***Fucking*** school.

[Warik]

Well, it's day one, and I'm already prepared to violently execute half the campus without having yet attended a single class!

Sigh.

I woke up at 7:30 AM and got here at 9:30 AM only to find that my first class is cancelled and will not be in session until next week. Hello? What the fuck? Does the professor not have a roster of all of the students? Is it that difficult to send a general e-mail to everyone's campus e-mail address to inform them that class will not be in session?

I then sat in the library from 9:30 AM to 11-fucking-45 AM screwing around on the web to kill time. I then had to go to the bookstore to buy my textbooks and textbooks for my sister. 'Lo and behold, half the fucking books we need are not there. If X people sign up for the class, why do they not stock X books? Of course, I couldn't find a single used book there - ALL of them were new and thus I had to pay full price for a book I will probably end up selling back at the end of the year still with that "fresh new book" smell.

Not to mention they were so fucking heavy that they broke the handles of my double-bagged setup and I then had to put them in my backpack and put more stress on my traps than a barbell on trap day.

But wait... my next class isn't until 2 PM, so I guess I'll go have lunch. Whoops! Surprise Warik! The air-conditioned lunch room is now a BUY-AND-SIT facility only. "What the fuck does that mean," you ask, as I did? It means that even if you have purchased lunch there every day for the past 2 years, but today you brought a kickass fish sub sandwich and some vanilla coke, then too fucking bad you can't sit down because you're not buying an overpriced meal! Lovely... I now had to decide if I was going to eat quietly outside in the heat with the cigarette smoking fuckers, or inside where the rap music is blasting through the walls and everyone is talking loud as fuck. Great - I went inside and sat at a dirty table.

I'm now just a mere 45 minutes away from my "Origins of American Civilization" (you know, since that will help me become a much better computer programmer) class, followed by my "Stellar Astronomy" (also going to make me an awesome programmer) class, and finally my "Theory of Algorithms" (slightly less useful than "Origins of American Civilization") class.

So all of you staring at the clock at work, wondering why lunch time doesn't come faster, and then wishing that the boss comes out of his office and lets you all go home early - lucky fucking you! I'd rather spend 10 hours at work than another 10 minutes at this piece of shit.

That is all for now. bye.

-Warik

 

[havoc]

Do you have any herb on you? That would help.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

sounds like a good first day...

 

[Warik]

Do you have any herb on you? That would help.

Drugs are bad. They said so in school!

-Warik

 

[Lumberg]

I can sympathize dude. School sucks, just finish and get out so can earn the $$.

Books: buy them shits off the internet. Half.com, amazon.com have extensive used sections. GO to the bookstore with a notebook and copy down all the ISBNs.

JC

 

[Warik]

I can sympathize dude. School sucks, just finish and get out so can earn the $$.

Lol... I'm already earning the $$. I'm just here because it's free and because my parents were hoping that I'd be the first in the family to get a college degree, even though those who did not have done quite well without one.

Books: buy them shits off the internet. Half.com, amazon.com have extensive used sections. GO to the bookstore with a notebook and copy down all the ISBNs.

JC

Thanks for the tip. I'll do that tonight and then return these books to the bookstore when I get them, and then I'll sell the ones I bought for half price to the bookstore at the end of the semester.... muhahahah.

-Warik

 

[john937]

The grass is always greener somewhere else.
I've just explained a report to my boss for the 6th time and changed it back to the way it was 5 days ago when he told me to change it to the way it is now.....

I'd trade places in a heartbeat. You can have a house, job, mortage, second mortgage, visa card bills, and a crazy (more like - confused) boss. Just say the word.
Going back to school while somebody else foots the bill sounds like heaven right about now.

 

[2Thick]

... because my parents were hoping that I'd be the first in the family to get a college degree.

I hope you have a younger sibling, because you will probably be on top of a school tower before the year's end

 

[Lumberg]

Lol... I'm already earning the $$. I'm just here because it's free and because my parents were hoping that I'd be the first in the family to get a college degree, even though those who did not have done quite well without one.



