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Amurrican dream imo

Lots of bumhunting ITT

I love it when students have to pay for the mistakes faculty/administration make. The student in this case would be me ofc.

I have to take a makeup test for history, and i was all set to take it yesterday. I get down there and they say they don't have my name on the list and they don't have a test for me and to contact my professor. I contacted her reminding her that I signed the makeup test sheet so my name should have been on the list and so now I have to go down there today and take the f****** test. Problem is its a waste of f****** gas for me and I'm supposed to jam with some friends at like 2 o'clock and its kind of f****** me out of that. On a Friday. Sacred jam day.

Bunch of ****ing bull****.

One year down, two to go before I can start making monies again!!!!

Finally decided to do something about this today (nobody procrastinates as well as I do). Called 'em up, wasn't put on hold. Guy said, "Go online and file zero reports for all the quarters we estimated."

Did that. Now have zero balance. Took about 15 minutes total.

Fascist Bureaucracismz!!!1!!1!1!!!11

Welcome to college, where people mostly don't gaf and you are pretty much the only person who will advocate for yourself.

The one time that I didn't send an email reminded to a professor about a meeting we had set up a few days in advance was simultaneously the one time my professor forgot about our meeting. I always send a note a day or two before to remind folks of stuff like that. Because I know they'll forget.

When i was applying for pharmacy school i needed 3 letters of recommendation from professors. Apparently one of my professors never sent it in and the a$$holes at the university of minnesota thus threw away my application. After I had to find a god damned typewriter in the year 2003 to fill out their application no less. Still pisses me off to this day.

Wouldn't it have been easier to scan the application?

In 2003? Nah. Back then, scanners were the size of escalades, ran on a combination of rocket fuel and lasers, and cost something on the order of $175k dollars.

People forget how quickly the price of things have dropped.

I remember using a B&W hand scanner and photo gels to get blurry color images back in the day. That **** was primitive.

I am giving really serious thought to going back to university in September.

What is holding me back is:

1, I am not far away from 30, I dont want to be 30 and in ****ing uni
2, It is going to be expensive, £7450/year for 3 years just in tuition for the accounting and finance course I always assumed I would take if I went back (considered it before) with most courses being the same sort of area, assuming an even 12k/yr for 3 years (10k/yr min just for tuition and housing) that is a big blackhole to try and climb out of later in life

What is encouraging me is:

1, the economy is smoked for another 3+ years anyway and right now it is a struggle to even get crappy temp gigs
2, university was ridiculously fun
3, probably a catch 22 whatever I choose as it may take 3 years to find a decent gig to work up my CV to get into the level of jobs an accounting degree would open the door for
4, despite 2 I actually have a better idea what I want to do and the obv pitfalls to avoid to make my second go around at higher education fully successful
5, maybe my HNC in Business and Management Studies may let me enter at year 2, though probably not in that specific course requiring me to do a more general business course which I dont want to do, getting a good solid recognised accreditation from AIA or ACCA along with the BA, maybe going for an MSc part time in the evenings while working, is a major end goal of if I go back
6, tuition fee repayments are structured in a really forgiving way that it is one of the best debts you could possibly get

Ugh. I have no idea what to do tbh.

Phill, have you considered a **** job with a company that promotes from within? If you can get a foot in the door at someplace like Costco and are halfway competent/motivated you can end up in a junior management position in a few years, and a respectable management position in about 10. Retail ain't that bad a gig once you get yourself off the sales floor.

I have applied to a few places like that, a huge problem is there is a saturation of people with the experience and will to do those jobs due to the combination of high unemployment and a lot of those chain stores shutting down. I have spoken to people who work within that type of company and they say they are massively inundated with applications, esp from people younger than me who have more direct experience (I have never done face to face sales). Stuff like they put out a job advert online and get 50 responses within a week.

Where I am now I think I should spend the next week or two thinking it over getting advice from some peeps (friends, family etc), get some prospectus material from the uni I am looking at (and look at others) and if I decide to go ahead get the ball rolling by the end of the month then attend their open day June 19th and if I still want to go ahead pull the final trigger then. If I can find some solid job offer between now and September I can re-evaluate and pull out from starting the course where I shouldnt lose anything except perhaps housing deposit of £150.

I've been considering getting a JD as well.

Phill is younger than me?

Dude, my mom was like 35 before she started college. I'll be graduating mere months before I hit 32.

You know the people who do well in school? They're us old fogies who don't care about the bs college peripheral stuff, the ones who show up to class because they're not too hung over to wake up early every day, the ones who take getting advanced degrees seriously because they've seen and understand the **** economy.

I would get a JD but I promised myself I would never go back to school.

I just spent the last few minutes thinking how interesting it would have been to have you in some of my law school classes, and now I'm really, really sad that you weren't...

I once taught a block on 4th amendment issues in a course titled "Policing in America" and the professor shared the recording of it with a law professor colleague of his who invited me to give the same lecture to his students.

It was a lively discussion and many of them became quite angry at first and then learned a lot about perception, the importance of phrasing, and SCOTUS case law.

I infuriated many with my explanations of how LEO gain consent to search etc. They enjoyed it in the end.

I allow students in any course I'm teaching to interrupt me with questions at any time. It has never been an issue during any other course I've taught to LE. That is not a wise strategy when lecturing a lot of liberal law students on the finer points of police procedure however.

Go back to school if at all possible. It's worth it just to be around the college girls again even if you have no chance of ****ing them. Of course you'd be around British girls so it's not quite the same thing. Still, college is awesome.

lirva did you go to westboro baptist counter protest today

wait, has lirva posted since he was supposed to tear up a bible in class?

He is on a gimmick account, q0terkid who has posted a couple times itt most recently 103, for some reason. His writing style is nearly as easy to spot as redman's was.

His lirvA acct is self banned until after finals

He hath been smote by the Lord.

Leave L.A. in the morning! Can't wait to get back home but there's a lot of family crap to deal with

My step mom, grandma, sister, and uncles are still taking my Dad's death very hard so I gotta think of cool things to do for each of them.