College Makes Me Sick!!

[thoth]

College makes me physically sick. The people, the staff, literally sick. The egos are just too much. Half of the shit we read is so dreadfully boring, and not only that we have yet to discuss real issues. The most fucked up thing is that they don't even understand what the real issues are! I could not begin to tell you all of the irrelevant shit I have to acknowledge in a place of 'higher learning'. This shit is a fucking joke. I just spent almost four hours on a 22 page article because it was just so fucking dumb, and what I was requested of to do with the 22 pages was even worse. This shit cannot be considered serious education? Come on 2012, or whenever this shit is over. I could care less. Anyone else out there feeling me?

[lilly555]

I hear you man. I can't do it. I mean I just can't take it. I tried but then I kept not going to class because my heart was telling me that it was some bullshit. You know Ivy Tech, Ball State, Vinncenens, I kept signing up each semester because my head was telling me that it was good for me. I just could'nt take it. I tried and dropped out six semester before I started listening to my heart and realized that I couldn't take another day so I just stopped signing up and paying tuition. Now I feel free from it. It feels good, but sometimes I worry that I'm gonna need that college degree, or else. My head logic is trying to get me down but I know I'm better off being away from all of that stuff.

[thoth]

I hear you man. I can't do it. I mean I just can't take it. I tried but then I kept not going to class because my heart was telling me that it was some bullshit. You know Ivy Tech, Ball State, Vinncenens, I kept signing up each semester because my head was telling me that it was good for me. I just could'nt take it. I tried and dropped out six semester before I started listening to my heart and realized that I couldn't take another day so I just stopped signing up and paying tuition. Now I feel free from it. It feels good, but sometimes I worry that I'm gonna need that college degree, or else. My head logic is trying to get me down but I know I'm better off being away from all of that stuff.

Thanks for the support! College is whack!

[soglad]

The friends of mine who went to college I either never spoke to again, or ended up having NOTHING in common. Their life is of going to college then going to pubs/clubs after taking stupid fucking pictures to put on their MySpaces and take up smoking because they'll look cool. Heads up their arses every one of them. All they say to me is "What college are you going to?" I say none, because it's a crock of shit, and they laugh in ignorance and think they know everything and have life sussed.

I hate college and its culture.

[soglad]

I actually applied to do a computer course a few weeks ago since people were constantly giving me the "What are you doing?" bullshit so I decided to do something to shut them up and play the game. I did one day and that was enough. It was ROBOTIC.........sit here, sign this, report here.............FUCK OFF.........sick is what it is.......sick........

I never went back, told my folks "Sorry, that is the most inhumane thing I've ever experienced." so I'm saving my money to go to Australia.

[bazzybazzy]

yeh college is fucking ridiculous,i go now and some of the people are so far up their own arses and they talk so much shit!
i went their thinking it would be better than school - its probally worse :(

all everyone talks about ia who got punched last night, who drank the most, how good they are at rolling. hoe good a car or house or what ever they would get if they won the lottery etc etc. Its the same old shite everday!! :eek:

[ezbar]

A major problem might be that a lot of you guys with bad views of it may have just gone straight from high school to uni.

I am what is called a 'mature age' entry into uni, because I was over 19 or 20 at the time. I was originally booted out of highschool (for trivial things) and was so against the system, my sentiments used to be along the same lines when people asked me what I thought of uni.

After a few years of soul-destroying, depressing shop floor and labourer jobs, I did a lot of thinking and I found what I wanted to do, which was go to uni and study science and engineering.

The difference in my attitude compared to those who arrive fresh out of highschool is amazing, to them it is just an extension of it, dressing up every day like they are on parade, freshly discovering alcohol and assuming that if you don't go out every weekend you must be a sad loser.

The key is motivation and inspiration. It took me along time to decide what it is I wanted to focus on, and I know for a fact if I had just left from school straight to uni, and studied what I was told was useful, it would have been as demoralising as the shop floor/labourer jobs I used to do.

