10k Posts and Advice to College Freshmen

El_Barto.

El_Barto.

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Damn, thats a lot of posts on a forum. Rather than make a thread dedicated to cool photos or lols i want to make a thread to help out incoming college freshmen.

My college experience was different than most so i cant really speak to the dorm/social bit. I went to a small school and immediately lived off campus.

What i can advise on is classes and perception. Your teachers arent always right. Take everything they say with a grain of salt. STEM classes will be more objective but even then personal bias will be present. I mean more like your sociology and psychology classes youre required to take as a freshman.

You will most likely hang on your teachers every word and adopt their opinions as your own because they will seem smart and you want to emulate them. Don't do this. Use the information they present to form your own opinion. This will allow you to think critically and really start to think like an adult.

It is so much more rewarding to form your own opinion rather than regurgitate others. It will help shape the rest of your life and the man/woman you are going to be. It will build character. You will care about your opinions and defend them because they are solely yours and no one elses.

/10k posts and mobile typos
 
Clark: I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapitalism...

Chuckie: Let me tell you something, all right...

Will: (interrupting) Of course that is your contention...

Clark: Hold on a second...

Will: You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian Historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna' be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're gonna' be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna' last until next year, you're gonna' be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about ya know, the Pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.

Clark: Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social...

Will: (interrupting) Wood drastically... Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County", page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that you thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend, you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girl and embarrass my friend? You see, the sad thing about a guy like you is that in 50 years, you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped a 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have gotten for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.

Clark: Yeah, but I will have the degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive thru on our way to a skiing trip.

Will: (laughing) Yeah, maybe, but at least I won't be unoriginal.

from one of my fav movie scenes ever, definitey applies here
 
if your gonna smoke weed always use a clean needle

when in doubt never pull out

and if ur gonna gobble do it while u cum!
 
Physics people are nerdy nerds, engineers are broseidons, math people are hippie nerds, computer science "people" are disgusting all around, web dev majors are hipsters, and nobody else has a worthwhile degree, so they aren't worth talking to.

You're welcome.
 
13103633:thedawg said:
Clark: I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapitalism...

Chuckie: Let me tell you something, all right...

Will: (interrupting) Of course that is your contention...

Clark: Hold on a second...

Will: You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian Historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna' be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're gonna' be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna' last until next year, you're gonna' be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about ya know, the Pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.

Clark: Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social...

Will: (interrupting) Wood drastically... Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County", page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that you thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend, you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girl and embarrass my friend? You see, the sad thing about a guy like you is that in 50 years, you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped a 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have gotten for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.

Clark: Yeah, but I will have the degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive thru on our way to a skiing trip.

Will: (laughing) Yeah, maybe, but at least I won't be unoriginal.

from one of my fav movie scenes ever, definitey applies here
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can I get those mcdoubles to go, please?
 
13103688:Arabian said:
Physics people are nerdy nerds, engineers are broseidons, math people are hippie nerds, computer science "people" are disgusting all around, web dev majors are hipsters, and nobody else has a worthwhile degree, so they aren't worth talking to.

You're welcome.
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Your signature renders your trolling obselete. You should change it.
 
13103688:Arabian said:
Physics people are nerdy nerds, engineers are broseidons, math people are hippie nerds, computer science "people" are disgusting all around, web dev majors are hipsters, and nobody else has a worthwhile degree, so they aren't worth talking to.

You're welcome.
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Good thing accountants make more money than half of those fields, with the plus side of not having to learn math and science.
 
13103688:Arabian said:
Physics people are nerdy nerds, engineers are broseidons, math people are hippie nerds, computer science "people" are disgusting all around, web dev majors are hipsters, and nobody else has a worthwhile degree, so they aren't worth talking to.

You're welcome.
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yeah I go to RIT and this is very true...
 
13105481:Arabian said:
*do repetitive computation, completely misunderstanding the math.
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They understand the math very well. Enough to manipulate it as much as possible for corporate gains. At the end of the day the numbers are the same.

Accounting is theatre more than anything.
 
13105514:DeebieSkeebies said:
why do they even ban them anymore? They just create aliases with different IP's in a week or so.
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Idk they should just leave them though. Makes it harder for them to troll the ree rees with a more known name
 
13105085:lIllI said:
And unlike most STEM majors, accountants know how to party.
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youre saying that accountants party harder than engineers?

get your stereotypes straight
 
13106140:yuck said:
get your stereotypes straight
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The stereotype is that accountants are soft-voiced melvins who wear green visors and suspenders to work and get off on balancing books.

I'm not talking stereotypes; I'm talking about reality. The vast majority of accountants I've met were down to earth people who saw an opportunity in an accounting career, and choose offset the mind-boggling boredom of their profession by having a shitload of fun in their off-time.

Engineers are generally too smart to let their partying get out of hand (looking at you, investment bankers). They party no small amount, but I don't see them railing lines of coke and doing unheard-of psychedelics like accountants do.
 
13103688:Arabian said:
Physics people are nerdy nerds, engineers are broseidons, math people are hippie nerds, computer science "people" are disgusting all around, web dev majors are hipsters, and nobody else has a worthwhile degree, so they aren't worth talking to.

You're welcome.
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13104267:Arabian said:
brodouches.
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Not sure I'd agree with that. I'd say the stereotypical engineer is extremely pretentious about the difficulty of their major, completely socially inept, and devoid of personality. Not really a "brodouche" imo.
 
13105736:lIllI said:
They understand the math very well. Enough to manipulate it as much as possible for corporate gains. At the end of the day the numbers are the same.

Accounting is theatre more than anything.
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Spoken like someone who has never worked in a corporate environment.
 
13106540:Arabian said:
Spoken like someone who has never worked in a corporate environment.
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You're denying that the majority of corporate employees in financial fields are capable of basic arithmetic?

It seems to me that you don't understand what most accounting jobs entail: addition and subtraction. Sometimes multiplication and division. Accountants aren't mathematicians; they're organizers. There is no deep inner math in this process; it's literally a matter of putting numbers in strategic locations within legal boundaries. A balance sheet is a pretty basic concept.

Any sophisticated math used in business is reserved for nutty quant analysts and other market scientists. As for running a business, you don't need anything beyond basic calculus, and for most corporate accounting roles you practice little more than basic algebra.
 
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