The Vent Thread

[Qyot27]

While I'm not really one to talk since I've had to put any and all higher education on hold since the end of 2006, it would probably greatly help in the case of a community college to find one that actually aligns itself with local universities. The one I attended (even though it had expanded to a full four-year college a few years before I went there) has partnerships with a whole slew of universities in the state, but the most prominently highlighted partnership is the one they have with USF.

[lloyd9988]

i can't believe i posted here without seeing the massive college debate...

i think i am going to take a year off with a dead end min wage job saving up, i think it might be too late to get into an ideal school at this point anyhow.
also, i did community college the past year (i'm a year out of high school) and it was just meh. Was thinking a regular university would be different but i feel like it's something i can't go into half-assedly or lethargically if i'm going to be successful at it.

So we both have the same idea, then.

However, I think I was talking with my brother about this, and despite how much he pushes me to go to a university, he did say something that was helpful

"Do the thing that will save you more money down the long run"

Basically, go to a university if you believe it'll save you more money and you can finish it on time. I don't really know much myself since I'm in the same position as you but I know that I want to go to a university and come out of a university with a degree I like and a job that I enjoy and see myself doing for most of my life. Well. . . I'm glad, at least, that I'm not the only one who is thinking the same thing

[dj_ultima_the_great]

Although I had a fun day out yesterday, I just can NOT take this heat. My friends and I went to Madison and up to State Street. I've never been there before, so when my best friend said, "walk State Street," I did not realize that this meant parking in a distant garage and trudging up inclines in order to get to a long sun-baked street. It was in the upper nineties, and out-of-shape, fat-ass, low-tolerance-for-heat kind of person that I am, I was pouring buckets of sweat before we even decided where we were going to eat upon arrival. It was the stifling kind of heat where you feel like you can't breathe, and trying to climb hills really does take your breath away on top of that.

Then, of course, when I'm overheated, I can't eat anything, and so I ended up getting a mango smoothie and that was about all I could manage. All the while, I'm trying really hard not to get angry at my best friend, because she didn't realize that I didn't know State Street's setup, and it's not like she purposely picked a hot day. So, attempting to keep all of the irritation out of my voice, I simply said that if she wanted to do this again and it was similar weather, count me out.

I just hate when something you can't control ruins an otherwise perfectly great outing. I looked and felt disgusting all day after that - and that was pretty nasty, because I was out until 3:00 AM due to attending a midnight showing of Spider Man.

I really fucking hate summer. Give me bitter cold winter any day.

[Ileia]

I really fucking hate summer. Give me bitter cold winter any day.

A million times this. Our apartment has been an average of 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the past week. Right now it's 12:36am and 101 degrees. I am absolutely miserable and I can't do anything about it.

I'll take one blizzard, please.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

You're in the Chicago area, right? So you're getting the same weather as me, pretty much... except probably worse, because big cities friggin' suck like that.

You know, back in the old house, before the central air was fixed last summer, I used to do this thing where I would take one of those gel packs that you put in the freezer and use for icing down injuries, and I would wrap it once in a towel and then just sit on it. (That was the lowest maintenance way I could think of to use it, since it doesn't really require re-positioning or balancing on the back of the neck, etc.) It helped relieve some of the misery. Of course, it only lasts about an hour or two, but we had a bunch of the things.

...reading that back to myself, though, it sounds a little weird. Icing down my ass for weather relief.

Hey, it worked.

[Ileia]

Right now, my best defense is drinking lots of icy water, frequent cold showers, and these:




...you know things are bad when you turn on the water spigot and it's already hot....so you have to wait for the water to get cold. XD

[Castor Troy]

...it's so cloudy here in CA....

[lloyd9988]

Hmm. . . I know this might sound like a dumb idea, but I think there needs to be a reverse in time schedules for workers during the summer:

i.e. Let them sleep in during the day and work at night. Pretty much let them buy out solar panels to run electricity and ventilation systems in their house while they sleep and let them earn money by working at night. At least, so people don't have to go out in this damned heat and they can probably profit off of it as well. . .

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Holy crap, I would be one happy camper with all those freezie pops.

[Chained(E)Studio]

Hmmmm.. people -_-
Now to go back to work ://