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Studying in college is an experience of a lifetime and only people who went to college really know what it's like.
To celebrate how wonderful college is, Bored Panda has put together a list of hilarious memes that every student will relate to. From sleepless nights to the annoying group projects to partying for a week straight - we've pretty much summed up life in college in this one list. Keep on scrolling to check it out and don't forget to vote for your favorites.
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Kjorn 8 years ago
sad really, but you need to study in place where you can get a job! i'm crazy about history. I'm a history nerd guy, BUT i know i'd probably never get a job in it. So i study in computer, i get a job in IT and still have fun with history. it's important to work in a place you love, but more important is study where you could find a job too.
Blue Cicada 8 years ago
One opening for an English teacher in the U.S., 75 applicants.
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Aubrie Allen 8 years ago
I used to have a shirt that said "Yes I have a degree. Now, would you like paper or plastic?" To my job bagging groceries, after I got my degree.
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Johanna Zamora 8 years ago
You forgot add the 5th wedge: carrying the dead weight who woke up just 2 hours before the presentation.
Ntosh 8 years ago
Wow, this was so me in high school and varsity. I don't hate people but I hated group work. I swore to never work with people again because I pretty much had to do 80% of the work. Little did I know that in the work environment I will have to work with people. I regret not using my time at varsity to learn to work well with other people, because even today I still want to work on my own, as if I know everything.
Sarah Garland 8 years ago
I ONCE got into a group project where three of us were adamantly refusing to be included in a group to do it all alone (for this very reason) and then a lone fourth person who was distraught because they had been left out of groups which capped at four. Our professor forced us all into a group. It ended up being great--we broke up the project into four whole interconnecting pieces, and then did not talk to each other at all. The 4th person volunteered for the least-needed section and ended up handing out all the worksheets because they didn't complete their part (*of course*), and the rest of us went into our crazy "I have to carry the weight of the world" mode on our sections. A+ the professor was blown away. Sometimes your people find you. <3
Stille20 8 years ago
Now that I am in my 30s and I have gone back for my grad degree I see every group project as a leadership challenge, try out different techniques... because in the "real world" it is just as bad. Group projects really do prepare you for what you will deal with as a professional.
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mangowarrior 8 years ago
In college while working on a group project, I anticipated my team to fail miserably which they did. I ended up producing my own project on the side and presented it as a group -.-
Yo Soy Quien Debo Ser 8 years ago
Hahahahahaahahaha this one is a good one, I should use this phrase some time in life
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Alberto 8 years ago
i once refused a partner in chemistry ( medical engineering university ), after being forced to work with him i sent him to the teacher to get some anhydrous water, teacher nodded and let me do the project on my own
Catlady6000 8 years ago
OK, I did have to look up anhydrous water. That was awesome!
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Allana Rose 8 years ago
Having to do group projects has to be the lamest way to learn anything. If you do learn anything from this it's that working in a group is going to suck! You will always wind up with at least one person in that group who is going to leave all the hard work for you while they skate in on your work! UNFAIR! They should stop doing this.
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Mala Qiu 8 years ago
I teach English as a foreign language. Here's an actual response on a final exam. Question: Why is it important to protect the diversity and originality of rainforests? Answer: “It is important to protect the diversity and originality of rainforests. We must protect the diversity and originality of rainforest to make sure environment balancing. Rainforests is the habitat and living place of animals and plants. If we didn't protect the rainforests, the living place of wild animal and plants will be destroyed yet caused they lose their habitat. Besides, we need to protect the diversity and originality of rainforest because the rainforest contain various species of plant than can be used of medicine.” I now inform my students that repeating the question or certain words over and over will not count toward the 60 word requirement.
Richard Campbell 8 years ago
500 words is about a page and a little bit. you struggling to write a page you got bigger problems
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Jonathan Eatsalot 8 years ago
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Julia Śliwińska 8 years ago
oh yes! This IS sooo true :D haha But, as a surprise, I can still witness this at work! Whyyy.... Why?.
endelbendel 8 years ago
Bc you are supposed to make an appointment, show up and talk in person.
