Best Way To 'coast' In College?

And how would you know this without actually having been to college?

 

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Moron, who said I haven't been to college? I did go to college (community college) and attained an Associate's Degree, plus about three semesters of university. I dropped out after that.

 

Why call him moron though?

 

Because he automatically assumed something that isn't true. I hate when people do that.

 

College is not inherently hard.

But if your goal is to "coast", you'll fuck ANYTHING up, however easy - it shows how you'll be approaching it, and if it's already easy, that won't mean you do a great job at everything, it'll mean you half-ass it even worse, underestimate everything, and have unrecoverable F's after your first round of tests.

Just go to class and do what needs to be done. If you can't do that and already need to make threads about how to not do that, you're going to fuck it up. Don't coast, do it right.

 

You went to community college AND dropped out of university?

Brag it up. Clearly you're too good for the system.

 

I really need to stay away from this thread.

Because I'm the same way. Almost. Only I'm 4 credits away from associttes... went to community college and penn state also and dropped out.

Here's why I need to stay away from this thread. I agree w PR and others that college doesn't make or create intelligence but see, I love college. I loved the whole thing... 3.85 gpa, all kinds of fun, the package.. I honestly just both partied too hard and couldn't avoid it anymore cause I paid my own way and that's why I stopped but regardless..

my issues is. Don't pick on community college!! The one I went to had the SAME professors as the state schools in PA. Same ones. They were doing it for less money because they believed in the school. As far as colleges go, it was a good education and really pretty smart to go there for two years because people were having the same teachers and learning the same thing for more debt. Yea... to look good for jobs.. .move on after that, but aint shit wrong with community college to start. Sure as fuck beats a lot of pointless debt for first two years.

 

Yep... I excelled in college and partying. But my goal was... do as well as you can. Meaning I was so happy to be in school.. lame to some people it may seem but when I went back I was 24 years old, paying my own way and WANTED to be there...anyways I put my mind into doing the reading, thinking and notes... and having just as much fun when I wasn't doing all that.

 

LMFAO! That's funny shit right there!

They couldn't give us enough and loan us enough. You fill out one, Two more came in the mail. They are now admitting that too many students can not pay off any of their debt or find a job in the field of study!
I say it coming and took FULL advantage of the stupid dem 'education'/'re-skilling' scam they have.

Why not? Its obvious it was the intention and they will have to eat the difference. Their fault not mine, I found a loophole!

Welfare? You are high as bat pussy! That's what get all the loans now IS the lowlifes and career welfare workers. I work for cash, Except only cash and will not pay ANY tax outside of daily 'tax(s)', In fact, Im 'tax exempt' in a lot of areas too. So 'my' price is a lot lower and can turn around and make cash money buying for friends and such.
You can either get fucked and work and get half you're money you worked for, Or fuck them back and deal in cash only and find and or invent a job that you can do so.

 

That's why your career has been so spectacular and impressive.

 

One time, several years ago, I taught a community college night class. It was a freshman level introduction to fundamental business practices and concepts. The main problem I saw was a wide variation in the quality of professors and students. Some professors were great. Others, you had to wonder how the ever got a job there. Some students obviously could have made it at better schools, if they had the money. Others seemed to have no potential at all.

You can learn a lot at community college, but you have to be self-motivated, not looking to put out the least amount of effort that will get you a passing grade. Just saying that you have an associates degree proves very little.

I could say similar things about many state supported 4-year colleges in the US.

 

http://youtu.be/kC_RYgkkmcM

 

Taking charity you don't need is begging. It's a fucked up thing to be proud of.

 

kind of like assuming that all highly educated people are incapable of critical thinking?
(i've actually taken a class on critical thinking, as part of being selected to be on a federal training grant)

i don't necessarily disagree with you that, as a generalization, the college experience isn't very enlightening...but of course i am one of the exceptions

you seem to have a major case of "sour grapes" though, dude.

i don't get why college students buried in debt expect the government to pay off their debt. no one made them take out loans they couldn't afford to pay back. and a college degree does not simply guarantee employment in the field of study. seems like a lot of people from my generation expect shit to be handed to them on a silver platter.


with all that being said, i've been extremely lucky and gotten a lot of opportunities. i was able to go to a 4-year private school tuition free. if it wasn't for that i would have definitely been making use of the more affordable community college, and then transferring to a 4-year school.

i've also "coasted" through much of my education. at least that's what it kinda feels like. i have learned a lot, but i've also taken it pretty easy. doing well in school has come pretty easy to me, with the exception of a few challenging classes in college and most of my experience in graduate school. but i still coasted through that, and somehow managed to get a Ph.D. degree.
don't get me wrong, sometimes it's a lot of hard work..but for the most part i don't think it's TOO hard.
sometimes i feel really smart for the type of work i do, but mostly it's a feeling of imposter syndrome.

 

Which is what society asks of the colleges.
I hear "go to college to get a good job" much more from non-colleges than I do from colleges.
The "college is job training" meme didn't come from the colleges, it came from everywhere.

 

Pork, you need to consider the entirely rigged nature of our wages, costs of living, costs of education, and the fact that student debt is totally rigged, it's the ONLY type that can't be forgiven in bankruptcy.

Having college-educated people should be a national goal - it makes the country stronger, it lets us do more - it shouldn't be a damned if you do, damned if you don't gotcha debt game.

Expecting things from your government doesn't make you a bad citizen or lazy - you give the government lots, it is there to serve the people, of which you are one - if it doesn't serve the people, it is illegitimate and tyrannical, and must be repaired. There is absolutely enough to go around and give everyone a good quality of life and good opportunities and education and such, and some people considerably more - but right now it's rigged so that the richest people and corporations have massive welfare and governmental help, against the normal people of the nation.

Nobody made them take out the student loans, just like nobody made them shop at the company store - they had the option to starve.

 

yeah they do that here too

my siblings all got away with bankruptcy but I had to pay back every cent because the laws changed...i took advantage of interest relief plans but that just delayed shit

actually the more i think of it im kind of proud i paid it all back