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Middle and high school are full of constant references to the nebulous world of college, where iron-willed professors typically rule over the student body. Then you get there and everyday occurrences seem to be taken out of discarded sitcom scripts. 

Netizens share their hilarious, chaotic and relatable thoughts on what going to college is really like. From zany professors, terrible diets to academic burnout and late night shenanigans, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to add your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section below. 

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maka paka
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my previous profession a guy who was on the fast track nearly lost his job becaues of this outlook, was tasked with training up 6 individuals and told them if all of them pass he's not doing his job. Failed ALL of them because they didn't do the exam in the order he told them and was booted from training people forever. What a b*****d

censorshipsucks
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one of these at university. A statistician. He was a dîck. He's dead now. No correlation.

Corvus
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1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some classes just are pretty hard, even if the professor is good. Different subjects - different difficulty.

Lyone Fein
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Professors who brag like this are doing it precisely to get people to drop their class. They want fewer exams and papers to grade.

Riley Quinn
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't agree with this more. Some professors forget that we're paying through the nose (some for years) to be properly taught/trained. They are providing a paid service. If I wouldn't tolerate that haughty attitude from a store clerk, I sure am not tolerating it from someone I'm spending thousands of dollars on.

shankShaw deReemer
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a psych professor at USC-Columbia who gave t-shirts to the three highest grade earners, which he had to curve two letter grades from the get-go. He wrote the textbook as well. He was a real PRiCK and he knew it. I barely passed. Steer clear of professors who write the course textbook. ARGH!

StrangeOne
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had High School teachers like this. Unsurprisingly, I wouldn't pass their class.

Steve Hall
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the other hand, when the instructer tells you there are no adjectives in accounting, believe him.

talliloo
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

had a professor that did this kind of announcement first class. it was for an english class. but, he followed up with the fact that if we stuck through it we would become effective writers. class had 28 students that day. next day, there were six. he was right. it was tough but he was fair.

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    #2

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    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶It had to be you, it had to be youuuu🎶

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    Michael Largey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Believe me, this is NOT confined to college.

    ScootyPuffJr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time."

    Tams21
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were a couple of people I went to college with that made me seriously wonder how they got through high-school.

    mysterious(all pronouns)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an observed phenomenon called Social Loafing. People do worse and put in less effort when they're in a group.

    kiteman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I passed a very difficult class because I made friends with 3 people and I just listened to them in study group instead of whatever the hell the professor was saying.

    CatWoman1014
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was a horrible college student, but I didn’t back down in group projects. I couldn’t be that person who caused others to do poorly because of my laziness. That’s the only times I did step up. I’ve matured greatly since then

    #3

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps your soulmate is in the administration building.

    theoneandonlynoira
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps your soulmate is the administration building

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    SlightlyTarnished
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't, they just find a temporary solution to their hörniness.

    Nonnie Bear
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter met her husband in college. She had one wild night...she stayed up past 9PM, and went to get milkshakes at Cook Out. I know, she is a wild one 🙃

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is NOT a flex to have found your "soul mate" in the first weeks of college, it just means you stopped trying to make friends and settled.

    AnkleByter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You do know people can meet and make friends, without wanting them to be their soulmate, correct? I have many friends, only one of them is someone I'd consider my soulmate. I too met them and came to this realization rather swiftly afterwards in the grand scheme of things. I still made more friends after meeting my soulmate, lmao.

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    DetriMentaL
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there was a speach to text error in the birth of this term since technically one should only have a singular "sole" mate at a time rather than multiple. . . . Dot dot dot

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They probably bonded over their shared inability to find the exact same building you were looking for!

    Lewis KR
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mark Corrigan: "It's remarkable, isn't it, that out of the 3 billion adult women in the world, your one true soulmate happens conveniently to live in the same block of flats as you, rather than, say, in a village in Mozambique?"

    TotallyNOTAFox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Suffering together can create strong bonds

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never found my soulmate in college lol fell in love, but as soon as he found out, he came out.

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    #4

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing traumatized me more in college than having to take 2 math classes due to a "general education" requirement. And one of them was freakin' calculus! I still can't believe I passed it :D

    Phil
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. Even though the class I took was called "Math for the Liberal Arts Student."

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    Joseph Stillman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well, that clears it up, even the teachers hate math

    Moo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Valid. In my Korean class usually there was mandarin on the board before us, but once there was math and it was honestly terrifying

    Everest Hernandez He/She/They
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's why I did IB, no math in college for me or my daughter!

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was some proper English there, folks!

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    #5

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    DB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My entire education in a nutshell.

    Me. Just Me.
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds about right. And the more it costs the more you have to teach yourself.

    The Darkest Timeline
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, yes, the “I am just an empty receptacle” theory of learning.

    TotallyNOTAFox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I'm doing currently - minus paying for it. Many universities offer free courses online

    ElfVibratorGlitter
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're doing that, you may as well just take some CLEP Exams. Costs much less.

    #6

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    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dying of thirst in the desert: "Well, at least we aren't in middle school."

    char
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    on death row, trapped in a dark cell with only my thoughts for company: "hey, at least i'm not in middle school"

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Middle school in torture. I loved college SO much. Would go back in a heartbeat if I could. Some of the best times of my life. You don't realize how easy it all was until you're an adult looking back. :)

    BisexualBat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm in middle school unfortunately.

    ADZ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'd have to work hard to hate college/university.

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only thing middle school has over college is that the students won't be in debt for 30-years.

    Whoopdeedoo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I AM in middle school 😅......😂.....😭

    hockeygorl
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i’m still in middle school :/

    Jenna Kay
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does get better, with time. But then you have to pay all the bills, and go to work year round, fix all the broken things in your home, wash the clothes ... hopefully know how to get stain out, cook,, and smile no matter how bad it gets!

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    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scholarships summed up pretty much perfectly

    Kathrine Perkins
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scholarships are money someone has given the school to pay for someone else's tuition. That donor gets to choose what the criteria is for awarding the money, not the school. So this tweet is not really at all summing up how scholarships work.

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    Abby Reynolds
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey can you guys knock off a few grand for the gym that I'm never going to use but you're charging me for regardless?

    René Sauer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what if I can kick/throw/carry a leather egg really well? - Woah! You are in, no worries about the money, it´s on the house.

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better yet, learn some obscure sport. They'll pay you to go there.