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
Stage1: "Ok, doesn't sound bad..." Stage2(5 minutes later): I'll just pretend that I listen and understand. But mind you, I don't get a word and I f**kin' hate this subject. Stage 3(15 minutes later): "I'll never be able to graduate... Meh, that teacher's hopeless anyway, I'll just read that book I've been struggling to find time to read(due to ahem, ahem, my "small amount of homework") for the last three months..." Stage 4: "They should hire him as a babysitter, no matter whether you listen and watch him or not, the moment he enters the room you start falling asleep and yawning. Snore." P.S. I was something like that in my first two classes this morning. 25 minutes before the end I was snoozing with my head supported in a standing position only by my hands.
Celestial Lynx 8 years ago
Haha! That description of the fourth stage had me dying of laughter 😂
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Hans 8 years ago
There is actually a not-so-funny side note to this issue. Universities nowadays struggle with the fees of publishers, public funding agencies demand open access publishing, and high prices for literature are one factor for developing countries to struggle with keeping pace with the needs for education. His sad face pretty much underlines this, though. :)
Pelleh Din 8 years ago
ah yes; but I suspect that this young man should not have any problem getting a job - assuming he gets decent grades.
lindsayaotter 8 years ago
Ha, Ha! That is so true. The text books the change a few things in the book the entirety remains the same and then you cant sell back your $200 Biology book.
Gigi 8 years ago
Oh they'll buy it back for $9 and then sell it used for $185
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Cara Kelly 8 years ago
It's a scam. They literally come out with new editions pretty much every year now, only changing a couple words, or adding tiny paragraphs.
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Patrick O'Harris 8 years ago
WTF I bought 8 books for 4 semesters and hardly payed 100€ Thanks Germany and your professors at uni!
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Tara Denny 8 years ago
They wouldn't be able to sell them, because the professor will change the book he uses for next term.
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Maureen Zappellini 8 years ago
In Art school, my boyfriend was mugged while walking home to his s****y apartment. When he showed them his empty pockets the muggers tried to convince him to join them in their "fundraiser" ( he declined)
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Lil’ Twister 8 years ago
ROFL! Funniest extra credit I’ve seen ! Wrong triangle doesn’t exist in math world! (I’m a math&physics major)
Too bored to do this! 8 years ago
Maybe the square was the "wrong triangle" but I don't think this is college, and how does this make you cry? Just saying
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Chuck Bartowski 8 years ago
You'd be surprised what you can find. I probably have 25% of my engineering textbooks in PDF form. Just last night I found a PDF for a book on vehicle dynamics. Also another pro-tip: ask if international editions are fine. My linear algebra/diffeq book was $150 at the bookstore, but I ended up paying $25 because I got an international edition. Exact same book.
Jilltdcatlady 8 years ago
Hahaha, so did a friend... it was in Japanese! But it WAS only $20.
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Marysia Jawłowska 8 years ago
It's been done but sadly it's already closed :( RIP library.nu the page that made hundreds of people in poor countries do their thesis
Sumaiya Ebrahim 8 years ago
My university actually had a book bank where students could check out text books for the entire semester and return them back after exams :)
Kira Thesloth 8 years ago
Most community colleges where I live do that, but the books are very hard to get. Many people call in favors. Someone actually tried to take a book out of my hands once for someone who called on the phone. The other librarian gave her a dirty look & let me have the book anyway. It was the last one available at 8:05 a.m., checkouts started at 8 & there was still a line that wrapped around the building. I also had to meet certain criteria to qualify. Craziness!
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Anika Mangelmann 8 years ago
Professors in Germany usually provide either their own textbooks for a few bucks or a written summary of the content of the subject. I could buy all material I needed for less than 10-20 € each semester.
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Kururi.Orihara 7 years ago
I mean, why take notes on something that isn't?
