when people turn around and say 'college is the best time of your life', how do you respond to that? you think that is a product of college itself, or the craptasticness of their value menu lives
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Danny is bitter, i think. And probably the closest to a "professional" critic amongst us :P
I liked it. Yes, Rorschach sounds pretty much like christian bale's batman, yes the music didn't work in all the scenes (although there were a couple that i thought were great)
They cut out a lot, but I thought they stayed pretty true to the story and managed pretty darn well.
I would recommend seeing it - Just don't go expecting it to be everything you ever hoped for in a movie, because then yes, you will be disappointed.
I am getting desperate to get out of this college and work a 9-5. The stress is killing me. I want to have a dynamic job. I want to marry rich. I want to quit my dynamic job and be a stay-at-home-dad. I want to spend my days cooking and cleaning and raising a couple kids. I want to spend my days pampering my mysterious bacon-bringer-homer. Or i want to drop out, get the fuck out of this country, and start a farm somewhere warm
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your thoughts echo mine completely... now. but when i first got to UNH i was definitely among the 90%- i was buckled up and ready for the whole 'college experience'. I wasn't looking forward to my own future experiences, complete with opportunities to grow as a person and accrue knowledge; instead I was looking forward to the college norm projected on me by society since I was a kid.
by the time i realized my error i was already knee deep in it all; at least now i can try to make it a worthwhile experience. cheers to that 10%
<--- This is why I went to business school. I spent a year at UNH and saw everything that I hated in my peers. I actually want to have a job and a successful life - which includes marrying someone who can support the family that I want to be able to stay at home for. (Which is the entrance to a whole different conversation because now women who actually want to have families are somehow stigmatized - fuck that) I hate that the american university system is shoved down our throats right out of high school. Most people don't know what the fuck they want to do when they are 18. I wish I had taken a gap year. I'm lucky that I found something I'm passionate about (and can make a living doing) out of college. I could go on, but Nate stated it much more eloquently.
i think everyone who commented pretty much nailed it down already. but obviously i share this comment thread's sentiment. i think i personally did not even have a clue what i wanted out of my college experience, and that's how i ended up somewhere i really didnt expect to be--because i didnt expect anything in the first place. but i'm right there with you, tom. i went from the 90% over to the 10% side. i think i might argue that at this point in college, that second percentage might go up a little as those immature, irresponsible kids start to realize "oh shit, mommy and daddy won't be supporting me much longer...what am i here for again?"
but even so, if you realize the shit your in, it doesnt mean a bachelor's degree at a liberal arts college is going to mean that much more to the working world. i also met two recent college graduates this past weekend, and both of them work at enterprise. one of them has a psych BA. go figure. i've almost mentally prepared myself for working at a rental car place at this point.
There's really not a lot else I can add to this but I agree with most of everything on the page. Especially tom's OP and the whole 90% thing Nate said. I don't know what my expectations for college were, i may not have even had any. My head may have been too full with irrational worries and horrible, wasteful anxiety. I guess if anything I hoped only to grow, not literally, but as a student or person or whatever (pretty damn inevitable), and to meet really cool, intellectual people that i can have these mindblowing discussions with and learn from. I got here, and I couldnt help but feel like I was in 13th grade, not college. I hadnt been in highschool for a while since i took time off so it was extra weird. Kids making crude jokes and fucking around like they're in middleschool; but in a class they're paying over a grand for. This whole "college experience" has been pretty damn disappointing. I know most of that is my fault, and there have definitely been some benefits. As much as the whole kind of living on your own thing kind of
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I liked it. Yes, Rorschach sounds pretty much like christian bale's batman, yes the music didn't work in all the scenes (although there were a couple that i thought were great)
They cut out a lot, but I thought they stayed pretty true to the story and managed pretty darn well.
I would recommend seeing it - Just don't go expecting it to be everything you ever hoped for in a movie, because then yes, you will be disappointed.
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by the time i realized my error i was already knee deep in it all; at least now i can try to make it a worthwhile experience. cheers to that 10%
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I hate that the american university system is shoved down our throats right out of high school. Most people don't know what the fuck they want to do when they are 18. I wish I had taken a gap year. I'm lucky that I found something I'm passionate about (and can make a living doing) out of college.
I could go on, but Nate stated it much more eloquently.
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but even so, if you realize the shit your in, it doesnt mean a bachelor's degree at a liberal arts college is going to mean that much more to the working world. i also met two recent college graduates this past weekend, and both of them work at enterprise. one of them has a psych BA. go figure. i've almost mentally prepared myself for working at a rental car place at this point.
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