Thanks for the tip. I'll do that tonight and then return these books to the bookstore when I get them, and then I'll sell the ones I bought for half price to the bookstore at the end of the semester.... muhahahah.

-Warik

You're welcome. Actually you'll get more money just reselling them through half.com. I highly recommend it.

Hey while you're in school why not play some sports? I flayed football and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. You will make some great friends. You have the rest of your life to pursue an indivudual sport like bbing. Teams are where it's at.

JC

 

[Frackal]

I was about to make a similiar bitching post...I am very thankful to go to school but mine started yesterday and:

- I get there, and there are literally NO parking spaces, not a single one, I had to park at a library down the street....So I'm pretty pissed cause I had to shell out 30 bucks for a parking fee, so I go up to some random lady there to help students find there way and inquire about getting my 30 dollars back...she tells me that they had 700 more students sign up than there were parking spaces for....that means they got an extra 21,000 dollars of parking lot repair money...for what? The parking lot is a fucking joke, not kept up at all, no lines even, potholes everywhere.....I'm getting my money back.

So I get to my first class, "Intro to Windows XP"....had to take it because of scheduling and I need it for my science degree. The teacher turns out to be a retired, anal retentive, power tripping ogre of a bitch with rules like "no hats allowed in class, " and the most absurd: "All your homework MUST be turned in BEFORE 1:00pm. If I go to grade your homework and I see that your computer's clock did NOT register it turned in by 1:00, I will promptly enter a zero for your grade....."

Fucking ludicrous...this isnt high school. I did not pay 400 dollars so I could go sit in some part time, fat ass, power fantasizing nazi's personal playground. I'm going to attempt to test out of that class, which I should be able to do even though I dont have windows XP, and I'm going to complain to the dean as well.... I even asked her, "Is it to the SECOND?" And she said yes. Even though all our computers vary on times, it's to the second. She expects us to be there at 12:50 every day.... arrrrghhhhhh

 

[GYSER]

That was a funny post bro...I hope that your days to come will be lighter on your mental levels...next time just wlk over to the music and unplug it. shit down the AC in the lunch room and charge the people inside to join you with the tabacco smelling people. lol...I know the feeling of a fucked up first day....

 

[casavant]

Do you have any herb on you? That would help.

I do believe I'll second this.

 

[-SD-]

Ive always agreed with most of your opinions but your attitude concerning college is something I will never understand. You constantly rail against it as useless, waste of time and money, etc but you are still a full time college student for free (something the majority of this board would very much like to be, myself included). I can sometimes see your point, DEPENDING on: what college is attended, what classes and degree is sought, cost of college attended verses academic ranking. But lets face it, the vast majority of people fare better in life in general if they have a college degree compared to non-degree people. If you really believed what you constantly say about college then you would not be in college, you would be out in the world working and making that big money instead of "wasting time" in college. Please dont retort telling me that "its all free so thats the reason I am going" because by your own admission you can be making a lot more money right now instead of "wasting" 4 years of your life in college.

 

[scruples]

are you using the Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest text for Algorithms?? that shit was hella fun

 

[ConstantChange]

I'm currently a student at the Univeristy of Oklahoma. 30,000+ students. $130+ parking permit. Closest available parking at 8:30 am WITH A PERMIT is about 2 blocks OFF campus. I know all about parking problems.

I know all about nazi professors as well. My principals of management professor won't allow hats either. Once you get into the 3000-4000 level classes, it's a new world. The professors have a way they do things, you either do it or get the hell out. They don't change for anyone.

This is the start of my 5th year in college and I'm working on my 2nd degree. I have a 4.0 GPA at OU and a 3.89 GPA overall. I know how the whole college thing works. Is it bullshit? Pretty much. I know you'll forget 90% of the crap you learned in your lower division classes, but it's just something you have to do. I just try to look at BS classes as something I have to do in order to make more money in the future.

Warik - You remind me of myself alittle. I feel I can make an A in any class unless the professor has already determined nobody can make an A in their class. It happens. I do very well in school, but I don't really enjoy the time on campus. I'm not a social person, so I struggle with making friends. I get pissed off when people ask stupid questions. I can't stand people that half ass things. I'm sure you probably feel the same way.

