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| m&ms487 (profile) wrote, on 4-17-2007 at 4:58pm | |
| I'm sitting here, listening to music, burning a purple candle and reading over my term paper for literary analysis [see few posts previous]. I have more papers to write, but I haven't yet. I'm just enjoying playing with my candle wax. It's very soothing. And purple. I was reading over my paper and thinking about what my professor said to me when I went to his office yesterday. He was telling me about how his wife was in Ohio defending her thesis. He said, "I'm telling you all this only because I have a feeling you will be doing this in the near future." Doctorate. Getting a Doctorate. That's what he was talking about. Me. Getting a Doctorate. He thinks I could...I will... I wish I had enough money. I wouldn't hesitate. I just...I don't...I can't. It's not feasible. I have to become a teacher and pay off my debts and become an adult, and, who am I kidding? What you truly want to do is never what you can do. It's what I learned in kindergarten: No one ever said life had to be fair. And it's not. We live in a society with a myth that's alive and well that you can work your way up. That may be true, but it's very unlikely. The rest of us just get to sit here, potential wasted, living at the hand of an unfeeling, unjust, and uncaring capitalist society. |
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sugarjackj | 04-17-07 10:15pm You can do it. Seriously, paying off school loans are not even half as bad as it used to be. |
cowsgomoo!!! | 04-18-07 12:01am if i can learn arabic in a year, you can pretty much do what you want... hell, you could probably learn to fly if you try hard enough |
gillette | Re:, 04-18-07 9:13am ROB..why are you learning arabic? i would like to assume that its NOT because your going over to arabic lands filled with 'terrorits' but it's kind of hard to think you'd be speaking arabic to people here in the U.S.
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| cowsgomoo!!! | Re: Re:, 04-19-07 1:00am Alright, so you want to shoot me.... what you don't realize is that i'm in the intelligence field... meaning I listen to what terrorists say, interpret it, and save your sorry ass from being bombed. So go ahead and shoot me, it really won't accomplish much. But, thats just one less person listening to what terrorists are saying, which might mean that the message about them blowing up grand rapids (which has a growing arab population) gets translated a day late. So, yes, go ahead and shoot me. Please.
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gillette | 04-18-07 9:15am maybe when you become a teacher you could be a hooker on the side, and that could help fund your doctorate degree. |
| m&ms487 | Re:, 04-18-07 9:27am hmmm...interesting. I do live fairly close to division.... |
gillette | Re: Re:, 04-19-07 9:22am this is true. i'm serious michelle, i really think you'd be good at that sort of thing...i mean the boobs and everything. you were born ready.
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| m&ms487 | Re: Re: Re:, 04-19-07 8:23pm oh jess....
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animehoshi | 04-22-07 3:24pm Actually, life ends up being fair in the end. |
Anonymous | Re:, 04-23-07 7:06pm If you work hard enough and look hard enough, opportunities will pop up. If you really want to do something, stop worrying and thinking of reasons why you should NOT do it and just go for it. :)
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