The older I get the more I read and the less I watch tv.
The older I get the more I read and the less I watch tv.
Originally Posted by Jermac
Yeah...definitely.
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95% of the reason I read is to become a smarter and more informed person. It's an educative experience, getting new perspectives about everything. 5% (or maybe even less) is for entertainment purposes
You must still be an undergraduate. A hell of a lot of the reading I do is for pleasure. If I learn something, that is an added bonus.
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I read sometimes because I feel an obligation to and sometimes because it makes me feel like I'm not just going through the motions of my life. I prefer, however, to write essays in order to get more in touch with my thinking process and my own opinions. Like redhead, I think I'm transitioning into the pleasure phase of reading.
I don't think that age or level of education has anything to do with it.
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-Pi
I suppose it depends if you want to graduate or not I reckon.
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I know a lot of college dropouts who could debate even JBI or SLG into a sweat (well, more "two" then "a lot" but that's besides the point).I suppose it depends if you want to graduate or not I reckon.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I don't think that it is a good thing to proselytise about being an educational drop-out. I worked hard for my degrees, & although I still study many things, I do enjoy reading a lot of the time for the sheer enjoyment of it. This may sound rather perverse to many, but sometimes I just like to sit down with a good novel.
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I didn't drop out, but if I did, that would be fine. College graduates aren't automatically smarter or harder workers then people who didn't feel the need to go. Bill Gates dropped out. So did Woody Allen.
Ray Bradbury:
“I never went to college. I went to the library.”
The classroom scene isn't for everyone.
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 12-08-2009 at 06:14 AM.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
You're probably correct. I think that if you feel the need to sit around on bean bags all day long & dribble or stare at your own navel or something then you should have that right.
Why attempt anything vaguely productive? I personally am not particularly interested in apathetic pointlessness as a pastime. I don't think that there is anything necessarily wrong with getting a decent education.
Still, the world needs ditch diggers & fast food workers. I just think that if you have some academic ability you should try to utilise it.
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I already told you, I'm a student at the University of Alberta. Not that it matters, but that's a pretty friggin' good school, especially for scientific research. If you believe that college students are better then people who didn't care to go, then you're not as smart as you think you are (as if that weren't already obvious from all of your spelling mistakes). Yeah, you're right, Bill Gates is a poor lowly ditch digger. Psh.
My boyfriend hated college because he couldn't stand the other students (you know, the way college kids are so desperate for academic approval and all that... he thought it was pathetic). He dropped out because he believed that he was wasting his time. Making studies a chore rather then a hobby tends to convert learning from being an intrinsic joy to one depending wholly on material success and praise. David and I attend lectures and read books for fun. I go to school to study science because, well, you can't really get lab experience at home and I do eventually want a career that will let me work outside (something like research would be nice) but I could live without a degree, and I would be no worse for it.
Also, don't downgrade labor workers like they're not fit to lick your shoes. The men that I grew up with make more money then you do (trust me. A rig worker's salary is nothing to scoff at), and they contribute more to society. They have better personalities, too... a lot more fun, I'd say.
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 12-08-2009 at 06:22 AM.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
A/ Grow up.
B/ I worked in timber mills & on building sites for several years before I went to university. I have dredged canals & been a labourer. I know what poverty is. I have also never dropped out of anything in my life.
C/ See 'A' & 'B'.
*As regards to my spelling mistakes, you don't seem that bright for an undergraduate, I'm English...we all spell this way in my country.
Last edited by Red-Headed; 12-08-2009 at 06:29 AM.
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Your just mad because I called you on being an elitist, lit-snob jerk.
Also, labor doesn't equal poverty. My little industrial town is a gold mine (well, actually a coal mine, but whatever).
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 12-08-2009 at 06:33 AM.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Are you about 12 years old or something? Does your mommy know you are using the computer? Oh, & genius 'your' is a genitive. You should have used the contractive 'you're'. The pronoun 'you' & the present indicative of the auxiliary verb 'to be'. College student my arse!
Your just mad because I called you on being an elitist, lit-snob jerk.
Last edited by Red-Headed; 12-08-2009 at 06:36 AM.
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