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Mbajunwa Charlemagne 8 years ago
everything seems important until last minute reading and you cant select the area to read
Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
I did this with a book once. Almost 95% of the book was green. It took me about 6 colour markers and 5 hours to read and highlight most of the book.
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ChubbySquid 8 years ago
WALLY. IT'S WALLY. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING ELSE. HERE IN THE UK IT IS WALLY. SAY IT WITH ME PEOPLE- W A L L Y.
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Alberto 8 years ago
i never bought 1, they were written by my teachers and they were reciting them in class word by word , so what would be the point ?
Tanya Van Alstine 8 years ago
O'Connell, sadly many universities require students to purchase their own textbooks with brand new bar codes. They are not allowed to buy used textbooks. However, my daughter went to community college and bought/resold all of her books used online.
M O'Connell 8 years ago
You simply haven't learned the tricks of the trade. If it's mathematics or chemistry or physics, nothing has changed in decades. Odds are that the curriculum was developed around an earlier edition of the textbook anyway. Buy the previous edition of the text online for $3. I must have done this a dozen times on the way to my degree.
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Ingrid Tsai 8 years ago
Wow, does seriously everyone struggle with getting over word limit? I struggle with getting under!
Mbajunwa Charlemagne 8 years ago
yours is better, i will probably click the space bar twice to make it 3000
Allana Rose 8 years ago
I hated the word count thing. It should be the content of the matter now the quantity!
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Emma Faunce 8 years ago
As long as you remember to DELETE IT LATER then this can actually be super helpful to just get started on a thing
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Anthony Talak 8 years ago
Funny thing is, when you get the experience, you look on college graduate's 'knowledge' like high schoolers thinking they 'know everything now that they graduated'.
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Jilltdcatlady 8 years ago
When attendance counts in your grade... anything becomes school clothes.
Laurinde Fleur 8 years ago
O girl.. I wear pyjama pants while during a quick grocery run.. Make also MISHA
StinkyMonkey 6 years ago
Haha I wore pj's to school most of my final year. I'd get up at 7.50, stuff a bra in my backpack, maybe some normal clothes, put some shoes on, cycle to school and be in class by 8.15. Get changed or at least put a bra on in the first break, go hunting for breakfast and voilà. My pj's weren't unobtrusive either, they were baby blue, massive, and had winnie the pooh on them with 'Sleepy time' in font size 40.
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Rosa Kim 8 years ago
I can relate to this on a highly personal level even though I haven't even graduated high school, is that bad?? 😬 the answer is no, i am willing to sacrifice my sleep for trash shows
Laura Sherman 8 years ago
But are you will to sacrifice sleep for homework that is due in 6 hours?
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Lil’ Twister 8 years ago
Newtons 1st law- object @ rest stays @ rest and object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by force... well let’s kick this guy out of his bed and he’ll be no longer @ rest (and probably pissed)
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Cat Meow 8 years ago
And tomorrow, you regret it and wished you'd done it yesterday, only to push it to another day
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Laura Sherman 8 years ago
And at some point you become a millionaire and you don't even have to do your homework anymore :P
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Ivana 8 years ago
My house is so clean when I have an essay to write. Just keep finding something else that is "important" to get done.
Anna Sheridan 8 years ago
Yep this is me right now lol have the most boring essay to write! Well at least the house is clean!
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ADHORTATOR 8 years ago
Mitochondria... that's the only thing I remember of Biology .... and "das endosplasmatische Retikulum" :-)
Jilltdcatlady 8 years ago
"Why do I need to learn Long Division?!?" (8yo me) "You're not going to have a calculator everywhere you go !!" (80s teacher) Fast foreward 30 years" HAH, Showed You!"
bianca johnson 8 years ago
Accounting major. Federal taxation is split into 2 required courses. Bragging about learning something useful from my many thousand of dollars lost to the college institutions
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Markus McCloud 8 years ago
Teacher: "You may use any resource, so long as it's properly cited." Essay: "I hope you're good at pulling information out of your a*s!"
