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Post by sd51555 on Nov 20, 2020 13:29:05 GMT -6
Lots of guys got robbed of their education and a full life being drafted into the Vietnam war and not coming home. She will get over it. Yes she will. That's not the point. The point is that college kids generally do just fine with the virus. Let them get the education they have worked hard to earn. I got sold to the federal reserve by the baby boomers. Now I gotta rob gen Z to make things right.
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Post by Tooln on Nov 20, 2020 14:24:04 GMT -6
My wife's niece got a full academic scholarship to Carleton in Northfield. I believe tuition runs about $70K a year there. She is sitting in her dorm room doing "distance learning". While she is at least getting her "education" for free, it's crazy what she is being robbed of. She busted her ass all through high school for this opportunity. Now, she's being told to not go home for Thanksgiving. Sure, just sit in your dorm room and eat Ramen instead Lots of guys got robbed of their education and a full life being drafted into the Vietnam war and not coming home. She will get over it. I think a lot of this is getting blown out of proportion, just another flu. If it weren't an election year would it have been the same? Kids and distant learning in college yea it sucks. But get over it, no better way to learn know what life is really about. Like MO said thousands came home in a body bag.
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Post by Foggy on Nov 20, 2020 14:49:58 GMT -6
Life aint fair. I graduated Sigma Cum Laude from the School of Hard Knocks. and today I'm earning my cooking certificate. lol
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Post by Reagan on Nov 20, 2020 15:47:33 GMT -6
We can all point to a soldier, a cop or someone else who might have it harder than the college kid forced to sit in a dorm. That’s not the point. The point is lots of people from college kids, young kids, business owners etc are getting fucked by our government and their bullshit ways of responding to the virus.
I think we all agree on that.
I feel bad for the college kid. Part of the college experience is outside of the classroom and that is taken away like so many other things. For what?
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 20, 2020 15:57:56 GMT -6
My daughters fees are the same as a normal year and she gets absolutely nothing and distance learns from her dorm room. What a waste of money.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 20, 2020 19:32:55 GMT -6
You sour old fuckers have lost the ability to give a shit about anybody but yourselves. I'm as guilty of that as many, but to give the "suck it up buttercup" speech to kids who busted their asses for the shit sandwich education they're receiving is short sighted. If you value capitalism, that kind of response is bullshit. Kids bust their asses to get ahead and old limp dick dudes tell them that life sucks. What possible reason would these kids find to continue to bust ass?
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 20, 2020 19:50:36 GMT -6
I hope that wasnt directed at me in any way... my daughter is going for being a nurse.
A son thats a deputy and a daughter being a nurse. I dont sleep great. Ugh
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Post by smsmith on Nov 20, 2020 19:55:11 GMT -6
I hope that wasnt directed at me in any way... my daughter is going for being a nurse. A son thats a deputy and a daughter being a nurse. I dont sleep great. Ugh Nope, not at all
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Post by batman on Nov 20, 2020 20:13:45 GMT -6
College is not busting ass
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Post by smsmith on Nov 20, 2020 20:21:53 GMT -6
College is not busting ass Doing what you need to do to earn an academic scholarship to a great college is just resting on your laurels, right? Bullshit If you don't believe that access to top notch education isn't worth the hard work necessary, then you're either full of shit or kidding yourself. Who do you think comes up with medical advances we're all benefitting from? The kids who skated through getting Bs and Cs so they can graduate? Like it or not, access to the top levels of education/knowledge are what enables the human race to continue to survive. Can folks make great money with an 8th grade education and the ability to bullshit people? Absolutely. Will those same people develop cures for the shit that could destroy the human race? No fucking way. We need the nerds
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Post by mnfish on Nov 20, 2020 20:28:57 GMT -6
College is not busting ass Not that u give a shit...but I strongly disagree with ur statement. Try engineering, chemistry, and physics majors in college...let us know how u do... when u don't "bust ass". You wouldn't make it past year 1
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Post by benmnwi on Nov 20, 2020 20:29:30 GMT -6
College is not busting ass [br I must have went for the wrong degree (or maybe I'm a little slow), because college was damn tough for me. Well worth it in the end though, but it was not easy. I had lots of college roommates that went to college for different degrees and their time was more enjoyable though.
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Post by Foggy on Nov 20, 2020 21:15:16 GMT -6
OK....I made the comment "Life aint fair". I was just making light of the situation....and it ruffled your feathers. I agree with what you said above here about those seeking higher education. Still....life isn't fair.....and you do need to bob and weave to get thru situations like this. As you said....us old fucks can take a lazy approach to the whole thing. Lots of futures on hold....in education and in business and relationships etc. Shitty deal. I have not seen my granddaughter in over a year. She works as a Speech Pathologist with lots of old people that are diving of covid and worries about infecting others. Not fair to her or me either. I got an aunt that is 93 and in a nursing home.....nobody goes to visit her and she is depressed. Sorry I struck a nerve here. But.....Lighten up Stu....sometimes things get said without much of a thought. (guilty as charged) Were alll paying a price.....in many different ways.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 21, 2020 4:35:15 GMT -6
College is not busting ass College was busting ass for me and I was so glad when it was done. Others busted ass at their job during that same time. In most cases it paid off for them.
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Post by nhmountains on Nov 21, 2020 5:17:57 GMT -6
College is not busting ass Not that u give a shit...but I strongly disagree with ur statement. Try engineering, chemistry, and physics majors in college...let us know how u do... when u don't "bust ass". You wouldn't make it past year 1 You forgot nursing. When you’re dealing with life or death you don’t want to be 80% accurate. They said my wife is an RN and her agency works with the local college to provide mentoring and in field experience. She says the level of quality education the current instructors offer is way below what it was 35 years ago. Much more liberal.
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