Eighteen to twenty-somethings, get back to work!

So...does being 24 make me an old fart here? Because I graduated last May and just moved out of my parents' place, and now I'm searching frantically for a shred of hope for my wellbeing amidst all the (understandably) grim predictions for my generation that I've read thus far. So far, I have failed in my quest. I fear this desperation is the new normal.

edited 30th May '14 10:36:49 PM by BrainSewage

Well, it says twenty-somethings, which would probably mean from 20 to 29.

Yeah it covers everyone from 18-29 I think. Besides your only 2 years older than me.

Huzzah, a thread necro to announce I get to go to college.

Being the only son of a poor single woman makes for good financial aid I suppose.

Congratulations Le Garcon.

Hello. I'm back on the fora. College is going to start back up, in a couple of weeks. How are things, everyone?

Wonderful, going to go down to the college next week and finalize things and then do college things.

I guess. I have no idea what I'm doing.

You'll figure out what you're doing, soon enough.

FAFSA plz

y u reduce my loans even though the situation has only gotten more dire

plz

Oh, god... The FAFSA...

Books are expensive

I feel your pain.

Just a couple weeks until class, and quite possibly the completion of my second major.

Today... was not a good day. I got dragged to my sixteen-year-old sister's job in clothes stiffer than the pole up a Turian's ass, had to wait for hours before I even got word back from her, then did mindless tedious shit in a foreign environment for a random political thing I didn't give a damn about, and then had to endure her yacking at me at how she was doing me a favor for the car ride home. Next time people tell me to get a life, I'm saying no. Fuck getting a life, fuck whatever the hell I was doing and whoever I was doing it for, fuck the clothes, fuck the mall they came from, fuck everyone involved in this. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

College in America is such a crock. I put my college career on indefinite hiatus last fall when the government decided to stop offering military Federal Tuition Assistance for a week, conveniently right when I would have needed to register for classes. But since I was relying on GI Bill money at the time, I basically had to choose between (A) enrolling, getting my GI Bill money, and going broke at the end of the term when the tuition bill came due; or (B) not enrolling, not getting the GI Bill money, and going broke immediately. And that's not the first time the whole institution of college has screwed me over.

Cut to Fall 2014 and I have a cushy dual-status technician (re: technically civilian, but still uniformed employee of the National Guard) office job making $40K with retirement, health insurance, personal and sick leave, guaranteed 40 hours a week, and an hour every day to work out (re: go home early).

Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Screw college, I have a job that doesn't jerk me around and treat me like a cheap whore.

Um, hey.

Started college myself recently and none of what I'm hearing sounds like fun. I certainly know the paperwork isn't.

Classes themselves can be quite enjoyable, if you're into that sort of thing. But everything else is pretty much nuts as far as I've experienced. I've made two separate forays into the world of continuing education and each of them devolved into a competition between the school, the government, and the military all fighting over who got to screw me harder.

Although free access to a gym, pool, and a library that wasn't full of screaming children and the smell of liquor and vomit was nice.

I got a room in Residence so yay, I got some groceries, dishes, bedding etc to get there. Also why is Microsoft Office so expensive? I mean Open Office kind of works but the formatting screws up so it's like you don't have a proper Title Page because their is a paragraph here well -1 for improper APA. And of course everything is due online (not that fighting with the printer is fun either). Sorry for the random unwarranted rant about Microsoft Office/Open Office.

edited 22nd Sep '14 5:28:49 PM by phantom1

The lecture classes themselves so far are interesting to listen to. Except for Precalc; that's just a refresher course for me.

I've only had problems when trying to go between them. I've never had problems with Open Office or Libre Office on its own. I don't know if that's what's causing your troubles, though

edited 22nd Sep '14 8:35:45 PM by frosty

College, college, college...

@Frosty We have to submit them as Microsoft Office or PD Fs (and for some reason my PD Fs can't be opened because the universe hates me ) in order for the professors to be able to read them, so it's the switching between them that's the problem yes.

You should be able to get a student discount on MS Office, not that it's particularly inexpensive even after the discount. Or if you were a particularly unscrupulous rogue, you could always pirate it. Not that I'm suggesting that.

I hated math in high school, dropped out of my last math class, Statistics, because I just didn't care. Amusingly, I took Statistics in the first place because I was apprehensive about the idea of taking Calculus. Time Skip to 2014, I start reading Greg Egan and suddenly have an interest in classical and quantum physics and calculus, start self-studying calculus, and surprise! It's really no big deal.

edited 23rd Sep '14 12:56:04 PM by SolipSchism

I'm at work right now :(

Me too. If only they knew what they pay me for.

edited 24th Sep '14 11:04:31 AM by SolipSchism