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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: DukeNukem on January 04, 2011, 06:47:55 PM
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I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.
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Is the school new? You could study the campus map.
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Have you decided on a major yet? Did you study well while you were in High School? If you didn't study in High School that is a habit you need to acquire. Studying the guides to see what prerequisites are needed for your career field and planning the approximate time and order would be a good use of your time.
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If possible, get out and walk for a bit each day, at least 30 minutes. Go to a cheap movie.
IIRC you had to leave last time because of grades after an auto accident. Review your notes from that last semester as a refresher. Do it somewhere other than your apartment (library, McDonald's, Starbucke, etc.) Check out some books from the library on study skills, learning styles, etc. Make a plan for your time if you know what your schedule will be. Practice that schedule. When school starts you'll be in the routine. Start going to bed at a reasonable hour.
Do some prep work. Make sure as much laundry is done as possible. Clean the apartment from top to bottom and straighten it up. A clean environment helps the mind focus. Make some meals and freeze them. If you can't do that, make some menu plans so that you have maybe 10 meals you don't have to think about, but can just pick the fixings up at the store rather than walk around for 30 minutes in a daze at the store (been there, done that). Don't forget good food like fresh fruits and popcorn.
These things will fill your time while getting you ahead of the game.
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I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.
Crystal Meth?
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You did ask, so I'm just going to butt right in and suggest that you
stop drinking now, so you are clear-headed and alert to begin school. :viking:
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You did ask, so I'm just going to butt right in and suggest that you
stop drinking now, so you are clear-headed and alert to begin school. :viking:
:thumbdn: :P
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You did ask, so I'm just going to butt right in and suggest that you
stop drinking now, so you are clear-headed and alert to begin school. :viking:
:thumbdn: :P
You know I'm right. School is hard enough without a hangover! :P
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You did ask, so I'm just going to butt right in and suggest that you
stop drinking now, so you are clear-headed and alert to begin school. :viking:
:thumbdn: :P
Scots are dodgy. >:D
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You did ask, so I'm just going to butt right in and suggest that you
stop drinking now, so you are clear-headed and alert to begin school. :viking:
:thumbdn: :P
Scots are dodgy. >:D
I dunno why they love drinking so much. Why, you'd think they invented Scotch! :orly:
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I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.
Crystal Meth?
That is a wonderful idea. Studying the math behind crystals. Back in the 1930's crystal radios were all the rage for young boys.
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Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey. ;)
(too bad the video sucks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUDDpfApl8
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Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey. ;)
*proudly waves a shamrock overhead* :green:
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And the English invented Sex, but we didn't like it, so we just let the rest of the world do it.
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Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey. ;)
*proudly waves a shamrock overhead* :green:
Okay. I'm a melting pot of Irish, Scots, French, English, and German. Except for sake and kava I'm my own liquor store.
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Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey. ;)
*proudly waves a shamrock overhead* :green:
Okay. I'm a melting pot of Irish, Scots, French, English, and German. Except for sake and kava I'm my own liquor store.
Self-reliance, the spirit that makes America great! Wooooooo! :fiveshots:
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I thought Butterflies was Irish?
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I thought Butterflies was Irish?
She's a Scot who currently lives in Ireland! :toporly:
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And the English invented Sex, but we didn't like it, so we just let the rest of the world do it.
I thought the English were hatched from eggs. :dunno:
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And the English invented Sex, but we didn't like it, so we just let the rest of the world do it.
I thought the English were hatched from eggs. :dunno:
No, we come from :fsm: meatballs.
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I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.
Books cost at least 400$ a semester
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I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.
Books cost at least 400$ a semester
Unless you can get used ones! I don't know where you'd get them, but it's worth looking into. :chin:
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yeah, but used books are still expensive. :(
At leasts a hundred bucks per book, used. 5 classes it ads up
sometimes I got lucky, though, with my literature classes. When you read novels you cant get them at the uniersity store for like a dollar a peice :eyelash:
online maybe there are there are good prices :)
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College textbooks are a criminal racket!!! :tantrum:
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Wow, $100 each for USED?! I've been out of school for 22 years, I had no idea. :(
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oops. booty call. g'night everyone
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oops. booty call. g'night everyone
:lol: Take care, see you soon!
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Only idiots buy anything from the college bookstore.
In my first semester of college, I made the mistake of taking my financial aid check to the college bookstore and buying my books there. There was a long line, I think one of the books I needed was unavailable at the time, and somehow, I got robbed of 800 dollars in change. Jesus Christ, I never got that money back. Ever since then, all further financial aid checks that I got and will get will go straight into my savings account.
I buy all my college textbooks online. They are a lot cheaper than at those college bookstores. But still fucking expensive as Hell.
To reiterate on what Scrap said, I think college in general, at least in the USA, is a fucking criminal racket. Even a "cheap" community college costs about $2,000+ a semester. Where the fuck is all that money going into, anyways?!? :zombiefuck:
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The college I go to is only $26 a unit. 8)
About the only thing California has going for it is cheap education.
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Here in Australia we don't have to pay tuition fees up front. Instead we have something called HECS where it is like a loan, we end up paying back the university when we get a job and earn over a certain amount. Just like paying tax which is why the university gets our tax file numbers when we first enrol.
Still have to pay for books though and so I agree with this:
College textbooks are a criminal racket!!! :tantrum:
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it is really about half price at the bookstore. and honestly, used compared to ebay was comporable back when I was in college and that was only a few years ago . It depends on the class. Like I said I got a lot of my English and Literature books very very cheap. One semester I manged to spend under a hundred dollars just becaus of the classes I was taking. 5 classes and that is a lot of $$$. Math books are expensive. Specialty books are expensive ( and hard to find elsewhere). Any kind of science, computer, or technical class will be expensive. 150$+ new then think about depreciation values from there.
