[Rockinacoustic]

I feel sorry for your parents. They clothe you, feed you, pay for your education, and board you in their new house, all while their son bad mouths them behind their backs on an internet forum.

Turn off your computer, and go tell your parents half the shit you tell us. Let us know how it goes; if they let you back into the house that is.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Rufus12
I'm coming to Washington in a few months. I'll show you how to have a good time. Hopefully it'll help relieve you of your "stress".

jo with imitation crab meat?

 

[TridenT]

 

[TridenT]

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Semester as in every 6 months or what? I am sure you got scholarships/federal-aid/something.

I pay nothing for my food, typically. I usually just eat whatever is in the closet because I hate being anywhere near some of my family. (Preparing food is misery)

Do you still not understand the simple concept of semesters as was explained in an early thread to you?

Semester = ~15-18 weeks and you have one in the Fall (mid-August to just before Christmas) and one in the Winter/Spring (Mid January to Mid-April/May)

 

[TridenT]

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Because... It isn't, and I am going to explode in anger/sadness eventually.

I don't know what to do, and I hate my life... blog.anandtech.com

Parents showed me the house they are most likely getting. (They are 100% confident; if there is a god they would fucking not get my parents this house) So, me being the optimistic person goes to the house thinking, "Hmm, this will be a nice house I have heard good things. I think this is the same house they were saying about owners keep it nicely." Well, it wasn't. It wasn't that nice house. No, indeed... See, my parents... They think they can fix everything, apparently. Of course they don't realize how much effort fixing these OMG HUGE problems require. SO I am looking at this house, at first I am thinking, "Oh shit.." Soon as we pull up. I was looking at the house as we were going by and I am like, "NONONONONONO" Screaming it in my head... We pull in and well.. Shit-storm already fell upon me. I already knew this was a POS from the outside. It looks like crap from the outside, and the inside is no better. Let's just say these people must have had 4 kids and never taught them how to clean. Because there are HUGE amounts of stains in the carpetting and I rather we just toss the whole thing out. There are nails all over the walls and these are not just ones where you can pull them out either, you'd have to pull out a 5"x5" bit of the wall to get them out.. My parents just made it sound so good, and let me down. The garage is shit, but they said it was great. It's terrible.

I just fucking hate everything. The room I am going to be in is even smaller than the one I am in now. I would fucking move out if I could right now, but I can't afford it. Seriously, 40 hours a week at min wage won't get a place to live here! It's fucking insanity, and they never listen.

anyway, fucking do-it-yourselfer meets children meets morons and you get this house. They set up some "surround sound" in the living room and it looks like shit on a stick. First off, tiny ass speakers are not going to get you any good audio. These speakers they put in must have been TINY. Probably sounded like crap too... There are wires everywhere, they fed so many through the carpet and they are all over the walls.. There are stains ALL OVER THE WALLS. The bedroom my parents picked out for me has a ton. The bathrooms are terrible, and the fixtures are horrid. (Cheapest fixtures you can imagine) It's like, so fucking bad. We looked at a place before this that I thought was bad(like I thought it had a bad backyard and the garage was too small), but now I fucking wish we had gotten that place because it was way better. Although we couldn't because it was practically sold when we looked.

To end it all, I fucking hate life... I don't know when, or how it will ever pick up. I really don't. I just imagine myself in misery for the next, two years I guess... Then maybe I will go off to a university, and be semi-happy? I imagine I could get a crack house that is better than this. You don't have to respond, we can let this float away forever.. Just yeah.. Rant.

as though recarpeting and patching some holes is really that hard.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Semester as in every 6 months or what? I am sure you got scholarships/federal-aid/something.

I pay nothing for my food, typically. I usually just eat whatever is in the closet because I hate being anywhere near some of my family. (Preparing food is misery)

Do you still not understand the simple concept of semesters as was explained in an early thread to you?

Semester = ~15-18 weeks and you have one in the Fall (mid-August to just before Christmas) and one in the Winter/Spring (Mid January to Mid-April/May)

Semester can also mean 6 months. Why not just say 15-18 weeks? That definition of semester goes against the other definition. I don't understand it.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/semester?jss=0
?noun
1. (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.

The other definition only really applies to German universities, and we are not talking about them.

Just reading your posts, you seem to have your head simultaneously in the clouds and up your ass.

 

[Jeff7]

...still waiting on some measurements of your bedroom.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I see nothing wrong with that house, actually looks quite decent.

You even got central air, do you realize how many people don't have that? It may seem like a small thing if you're used to it but try living in a house with no central air when it's a hot summer. I did it most of my life, we only got ours a few years back. Here it's a luxury considering we only use it for a few weeks per year.

The only way to cool off before we had AC was to *gasp* turn off the computer.

 

[TridenT]

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Semester as in every 6 months or what? I am sure you got scholarships/federal-aid/something.

I pay nothing for my food, typically. I usually just eat whatever is in the closet because I hate being anywhere near some of my family. (Preparing food is misery)

You realize that you're an adult now right? Start acting like one, pronto. Mommy and daddy shouldn't have to feed you.

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Semester as in every 6 months or what? I am sure you got scholarships/federal-aid/something.

