help i graduated earlier than my whole class who are still in school till june i never gave college much thought becasue my counsilers were inexperience and could only recomend a local commmunity college thats trashed.i so deperately dont want to spend 2 or 4 years in a college taking courses that dont go no where i know what i want to do already and its computers im 17 i run a webhosting gig im very familiar with unix/linux im very efficent with windows and can adminster iss servers and all kinds of stuff i know tons about electronics from years of nitro and electric rc racing ,i know about audio cars i want to do something in any kind of technological or engineering field but im lost whats good?are devry and itt tech an option and what did you guys out there with computer jobs do to get where your at please help! >>
Sorry couldn't finish reading your post, your grammer skills suck.
OH WOW REALLY?I REALLY ENJOY HOW YOU PUT "WHOARE" hmm conselors?cummunity?"taking courses that doesn't go anywhere" JESUS U MESSED UP WORST THAN ME.you are so fu k ing pathetic it disgusts me people helped me and i appreciated shut the hell up alreayd.I can imagine you sitting there huntched over your computer think hehehe im really going to show this 17 year old by wasteing my own life and time retyping it incorrectly, u sir are ghey
Shigeru Miyamoto's masterwork Super Mario Brothers is truly a classic work of modern literature; borrowing heavily from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and an obvious inspiration for Trainspotting, SMB shows the initial joy but the eventual mental and moral decline due to drugs.
Like in classic Greek drama, much of the story is implied. Because the setting is not a part of our common mythos, however, it comes with a small supplemental text which fills in the history for the reader: the evil dragon Bowser Koopa (a metaphor for a kingpin) has invaded a once-prosperous kingdom, and those residents who did not join him and become goombas (the local slang for dealers) were turned into blocks - that is, they were embedded in concrete, to sleep with the fishes, as it were.
Enter Mario, the fallen hero. At the very outset of his adventure, he is doomed, as almost right away he steals a dealer's mushroom (obviously mixed with peyote) and begins to hallucinate, that he is big, that he is powerful. As though on PCP, he finds it easy to break solid bricks by punching it and does not perceive the pain; however, when dealers, pushers (personified by turtles much like Thompson's literal lounge lizards), and other minions of the kingpin cause him pain (in retaliation for his original drug theft), he immediately loses the empowering effects of the peyote, and in fact, seems very small and vulnerable, and must desperately seek out another hit. When he is not seeking out a hit of peyote, he is seeking out much more powerful stuff indeed - a flower (the opium-giving poppy) or a star (a hit of LSD), both of which further his delusions of being strong and powerful.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychedelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
His trials and travails continue along his slide into dementia, with such powerful imagery as being underwater (drowning in desperation) and along a long suspension bridge with flying fish (skirting death at every corner). After chapter 3, which describes a night of terrors, and chapter 4, another full day, he finds himself in another castle delusion, but this time he is so hopelessly lost in his mind that it appears to him as a maze, where if he does not climb the correct stairs in the right order, he is trapped and seems to endlessly repeat the pathway.
Much more of the same continues, showing the repetition and mental deadness of a drug-induced haze, with some intermediate powerful imagery as a landscape so bleak and gray that it appears to be frozen, causing our fallen hero to psychosomatically slip on what seems to be ice. At many points, he is also unwittingly caught up in drug-related urban warfare, bullets careening across the landscape, although in Mario's stupor, the inanimate metal slugs appear to be living, almost sentient things.
Finally, he enters a final castle which appears to be real, but it is quickly apparent that it is not, for it is filled with all of his prior hallucinations, but twisted into much more nightmarish images, again arranged in a maze as some of the castle-hallucination-nightmares before (although this time with the strong symbolism of the magic number 3), and at the end, when he finally destroys what he believes to be the kingpin Koopa and rescues who he believes to be the princess, it becomes obvious to the reader (though not to Mario, still in a state of dementia) that he was only a hapless pimp and the "princess" his whore, who (at our hero's expense) direct him to start his hapless Quixotic quest from the beginning, only this time, all the drug dealers are wearing bullet-proof jackets (who have appeared as gigantic beetles to our hallucinogenic hero all along).
And so, the cycle of depravity begins anew, but much more difficultly for our pathetically-pathos-pumped plumber.
Of course, this plot summary only begins to scratch the surface of this epic novel. One really must complete it on their own in order to truly appreciate its depth and challenge, trying to sort out what is real and what isn't.
