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On August 08 2009 16:44 Empyrean wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2009 16:39 eMbrace wrote:On August 08 2009 16:31 Empyrean wrote:On August 08 2009 16:28 eMbrace wrote:On August 08 2009 16:17 Chef wrote:I'm very disillusioned with academia. Not because I don't think it'll help me get a job, but because I think that it has nothing to do with learning/becoming better. My answer is you don't need to pay someone to write your essays. A monkey could do it, as long as they don't go out partying every night, and when it comes down to it you need to be able to do it in an exam room anyway to get your degree, so why not get some practice? What I hate about your post though, is that you claim yourself to be successful. You sell drugs to hopeless addicts and perpetuate some of humanity's biggest threats. Selling cocaine doesn't make you a baller, it makes you a worm who sold out his own race for a little personal monetary gain/freedom. You're selfish and a dickhead. + Show Spoiler +Maybe I'm being overly moralistic here. Believe me, I don't really think there's any such thing as right and wrong. I just know that the world I live in is made less enjoyable by people like you, which naturally means I will disapprove. While he is part of a system that overall is a big cause of street violence -- he's technically just a guy taking advantage of stupid people. I doubt he is trying persuade little children who don't know what drugs are to buy them. It's basically like the tobacco industry -- is it really their fault that people choose to buy their products? Bad analogy here, for a long time, it was their fault - they had advertising budgets and campaigns to get people hooked on cigarettes, then commissioned studies "proving" that there weren't any health risks, or that cigarettes were even good for people. Hell, they didn't stop doing this until around the 1960's, and even then, they still aggressively marketed tobacco products to all sorts of people (including children). ~~~ Still, I'm interested in knowing the answer to my question. OP, by what metric would you define yourself as "successful" by? Enjoying life? Monetarily? Learning? The health risk of cigarettes is common knowledge though. Although the tobacco companies were wrong to sell a poisonous product to a unknowing populace before, I agree. Persuading someone to start smoking isn't very easy anymore, and those who fall for it know very well of the consequences (that's written on the packs themselves). Not back in the first half of the twentieth century it wasn't. Tobacco products weren't seen as harmful in any way, and often times tobacco companies would get doctor endorsements for their products. The tobacco companies themselves actually probably didn't really suspect how dangerous they were. Obviously it's not true today.
Yeah lol I already agreed with you on that part in my post =p
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Oh. Didn't realize.
Well obviously no tobacco company's going to target children or aggressively push the public to smoke their cancer sticks. They'd be hit with so many suits it wouldn't be funny.
T_T yeah it's almost 4 am here and I need sleep.
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On August 08 2009 16:45 eMbrace wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2009 16:41 Chef wrote:While he is part of a system that overall is a big cause of street violence -- he's technically just a guy taking advantage of stupid people. If I were to be sympathetic, I would not think of it that way at all. I would believe that his choices are 'live like shit and die miserable' or 'sell drugs and steal a little comfort for myself in an unjust and cruel world.' That I could understand, but it doesn't look to me like he lacked options. Financial aid may have screwed him over for a ridiculous top tier university, but someone who even has access to that is by no means screwed. All I mean is... It's built in our genetics to want to perpetuate the human race; that's essentially what we've evolved to do. To me it's like going against your very being to commit atrocity except in the extreme case of life or death. I don't see how anyone can attain lasting happiness knowing they've betrayed themselves. I understand even less how someone can seem to brag about it. On August 08 2009 16:31 Empyrean wrote:
Still, I'm interested in knowing the answer to my question. OP, by what metric would you define yourself as "successful" by? Enjoying life? Monetarily? Learning?
He said he doesn't think he is. But his attitude seems to say otherwise. IMO I think the world is still far away from being able to come together under the one label of "humanity." Although your thinking is noble.