It isn't always possible, I have the financial support of my friends and family who know that I am very keen on what I am studying, without this it would have been very hard for me to return to school as an adult, but if you can, take a few years off and work around, you may find in a few years that you have a lot clearer an idea on what it is you want from education.

[scarlett]

A major problem might be that a lot of you guys with bad views of it may have just gone straight from high school to uni.

I am what is called a 'mature age' entry into uni, because I was over 19 or 20 at the time. I was originally booted out of highschool (for trivial things) and was so against the system, my sentiments used to be along the same lines when people asked me what I thought of uni.

After a few years of soul-destroying, depressing shop floor and labourer jobs, I did a lot of thinking and I found what I wanted to do, which was go to uni and study science and engineering.

The difference in my attitude compared to those who arrive fresh out of highschool is amazing, to them it is just an extension of it, dressing up every day like they are on parade, freshly discovering alcohol and assuming that if you don't go out every weekend you must be a sad loser.

The key is motivation and inspiration. It took me along time to decide what it is I wanted to focus on, and I know for a fact if I had just left from school straight to uni, and studied what I was told was useful, it would have been as demoralising as the shop floor/labourer jobs I used to do.

It isn't always possible, I have the financial support of my friends and family who know that I am very keen on what I am studying, without this it would have been very hard for me to return to school as an adult, but if you can, take a few years off and work around, you may find in a few years that you have a lot clearer an idea on what it is you want from education.


It's like that though - So many of my friends went straight to uni from high school and either bummed out, drank too much, or hated their course and changed a few times (wasting a LOT of money and time). Some moved away too early, only to find they were terribly homesick and came back after nly a few months.

Although I did really well in school (and I was lucky to have a few teachers who were completely out of the matrix box) I just was not ready to make such a huge decision when it came to uni! I couldn't understand why everyone else took the entire matter so lightly - I didnt want to waste all that time and money and effort! I wanted to be sure I was doing the right thing before I signed up, so I waited a year or two. Since then I've twice signed up and been accepted for drama and music courses, but decided to follow my heart - which told me I would be better off out there living the music rather than stuck in a classroom for 3 years learning about the music industry. And now, looking back I am so glad I didn't go then!

I have many thoughts about what I would like to study further in the future, when I am ready and have experienced a lot more in life.

[mynameis]

College is designed for just one thing, it's for keeping the masses running in circles like a dog trying to get it's tail, or like the carrot on a stick and the horse. ;)

[byrdsmaniac]

Thoth, your post really struck home with me, and I went to college in 1969, and then again
in the mid '70s! I'm so sorry to hear that things haven't changed. Yes, the egos! Not the students'
- the instructors!
And having to try to focus on your studies when Bush/Cheney are trying to start a war with Iran!
What you really desire is to GET REAL! I wish I could say 'stay with it', study hard, etc., but
my advice is to get the hell out of there unless or until you have a specific reason to be there.
College should be a blessing, but there's no time for introspection, and knowing who you are,
when you're buried in (meaningless) homework. It's a scam.
A means to indebt you to the system so that you can work for "the beast".
Free yourself now. Do whatever it takes, and do whatever you want!

[gorgeousbutterfly]

Yes i agree, and unfortuntely i have to do it because there would be no way for me to make a career :(. without a college degree what future do i have? i don't want to live at home , with my parents forever. but my motivation isn't there so i am not doing my best.

I mean , tell me what i can do that will pay me well that doesn't require a degree?

[montag]

College is designed for just one thing, it's for keeping the masses running in circles like a dog trying to get it's tail, or like the carrot on a stick and the horse. ;)
http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html ;)

[spacegurl]

Has anyone here considered doing open university or home learning? Its far better and you don't have to worry about morons in class.

[thoth]

Yes i agree, and unfortuntely i have to do it because there would be no way for me to make a career :(. without a college degree what future do i have? i don't want to live at home , with my parents forever. but my motivation isn't there so i am not doing my best.

I mean , tell me what i can do that will pay me well that doesn't require a degree?