I pay nothing for my food, typically. I usually just eat whatever is in the closet because I hate being anywhere near some of my family. (Preparing food is misery)

We have 3 semesters, Fall, Spring, and a shorter Summer. I get one scholarship because of my ACT score, but I have to maintain good grades. It was through my university and was study independant (didn't matter what I wanted to study).

The rest of it is paid by me and my family. I worked full-time all the fall semester doing a co-op and I'll start work next week while I'm in school.

I pay for all of my food and beer. My parents help out when I need it, and I thank them for it. My grandmother paid for me and my sister's books this semester, and I called her today to thank her for spending nearly $1000 on her two grandkids. :heart:

I know plenty of people who go through school with absolutely no help from their parents. It can be done.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
...
The only way to cool off before we had AC was to *gasp* turn off the computer.

:laugh:
Like my dorm in college. I had to switch off my PC, with 21" spaceheater CRT, and use my laptop, or else risk roasting the room's occupants in Erie's impressively humid August heat.

Though I almost always had air conditioning, courtesy of window units.

 

[TridenT]

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: Jeff7
...still waiting on some measurements of your bedroom.

It's about 8'x10.5'.

Estimated, or measured?

Surely you have a tape measure somewhere in the house.

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Semester as in every 6 months or what? I am sure you got scholarships/federal-aid/something.

I pay nothing for my food, typically. I usually just eat whatever is in the closet because I hate being anywhere near some of my family. (Preparing food is misery)

Yes, preparing food is dreadfully boring; I can't argue with that. But it's something you either do yourself, or pony up the money for packaged, pre-made food.


I would love to see you out on your own. I've had to cook entirely for myself for over a year now. I don't even have a working dishwasher, so I've had to do that too. Before that, I lived on a campus apartment, with even less personal space, and before that, in a dorm. You complain about privacy now, it doesn't exist in a dormitory. The bathrooms were built like a public restroom, and the showers were more like a fancy lockerroom - public restroom style stalls, with a showerhead to each one.
And yet I still haven't diced my wrists to pieces as a result.

Like Tallbill said, there are people in the world who would literally kill someone else to have the things you are complaining about.

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
...
The only way to cool off before we had AC was to *gasp* turn off the computer.

:laugh:
Like my dorm in college. I had to switch off my PC, with 21" spaceheater CRT, and use my laptop, or else risk roasting the room's occupants in Erie's impressively humid August heat.

Though I almost always had air conditioning, courtesy of window units.

I'm not sure when you were in college, but there are several dorms at my university that have just window units. They're pretty shitty, but have hosted some awesome parties.

 

[TridenT]

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
I'm not sure when you were in college, but there are several dorms at my university that have just window units. They're pretty shitty, but have hosted some awesome parties.

I'm in my 4th year now. The freshman dorms had no air conditioning system at all - no window units, no central air. There was ventilation of course, but it was just for circulation.
Superstitious Koreans would probably have freaked out, as I went to bed each night with a fan, without a timer, blowing over me. :laugh:

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
I don't live there... So, no.. I don't have a tape measure in the house... It's actually almost empty. This whole thread is about me saying, "I don't want to live in this house because we looked at other houses that were better and cheaper..."

Ah, I thought you'd moved in already.

Oh well then. It's your parents who are going to be living in it a lot longer than you. Live with it for now.

 

[Orsorum]

You either do something to make your life better or you don't. The worst thing you can do is sit still. Everything else takes effort and risk but it gets you moving and instigates change. Even if you go in the wrong direction, that gives you perspective and experience to grow from.

 

[Superrock]

You are in a temporary situation. Get an education for a real job then move the hell out.

 

[TridenT]

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: Superrock
You are in a temporary situation. Get an education for a real job then move the hell out.

That was my plan... then I realized, "Hey! I don't actually know what the fuck I want to do!!! PANIC!"

So instead I'll try to embarrass my parents on the internet, when they give me everything that I have!

 

[TridenT]

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: Superrock
You are in a temporary situation. Get an education for a real job then move the hell out.

That was my plan... then I realized, "Hey! I don't actually know what the fuck I want to do!!! PANIC!"

So what if you don't know what you want to do?

Here's a tip for you: NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. Seriously. There are a handful that "know" from kindergarten that they want to be a schoolteacher, GI Joe, whatever, but those are far and few between. As far as I have seen, the vast majority of people work to live and leave it at that. A significant minority actually make a definite career choice but I think most just pick the most reasonable option on a list.

Take some baseline general education courses at a community college and make sure you take some career-oriented courses in conjunction, accounting, shop (if you can), pre-law, biology, etc. Expose yourself to a breadth of subjects, really apply yourself to your studies, and then follow your intuition.

I'm 25, am a CPA, have a master's in tax, but can't tell you if I want to do that for more than a few years. It's not really my dream job, but it's interesting, I get to work with good clients and unique issues, get exposed to issues that affect every facet of the American economy, and I can go home at night knowing I earned my salary. For me, that's enough, because I have other areas in my life I want to focus on.

My question to you is, how long are you going to use indecision as a cover for laziness?