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    CatWoman1014
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m not very smart, but I can dunk a basketball! Colleges: free for you!

    Lotekguy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh what fun it must be to go through college with the person on a tuba scholarship assigned as your roommate.

    Dave Platt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be worse - bagpipes or gyaling come to mind.

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    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact: If you're good enough at something you can get a double scholarship

    Dragons Exist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm good at failing Spanish tests, can I get a scholarship in that

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    Stephanie Trump
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if I’m good at throwing a ball? Colleges: 100% of your tuition.

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    #8

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    tw 72
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clearly, her parents are paying for college - she isn't.

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    iBlank
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that is one of the great things about college. You can drop a class for any reason and take it again with a different teacher later. This is how I found out how great summer school can be... 1/10th of the people and you can focus on completing some of the hardest classes

    Cat Chat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I took many classes early in highschool with summer school. Other benefits... It's more laid back and the teachers make it easier and funner. By the time senior year rolled around, I only needed 1 English credit to graduate. It made it so my morning schedule was 1 English 2 yearbook 3-4 Business multipurpose. Went home for 2 hour lunch, then work release that was part of the business class. Got both credit and a paying job. My senior year was a play year. So much more relaxing and stress free.

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    Max Fox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless my class is in a lab, students can bring in any drinks that they want, as long as it's in a covered cup. However, if they are noisy, they have to leave. That is why I generally don't allow students to eat in class. It's difficult to do so quietly, and there are plenty of students who are distracted by the noise of somebody eating.

    Violet1854
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, we ARE talking about COFFEE here

    Paul Rabit
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one always shows up on these types of listicles and I never ever get tired of it!

    Moo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would do this. You think I can afford throwing a coffee away?? I'm in college!!

    Bryn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless the class was a lab, I don't understand why she couldn't have it.

    ~(•ᴗ•)~
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think of it this way. Her coffee is her life if she can't have it there never go there :) ignore the darker meaning to my comment lol

    MalibuClassicMan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    he was just pissed he didn't have one.

    SummerVeE
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Professors aren't going to treat you like your high school teachers did. You're an adult now, nobody is going to parent you - it's up to you to sink or swim like an adult

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    François Bouzigues
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did it. All it take is discipline and not getting hammered the day before. No big deal

    Přemek Marek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Congrats on writing this on a joke :-) I sincerely hope it made you feel better. However, jokes may not be the thing for you...

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    FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm currently in school and I try to avoid any 8am classes, like the plague. Mainly because I commute to school, which is 2.5 hours away. Unless I were to drive my car the whole way, it would probably take 1.5-2 hours, but the cost of parking is insane.

    Bryn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that's a legit reason not to take a morning class.

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    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And simultaneously he's telling me not to get out of bed.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Earliest class I had was 7:30 a.m. It wasn't bad. And it was art history lol

    María Hermida
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Earliest class I've ever had started at 7, but I lived an hour and half away from college, so I had to get up at five am. It was "introducción al conocimiento de la sociedad y el estado" (a deadly concoction of ideology, politics, history and sociology). I know I passed, but I can't remember one single thing. Nothing. Such a useless waste of time and effort!

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    kiteman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    11am -2pm every year for me with a couple of exceptions. Graduated in 3.5 years and never saw a counselor. Economics degree because it worked for my sleep and party schedule.

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Loved my morning classes. They were small, of course, so we got more accomplished. By mid-afternoon, I was done. I was able to get a nap, do some studying, maybe pick up a couple work shifts,... and party.

    Justme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Taking the first class of the day was actually helpful for me with my insomnia. It kept me in a somewhat normalized pattern.

    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I only made that mistake once during my first year. I'd go to math at 8am and afterwards go right back to bed. :)

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    100% accurate- I had to drop a class one semester, and I've never had to make an easier decision in my life!- that 8-"am class was gone off my list sooooo fast! (And that's despite loving on campus like 200 metres away from the uni!

    Julia Cargile
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a rough time with 9am classes.

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    Cat Chat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Update: oops, I was just in the cafeteria

    Giraffy Window
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guy was sitting in the professor's preferred spot.

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    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Arrived for class late reminds me of the most egotistical, arrogant, sob of a prof I've ever had. Every damn time, he waltzed in late. As the older student, I finally spoke up and told him we pay his salary and that he needs to show up on time. I couldn't have shocked him more than had I slapped him. Funny thing, he was punctual from that point until the end of the semester.

    Kris Tyler
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    College is better than anything I've ever known: A World's Fair, vacation at the beach, sex, Willie Nelson concert.. The only thing that might top it is world travel.. except the debt of course

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    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Workplace relations the next year discussed the "Trail mix incident"

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I applaud the teacher for taking care of potential allergies

    Alyssa Phillips
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a professor email just after midnight "bachelorette party was NOT as tame as advertised. I'm not sure where my shoes are. No class today. If you saw me earlier, you didn't."

    Miki
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would not thought of that. What a nice person. :)

    Cold Eagle
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this. It's a brilliant way to deal with it.

    A Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's good that they communicated this and was honest. Nut allergies are nothing to sneeze at.

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So accurate- most uni profs I had were wayyyyy more chill than my high school teachers!

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    Themoonprincess
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is this so true though? Can someone explain. Is it because of aging?

    Giraffy Window
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More responsibilities on top of it. Kids don't have to grocery shop or plan out what they're going to eat for the week etc

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    Dragons Exist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Today in school I: learned mitosis, watched a Holocaust video, learned the Spanish word for train, watched beauty and the beast, ran one mile, learned the quadratic formula, and read TKaM. In 7 hours. wtf

    Crazy Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is exactly my dad. He did track in high school and once fell asleep in the shower in med school and started dreaming of medical terms

    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fear of failure and general existential dread does that for you, at least until you develop immunity.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was already exhausted all the time in school!

    Miki
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before covid I was able to wake up, take a shower, eat, go to work for 40-50 min and be at my desk around 7:30 so I could leave 15:30. :D Since covid I am working 100% remotely (same company), and I am barely able to wake up before 8. Usually 8:20 and start my work day at 9:15. BUT if I need to go to office (1-3 times a year) I have no problem with going back to morning routine. Wtf me?!

    Feathered Dinosaur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must be all the partying. Least that's what I vaguely remember from those times 🍾

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 61, with a PhD, was a professor for 20 years and I still have those dreams!

    Rahb in Oz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    69 here, tertiary trainer and teacher, same fears! Plus, I lose my carkeys, wallet, and phone!

