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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 12:36:20 GMT -5
Unless they really are trying to abduct me. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.... -M
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Post by zryson on Aug 25, 2014 12:45:43 GMT -5
One of the scariest experiences of my entire life was the day our house was broken into. Personal items were strewn about like garbage, other items missing, stolen. Knowing robbers had been inside your house. In your room. Not caring what value the items might have had to you was awful.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 25, 2014 12:50:15 GMT -5
Signing up for classes is way too stressful.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 25, 2014 12:58:12 GMT -5
Signing up for classes is way too stressful. You haven't already done that? My son started classes today.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:00:35 GMT -5
I remember waiting in a long line as, probably, a sophomore to either register for classes or get my BEOG check & somehow managing not once but twice to leave behind a apperback I was reading -- the anthology Spawn of Cthulhu in one instance, & even more painfully, one of Phil Dick's best novels, Martian Time-Slip.
Back in the days before replacing a paperback was as easy as typing a few keystrokes, it took me at least a couple of years to replace them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:02:40 GMT -5
Signing up for classes is way too stressful. You haven't already done that? My son started classes today. Yes, but my impression is that he's going to that football factory with the blue playing field, where academic matters are a pure afterthought. Pharo is going to a real school, IIRC (Emory, I think).
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 25, 2014 13:03:22 GMT -5
Signing up for classes is way too stressful. You haven't already done that? My son started classes today. We sign up for up to 8 hours during the summer and rest we do the day before classes start. Yeah, that system makes no sense....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:06:04 GMT -5
You haven't already done that? My son started classes today. We sign up for up to 8 hours during the summer and rest we do the day before classes start. Yeah, that system makes no sense.... Uh ... yeah. Forget what I said above. Sounds like you're actually going to clown college.
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Post by Daryl on Aug 25, 2014 13:11:12 GMT -5
Actually, freshman year back at my fancy pants liberal arts school, we didn't get to sign up for classes until a couple of days before classes started. We had already been to orientation but getting classes was a hellish nightmare that pitted man against man, brother against brother for the scraps of whatever was available. The years after that we got to sign up end of the previous semester or something like that.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 25, 2014 13:13:18 GMT -5
We sign up for up to 8 hours during the summer and rest we do the day before classes start. Yeah, that system makes no sense.... Uh ... yeah. Forget what I said above. Sounds like you're actually going to clown college. That's madness. I know that Nathan was signed up for all his classes weeks ago. How exactly do you get your books and get prepared if you don't have your classes until the day before classes start?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:15:54 GMT -5
In fairness, learning how to deal with a bureaucracy designed by drooling idiots is a pretty valuable lesson for the students, & one they'll be to able to draw on time & again as they proceed through life.
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Post by Jasoomian on Aug 25, 2014 13:36:55 GMT -5
I think it's rather common for returning students to register for fall classes in spring, but for new students not to register until orientation.
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Post by Jasoomian on Aug 25, 2014 13:40:33 GMT -5
I've been mugged, but it happened so fast I didn't have much time to be scared. One scary incident that really comes to mind is when my accelerator was stuck going down a highway. It took me a couple minutes and one (thankfully green) traffic light before I could push past the fear and figure out a way to stop the car.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 25, 2014 13:44:31 GMT -5
Unless they really are trying to abduct me. We ... uh, I mean they ... are still weighing the pluses & minuses of what you'd bring to the table. I hope I come up horribly short of their malevolent scientific needs. Unless they're the space equivelont of my dick-head cousin who would do mean things to insects just because he could. Unless they really are trying to abduct me. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.... -M That's like the nicest thing anyone's said to me about my paranoia. I like you M! :thumb:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:54:44 GMT -5
One scary incident that really comes to mind is when my accelerator was stuck going down a highway. It took me a couple minutes and one (thankfully green) traffic light before I could push past the fear and figure out a way to stop the car. Reminds me of about 35 years ago, when I was driving a friend's '72 Toyota on I-20 in the middle of the night in west Texas or east New Mexico during Xmas break while he & probably my wife-to-be (a/k/a his ex-wife, as it happens) & possibly another friend were asleep. All of a sudden, the car started going faster & faster; taking my foot off the gas had no effect whatsoever. Turns out it was so cold that the carburetor had frozen, or something like that. For a minute there, I thought the car was haunted or something.
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