hope you play bigger?

Dont you think that learning what you learn bring you more than just being able to write?
i did not study in your field but surely you learn some structure/deduction of thoughts and discipline that you could apply in other area of your life, that might even be useful in the future ?

i mean when i learn chess for example, it help a lot my analytical ability that years later, help me in poker.

I know i did not spend loads of money like you did but i have difficulty believing that your "brain" did not progress in other domain than just simply writing...

Systemic problem: Expecting/encouraging/preparing people who have just finished a legally obligated 12 years of education to then elect a major/course of study with no real life experience.

I took another route: Did a **** ton of drugs during secondary education, got kicked out of school a few times, acquired several legal infractions and took some time to figure out what life was about before deciding to go back for an education. I also elected to go to a decent community college instead of university to nail down my interests/skills at a lower cost. This allowed me to establish that no, even though I was good at math and science, I did not want to be an engineer.

Fast forward through six years of community college acquiring no degree and I start graduate school in exactly 31 days at 28 years old. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Doesn't seem like the strongest career path. But thinking I'll have more disposable income in 10 years than I do now is a good bet.

There's no need for that. Harvard's endowment is over 37 BILLION dollars. They earn enough from it that no student needs to pay, if that's what Harvard chooses.

JL, I am reminded of another way. Have him get a corporate job that has college reimbursement. A co-worker of mine had no degree whatsoever. 8 years later he had an MBA, all paid for by employers.

He got you so good that no reply you make can defeat it.

Not true. If he stays in the same profession, his best earning years are very likely behind him. That isn't true for me.

He ZINGED you a good one, that's the fact.

I have a real love/hate relationship with software. Love being able to build from scratch stuff that didn't exist before, love solving problems, but there's definitely days where 20/40 sounds a lot more fun. Or even 10/20 with the Russian brigade.

How long will it take me to go from zero to expert in this pineapple ofc game if we assume I'm a quick study, have good teachers and work hard?

Expert play would be to invent new ofc game and start on ground floor with everyone else.

I started the UW as a junior in 2003 and my first year was fine enough - I worked and studied hard. My senior year I got wrapped up in the poker boom and I had the delusion that I was making $100/hour online and that's all I could think about when I was in class, so I stopped going. I stopped going to work too. I basically dropped out with less than a month of school left. I took a full summer schedule and paid my tuition myself and then went to class three times and never showed up again. I was 10 credits short.

I eventually finished those last two classes in 2010. I was alcoholic my entire time in college and I had a gambling addiction my senior year. I don't think I grew at all as a person while I was in school and I fancied myself a rapper at the time (great at writing, no natural vocal talents) and it's alarming how often I used that skill set in school. I basically got my degree in reading books, rapping, and writing ****ty stories.

My poker "career" lasted a year before I hit bottom. I had no concept of bankroll management and I had a compulsion to play all the time and any success I had would be wiped out by alcohol eventually until I got sober in 2010.

I think Harvard is D1 so athletic scholarships aren't out of the question.

But my point was more that Harvard is probably just as liberal as Berkeley, just with far less of a reputation for being so. For example, Harvard made news years ago by kicking religious groups out for discrimination - the Christian groups were only choosing Christians as leaders.

Schools like Notre Dame are probably less conservative than you think, too. What do you think the Breitbart headline would have been if Pence gave a speech at Berkeley and a bunch of students walked out?

Ivy league schools don't offer athletic scholarships because, as mentioned previously, all of their kids are not just the brightest but most athletic and, well, just better than you. It's an expectation with admission to the club.

The current progressive policy is to have college or vocational equivalent free to all citizens. I remember when a high school education was all you needed to start a career; now it barely qualifies to stock shelves at Walmart. So with the inflation of education requirements by society upon itself, society should uphold its social contract and guarantee suitable education of its youth. Therefore college should be free to all who qualify, as well as vocational training.

10/10 can relate

The problem is that "free" is a myth. Someone pays for "free" education (and "free" healthcare) and it's quite understandable that they don't like it. Current proposals aren't very good.

If college counts as a baseline education, condense the first two years of college cirricula into high school and do away with mandatory summer breaks (I'm moderately in favor of this).

Alternatively, create federally funded universities. But as the current state funded universities show, it's really hard and quite possibly impossible to manage and sooner or later they just demand more and more tuition. The fundamental problem is that when you link taxes with social services, the times you need the services the most are the times you collect the least taxes.

Yeah kinda of agree, free is a bit over the top but it should not be at the value of a mortgage either ...

I know some think Canada is a ****** socialist country but it is not ...
It cost like ( depending where you live) 2-4k per session , bit too expensive imo but anyway, the point is student should have the feel to lose something ($) to kinda of motivated them in the low times imo.
Anyway here it works pretty good from my point of view.

Yeah but what has Canada ever done? I'm guessing some winter Olympic medals but that's probably the only thing Canada even has on its Wikipedia

And the bacon but if we're being honest here I'm not sure that isn't just propaganda

You know, quality of live might sometimes be better than pure money ...
Yeah bit more taxes but less dangerous as well in Canada.
Anyone has the opportunity to succeed because the cost of everything is reasonable ..
Ps: anyway doesn't matter, you just suck out hockey anyway

Don't you guys still use the Mounties? Aren't you concerned that a horse based military may not longer be relevant?

This conversation is amusing to me because just before I began celebrating my highest academic achievement at the standard age of 18, my mom said "where are all of your friends?!" Looking back, I was the dropout that graduated.

Brag: had friends.

Can remember many events from the moments in between then and now but none were such a constant reminder as the time drew Bledsoe got LEVELED by moe Lewis at foxborough stadium and I was there in the 42nd row, and in comes the one and only best backup qb of all time.

Boooom hahahahaha.

Well we still have hills and forest so it sometimes can still be useful.
At worst we have you to help out our borders !!