Do you think you'd enjoy the time on campus more if you met some friends or do you totally not care and just want to get in and get out?

 

[XBiker]

I hope you have a younger sibling, because you will probably be on top of a school tower before the year's end

Lots of positive encouragement from a fellow mod....

That was a good 1, 2T. Karma for U.

 

[Warik]

Hey while you're in school why not play some sports? I flayed football and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. You will make some great friends. You have the rest of your life to pursue an indivudual sport like bbing. Teams are where it's at.

I'm not interested in playing sports or meeting new friends at school. I'm only there to get a piece of paper that says I know everything I've known since before I got there. The fewer time I can dedicate to school, the better. Shit, I'm going to start skipping my math class (one of my 2 classes that aren't mandatory attendence) so I can work for that hour and 15 minutes. I'll get a lot more out of doing that than attending the class.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

Ive always agreed with most of your opinions but your attitude concerning college is something I will never understand. You constantly rail against it as useless, waste of time and money, etc but you are still a full time college student for free (something the majority of this board would very much like to be, myself included). I can sometimes see your point, DEPENDING on: what college is attended, what classes and degree is sought, cost of college attended verses academic ranking. But lets face it, the vast majority of people fare better in life in general if they have a college degree compared to non-degree people. If you really believed what you constantly say about college then you would not be in college, you would be out in the world working and making that big money instead of "wasting time" in college. Please dont retort telling me that "its all free so thats the reason I am going" because by your own admission you can be making a lot more money right now instead of "wasting" 4 years of your life in college.

superdave,

Aside from the reasons I've already cited, I'm going because I have to. Please be sure to distinguish the two interpretations of "I have to" and identify which one is actually me.

"I have to #1" = "I know absolutely nothing about my intended major and there is no way whatsoever I could be hired for a job and expect to perform to even mediocre standards."

"I have to #2" = "I have not and will not learn any significant skills in this university regarding my intended major, and those that I do will be skills that I could have easily picked up in less than a day's time reading hundreds of other source material vs. in 16 weeks time being given a lecture that has been designed to accomodate students who fit 'I have to #1' standards. If I were hired for a job concerning this major, I would absolutely rape my tasks to the point where the CEO himself would know my name and invite me to play golf with him on the weekends."

In other words, I'm going because, although I have the skills, the typical employer will not hire someone unless he has a $10,000+ piece of paper saying: "yep... this guy sat in a chair for 3-4 years and therefore he knows all of this shit."

Honestly, if today were 10 or 20 years ago when a degree meant shit I wouldn't be wasting my time.

-Warik

 

[Japanese machine]

I'm not interested in playing sports or meeting new friends at school. I'm only there to get a piece of paper that says I know everything I've known since before I got there.
-Warik

Your missing the best time of your life with this attitude; you wanna get out into the real world? cause all you do is work, forget about meeting hundreds of girls and bros to chill with, now is he time to get to know some "life long friends"

Whenever i had a cancelled class of spare time, i just went and met new people in the lounge room. Are you anti-social?

remember one thing; people a "likeable people person" will get 10x farther than being the smartest person. College is an oppotunaty to develope social skills awell as general BS knowledge. think about it man.

 

[Fonz]

Your missing the best time of your life with this attitude; you wanna get out into the real world? cause all you do is work, forget about meeting hundreds of girls and bros to chill with, now is he time to get to know some "life long friends"

Whenever i had a cancelled class of spare time, i just went and met new people in the lounge room. Are you anti-social?

remember one thing; people a "likeable people person" will get 10x farther than being the smartest person. College is an oppotunaty to develope social skills awell as general BS knowledge. think about it man.

LOL

Warik is an existentialist.

No doubt about it.

He'd fit right in as the main character in the outsider by Camus.

Fonz

 

[CASS]

I finished with all of that a long time ago. Thank GOD!

 

[Warik]

LOL

Warik is an existentialist.

No doubt about it.

He'd fit right in as the main character in the outsider by Camus.

Fonz

You know, I started reading that book once and got bored so I didn't finish (quite an accomplishment since it's barely 100 pages). Maybe I'll pick it up again. You were the one who recommended it, weren't you?

