Has college really changed that much?

[Irieguy]

Fiery's most recent installment of "I'm going to quit (fill in the blank) and play poker," got me thinking about this topic again. I've never understood it.

I went to college. Here's what I did:

-Wake up and take some drugs to kill the hangover
-Think "oh [censored], I missed religion." (I went to a private religious school, Pepperdine, so I had to take 4 semesters of religion. It sucked.)
-Smoke a bowl.
-Go to the beach and have lunch.
-Go to class for a bit
-Go to the quad and try to pick up chicks
-Go home and smoke a bowl
-Go to the gym and play volleyball
-Go home and drink 982372923402 beers
-Go to some sporting event or a party or a bar
-pass out

During this rigorous time in my life, several thoughts went through my mind:

"That chick is so hot."
"This bud is so sticky"
"This class is so lame"
"I want a beer"
"We should go surfing"

But not once. Not ever. Not for one second during my four years did it ever occur to me that I should quit.

All of my friends who went to UCLA, UCSD, USC, Stanford, and Berkley all had pretty much the same experience except that it took 5 and 1/2 years instead of 4.

WTF!? Has college really changed that much in the past 15 years?

Some of you kids are nuts.

Irieguy

PS- You can carry 20 units and play 800 SNGs a month while drinking every single night and sleeping till noon. Easily.

[AtticusFinch]

20 units of what? Not engineering, I'll tell you that. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] And your tolerance was WAY better than mine. I only drank like 37 beers a night. Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley. I had to drive 20 minutes to San Francisco to find the hot ones. Damn, why didn't I drop out? If only I'd started playing poker sooner...

[Slim Pickens]

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Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley.

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Let's not forget the pseudo-feminists. Pseudo-feminists hate men and sometimes attack with their picket signs. Real feminists love men. See, I learned something in college.

People need to accept that with a very few exceptions, most of us lead easy, cushy lives, college or not.

[KingMedicine]

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Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley.

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Let's not forget the pseudo-feminists. Pseudo-feminists hate men and sometimes attack with their picket signs. Real feminists love men. See, I learned something in college.

People need to accept that with a very few exceptions, most of us lead easy, cushy lives, college or not.

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whoa. berkeley's not that bad. you just need to use your imagination now and then.

[fnord_too]

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20 units of what? Not engineering, I'll tell you that. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] And your tolerance was WAY better than mine. I only drank like 37 beers a night. Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley. I had to drive 20 minutes to San Francisco to find the hot ones. Damn, why didn't I drop out? If only I'd started playing poker sooner...

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I think your tolerance is pretty damn good if you thought the girls at Berkeley were ugly after 37 beers....

[Gramps]

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Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley. I had to drive 20 minutes to San Francisco to find the hot ones.

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Try Berkeley in the early 90s during the height of PC, etc. where chicks went out of their way to not look any better (yes I'm bitter - why I didn't go to UCSB, I do not know).

Oh well, at least they're a lot better looking there now:

(a) They look better;
(b) I keep getting older, they keep staying the same age...

[Apathy]

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(b) I keep getting older, they keep staying the same age...

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Wanna play some foosball man?

[sng-sam]

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Plus the chicks were ugly at Berkeley. I had to drive 20 minutes to San Francisco to find the hot ones

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Dude? San Francisco? are you sure they were chicks?

Straight Flushes,

SAM

[johnnybeef]

OSU>>>>>>>>>>>&gt ;>Pepperdine. I went for ~5 years, got about a year and a half away from an engineering degree (5 year program plus the many classes i had to retake = 7 years for me), realized that i didnt want to be an engineer, quit, started waiting tables, saw that over 1/2 of my coworkers had degrees, and realized that primary degree doesnt mean squat anymore. I'm 25, I want to get into real estate, I may or may not finish up when I move to the west coast.

ps. If given the choice between being a world class poker player, and being able to relive my 5 years in school, I'd choose the latter in a second.

[chisness]

going for 1300 a month but never will touch a drink (cant even stand pop)