guys i need some lol college advice

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max. do what is pleasure. but realize pleasure will be reconfigured in your near future. freewheel out.

freewheel, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link

it was weird to stumble onto this thread, max, cause i'm basically in the same situation. i'm working on my honors senior thesis (first semester of the two), and trying to figure out whether to apply to grad school. i'm actually meeting with my thesis adviser tomorrow afternoon to talk about grad schools to look at. i've also got this escape hatch planned out in my head where i start an MA in Media Studies (or Performance Studies), and if the whole post-grad thing isn't thrilling me, I parlay that into something media professional. And if it does thrill me, go into a PHD.

Meanwhile I'm reading Hal Foster, Fredrick Jameson and Jacques Attali for my thesis and wondering why I can't spend the rest of my life talking about post-Marxist critiques of pop culture. (On that note, I saw The Counterfeiters tonight and loved the Marxist critique of the Holocaust thing going on in the background of the film.)

So, feel good that other people are trying to feel this thing out alongside you? :-P

Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, I'm also currently in a Creative Writing class.

Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link

ditch the classes. i was only going part-time last semester and it made me feel cool, like i had a life.

get bent, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i dropped two classes am saving boatloads of $$$

AND i used the extra time to finish a draft of my thesis way early, and i havent disappointed anyone

ilx is hella good at advice

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i mean i still totally hate my paper and it could probably be a million billion times better, but at least its done

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link

high five bro

gbx, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link

way 2 go homes

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link

aw, congratulations, max!!!! so proud of you (sorry to sound like a mom).

horseshoe, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

no HS thx a bunch for all your amazing advice on the thread

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

good work, max! making the best out of college is a challenge.

ian, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link

my advisor wants me to just hand it in and be done but i feel like there are 10000000000000000 things that i need to revise. it feels too simple & elementary but i wonder if thats just because ive spent so long w/ my texts that i know there are so many more things to say. it does feel good to be in the clear!! i have to defend it sometime in the next couple weeks, and after that i can devote my time to fixing up the radio station

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Wish I could go part-time!

admrl, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link

haha adam i dont want to brag but you have no idea how nice it is. my house is clean! im getting daily exercise! and eating 3 meals!

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i am so jealous!

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link

should I see about using my new company's TR program to just attend a couple of throwaway grad courses a semester on the pretense of pursuing another master's degree? NB the actual primary purpose of this would be to meet ladies.

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, you should Tom! Learning and ROMANCE go hand in hand.

ian, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah dude definitely

max, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

meeting men is the whole reason ladies even go to lol college

bell_labs, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I should go to lol law school and meet rich ladies

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link

i think boys meet lots of girls at lolcollege, but girls do not necessarily meet lots of boys.

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

i was in lolrelationships all through lolcollege, i squandered my education. :(

Jordan, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

boys at lol college are easily distracted by all the other lol activities and forget that they are supposed to be trying to hook up.

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I found my wife in lol college! ^_^

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

(I also confirmed that I had, in fact, found the lol clitoris.)

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I squandered my time at GWU by not being single for any of it.

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Sign up for lol artschool.

Ed, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

lolgradschool is kind of a bust bc everyone's already married.

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Or ugly.

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Ed I was actually thinking of going into an education program. I hear the business of teaching is mad riddled with lonesome babes.

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

i should go back for library science, apparently it's like 95% lol women.

Jordan, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

and ned.

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

at my old non-prof job we had a library science/archivist grad school intern and she was a 10.0

became engaged shortly after joining tho :'(

deej, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

lolcollegeadministration isn't so great for meeting well adjusted women my own age

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost, true dat, one of my teacher mates hooked up within two weeks of his first teaching job, he was too pre-occupied with a local bar-maid during his actual teacher training to get busy.

Ed, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

95% women, 5% ned

Jordan, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

lolibrary!

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link

lol raggett

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Tom, you should consider something near a lol music school, as that will be rife with single women looking for a rich husband to help underwrite the expense of getting their performance career off the ground. (We have a friend who did the young artists program with National Opera who was SUPERMADPRETTY and super single but she might have only been interested in dating other native Koreans.)

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link

anywhere but Georgetown. I also suspect my prospects would be minimal were I to enroll at Gallaudet or Howard.

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Although you never know!

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link

dan is absolutely correct!
i speak from experience of going to a lol music school - they are rife with single women desperate for straight guys.

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

no way dan, musicians are crazy.

Jordan, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah jordan otm
no one who spends 4 hrs a day in a practice room is gonna be mentally balanced

only thing worse would be 4 hrs on ilx

deej, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link

no less balanced than comp sci geeks who are in front of computers 18 hours a day.

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link

srsly, of the musicians I know, some are crazy but none are crazier than the computer ppl I know

no wait there's one, don't date her; everyone else is golden

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link

or married, lol

HI DERE, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link

god i need to get out of the house

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link

aren't you at work?

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link

haw

tehresa, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link


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