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    Deborah B
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the one where you've lost your class schedule, and don't know what classes you're taking, which periods they are or what rooms they're in. Somehow going to the admin office and asking for a new shedule is not an option.,

    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have that college dream too. Frequently. So do most of my friends. I wonder why it's so common? Stress probably.

    Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    49 here. I dream about being back in high school and failing a vital class that will cause me to not be able to graduate. I've had this dream so may times and for so long, that I've actually conditioned myself to think through the dream that this is just a dream and that I've already graduated. But dream me never listens and I always wake up terrified!

    Stephen Gross
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have the "I didn't finish my degree because there's one more class" dream once every 6 months. I graduated 20 years ago.

    P1 No-Name
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sweet Summer Child - I'm almost 60 and I still have days where I wake up terrified I haven't done my homework!

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NO, wait, but NO!?- ITS NOT JUST ME!!!!??? I'm literally in my 40's and I STILL have nightmares about having graduated with my degree under false pretences- not helped by the fact that I LITERALLY can't remember ever taking a specific compulsory subject!

    Sue User
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a recurring dream that i signed up for a class and forgot to go. I find out when i get the " you are failing classxyz".

    P Wilyman
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    75 years old and still having those nightmares!

    Sunshine
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm going to be 55 and I still have those dreams!

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    #14

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    06fordexplorer Report

    Alexandru Bucur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a non-American I had to google what the ACT was and then went into a rabbit hole of googling SAT vs ACT . It feels alien because round my parts we all take the same test, the "bac" short for "baccalauréat", an exam instituted in France by Napoleon himself in 1808 and then widely copied continent-wide under many different names. As it happens, in my country, Romania, it's named the exact same. And that's just to finish high-school and get your diploma. And then, because I decided to be an architect, I had to take an extra admission exam specifically for that university. And for the latter, I even remember the date: September 9, 2001. You can probably guess why I remember it - the next day after the test I went out with friends to celebrate, got back early in the morning and slept until 3 something PM. Walked in the living room just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC...

    Sem Kix
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate that this still didn't explain what the ACT is

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    Jeff Hunt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I laughed more than I should have.

    Moo
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't take the SAT or ACT and I still got into the top school in my state. At one point it was ranked #2 in the world so...those tests don't matter

    Andy Frobig
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT and ACT and drove forklifts for 15 years, and have been fixing filthy wind instruments for 20. I always hated school

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Australia it's called the AST! My score wasn't great, but my year did so well generally that everybody's score got bumped up and I got into university! The following year they revised the AST to make it harder.

    Yu Pan
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a similar experience. In grad school, one guy constantly bragged about his undergrad at MIT and a lot of ppl were intimidated by his "MIT" pedigree. Until the day another classmate smirked and said, "We're all here in the same school; how is he better than any of us?"

    Michael Travis Risner
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d imagine pretty good since a 35 probably meant he didn’t have to pay as much as you.

    Sue User
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first c9llege i went to had a sk8ding scale for SAT versus GPA(grade point average). So 8f you had a high GPA but bombed the SAT , you could still get in. With my SAT, i only need a 1.65 GPA . Thats 1.65 out of 4.0.

    nottheactualphoto
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was that age, high schools didn't have GPAs. I know that's "normal" now, but when did it start? We had grades, and a smart kid might have a 92 average (or whatever), but it was never expressed as a college-style GPA.

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    v
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's one of the tests that's used in the U.S. to rank students graduating from highschool so that the colleges have something they can use to filter the one's they want out of the onslaught of applicants each year. The highest possible score on the ACT is 36. A "high value" college may set their admissions requirement for the ACT to no less than 33. Any applications that have less than a 33 on the ACT would automatically be set aside. If the first round of 33-36 scores didn't fill all the available spots they'd then look at the next lowest bracket, say 30-32, to see how many they get. There are other similar tests that play into this game but it all works the same way. I think some colleges also use these scores when determining financial benefits the student may get but I'm not certain.

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    dayngerkat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In high school I scored great on the ACT and the recruiters would bug me for YEARS after trying to get me to enlist.

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    Marcos Valencia
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First, ask her if one of their parents owns the company where her "dream job" would be located. One never knows.

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm in my dream job. It doesn't pay wonderfully, but I'm doing something I enjoy and doing good in the world. Oh sorry you meant something else.

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    Giraffy Window
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister's dream job in highschool was to be an electrician, and 4 years doesn't sound that far off for at LEAST being in an apprenticeship. So it really depends on what this kid's goals were.

    BoredPossum
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell her that there will be no openings for her dream job and that she will be overqualified for everything else.

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Part of the college experience is learning how to handle defeat in a dignified, mature fashion. Many of us have failed this course.

    Dave Platt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Quiet dignity and grace." (Dr. Frankenstein)

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    Me. Just Me.
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. Let her maintain that enthusiasm as long as possible. Probably be the last time she'll feel it.

    David Wallin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pick the right major and this can happen.

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I ended up in my dream job, but only lasted six months before my body failed me. Still work in the same field, but not at the same level, which means I'm paid less, and I do fewer hours.

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    #16

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    E2U&U2
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went to a college with more students than my entire town's population. Overwhelmed, on the first day I stood in the quad with a map in my hand crying. Finally, someone stopped and asked me what was the matter. I said I couldn't find my class, and they said, that's nothing to cry about and walked away.

    james stevenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, so helpful. I bet they were thinking "And there's my good deed for the day."

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    Katie Lutesinger
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once went all the way to Sydney to attend a friend's play which was being held at a school. I arrived at the school after three and a half hours on the bus and another hour on the train... and there's nobody there. I'd gone to the wrong goddamn school. I missed the play.

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freshmen and transfers couldn't have stood out more had they worn orange safety vests. That dazed look, their heads swiveling, the halting steps, and the weeping on the curb.

    Jeremy Bolanos
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a college town and get so angry because restaurants keep opening up, thinking they will make it big because of the size of the college population. Then, they go out of business in the summer because the college population mostly all go home.

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    #17

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    Gustav Gallifrey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is something that college/university DOES teach you: you're not the hot-shot you thought you were, lower your expectations.

    james stevenson
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is something that the real world teaches you, that's why we stay inside on our devices. /s

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    Lotekguy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well done! Part of college is the lesson in humility that makes expectations for yourself more realistic.

