My first day was August 21. Junior college. What I laugh at about it is that the Student Store sells car rear window clings with the full name of the community--how dare me, JUNIOR--college on them. I imagine they're a BIG seller, along with the hats and the sweatshirts. I actually saw a woman's thong on the sidewalk the next week of class. Unfortunately there were no women around so I probably wasn't the cause of it leaving her body.
When I was an undergrad, I thought I was getting raped by being forced to pay $50-$70 per book, and buying Fields (then only around $150) left me bleeding rectally.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 8:05 PM Edited Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 8:08 PM
how about this. let's cut out welfare and social security and make higher education* and healthcare mostly free*. this way, if you can't make it with free education and health care, you're an idiot and deserve to die in the gutter.
* - nope, we won't pay for pregnancy. you want a kid, you pay for it completely. once he/she starts school, that's when the free health care kicks in. we will however pay for an abortion if you want one. we're keeping the fetus for stem cell stuff. yep, we'll pay for your college education, but you're going to have to make it in a state university caliber, government approved school. we're not paying for you to learn how to make bongs and hash pipes and take smoke breaks with your teacher, who everyone refers to as rick. if you can't cut it at a real school, you're going to work. but hey, at least you have the free healthcare. your company should be able to pay you more since they don't have to worry about offering health insurance. you can take that extra money and buy american made stuff with sales tax on it. damn, this shit is so simple!
Laith and Liz attend the same college? Awwww.... and then when laith runs for president of the U.S, Liz can be the first lady.
anyways here's what going on with my junior college experience.
Parking is getting better, since all those motivated people dropped out.
my geology class is kinda fun, there's gonna be a lot of field trips. One includes a 5 day camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. This is my chance to lose my virginity!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lab sucks though, all we do is look at rocks. Did you know that rocks have cleavages?
English 103 blows. My prof. is 80 years old, I swear, it takes him 20 minutes to take roll. He gave everybody an F on an essay, and said we did great.
Math 70 is a review of pre-algebra; so far, it's easy. I hope it stays that way.
my online American politics class is fun. I love arguing back and forth over foreign policy with my classmates. I took a quiz and got a 100%. I realized if I read the textbook, i'll understand what's going on.
Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 7:06 PM Edited Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 7:06 PM
Well in order to go on that camping trip, i have to join the geology club. Which is pretty lame, i dont want to hang out with people who look at rocks all day, and taste them.
My prof. made us lick a rock to know if it was the salty type.
I still can't believe that there's so many type of rocks out there.
There's the luster which is the look of it, cleavage to see if it has a 90 degree or not, fracture, hardness, streak.
Haven't you stated that you wouldn't have sex before marriage? What changed your mind?
—catloaf
I got served by a young bible thumper, who told me that I'm nothing without God. I'm just sick of people shoving thier religion down my throat. The bible was written by a man; why should I deprive myself from enjoying life, because of some old-thinker.
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 4:50 PM Edited Friday, September 8, 2006 at 4:51 PM
I got served by a young bible thumper, who told me that I'm nothing without God. I'm just sick of people shoving thier religion down my throat. The bible was written by a man; why should I deprive myself from enjoying life, because of some old-thinker.
—adams_babymomma
now you're using the ol' greymatters.
not only was the bible written by men, but middle eastern at that. this has always perplexed me. whitey can't stand the middle eastern nutjobs, yet they swallowed a version of their religion hook, line and sinker. whitey tricked the brother man into following their american jesus when they brought slaves over here and as a result, we have millions of black people following the white, american god.
why the fuck are african americans following whitey's god that was originally dreamed up by a bunch of middle eastern guys who sacrificed animals and had 2 or 3 wives at a time??? wtf??? it's just so silly i have to laugh every time i think about it.
somewhere around 21 i figured out it's all made up, so you're right on schedule, ABM.
ahhhh.... I'm sick on the third day of school. Now all my teacher's are going to think that I'm a slacker/pussy. Goddamnit.
—Robots Rule
It's your senior year right? What are your plans after high school, JC or 4 year?
I remember my senior year in HS, it was so easy, and boring. I was a T.A. for one of my teachers, and she would let me grade all the tests without checking them afterwards; so i would end up passing all my friends who were in that class. The only thing that sucked was that stupid exit exam. The state of CA required this new test that was much more complex than the other original one. I ended up failing math, and i had to take a review class after school, and then when i finally passed it, those bastards made up thier minds and waived it. I think starting with the class of 2006, they have to take it in order to graduate.
Graduation sucked though, my stupid cap kept falling off, and i didnt go to any of the graduation parties. My parents didn't even throw one for me, because my GPA was only a 2.5. Nothing to be proud of.
Cmon her parents are Jewish, sort of like mine. I mean mine act like the Jewish parents combined with the Asian, pretty focused on good grades (Asian) and return on investment (the Jewish). That's why they pulled me out of college, they just used my cancer as an excuse to pull me back home like an errant animal because my mom can't handle the fact that I want to be on my own.
I wish I had gotten a job I would actually enjoy instead of falling for the whole "everyone who does not enter college has failed at life" thing.
—chix0r
Don't take your education for granted chix, there's people out there who could only wish to attend a prestigious university. You're almost done with school, and you'll have a great job that does not require hard labor. You'll be teaching something you enjoy, and no matter where life takes you, you'll always have that wonderful degree.
