PSA to all fresh college students:

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Fuck you.

Thats number 1. And fuck the sorry people who raised you.


2nd:
I dont care what you learned in high school. You are not in high school anymore. You are in college. You need to do the work. You need to study. You need to come to class. Every day. You need to STAY AWAKE in class. Every day. You need to take notes in class.
When?
Thats RIGHT! EVERY day!
I fully acknowledge public K-12 gave you a messed up attitude about life. I am sorry. BUT, you are now 18 and there is only person person on the entire planet responsible for your education. Give up? ITS YOU!
Maybe some day many years from now when you have lots of money you can go back and sue the school for failing to teach you not to be a lazy shit bag. However, in order to successfully sue someone you need to show damages. If you have the money and the ability to press charges you cannot say you were fucked up for life. You got a crappy education. Get over it. You have about 100 times the opportunity of the rest of the world, especially if you are male and have 4 functioning limbs.

When is homework due? When the teacher tells you its due. Not "I dunno". Not "I forgot". Not at the end of the semester or after your week long nap or any other time.
There is this thing, called the internet, you may have heard of it. On it, is more information than your grandparents could ever hope to understand and much more than your parents will ever be able to access. And its everywhere. You cant swing a dead cat without hitting the internet. You already have all the information you will ever need to write any paper. There is no excuse for not having your paper done. Ever. Most teachers dont even require you to print a paper anymore. It can be emailed, meaning no printer, no way to lose it, and if by some miracle you did lose it, you could duplicate and resend it in less than a minute.

3rd and possibly most important:
Stop whining. Especially to me. I'm 30 years old. I grew up with a whole generation telling me I was worthless cuz I couldn't work 8 hours and go to school and maintain a 4.0 GPA. I dont care about you. I dont care that you won't get any studying done or do any homework in the 72 hours between today and the next class. Dont look to your fellow students for sympathy that you cant be as spoiled as you used to be. Anyone who sympathizes is weak and ignorant just like you. They will be the folks holding you back whenever you finally decide you do want to do something.

I was in the Navy for 9 years. I have seen and dealt with shit you probably dont even wanna hear about. I had to slave away for a very long time just to get a measly 14,100 dollars for college. Now I sit in classes full of dumb, spoiled, ignorant people talking shit about how much everything sucks and how they dont get enough free handouts from the world around them. As far as I'm concerned you are lazy and useless and the Chinese are going to own your sorry butt long before you retire. In my two years at the local Pen for Dirty, Lazy Assholes (AKA Community College) I have seen 1 person who actually bragged they had worked for anything they got, and she was home schooled.

Do NOT tell the teacher you refuse to do the work and still expect to get an "A". Not only does that commit several logical fallacies (which you will never be smart enough to understand fully) but it also dredges up some serious anger management issues I still have not yet fixed.
I think she's a dumb bitch too. But not for the same reason you do. You think she's evil because she actually expects you to do as your told and she will fail you if you dont learn what you are supposed to.
I think she's a dumb bitch because she didnt throw your stupid ass out during the first week. She's fucking up my education because she has to spend 10 minutes every day yelling at people. I think teens should actually have to earn their way into college, with work, not taking a placement test. Everyone needs to be denied entrance for at least one year after they leave high school. Right off the bat I think that would clear out most of you morons. The rest would be damn grateful for their opportunity.

Finally, just like you didnt work to get through high school and you clearly didnt work hard enough to actually earn the Lexus you are driving, you have not yet earned the privilege of talking shit about anyone. Especially not the teachers. Yes, its true most of them are professional academics and I admit its kind of hard to respect them. Having said that, they have done more work and accomplished more glory than you will ever know. They might be annoying, but you are going to be completely useless until you finally do something real with your life. You have no reason to ever say anything bad about them. Among their many trials they've had to put up with fools like you for a number of years. That alone should be grounds for a fat pension.
Dont even think about criticizing me. I worked way too hard to get here and I know I work much harder than most of you on a daily basis. The faculty arent allowed to strike student but I have no such reservations. And I'm fairly certain I'd get lots of leniency for a 1st offense and my service to America.


/ old man rant
 

slayer202

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sorry old man, but college was as big of a joke as high school was for the most part. i bet you teach some random elective and treat it like its the most important class evar. you're that guy, congrats
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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8/10

I don't know if it was factually accurate, but I can get behind the sentiment.
 

PhoKingGuy

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I agree with all of this, though high school juniors are worse

<--- part time SAT Instructor
 

KeypoX

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jeez what school do you goto. I wish assholes in my school would stop working so hard, they are making me look bad.
 

destrekor

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what about us people who didn't expect handouts and are aware of all our failures? :D
 

Matthiasa

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Hmm so what really happened?

besides I did basicly all the things you said not to do and still ended up in an honor society for my major. :eek:
 

nick1985

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I hate the fucktards that keep raising their hand giving their dumbass input on every topic that nobody wants to hear. There is 1 or 2 in every class
 

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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I hate the fucktards that keep raising their hand giving their dumbass input on every topic that nobody wants to hear. There is 1 or 2 in every class

Always in the front of class too.

self-righteous bastards

wait, that's me. well, the last part at least.
:biggrin:
 

HendrixFan

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Sadly this will only get worse. Colleges are only looking at expanding, especially after rates were deregulated and tuition skyrocketed. They have been lowering the standards for years in order to bring in more students, and hence more money.