    Joseph Stillman
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dude at my school, both are failing grades, 70 is passing by the skin of your teeth

    StrangeOne
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    University sounds to be very humbling to the HS honour roll students.

    nottheactualphoto
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, it's humbling. One of the first things they told us at my university was "All of you were top of your class in high school. Now, most of you will be mediocre or less." However: as they say, 1) Cs get degrees. 2) Q: What do they call the guy who was last in his class in medical school? A: Doctor

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    Red PANda (she/they)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend got a 36 on the ACT…he’s really smart lol

    Moo
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't think I had academic validation and then I got a 62 on a midterm and sobbed

    Jeremy Bolanos
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cs get degrees. Leave the 4.0s to people with nothing better to do.

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    #18

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    howdylee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My college had "Happy Friday Guy". Dude riding on an electric scooter (like Razor brand stand up scooter, no seat), dressed in a superhero cape & eye mask. Shouting as loud as he could around campus "HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!" Someone eventually gave him a Tshirt with the official HFG logo superman style. We loved him.

    howdylee
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://ballstateaa.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/happy-friday-guy-campus-icon/

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    Me Oh My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw a dude riding a unicycle and I was very impressed.

    WindySwede
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not all herpes wears a Cape? edit: HEROES! auto-correct in Swedish! 🙀

    A Jones
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We see the true priorities once we grow up.

    ~(•ᴗ•)~
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My college had meme guy and banana and apple and roachkin and pink plastic Barbie girl and cookoo whi simps for every guy she edr has laid eyes on

    #19

    Things-You-Dont-Learn-In-High-School-College

    thedreamghoul Report

    DetriMentaL
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still wonder what happened to 1000 word essay on Byzantian Christianity me 10 years ago and me now that takes a day to reply to "wyd"

    bElLa sTairZz
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do you remember how you did it at least? got 1000 words due for every subject this year

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    talliloo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i was the student that would turn in a small novella. fortunately, because my first language is sarcasm, the professors read them. one of them told me that he would normally just skip over long assignments but he would keep reading mine because he didn't know the next thing i would write and it was like a suspense novel of him trying to figure out if my findings/opinions were real for or for comedy sake.

    Michael Largey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my teachers in high school assigned five-page paper. When someone asked if it could be more than five pages, he replied, "Sure. Just mark the five pages you want me to read."

    Lotekguy
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well played, teacher! Saving your own time and squelching a toady in one swift sentence.

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    StrangeOne
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I swear High School English teachers nit pick novels, trying to find a hidden, deep meaning to anything they can claim is symbolic, but ask the author and their version is "I like yellow. I think it's contemporary, and modern. Yeah, I like yellow."

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once handed in a table instead of an essay. You'd have thought the bastard would have been grateful

    StrangeOne
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Now tell me, in a 5 page essay, making sure to use double spaces and indent your paragraphs, what did the yellow represent? What was the meaning of the car in relation to Gatsby and the time period? What significance did yellow have in the 1920s politics and economics?"

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    ElfVibratorGlitter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So true. Though varied depending on the class and assignment between 3-10 page limits.

    OneWithRatsAndKefir
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my lecturers extended the deadline by a week for roughly all 210 of us because she needed to mark something for the final years and wouldn’t get around to our stuff in a week anyway. Lecturers do not care as long as you show up. I had another lecturer who loved bringing up Jaffa Cakes.

    Debra Brown
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are definitely cakes not biscuits/cookies.

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    Happy Onion
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. I made my students make a video for a project. Told them it had to be between 5 and 8 minutes long. I am not watching 80 x 15 minute videos.

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    #20

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    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yep. No-one cares. Just get through the course.

    ί𝔫CίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my students brought out an entire f*****g pumpkin pie and and a whole can of whipped cream, sat there with a fork and dug in.

    WalterWhiteSavannah
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I took welding the instructor said "some people weld better when they're stoned. It's proven fact. That said don't be the idiot in every class who TELLS me how stoned they are or we'll both have problems." Welding is taught in hs here now and I'm sure the vibe is way different. Then again we had a geology teacher who saw a few uf us come in, knew we were stoned and said "good maybe clay will shut the hell up in class for once." So who knows.

    StrangeOne
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's A-Ok with me. I prefer low lighting in any situation.

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Accurate- I remember in HS I got in trouble for not righting an assignment correctly - apparently taking about all the gods ancient Egyptians had for their homes and farming etc, didn't accurately describe how religion affected their everyday life?? But uni- " here's your assignment- pick a random topic, give a 5 minute speech" and also "here's your assignment- it's technically sue in 2 weeks, but just get it to me before the end of the semester!"

    veryvenasaur
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone in my sociology class ate a raw onion in class

    Matthews
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My data structures professor would make tea while giving the lectures with a hot water bottle. We were joking about it, then the other day another professor who overheard us brought her stuff and made instant ramen while we took our test. Never seen anything remotely like that in HS.

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My year 12 drama teacher actually did ask us to keep the lights off because he was hungover, more than once!

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    #21

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    Firstname Lastname
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do this in the breakroom at work too. Throws the whole room off when a newbie doesn't know better and everyone moves their seat because of it.

    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do this during staff meetings. It's totally weird when someone sits somewhere out of the ordinary.

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    shankShaw deReemer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, so true! My students almost always sit in the same spots. Some even arrive early in order to secure, as Sheldon Cooper would say, their "spots."

    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just try bookng a seat on a british train. Very low chance that you get the seat you actually booked.

    Book Nerd (she/her)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That happens in high school too in my experience. If there’s no seating, everyone will work out where they want to sit, and they usually stick with it. With the exception of a couple of kids who float around.

    Angrykitten
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still think about a student I sat beside in into to astronomy back in 2001. We talked every week, but never exchanged info.

    Rahb in Oz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same at work. Hot-desking simply does NOT work. People are creatures of habit and like to have their own space. Try going home to a different bed in a different house every night!

    Lotekguy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One high school teacher determined the seating chart every 6 weeks by placing us in the order of our most recent grades. That would probably not be allowed today, labeled as shaming. But it motivated this slothful student to absorb more than in other classes. Several decades later, hers is one of the few faculty names that come easily to mind. In a good way.

    FaceTime Audio
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assigned seating in high school is THE BEST and I always hated it when teachers would change the seating chart. Nuh-uh, that's my chair! I am always in that chair, and I like that chair! My feeble mind can't take the change.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS lol I think it gets programmed into us at a young age, so we get so used to it being the norm and do it as adults too 😆

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    MR
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    6. He was in the wrong class.