Well I think eventually most people have a child, and that's when they realise that after they're dead, there's still something important to worry about. While you may not think of every human being has a part of what you want to preserve, you know that your child is going to have to deal with the long term consequences of what you do to these people. Of what other people like you might do to your child. Not because it's noble or self-sacrificing, but because it's what you're designed to do. It's why we're here today. I think anyone would be lying if they said they didn't want a good future for whomever they consider their kin, even if they weren't around. It's just how we're made, not any divine law. If there ever exists a generation of people who don't feel that way, I would call it the last generation 
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Chef,
You maybe right... you may be right.... Maybe i'm just trying to steal a little comfort away from these hard-working ppl.
Again, I sincerely do not think I'm successful by ANY means. What I make now off this BULLSHit is not big doe. It's get by money.
Think of this way: my family has always been merchants. Now, what we sell is no longer wanted. I do NOT come from a middle class family, with a mortgage and a car loan.
I've been put into a situation where I need to do SOMETHING.
And that's what I'm trying to do. Sure, there are better stories out there. I don't really give a fuck.
Do I care whether I'm bringing down the total morality of the world? Am I really? I don't think so. I don't CHEAT anyone. I give them exactly what they pay for, which is GRADES. I don't fuck anyone over. I don't scam ppl for their money. Like Montana says, I'm no puta or a thief.
Maybe I'm wrong for what I do. Maybe you're right, and I'm wrong. But I SERIOUSLY do not have the capacity at the moment to think about that shit.
Like I've said, I've always wanted to be a fiction writer. It'd be nice if I had some nice inheritance to sit on and I can just sit around all day and write. But that's not where I'm at. I'm not mad at the world. I'm mad at academia for not letting me play it straight.
Maybe it's immaturity. Fuck it. The biggest sin for a young adult is to act more mature than his age (another Emerson concept).
Everyone can sit on their fucking pedastals and say "omg look at him, he's such a bad guy." Fine.  Go ahead. In the end, it doesn't matter of which background I am and what socioeconomic step of the ladder I'm from. What matters is I try to be good, what I do is legal (definitely more so than what I did before) and I give ppl what they pay for.
Chef, I know you're a smart, stand up dude who speaks his mind and knows what he's talking about. But I think you're taking too much from the tone of my OP and not seeing it for what it really is.
You and I share disillusionment about academia. I chose one path to make it, you may have chosen another. Cest la vie.
Thanks for all your input guys, and embrace, I'm glad you concur on some of my points. But everyone is entitled to their own opinions--I expected nothing less when I posted.
Gnite ladies and ladies.
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What matters is I try to be good, what I do is legal (definitely more so than what I did before) and I give ppl what they pay for.
I'm sorry, I missed this. My only gripe really, is the drug selling. I can definitely appreciate if you're trying to be good, and live your life. Really, I don't care if you sell essays to people. It's things that literally alter the mind and can screw up people's lives forever that frighten me. I'm glad you have taken these comments with good will, it's definitely a virtue.
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The ad on your page (shown below) seems tacky :s
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After all this, I'm just wondering, did you post this to get more customers? I'm not sure what the point of this blog is...
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in regards to academia, and many other things actually, i find myself agreeing with you.
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Would like to point out the fact that like the third sentence on your website is grammatically unsound, "Whether our client is a wide-eyed freshman surprised by the workload, or a four-year veteran simply with better things to do, we provide TOP-NOTCH writing by students and graduates of some of the world’s best educational institutions."
Oh this is wrong too, adjective needs to come before "paper writers,"
"However, our effort is not only in the quality of our writing, but the service in which we present it. Our service—e-mail progress reports, blog updates, accessibility—is unparalleled among other paper writers online."
I really don't give a shit if you write papers for other people, if they pay, if it's immoral, ethical, etc. I just care that you advertise yourself as some sort of extremely professional writer and it's clear you are not.
I really don't get it. Look at this shit that I found on some random link on your page: "Have you ever had your dad tell you, “yeah, college were the best years of my life,” then slyly wink at your blushing mom? There’s this notion that college is supposed to be this magical time of socializing, bonding and making a fodder for embarrassing family get-together stories years down the road."