This is why a Bachelors isn't worth what it used to be, and the job market is full of idiots that possess them.

My time at a Tier One university, ranked 47th nationally and 15th among public institutions, was disappointing. There were certainly challenging classes, but many of them were watered down to adjust to the skill level of the students. The worst part was watching things get pushed back and excised from the syllabus because the professor would look bad failing so many students, and instead lowers the bar midstream.

In one of my weed out classes the professor cancelled class 15 minutes in because only 5 or so out of 100 plus students had read the material that was assigned before that class. After a few minutes of the same people answering all his questions he asked for more kids to get involved. They didn't. He finally asked by show of hands who had actually read the material. Single digit number of hands went up and he just said "get out".
 

Blackjack200

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My brother was in the Marines for five years, came out, went to college and basically had the exact same reaction as you. He hated almost everyone in his class.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
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jeez what school do you goto. I wish assholes in my school would stop working so hard, they are making me look bad.
Like I said, community college. If you really need to know its NOVA Manassas. And we have some of the most spoiled suburbanites in the whole damn country. Its not a surprise we are being invaded by Mexicans. None of the black and white Americans wanna do anything. Assloads of easy to get jobs, and now they've created a job market where someone who demands minimum wage is shit out of luck.
I'll assume you go to a college with motivated people. I envy you.



what about us people who didn't expect handouts and are aware of all our failures? :D
They arent causing problems in class. Cuz they arent in class or at least have the good sense to stay below the RADAR.

Which raises a completely seperate issue: How many lazy, useless people are ignoring college entirely and just wandering around aimlessly? If they arent causing problems, I dont care. But I suspect they might be draining on my tax dollars either now, or in a few years.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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My brother was in the Marines for five years, came out, went to college and basically had the exact same reaction as you. He hated almost everyone in his class.

We had a 40 year old marine in my math class. We also had one of the worst students in the whole school in our class.
I'm pretty sure he independently planned to beat his ass the same time I was plotting horrible beatings.
 

DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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Oh well, at least you have the chance to set the curve and make them all suffer a little more.
 

Matthiasa

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Sadly this will only get worse. Colleges are only looking at expanding, especially after rates were deregulated and tuition skyrocketed. They have been lowering the standards for years in order to bring in more students, and hence more money.

This is why a Bachelors isn't worth what it used to be, and the job market is full of idiots that possess them.

My time at a Tier One university, ranked 47th nationally and 15th among public institutions, was disappointing. There were certainly challenging classes, but many of them were watered down to adjust to the skill level of the students. The worst part was watching things get pushed back and excised from the syllabus because the professor would look bad failing so many students, and instead lowers the bar midstream.

In one of my weed out classes the professor cancelled class 15 minutes in because only 5 or so out of 100 plus students had read the material that was assigned before that class. After a few minutes of the same people answering all his questions he asked for more kids to get involved. They didn't. He finally asked by show of hands who had actually read the material. Single digit number of hands went up and he just said "get out".
Sucks for you, I've had professors that would think nothing of failing half the class, and my place isn't even ranked anything. The only way stuff gets cut is due to time constrates caused by poor timing of university events which effect the classes.
 

Blackjack200

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Which raises a completely seperate issue: How many lazy, useless people are ignoring college entirely and just wandering around aimlessly? If they arent causing problems, I dont care. But I suspect they might be draining on my tax dollars either now, or in a few years.

Kill them. Kill them all. It's the only wa...

...wait a minute, weren't you draining my tax dollars for nine years?
 

AznAnarchy99

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Dec 6, 2004
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You are in college. You need to do the work. You need to study. You need to come to class. Every day. You need to STAY AWAKE in class. Every day. You need to take notes in class.

For my first two quarters I havent studied unless it was finals, I've skipped classes, and the classes that I've made I've fell asleep in many of them, and I dont take notes but I kept a 3.5 so meh.

And no I dont drive a Lexus and I dont get pissed if I dont get an A and my parents don't give me a dollar for my education.
 

vi edit

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When I was 18-21 I could get by with 4 hours of sleep, a 5 alarm hangover and still stumble to class and get decent grades. Oh and tag college age girl ass while I was there.

I couldn't do any of that at the age of 32 now.

I understand your bitterness.
 

Matthiasa

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Kill them. Kill them all. It's the only wa...

...wait a minute, weren't you draining my tax dollars for nine years?

Oh you would have just loved it if i took a possible offer from the name which would have been something like 250k worth of graduate level education after I graduate if passed or qualified for the required stuff to join the program.