    ADZ
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This must've been about my accounting lecturer. Two weeks in a row, 2hour lecture, tutorial and workshop.... teaching online students. Email at end of the second week: "my bad just read the text book".

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like our 1st grade teacher in 2020! The kids frequently had to teach her how to do things on the computer.

    P1 No-Name
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how much are you paying for this idiots words of wisdom?

    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I assure you as someone who worked at a uni for like 14 years, professors are not smart about anything except their special niche topic.

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    Matt Parker
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has carried on post-college for me...

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same! I'm almost 50 and I swear I'm getting worse about it.

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    Rahb in Oz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Story of my life. Then I crawl into bed, knowing it is all going to be the same again tomorrow.

    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    11pm isn't so bad - I was very productive during the night and wrote some of my best papers after midnight. We had this class where we had 1 book to read per week (every week!) and a book review paper at the end of each week, and I wrote all of them at night. Bonus: the books were usually pretty dark and depressing due to the class's main topic being war crimes.

    Maria Maria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did anyone else do this: finally start working on the essay, write the first word, then suddenly feel exhausted and need a long nap. Anyone?

    ADZ
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Currently studying via distance, assignment a day overdue and I'm on here commenting. Too be fair I am drinking my coffee before tackling the day.

    Leesquee
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you ever heard of executive dysfunction? Look up AdHd and it's symptoms.

    #24

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    JefferyWerkins Report

    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow that's advanced. Our idiots are still emailing attachments around with no version control.

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Text_latest_v3_CorrOfPictures_V3_BetterVersion_2.docx

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't have that fancy stuff back when I was in school. ;) I actually even hand wrote all my exams! The internet was still in its infancy and schools weren't using it yet. We did have computer labs though, and all the slackers (myself included) would be there in the middle of the night finishing things.

    TotallyNOTAFox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know that feeling, sure it was 2010 and from 2014 - 2017 when I went to job college, but that's Germany's digitalisation in a nutshell

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    Choppayoung89 Report

    Oskar vanZandt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...because the responsibility for attending lectures etc in university is yours (the student's).

    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No idea why there are a bunch of emojis?

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    #26

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    Coraline Miller
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im literally 14 and getting a B in geometry 😭😭

    The Q
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn’t have an opportunity to go to collage until I retired from the military. I figured I’d use my benefits and get an engineering degree. I applied at a local collage and they turned me down because my high school grades were not good enough. It had been over 30 years since I left high school. I had learned a few things in that time. I was an instructor in a few fields while in the military. I applied at the lesser collage and graduated summa cum laude.

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    Dtxmarcellee Report

    Warren Doud
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You really shouldn't skip English class.

    Colleen Glim
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s not depression. It’s guilt

    Joseph Stillman
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ever tune out for .00000001 seconds in math, about the same for skipping a different class altogether

    Robin Childers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In 4 years of college I never skipped a class.

    clairebear
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you skip a class you are paying for?

    JBo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you are an adult and can make the decision that some professors are horrible teachers. You can get more out of that time by reading the book or looking up a good lecture on line.

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my classes bar two were compulsory so we were only allowed to miss one lecture and two tutes without special consideration or we would fail the class. This was okay for me except once, where I skipped a class when I didn't have any allowance left so I failed. I could have asked for special consideration because I missed the class because my brother was seriously sick and I was a wreck but I felt like it was blaming him for being sick (silly I know but I wasn't thinking clearly). I failed the class and that threw out my timetable the next semster because it was a prerequisite so I had to take a fifth year to catch up.

    Maria Maria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, but you are right. *You* should have gone.

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    tw 72
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Serious: One of my professors escaped out of East Germany and came to the US. Gives you a whole different perspective on life.

    Savannah Donohue
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Chinese language professor once told a harrowing story about how people broke into her house as a child and destroyed her piano because it was "western" and then continued the lesson like nothing happened

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    Hey!
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. My husband is a part-time professor and he gives his whole pedigree, plus my name and what I do, adding our children at the end, and his published books. LOL. 10 minutes.

    That Person
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I currently have a teacher who spent a whole class period telling us the story of a guy she dated in high school that she cheated on, and he cheated on her, and he didn’t tell his mother when they got engaged, so she left him bc his mom didn’t like her. She also spends a lot of the time discussing the burning question: would she let (insert any student in my class) date her daughter? Favorite teacher ever

    Felicia Baxter
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my mom had a Russian teacher who's dad got sent to the gulags for... something, I don't know if she ever found out

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LMAO my original philosophy professor was the latter type. He was freakin weird. Complaining about his ex wife, running into walls to make a point...then he got fired. Second professor was much better. She was nice, loved my doodles, and made the class super fun and easy.

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1 uni lecturer/: "My name is PROFESSOR Smith- I worked hard for my PhD and I WILL NOT answer to anything else but that name and title!" Other prof: " Hey guys- I'm your prof for this class- feel free to call me John, I'm from the US- anyone else play soccer!?- what team do you support because we might have issues!"

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    #29

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    tavonga_chinez Report

    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heh, some of my college photos, taken in the dorm room, do have visible collections of empty wine bottles sitting on top of the wardrobe, like they are trophies :D

    james stevenson
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That being said, garbage is disgusting, throw it out.

    Jk
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder

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    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many students don't know how to properly decorate their rooms. You're supposed to put candles in your empty wine/spirit bottles, duh.

    Mike Beck
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Decor? Maybe. But I do reuse my glass bottles. Slice up peppers, fill with hot vinegar, stick them in the windowsill (out of the way) for a couple months, empty, blend, hot sauce. Slice up fruit, fill with alcohol (strong enough to not freeze) of choice, leave in freezer occasionally shaking.

    Narwhal Blast
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I leave fruit in alcohol for about three weeks in a dark place, it turns out great. I don't add any sugar. Why do you put them in the freezer?

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    Wysteria_Rose
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if I melt a candle to the top of the wine bottle, it becomes an artsy candleholder so...

    ElfVibratorGlitter
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are some really beautiful hand blown glass bottles that I will save and use a vases or whatever. Though the likelihood that the liquor bottles in college are the aforementioned bottles seems slim.

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister inherited a heap from my brother when he moved in with his girlfriend. I have a feeling she will ask me to look after them as she in moving to a smaller apartment soon.

