anxious midwestern college students who can't wait to move to nyc

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Last night at W@@le F00ds the check out bagger was gabbin' to the checker about her and her boyfriends big move to the big apple. She was chittering with excitement.

Apparently her and her beau are applying to NYU together - because, "we both wanna go to grad school for something!"

Am I a big time bitter tosser for thinking this is funny?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

what happens if one gets rejected?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

New York City is for sellouts

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

"We both wanna go to grad school for something" is what makes the story funny. I mean is that an actual topic of study? If it is, I'm interested in signing up at NYU as well.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

nyu kids are adorable

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

What do you think they will end up studying? I'm worried that such a big move could end-up having a detrimental effect on their relationship. Perhaps they should go for a holiday first?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

nyc will crush them

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I wish they called it grad school here.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

ny'ers abbreviate everything

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Though, I'm glad that people still get exited about stuff.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm worried for their relationship, too.

What was also so great is that the girl acted like it was IN THE BAG RE: NYU.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

was she a bagger or the checkout girl?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

the check out bagger was gabbin' to the checker

"we both wanna go to grad school for something!"

HAW HAW EDGEYOUMAYKATION THPBT PBBT

WHERE'S MAH MOUNTAIN DEW

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

well, i mean, i am still excited about being an ice skater when i grow up but i dont go around babbling my hopes and dreams to anyone who will listen!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

you have died inside, mandee.

i still wanna be a fireman who plays 2nd base for the baltimore orioles.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

she was the bagger, babbling to the checker.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

no wonder she thot it was "in the bag."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Baltimore???

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

But what if you got a call during the game, Stence?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I meant excited. I guess people can get exited, dunno how it works mind.

This scenario is kinda like a Bon Jovi video synposis.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

xpost - they'd sub in somebody else and i'd go fight fires in tight baseball pants!

allyzay, my dad lived in d.c. back then, they didn't have the nationals yet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

climbing up ladders in cleats might be tough tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

LET'S GIVE EVERYBODY A MASTER'S DEGREE AND JUST BE DONE WITH IT

hstencil, you are now an M.A. in Electric Friendship Learning Management.

mandee, here is your dual M.S. in Duck Hunt and Red Cabooses.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

aw, check-out baggers, how quaint!

― u best check yself, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

me! me! I want a masters!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I will have two master's degrees soon. I guess that's greedy.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

oh my god i would love to have an M.S. in duck hunt and red cabooses!!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

This is exactly how NYC is a trap. It lures you in with fancies of culture and sophistication then CRUSHES YOU WITH DEBT and a shitty studio in outer bklyn.

Unless they think living on the extreme cheap is "cool & bohemian," in which case they should be stabbed.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

dude, tombot, y'know i'd totally fail at that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

bah, outer bklyn is great.

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

the fact that she is a checkout bagger really has no relavance. she just happened to be a checkout bagger. while i happened... to listen.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

i am crushed with debt but i have a nice apartment only 5 stops in.

don't forget everybody: new bankruptcy bill rules don't take effect for six months!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

party!

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

plus, i'm a lowly adjunct faculty member of the duck hunting department.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i don't understand why this would be funny

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Give us your tired, your poor, your idiotic. We'll take em all.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.corcoran.com/property/nd/photo/gretsch_lg.jpg

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

seriously, on brian lehrer's show today they had a bankruptcy "expert" (don't wanna know how he got to be one) advising people on how they could still declare before congress and dubya fuck everybody.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

hahaha DEAN that looks like the GRETSCH BUILDING in Williamsburg! BUSTA RHYMES bought the penthouse!

Scourge of the artists, I tell ya.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand why these people would be idiots

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I just found it to be a bit naive. Hence, hilarious!!!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand why it's naive

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

going to grad school for "something" is just a bad idea; that's the funny part for me. i mean, sure, law school, business, film, you have definite career options.

it reminds me of when I heard some kid at college saying how he and his 7 friends were going to get an apartment in amsterdam, 3 of them would work at a time and they would live out of a "communal pot" of cash and herb.

sure it will work, kids. go ahead.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

teeny, you now hold a Master's in Huguenot Romance Administration.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb, ARE YOU NAIVE?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Gabbneb's right. For all we know, the girl is a Rhodes Scholar. But in our world, she's still a tool.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, she might be brilliant, but I am prejudiced to begin with when it comes to college students in boulder, colorado.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Rhodes Scholars don't chitter.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

the one Rhodes scholar I knew (oh wait, maybe he was a Fulbright? if so nevermind) at my school was a fucking tool. Rainbow suspenders, I kid you not.

