849: The Pick-Up Artist

[truthv7]

Originally Posted by Astigos

You want to elaborate on that?

I don't know maybe I was over thinking it. From that little piece of your life on the show is fairly how part of my life is. If you might have elaborated more or shared more of your opinion, on the show, there might have been more differences and it wouldn't have been odd for me. Similar to if you saw a piece, and only a piece, of someone and said "hey that's me". It was just weird/cool think, "Maybe there is somebody who thinks like me out there" but it probably happens to everyone eventually.

[Astigos]

Originally Posted by truthv7

I don't know maybe I was over thinking it. From that little piece of your life on the show is fairly how part of my life is. If you might have elaborated more or shared more of your opinion, on the show, there might have been more differences and it wouldn't have been odd for me. Similar to if you saw a piece, and only a piece, of someone and said "hey that's me". It was just weird/cool think, "Maybe there is somebody who thinks like me out there" but it probably happens to everyone eventually.

Traditional college no longer has anything to offer me. I am no longer interested in scholarly subjects. I want to learn something that will be useful to my future, and I have come to the realization that I want to work with food and drink for a living.

[truthv7]

Originally Posted by Astigos

Traditional college no longer has anything to offer me. I am no longer interested in scholarly subjects. I want to learn something that will be useful to my future, and I have come to the realization that I want to work with food and drink for a living.

Yeah that is how I feel about college, I've always been more of a learn by doing or self teaching person. I'm not a very creative person, I see myself as more of a modifying type of creativity. I like to cook because it is easy to me, makes people feel somewhat good, and almost everything you make is your own version of it because no two people can make the exact same product.

[Bebe]

Mike is such a playa, don't believe a word he says about being shy.

[roxymodest]

Originally Posted by Bebe

Mike is such a playa, don't believe a word he says about being shy.

so this whole pick up artist thing is a front? HMMM...

[andyoureuglytoo]

Originally Posted by Astigos

Traditional college no longer has anything to offer me. I am no longer interested in scholarly subjects. I want to learn something that will be useful to my future, and I have come to the realization that I want to work with food and drink for a living.

I'm there with you too, Mike. I'm a theatre major. College has been the biggest waste of my time. Everything I really ever needed to know, I learned outside the university.

If it wasn't free, I wouldn't be going. (My mom happens to work at the University.)

I hate that people think I need to have a degree to have legitimacy. (Which is all it really is.)

My senior seminar class (a class about what to do with your degree after college) pisses me off. All it is, is a class about what OTHER jobs you can get if you're not going to work in the theatre. (Most of my classmates won't get jobs in the theatre.)

[sully_04]

Originally Posted by andyoureuglytoo

I'm there with you too, Mike. I'm a theatre major. College has been the biggest waste of my time. Everything I really ever needed to know, I learned outside the university.

If it wasn't free, I wouldn't be going. (My mom happens to work at the University.)

I hate that people think I need to have a degree to have legitimacy. (Which is all it really is.)

My senior seminar class (a class about what to do with your degree after college) pisses me off. All it is, is a class about what OTHER jobs you can get if you're not going to work in the theatre. (Most of my classmates won't get jobs in the theatre.)

haha.

too bad the only way the two of you are going to learn is by making the decision.

even with a plan, its really fucking hard. the intern is quite obviously lazy and unmotivated. these are not good qualities to drop out of college with.

"fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

I learned that from watching animal house over and over and not going to class.

[sully_04]

Originally Posted by Sajizzle

The real point to a liberal arts education is not the actual material you learn, it's the process by which you learn. Being able to think at a higher level, analytically, and in an organized, effective way is the best skill you can have outside of learning a specific trade.

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

My degree is in computer science. However, while most others didn't bother to broaden their educational horizons, I took it upon myself to take extra tech writing and composition classes, as well as public speaking. Although I do use my CS degree in a technical/consulting sense, I do find I use my communication skills quite a lot as well.

One reason to take college course is to learn the "true" versions of American/World histories and politics that are portrayed in a somewhat unicorns and rainbows fashion in High School.

[darksun3173]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

For me, college was a waste of time and money. Because I work in the technology sector, it would have served me better to have gone to a technical school, such as : York Technical Institute. I was planning on going to that place, but my parents could only pay for a instate school. So I ended up going to West Virginia University.