I’m so sick and tired of libs demanding that students juggle scholarship applications, working, studying, and fucking starving in order to get through college.
Y’know what? I don’t think students should have to fucking work during school and it is fcked up that we’ve normalized grinding people into dust in order to achieve an education.
Oh, and fuck you if you have a learning disability and can’t do both school and work. Guess it’s poverty for you, buddy.
Hell, one of my buddies worked full time at Home Depot selling appliances and nearly paid for full time college cash every semester. (May have had a sports scholarship)
Enhance!
nearly paid for full time college cash every semester. (May have had a sports scholarship)
Enhance!
(May have had a sports scholarship)
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because there is not enough time in a day for a full practice and workout in the early morning, three to five hours of class, eight hours of wage labor, and still enough time to study, complete assignments, feed yourself and wash your ass and still wake up in time to do it the next day.So either they’re lying, or this person went to college part time and graduated in 6+ years, or they worked full time for three months out of the year and part time the rest, or they just didn’t learn anything and picked a major that allowed them to graduate without doing virtually any work. What a rosy outlook for the public education system!!
Edit: or they ordered doordash/Uber eats every day on Dad’s credit card, in which case thanks for subsidizing my education as well
They even say that he had a “useless degree” which means that he would have been better off just not going to college in the first place.
Though some people’s idea of a “useless degree” is anything that’s not Engineering or coding or some shit.
True, though if he’s some kind of hustle grindset dweeb like the guy telling the story makes him sound, I’d imagine he’s in business.
yeah but i’m pretty sure that a bachelors in business isn’t worth shit.
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So, if we are expected to jump through all these hoops boomers never had to, especially white boomers. They’re the weak men that have created the hard times?
No they drive a very manly truck with their wrap-around oakleys and that makes them very hard men.
: I understand you’re struggling, but you could always [anecdote that is a lie]
College students should be malnourished and work 14 hours a day
College students should be paid for going to college since it’s job trainingno more half measures walter
I gave up on college for that exact reason due to learning disabilitys, having to work put so much stress on study time I could not decompress and would start to implode mentally on hard classes then I’d try to manage this by taking 3 easy classes 1 hard one, I got left all hard classes and gave up because the debt would leave me unable to afford a house. Soooooooo Now im back to working but now I don’t have the income in a two income household or the opportunities to do anything and housing in utah is sky high, the only silver lining is trama from school didn’t get me to successful commit suicide, and I found a partner I love. Anyone else think this sound familiar to your life?
America is an absolute fuck right now working class Americans need a responsive party like right now so we can at least have people to hang out and socialize with because holy fuck the working class is decomposing we are in anretched state isolated and alone, no party to soothe our pain, gifted credentialed workers look down on us they won’t share skills with us or form partys to help us find jobs or have social community. I understand you guys are just as fucked in. Different ways but we are living hand to mouth and I don’t want to become lumpin, please for the love of all that is good please help us form parties, we have comrades stranded in the country side who are even worse off then us in the city and they hate both of us because we have infrastructure and they only see us in weird mediated spaces online where our city culture looks alien and vice versa. Ok red talk over.
And then in the next breath they’ll complain about how when they were kids they were so wild, they partied and had fun, not like todays kids. And then, breath after that, they explain how any rule breaking should be the death penalty for children.
Yeah. I think one of the most depressing parts of my education was a professor (who went to the same university) telling me how different the student experience was 40 years ago. He told stories about storming each other’s dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc. The sort of college shenanigans you see in films and assume are made up. Then he asked what the equivalent is for my friends. I had to explain that we studied ourselves into ill health and went into crunch for weeks for the sake of getting top grades, then tried to sleep or distract ourselves with videogames. Maybe go to a bar occasionally. It really illustrated that massive parts of my life aren’t normal and shouldn’t be normal.
Apparently this anxiety and constant demands of perfection are new. Its a generational thing. Its not normal to have never failed anything and be fucking paralyzingly terrified of ever doing so. He was so upset at how lame and depressing modern kids are, that the spirit of the university is apparently gone, but at least he had the decency to be upset at the culture rather than us. I wonder what it felt like before, if kids were freer?
storming each other’s dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc
You get expelled for that stuff now! They actually punish you for it so you cant do any of that stuff anymore even if you had the free time!
This just in: A man who survived swimming across a dangerous river is now mad that they want to build a bridge.
“I survived cancer, so by god I am going to lobby against any cure for it because fuck you”
A ‘little effort’ here is working a full time job while also taking 12-15 units?
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I got “back in my day’d” by my lead at work who makes at minimum 2 grand more than me, but with the pay scale, he should be making significantly more, and we’re both part of a union that’s been fighting for a better pay scale for new employees for a while because it’s no longer sustainable.
We’re supposed to be on the same team, wtf, you’re licking the wrong boots.
Not only does he have a useless degree, hes also bad at it because he didnt spend enough time studying it (bcos work el oh el) and made zero connections!! Worth it! Look at that slave ethic
Who goes to college without working? Seriously.
my parents insisted I take loans and focus on school. I ended up working on campus for professors later in college but that was functionally part of my education. was immiserated for a long while after graduating until a good chunk got forgiven when my mom became completely disabled (they were technically in her name). not sure this is a smart path to go down - I really lucked out. loan payments on 100k+ was more than my rent because they were using my mom’s income to calculate the payments.
Oh, and fuck you if you have a learning disability and can’t do both school and work. Guess it’s poverty for you, buddy.
Yeah I was gonna say it’s ableist af. Got ADHD and really struggle to keep up with and coordinate all those things? Dyslexia, so you need at least twice the amount of time to do the reading and writing? Autism, so the college environment is often overstimulating and lacking in accommodations? Well I guess the plan is for those people to go fuck themselves, but at least be honest that that is the plan.
As someone with Autism, university life fucked me up badly. Trust me when I say you do not want to experience an autistic burnout.
I was someone who was consistently at the top of their class in High school and College, even reaching the top 1% in my country’s grades for a subject related to my special interest.
But with Uni… I could write a novel describing everything that went wrong. I was essentially forced to drop out by the second semester, and it cost me a fuckton in student loan debts with nothing to show for it.
