What? Me Graduate? Perpetual UW-Whitewater Student Says No

JSOnline via AP ^ | May 10, 2006 | Staff Writer from AP

[usmom]

What a dork.

The worst of all is him bragging about 18, 19 and 20-year old girls 'falling all over him' in bars. First of all, what are the 18, 19 and 20-year olds doing in bars(legal age 21), and secondly, how much of a loser do these girls have to be to want this loser? If one of my daughters brought home a boyfriend like this, he would be shown the door pronto and I would have a LONG talk with that daughter. who is ever going to want to have anything to do with this perpetual party boy (employers or women)?

[ContemptofCourt]

about 9 credits a semester...he's not even trying.

Wonder what his degree will be in.

[martin_fierro]

Pucktard.

[Fido969]

you can live in the crappy apartment with the industrial spool coffee table and bookshelves made out of cinderblocks and sleep on a mattress on the floor, and that's okay.

Why only an undergrad? That's how I lived after I got divorced.

[martin_fierro]

Gee, wonder what his political affiliation is.

[KarlInOhio]

12 years? He could have gotten a BS in 4 years, and MD in another 4 and been through his residency by now. Or he could have gotten a BA, his law degree and been working on becoming a law partner for a few years. Or he could have gotten his BA in fine arts and become assistant fry manager at McDonalds by now.

[Muzzle_em]

He could have stayed in school all that time AND had a freaking PHD by now. Does he not even have a bachelor's?
What a maroon.

[martin_fierro]

most students are tired of it.

I'd like to hear what the members of his original entering class have to say about him now.

[grjr21]

There is a short story I read years ago about a man whose late Grandfathers will stipulated that as long as he was full time in college his estate would pay for all his expenses and upon graduation the estate would go to the college .
It didn't take him long to realize that the life of a student on an unlimited expense account was better than anything he could come up with by working.

The conflict came when the college realized what he was doing and kept changing reqirements so they could push him out and get the Grandfathers estate.

[dljordan]

"As long as you're an undergrad, you can live in the crappy apartment with the industrial spool coffee table and bookshelves made out of cinderblocks and sleep on a mattress on the floor, and that's okay."

If it wasn't for my wife I'd be living in a trailer on the Tennessee River next to the boat dock with beanbags in the living room and a Futon on the floor.

[I still care]

Years ago I remember reading a Roger Zelazny book (my fav sci fi author) about a man who got aupported by a legacy in a will while going to college. So he never graduated, being sure to stay a few credits short in every major.

After many years, the faculty started to conspire to change the requirements to trick him into graduating. Evenutally he was down to courses like anthropological pottery.

[mikrofon]

We used to say guys like this went to get their BUM degree -- Bachelor of Undeclared Major...

[Ditto]

If it wasn't for my wife I'd be living in a trailer on the Tennessee River next to the boat dock with beanbags in the living room and a Futon on the floor.

If the fishing were good, that doesn't sound all that bad.

[discostu]

Doorways in the Sand, good book.

[I still care]

LOL, that was the name of it! I'll have to go back and reread it again.

[stands2reason]

Mom should kick him out of the basement and make him get a job.

[Max in Utah]

...and bookshelves made out of cinderblocks...

Hey, I've still got those bookshelves!

But these days they hold boxes of ammunition.

[I still care]

Basketweaving - that was the course I was trying to remember.

Found part of a review from Amazon:

We meet him (the protagonist, Fred) as he drops into the third-floor office of his latest advisor---through the window of course. Fred has gone through many advisors in his twelve-year stint as an undergraduate--his late uncle's estate will only support him up to the moment when he is awarded a degree--but this particular advisor seems to have a grudge against him. He thinks he has Fred trapped in a schedule that will force him to graduate.

Fred manages to escape the dread specter of graduation one more time by signing up for field work in Australia, a literature course on troubadours, and two hours credit for advanced basket weaving.

[discostu]

This story was making me think of the book too but I couldn't quite remember the name, then I saw your post and I HAD to go poking around Amazon and remember. I've been re-reading some Zelazny lately (that's the sad part about dead authors, can't do anything but re-read) and might have to put that in the pile.