Fortunately, Drew Daniels and Bill Clinton alone redeem the rest of the Rhodes scholars.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

He was Mork?

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

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When I came to America I was BLOWN AWAY that people bagged stuff for you, I felt I should try and stop them or something.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 10 March 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

whenever I try to help the bagger bag the groceries they act like I am trying to hit on them!!!

okay, maybe not.

but when I lived in engerlund everyone had to bag their own groceries. it was kinda fun/stressful!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 10 March 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Mandee get on AIM! I am kinda drunk.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

just a sec, i gotta wait for my nosey co-worker to leave! plus i dunno if I can use AIM at work. we'll see.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Ah okay I was confused cause around here co-ops are the only places where people bag yr groceries for you, and there's a co-op in duluth called Wh0le foods.

― Dan I., Friday, 11 March 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

And also cause it's a lot easier imagining the kind of people that work at co-ops talking about grad school in NYC than it is people who work in regular supermarkets!

― Dan I., Friday, 11 March 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Supermarket bagger is the classic American make-work job. Double bagging keeps the bag industry in business, as well.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

When Bush says he's creating jobs, these are the jobs he's talking about.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I have no problems with anxious Midwestern bag checkers wanting to move to NYC for grad school or a job or just excitement (though I agree that Chicago is plenty exciting). If you have the money and the means, you only live once, why not? But....the thing that gets me about certain New Yorkers is that they get into this bubble world where nothing exists outside of their world, and some people get so snobbish about it. Especially annoying is the people who move there from smaller and/or shittier places than Philadelphia (my hometown) and then have the nerve to look down their nose at me and my friends and my life. I have friends who move there and now I just learn to think of it as Vietnam. I might not ever hear from them again, or they will come back totally changed, frequently for the worst.

And of course, this is no slight towards the nice New Yorkers on the list.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 11 March 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Something like an engineering degree seems practical but as far as I know the economic reality in the US shows otherwise.
-- walter kranz (kranz_walte...), March 10th, 2005.

The engineering firm I work for was just in a mad dash to hire people, actually.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 11 March 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I went to NYU as an undergrad. Granted I am from the northeast (Providence), so I was somewhat prepared for the cultural climate of the city, but it was still a huge transition.

I definitely majored in "stuff" -- I have an interdisciplinary B.A. in Theatre & Politics. I don't regret going to NYU, but things being as they are, I was in no position to stay in NYC once I graduated.

If I ever go back to New York, it has to be with money.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

I have friends who move there and now I just learn to think of it as Vietnam. I might not ever hear from them again, or they will come back totally changed

hahaha!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's brilliant.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

In some ways, though, moving to Chicago (which is not New York, I realize) has helped me sort out what I did and did not like about living in Texas. I hated the place with rancid passion when I left, but now I relize that a lot of that was situational, and there are some things I miss.

Not a whole lot of things, though. ;)

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

really the only things i miss about chicago, after moving to nyc, is the food (hot dogs, pizza, wet italian beef, old country buffet, pizza puffs, mongolian beef, crab rangoon). also being able to watch bulls games every night.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

"When I came to America I was BLOWN AWAY that people bagged stuff for you, I felt I should try and stop them or something."

THEY DONT. actually i guess that's not true, at our local IGA (indie grocer assoc.) i THINK they still bag stuff for you AND if yr old and infirm they CARRY IT OUT TO YR CAR. the IGA in the larger nearby town did all this as well, in addition THEY UNLOADED YOUR CARTS FOR YOU IMAGINE. AND. they took care of them WHEN you where DONE. so all you did was SHOP. that store CLOSED DOWN. the only grocery store in that town now is a large supermarket that offers none of these jobs/services. getit?

i tried to be a bagboy while rrreading white noise.

― lindel carton, Friday, 11 March 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

phil, if you can bum a ride from someone, there's an old country buffet (aka "hometown buffet" -- same company tho) in staten island!

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

didn't they have some kind of "we don't hire gays" policy at some point, and get sued (a zillion times) for it?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

"When I came to America I was BLOWN AWAY that people bagged stuff for you, I felt I should try and stop them or something."
THEY DONT. actually i guess that's not true, at our local IGA (indie grocer assoc.) i THINK they still bag stuff for you AND if yr old and infirm they CARRY IT OUT TO YR CAR. the IGA in the larger nearby town did all this as well, in addition THEY UNLOADED YOUR CARTS FOR YOU IMAGINE. AND. they took care of them WHEN you where DONE. so all you did was SHOP. that store CLOSED DOWN. the only grocery store in that town now is a large supermarket that offers none of these jobs/services. getit?
i tried to be a bagboy while rrreading white noise.

