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I'm so sick and tired of libs demanding that students juggle scholarship applications, working, studying, and fucking starving in order to get through college.
Y'know what? I don't think students should have to fucking work during school and it is fcked up that we've normalized grinding people into dust in order to achieve an education.
Oh, and fuck you if you have a learning disability and can't do both school and work. Guess it's poverty for you, buddy.
A 'little effort' here is working a full time job while also taking 12-15 units?
I did exactly that: I had a full time job, a part time job, and 12-15 units a semester because that was the only way for the former to pay for the latter as well as my living expenses.
And it wrecked my health for years.
I would not wish the same on anyone, except maybe in a 
way for bootlickers pretending it's a sustainable and reasonable expectation for students to go through.
: "But bro...it's hard mode bro. Doncha feel tough, bro!? In exchange, you're gonna get bragging rights bro, those sissies in Europe will sure feel stupid when they see how tough you are bro."
The belief that "I suffered, therefore everyone should suffer as least as much as I did" is so fucking alien to me. I don't wish what I went through on strangers, let alone anyone I know and care about. I'd wish a special focused version of my toil experience on smug hustlegrind chuds, but even then at a measured "shut the fuck up" level at best.
And then in the next breath they'll complain about how when they were kids they were so wild, they partied and had fun, not like todays kids. And then, breath after that, they explain how any rule breaking should be the death penalty for children.
Yeah. I think one of the most depressing parts of my education was a professor (who went to the same university) telling me how different the student experience was 40 years ago. He told stories about storming each other's dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc. The sort of college shenanigans you see in films and assume are made up. Then he asked what the equivalent is for my friends. I had to explain that we studied ourselves into ill health and went into crunch for weeks for the sake of getting top grades, then tried to sleep or distract ourselves with videogames. Maybe go to a bar occasionally. It really illustrated that massive parts of my life aren't normal and shouldn't be normal.
Apparently this anxiety and constant demands of perfection are new. Its a generational thing. Its not normal to have never failed anything and be fucking paralyzingly terrified of ever doing so. He was so upset at how lame and depressing modern kids are, that the spirit of the university is apparently gone, but at least he had the decency to be upset at the culture rather than us. I wonder what it felt like before, if kids were freer?
storming each other's dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc
You get expelled for that stuff now! They actually punish you for it so you cant do any of that stuff anymore even if you had the free time!
Hell, one of my buddies worked full time at Home Depot selling appliances and nearly paid for full time college cash every semester. (May have had a sports scholarship)
nearly paid for full time college cash every semester. (May have had a sports scholarship)
(May have had a sports scholarship)
Also 
because there is not enough time in a day for a full practice and workout in the early morning, three to five hours of class, eight hours of wage labor, and still enough time to study, complete assignments, feed yourself and wash your ass and still wake up in time to do it the next day.
So either they're lying, or this person went to college part time and graduated in 6+ years, or they worked full time for three months out of the year and part time the rest, or they just didn't learn anything and picked a major that allowed them to graduate without doing virtually any work. What a rosy outlook for the public education system!!
Edit: or they ordered doordash/Uber eats every day on Dad's credit card, in which case thanks for subsidizing my education as well
I worked a full time job, a part time job, and did college at the same time.
My 4 year degree took significantly more than 4 years and wrecked my health because of stress and sleep deprivation.
If I was a hustlegrinding asshole I'd demand other people do that, but no, I'd rather they don't, except maybe as a punishment for hustlegrinding assholes after the revolution.
I did the last six months of grad school full time with full time work, and despite one period of about 60 days where 9-5 weekend classes meant Saturday and Sundays were taken up so I didn't have a day off for that entire period, I enjoyed it.
However I also recognise that's an insane response and wouldn't ever want anyone to be in a position to need to do that.
They even say that he had a "useless degree" which means that he would have been better off just not going to college in the first place.
Though some people's idea of a "useless degree" is anything that's not Engineering or coding or some shit.
True, though if he's some kind of hustle grindset dweeb like the guy telling the story makes him sound, I'd imagine he's in business.
yeah but i'm pretty sure that a bachelors in business isn't worth shit.
They can't help telling on themselves because so many of them actually believe as the Main Character that their heroic tale of rags to riches needs all the fine details like the small loan of a million dollars 
So, if we are expected to jump through all these hoops boomers never had to, especially white boomers. They're the weak men that have created the hard times?
No they drive a very manly truck with their wrap-around oakleys and that makes them very hard men.
College students should be malnourished and work 14 hours a day
College students should be paid for going to college since it's job training
no more half measures walter
This just in: A man who survived swimming across a dangerous river is now mad that they want to build a bridge.
"I survived cancer, so by god I am going to lobby against any cure for it because fuck you"
I got "back in my day'd" by my lead at work who makes at minimum 2 grand more than me, but with the pay scale, he should be making significantly more, and we're both part of a union that's been fighting for a better pay scale for new employees for a while because it's no longer sustainable.
We're supposed to be on the same team, wtf, you're licking the wrong boots.