-Warik

 

[Lumberg]

Your missing the best time of your life with this attitude; you wanna get out into the real world? cause all you do is work, forget about meeting hundreds of girls and bros to chill with, now is he time to get to know some "life long friends"

Whenever i had a cancelled class of spare time, i just went and met new people in the lounge room. Are you anti-social?

remember one thing; people a "likeable people person" will get 10x farther than being the smartest person. College is an oppotunaty to develope social skills awell as general BS knowledge. think about it man.

Japanese Machine for a blithering idiot you sure say some smart things ome times

j/k

I wish I had done the same thing. I would trade my 3.95 GPA for a healthier social life any day.

 

[Warik]

Your missing the best time of your life with this attitude; you wanna get out into the real world? cause all you do is work, forget about meeting hundreds of girls and bros to chill with, now is he time to get to know some "life long friends"

Whenever i had a cancelled class of spare time, i just went and met new people in the lounge room. Are you anti-social?

remember one thing; people a "likeable people person" will get 10x farther than being the smartest person. College is an oppotunaty to develope social skills awell as general BS knowledge. think about it man.

Dude, I WANT to work. I have met VERY VERY few people in my life who I would want to consider "life long" friends. Hanging around and socializing about stuff that does not interest me is not going to help me get where I want to get in life. When I skip class I don't go hang out in the lounge room. I sit down and get extra hours done for my job or do research about useful (i.e. that which is not taught in school) things. Shit, I got invited to a "study group" for a final exam (no doubt because I slept every day in class and somehow kept getting awesome grades) and said no thanks because I didn't want to waste a night hanging out with a buncha people with whom I have nothing in common.

I don't hate everyone, and I don't think that a social lifestyle is something that people should try to avoid - I just know that it's not the life for me. If someone invited me to the "coolest" club in town with no admission charge, free drinks, and command of the VIP room, while on the other hand I had a project I was working on for work that I wanted to get done, I'd probably stay home and do the project instead. Why? Clubs = lots of people = noise = smoke = get home late = I don't like that. Work = Learn Stuff = Sense of Accomplishment = Money = I like that.

And I am a people person... I deal with people really well - I just don't like doing it. I've convinced the boss to go with my idea instead of his, talked my way out of bullshit charges at stores, returned items in violation of return policies, blah blah blah etc... Those small tasks hardly compare to the daunting tasks ahead of me in a large corporate environment, but then again, a college education does not even begin to prepare me for that.

-Warik

 

[Japanese machine]

Warik- fair enough bro, i just wanted to get some insight on you as a person. I respect people like you alot; my father is exactly like you, and i think he is the greatest man. You have a solid vision this in itself will get you far. It seems as though you are too mature for you own age group. I feel this way at times too.

Jon crane - Really? its hard for me to say cause i get 4.0 and still manage a healthy amount of social time, however going out every weekend is not something i like to do, maybe once a month. But at school like i said, we always all chill together (whomever) and go hit up resturants, pool halls, video game centres, and peoples apt./houses. I just wish more people were into lifting. Im the only one in the whole school how takes it seriously. i guess thats the price you pay for attending a High Tech Computer school. Alot of my good friends in my classes are EXREMELY out of shape.lol.

 

[Warik]

Warik- fair enough bro, i just wanted to get some insight on you as a person. I respect people like you alot; my father is exactly like you, and i think he is the greatest man. You have a solid vision this in itself will get you far. It seems as though you are too mature for you own age group. I feel this way at times too.

Thanks Mr. Machine - always happy to give insight.

I think the key here is balance. There are a host of things in life that one needs to attend to:

* Business
* Pleasure
* School
* Social Life (not necessarily falls into Pleasure category)
* Education (definitely does not necessarily fall into the School category)

I am in mild distress because of an imbalance, that is, too much school, not enough business. The rest of my stuff is where I like it to be, but school is robbing time from my work. I had a 2 hour meeting with my boss this morning and got a whole heap of new stuff to work on that I want to work on, but I'm only going to have Thursdays and Fridays to do it because of school M-W.