Ah, I see your a student too. What you studying? I was supposed to go to CA later this month but its not happening, I noticed you lived in the states. I wish I could focus more on my chi stuff and healing. I wish I could work on focusing my energy more in a way that would benefit others and not have to live in this me, me, me mentality. When I am in class, and we are discussing major problems of the world, it never seems to dawn on them that it will be difficult, if not impossible to really change things from within. You can't tear down the master's house with the master's tools. How long you been in college?

[edro9494]

im in my third year of college right now. im so glad that i read this thread. i feel the exact same way as all of you. i go to class and learn the material. and i am astounded that my parents are paying so much money to learn loads of nonsense, tought by some of the worst teachers. when did going to a class and having the teacher tell you to read a book and to show up on exam day become education. i can read a fucking book on my own and have done so many times.

it is depressing to think the people in college are going to running our society one day. im in a fraternity and am surrounded by dumbasses. i dont know how some people stay enrolled. college is not a place of higher learning. it is place to drink, do drugs, and have multiple sex partners. god the people who control us are doing a great job at it. its really hard to sit in a class with people who think they know everything because they get A's in every course. and yes people's egos are out of this world. jesus christ.

from time to time i feel hopeless and in despair. i feel like im not following my inner path and doing what society is demanding me to do. thoth its so funny because i constantly tell myself this 2012 scenario better be the real deal because im tired of living in this planet of the apes. its scary almost to think that college is halfway over and im about to be forced out into society's rat race. i dont think i can ever be happy working 5 days a week 9-5. then coming home eating, watching the brainwash machine, and the going to bed and repeating the process.

ive noticed that keeping up with books on conspiracy/2012 really lift my spirits. ive read the Barbara Marciniak Pleiadian books over the last year and a half which really compliment the icke material. they have really helped dope me out of this world and given me hope for an awakening mass consciousness in 2012. the new icke book should be delivered within the week to me too so that will help ease the tension.

college is dumbing us down and increasing our ego's arrogance.

[umbrex]

im glad i live in denmark

[soglad]

im in my third year of college right now. im so glad that i read this thread. i feel the exact same way as all of you. i go to class and learn the material. and i am astounded that my parents are paying so much money to learn loads of nonsense, tought by some of the worst teachers. when did going to a class and having the teacher tell you to read a book and to show up on exam day become education. i can read a fucking book on my own and have done so many times.

it is depressing to think the people in college are going to running our society one day. im in a fraternity and am surrounded by dumbasses. i dont know how some people stay enrolled. college is not a place of higher learning. it is place to drink, do drugs, and have multiple sex partners. god the people who control us are doing a great job at it. its really hard to sit in a class with people who think they know everything because they get A's in every course. and yes people's egos are out of this world. jesus christ.

from time to time i feel hopeless and in despair. i feel like im not following my inner path and doing what society is demanding me to do. thoth its so funny because i constantly tell myself this 2012 scenario better be the real deal because im tired of living in this planet of the apes. its scary almost to think that college is halfway over and im about to be forced out into society's rat race. i dont think i can ever be happy working 5 days a week 9-5. then coming home eating, watching the brainwash machine, and the going to bed and repeating the process.

ive noticed that keeping up with books on conspiracy/2012 really lift my spirits. ive read the Barbara Marciniak Pleiadian books over the last year and a half which really compliment the icke material. they have really helped dope me out of this world and given me hope for an awakening mass consciousness in 2012. the new icke book should be delivered within the week to me too so that will help ease the tension.

college is dumbing us down and increasing our ego's arrogance.

Beautiful post mate, wise words and my words exactly! :)

[hutanic]

In 2nd grade of high school i came to realization that educational systems and schools are obsolete as they are. Made decision then that i will not bother my self with it and i quit school. Don't regret that decision and would suggest to all to quit all kinds of indoctrinating institutions. Knowledge is out there to be found out and most important inside us all as well. Why waste your time, world is waiting for u:D

[gorgeousbutterfly]

Ah, I see your a student too. What you studying? I was supposed to go to CA later this month but its not happening, I noticed you lived in the states. I wish I could focus more on my chi stuff and healing. I wish I could work on focusing my energy more in a way that would benefit others and not have to live in this me, me, me mentality. When I am in class, and we are discussing major problems of the world, it never seems to dawn on them that it will be difficult, if not impossible to really change things from within. You can't tear down the master's house with the master's tools. How long you been in college?


