<p>Let me tell you some, your idea will be turned away but this one jerk professor who tells you that he only accepts a certain font or something along those lines. What will you do then?</p>
<p>I just wandered across this thread. ALF, I like your point of view…(though I didn’t bring a slide rule, just lots of Liquid Paper).</p>
<p>I had an electric typewriter and was/am a fast typist. In the dorm, the rooms were all the same, with bed and desk against the side walls. When I knew my neighbor/friend was in her room and I was typing a paper (or retyping after the 3rd or 4th iteration), I’d turn up the stereo really loud (probably the Bee Gees) and would type in time with the music. It drove her crazy!!! Pinkbunny, your post made me think of that.</p>
<p>I hope that this was a ■■■■■…otherwise I’m with some of the others regarding OP having a lot to learn.</p>
<p>lol, what an ass move to go ****ing off the neighbors. </p>
<p>Then again, I know people that buy IBM M series keyboards (that is, the giant ones from the 1980s) and do the same thing for the same reason. </p>
<p>I also haven’t heard of a professor demanding a certain font in a looong time. The last time a professor specified I use times 12pt, I used Myriad Pro the entire time and still got an A. :)</p>
<p>Yea, Myriad Pro is still my default paper font. XD</p>
<p>^Yeah i’ve been known to spend $60 and pick up one of those old school IBM keyboards before. They have unbelievable feedback in the keys and are built like a tank. Loud as hell though so its about like having a typewriter. I love them though when i’m programming. Nothing like it when you’re writing line after line of code to feel that click under every key instead of the plasticky feel under most modern keyboards. I know a few made recently that are trying to emulate that same key feedback from the m series. They look good and the reviews are favorable, but I haven’t tried one personally.</p>
<p>Cherry, I’m glad to hear that you’re self-aware as to how you sound in this post. I agree with most of the posters on this thread that it is impractical not to own a laptop for college, and I wholeheartedly back up pinkbunny; I would not at all be happy if my roommate were constantly clacking away on a typewriter. From your post, you sound rather self-righteous, and I would work on adjusting your attitude before you head to college. Who knows, perhaps you’ll find a whole contingent of type-writer using, internet-hating, aspiring creative writers, but the average student is quickly going to get tired of your schtick; I know I would. Kudos for trying to resist the procrastination vortex that is facebook, but if I were you, I would refrain from implying that it is the spawn of the devil and that all who use it are faceless, conformist, book-hating minions, as my guess is that it will not garner you many friends.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Been awhile since I posted here, but wow, I never knew I’d get such a reaction from my original thread! I’ve been told (and do agree) that I need to work on how “elite” I sometimes sound (joke there for anyone who remembers Elite as an old typewriter font 
). I (the OP) am “only” 25 (and will be a transfer student, not a freshman), but have also been told on several occasions that I’m “an old soul” (i.e. at least 3x this age spiritually, emotionally and culturally).</p>
<p>I did have a Facebook account for about a day, maybe a week, two at most, just to see what all the hubbub was about, but quickly deactivated it (forgot about it, then deleted it not long ago – actually, shortly after I found out Bin Laden was also “deleted”). But I do own one of those low-powered netbooks that someone here recommended, which would work well for me because they serve as little more than pint-size word processors. I just found an old software disc I had of MS Word 2000 (the one with the paperclip – I know, I’m part of another minority that <3’s “Clippy”), and loaded that up instead of Office 2007 with all the bells and whistles. At least I won’t be click-clacking on the keys at 2 a.m. typing away my someday bestseller (or term paper, as the case may be), but with any luck I won’t have a roommate to bother either (there’s no on-campus housing for transfers at Emerson and I am going to see if I can specifically request a “single”/one-person apartment).</p>
<p>What concerns me is that the faculty may require (or “strongly encourage”) the class to have a Facebook account, and will base a lot of their assumptions on the fact that 90% of students already do (and won’t make allowances, at least not easily, for those of us who don’t and/or won’t). This has happened to me in the past, when an art-class professor who was very active on her Facebook page cancelled the class but did not use the campus announcement system to alert her students, because all of them were already her Facebook “friends” and it was only I and an older lady (about 40 or so) who came to class that day. It was blistering cold, a New England blizzard, and being the good little student I was, I showed up at class anyway because I was not privy to the knowledge of her “inner circle” of online “Elite.” </p>
<p>I was also a home-schooled student right up until attending the CC, and thus have no in-person “friends” of which to speak, and thus no real reason to have the Facebook as it really only serves a purpose if one has face-to-face contacts already. I hope that doesn’t sound elite in itself (although it may sound kind of sad), and I don’t mean to continue on that theme, but the kind of friends I’d have probably would feel the same way as I do about the paradoxical term “social networking.” I also read [this</a> article](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1891111,00.html]this”>http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1891111,00.html) about an Ohio State University doctoral candidate and her colleague from Ohio Dominican U. who did a study on the average GPA of Facebook-using students vs. their non-Facebook counterparts – 3.0-3.5, I believe, is the average for Facebook users, vs. 3.5 and up for the non-Facebook crowd (mine’s a 3.86 ). Probably because they spend whatever time they would on Facebook either studying, in extracurriculars, volunteering, working, or doing something else rather than checking/updating their online accounts.</p>