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:29 PM Edited Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:32 PM
Eh, I just think as someone who hates interacting with people and dislikes being inventive, thinking creatively or solving problems, teaching was a weird choice. Yes, I'm glad I'm not Hispanic and picking fruit somewhere, but a cubicle job probably would've suited me better.
Also, if JC is going to cost you $40k less for the same quality classes, I don't see what the big deal is with transferring out. Lots of people who suck go there blah blah blah, but it's not a completely useless institution.
I'm too stubborn to drop out. It's not like school's a challenge, or teaching is likely to be. I'm just going to hate it. It's cool, I'm resigned. And bitter, maybe just a little bitter.
I'm terrified to graduate from college. I can't imagine just starting a job out of highschool and being thrown into the "real world". This summer, I was planning on living away from home and maybe getting an internship in New York or Los Angeles or even going Israel or another country overseas to work and even the idea of not seeing my mommy at all is scary as shit. I know I don't see her while I'm at school, but it kind of feels sometimes like I'm at camp since I'm with all of my friends, so I don't get homesick much.
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:42 PM Edited Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:42 PM
it's my junior year, and I'm planning on going to Western[wwu], I'm not that stupid.
I want to go to Western, and wait for my boy to get his Ph.D at the UW[with liz and laith] and then after school we will move to iceland and live their together, forever.
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:44 PM Edited Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:46 PM
I want to go to Western,
Glad to hear it :D
and wait for my boy to get his Ph.D at the UW[with liz and laith] and then after school we will move to iceland and live their together, forever.
I hope that doesn't mean that you're dating someone who's already in college when you're just a junior.
chix0r - if you're bitter already and are gonna hate teaching, you should really try to figure out something else while you're young. You don't wanna be 40 or 50, hating your job and your life and regretting that you didn't take a few years when you were younger to put yourself in a job you'll actually enjoy.
if JC is going to cost you $40k less for the same quality classes, I don't see what the big deal is with transferring out
Two problems with that premise. First, $40k less than what, a year at a private school? That brings me to the second - if so, I find it difficult to believe that the classes at JC are the same quality (I wouldn't even buy that for most state schools).
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 10:10 PM Edited Friday, September 8, 2006 at 10:17 PM
I want to go to Western, and wait for my boy to get his Ph.D at the UW[with liz and laith] and then after school we will move to iceland and live their together, forever.
Unless he's going to be a principal that's going to take quite awhile.
if JC is going to cost you $40k less for the same quality classes, I don't see what the big deal is with transferring out
Check your math. Unless you're switching into Harvard that's not quite right. If you're like the typical JC fairy tale you're likely transferring into a state school and the price is somewhere around 2/3's more at the University. It's actually a good plan if you're planning on going into a crappy state school like the one I graduated from. If you're going to do your last two years at a good state school like UW or some of the CA schools it's a bad plan. You kind of need to get socialized into your major where they take that stuff seriously. Psych 101 is a different flavor depedning on where you take it.
Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 12:24 PM Edited Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 12:24 PM
if you're going to do your last two years at a good state school like UW or some of the CA schools
Whoa, Ca has good state schools??????? no wonder why it's so hard. Can we say that junior colleges in CA are good too? It will make me feel better.
oh and mandee i am scared about the future too. I want to achieve so much in life. The job i want to have is usually done by white, old men. So what are my chances?
off topic: i just got a professional, salon, ceramic, ionic blow dryer with a ceramic round brush and boy it really makes a difference. My hair actually looks nice now.
Does anyone know if the Matrix shampoo and conditioner work? I have those too, and i'm not seeing a huge difference.
What i really want is the ceramic flat iron, but it's too expenisve :(
Whoa, Ca has good state schools??????? no wonder why it's so hard. Can we say that junior colleges in CA are good too? It will make me feel better. —adams_babymomma
All you should be talking about is girls you want to sleep with.
Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 9:02 PM Edited Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 9:05 PM
^ I have, they work beautifully, but my hair is too thin, so I can't really use it without looking extra greasy. my brother/friends use it and it is amazing
ps. I can't live without a straight-iron, and it's really embarrassing, because pretty much no-one knows I use one[it's complicated]
Because I turned my head up unto the heavens, arms outstretched as I gazed into their solemnly empty azure depths, and bade the clouds form and the rain fall? Am I human, am I god, am I something more? You, part, mystery, etc.
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 6:48 PM Edited Friday, June 22, 2007 at 6:54 PM
^^thats pretty weird first of all for indian/pakistanis parents (were pretty consevative people), but also because they are probably muslim. they must not be very religous.
^^thats pretty weird first of all for indian/pakistanis parents (were pretty consevative people), but also because they are probably muslim. they must not be very religous.
—abcde
In South Asia there is a lot of taboo about nudity. It's a big deal for a famous actress to show her bare back in a film. In Australia and other European countries, there are plenty of films with naked women that aren't classified as pornography. In Australia and other European countries, every kind of piercing except ear piercing (and even then only the lobe) carries the stigma/attraction of excitement and rebelliousness. Yet in South Asia, prime time news reporters will have nose rings.
So which culture is more conservative?
There's a bit of Cultural Triangulation there for you, if you want to do it. You don't even have to bother with disregarding the concept of a homogenous culture on any lines, be they ethnic or geographic. You get the same answer either way.