    Andy Frobig
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One room in my dorm had empty Coors cans stuck to it until you could only see the room number and the door k**b

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But I LOVE my limited edition, 15 year old empty Kabila bottle shaped like an Incan statue!- it's so cute in my display cabinet!? And it brings back fond memories of icing drinks and being hungover!

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had both of these. I also had the third type who'd reply with "Can't really decide right now, why don't you drop by at my office for a quick talk over a glass of bourbon."

    Phred
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back before e-mail (yes, I'm old) from one of the best professors I ever had: "feel free to call me at 3am, but make sure it's a 3am call."

    The Original Bruno
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    College Professor Type 1 is an adjunct who makes next to nothing and works in a high school or record shop to pay the bills. (I'm old.... see, record shops were where you could buy songs because you needed them on physical media.)

    Glenn Cuneo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once sent a email to a Professor at 12:35am "I'm just sending this to see if you respond within 15 minutes like you said you would to all emails".... Less than 2 minutes later "Mr Cuneo you need to get to sleep." I never sent her any emails after 9pm after that.

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some professors take advantage of students, esp. the newbies because they haven't been taught that they are consumers paying for a service. Like I said earlier, when a professor got out of line, I'd remind them that I pay their salary and that they will be doing right by me whether they like it or not.

    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The service is to teach you a small smorgasbord from the history of ideas. Whether or not you learn is reflected in the grade you earn.

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    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes I do this on work meetings, e.g. "(colleague) sneezed twice."

    Dumb teenager
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As of yesterday I have a whole page in my chem notes devoted to the mouse that ran through the classroom. We love Chedder II. (This is in high school not college though)

    Yu Pan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I briefly taught at a college. Teaching is very depressing. I realized acting friendly to students hurt my soul.

    Kare Deter
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine was: Ms. X loves cheese doodles

    #32

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    me myself and i (she/her)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm about to be a freshman... for high skl--everything comparing HS to college here is making me nervous, is it really that bad?

    Cat Chat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not really. It's different, of course, but these examples are exaggerated (as most things on the internet are). Make sure you know of and use the support system that any college should provide.

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    Lotekguy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know about the dead part, but all those around you are so absorbed in their own schitt that they can't care much about your bad moments. They're making the same adjustments as you.

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    svmplyv Report

    Themoonprincess
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my God. Why are all these so true??!!!

    François Bouzigues
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are doing good OP. All nighters won´t do it.

    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I usually pulled them to write papers... my muse is at its strongest after midnight.

    Oskar vanZandt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never did all-nighters... Mostly because I felt like death the next day if I didn't get at least 6 hours sleep. Plus then I'd need an afternoon nap.

    Charlotte
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never could manage them - always conked out at some point

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    iBlank
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my all-nighters were because I didn't start until 12, LOL

    Tim Douglass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never crammed all night for an exam, but as a computer science major I sure pulled a lot of all night programming marathons to try to get a project done on time!

    lost hedgehog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that’s so real and i’m not even in college 😭

    nottheactualphoto
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever I had a math exam the next morning, the toilet was *spotless*

    kath morgan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah I hit a point where I just can’t read any more and getting the sleep is more productive.

    Anna Stephenson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember being 20, at uni, study all night, go to exam the next morning, come home, chill, go clubbing/drinking that night to celebrate my first exam being over, then wake up hungover study for the next exam and so on and so on. And now- I'm 45 and if I get less that 7 hours sleep I'm a b*tchy zombie!

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    tcm97 Report

    PFD
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *blinks in European*

    Darfanme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MANY students have cars on campus in the US, unless it's a campus embedded in the heart a major city. Some colleges will no longer let freshman have cars - there's not enough parking, and the school makes money on requiring them to live in the dorms. (And, to be fair, often this money is needed, since public higher education is underfunded.)

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    no adhesiveness 2020
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and then they ticket you for parking in an illegal zone. Then you graduate and they call asking for donations! NO!

    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes! what is that c**p about!?! 30 000 students and 2000 parking bays.

    Geoffrey Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And what parking there is, is INSANELY expensive

    Maria Maria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God yes. I always, without exception, arrived at the school parking lot a good 45 minutes early because it always, and I mean always took 30 minutes of chasing people and competing with other cars to get a spot.

    Wes Ouzts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NOTHING LIKE BEING STALKED IN THE PARKING LOT YOUR FIRST WEEK and then you realize they just want your parking spot.

    nottheactualphoto
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't have a car in college, what with not being made of money.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL got that right 😂 it made being a commuter a pain in the a*s at times

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My housemates and I rarely risked driving to school because walking from the parking lot to class was more time-consuming and energy-draining than taking the bus. And after dark, they were downright dangerous.

    Alyssa Phillips
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there was the one spot that was always empty under a tree right in front of the freshman dorm. Only newbies parked there. The squirrels were angry and threw acorns hard enough to crack windshields.

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    ADZ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel bad for American kids, I've seen some resumes listing all their extra curriculas, must've had no free time as teens to enjoy life.

    v
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the structure that is forced on kids in HS so they can get into a good college and then, past getting in the door, none of it matters. The last 4 good years of childhood are forcibly wasted.

    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me in college: "Good news, I actually studied (a little) for the final, instead of spending the whole night gaming, as I usually do."

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was lucky. For me, college was academically much easier than high school. I guess it all depends on your major and the required classes and what your professors are like.

    Kris Tyler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yep. your cuteness and charm matters not in college

    #36

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    mmt2016_ Report

    Gustav Gallifrey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'No boys past 2am'? Is that code for 'your boyfriend can do anything you both consent to under this roof, except wake up here'?

    Corvus
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't have either of these at my college... which was probably for the best.

    madbakes
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's certainly not the sorority I was in

    Jackie Stubitsch
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a college town and one of the frat houses hung a sheet from the second floor balcony, it was spray painted with "show me your tits" lol

    Dave Platt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember seeing a cardboard sign saying exactly that, hung from a balcony of one floor of a high-rise dorm at my college back in the 70s. I suspect it's a widespread phenomenon, frats or not. Humans at that age (of either gender) tend to be wild animals much of the time... impulse control isn't at its best.

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    Sven Grammersdorf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    West Lafayette, IN is Purdue University

    Hiram's Friend
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a freshman, shortly after the Civil War, girls living in the dormitory had to be in by 10pm (2200 in Euro) on weekdays and midnight on Saturday.