I'm studying psychology. I have been in college for 6 years but I used to do very poorly because i had depression and some ADD issues. but ever since i'm on medication i am able to do well. MY DREAM would be something like healing like reiki , i think this would make me happy but i don't know much about it yet. I feel have a very important mission to help people. so healing would be nice but then i think how? i'm very confused. i have also been conditioned all my life to think that you have a college degree in either to do well and maybe this isn't true but its stuck in my consiousness and i can't get out of it.

How about you?

[vorador]

I graduated college last year and that was mostly a big waste of 5 years of my life. although i had one teacher in particular and a few others that were defintely not cogs in the system and one who was aware to some aspects of the conspiracy and got people thinking. another even mentioned MKUltra. both were criminal justice professors. college is a big money-sucker and just spits out more robots, sure they're more intellecual but still just clones. never met anyone who was down with the conspiracy/reality awareness. either leftwing radicals who thought it was just greedy corportations or new age people who didn't want to dwell on the present. I learned more in my 8 years of grade school and 4 years of high school than in college.

[mynameis]

Colleges make excuses for spotty government decisions like the failed policies we have today. This is just another brainwashing camp unless you see through the veil of what's being taught to you by your professors. Even some political leaders and strategists hide in colleges when the climate isn't very good for their careers. It happens time and time again. Some of those people should be kept in the basements of their colleges if their opinions aren't provable. Most times these colleges get their educational standards from the elite who don't want a thinking population, only specialists. A thinking population can challenge and refute their unrealistic assertions about the world in which we live for the better. This is another reason why they all sound like broken records across the board without any original thought. Liberal Arts is a dying dinosaur as far as education. I doubt anyone will know what Liberal Arts and General Studies will be in years from now.

[pumma]

Yes, agree with all of you ... In my case I've left collage A (economics/management), because instead of studying material that was for passing the "tests" I've decided to learn more about what is going on and how things really work. So now I'm writing a book about these "things" and also going on national TV (if not this year then 2008) promoting my book to un-plug/save more people...

If this intuition fails then I'm going to collage B (philosophy)...

[edro9494]

perhaps this will sound cliche but so be it. ive learned more about reasoning, critical thinking, and how the world works through my own curiosity in the conspiracy research genre since back in 2003 than i have in any educational institution. what originally introduced me to all this was a few book reports on orwell's 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Those books really gave me the backdrop to understand how things work in terms of control. to be fair, we actually read Fahrenheit in my sophomore english class, so i guess a few good things are in public schools. but 1984 i chose to do on my own because so many people had recommended it.

I originally got interested in the word 'Illuminati' from being a big Tupac Shakur fan. An album of his that came out shortly after he gunned down in las vegas was called "Makaveli: The Don Killuminati." i did a few google searches on "Killuminati." I found out the derivative was the term "Illuminati." and read a few webpages that looked like they were done by an amateur with free time. eventually i stumbled upon the man, the legend, David Icke and the rest is history. thank god I was into Tupac!

Everything since has been finding a clue within a clue and recently i've been researching the Zionism movement at iamthewitness.com. just curious to see where the next rabbit hole will take me. i suppose it will be a journey with good old icke when i get his new book. he really needs to do more hallucinogenic and psychoactive drugs so he can write more books about the matrix. Tales From the Time Loop was like an orgasm for my mind. I've been doing more research in the 5-sense aspects of this conspiracy for awhile now, im ready for a change of scenery. Within the past month I finished the 4th book of the channelings from the Pleiadian star system by Barbara Marciniak. If you guys are into the subject of Icke's work in Tales and Infinite Love, you should really read Barbara Marciniak's book. she's got a lot of goodies and mind-warpers if you want to understand the history of the milky way galaxy and the background on the Reptilians. the pleiadians talk about the countdown to 2012- what to expect, the history of time and the universe, the ETs who seed civilizations, the reptilians (lizzies as they call them), and how to change the frequency of earth to one of love. they say we are at a fork in the road and if there is not a change earth will be locked out of access to the rest of the galaxy and shut off into an eternal tyranny. its very, very similar to how Icke says we are at a massive fork in the road. they basically give the same message as icke but they have so much information that is really shocking about dimensions and the universe.

