What's truly "fucking pathetic" is how you think that having a lifestyle that involves getting "head" from "hot drunk girls" is something sweet.
Oh, and those so-called "nerds" that you speak of will probably end up being your boss one day, so I wouldn't be acting like they're such big losers just because they don't go out and try to get laid like every other college douche bag that exists.
This is a prime example of how ass-backwards our society is.
Go out, get hammered and fuck random drunk girls = You are so cool
Stay in, study and get good grades = NEEEEERD!!!
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I don't get it...
Neither do I.
Studying as a pass-time should be encouraged. Maybe then, our labour force would become more innately valuable...because not only would they have had access to that knowledge, but they could research, i.e know what and where to study in order to revisit and/or regain said knowledge. In my opinion, any student can seemingly pass a few tests. A real learner knows that they need to
know this stuff to truly succeed in life.
Another thing about "nerds": perhaps they're studying intensely because they're working near full-time to afford $150/credit hour and up. Thus, study time is limited.
I think that I've implied that nerd-life was my college-life. I spent 8 or 9 years in college study writing, history, then film. Unfortunately, none of these could offer stable incomes in the post-college job market. Therefore, I spent those years being too unhappy to become more social because college, to me, is about removing the promotion ceiling and need for minimum wage, yet I could never imagine myself pursuing any degree that could remove them.
Once I made the decision to obtain an Accounting degree, I became much. much happier - and more willing to be social. Unfortunately, I met
a lot of far richer students in those clubs. They only seemed to care about those people of use to them. In fact, I found, in these clubs and out, a tendency amongst college students to group and be friends with those a lot like them. In Business School, I was about a decade older than most.
Unable to relate to the social types, whether because of my own misery or my own age but unable to see any job progression without a degree, I just accepted - or settled on the view - that books and the knowledge gained might be my sole friends.
I still don't think any one person deserves blame for this. College has many student types. I simply didn't find others more willing to group with me. College advisors are sometimes too overloaded with appointments to really discover a student's unhappiness unless a change-in-grades happens. My one beef with college advisors, however, is their willingness to keep a student in a program even when they don't know what the student's career goals are. And, finally, my mother never went to college.
This society is backwards.
