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1.Would you still go to college if you won $ 9 million? Just wondering after reading about some 22 year old poker player that dropped out of college after he figured out he was good enough to go pro.
2. I'm having a fever right now, what are some good ways to cure it? I've looked on the internet and some say drink cold stuff but I've been shivering, while others say just drink plenty of water and get plenty of rest. Btw, why is that when you have a fever your body temperature rises yet you get cold easily?
3. Should I go to school tomorrow, I feel like crap and I didn't do almost any of my homework. I'm in high school btw. If you're sick in college, what do you all do you? I'm curious about how people live independently
 
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Lol, number 2 isn't a yes or no question..
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1. If my only goal in life was to be rich, then yes, I might do that.
2. Don't drink cold beverages. Sweating generally means you're getting better, and sometimes you can sweat a fever out.
3. In college, it's up to you. If I think missing a few classes is inconsequential, then I skip them.
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3. unless there's a quiz/test or homework due, i would just sleep in and take care of myself. attendance is mostly optional for college classes, and it's not too hard to make out one class worth of material
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1. Yes
2. I vote plenty of water and rest. You feel cold for the same reason your body temperature is higher than normal. Part of the immune response is to try to raise your body temperature, which it does basically by increasing the temperature your hypothalamus deems "normal" body temp. This causes you to feel cold and activates the body's apparatuses for raising its temperature. They're both effects of the same thing.
3. No
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1) Yes, I would still go to college. $9 million isn't much by today's standards, and I don't pretend I'm any good at gambling or investing.
2) Drink plenty of water and get plenty of rest. The reason you feel cold is because your body feels temperature gradients. If your body temperature is warmer, you will feel colder because the outside is cold relative to your body (this is also why if you're out in the cold for a long time, it will feel really warm when you come inside even if its at a normal indoor temperature, since being in the cold will lower your body temperature).
3) Get some sleep. In college its generally not a big deal if you miss a lecture or two. Missing more than a day of class could put you pretty behind on work though, depending on the workload at your college.
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On November 13 2008 14:52 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Lol, number 2 isn't a yes or no question..
no
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On November 13 2008 14:55 TheYango wrote: The reason you feel cold is because your body feels temperature gradients. If your body temperature is warmer, you will feel colder because the outside is cold relative to your body This is true but insignificant. Body temperature increase during a fever is far too small to make you feel as cold as you do if the difference between body temp and environment temp were all that mattered. Imagine if rather than your body temp going up 2-3 degrees, the environment cooled by that much instead. No shivering and chills.
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3) Sleep. Even if I'm healthy and fully awake, I still don't go to class.
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EDIT: Nevermind, its late, and I'm being dumb.
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Ok thanks guys, lol and yango you think that 9 million isnt much?
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On November 13 2008 15:03 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Ok thanks guys, lol and yango you think that 9 million isnt much?
Not enough to quit college over. As I said, I don't pretend that I have the skills to turn it into a bigger fortune, and I'd rather have the income a college education could get me.
Maybe its a mental thing. Even if I wouldn't MAKE $9 million over my career, the idea of having an income feels more secure than living out of a finite fortune.
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I would definitely still go to college. I mean, it's college. The experience of being a millionaire while in college would be so awesome, lol.
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1. no
2. Because your body has so much heat you lose even more to the cold air, which makes you feel cold.
3. Depends how bad your cold really is, how you feel the next morning, and how important your classes the next day are.
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If I had that kind of money, I'd spend MORE time in college. There's so many interesting classes and things out there that you can learn. Unfortunately, most people don't have the time and/or money to take all of those classes or learn everything that they want to. Being put into a situation where you have that kind of money to me would be screaming to stay in school for a long time. I'd probably spend 10 years being an undergraduate if I could realistically do that. Although, I'm sure everyone will have their own opinions about that, as not everyone goes to college to learn.
Besides, like Rayzorblade said, being a millionaire in college would be unbelievably awesome 
As for skipping classes, personally I only skip if I feel like sleeping in. Once I'm at school, I usually go to all of my classes. But I did have a class last semester that I went to maybe a grand total of about 6 or 7 times, which was mainly just to take the tests. Some classes really aren't worth going to, and others really aren't worth missing even if you're sick.
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1) yes, and I wouldn't plan to graduate any time soon, i'd take as much random shit as i could
in all seirousness, all you have to do is open as many MMA and savings accounts as you can to be covered by the $250k limit for FDIC backup, and then live off the interest for life. you won't earn that much increase in your principle but you can EASILY live off of that interest with virtually 0 risk
Even if you have a super shitty rate, like 1%, that's still $90,000 a year minus taxes, which is a lot more than a lot of people make, and at a more realistic 2-3% that's more like $180-$270 a year, which is enough for a family
2) already answered
3) don't go
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On November 13 2008 15:30 Orlandu wrote:If I had that kind of money, I'd spend MORE time in college. There's so many interesting classes and things out there that you can learn. Unfortunately, most people don't have the time and/or money to take all of those classes or learn everything that they want to. Being put into a situation where you have that kind of money to me would be screaming to stay in school for a long time. I'd probably spend 10 years being an undergraduate if I could realistically do that. Although, I'm sure everyone will have their own opinions about that, as not everyone goes to college to learn. Besides, like Rayzorblade said, being a millionaire in college would be unbelievably awesome As for skipping classes, personally I only skip if I feel like sleeping in. Once I'm at school, I usually go to all of my classes. But I did have a class last semester that I went to maybe a grand total of about 6 or 7 times, which was mainly just to take the tests. Some classes really aren't worth going to, and others really aren't worth missing even if you're sick.
Oh god...I would go to college just because I had millions. What kind of fucking pimped out dorm would you have? Projectors...every game system+SNES keke. Ridiculous parties. "Hey you wanna take a ride in my [insert expensive car]"
I guess it's ok not being rich too.
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1. Probably, but I also would realize it wasn't exactly necessary and probably just take whatever I wanted to. 9 million bucks is a lot... just drop it all certificates of deposit, and you have made like $360,000 per year. That's probably more than you would spend. Spreading it out across different banks might be a problem, but I think it would be one I would like to have.
2. I'd drink orange juice or 7-up. When I have a fever, my body tends to not hold water terribly well. Other than that, sleep.
3. I would not go. If I was in college, I would also not go if I felt like I couldn't, unless there was some critical lab I was missing. I missed like a week of my senior year of college early in my last semester because I came down with some viral crap from the rec center. It was a pain to catch up again, but considering I felt like puking most of the time, it was worth it. I overexerted myself when I started going back to classes, and felt worse for a while (the first day back was brutal), but I eventually got back into the swing of things. Sometimes you just need to realize when you've hit a wall... even if you feel like you can't miss anything, trust me, you can.
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