| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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college won't teach you shit about the real world. |
If you want to be a success, find someone in the real world who is doing what you would like to do, and then pester them for advice and/or a job. Ask THEM what you should major in. A joint effort of classroom theoretical knowledge, and real world practical knowledge will be your best bet for long term success. No matter what the profession. I know so many people who were 4.0 students in the classroom, but stepped off campus and were bitchslapped hard by life. While the era of young dot.com millionaires was exciting, but it was, in the end, no more than a bunch of smart kids tricking the old Wall Street establishment with smoke and mirrors. If you want the company to last, spend some time working for someone before becoming your own boss. |
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i'd go science and partner up with an mba. you could always minor in business or at least throw in a few economics classes to break up the monotony or merely to laugh at all the business major cadets. i think it's weird that, with a goal like that, you don't already know what direction to go in. spend the summer hiking the pacific crest trail or something. clear your mind. then see how you feel about it. |
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But, should you decide that college is the way for you, here is the best lesson I learned. Avoid rubbing alcohol. Despite the deceptivly catchy name, it is really not that good to drink. |
i suggest science. business is boring. if you go to college to learn how to make money, you have no soul. |
Nothing beats the voice of experience.Take a shit job,so you can learn the ropes from the inside,at somebody elses expense. I would suggest science,too.Good hands on experience. |
dave's advice always amounts to some variation of: "we're all going to die soon anyway, and nobody cares, and there is no solution, so just carry on as you were." don't listen to dave. |
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so just give up |
go hiking instead |
nyaaah! |
if this person cares what any of us think, i'm not going to bet on their success |
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i have a graduate degree and three years of academic research work experience and one year of real world work experience in a moderately well-paid corporate job, and my suggestion is that you quit college and spend the rest of your life working various low-paying jobs and drinking heavily. |
dave, you're so cute when you are righteous and sullen at the same time! mwah! |
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possible strengths, weaknesses, and new possibilities, as well as developing our own technology and researching sciences to make this technology possible. I've kind of started to try and achieve this goal but after reading Chucky Palahniuk books my prosperous view of the world has been diminishing. I'm looking for advice on figuring out what my goals and wants are, if that doesn't work I'm going to start an anarchistic cult-like underground organization to try and trick the useless eating sheep into either A) Becoming not so useless anymore B) Killing Themselves or C) Figuring out what the hell they want in life and fullfilling it and repeating. There will be no neutral except for those tricking. Comments? Cookies and Sugarless Kool-Aid are in the kitchen. |
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i still recommend hiking this summer. go out and see what has been for millennia. see what is a constant, what exists regardless of you and me and everyone else. understand that incredibly complex and beautiful and IMPORTANT things occur constantly whether you are there to observe/control them or not. if you aren't able to do this, try getting laid. |
Someone apparently woke up on the wrong side of the cage this morning. Brisk has an interesting, albeit possibly naive idea for what he wants to do with his life. That is hell of a lot more than I can say for myself when I was jumping into college. I burned through five majors before settling on one to graduate with. And here I am, five years out of college, and I just recently started a company that does very little with the degree I ended up earning. While I agree wholeheartedly that there is much more to an education than simple classroom learning, and that taking time to hike is a grand idea, giving up on life pursuits is not. Go out and learn all you can, both in the classroom and out, find something you are passionate about and do it. Too many people, (i.e. Dave) seem to be stuck doing things they detest because they lack the intestinal fortitude to step off the rat race to make the change. They choose to complain about their station in life rather than making real effort to improve it. If you think that this technological R&D job is something that will keep you excited and passionate about what you are doing, then do whatever you can to make it happen. Feeling like a cheesy commencement speaker, I will step off my soapbox now.... |
come here so i can fart on your head. |
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that's the problem with you airheads: when you have someone like me to handle the details, it's pretty easy to talk your self-fulfillment crap. yeah, he nailed me. so what. an absolute buffoon could have nailed me on that. |
anyone seen my meds? me either. |
"i still recommend hiking this summer. go out and see what has been for millennia. see what is a constant, what exists regardless of you and me and everyone else. understand that incredibly complex and beautiful and IMPORTANT things occur constantly whether you are there to observe/control them or not." that's beautiful, dave. it's too bad everyone stopped after the first paragraph. |
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Yes, there are two main choices in life: 1) How to get your RDA of dietary fiber, and 2) whether to fart when socially convenient or physically necessary. On another note, I finally had garlic ice cream yesterday. I might have it tomorrow, too. And Hitler was bound to come up. It's Goodwin's Law. |
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9 out of ten useless eating sheep prefer dave to the other leading brand. |
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And you're right, I am an airhead. Love you. |
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(I didn't want to get left out of the sarcstic group hug) |
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You see,I too,am a cynic. On the grander scale of time,we are merely a grain of sand,very quickly eroding into "nothingness". He is absolutely right.GET OUT AND ASSIMILATE NATURE.There you will find truth,and honesty.There you will find the truths of our miserable existence.Its all there,whats come before,what will come to pass.There you will find the constants. I hold absolutely no hope for mankind. And I will give you an example: If the world were to end,[as we know it,from what ever reason],and there were only 2 people left surviving,we'll say you,Brisk,and me.And we decide to divide the world in half,each of us taking control of our respective sectors. Well,human nature being what it is,it wouldn't take long for me to start thinking,"you know,that Brisk has got better lakes than I do,as a matter of fact,he/she has all the good ones!" And it wouldn't be long before Brisk started thinking,"Damn,that Czarina's got all the good timber.She did that on purpose!" Laugh if you will.But this is human nature. And,unfortunately,always has been.We will ultimately orchistrate our own degrading demise. Refering back to Darwins most simple of concepts,natural selection.Well,those most adaptable to a given environment,will go forth and multiply[sorry,think I might have slipped a little bible quote in here,but it serves the purpose].But if that species has FUCKED UP that environment,well,its doubtful that much productive reproduction will transpire. |
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do any of you ever glare at or rudely ignore people you don't know but see every day if they nod at you or smile or say "hi" to you as you pass them in a hall? |
i've been told i can look mean. do any of you ever stare at people you don't know until they give you a disgusted look? |
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it's not sex, man. it doesn't matter when you get the nut. |