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i don't know. i ask myself that almost every day. at this point i despise college but am just finishing it so i can get the fuck out
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daisy jane
I'm counting down the days until I get to move out of this horrible dorm room and move into my very own apartment!! At least that way I will get to smoke whenever I want. This past year it has only been a weekend occurrence, and I have to drive to another city to smoke with my boyfriend. I can't wait until I am out of college. At first glance, I thought that angst wrote, 800 lines of coke. My immediate reaction was "well jesus christ."
foolintherain
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i'm almost out and almost have a great job (as long as i pass the drug test).
stick with it, do your best and learn what you can.
stick with it, do your best and learn what you can.
G
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im bitter about college - you pay all this money and in the end, only a fraction of your classes are the ones you actually wanna take. you don't even end up using the majority of what you "learn." it's such a joke, and such a ripoff. so overrated.
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major: biology with a mix of botany, entomology, and soil science
"lisp? man.. your not even coding anything worth while lol"
Har. It's actually Scheme, and we are doing Continuation Passing Style transformations with an interpreter, registerizing, then trampolining, then running a tiny translator. Theoretically we are learning how to make a programming language.
My data structures class was in C. My networking class is in C/C++. I had a Database Class, a java class, and a few math classes. And assembly (don't remember any of it).
Har. It's actually Scheme, and we are doing Continuation Passing Style transformations with an interpreter, registerizing, then trampolining, then running a tiny translator. Theoretically we are learning how to make a programming language.
My data structures class was in C. My networking class is in C/C++. I had a Database Class, a java class, and a few math classes. And assembly (don't remember any of it).
Considering the current market for IT pros, you'll want to focus on Java and Database (mainly SQL specific)
Learning VB couldn't hurt as a side job, but I would veer towards open source languages and frameworks and away from .NET
C++ is good to know since it's a good base OOP language. C is pretty much a throwaway language at this point, as is assembly. I mean really, how many companies at this point are hiring low level programmers?
The IT field is getting hot again and I'm in the same type of program as you, from the sounds of it. Can't wait to get out there and start DOING this shit for real instead of making lame projects for classes
Learning overall systems analysis is a plus also. Project lifecycles, UML class and DB modeling, etc.
I actually have embraced the object oriented principles and they've made programming in most any OOP language a breeze. The only difference is the syntax for the most part.
Learning VB couldn't hurt as a side job, but I would veer towards open source languages and frameworks and away from .NET
C++ is good to know since it's a good base OOP language. C is pretty much a throwaway language at this point, as is assembly. I mean really, how many companies at this point are hiring low level programmers?
The IT field is getting hot again and I'm in the same type of program as you, from the sounds of it. Can't wait to get out there and start DOING this shit for real instead of making lame projects for classes
Learning overall systems analysis is a plus also. Project lifecycles, UML class and DB modeling, etc.
I actually have embraced the object oriented principles and they've made programming in most any OOP language a breeze. The only difference is the syntax for the most part.
confused
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i have a year left to go in college and i can say that i fully appreciate it now.
you all need to realize that there is no other time in your life that alcoholism is justified, smoking pot is accepted, and sex is exploratory. i can probably say this because i am a business major (not what i want, but tough shit), but just get through your courses and keep your eyes open to the experience outside of class.
delayed gratification is something that us growers know a lot about. just realize how good it will feel when you have enough money to retire at 55 after earning a living legitimately. plus, think of it as educated yourself for the betterment of society. what would everything be like if no one got educated past high school?
hope everyone has straight A's. :smile: peace.
you all need to realize that there is no other time in your life that alcoholism is justified, smoking pot is accepted, and sex is exploratory. i can probably say this because i am a business major (not what i want, but tough shit), but just get through your courses and keep your eyes open to the experience outside of class.
delayed gratification is something that us growers know a lot about. just realize how good it will feel when you have enough money to retire at 55 after earning a living legitimately. plus, think of it as educated yourself for the betterment of society. what would everything be like if no one got educated past high school?
hope everyone has straight A's. :smile: peace.
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I'm the one who decides whether or not pot is justified...not college, not society.
My problem is that college does not educate people the way it should. Half of it is crap you'll never use, don't want to study, or aren't interested in.
College is great, but it is worth only 40 or 50% of what it should be worth. It's a ripoff and a scam.
My problem is that college does not educate people the way it should. Half of it is crap you'll never use, don't want to study, or aren't interested in.
College is great, but it is worth only 40 or 50% of what it should be worth. It's a ripoff and a scam.
College is nothing more than the next step in brain washing people into becoming a fully fledged "Yes-Man/Women".
If walking along the conveyor belt that society lays out for people to "suceed" is your thing go for it. I personally did not need college to know what I wanted to do nor could college prepare me for it. I am a professional horticulturist and if I would have gone to college I would have wasted time that could had been spent working on trial and error which is the way all the great ones in this line work suceed. Did all those people through out history go to fucking college to learn how to till the land? I don't think so.
And the ironic thing is I have had a few paper horticulturist come to my place and ask me for work to "get experience in the field". I am like isn't college supposed to give you that?
If walking along the conveyor belt that society lays out for people to "suceed" is your thing go for it. I personally did not need college to know what I wanted to do nor could college prepare me for it. I am a professional horticulturist and if I would have gone to college I would have wasted time that could had been spent working on trial and error which is the way all the great ones in this line work suceed. Did all those people through out history go to fucking college to learn how to till the land? I don't think so.
And the ironic thing is I have had a few paper horticulturist come to my place and ask me for work to "get experience in the field". I am like isn't college supposed to give you that?
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Gelatinous said:
That's why a lot of people (like myself) go to tech colleges to actually learn what is NEEDED and then plan on using the company that hires me (for the same starting salary as a company would had I had a bachelors) to pay for me finishing out the last 2 years to get the piece of paper that says I went to school for four years.
J0sh1 said:
It really depends on what you're going to college for and what college you go to. Not all higher education insitutions are out there to brainwash. Especially if you're going to a trade-oriented school for things LIKE horticulture. I would say this may be more the case with liberal arts colleges for people who take 4 years to figure out what they want to do, and can't seem to get their shit together enough to do that, graduate with a degree in philosophy or comparative literature and then try and pay off their school debt with 'liberal arts' jobs
