Men Who Earn Less

[vashti]

hey, you can always be "my" assistant. i don't mind having good head around me.

raverboy

Don't make me beat you with a stick.

[Gigabitch]

True, which makes me wonder how I ever got into a college in the first place

Weren't you in ROTC? I'll bet that helped.

[DoesntMatter]

I won a scholarship for NROTC, but later received a letter saying that I was disqualified because I take prozac. I was (and still am) pissed at that

[jurupa]

Jurupa, maybe you missed the point of what I was saying. AP classes are on par with a standard intro class for a normal college. In other words, they aren't nearly difficult enough to separate the men from the boys if you know what I mean. Which makes it rather ridiculous when applying to top notch schools, because everyone will have all 5s on APs and 1500+ SATs. So when I say it means nothing, I meant that if you were applying to a good school, because you're just in the same boat as everyone else

I know what the AP program is suppose to be and what my high school turned it into, which was college level classes, not entry level college classes. But if you took the whole US population how many of them will get 5's on their AP and high scores on the SAT?

[Illusional]

holy shit is that important? I would not care if a wife of mine would be home cocking or making 10 times as much as me.

haha you wouldn't care about anything because you're a loner...as long as you are getting laid, i think you'll be happy.

My mom makes more than my dad. A helluva lot more. He's no slouch, but my mom's just very good at what she does.

well i would think that most prostitutes are good at what they do, but i could be wrong.. haha j/k. i couldn't resist.



on the real, i wouldn't care if my wife made more than me, but i'd better not be making chump change. if i'm working my ass off at jack in the box while she's making millions, then i'd be shame. on the other than, if i'm working 50K and she's making 60K then it's not so big of a deal.

in the end, i'd probably get a lot of shit talking done to be because that's the women that i attract.

raverboy

[CAM]

1) The AP exams are curved so that 10 - 15% of students who took the exam will get a 5. Sorry, but top 10% is nothing special when it is everyone who took the AP you are being compared to.

2) Actually, it would be silly to use your AP credit and find out that you don't know what the hell you are doing in the class one level higher because your basis (which would be the AP course) sucks monkey balls compared to what you would have been taught at the college.

Except at college, everything is curved, too. So, not to worry. Instructors need you to like them so that they can keep their jobs. We'll tell you that your smart even if you are an idiot. The system is rigged for the benefit of the student. Its a business...you pay and after the appearance of learning, degrees are granted Only places where that doesn't happen as often is fields like math, physics or chemistry.

[CAM]

I won a scholarship for NROTC, but later received a letter saying that I was disqualified because I take prozac. I was (and still am) pissed at that

LOL. Sorry, but it is too funny....the Prozac Generation....I'd forgotten. The US...the only country in the world where people can afford the luxury of deep depression. Other places in the world...they are too busy trying to survive.

[IndiReloaded]

Instructors need you to like them so that they can keep their jobs. We'll tell you that your smart even if you are an idiot.

Hahahahaha! Cam, where have you been? I missed your sharp posts!

[CAM]

Hahahahaha! Cam, where have you been? I missed your sharp posts!

I've been swamped. Real life took a hold of me in good and very sad ways. Dealt with some saddness recently.

Re: the fact that instructors will tell college students that they are smart even when are idiots...it is sort of a form of intellectual prostitution, or possibly even the equivalent of what a woman tells a guy after sex...about how wonderful it was.

Uh...reality....99.999% of the time....even the best college student paper is a piece of crap that wouldn't get published. There are some very rare students who are sooo ****ing bright that they even makes the professor feel dumb. But, "Wittgenstein's" are rarities....and Indi will get the meaning of my comment. Personally, I love meeting students who are more gifted than the instructor...that's the basis of intellectual progress in the world. It is sad when they don't realize their full potential and it is amazing when they do.

[vashti]

Re: the fact that instructors will tell college students that they are smart even when are idiots...it is sort of a form of intellectual prostitution, or possibly even the equivalent of what a woman tells a guy after sex...about how wonderful it was.

Intellectual prostitution, indeed! As an adult student, I have met my share of idiot professors, too. My observation is that some professors enjoy having their enormous egos stroked by students that idolize them and think they are brilliant. It sounds like a mutually beneficial arrangement to me.

[DoesntMatter]

Except at college, everything is curved, too. So, not to worry. Instructors need you to like them so that they can keep their jobs. We'll tell you that your smart even if you are an idiot. The system is rigged for the benefit of the student. Its a business...you pay and after the appearance of learning, degrees are granted Only places where that doesn't happen as often is fields like math, physics or chemistry.

Yeah no shit everything is curved. In fact it is curved to an 80 in most of my classes, which is a B-. And no, they actually continually remind us just how ****ing stupid we are. Grad inflation is not a problem here. Kids who had easy 5s on their APs are now stuck with Cs in classes because the curve is such a bitch

Trust me, there is no pretending to have learned material. I'm a biochemistry major and all the classes keep it real. Calc, multivariable calc, linear algebra (not the easy shit linear algebra), quantum mechanics, etc are all mandatory, aka the basics. Classes where you can't bullshit your way out of stuff. Chemistry classes, physics classes, biology classes. So the stuff is by NO MEANS just an appearance to be learning. You said it happens less often in math, chem and physics... Actually, it doesn't happen at ALL in those subjects here

And there was some talk about professors being dumb... All of my professors are freaking smart as hell. My chemistry lecture on Tuesday (and I think until the end of the semester?) is being given by Gerhard Ertl, who was the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry less than 2 weeks ago. I have a lot of respect for my professors, the research they do and you read about in your textbooks isn't pulled out of their ass

LOL. Sorry, but it is too funny....the Prozac Generation....I'd forgotten. The US...the only country in the world where people can afford the luxury of deep depression. Other places in the world...they are too busy trying to survive.

Are you saying people aren't depressed in other countries? Do me a favor, take 200mg of ecstasy for 10 days in a row. And then understand the chemical basis for depression.

Maybe if your head wasn't so far up your ass you would have seen that suicide rates are much higher in many, many other countries. Of course this wouldn't reflect depression, would it?

[Gribble]

If a majority of students are doing poorly in a class that is not a negative reflection of the students. That is a negative reflection of the instructor.

[Illusional]

Don't make me beat you with a stick.

oh you naughty girl you. . . . . how did you know that i'm kinky like that??

raverboy

[Gigabitch]

oh you naughty girl you. . . . . how did you know that i'm kinky like that??

raverboy

I posted pics from the LF party.

And I'd like to throw in my two cents that suicidal depression is neither new nor restricted to first world countries. I was thinking about this just this morning after hearing a story on NPR about studies that are showing that 3 out of 5 suicide bombers have some kind of physical disability or deformation and that many of them have been reported to be depressive by the people who knew them.

[IndiReloaded]

I was thinking about this just this morning after hearing a story on NPR about studies that are showing that 3 out of 5 suicide bombers have some kind of physical disability or deformation and that many of them have been reported to be depressive by the people who knew them.

K, now I found this interesting. Of *course* we know that anyone who straps a bomb to their body is ****ing nuts. I mean, can you imagine anyone they interviewed saying anything *other* than that?

"Why, yes, I think Osambu was quite the standup guy. His family and students loved him. Too bad he's blown to bits now..."

What I'd like to know is whether those 'studies' were done with the intent of making us feel even *less sorry* for those crazy, deformed, middle eastern ****s who want nothing more than to blow us to kingdom come.

I mean, this way, they deserve to get what's coming to them, right? I just bet GWB loved that report.