ELITEOFWARMAN8
King
I thought I did 
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I hate sterotypes about college
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Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
I thought I did
Nope. You made damn sure to mention your discomfort with interacting with people (you don't know) above and beyond the monetary concerns. Is that not your priority, or was your OP just careless?
You didn't even get to the stereotype of college as a liberal brainwashing machine.Meh, I'm done now.
ELITEOFWARMAN8
King
Indeed. Most college dorm kids I don't have a good opinion off. Not so much that, I just don't trust anyone.
I'm a moderate so It doesn't concern me. I don't agree with my professors but nothing I can do.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
don't agree with them on.. what?
King Kalmah
Magyar Madness
Anxiety is normal nowadays...I bet if it wasn't for the recession alot of college kids would have stayed home hidden in their rooms....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/17/film.japan
I'm not judging any lifestyle...its just a sad existence(I lived it when I dropped out of HS,but I eventually got a job a few years later)....especially if you are a hardcore gamer...
otaku...eh anime is anime,but games have been going down the toilet for years now...
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Yes, because recluses who hate work are the same level as rapists and murderers and murderer rapists.article said:
BvBPL
Pour Decision Maker
I have no doubt that going to a four year school isn't right for everyone.
The Art Institute is a vocational / trade school. If you know you want to go into a trade and if the school has good placement services then it is perfectly okay to shell that money as you will be likely to earn it back. But it isn't a college and comparing it with a college is unfair.
You are totally right that community colleges are a great, inexpensive way to get an education. They are great for vocational learners as well as for people bound for four year colleges that want to get an inexpensive head start towards a degree.
One thing you may want to consider when thinking about community college is whether or not the credits will transfer. If you have a plan to go to a community college and then leapfrog to a four year school you may want to call the admissions or registrar's offices of some four year schools to make sure they will accept the credits from the community college. It would be a shame if you thought you had completed your Gen Ed requirements at the CC and then found out the credits didn't transfer.
Along the same lines, it is a good idea to make sure your CC is accredited. If it isn't then your credit may have problems transferring.
You don't need to move out, not if your school is ten mintues away. However, consider that you may need to eventually move out. The four year or graduate school you want to attend latter may be in another city or state. Even if you think you have it planned out now, it doesn't hurt to keep your options open in the future so you don't dismiss a great opportunity in the future.
Be aware that moving into the dorms is a right of passage. Moving into dorms is a shared experience that many people go through and a lot of them are very happy to go through with that experience. You are missing out by not living in the dorms, but there are certainly ways to make up for that.
In addition, your relationship with your parents is likely to improve after you move out. Just something to keep in mind.
Finally, regarding living in the dorms, ten grand a years sounds like a freaking absurd to live in a dorm. Admittedly it's been over ten years since I was in a dorm, but that sounds like way to much money.
That said, being right about all of that doesn't entitle you to be a self-important blowhard angrily spouting your diatribes at others.
holy king
Deity
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Well I am a better person. I don't need drugs to have a good time. I am open for suggestions why I should have them.
You shouldn't have them unless you think you should. I think most people aren't ready for things that can totally alter their relationship to pleasure or radically different experiences until they are open enough to understand a few things. Things like how there is so much depth to life, so many radically difference experiences and perspectives and accomplishments and joys and pains and understandings and moments and so forth, that you know no matter what state the drug puts you in, that it isn't "the answer", it's just one more thing you did to enrich your life for the better or for the bitter. To learn that it was awesome or a mistake to grow out of.
If you feel that your way of living and thinking is the best and only reasonable way, then drugs (which always include alcohol in my discussions) are going to be too powerful and will risk overtaking you.
You have to be bigger than the drug, but bigger in this case means that you don't believe the drug would take away from your identity, value as a person, strengths, goals, but would only be one more thing like trying a new flavor of ice cream, going bungee jumping, or checking out a live music show in a genre you've never heard of.
Mise
isle of lucy
FWIW I actually think most of his concerns are valid. They may be valid by accident, or for entirely the wrong reasons, but I'll be minimally charitable and not assume anything untoward about his character or motivations...
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Cashews and milk is ELITE's signature obsession.
On the whole drug topic, really, we are discussing the idea of what it means to have strong opinions and to what degree one needs to be knowledgeable on the topic to have such opinions.
ELITE, I believe you are taking the reasonable opinion given what you know, that drug addiction is bad and that you have no interest in being one. There is ample evidence at your disposal to form this view. The mistake is extrapolating this into a hard held belief that all drug use is therefore bad, and even crazier, stating that you wouldn't want to do it all and that it sucks. You just don't have enough experience or facts to feel so strongly about it.
Maybe you just shouldn't worry so much about what other people think.
Anyway, I don't see why it's so necessary to live in a dorm either. You're probably going to end up having to live with roommate at some point but you don't have to do it in college.
Anyway, I don't see why it's so necessary to live in a dorm either. You're probably going to end up having to live with roommate at some point but you don't have to do it in college.
If you live near to a college you want to attend fair enough - I lived at home through most of college and saved plenty.
I also missed out on opportunities and had to leave early to get the last bus home and whatever. It also meant I wasn't stuck in a house with no heat and no food.
I did still manage to go out and enjoy myself.
As for doing a full four years - do whatever works for yourself and your circumstances - if that means stopping after two and going to work then do that. Don't worry about what others are thinking.
You mentioned a very specific area you are interested in - there has been discussion on that in the past here (or in the old OT) - have a look through the advice given already.
I also missed out on opportunities and had to leave early to get the last bus home and whatever. It also meant I wasn't stuck in a house with no heat and no food.
I did still manage to go out and enjoy myself.
As for doing a full four years - do whatever works for yourself and your circumstances - if that means stopping after two and going to work then do that. Don't worry about what others are thinking.
You mentioned a very specific area you are interested in - there has been discussion on that in the past here (or in the old OT) - have a look through the advice given already.
madviking
north american scum
Agree 100% with this post.
On drugs and stuff: it's all up to you. No one is forcing do dope or booze. But if it's your thing, college is one the easiest places to get these things.
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