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Magpie 8 years ago
But , but , but ,my li'l sister gave me these for xmas... was hoping i could buy text books with them........
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When I was a child I was so pissed real coins don't have chocholate in them..
Susan Rappenwolf 8 years ago
Are you kidding! We gave those to students for singing madrigals. This is probably their only booty.
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Alexandra Macovei 8 years ago
Brains in a constant stage of absorbing knowledge? Noooot sure about that one..
Talise Snyder 8 years ago
I would say they have knowledge thrown at them but are not neccessarily absorbing it... at all
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"Enjoy watching cartoons" Are we talking about anime or watching old childhood things due to nostalgia? Or both?
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Catlady6000 8 years ago
I know, he looks entirely too happy to be doing his homework
Load More Replies... Laura Sherman 8 years ago
Sorry must ask: Getty Images why is this man on a laptop in a coffin?
Daniel Baither 8 years ago
if you'd notice, the pictures are numbered and the left photo is supposed to be after. The message is obviously that technology is going to kill us all! Throw your laptops away, quick!
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Kevin Donegan 8 years ago
REALISTIC high hopes because you can see the MAGNUM sized condoms are still on the shelf.
Jonno Wade 8 years ago
To cashier: Yes, I will have the box of Magnums. And on an unrelated note, do you sell rubber bands?
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Well, good to see people practicing safe sex, emphasis on the practice. ha
Chef Assassin 8 years ago
I was really like yeaaah! That's me!! I thought those were sold-out highligters and markers for some reason.. :/
Laura Sherman 8 years ago
This could also be the work of paranoid parents saying just in case.
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Hans 8 years ago
I am glad that I work in a country where attenda (by law) must not go into the grade.
Kevin Donegan 8 years ago
Professors need to use the phrase, "Your attendance AND PARTICIPATION counts for 15% of your grade." If you're going to sleep in class, stay in the dorm.
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nanashi 8 years ago
I heard about American (I'm assuming) academic books being expensive but I never expected them to be THAT expensive. is that even real? that's more than my current month's salary??!!
Amber Jouer 8 years ago
American education is extremely expensive, often saddling people with years or decades of debt.
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Huanimalism 8 years ago
I wonder what would happen if students sold their old text books for a bit cheaper. They bought it for 200, sell it for 170... then the next student sells it to the next one for a 140, until it reaches 0. Otherwise i'm sure Hogwarts has some old text books >_>
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CANADIANCHIHUAHUA 8 years ago
and the cells are in the s**t...thus...also pieces of s**t....Just saying....
Richard Carr 8 years ago
IT WAS WORTH ALL THAT MONEY. YOUR FRIENDS COULD HAVE TOLD YOU FOR FREE.
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Kelly Driscoll 8 years ago
A friend of mine used to drive a big, green conversion van. He was stopped at a light on the University of Florida campus and a student stepped off the curb and walked right into the side of it.
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Amanda 8 years ago
Lol my 5th grade teacher did this. It was amazing. Also, we pretend that the young teachers' water bottles are actually filled with alcohol. Don't know how this was created, but its hilarious. They literally all have humongous water bottles and we have no idea why. It's just a thing.
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Jimmy TenBellies 8 years ago
3) OH MY GOD IF I DO THIS I'M STILL GONNA HAVE TO WORK AT MCDONALDS
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Catlady6000 8 years ago
College: years of debt, no job guarantee for most. Sheep herder: no debt, fresh air, nice co-workers, possibly more income. Hmmmm.
Wyndmere 8 years ago
Caring for a herd of sheep is like babysitting 60, 20 month olds in dirty diapers at once. Sheep are stupid critters.
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Jen Schafer 8 years ago
Seriously folks, careers in agriculture are really incentivized because generally they don't get young people's attention as a career option. You can write poetry all day watching sheep, listen to english lit audiobooks in the cab of a tractor, then sleep at night knowing that your job actually had a purpose.
