@1234567c Absolutely! My opinion on life and the universe is quite meaningless too except what ones mind imbues meaning too. Really I wouldn’t have to take Gen Astronomy at all to understand that we are specks of dust hanging out on a fiery dirtball floating around space but I want too take it anyways. All I have to do is take those classes to qualify for putting on a planetarium show once I’m done with the IMAX.</p>
<p>First I’m going to have fun taking Physics I with the lab over the next six weeks starting after new years. I’d love to take more Physics but really don’t need too. Nor would I have to take Gen Chem but going to take it anyways after physics in the spring and II in the summer. I didn’t really enjoy chem in high school because had a life but now love it, the same goes for history and english! I just don’t like math man and have to trick my mind to like it. Plus I already aced alg I and II, geometry, stats, trig, precalc and calc in a fecking hard ass hs back in Cambridge which I couldn’t transfer. I was not happy at first having to take a bunch of classes over again so carved my own path on the programs I wanted to do while completing requirements.</p>
<p>I don’t plan on going above Gen Chem II or Calc II and can still earn a Bach of Science at a UC. Hell I could go to CalPoly and get a BS there without even having to do any calc only precalc, Chem I and II and Physics I so can concentrate on more science, art and engineering type stuff. That way all you bent out of shape brainiacs can do all the work for me I’m not interested in and will allow you to take credit for it. I like to learn and create plus that way many of you guys don’t feel left out and pay back your loans, even though computers could replace probably half of you. It’s fecking pointless of me to prove something that has already been proven and do a bunch of extra problems when I have my own problems. There is no logical argument for me to have to take a bunch of math that I’m seriously never going to use besides the equations I already know.</p>
<p>The only reason I would have to take so called weeder physics and math classes as it is at Berkeley was because of a bunch of whining **<strong><em>y students. Cal admitted me years ago then I considered a few years later for something like poli sci or philosophy or some *</em></strong> since was at the time unsure and they told me I now needed two Calcs and some of these other so called weeder classes. I just laughed and was like whatever because really could give two craps about UC Berkeley or the city for that matter since grew sick of the place. I audited some classes and sat in on others and at the time it was many of us east coasters that were complaining about letting in subpar Californians and minorities if not on merit when that was a hot issue haha.</p>
<p>Many from other states even mentioned in the classes I sat in on that they thought too many Californians whose parents pressured them into attending college are not ready for Berkeley. That many of them at the time are wasting way too much time watching TV, playing video games, and searching the net frivolously. I also tend to laugh at people who try to play the meaningless social capital prestige at public institution or LACs for that matter. My interests is in what interests others and what they ultimately do with themselves and not what school they go to. I know more about college academia in general on a greater level than that and assist students part time on the matter, many write me here even.</p>
<p>I didn’t care about UCLA either before or after I sat in on classes there since they stopped allowing students to audit with the echo boom. UCLA was really good but thought Cal was better even though I like the weather better in LA. I really didn’t care or think in terms of prestige about UCSB either but just ended up liking it. After my vocational training I really just wanted to study the sun, moon, stars, and the birds that I see when I look up and all the plants and flowers and trees I see on the ground. I wanted to know everything I could about the history of California and all about the earthquakes and the ocean. Cripes, I know more about this place across the board more than the majority of natives I meet now. I loved studying environmental science stuff even though don’t agree with many of the undereducated Californians when it came to the issues that caused so much hoopla.</p>
<p>Many of the younger slackers in school that you frosh talk about do see CCC’s as an extension of high school instead of a quality 2 year institution when it is essential both here in California. The immature games and crappy attitude of many CCC Californians I’ve met towards education in general was pretty annoying and confusing to me at first I must admit but hey at least they are doing something. I’m really happy to see many serious students as long as they don’t take themselves too seriously as a student. I do understand that the world has changed quite rapidly which has seemed to cause certain social conformity pressure issues, anxieties, and conditioned reflexes and accept that.</p>
<p>What the teachers say to them about cheating themselves and when you think you are getting away with something you are deceiving no one but yourself. When one is a teen and start to grasp a concept they tend to know that just because they are aware of something and starting to scratch teh surface will think they know everything about it. You Berkeley brainiacs should already know from your classes that the world is a very complex place and that the human condition can’t just be reduced to oversimplified overgeneralized notions like some nice little light tight pretty package. Their just is not enough time to know everything and in a dynamic system like California the amount of knowledge one needs to know to be a part of what goes on is very high.</p>
<p>Not only that it has cost me very little and got to ride in school vans to see Mt. Shasta, Morro Bay, Bodega Bay, Tahoe, Yosemite, Mohave Desert, Joshua Tree and literally dozens other really cool places which were all super fun and educational for free.</p>
<p>The rest of what I have previously mentioned and encouraged on my posts to do is push how much one can absorb in the given amount of time and work off of that. I don’t regret taking any of those classes, especially for the price I paid. I make decent money as a skilled technician with my multiple vocational certificates and degree from classes beyond those as also omitted.</p>
<p>Truth is when I came to California I wasn’t interested in transferring anywhere and always did fine until this state started having problems. I didn’t know anything in the beginning so threw myself into it just to learn, understand, and experience how the California educational system works on a local to legislative level. I’m quite informed on issues concerning how the system works here to a greater degree than those entering so try and assist others who was were I originally was.</p>
<p>The only thing I was mad at myself was that I had the chance on transferring when the colleges here were much much cheaper. I banged myself in the head a few times, obsessed a bit over it to the point of depressing myself then laughed that I cared in the first place. I don’t care about being a manager or anything but do liking working in academia and the entertainment business which are hierarchical in nature so do hit a glass ceiling even though the wage is still good comparatively. Most of what I learned has been self taught to assist professionals so sometimes I’m considered more useful than the feckless ones so end up doing what they did just a bit cheaper.