[a_fighter]

What many of you fail to understand, is that without a college education these days, there isnt much of a career you can have. Also, getting a bachelors degree is necessary to go to med/law/grad school. With so many things to worry about, money should not be one of them, so college is necessary. Even if you just want to start your own business, college can teach you some critical thinking etc.

[eravis]

I don't know my friends but to be an open minded person this days it hurts !

I'm in my first college year and i have never seen in my life so much stupidity, ignorance, arrogance and indoctrinated people.I have tried to tell my parents about these conspiracy, but they don't listening.Yes, i know without those college degrees you cant do much of a thing with your life, but to think to all those years that i have to study, damn , is not worth.

I have no real life friends to speak about those things, i only have this forum and other online mess friends.Is sad, but like edro9494 said, reading about "how things are really going on in this world" aka conspiracies books (like icke's and few others) it really helps me out.


Peace ! ;)

[Ian2day]

The thing I have learnt about Uni is that it is a lesson in the power differential being abused. I don't think anyone would ever believe just what the peeps from my Uni have been embroiled in doing to me.

[americana]

Where I went to college, there was no "core corriculum". There were no required courses. I took the courses I wanted to take, and I opened up my mind to new ideas. Graduate school offered even greater freedom.

I've always lived to learn and love to learn. In terms of school, you could never call me practical, as I wasn't focused on training for a specific career.

[marpat]

College makes me physically sick. The people, the staff, literally sick. The egos are just too much. Half of the shit we read is so dreadfully boring, and not only that we have yet to discuss real issues. The most fucked up thing is that they don't even understand what the real issues are! I could not begin to tell you all of the irrelevant shit I have to acknowledge in a place of 'higher learning'. This shit is a fucking joke. I just spent almost four hours on a 22 page article because it was just so fucking dumb, and what I was requested of to do with the 22 pages was even worse. This shit cannot be considered serious education? Come on 2012, or whenever this shit is over. I could care less. Anyone else out there feeling me?

Why do you go then? if it is so bad then dump it.

[deanjames]

College makes me physically sick. The people, the staff, literally sick. The egos are just too much. Half of the shit we read is so dreadfully boring, and not only that we have yet to discuss real issues. The most fucked up thing is that they don't even understand what the real issues are! I could not begin to tell you all of the irrelevant shit I have to acknowledge in a place of 'higher learning'. This shit is a fucking joke. I just spent almost four hours on a 22 page article because it was just so fucking dumb, and what I was requested of to do with the 22 pages was even worse. This shit cannot be considered serious education? Come on 2012, or whenever this shit is over. I could care less. Anyone else out there feeling me?

Search for my post about the presentation i did on david icke at university!

[rasnalgoul]

If I would say anything about college i would have to say it is a humbling experience. I went once before and out right hated it. I left went to community college but I soon became socially isolated and I didnt enjoy that too much either. What I can say when I went back to school for this past year is that my attitude my comfort zone of all the things I believed like Ickes theories what have you was shattered. Not necessarily because I couldnt find people who were open about such theories, there were plenty, It was more like being astonished at how so many people dont perceive existence in the same way. Also just by presenting the facts about things to people wont change their minds.

Ultimately what I found myself doing was finding a few people who were open to such things who had other friends and I was able to socialize and enjoy myself with others despite the fact they might not all perceived things the way some of us did.

I did find one or two professors who were somewhat outside the hive but they were often jaded and impotent in taking any sort of practical action. One professor actually discussed when class material should be postponed when serious matters such as our current political and economic situation (US) should be discussed. But it never went anywhere and we went back to worry about our enormous papers that were due, which by the way I never completed, fuck it.

One last thing heh I promise, If I can say one thing for certain about anything Icke has written about, its that people are very easily manipulated and most dont know or understand that they are and how. And sadly most that do realize just play along.

