Today I watched the 3D Spongebob movie with two of my friends because… adulthood.
Currently, I am rolling on straight A’s. Hopefully, I will be able to keep this up until the end of the semester and bring my GPA up to a 3.93!
I don’t know what y’all are studying, but I’m dying with my academic work. Comp-Sci is also notoriously one of the hardest majors available.(I’ve learnt through some history and psych majors that they can finish their major requirements in like 3 semesters and i’m like lol, I’ll barely finish everything to graduate in 4 years) All I do is my work, socialize/gym and sleep. And I’m going to need to trade out socializing with something more useful so idek.
My political views haven’t changed, but I feel like my social views (how tolerant I am of drinking/smoking/hook up culture) have gotten wayyyy more lenient.
It hailed today! It was sunny this morning and now the streets are lined with snow. (For the record, all forms of precipitation that aren’t rain are considered snow in my book)
@Violet1996, I’m with you on that. CS struggle bus, sigh. If I worked myself to death, I can graduate at the end of junior year, but if I, you know, want to not be a zombie, I would barely finish in 4 as well. Some majors are definitely not that unit intensive… Like if I did linguistics or something, there aren’t that many requirements, so I’d probably be out in two years. This is not to insult linguistics at all, and I’m sorry if anyone gets offended. But yes, I mainly just have a job and do it, do homework, and sleep. Oh and I talk to like grand total of 3 people on a normal basis. Neither my political view (nonexistent in the first place) nor my social views have changed, though.
Ughhh meanwhile California is in a drought. It’s rained more than other years I remember, but that’s not enough. Can we like borrow your precipitation? Like, some parts have gross tasting water because they have had to use a different source.
@Coriander23 - Upstate NY is gonna be a grand ole’ time. LOL.
@quidditchcat - I thought “struggle bus” was something exclusively from my high school. I didn’t know other people used it, haha.
The difference between STEM majors and Humanities/Social Science majors (I think) in terms of time is that many humanities/social science majors don’t have prerequisites beyond basic English competency whereas STEM majors (especially math intensive ones) have long chains of courses that need to be taken in specific sequences, right?
At my school, you can take literally any humanities or social science course (with the exception of Psychology and Sociology) without having taken the 101 version of that subject.
@preamble1776
That is a big part of it. Another part is that the STEM courses take more time to learn than other courses. STEM courses can very easily be four credit hours instead of three and you’ll see yourself in class six hours a week. Then there’s the fact that in humanities, you are only worried about learning concepts, whereas in STAM courses you have to learn concepts and also devote time to developing problem solving skills.
I’ve become even more liberal than I already was before college. Every time I listen to a conservative, I become a little bit more liberal. The main problem I find with conservatives, is that they can’t see anything from a different perspective whether it be from a poor person’s or a minority’s. Just a couple days ago, talking about the Indiana religion law, I asked “Why would you ever allow a law that could allow discrimination”, the response was from a woman who said simply “the constitution”. I couldn’t believe that someone would actually be okay with having discriminatory laws on the books let alone a woman.
@jimmyboy23 - I think it’s important to distinguish between ignorance and actual conservatism. Without having this derail into a purely political discussion, one must realize that liberals and conservatives alike both have very valid, very legitimate insights and theories about the domestic landscape and one needs to consider both without disregarding one so readily.
So like three months ago I was super convinced Calculus I was gonna be a fiasco and I’d barely get by taking Pass/Fail but turns out that I am at the top of my section (most of whom are CS and Engineering majors that won’t be able to move forward because they have grades less than 84 - the minimum to move onto the next course in the sequence) and now I’m registered for Calculus II this fall that I’m literally taking “for fun.” I’m crazy. I am literally out of my mind.
@jimmyboy123 Your post gave me AIDS. If you can’t imagine others not being able to see from a different perspective, aren’t you not able to look from a different perspective other than that everyone must consider each others views?
