[SharpRightTurn]

“The institution made no effort to reach out to me”

What’s with all these people saying others should “reach out” to them or to some group?

How about instead quit the whining, get off your butt, and work hard without any desire for or expectation of a hand-out, quota, or affirmative action gimme?

[aruanan]

What’s with all these people saying others should “reach out” to them or to some group?

How about instead quit the whining, get off your butt, and work hard without any desire for or expectation of a hand-out, quota, or affirmative action gimme?

This would be like someone with a great musical talent complaining that the recording industry didn't reach out to him. You've got to put yourself out there so the industry can see that there's something worthwhile. One major part of being worthwhile is the desire to achieve as demonstrated by great effort toward that end. If you don't knock, the door doesn't get opened. No sense later in bitching about a closed door.

[Tahoe3002]

Exactly right. And now, she, like many obama voters are waiting on something...like their welfare check, the tax refund (when they did not pay taxes), the stimulus package, buying a house and then letting someone else pay for it through their taxes, etc. etc.

IOW—— GIMME, GIMME, GIMME