EPTWhy College Students Have Trouble Growing Up - Page 4
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qrs
United States3637 Posts
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blue_arrow
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
On December 03 2009 10:34 ghostWriter wrote: Agree. Philosophy is up there with psychology and theology for the sections with the easiest and most bullshit courses. Sadly psycology is an easy course, it could be much much harder, the problem is you can really educate someone to be a psycologist, its kinda inate | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On December 03 2009 04:17 CharlieMurphy wrote: wait what? Most people who do drugs and drink at parties are pretty social and have lots of acquaintances and friends all over the place. Just think of this, if you are out of smokes and money and addicted, it forces you to go out and talk to people. Often times you make friends this way alone, this is one of the only pros to smoking cigarettes. You don't nominally form solid and worthwhile relationships you get growth out of that way. On December 03 2009 04:45 CharlieMurphy wrote: so, what? You just live off parents money and/or student loans? Then there's the problem right there. Students are babied. I don't see a problem with it. I'd be willing to sacrifice my pride to be able to focus more on my education. | ||
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ShaperofDreams
Canada2492 Posts
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seppolevne
Canada1681 Posts
For all of its exhilaration and excitement, however, youth culture can only produce a repetition of adolescent forms of thought and action with no impetus toward development into mature forms of personal and social life. What is an "adolescent form of thought" and how is the only possibility repeating it? What is a "mature form of personal life"? What is a "mature form of social life"? ...mainly because the college years are short and students either transfer, drop out or do not know what they want to do after college or where they want to do it. With this kind of uncertainty about the future, how can a student make a commitment to sustain a love relationship? College is a 4-year program, the average time spent at a job is ~5 years. Joe is accepted into the law program at Berkeley; Susan wishes to pursue a Ph.D. in physics at MIT. They cannot allow themselves to fall too much in love or the dream of one will have to give way to the dream of the other. Because being accepted for a job in another city is completely different then studying there. And long-distance relationships never work out. This paper needs to be covered in those little wikipedia [source?] notes. | ||
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miseiler
United States1389 Posts
I think I needed that experience so that I could grow up later...otherwise how would I have gotten it out of my system and moved on? Someone can say, "let's go do this stupid thing," and I can say, "I've already been there, done that, paid bail. You go on." | ||
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
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killercheebo
Korea (North)46 Posts
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lazz
Australia3119 Posts
Characteristics of quarter-life crisis may include[citation needed]: Realizing the pursuits of ones peers are useless Confronting their own mortality Watching time slowly take its toll on their parents, only to realize they are next insecurity regarding the fact that their actions are meaningless insecurity concerning ability to love themselves, let alone another person insecurity regarding present accomplishments re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships lack of friendships or romantic relationships, sexual frustration, and involuntary celibacy disappointment with one's job nostalgia for university, college, high school or elementary school life tendency to hold stronger opinions boredom with social interactions loss of closeness to high school and college friends financially-rooted stress (overwhelming college loans, unanticipatedly high cost of living, etc.) loneliness, depression and suicide desire to have children a sense that everyone is, somehow, doing better than you frustration with social ills Sounds like average human existence to me. | ||
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liosama
Australia843 Posts
Extremely good primers into a variety of fields. Have students learn more, engage into arguments about different problems not related at all to their major all over getting trashed or waste time playing poker or whatever undergrads are stereotyped doing. Note I say primer here in every single of the term, I don't expect one dvd viewing to be the all and end all, one must read after all  | ||
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lvatural
United States347 Posts
On December 03 2009 13:11 ShaperofDreams wrote: I'm going through a quarter life crisis type thing right now, even though I'm only 19. I realize that nothing we do really matters.. and that most of the people I am supposed to model myself after I don't want to be. I think that I've trudged through this and I'm gonna start doing what I want to. Nothing we do really matters? How did you come to this conclusion? Because we all eventually die? Because we're such a small part of the universe? If your answer is something along these lines, then you should think think about this a bit more... You're not supposed to 'copy' other people. It's about understanding and learning the rationale behind a person's actions. Take what you like and disregard what you disagree with to eventually create your own individual stance on how to live your own life. | ||
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perfectteeth
United States30 Posts
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ShaperofDreams
Canada2492 Posts
On December 03 2009 14:32 liosama wrote: This is why I recommend http://www.teach12.com/ to undergrads with nothing else to do with their time. Extremely good primers into a variety of fields. Have students learn more, engage into arguments about different problems not related at all to their major all over getting trashed or waste time playing poker or whatever undergrads are stereotyped doing. Note I say primer here in every single of the term, I don't expect one dvd viewing to be the all and end all, one must read after all omg i wish i had money to pay for that stuff | ||
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d3_crescentia
United States4054 Posts
Personal story: a few of my friends decided to hold a party last year, which ended up breaking the floor into their basement. Rather than man up and pay the bill (yeah, it'd be a shitty thing to do) they found however many excuses and made up some story about moving furniture. They lucked out with a pretty chill landlord (likely there was something ALREADY wrong with the floor), but the irresponsibility bothered me. Another one: I've seen time and time again in college that when people take on the small responsibilities (i.e. running a student organization, planning events) that people tend to fuck themselves up big time. They're a bit more socially responsible than their peers, which is why they're nominated for the role in the first place, but they end up killing themselves trying to make everyone happy, and they start to antagonize everyone because they haven't developed the maturity to conduct themselves in a leadership position. This has happened to me. | ||
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baal
10541 Posts
I disagree with this theory in almost everything, its just conservative propaganda of some square headed asshat yearning for the old days. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On December 03 2009 15:14 ShaperofDreams wrote: omg i wish i had money to pay for that stuff Yeah, that doesn't generally fall within a college student's budget... Of course, the idea is sound, and there are certainly more affordable options for the same kind of learning. | ||
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
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leomon
Canada169 Posts
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Ganfei
Taiwan1439 Posts
On December 03 2009 15:48 baal wrote: people who dont drink in college are nto more social at all, they are usually awkward outcasts. I disagree with this theory in almost everything, its just conservative propaganda of some square headed asshat yearning for the old days. Yeah there's a big fucking surprise, Baal disagrees with something. | ||
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