Capt Caveman
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You've got an excuse for everything. Until, you change that mindset, you'll always be a failure.
You've got an excuse for everything. Until, you change that mindset, you'll always be a failure.
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I'm only quitting it because I don't feel that I have a solid enough foundation on the shit before Calc I. I'm going to go for some lower math classes so I have a better understanding of the prerequisite material.
GodlessAstronomer
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Fuck that. Leather up and take the calculus course, stop wasting time, stop making excuses. Revise as you go. You'll pick up the foundations faster than you think,
I'm all gettin' emo again(Was I ever not? :awe. I failed life, for the nth time. One would think that I would get numb to the feeling of failure because I have experienced it endlessly, but this, I do not.
Starting to think again. Trying to think in my head how I can fix things. It never really leads to anywhere that I want... I keep trying to think of fixes, but the fixes are always things that should of have never happened or should have happened a bit differently. The fixes are almost always things to do in the past. It seems more plausible to invent a time machine than it is to try to prevent future misfortunes. It seems that I cannot repair this broken machine, but only wish that it was never on the path to destruction after already been broken.
I don't ever really see these things coming though. I have hopes, and then they get crushed and then it's bad. I'm too optimistic even for a pessimist.
Lalala... If you want to know what happened basically this: First day of summer term. I go to my Calculus I class(It's a quarter school) and I don't remember anything we're supposed to know already. I forgot logs, ln, e^x, wtf an intercept even is(I know now, but I was like, "ugh, I forgot all the lingo too"), and tons of other shit like how to find domain and range and how to do shit with radicals. So I have decided that I am going to drop the class and my other class(that class was actually going good, but I have to drop it too if I drop my calc class because of full-time requirements).
New plan is to do more research on fitness and workout routines, then go to my college fitness center every weekday and lift weights. I don't know if I'll even follow through with it because I just get hopelessly depressed on it all. It feels like I'll never gain weight, get stronger, meet ladies, or become anything successful in my imagination. I don't even have a strong definition of what is successful except being happy and satisfied. I think I am going to keep failing that forever. Life was predetermined in someways by my genetics and hormones. Maybe you can see why I can never see solutions for the future except maybe radical gene therapy when all comes back to that lack of satisfaction with this body and the results it derives.
And some cute red head girl is on my mind, but she's too young and I never know what people are thinking. I think that's the real problem.
Edit: When I said meet ladies I meant meet ladies and actually go out on dates and possibly get laid once in a while even. So far, I meet them and then they run away screaming froot loops. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I think it's just how I look.
I used to worry a lot about working out and women too. All that's changed after I finally ran into real life and got rocked. I'm still in uni too, and just my humble opinion, but I really think you shouldn't use women as a motivation for any aspect of your life. If you want to look great and get in shape, do it. Don't tell me you want to, but then you can't make it to the gym because you're depressed. Depressed about what bro? Join a good mma gym, get cut up and learn to fight, take away all of your physical image & alpha status worries. Stop dropping classes, if you've already taken calc or even pre-calc, a summer calculus program is nothing to complain about, even if that means you have to work twice as hard for 1.5 months.
Basically, I don't know you, and I don't know what hardships you carry around, but get it together while you're still healthy and the major worries in your life are whether or not you're too depressed to meet chicks at the gym. Those concerns are a waste of time. Women don't like guys who spend large swaths of their time concentrating on landing hotties, unless they're just looking to score some hot ass, in which case good looks/body and confidence are so important, and when you send all your time being depressed that you aren't landing the hotties it's impossible to have either good looks or a coquettish personality.
You're not fooling anyone. Use whatever excuses you need to explain away your loser attitude. Every person has the makings of greatness in them, but it's pretty difficult to find unless you work hard. Sorry, but chicks/good looks/success or whatever it is that you want requires a desire for greatness and an ever-increasing dedication in a self-reinforcing cycle. Wouldn't it be better to get the girl of your dreams incidentally as a result of being the most amazing version of you (which would still suck compared to me
), rather than because you tried really hard and *tricked* her into thinking you were the man? Because no high-status girl wants to be with anything but the best. And as a high-status guy you only want a high-status, self-respecting girl, and want to be the amazing man she's always dreamed of.
