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11 Sep 2008, 10:36 pm

When I first applied to Texas State, I thought I would be on top of the world. I was thinking "here it is, a liberal school with a good geography program". My previous school, Midwestern State, didn't offer a geography program.

But ever since I started at Texas State, every thing that could have possibly gone wrong did, in fact, go wrong. The bus system is very unreliable, and one incident had me walking and narrowly escaping serious injury. Parking is tight, so I am forced to use said bus system. The AS support group wasn't what I expected it to be. The liberal people are complete sellouts. They are all like "we're not about material things", but they're just as shallow and materialistic as the cheerleaders and fraternity and sorority people.

I can't deal with this any longer. Yet the nearest college with the program I'm in is in Mississippi, and I can't go there because (a) out of state tuition is very expensive--I can barely afford to go to school in my own state, let alone another, and (b) Mississippi is so conservative it makes Utah look like a hippie commune.


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11 Sep 2008, 11:01 pm

I know what you mean. This is how I felt. It made me feel that the material they're teaching is probably no good either and it seemed too easy which made me more suspicious. But turns out it's the same material as anywhere. So, you need to battle the chaos for a while. You'll find a routine to make that part much easier (and safer!) then will be able to relax more and focus on the material.



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11 Sep 2008, 11:12 pm

Academics are probably the only thing that is going ok here.


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11 Sep 2008, 11:48 pm

i just started a grad program at SF state, and it is painfully lame... I should say my fellow students frustrate and and anger me.
Just today while leaving class a stupid girl said "God this class is stupid, It's like being in first grade with a f*^@ing asperger's kid" She said this to me... like that sort of think is okay to say out loud to people you don't know! I retorted with "wow, I wasn't that bad as a kid!" She said well it IS a spectrum, I was like "yeah...I'm light yellow" Trying to not just say outright "hey I have aspergers you hipster @$$hole!! !"
ahhhhhh I really prefer never leaving my house... to bad that doesn't pay anything......



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12 Sep 2008, 5:56 am

I need to stick with small universities. My current school has 27,000 students while my previous one had 6,000.


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12 Sep 2008, 2:44 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
I need to stick with small universities. My current school has 27,000 students while my previous one had 6,000.


Mason is pretty big itself with students and we're ranked the number one up and coming university in the U.S. by U.S. Newsweek.


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14 Sep 2008, 9:26 am

I am not sure if it's the transportation issue that's causing me the most stress, or if it's the issue with the liberals being total phonies. You have two types of liberals: the hipster and the culture snob.

Hipster Code of Honor:

1) Only drive cars that get 50+ miles per gallon.
2) Don't eat meat.
3) Don't work for any organization that employs more than 10 people.
4) Only wear hoodies everywhere you go.
5) Only drink some imported European beer that's nearly impossible to find.
6) Be willing to occasionally use marijuana and/or salvia.
7) Don't wear any clothes made after, say, 1990.
8) Live in the lofts near the center of counterculture in (insert city here), only to find you can't afford it because your employer who only employs 10 people won't pay enough money for you to pay the rent.

Culture Snob Code of Honor:

All of the above except:

1) is changed to "Only drive cars that cost more than $60,000"
3) is changed to "You must make at least $100,000 a year and have at least a master's degree"
4 and 7) changed to "Must wear a suit and tie everywhere you go, even to McDonald's"
6) is omitted
8) Live in a residence that costs at least $1,000,000

I don't fit into either group.


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