Your first fucking sentence has a blatant dangling modifier. Any fucking professor or anyone is going to spot that shit instantly.
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this kinda reminds me of how pple with jobs buy wow gold / items instead of grinding them b/c it's not worth their time.
"Can't be bothered to grind out an essay, might as well shell out a few hundo for it so I can go play golf instead"
Standard.
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hmm, i guess you do have the abilities, not to mention the time and effort... and probably a good deal of experience...
pretty impressive!
i'm thinking you could even/should expand your services by providing/editing other things like speeches and debate responses
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On August 08 2009 17:43 lilsusie wrote:
After all this, I'm just wondering, did you post this to get more customers? I'm not sure what the point of this blog is...
And a chance to talk to his baby.
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On August 08 2009 07:47 eatmyshorts5 wrote:
Gonna be honest the essays are pretty high quality but also to be honest i wouldn't pay for one.
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One problem with his post, there is no " TOP TOP" university n New York...
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columbia and cornell are both in NY
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and half the SUNY schools are top public schools in the east
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On August 08 2009 15:56 eMbrace wrote:
I agree with shotz's overall message -- school is bullshit, and just because you have a degree doesn't actually mean your a smart person.
I think term papers are easy enough to write myself, but if the price was right and it was a guaranteed A or even B -- I see no shame in paying.
"Oh you didn't do the work, that's wrong"
What work? You mean wasting my time writing something that has nothing to do with how successful I'll be in my field? Writing something all day and night that's not even coming from me, but from a bunch of quoted materials and an opinion that I'm only forming because I know my instructor wants to hear it?
Now of course, I still believe you need an education in the field you are choosing in order to actually preform it (although there are exceptions...) -- but the education system loves to throw as much tedious shit at you as possible -- hoping they can make you fail.
Essays, pop quizes, and graded homework are just a few of those obstacles that are completely unnecessary IMO.
I still do them because I have to -- but it shouldn't feel like that. This post makes me think one of two things. Either 1) you've got bad professors. Regardless of how "prestigious" or high ranked your school is, professors who offer you nothing of relevance or expect regurgitated readings aren't doing their job. 2) you're a freshman or sophomore, and haven't taken upper level classes.
There's tedious shit at the lower levels to give you a baseline of information that you might not know you need (kids make this complaint about lower level math all the time, and they're wrong. It's also the professor's job to make sure you understand how it's important and continue connecting it as you move through material) and to weed out students who aren't serious. Some of the best economics programs in the country require their freshman/sophomores to take physics, because it's the best weedout class there is and you need a certain amount of brainpower to get by. That doesn't necessarily mean all 4 years will have have "useless" courses like that, and if they do then you picked the wrong major/school.
Just as an example, almost all of my classes now are graded on participation and 2-4 essays. No pop quizzes, no graded homework, and in a class with 13 other smart people, "participating" by repeating bullshit will get you torn apart, since part of our job is to find holes in the things we read.
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There's tedious shit at the lower levels to give you a baseline of information that you might not know you need (kids make this complaint about lower level math all the time, and they're wrong.
Whoa really? I was too scared to take a math course in university because I thought it'd be too advanced since I didn't take any math in my last year of high school. If I knew it started with the basics, I might have given it a try.
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On August 09 2009 03:23 Chef wrote:Show nested quote +There's tedious shit at the lower levels to give you a baseline of information that you might not know you need (kids make this complaint about lower level math all the time, and they're wrong. Whoa really? I was too scared to take a math course in university because I thought it'd be too advanced since I didn't take any math in my last year of high school. If I knew it started with the basics, I might have given it a try. I was talking about the high school level. o.o I always remember kids saying "I'll never need to know _______" but it turns out they're important to know, not just for later levels of math/science but in real life as well. At the college level, calc 101/2 is basically taught as Calc AB/BC is in highschool.
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