There is, of course, a like-minded series following this book (although the immediate sequel is a blatant last-minute search and replace job on the cancelled Doki Doki Panic); there are also several TV adaptations, a movie (which completely missed the point and took major liberties with the plot), several spin-off series, and, at one time, there was even a breakfast cereal, in a monstrous twist of consumer-driven poetic irony. Regardless of this sensational consumerism, however, the original story has withstood the test of time, and will forever be a literary classic.
Like in classic Greek drama, much of the story is implied. Because the setting is not a part of our common mythos, however, it comes with a small supplemental text which fills in the history for the reader: the evil dragon Bowser Koopa (a metaphor for a kingpin) has invaded a once-prosperous kingdom, and those residents who did not join him and become goombas (the local slang for dealers) were turned into blocks - that is, they were embedded in concrete, to sleep with the fishes, as it were.
Enter Mario, the fallen hero. At the very outset of his adventure, he is doomed, as almost right away he steals a dealer's mushroom (obviously mixed with peyote) and begins to hallucinate, that he is big, that he is powerful. As though on PCP, he finds it easy to break solid bricks by punching it and does not perceive the pain; however, when dealers, pushers (personified by turtles much like Thompson's literal lounge lizards), and other minions of the kingpin cause him pain (in retaliation for his original drug theft), he immediately loses the empowering effects of the peyote, and in fact, seems very small and vulnerable, and must desperately seek out another hit. When he is not seeking out a hit of peyote, he is seeking out much more powerful stuff indeed - a flower (the opium-giving poppy) or a star (a hit of LSD), both of which further his delusions of being strong and powerful.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychedelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
His trials and travails continue along his slide into dementia, with such powerful imagery as being underwater (drowning in desperation) and along a long suspension bridge with flying fish (skirting death at every corner). After chapter 3, which describes a night of terrors, and chapter 4, another full day, he finds himself in another castle delusion, but this time he is so hopelessly lost in his mind that it appears to him as a maze, where if he does not climb the correct stairs in the right order, he is trapped and seems to endlessly repeat the pathway.
Much more of the same continues, showing the repetition and mental deadness of a drug-induced haze, with some intermediate powerful imagery as a landscape so bleak and gray that it appears to be frozen, causing our fallen hero to psychosomatically slip on what seems to be ice. At many points, he is also unwittingly caught up in drug-related urban warfare, bullets careening across the landscape, although in Mario's stupor, the inanimate metal slugs appear to be living, almost sentient things.
Finally, he enters a final castle which appears to be real, but it is quickly apparent that it is not, for it is filled with all of his prior hallucinations, but twisted into much more nightmarish images, again arranged in a maze as some of the castle-hallucination-nightmares before (although this time with the strong symbolism of the magic number 3), and at the end, when he finally destroys what he believes to be the kingpin Koopa and rescues who he believes to be the princess, it becomes obvious to the reader (though not to Mario, still in a state of dementia) that he was only a hapless pimp and the "princess" his whore, who (at our hero's expense) direct him to start his hapless Quixotic quest from the beginning, only this time, all the drug dealers are wearing bullet-proof jackets (who have appeared as gigantic beetles to our hallucinogenic hero all along).
And so, the cycle of depravity begins anew, but much more difficultly for our pathetically-pathos-pumped plumber.
Of course, this plot summary only begins to scratch the surface of this epic novel. One really must complete it on their own in order to truly appreciate its depth and challenge, trying to sort out what is real and what isn't.
There is, of course, a like-minded series following this book (although the immediate sequel is a blatant last-minute search and replace job on the cancelled Doki Doki Panic); there are also several TV adaptations, a movie (which completely missed the point and took major liberties with the plot), several spin-off series, and, at one time, there was even a breakfast cereal, in a monstrous twist of consumer-driven poetic irony. Regardless of this sensational consumerism, however, the original story has withstood the test of time, and will forever be a literary classic.
<< OH WOW REALLY?I REALLY ENJOY HOW YOU PUT "WHOARE" hmm conselors?cummunity?"taking courses that doesn't go anywhere" JESUS U MESSED UP WORST THAN ME.you are so fu k ing pathetic it disgusts me people helped me and i appreciated shut the hell up alreayd.I can imagine you sitting there huntched over your computer think hehehe im really going to show this 17 year old by wasteing my own life and time retyping it incorrectly, u sir are ghey >>
See? There you go again, making yourself look like an idiot.
You won't be getting much help like that, in fact you're likely to be banned.