... oh and :notes:
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join the army? atleast you'll loose some fucking weight. and turn into a man, :zoinks:
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it is really about half price at the bookstore. and honestly, used compared to ebay was comporable back when I was in college and that was only a few years ago . It depends on the class. Like I said I got a lot of my English and Literature books very very cheap. One semester I manged to spend under a hundred dollars just becaus of the classes I was taking. 5 classes and that is a lot of $$$. Math books are expensive. Specialty books are expensive ( and hard to find elsewhere). Any kind of science, computer, or technical class will be expensive. 150$+ new then think about depreciation values from there.
... oh and :notes:
Do you have a degree? If so, in what?
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Read. You can never read enough. I also agree with taking a walk regularly.
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it is really about half price at the bookstore. and honestly, used compared to ebay was comporable back when I was in college and that was only a few years ago . It depends on the class. Like I said I got a lot of my English and Literature books very very cheap. One semester I manged to spend under a hundred dollars just becaus of the classes I was taking. 5 classes and that is a lot of $$$. Math books are expensive. Specialty books are expensive ( and hard to find elsewhere). Any kind of science, computer, or technical class will be expensive. 150$+ new then think about depreciation values from there.
... oh and :notes:
Do you have a degree? If so, in what?
philosophy :) I graduated in 07
Read. You can never read enough. I also agree with taking a walk regularly.
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walking does so much for you. I live halfway up a mountainside so walking is especially fun for me :) But I try to walk up and down it everyday even though i usually take a car. a quarter mile uphill is good for the soul
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it is really about half price at the bookstore. and honestly, used compared to ebay was comporable back when I was in college and that was only a few years ago . It depends on the class. Like I said I got a lot of my English and Literature books very very cheap. One semester I manged to spend under a hundred dollars just becaus of the classes I was taking. 5 classes and that is a lot of $$$. Math books are expensive. Specialty books are expensive ( and hard to find elsewhere). Any kind of science, computer, or technical class will be expensive. 150$+ new then think about depreciation values from there.
... oh and :notes:
Do you have a degree? If so, in what?
philosophy :) I graduated in 07
Good to know. I'll try not to get in over my head in discussions with you.
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no dont think of it that way !
It is just asking simple questions trying to figure stuff out. Im certainly not a genius. But I like to talk about concepts really, so you dont have to know anything in particular about anything - just have opinions.
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no dont think of it that way !
It is just asking simple questions trying to figure stuff out. Im certainly not a genius. But I like to talk about concepts really, so you dont have to know anything in particular about anything - just have opinions.
I'm not looking at it as playing "gotcha" on your part. More like knowing where your potential strengths lie. So I'll presume that you know more about any given points on metaphysics/philosophy than I do since I haven't studied any of that. Given what you and semicolon have been arguing it doesn't seem to be a discipline that is generally empirically testable.
Some parts of psychology are that way as well, but there are areas like conditioned response, redirected aggression, principles of mass punishment, advertising, thought control and propaganda that are proven workable. Taking over an airliner, for an example, by being loud, scary and unpredictable would be conceptually real easy. Women and children in the aisle seats, men at the windows, beat and/or kill the first loudmouth or person who's looks you don't like. Follow up by not allowing potty breaks and instilling extreme fear. Then gradually allow people to clean themselves and have bites of chocolate and use the hand not holding the whip to point the finger of blame at the government negotiators for not allowing you to let them go. After a bit of that most hostages will be in love with the hijackers and hate the government for not resolving things quicker. Do you use such principles when being a dom?
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Take up Disc Golf.
You can get started for about $15. (driver and a putter)
Are there courses near where you live??
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Take up Disc Golf.
You can get started for about $15. (driver and a putter)
Are there courses near where you live??
I don't even know what that is.
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Take up Disc Golf.
You can get started for about $15. (driver and a putter)
Are there courses near where you live??
I don't even know what that is.
It's a form of golf played with flying discs.
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no dont think of it that way !
It is just asking simple questions trying to figure stuff out. Im certainly not a genius. But I like to talk about concepts really, so you dont have to know anything in particular about anything - just have opinions.
I'm not looking at it as playing "gotcha" on your part. More like knowing where your potential strengths lie. So I'll presume that you know more about any given points on metaphysics/philosophy than I do since I haven't studied any of that. Given what you and semicolon have been arguing it doesn't seem to be a discipline that is generally empirically testable.
Some parts of psychology are that way as well, but there are areas like conditioned response, redirected aggression, principles of mass punishment, advertising, thought control and propaganda that are proven workable. Taking over an airliner, for an example, by being loud, scary and unpredictable would be conceptually real easy. Women and children in the aisle seats, men at the windows, beat and/or kill the first loudmouth or person who's looks you don't like. Follow up by not allowing potty breaks and instilling extreme fear. Then gradually allow people to clean themselves and have bites of chocolate and use the hand not holding the whip to point the finger of blame at the government negotiators for not allowing you to let them go. After a bit of that most hostages will be in love with the hijackers and hate the government for not resolving things quicker. Do you use such principles when being a dom?
That is basically Stockholm Syndrome. yeah, I guess it works ! It's not something I do though. Control through fear. But no I dont use those princiles as a Dom. Everything I do the people want done and its not cause someone scared them into wanting it.
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I read that Sachor-Masoch was heavily into getting beat with machine belts and such, but have never read any of his own writings. Have you ever heard of The Eulenspiegel Society? I read an article about them a couple decades back in a High Society, Cheri or other nudie magazine. And yes, I did occasionally read articles in between looking at nude layouts.
http://www.tes.org/ (http://www.tes.org/)