As far as careers all that shit, FUCK IT, you dont have to work in the system to survive be strong you will find a way I find more cracks in the system with each day just look for them.

[delamo1999]

This is all about divide and rule; those with college degrees and those without. I see admin jobs posted in the internet that require the applicant to have a 4 year degree. It doesn't matter if you have 10 years of office working experience. If you don't have that piece of paper, your resume ends up in the trash. I have worked in entry level admin jobs in the past and from my experience, they were ones that one could have learned on the job.

My mom teaches college and she has told me that most of her students work full time and taking a full time course load. Most of the students are only concerned about which material is going to be on the test (which of course is multiple choice). Many of them are not even interested discussing the course material.

College today is very expensive and the tuition keeps going up each year. I know many people who have spent many years paying off student loans. However fear of not getting a good job is a major reason why people make the decision to go to college.

:)

[scones86]

I don't where most of you people who write in this thread come from, but I guess you're American in relation to your answers, because it feels to me that in the US the only entry to a fairpayed job is via college.

I live in Sweden and the situation here is a bit different, many people go to college/university, because it's good to have a degree, but still you're not guaranteed a job or a good pay. Me too bought the idea that you had to go to college, but I dropped out after a semester because it was all full of crap. I now work parttime in a grocery store and I have a salary that covers my expensives and I can even save some money each month, what more do I need? Now I can go to a job I really like and have more sparetime to read and write about spirituality etc, instead of going to college that I hated.

[luten2012]

I went to College for 2 years and totally agree, the mentality there is discusting.. I didn't exactly enjoy college to the full extent I could have. Having said that; if only I knew what career path I would like to take I would probably go back as it beats being a slave in an office or working in some other mundayne job 9-5. It's looking at both sides of the coin - some people study for years and never make a career out of the subject they have got into debt over. My Brother is an example of that. I've been working full-time since I was 18 and I've learned to just switch off..sink into the movie if you will..but what really sucks is the only 4 weeks a year holiday issue..Man, that sucks bigtime. I know some people who go to college/university simply because it offers alot of time off.

[thetonic]

Thoth, your post really struck home with me, and I went to college in 1969, and then again
in the mid '70s! I'm so sorry to hear that things haven't changed. Yes, the egos! Not the students'
- the instructors!
And having to try to focus on your studies when Bush/Cheney are trying to start a war with Iran!
What you really desire is to GET REAL! I wish I could say 'stay with it', study hard, etc., but
my advice is to get the hell out of there unless or until you have a specific reason to be there.
College should be a blessing, but there's no time for introspection, and knowing who you are,
when you're buried in (meaningless) homework. It's a scam.
A means to indebt you to the system so that you can work for "the beast".
Free yourself now. Do whatever it takes, and do whatever you want!

That is just fantastic advice !!! AGREE 100% A + haha:D

[thetonic]

College is indoctrination, accept it for what it is. You can learn anything you want on your own, there is ample knowledge to be obtained from simply "knowing yourself" and remembering who you really are... We are all divine creations caught in a very silly trap, an insane world. Start to realize this and you are half way there...

Connect yourself to the creative spirit and the true knowledge, stuff you need to know, will come flooding in. ;)

[sac123abc]

Yeah college made me sick too. I wish I could give them back their 2 degrees and they clear my student loans . You can learn more from the internets than school

[lostwonderer]

Well am at my last year at college and hoping to go uni this year,not that i want to but i guess you need a degree nowadays to get far.Didnt really enjoy college that much,i skived alot,didnt see much point in it,half the teachers talked aload of shit,the only subject that really kept me going was probably philosophy.Hope to study psychology at uni,although there are much wider ambitions i wish to fulfill,like traveling around the world,anything to do with archaeology which i find fasicnating,just something new and intriguing.

[true]

The degree of alcoholism I saw there with most people was sickening. Every night, all day on the weekends, the only socially acceptable thing to do is DRINK and talk about drinking. I see future mental issues galore there. Binge drinking destroys the body, weakens the mind, and above all poisons the spirit. It's like the illuminati types said hey lets make sure we get all the college kids to focus on that so they are easily managed later on. fuck alcohol.

