If he's like most basketball players, World Peace (formerly known as Artest) probably knows all there is to know about sex.
Posted on 03/10/2017 3:11:36 PM PST by Ulmius
Here I am on a Friday, waiting on a pizza, with a quiz due at midnight. It is true I haven't studied for this quiz yet, nor will I until the very end. However, most of the reason I have not done so is because I have not yet bought the textbook needed for next few weeks.
I am 21 and working on an online undergraduate degree in International Studies, and I am paying for it with my own money that I have saved. This semester's bill for three classes, each worth three credit-hours, cost me over $3,000, and I have less than $25,000 in the bank. I am waiting to get my graduate degree (or doctorate perhaps) in linguistics, but my work situation doesn't let me attend a brick-and-mortar institution, so I chose the closest online bachelors' degree I possibly could to foreign languages, which was international studies. I was expecting to learn about how different cultures, economies, and governmental systems contribute to how nations interact, but this has turned out to be only a sliver of what I am learning. The midterm I have just taken required an essay explaining my thoughts on Marxism, and the previous modules had talked in depth about Marxism, structuralist theory (basically Marxism), and some feminist theory. The articles I have been told to cite from are virtually all pro-globalist, anti-nationalist, traditional-America-bad-third-world-good.
And now, I'm expected to buy this book, which comes from Columbia University's women's studies curriculum. My hair already stands on end at the mention of "gender aggressions" or "micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings". I will agree with them that the health of a society relies on how its women are treated and that there are horrible womens' rights violations around the world; I won't mind hearing unique solutions to these issues. However, if I have to hear about the white male or Western imperialism (I'm not sure if I will yet), I'm going to scream.
It infuriates me these colleges get to shake me down the way they do. I would rather get a vocational degree than be saddled with any type of student debt, especially after seeing the horrors of what those loans can do to your future. Though mine have treated me fairly and been straight with me, I have to agree in wondering how these professors truly contribute to positive change in societies, and it sickens me to know that the $19.99 I am about to spend in iBooks for this book will fund the very leftists and trigglypuffs which detest what I stand for. On top of everything, I don't even get the normal college experience, which is more of my personal choice though. I can't even read the normal news anymore, and I am a regular listener to Michael Savage and Alex Jones, who both provide a voice of reason though I do not agree with them all the time.
These are tumultuous times, FReepers; the torch is being passed to us bit by bit. Take it from someone who is dealing with this as his future.
Regards and MAGA, Ulmius
That is being given lemons and making lemonade, FRiend!
Used print copies can usually be had for a fraction of the original cost, from last year’s students.
Trigglypuff- 400 pounds of shrieking blubber.
We fellas always answered that one "PLEASE"!
If he's like most basketball players, World Peace (formerly known as Artest) probably knows all there is to know about sex.
They "get to" because you are paying them to.
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