    Sue User
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My college didnt have houses for the sorority because ( never confirmed) there was a law preventing so many women who were not related from living under same roof. Supposedly was to stop houses of ill repute.

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    A Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    University Housing: ( >_>)!

    Lady Miss Pie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m glad I attended a university that had no fraternities or sororities

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Feels like a minor annoyance in high school... but like vile torture in college.

    Robert Trebor
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a 1.75 hr commute to college (30 min walk 25 min train 25 min ferry 25 min subway 10 min walk) from Staten Island New York to City College of NY. 8 am class. Arrive at 8:05 or 7:15. Prof gave us (i was not the only lonely) seats by the door and asked us to slither silently seatward.

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have no choice in high school. All classes started at 7:30 am. In college you get to pick your courses and make your own schedule.

    Jenn LN
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My senior year I had only one class on Fridays, it was from 8 am to noon. I loved that class. But sometimes I rolled in in my pyjamas, sometimes still in my club clothes from the night before reeking of alcohol (Thursdays were cheap drink night). Any other class was torture that early

    Jeremy Bolanos
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I selected my graduate program because all the classes are after 6pm.

    Tim Douglass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why are the 8:00 classes always math or something like that? Maths at 3PM make sense. Maths at 8AM is just random noise.

    Comedy Clumbers
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I shouldn't admit this, but I switched majors *partially* because environmental science required courses were all at the earliest possible time. Also, I was struggling in those courses while absolutely killing my Psych (minor, originally) courses. It was definitely for the best for me, despite a stupid thing being part of the reason.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially when you have to walk 20 min. half uphill to school O_o

    Ubiquitous
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    British education don’t start until 9am. We need our crumpets

    Verena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in college, it was mandatory to be there at 8. The majority commuted in, by walking to the bus stop, taking the bus to the train station, taking the train to the city, switching over to the metro and walking the remaing km. After classes the same to get back home. 5 days a week. As much as this might sound to some as "barefoot in the snowstorm", it was and is just reality for hundredthousands of students here in Europe

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Si it because at home you have parents that make you go to bed at a decent time, while in college you are on your own and you can go robed whenever you want. There is no restraint anymore

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    supersendsauce Report

    A Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    feeling is mutual as university staff lol

    iBlank
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cttPiwzcKnc

    #39

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    christenrhule Report

    Verena
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Will granted where I live

    Sem Kix
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will my cat didn't pee on the carpet

    Oskar vanZandt
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will someone would put £1000 in my bank account every week without me having to work for it

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, it should be. But the US doesn't prioritize education, so I don't see it happening. Too many politicians believe what Trump said out loud, "I love the poorly educated" because they're easier to bamboozle and control.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You get my vote future president.

    RosenCranzLives
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Czech Republic it's all free. You don't even have to be born there. There are other places like that, too. Lots of them.

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    College WiFi.

    i_exist_666 Report

    Oskar vanZandt
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "TV Licencing Vehicle" here in The UK is enough to scare most people straight... Large fines for not paying to watch the BBC.

    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My best is "CIA Surveillance van" or similar.

    TotallyNOTAFox
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a single "A LAN before time?"

    WFH Forever
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ours is GetOffTheWiFiBox because all four kitties like to sleep on the modem it's warm.

    Sue User
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gone are the days when half did not have a lock.

    pfeils wife
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    where is "Pretty Fly for a Wifi" ?!

    La Lucy
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine are It burns when IP and That's what he SSID

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    ADZ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Miss the days of eating random junk whenever because you're pope, gain no weight, not constipated from it and your body doesn't feel like it's dying because you skipped veggies for a day.

    Looz-ashae
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can still return those days by healing your mucus. Gastritis is not developed in a day. More like in 10 years to be precise. Those years of eating junk contributed in developing gastritis just fine.

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    Andy Frobig
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My last 10pm bedtime was probably when I was eight, and then I'd still be awake until 1. One week in college, I literally didn't sleep all week and then slept through one of the last classes of the term

    Steve Hall
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was seldom home before midnight in highschool and never before 2am in college.

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    Lyone Fein
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More students should use office hours. It's a great opportunity to stand out in the professor's mind, to get your questions addressed, to earn participation points, to get one-on-one tutoring, and to get hints about how to most effectively study the course material.

    The Original Bruno
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The problem is that students don't have a well-developed sense of what sort of things professors would love to help their students with ("You have to see Zoroastrianism through the experience of agricultural laborers from Ur religions") and what things will make their professors cuss them out on Facebook ("IT'S IN THE DAMNED SYLLABUS!!!") and simply internalize that professors are annoyed to see people during their office hours.

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    Kristie French
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did Marvin from Hitchhikers Guide write this?

    Jo Mitts
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    1 year ago

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    #43

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    Passerby
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, classes in college are harder and likely longer. For example, some of my classes back then were 3 hours long, with small break in-between. So I could only take like 2 classes max a day.

    Sue
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was ecstatic that I only had 4 classes.

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    Jeremy Bolanos
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I nearly dropped a class when the lesson for that week included 5 pdfs and 4 chapters of a book I don't want to read and can't wait to set on fire.

    A Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In high school you only needed to go to one building,

    Robin Childers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I carried 16 to 18 hours a semester and did work study 10 hours a week. Y'all are soft.

    Charlotte
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends how many hours out of class you had to do for each hour in.

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    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a residence hall where the TV lounge was packed to the rafters with students watching afternoon soap operas. I was there unwinding before heading home or to work, but I was done with classes for the day. It was like watching people fail before my eyes.

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One thing that was better than high school was that people's opinions of you mattered less and less as time went on.

    ADZ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One thing I definitely noticed was the popular people from high school hated uni whilst so many of us got to be ourselves for the first time and had a ball.

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one is lying. College is way better than high school. You get to study what you're interested in!

    Lotekguy
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    Premium
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your mileage may vary...

    Comedy Clumbers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    EVERYTHING is better than High School. Being trapped in a blizzard between 2 avalanches while hearing more of them at 1am on the side of a mountain was better than HS.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never went to any of the rowdy high school or college parties lol I was too asocial and wanted to stay out of trouble. Yep, I was a goody goody lol. Worked in my favor though. Really bad stuff happened at some of those parties 😬

    Nikole
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My college dorm was right next to the frat quad, and it was awesome.

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never heard this from a colleague.