Hinrik Ævarsson 8 years ago
Speaking as a man who has often herded sheep in Iceland, it's very seasonal work, mostly done by friends and family of the farmer or farmers in question. I helped my aunt and uncle get in the last sheep before winter last year, and got paid with an entire lamb carcass. You'd do better at a dairy farm. I know that if was just a throwaway gag but but having done the obscure thing in question I had to involve myself.
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BREAK YOUr perceptions 8 years ago
*walk up to the front of class, slam essay on the desk and stare the teacher in the eyes* give me extra credit for finishing early *proceed to passout*
sunnyrei82 8 years ago
on the bright side: you will sleep all day while others are still working on the project. yeah!!
Markus McCloud 8 years ago
Me (internally): "I'm going to bulldoze this classroom and ONLY this classroom."
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Char Char 8 years ago
I don't know how to do emojis, but I"M CRYING! I'll be watching you...
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Andrea Jaje 8 years ago
While I'm not debating that they hound you for repayment the minute you graduate, but, why does the date format change in the email?
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Mandi King 8 years ago
I remember when my mom got a letter to notify her she had finished paying off her student loans. That's the day I decided not to go to college.
Evie Heaven 8 years ago
Well, if she was learning till she was 50, it definitely did cost quite a bit. I did not expect they earn so much in McDonald's
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sunnyrei82 8 years ago
I worked as a teacher for a college... and I would never change the deadline.
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Susan Gardner 8 years ago
I don't think Oprah has anything to do with it. It's a woman relaxing in a bathtub with wine and candles
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Susann Campbell 8 years ago
He is working on his OCD with keeping a few mixed up so he can see if he can deal with it. He was back less than five minutes later taking care to fix it right,
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Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
And then he teaches stuff that are not in the book and you realize you had to be at his classes to pass the exam.
Hans 8 years ago
Well, attendance will not, but not getting what was done in class will...
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KrisF 8 years ago
I went to a small university (biggest class I took had less than 30 students). I had teachers call my cell phone if I didn't show up and hadn't sent an email saying I was sick ahead of time. So skipping wasn't really an option
Too bored to do this! 8 years ago
How exactly do you know you'll be sick in about 2 days?
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Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago
War is very profitable. They either sell loads of weapons abroad or if they are fighting and win, they get to plunder the country's resources, usually oil. So they see war as a major investment opportunity. The thousands of dead people are irrelevant.
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Catlady6000 8 years ago
You would think that education would be considered a higher paying investment. But, no
Porto DaMartinica 8 years ago
true story, and that one of the reasons why basically all states suck s**t
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Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
Just wait until someone sits on the bean bag and they hear a muffled shout from underneath...
Mikleo 8 years ago
In college a muffled shout is normal background noise.
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Jilltdcatlady 8 years ago
I applied for FA the year my father had a massive heart attack and took 6+months to recover to limited part time work. The bast@rds looked at the Previous year's tax returns and said my parents made too much money! &^%@$#!!!!
Carrie Heller Reisner 8 years ago
You can file a special circumstances appeal!
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Catlady6000 8 years ago
Yeah, but in 1970, you really could work your way thru college. A lot of us did, with minimal debt.
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CANADIANCHIHUAHUA 8 years ago
Ahhhh yes....so true. ....Wait! I'm 52 yrs old... Ahhhh yes....so sad.
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CANADIANCHIHUAHUA 8 years ago
Actually....Just noticed that the left hand item and the right hand item mean the same thing on the internets.... Ya see kids? That's my college degree working on my thinking college mind. I am so proud of myself! (Screaming and crying internally).
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Neurotic_Octopus 8 years ago
Don't worry, the professor does that too... Just insert grading homework and writing lectures in place of studying. :p
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Max 8 years ago
If you want to do this yourself, all you need is a solution of 70% alcohol and 30% water. You soak the money in it, then light it on fire. The alcohol on the surface burns quickly, and the cold water is enough to protect the paper from igniting during that time. But remember, safety first (even wizards need safety glasses).