[delamo1999]

The degree of alcoholism I saw there with most people was sickening. Every night, all day on the weekends, the only socially acceptable thing to do is DRINK and talk about drinking. I see future mental issues galore there. Binge drinking destroys the body, weakens the mind, and above all poisons the spirit. It's like the illuminati types said hey lets make sure we get all the college kids to focus on that so they are easily managed later on. fuck alcohol.


That behavior follows many people long after graduation. Today I see 40-something people at events (both during the week and especially on weekends) who are acting like they are on spring break. I used to work with a guy who was in his 40's who would brag about how drunk he got over the weekend.

:(

[seanie]

I know how you feel, by the tiime i finished college i was sick of it, i just wanted to go and get a job, but the thing is i couldn't get the job i wanted without haveing my degree, i'm finished a year now and i suppose it was worth it the job i have, i only work 14 days a month and it's good money, my advice stick it out fuck the cunts, in your class they dont mean anything in anyway, i done fuck all in college just went in for the test's done minimal study seriously, day before job and i always done well, like there's only 11 weeks in a semester, its not that hard

[baeinu]

I am in my 5th year of college now, and I largely agree with the people are fucking retarded and create a social environment that is appalling. Generally things get better as you progress through the years. That sort of behavior generally comes from first and second year students (in the United States), but some people don't like to give up that lifestyle. Some of you wondered how all of the drunk assholes are able to get through college by drinking most every night and basically being bigots, its simple.. college is dumbed down to the point of making everything fundamental enough for anyone with half of a brain to understand. Furthermore, credential inflation is eventually going to get into the realms of post-graduate education (ie. masters and phd programs) and will make the college system even more dumbed down.

Generally I don't notice many people in my classes, even in the "upper-division" courses, who really seem to care about what they are learning or be willing to take the time to actually understand what they have read. Sad thing is, they don't have to in order to get a decent grade. It is all memorization.. even in the sociology program at my college which is supposedly one of the top 10 in the United States. Yes it is irritating, but then again if you find something that you find interesting it is a LOT easier to make your way through. I'm hoping to get into graduate school and study the way power relationships are formed within society and how masses of people are able to be coerced by seemingly articulate individuals in 3 piece suits.

The most disheartening thing that I have encountered at college has been the courses that teach you what they call "critical thinking." Of the 3 "critical thinking" courses that I have taken thus far in college, I have learned nothing about how to "think critically," but why the professor or the 2 bigoted students in the class room feel passionately about a topic (generally "hot button" issues like abortion, homosexuality, was situation X ethical, etc.), and then why people either agree or disagree, end of discussion. I have been told on 3 occasions by instructors that my thinking was just "wrong" and halted after giving examples of how my "idea" was readily applicable. They do not scrape the surface of anything that one should really be passionate about, unless of course you are enthralled by political rhetoric of puppets on television to rally either the left (health care / aids) or the right (evil doers / abortion) in the United States.

In sum.. if you feel like you need to go to college in order to get a "good job," then you can do it with ease and get drunk all the time. If you want to go to college to learn more about something, then find something that really interests you and avoid getting caught up with the "big men on campus." There are many extremely interesting things to learn about in a setting where instructors are knowledgeable in such subject matter, don't let the drunken asshats dissuade you.

[noobcybot]

I went to a private school and hated every minute, made a few real friends but most people are just fucking retarded so caught up in the petty everyday shit.
They all think they know about the world and speak with such confidence when they havent even done anythig of value. Then the minute they are out of their comfort zone they shit themselves and come running to you for help.
They all went to uni which they thought was the be all and end all, they pissed it up the wall and went down with 30k worth of debt, I opened my business and now have a great life. I laugh myself to sleep every night.

[resistance]

Yep, i know totally where your coming from dude, i have been to college and it mainly sucks :( every brainwashed idiot is on face book as well, common purpose and all the political correctness under the sun is also spreading like a highly contagious disease:mad: saving the planet is sold by the gallon as well.