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07-10-2008, 01:00 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Miami, FL
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| I think it's all about expectations, if you honestly think you are going to go to class and be exhillerated and excited for class you are crazy, but in college, you are given so many more opportunities to see new things such as study abroad, meet a huge range of different types of people and try everything you possibly want. When you get into the work force things tend to change, you get wrapped up in bills, and although it seems you study a lot and go to class a lot, I can gurantee the ones who are working full time are a lot more wrapped up in things they don't want to be. | 
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07-10-2008, 01:12 AM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NY ---> Outside of Boston
Posts: 311
| Very interesting article mshaddal. | |
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07-10-2008, 09:23 AM
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#18 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 785
| In college you are really only responsible for yourself. As you get older you may have responsibilites to a job, a spouse, your children, your home, etc. That is why the time in college is considered such a special time. However, there are pressures in college that are not as present in many peoples lives as they get older - the pressure to fit in, peer pressure, social pressures, etc.
So, it is a mixed bag in my opinion. College years have their positives and negatives. | |
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07-10-2008, 09:26 AM
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#19 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 440
| I think college has lent me opportunities I (likely) wouldn't have experienced had I not gone. I probably wouldn't have studied abroad in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong or Ireland. I probably wouldn't have interned in Japan. I probably wouldn't have "interned" (more like "enslaved") at Disney World. I probably wouldn't have learned Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic.
So no, I don't think it's overrated. | |
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07-10-2008, 11:08 AM
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#20 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 510
| A lot of it probably has to do with your school. | |
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07-10-2008, 05:06 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 122
| I'm not trying to be offensive but based on the majority of your threads you seem pretty annoyed with the world. It's my advice that you develop a more positive attitude towards your surroundings and you might find a little more light in your life. | |
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07-10-2008, 05:13 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 385
| The problem is the real world sucks.
Also, when good things happen in life, you tend to take them for granted, it's fun to complain about the bad things in life. | |
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07-10-2008, 06:41 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Miami, FL
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The problem is the real world sucks.
| Too used to everything being handed to you? | |
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07-10-2008, 06:42 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 1,315
| Plattsburghloser, I'm very impressed you know all of those languages, arabic and mandarin are extremely hard! Did you teach yourself or take courses in all 3 languages? | |
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07-10-2008, 06:50 PM
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#25 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 440
| Thank you.
I have a slight obsession with learning language. The whole thing fascinates me. It's also one of the reasons I'm hoping to transfer to a college that has more language programs.
I took classes in Arabic. Mandarin, was a melange of being forced to learn it after living in China for a year combined with having help from online language exchanges and resources, and Japanese I did a few language immersion programs combined with living there for a semester. I'm not fluent yet in Japanese, though. | |
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