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Bway_Gonnabe11 8 years ago
that's when you really write like your running out of time HAHAHA.... anybody.... nobody? ok, bye
Laurinde Fleur 8 years ago
Why do you write like you are running out of time, everyday you write like you are running out of time, are you running out of time... HAMILTON BITCHES
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Tim Douglass 8 years ago
My son would just pull out his phone and take a picture of each slide so he could review them later. Worked really well for him.
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Wyndmere 8 years ago
."... that many trophies?" -- You must not be in college.
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Katie M 8 years ago
Just wait untill you're dead sweaty, :))))))))))))))))) it's way worse and you don't even get to live.
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Hans 8 years ago
If in college age you like like this at 03:00, you are doing things wrong. If you look like this at 06:30, you are doing it right!
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Allie Orona 8 years ago
I think it's her purse, probably on the other side of her.
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Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
I'm at that stage in life where if a car would hit me i'd get up and say "thank you".
Fbomb 8 years ago
I'm at the stage in life where I'd rather not be able to get up afterwards.
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Veronica Niechajczyk 8 years ago
I should do this. I've been out of college for 11 years. Maybe not quite so many cards, but enough.
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Aegon VI Targaryen 8 years ago
iirc you can get these pretty much free in those waste places for old planes, u cant take most of the stuff free, the larger more sturdier stuff costs though, like parts of the plane.
Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
Obviously he's studying at some transports college, studying the trains,, the planes...
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Lesia Linder 8 years ago
While I'm not in collage, I didn't get on the honor roll once because I need at least an 80 as my average. I had 79.9 as my average.
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Ayden Manning 5 years ago
The "General Education" part of should be free because you have to do it.
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That Fat Mouse 7 years ago
Jesus! Something really should be done about college costs because this is getting out of control.
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Sarcasticow 8 years ago
When in the back of your mind you know you'll procrastinate and you do and you fail
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aw man i'm all outta cash 5 years ago
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be (had to do it)
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Porto DaMartinica 8 years ago
think, when you have a job ( not saying instead of studying, i mean later on when you done with education ) all this will be a thing of the past, and.. i think it's awesome LOL your turn to suck it up loser
Amber Dae Ingalls 8 years ago
This is less getting my 3 yr ready for bed/ preschool. Oh I'll just get up early have quickly give her a bath in the am... *next morning* gets up at 8:30 ... school starts at 8:30...
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Nini Mü 8 years ago
please please seriously: just take some time after high school to learn the ugliest and most complicated language of all time - german:D, then come over for studies, it's for free here!!!!!
Olga Vol 8 years ago
even death isn't a solution... you can't run away *halloween music@
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Jessica White 8 years ago
just take my soul I think its still good *Caution may smell of sadness and alcohol
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Christina Waide 8 years ago
It just occurred to me that there aren't school pictures in college. I bet this is why.
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Vlatko Šagud 8 years ago
I got my test scores back, the points total was an F. Prof asked were there any questions, a student commented that one question confused her. Prof looked at the question, realized that she marked the wrong answer. I got it right, so I got an extra 0.5 points which was enough to raise my mark for a D. Felt like I was brought back to life.
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John L 8 years ago
Now that colleges have been pricing themselves out of the market, thanks to government run/guaranteed student loans, the biggest benefactor will be the technical schools, where young people will be able to learn a worthwhile skill. And it will cost them a lot less money in the process.
QueenG 8 years ago
And medical degrees. Nurses will always be in demand and theirs a huge shortage going on right now.
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Cassie 8 years ago
The cost of textbooks is absurd and the publishers slap a new edition number on the same book and republish it so you can't use a used copy because the prof requires a specific edition and then you don't even use the stupid multi-hundred dollar waste of trees for the class. I went to college 20 years ago. That this is still an issue is disgusting.
Karl Hutchings 8 years ago
Textbook costs are absurd, but thinking that a textbook needs to be used in class is equally absurd; oftentimes, a text is chosen to assist or compliment your learning, not duplicate class time. If you choose not to read it, why waste the $ on it in the first place?
