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I'm so good at this

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I'm so good at this
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I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 12:21 am
So I just re-entered college pursuing my second Bachelor's degree for a belated start in a career I actually am excited about.

I went to a college where everyone was a 4.0 student, class president, sports team captain. Getting into a service academy is only slightly easier than getting into MIT or Harvard. The acceptance rate is lower, in any case. So I was constantly around people that were my intellectual peers.

I am now attending a state college, and it is a totally different experience. Not that everyone is stupid---far from it. I'm just in a different league than I'm used to. And it's...nice. Even something as simple as this GenEd History class that I am taking right now (Naval History apparently doesn't count as an American History course) has me stifling myself from answering the prof's questions to the class all the time, if only just to break the silence.

I'm just saying. I got this.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 12:42 am
Excellent, Steel! Congrats and good luck Smile
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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 2:58 am
That's brilliant! Go kick some ass Smile
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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 3:33 am
Yay! Good on you, Steel! So happy for you Big Grin

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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 6:20 am
Sounds like a great time! Smile
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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 8:11 am
You are obviously not going to enough keggers. I feel sorry for you.

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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 8:20 am
Oh, dude, I have no doubt that you fucking got this. Haha You won't say it (cuz of humblemilitude), but I will- Sometimes it's nice to be the big fish.
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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 8:24 am
Any clues for us regarding the new direction/major?

It really feels unfair when you come back to college after being in the work force, doesn't it? You've got your motivation sorted out, you're there are on perfect and the siren call of the scene doesn't work on you.

Best of luck!
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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 9:43 am
Thanks everyone! You all are so freaking rock and roll it hurts.


(June 4, 2015 at 8:24 am)whateverist Wrote: Any clues for us regarding the new direction/major?  

It really feels unfair when you come back to college after being in the work force, doesn't it?  You've got your motivation sorted out, you're there are on perfect and the siren call of the scene doesn't work on you.

Best of luck!

I'm switching gears from life with an Aeronautical Engineering degree to studying Computer Science for professional applications. I want to be a software developer. But a cool one. Tongue
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: I'm so good at this
June 4, 2015 at 9:47 am
Good for you! By State college I think you mean public college, right? I've been attending public university since 2011 and it's much better, specially because you don't pay anything and only the best students are accepted.
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