View Full Version : Cantona was crap, you're just scared to admit it **General Off Topic**
Toon³
25 Feb 2006, 10:26 AM
Well at least I didn't put you in Sunderland.
********, now I'm going to lose. All anyone else has to do is just put one in Newcastle.
You can have more than one go.
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 10:35 AM
You can have more than one go.
I might give it another crack.
Are your boys playing at home or at Everton today?
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 10:47 AM
I am a lowly worker at Dick's Sporting Goods, which is why I must get into a grad school ASAHP.Be warned, grad school is probably a step down. Being a grad student is about as low as you can get in the university food chain: pay below the poverty level, working 60 hours per week, no health insurance, and getting sued by your spoiled students' lawyer-daddy cause you failed the kid for plagiarizing. Good times!
Sorry, I'm sooo ready to be finished with grad school, thus the bitterness . . . Upsides to grad school: Major intellectual stimulation in a like-minded community; friendships with usually amazing, sometimes bizarre professors; getting paid to read and do work you love; and a good future--if you make it. :p
What do you want to study?
Toon³
25 Feb 2006, 11:04 AM
I might give it another crack.
Are your boys playing at home or at Everton today?
At home, and I'm just about to leave.
BayernWake
25 Feb 2006, 11:12 AM
Be warned, grad school is probably a step down. Being a grad student is about as low as you can get in the university food chain: pay below the poverty level, working 60 hours per week, no health insurance, and getting sued by your spoiled students' lawyer-daddy cause you failed the kid for plagiarizing. Good times!
Sorry, I'm sooo ready to be finished with grad school, thus the bitterness . . . Upsides to grad school: Major intellectual stimulation in a like-minded community; friendships with usually amazing, sometimes bizarre professors; getting paid to read and do work you love; and a good future--if you make it. :p
What do you want to study?
Well, I just feel kinda worthless having two BA's from a well-respected university and then subsequently having a dead-end part-time job doing work a high-schooler could do.
I want to study German language and literature, and luckily all the schools I applied to have paid TA positions (some with health benefits). Now I'm just crossing my fingers.
BayernWake
25 Feb 2006, 11:12 AM
At home, and I'm just about to leave.
Weird time for the game.
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 11:30 AM
Well, I just feel kinda worthless having two BA's from a well-respected university and then subsequently having a dead-end part-time job doing work a high-schooler could do.
German and _______?
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 11:36 AM
Well, I just feel kinda worthless having two BA's from a well-respected university and then subsequently having a dead-end part-time job doing work a high-schooler could do.
I want to study German language and literature, and luckily all the schools I applied to have paid TA positions (some with health benefits). Now I'm just crossing my fingers.Yeah those BAs in German and Comparative Literature don't help you too much on the job market :D (mine're in english and philosophy). Good luck with your school applications. I'm sure you'll get into a few of them. And grad school really is totally worth it, tbh. It can be difficult, but worth it. I'd do it again.
BayernWake
25 Feb 2006, 11:37 AM
German and _______?
Communication
BayernWake
25 Feb 2006, 11:39 AM
Yeah those BAs in German and Comparative Literature don't help you too much on the job market :D (mine're in english and philosophy). Good luck with your school applications. I'm sure you'll get into a few of them. And grad school really is totally worth it, tbh. It can be difficult, but worth it. I'd do it again.
Sucks about the lawsuit though. I hate our legal system sometimes (actually, I hate the pricks who abuse it).
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 11:46 AM
Yeah those BAs in German and Comparative Literature don't help you too much on the job market (mine're in english and philosophy). Good luck with your school applications. I'm sure you'll get into a few of them. And grad school really is totally worth it, tbh. It can be difficult, but worth it. I'd do it again.
Wow, could you have picked two other majors that would have lead you down the path of poverty more easily. :p ;)
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 11:50 AM
Sucks about the lawsuit though. I hate our legal system sometimes (actually, I hate the pricks who abuse it).I was just being dramatic. :D I didn't get sued, but I was threatened and harrassed at work and at home by a student's high powered attorney father. The university where I taught went to bat for me, and it all worked out.
I think I was a little disillusioned because I thought that in becoming a professor, I was choosing less money and more work, and that in exchange my job would be less bullshit than others. In a sense, that is the case, but university politics are really crazy. And some students are literally out to get you (or lie to their parents and probably themselves too, because they'd rather say that you're a crazy liberal failing them for wearing a Bush/Cheney T-shirt, than admit that they were too coked up to do the assignment correctly, or whatever.) Truly though, the vast majority of my experiences have been great with students. I've even had a few amazing moments with them, and I've taught some damn fine classes from time to time. It's worth it.
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 11:51 AM
Wow, could you have picked two other majors that would have lead you down the path of poverty more easily. :p ;)Art history and Latin? :confused:
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 11:54 AM
Art history and Latin? :confused:
Alright Miss Smarty Pants. Geeezzzz. :D
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 11:56 AM
Alright Miss Smarty Pants. Geeezzzz. :DHaitian Creole and Cultural anthropology?? :D
What's your major, anyway?
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 11:59 AM
Haitian Creole and Cultural anthropology?? :D
What's your major, anyway?
English. :p :D
Sapphire
25 Feb 2006, 12:00 PM
English. :p :DHeheheh. Good man.
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 12:04 PM
Heheheh. Good man.
Still trying to figure out the minor though. I might not even have one.
BayernWake
25 Feb 2006, 02:17 PM
Still trying to figure out the minor though. I might not even have one.
Russian?
Howard Zinn
25 Feb 2006, 02:25 PM
Russian?
That was the original plan when I came to Bates, but now I really don't see the point in taking Russian considering it's basically useless in America. The only way I would ever use it was if I moved to Russia, which isn't likely to happen.
I'm thinking about switching over to education, or maybe a more useful foreign language like Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese.