quote:Originally posted by Omega: Now I didn't say I'd be spending all my time here at home. I'll probably live on campus, and just sleep here.
Won't happen. At all. You'll try, but there's a whole world of difference between living somewhere and visiting it. You will always be a guest. You will have to go back to your parents if you want to pick anything up. If people are going to do stuff late at night, you'll have to go home. Or if you go out with them, you'll then have to go home by themselves. Even if they are just sitting around watching TV and chatting, you'll have to leave.
I am going to disagree with UM here. You have $6,000. Listen to Simon, like he failed to listen to me. Go. Live there. If you hate it after 3 months, move out. But for pete's sake, just give it a go. If it works, you will go from a dull 1999-Franktype to a fun, sociable and hopefully well-adjusted 2002-Franktype.
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1. You should not disagree with me. I am a fount of good. I also lived with my parents until I was 52. Also, I'm not exactly sure I had any point to disagree with, but if I had said "There's something to be said about sociality, and there's something to be said about single-focused sociality," I'm sure you'd then disagree.
2. "you'll then have to go home by themselves"
3. No one wants to be anything even remotely Frank, even if he was a Frank/Ron Jeremy-type.
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My college is 20 minutes away from my house and I live at school. There's a world of difference between living on campus and commuting; you'll see once you actually live it. I could live at home and have a car instead, but I wouldn't trade anything for the freedom. Sure, maybe you don't have parents who argue/lecture/nag, but there comes a time when you just want to get out of your parents' house. When better to do it than when you're still close by? Then again, maybe your time hasn't come yet.
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Yes, Buttercup is right, commuting sucks, for school or work...
I am in a 6 week wait between 'real' jobs, as in paying taxes and all... Got some odd jobs doing PC repair, gutter cleaning, and all sorts of fun stuff for the interm...
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-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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Omega, do what you like. I have friends that went through college at home and they all have better degrees than me (they are also all married now to guys they met at the time through non college activities- you may wish to consider that.)I think its easier to have a social life outside of college related activities if you live off campus. I moved onto campus when I went to Uni. The leaving home bit, being on my own was good. The college social experience wasn't. Hard to sleep because of the noise, people always stealing your food. Rumour running wild (gay chick at catholic college not a good idea as it turns out - who knew?) People can be cruel and when they are trying to make new friends and create a new social position for themselves they will pick on anyone. If you do decide to move, I would suggest getting a shared house not a place on campus.
LOA - Most of their wives are probably seeing women like me...I've been doing a roaring trade in bored housewives recently...
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quote:Life would, like, totally suck if we were only entitled to four "best years," and they come at the very beginning of life, before we know anything.
Kindly speak for yourself, 'mkay? Because life, in all its unpredictable complexities, is rather indiscriminate about whom it distributes experiences to. Unevenly I might add.
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Life, in all it's complexities, is an experience every day.
I used to do good business with married women too.... I wasn't quite as bald then, drank more, and lost my wife and son when she moved to AZ to get away from the asshole she was married to.... Yes, now that was an experience that I made on my own...
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What I meant was, and I'm sure I'll be chastised by the majority for holding this view, that there are those who have at early age undeservingly been bestowed upon with far greater "knowledge" than most of us obtain in a fucking lifetime, and I take offense at the notion people "don't know anything" at the "very beginning of life". Guess again, and stop making presumptions based solely on your own comforting little existence while you're at it.
I wish the 'net didn't lack the tags necessary to convey extreme cynicism. It'd make properly expressing my emotions a hell of a lot easier.
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quote:Originally posted by MaGiC: I moved onto campus when I went to Uni.... The Rumour running wild (gay chick at catholic college not a good idea as it turns out - who knew?) LOA - Most of their wives are probably seeing women like me...I've been doing a roaring trade in bored housewives recently...
What there is MORE THAN ONE woman on these boards now - actually posting on the same thread....who knew?
Soon we may all have to come face to face with this thing called "diversity". Well, at least we can still not socialize face to face. Or, well, if we do then it is (apparently) only with married women....
Do we have any of THOSE here?
Please note: applies and I didn't pat anyone on the head....
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