@preamble1776
That’s exactly what I’m saying, I don’t disregard their policies before I hear them. I listen to their arguments and very rarely have I heard a legitimate policy when compared to liberal ideology. Some of the areas where the arguments or policies are at least comparable are economics and foreign affairs. I still don’t agree with a lot of the conservative ideology in these areas but there is merit. I also disagree that both sides have legitimate theories. There are a lot of areas where the positions are not ground in any base of logic or reasoning (Quite a few conservative positions are based solely in biblical evidence). Also this comes from watching conservatives on T.V., reading about them and their proposed policies, and talking to political science majors at my university (I.E. not some guy who just watched Fox News). This isn’t just my personal feelings towards conservatives; it comes about just by looking at their policies and attitudes and comparing them to liberal policies. I just disagree that there is an equivalent legitimacy in their policies and view liberal policies as having more merit usually.
@ZucchiniSoup
I’m sorry I did that to you; you should probably see a doctor.
I don’t know why I would want to live in a country where people (especially politicians) didn’t consider multiple peoples’ points of view. If you came up with an argument though, I’d consider it at the very least.
I thought the term “struggle bus” was just a California thing! Nice to know we’re all on the same vehicle 
@jimmyboy23 - I’m sure many conservatives feel the same exact way about liberalism (Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh are a lot more similar than they are different.) You have to consider context - conservatives and liberals do not exist in a vacuum; their views are shaped largely by geography. Republicans in Massachusetts are not the same as Republicans in Alabama; similarly, Democrats in California are nothing like Democrats in Texas. A few “political science majors” at your school aren’t representative of the wide range of values and ideologies encapsulated by a conservative framework. Many conservatives are not religious and/or were raised in religious traditions other than Christianity, so I don’t think the correlation between conservatism and Biblical evidence is apt with perhaps the exception of fundamentalism and neoconservatism.
@preamble1776
To say that not all conservatives are the same is like saying not all cats are the same. They may differ in fur color, size, and diet, but in the end they all inhabit core characteristics that make them a cat. Same way with conservatives, they differ in terms of leaning more towards liberal or more towards radically conservative policies, but there are still platforms that you will find in any conservative’s ideology (less government interference, free market capitalism). I guess you missed the part where I also said I’ve watched and read about politicians and political analysts that are conservative. If I see 50 conservatives argue against abortion and see conservative groups protest abortion then it’s a pretty safe bet that it’s widely accepted throughout the conservative base. You don’t have to interview every single conservative in order to find this out, you just look for patterns. Also, to say that there is a majority of conservatives are not religious and Christian and use it consistently to influence their voting patterns and policy making (especially social policy) is just simply false (Bush Jr. used it to go to war).
This might just be me, but can we pretend this thread is a dinner table and keep the political discussion elsewhere?
^lol
this is exactly why I don’t get involved in politics.
@Coriander23 LOL sorry; I’m feeling especially argumentative because it’s APRIL and the snow from January’s blizzards hasn’t completely melted.
Damn you, Brady! Why did you have to deflate the balls and trigger this curse?!
You know what I’ve noticed? College has made me oblivious to the weirdest things. Today I was sitting in this lounge reading and a girl showed up, pulled two recliners together, got out a blanket, laid down, and started eating an entire loaf of sliced raisin bread and I thought absolutely nothing of it.
I still notice weird stuff like that. At lunch today, the person at the table across from me mixed strawberry yogurt with reese’s puffs cereal, and drank it from a cup. The weirdness of college students never ceases to amaze me.
I hope Brady feels sorry about having ruffled so many feathers! [-( And I think dining halls definitely bring out everyone’s eccentric side. There’s a fine line between culinary genius and culinary…weirdness.
The weirdest thing I do in the dining hall is drink regular soda with everything; like it’ll be 6am and I’ll be eating an omelette and order a large Coke with it. For all of last semester and the first part of this semester, I tried to play along with social norms and order orange juice, but I figured why deprive myself of soda. I love soda. I work hard in school. I deserve soda.