-- lindel carton (lcarton4...), March 11th, 2005.

IGA? Where do you live?

(I thought they were only around me, back in mich)

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

didn't they have some kind of "we don't hire gays" policy at some point, and get sued (a zillion times) for it?

i thot that was denny's.

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

no, i would swear it was old country buffet as well.

or maybe "cracker barrell" or something like that?

what do i know, i'm from chicago.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

(where we haven't yet learned how to spell "barrel.")

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

barrell williams

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

"Black customers in 16 states also said they were subjected to racial slurs and served food taken from the trash, while Cracker Barrel management ignored or condoned such actions. The announcement comes four months after the company settled a Justice Department lawsuit accusing Cracker Barrel of similar discrimination claims at dozens of restaurants, mainly in the South.

That settlement found that Black customers at many of the country store-themed restaurants were seated in areas segregated from white patrons frequently received inferior service and often were made to wait longer for tables. Blacks who complained about poor service also were treated less favorably than whites. Cracker Barrel operates 505 restaurants in 41 states."

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

david i live in IL but i've seen an IGA in maine so i imagine they're pretty widespread.

― same guy, Friday, 11 March 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 445 for "old country buffet" discrimination.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,340 for "cracker barrel" discrimination.

― hmm, Friday, 11 March 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

we have a winnah

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Your search - discriminationalist - did not match any documents.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

ya dudes i live in fucking worcester massachusetts...i have a high school diploma and a series 7 license. GET ONE COMPLAINT.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

ooh look at mr big shot with his series 7 license! you go girl! ;-)

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

BAH!

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

They have IGAs in Australia!

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

If you don't go out a lot, is New York City/Manhattan very expensive? My impression is that rent is higher than in Los Angeles.

― youn, Friday, 11 March 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

I can't imagine rent being higher in Los Angeles than Manhattan.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

If you're willing to put up with a horrible nasty studio apartment with the shower in the hall and less than 140 sq. feet, that's a 15-minute walk from the subway, you might get away with paying $600 a month. If it's in Queens, or near the projects in Brooklyn. I'm considering this very option now.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

On that note, the Times article on finding an apt. under 1200:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/realestate/13cover.html

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Ways to live cheaply/cheaper in Manhattan South of Harlem
1) Find a rent-controlled apt (i.e. know someone or win the lottery)
2) Student housing
3) Have at least two roommates
4) Be an au pair

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

hey mandee why were you shopping at whole foods anyway? isn't that the competition?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

This is why I just visit NYC, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

(shhhhhhh: NJ is cheaper!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

whole foods is a pretty good fucking chain. i've got more friends working at the co-op, but hey.

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Is it totally laughable to do an MA and possibly more in 'stuff' if what you might maybe want to do with your life is teach 'stuff' to undergrads?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

grad school is the LAST fucking thing i want to talk abt right now.

but anyway SIDETALKIN holy shit!! i started a thread on that a million years ago! one of M@tt H@lgeson's underlings (and a school friend of mine) was one of the first dudes pictured on that site.

― f--gg (gcannon), Saturday, 12 March 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

incidendtally, there was an article in the chronicle of higher ed in 02 about (read: destroying) these vague humanities MAs. they are all unfunded, ie no fellowships let alone TAships. i'm all for vague humanities shit, but really these are a total crime, if there is not even the possibility of you getting funding when you are in graduate education, you are being ripped the fuck off.

the quotes were nuts, all the kids were like "omg this is gr8 i'm totally in the middle of everything here" and the profs were like "except they're really totally not, those kids = dipshits, get into one real program plz" and all the admins were like "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" and the chronicle was like "tsk tsk"

― f--gg (gcannon), Saturday, 12 March 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

i don't like this truism that you can live hard in manhattan but live like a princess somewhere else, all else being equal. yes its a little easier to find street parking out here but christ, it's not like you change your manhattandollars in for lira.

― f--gg (gcannon), Saturday, 12 March 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

I was once an anxious midwestern college student who moved to NYC. In the ahem 24 years since then...
1. housing costs have skyrocketed
2. huge well-stocked grocery stores have proliferated

Connection or coincidence? You decide.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

there was an article in the chronicle of higher ed in 02 about (read: destroying) these vague humanities MAs.

geoff, do you have a cite for this article? I'd really like to read it!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

whole foods roxors. the one in the time warner center = lunch options galore!

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

wf is fine but i don't want mandee to get fired.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

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anxious midwestern college students who can't wait to move to nyc - c/d?!!