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Kirby
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DrunkenSano
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Jesus, when did ATOT turn into freaking livejournal? You have serious issues, go see a damn shrink.
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I don't have the money. It's like $100+ a session for some... I don't really have that kind of dough right now. Not sure if they could help me anyway.
DrunkenSano
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Parents won't help you and help pay for it? This is your life and it will definitely affect your future, short term as well as long term.
Platypus
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JM Aggie08
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7, probably.
The only reason it has taken that long is for the past 2-ish years while I was in college I was going maybe part-time at best, because I didn't know what I wanted to do. I only have about 45 transferable credits as it stands right now at my quarter-term-school. I have 1 more year at this college then I transfer. (I would have made the transfer this upcoming fall term, but I have a failed course I have to retake(Long story; not entirely my fault))
This is what it takes to get a bachelor's at UW in Computer Science.
In order to even get into the program I need 2 computer science courses. Only 1 of them is offered at my current school.
In order to satisfy a math requirement in order to get into the program I have to take 3 math courses. I can't take the equivalent of Math 124(Calc I), 125(Calc II), and 126(Calc III) by the end of spring term 2011 because my current school has weird equivalency to the Calc III course. In order to get the equivalent of Math 126 at UW(Calc III), one has to take the Calc III course and the Calc IV course offered at my school. This ends up giving credit for some other math course as well, but Calc IV isn't always offered during summer terms here (If I was to start Calc I for fall then I would only get to Calc III by spring).
So, unless I transfer to a college up in Seattle in Winter or Spring of 2011(I can't do it for fall because I have a failed course I need to retake here) then I will be even further behind. This means I will be behind on the computer science class requirements, the math requirements, and possibly even the English Composition requirement. The writing classes at my school I took also don't apply for some reason that I don't fully understand.
So, it's all troublesome. That's why it's a 7 year program. I started in Fall/September 2008. I won't finish until at least Spring/June 2014, and looks closer to 2015 at this lame rate.
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alkemyst
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zerocool84
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This
There's a reason why people are always depressed, they choose to be that way. No one can make you depressed except for yourself. I have no sympathy for people who are like this?
At least he's a feminist.
Not your fault? Who was taking the course? How do you fail any course in a lame college?
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They don't have people there for the summer that often from what I've seen. There is some, but it's not that extensive.
http://www.clark.edu/student_services/counseling/counseling_right.php
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Group project. The guys in my group bailed the course and left me without a way to do the project on my own in any reasonable manner.
PieIsAwesome
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alkemyst
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IMHO college should never be rushed, but rather enjoyed much like the T&A of nubile females you will encounter there. Probably the most concentrated dose you will ever get in your life outside of becoming a billionaire.
Along with all the other great things like research teams, racing, mountain biking, hiking, debate, etc etc etc.
Especially in our economy it doesn't make sense to leave college yet. Your first salary post-grad sets your life's stage sadly about 90% of the time. You come out now chances are in 4-5 years someone is going to START above your paygrade. They will always be above you and have much less time in at all levels. They may even have better benefits (although starting early usually gets the best minor perks).
Personally, if I ever win the lottery or fall into never worrying about my finances...I am going back to college part-time.
ConstipatedVigilante
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You didn't know enough math for Calc 1? That's pretty sad, dude. I had forgotten a lot of Algebra when I started my calc 1 class in the Spring semester, but it came back pretty quickly. Go to your TA's office hours, get a tutor, whatever. If you want to do well in a class, be prepared to put in the work. I'm taking an accounting class this summer and although the math isn't anything difficult, I have to spend 2+ hours on the homework some nights just because things don't add up right.
Do it til you get it right or just sit down and shut up.
Do it til you get it right or just sit down and shut up.
Dude sounds so easy, you must've never had to worry about not working out at the gym and all the girls that weren't talking to you there.
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