I'm really a goal-oriented person. If I don't see the point of something, I can't motivate myself.

At work I'm working towards helping the company profit and thus helping myself profit so I can buy nice stuff and a house/car/etc.

At school I'm working towards obtaining a piece of paper that says I know a bunch of stuff that I already knew before I started working towards that piece of paper. I don't see the point. =)

-Warik

 

[john937]

So why don't you take some classes that interest you?
Aren't you past your freshman prerequisit required classes?
You're what, a Junior? There's got to be some class out there that's "interesting".
You'll be able to work for the next 40 years, and trust me it gets old no matter how much you're accomplishing and how much you get paid.
You won't be able to go to school much longer.
Use your intellect to change your experience into something you want.

 

[Kid Dynamite]

Warik-
Just wondering, what's your job? And I feel you on being sick of school, but I'm sick of it because I'm paying for it, which leaves me with almost no money for anything else.

 

[MrMakaveli]

I feel your pain

6:30 am..My roomate decides he is going to wash clothes..IN THE FUCKING SHOWER! So the water runs out all on our floor and he just leaves it. Me being a neat freak hates this and cleans the shit up.


8:00 Going to English..get this I was given credit for Advanced English by the AP Exam but I have to take the regular one ANYWAY! With the dumb people who are just learning what a thesis is..GRRRR

9:50 Goto Comp Sci which I was also already given credit for but have to take anyway because my damned advisor refuses to let me skip any class essential to my major. So what do we learn? THE HISTORY OF THE FUCKING MOUSE!

1:00 Goto to my room to eat some tuna, go back to get in the elevator and the fucking POWER in the dorm goes out so I have to take stairs which I HAVE NO KEY TOO because our keys dont work in the locks for some reason..so I have to wait to be let out of the stairwell

I am transferring out of this place ASAP..I swear the average IQ of this school is like 7.

 

[Japanese machine]

I feel your pain

6:30 am..My roomate decides he is going to wash clothes..IN THE FUCKING SHOWER! So the water runs out all on our floor and he just leaves it. Me being a neat freak hates this and cleans the shit up.


8:00 Going to English..get this I was given credit for Advanced English by the AP Exam but I have to take the regular one ANYWAY! With the dumb people who are just learning what a thesis is..GRRRR

9:50 Goto Comp Sci which I was also already given credit for but have to take anyway because my damned advisor refuses to let me skip any class essential to my major. So what do we learn? THE HISTORY OF THE FUCKING MOUSE!

1:00 Goto to my room to eat some tuna, go back to get in the elevator and the fucking POWER in the dorm goes out so I have to take stairs which I HAVE NO KEY TOO because our keys dont work in the locks for some reason..so I have to wait to be let out of the stairwell

I am transferring out of this place ASAP..I swear the average IQ of this school is like 7.

LMAO!

Beat your roomates ass; it will make you feel better

 

[Warik]

So why don't you take some classes that interest you?
Aren't you past your freshman prerequisit required classes?
You're what, a Junior? There's got to be some class out there that's "interesting".
You'll be able to work for the next 40 years, and trust me it gets old no matter how much you're accomplishing and how much you get paid.
You won't be able to go to school much longer.
Use your intellect to change your experience into something you want.

I'm a senior with 26 credits to go. 20 of those are required courses.

I'm taking Stellar Astronomy i.e. something that interests me but wouldn't be my first choice on a list of things I'd rather be doing at any point in time for 4 elective credits, and I'm fucked having to take a 3 credit course for the remaining 2 because they don't have any 2 credit courses.

And if I have to work for the next 40 years I'll put a bullet in my head. I plan to retire before I have grandchildren so I can spend the rest of my life spoiling them and bouncing them on my knee and telling them stories about the old days when the federal government confiscated peoples' hard earned money and people didn't stand together to fight it.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

Warik-
Just wondering, what's your job? And I feel you on being sick of school, but I'm sick of it because I'm paying for it, which leaves me with almost no money for anything else.

Computer Programmer/"Guy with managerial tasks/input/authority but no official title" for a travel agency.

-Warik

 

[Kid Dynamite]

I need a job like that.