Mission Briefing: Life

On January 08 2010 01:54 statix wrote:
Since you're my favorite ginger Faust, I'll let you live in my attic and feast on whatever is in my fridge when I'm away from home or in the middle of the night. You must stay in the attic at all other times though.

I'll provide an internet connection up there so you can continue to escape into your RPG's.


Edit: I'll also throw some chinese books at you every once in a while.

On January 08 2010 01:55 SCC-Faust wrote:
Yeah I think I'm going to give a few calls later on.

I actually just planned a meeting with an advisor on the 11th at 1pm so I'll post how that goes.
I'll be sure to the the advisor at my current college how I feel and what major I want to pursue and hopefully he/she will be kind enough to direct me in the right direction.

Also, motbob, what do you mean? And did it pass yet?

Sec 105

Health insurance companies must provide health insurance plans that include coverage of dependent children under the age of 27 instead of 18. So if you are living in your parents' basement up to the age of 27 they can more easily cover you under their health plan .

On January 08 2010 01:57 meeple wrote:
Some of the issues that you might run into... even if you take on the fairly gigantic task of learning another language is that you'll never really be a native speaker... and it will take years to even learn at a decent conversational level. Its true that if you do go through you'll probably land a job as a translator somewhere, and I don't want to discourage you in any way... but learning a language like that takes alot of dedication... and even more to make sure you don't lose it and forget words and such. But if that's your goal, then I would suggest what Chill said and look around at the programs that universities around you offer. Nothing like speaking to an expert about it...

On January 08 2010 01:57 meeple wrote:
Some of the issues that you might run into... even if you take on the fairly gigantic task of learning another language is that you'll never really be a native speaker... and it will take years to even learn at a decent conversational level. Its true that if you do go through you'll probably land a job as a translator somewhere, and I don't want to discourage you in any way... but learning a language like that takes alot of dedication... and even more to make sure you don't lose it and forget words and such. But if that's your goal, then I would suggest what Chill said and look around at the programs that universities around you offer. Nothing like speaking to an expert about it...

On January 08 2010 02:53 siv00 wrote:

With that said, it doesn't really sound like it would be worth it to major in and learn Chinese if your only goal is to translate for ER patients at a hospital. If you're going to put the time in with a hard language like Chinese you should have more epic goals imo. You also don't need a degree, you just need the skills which is why they don't ask for one to apply for that job.