Viper GTS
The Tech school is less expensive.
The credits will most likely transfer to college.
So, take classes that will help you get into college, like English, Geometry, and Algebra.
Good grades in these classes, and the improvement they will give you on your SAT, will help you get into a better college.
The classes will most likely transfer, giving you college credit once you change to a college, saving yoiu both time and money.
The credits will most likely transfer to college.
So, take classes that will help you get into college, like English, Geometry, and Algebra.
Good grades in these classes, and the improvement they will give you on your SAT, will help you get into a better college.
The classes will most likely transfer, giving you college credit once you change to a college, saving yoiu both time and money.
saftey:
If the above is your school writing, it only proves that you write the way you do here on purpose and to me, that's worse than not knowing in the first place.
If the above is your school writing, it only proves that you write the way you do here on purpose and to me, that's worse than not knowing in the first place.
StageLeft
No Lifer
- Sep 29, 2000
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<< OH WOW REALLY?I REALLY ENJOY HOW YOU PUT "WHOARE" hmm conselors?cummunity?"taking courses that doesn't go anywhere" JESUS U MESSED UP WORST THAN ME.you are so fu k ing pathetic it disgusts me people helped me and i appreciated shut the hell up alreayd.I can imagine you sitting there huntched over your computer think hehehe im really going to show this 17 year old by wasteing my own life and time retyping it incorrectly, u sir are ghey >>
Man seriously you need to improve those English skills BADLY.
Sure. I make a type here and there. Making typographical errors doesn't mean I'm making a blabber. So yes, I messed up in a way. Worse than you? No I didn't.
Best translation I could make out of your original quite "Taking courses that don't go nowhere"..
Temper temper boy. In a real world, bursting into anger and shouting profanity won't take you anywhere.
Nor personal insults..
goto college but major in computers or something science related. liberal arts majors are a scam. find a job w/ a poli sci degree. 
Kadarin
Lifer
- Nov 23, 2001
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Re-edited to correct Jerboy's spelling/grammar:
Greetings everyone,
I am a 17 year old high school graduate and I am looking for advice on career choice. I have graduated earlier than rest of my class, who are still in school until June. I am so lost, and God I know someone here can help. I haven't thought much about college because my counselors were inexperienced and could only recommend a local cummunity college that's trashed. I am strongly against spending two or four years in a college taking courses that don't go anywhere. I know what I'd like to do already and that would be computers. I run a webhosting rig and I'm very familiar with Unix and Linux. I'm very efficient with Windows and can administer IIS and other types of servers. I have a considerable amount of background knowledge about electronics from years of nitro and electric RC racing. I also have some knowledge about audio cars(what the heck is this?). I'd like to do something in any kind of technology or engineering field; however I'm lost. What is a good career for me? Are DeVry and ITT Tech an option? What did you people in computer related careers do to get your position?
Please help!
Sincerely,
Saftey
Originally posted by: SirDante
goto college but major in computers or something science related. liberal arts majors are a scam. find a job w/ a poli sci degree.
And why is it that I, an Asian Studies major who is half way through the program, about to train Computer Science graduates who can't find a job?
IMO, "Good major = Good job" and "Science = Good" are scam. So are the morons who say that "Science sucks."
Some of the great minds I've dealt with tend to be well-balanced in both Science and Liberal Arts, and are open enough to learn and consume a broad range of subjects.
You remind me of this guy that worked at the computer lab in my high school 4 years ago. He was a real smart guy but had no people skills.
I'd pick a nice guy who was average on the smart tree, over a genius with a personality disorder.
Oh yeah, btw have a great day, and goodluck finding your way around the real world with your temper.I don't know how it works there, but majors in any department, liberal arts or sciences have to take certain required classes which include english, history, etc.
As you pointed out earlier, perhaps I disagree with you because our school systems are quite different.
Most science and engineering programs at UBC are extremely inflexible. Most core courses are set and there is little room for electives, even at First Year. The only requirement for First Year (freshman) Science majors is 6 credits of English. And I believe that Engineers don't even need to take English to graduate.
Most science and engineering programs at UBC are extremely inflexible. Most core courses are set and there is little room for electives, even at First Year. The only requirement for First Year (freshman) Science majors is 6 credits of English. And I believe that Engineers don't even need to take English to graduate.
Dude, you are the biggest liar ever (RE: 4.0 in English). A quick Yahoo search revealed the source of the "essay" above you claim as your own. . Grow the hell up.
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