<p>As an aside, I am old enough to remember CompuServe; I wasn’t aware that it even still existed, that and AOL Dial-Up (I’d give anything for the good old days of BBSes, IRC, and Usenet before Twitter, Digg, and “Web 2.0” took over the world). Also, I’m not a Republican (<em>lol</em>); actually quite the opposite, in fact some of my more left-wing professors have commented that I must be a Socialist (which I am). Ironically, because I’m so introverted, I might be considered an anti-social Socialist, but at least I’m well aware of the face-to-face social humanness that is sadly lacking anywhere but the Sneakernet :)</p>
<p>But I still do wonder about the question I sort of posed above – because it’s now “the norm,” and supposedly a given that “everyone does it,” will I be “required” in some way to have a Facebook account or some type of online identity besides my age-old Yahoo email address (and/or the campus mail .edu account), and get penalized by the professor if I don’t/won’t have one?</p>
<p>Cherry, I’m 24 myself and have been using computers all the time since I was a kid… Facebook is only 7 years old, and many people that use it probably haven’t known about it more than 2 or 3 years (that is, after myspace fell out of fashion). </p>
<p>I have an account there, it doesn’t get much use - but I didn’t delete it. Usually, I see something like this:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>(my favorite): Jane Doe: I’m BORED OUT OF MY SKULL!!! (Posted 20 seconds ago). Jane isn’t on Facebook IM, won’t answer their texts, won’t answer their phone and apparently isn’t on AIM either. Well, if they’re so bored they’re sure trying hard to cure their boredom. Good for them. -_-</p></li>
<li><p>(second favorite): Jane Doe: My life is sooooo boring. Nobody wants to do anything! (Posted 8 hours ago). Yea Jane, if you had answered the PMs we all sent you the last 3 days you could’ve gone out with us instead of going all emo on facebook. Hahahaha. </p></li>
<li><p>It’s the one place where I find out about everything on Monday, after it happened. Woot? </p></li>
<li><p>Just like an answering machine, when people leave messages they tend to be vague and useless and they never answer the messages I leave them</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Really, it’s the ultimate replacement for those annoying chain emails and targeted advertising (via the like button). On the plus side, it sorta became like the internet garbage can and a lot of crap has been going there instead of my email mailbox.</p>
<p>XD</p>
<p>The moral of the story is: I don’t really use facebook myself, and my GPA is below a 3.5, but I could attribute a lot of that to being addicted to hitting up online forums, and having a sorta stressful family life that I can’t really walk away from at this point in my life. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure nobody else I know - even the social kids - could attribute having a lower GPA to spending all night on facebook. They just spend their time doing anything but homework/studying XD</p>
<p>Oh and I’ll fess up: I thought you might be a right-winger because of the amount of italics and “” you used in your post XD Then again, most right wing forum people I can think of USE BOLD TYPE AND CAPITAL LETTERS TO ACCENTUATE THEIR POSTS. </p>
<p><em>smirk</em></p>
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<p>This is sad. You ought to see a psychologist to find out why you don’t have any friends. You tend to speak excessively about yourself, so maybe if you listened to others, you could learn more about them and the world around you. Having or not having a Facebook account is probably the least of your problems at this point. Good luck.</p>
<p>I think she was isolated and perhaps brainwashed during her youth (on account of her being home schooled up until CC). But I don’t think she was terribly unhappy. Maybe she didn’t even know other kids even had friends, and was limitedly exposed to other kids, or maybe she was convinced she didn’t need any.</p>
<p>I am surprised your relationship with your family is not great. Why is this? Do they support you in going to college? </p>
<p>You posts do indicate that you are a bit troubled I think. I would recommend continuing to talk to someone, even if it’s just CC. It’s unfortunate (though not entirely unreasonable) that some of the reactions you get won’t be too kind as you probably know. Mostly people will just initially fail to take you seriously, I think.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know if your deficiency in math is something relevant here. You certainly write quite well, even if your posts happen to be a lot about yourself and have a peculiar superficiality to them (but I think that’s quite expected, really, considering your background). Did your mom pass a fear of math on to you (did she teach you apprehensively, and so on)?</p>
<p>I’m sorry if what I said was critical; I’m not really criticizing you, or trying to do that. You have had enough of that I imagine…</p>
<p>good god.
Aren’t you a pretentious one; the electronic world is better off without you. Not purchasing a computer isn’t doing much of a favor to yourself, neither does it make you better than any one else. In fact, it makes you look like a complete bigot.</p>
<p>signed,
A computer engineering major</p>
<p>Judging by the amount of emoticons used by the OP on page 2, I think she uses a computer more than she’s suggesting. </p>
<p>I also hate the bad rap social networks get by people who don’t use them. They’re a great tool if used right, and not everyone on there posts everytime they do something useless. Just like any other tool, some people are good with it and some are bad. But seriously, an entire revolution was started using social media, and here you are, on an internet forum nonetheless, complaining about them. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>Good thing natural selection will weed out OPs mental retardation and thus won’t be passed down to future generations. Good luck being stuck in the past you elitist bigot. We’re more than happy to leave you and your socially awkward self behind. </p>
<p>-Love, </p>
<p>A Computer Science Major who will make 10x the money you can even dream of IN ADDITION to having an amazing fulfilling life.</p>
<p>lol this is just getting plain mean. How many months will Cherry31416 have to endure this onslaught of enraged CS students lol? Will she break under the pressure and sign up for FourSquare? Does anyone really care? lol</p>
<p>Hopefully no one minds listening to a typewriter all the time. Because I know I would.</p>