Load More Replies... Jonathan Eatsalot 8 years ago
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Samuel 8 years ago
"the walking debt" ahah. This is a great photo. I wish everyone to finish college. https://www.wellesley.edu/ or https://www.amherst.edu/ does not matter. The main thing is that every student lived this. These noisy parties, sleepless nights, the first bad marks. Those moments when you unconsciously took a walk for a whole week, and then rushed to order a homework at https://writingpaper.org/. College time is my favorite. Of course it's important to get the right skill. What would then take their place in this country. IT specialty is now the most popular and profitable. And colleges where they give this knowledge are not very expensive.
Salva Garcia Roig 8 years ago
I went to university in Barcelona and boy was it different! We barely had to buy any books, and most of the books we did buy were self-published by the university so they were usually about 10€ each. What teachers did instead of forcing us to buy huge textbooks was create a dossier with a selection of all the relevant chapters, segments, etc. for the class and then the university would sell spiral-bound copies of the dossier to students (not too sure about how legal that is...). The materials for each class could go from 3€ to 15€ more or less. We saved money and didn't have to lug around giant textbooks. I studied translation and interpreting, so really the only expensive thing we had to buy were the technical bilingual dictionaries (ranging from 45€ to 120€). The fees were reasonable, too. About 600€ per academic year, depending on how many classes you took. I studied during the years 2002 - 2007.
Katinka Min 8 years ago
This afternoon I'm going to go and light a candle as thanks for living in a country that has (almost) no tuition fees.
John L 8 years ago
Now that colleges have been pricing themselves out of the market, thanks to government run/guaranteed student loans, the biggest benefactor will be the technical schools, where young people will be able to learn a worthwhile skill. And it will cost them a lot less money in the process.
QueenG 8 years ago
And medical degrees. Nurses will always be in demand and theirs a huge shortage going on right now.
Load More Replies... Cassie 8 years ago
The cost of textbooks is absurd and the publishers slap a new edition number on the same book and republish it so you can't use a used copy because the prof requires a specific edition and then you don't even use the stupid multi-hundred dollar waste of trees for the class. I went to college 20 years ago. That this is still an issue is disgusting.
Karl Hutchings 8 years ago
Textbook costs are absurd, but thinking that a textbook needs to be used in class is equally absurd; oftentimes, a text is chosen to assist or compliment your learning, not duplicate class time. If you choose not to read it, why waste the $ on it in the first place?
Load More Replies... Jonathan Eatsalot 8 years ago
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Samuel 8 years ago
"the walking debt" ahah. This is a great photo. I wish everyone to finish college. https://www.wellesley.edu/ or https://www.amherst.edu/ does not matter. The main thing is that every student lived this. These noisy parties, sleepless nights, the first bad marks. Those moments when you unconsciously took a walk for a whole week, and then rushed to order a homework at https://writingpaper.org/. College time is my favorite. Of course it's important to get the right skill. What would then take their place in this country. IT specialty is now the most popular and profitable. And colleges where they give this knowledge are not very expensive.
Salva Garcia Roig 8 years ago
I went to university in Barcelona and boy was it different! We barely had to buy any books, and most of the books we did buy were self-published by the university so they were usually about 10€ each. What teachers did instead of forcing us to buy huge textbooks was create a dossier with a selection of all the relevant chapters, segments, etc. for the class and then the university would sell spiral-bound copies of the dossier to students (not too sure about how legal that is...). The materials for each class could go from 3€ to 15€ more or less. We saved money and didn't have to lug around giant textbooks. I studied translation and interpreting, so really the only expensive thing we had to buy were the technical bilingual dictionaries (ranging from 45€ to 120€). The fees were reasonable, too. About 600€ per academic year, depending on how many classes you took. I studied during the years 2002 - 2007.
Katinka Min 8 years ago
This afternoon I'm going to go and light a candle as thanks for living in a country that has (almost) no tuition fees.
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