    David Paterson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. But you have heard a colleague complain about how much marking they have to do.

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    PFD
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally different aims. School: The teacher's job is to make you learn. The teacher needs to see proof you've done the work. It won't really be read. Uni: The study is on you. Your prof wants to see the results of your work, not evidence of the process. The written work is the proof of understanding , not proof of work, and *will* be read. Or put another way: your uni written work should be the tip of an iceberg, whereas at school they want you to bring the whole iceberg in.

    PFD
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (At 18, I fundamentally failed to grasp this. So I handed in tons of iceberg tips and pretty much squandered my university years. You know how some people say "a degree is just a piece of paper"? Mine is, pretty much. I reckon a lot of the people joking about the diff between HS and college in this post will end up the same.)

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My profs usually set a maximum word count, rather than pages (because you can mess around with font size, margins, line spacing, etc.).

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the end of my last year of college my advisor (and professor of several of my classes) didn't get tenure even though she'd been there quite a while. (Which is a bad thing for professors) So she basically just stopped teaching.

    Savannah Donohue
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once had a professor stop, stare at the board for a full minute and then go something about this is wrong but I can't figure out what it is so I'll just email you all later.

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    Wubedhheij
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with middle school. Elementary teachers: "your middle school teachers won't tolerate anything." The middle school teachers may even be more laid back than my elementary teacher.

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    me myself and i (she/her)
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    imagine if the answer was false... or maybe this is reverse psychology to make them choose false...

    Giraffy Window
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were people who got this question wrong. This person is an example of such a one. Not because she isn't smart, but because she has a suspicious mind that can't settle long enough to follow a straightforward instruction, without considering what the ulterior motives might be. In this case love, the professor literally just wants their students to select "True" 😘

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    Kare Deter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw one once that said : Choose the only available option and there was seriously only one option.

    TotallyNOTAFox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the end the professor would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. - I've read 1984, I know what's up! /s

    Teutonic Disaster
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This might be to check if everybody's actually doing the test properly and not just check boxes at random.

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    ScarletRos
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I spun out when we were allowed to drink wine in one evening class.

    SweetCheesySpaghetti
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We could smoke cigarettes in one of my classes, as long as we sat near the window and didn't burn anything.

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    Charles McChristy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a professor in World Religion say, "Tomorrow we will be studying Eastern Theologies. I'm not endorsing this, but if you are going to show up to this class stoned, this would be the day to do it."

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol lol 😂 Are you all sad because I flunk you. Want some milk duds. According to Sheldon, milk duds make everything beter.

    Tim Douglass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Study session with the prof at the local tavern. Session lasted until we were all to messed up to learn anything.

    Abby Reynolds
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depends. I went to a public university (UGA) and was just a face in the crowd and the professors let you be you. I then went to a community college where the professors micromanaged and treated you like you were still in grade school. It was awful switching from one to the other.

    Deeelite
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just being able to drink iced tea and eat a snack in class was a mind blowing blessing for me!

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    nini
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I would be highly interested in this lesson

    Charles McChristy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This just looks like the required Public Speaking class.

    #52

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    Charles McChristy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is actually a brilliant tactic, and one I wish I knew when I was still taking classes.

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    hockeygorl
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and in middle school it’s even worse

    censorshipsucks
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's because in college you're mostly tryng to find a bf/gf.

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    Kinak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very Good performance a Good team approach

    #55

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why you go to office hours! To ask about your grade so far!

    Tim Douglass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where the prof tells you that he's 4 weeks behind in grading and hasn't the slightest idea how you're doing.

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then the professor just says, "And this next part will be on the final......"

    M O'Connell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That depends on the situation. At my alma mater, if you had a kinesiology class followed immediately by an art class, you would practically need a police escort to get from one side of campus to the other in time not to be late.

    CF
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, I still remember my sweaty and impossible trek from some required humanities course across campus to Chem 2 one spring. Two years later and the course selection was computerized and we'd get warnings pop up when there wasn't enough time for travel. Great, thanks, I KNOW the campus now..

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    Passerby
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pray for me too. Nothing's wrong, I am just existing.

    #58

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    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. You will need note sharing buddies. In case you miss class.

    #59

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    dustypeeps Report

    censorshipsucks
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wikipedia is fine. It's MUCH more accurate, technical, and detailed, than Britannica, and it has the original journal citations in the articles. So I (as a former lecturer), accept it.

    Lyone Fein
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. You will be expected to provide original sources.

    NetworkMan
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which you can find on Wikipedia. That little hyperlinked number at the end of a Wikipedia sentence is the link to the source material. So just click that and cite that page. Simple

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    Matthew Savestheworld
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wikipedia began as unreliable. But now it is lauded as one of the most accurate sources in existence

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    Milady Blue
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oddly enough, outside of high school and college, no one will EVER ask or even CARE about your grades.

    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the first lesson you learn after graduating.

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    Fellfromthemoon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sigh... Before Covid, I gave a sheet for every student in the class, I asked them to put it in their coursebook and write their own test result (one number per week) on the sheet. (Although, I should have expected them to record their marks on their own.) Every week - I repeat, every week- all of them received their previous test to check the mark. If someone was absent, they got it the following week. Guess what? The last two weeks I received e-mails from 90-95% of the students asking me to send them ALL THEIR RESULTS, individually.

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    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Drunk guy taking a flying leap and body slamming a wobbly table (usually being used for beer pong) just for the hell of it. Very typical American frat experience.

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    Deeelite
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Drunk frat guys tend to belly flop on tables for laughs

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    Bunnyxi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are saying "in college, I can't procrastinate as well as I did in high school" hope this helps

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    Wubedhheij
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just break up with them. Don't be controlling.

    censorshipsucks
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hmm honestly... it's about serotonin and dopamine. If you are more interesting than fortnight you'll get attention.

    Giraffy Window
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree with telling a young teen they have to "be more interesting" if they don't want to be ignored by the person they're dating. It's a two way street. If you want to be in a relationship with someone, you can't constantly ignore them when you have something you find more fun. Either stop wasting their time and break up, or put in the effort to actually be IN a relationship. One the other hand if one person is legit too clingy and demands all of the attention and sulks when you need/want an evening or weekend to yourself to do fun stuff like gaming, that's a good reason to break up too.

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    Kare Deter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think of a relationship like a plant - if you ignore it, it withers and di es. If you water it, it maintains. If you give it TLC, it thrives and grows.

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