White Privilege
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Bingo, and both are continually getting worse.puppylove_sugarsteel said:
Income inequality and upward mobility? You obviously majored in liberal arts. Holy fuckallFire_Marshall_Bill said:There's probably something to it in rare cases, but 99% of the time the people whining about it ignore things like hard work, creativity, iniative etc. and focus on making everyone who fails a victim.
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Hot news, Tequilla = SMU MBA which equals LO fucking L, how hard has your life been trying to pretend you are prestigious for all these years?
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Speaking of majors, an article in the UWAA magazine last year (also in The Seattle Times) reported that companies and corporations in western Washington state were failing to fill approximately 37,000 openings for tech degreed engineering, math, and science majors. The state's colleges and universities have never been able to graduate enough BS degrees to even come close to filling the tech jobs available probably going all the way back to the startup of Boeing..... and have traditionally made up the slack by recruiting techs from all over the USA, Europe, Asia, and even the Third World, except for a few places such as Kansas where science in public schools is banned or shunned.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
Bingo, and both are continually getting worse.puppylove_sugarsteel said:
Income inequality and upward mobility? You obviously majored in liberal arts. Holy fuckallFire_Marshall_Bill said:There's probably something to it in rare cases, but 99% of the time the people whining about it ignore things like hard work, creativity, iniative etc. and focus on making everyone who fails a victim.
I'm way more worried about income inequality and a lack of upward mobility.
But now it seems there are few techs available from traditional out-of-state sources. In response to the dire need, a group of local companies have combined with the UW to raise financing for expansion of engineering and science colleges and degree programs and to organize a lobbying effort led by Bill Gates Sr. to pry public money out of state politicians and taxpayers who have their heads stuck where the sun of knowledge never shines. No offense to liberal arts majors, but too many of you are avoiding BS programs required to fill high paying tech jobs, most of which by the way are one hell of a lot of fun. I can only presume this is because of the difficulty and hard work associated in classroom mythology with that evil Godless word...... science.
Blame it on Obama.
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This thread really sucks ass
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You have bad manners. Did your mother not wash your mouth out with feces when you were growing up?bananasnblondes said:This thread really sucks ass
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Tailgater crushed it during MS DOS 1.0.
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I might be able to add something to this discussion: graduated from UW in 2010 with honors (3.81) in liberal arts (no need to specify which one since they're all the same to non-liberal arts majors); did a few independent research projects for professors (completely irrelevant to anything but what they were researching). Haven't ever made more than 15ish$/hour if I'm remembering correctly, mainly just made 10-11 at jobs requiring no degree (but my UW degree got me them rather easily). Chose going for *another* bachelor's, this time in Computer Science over law school at some middling/shitty school somewhere. Hmm, yeah that about sums it up, I will be graduated next year and can say with certainty that Computer Science, despite its employment prospects, is fucking awful for anyone except WoW losers and Mac geeks. The school I go to now is a legitimate Pac-12 school (not fucking Oregon obviously) and my classmates rib me quite a bit about my other degree; I basically laugh at them because they didn't get to go/graduate from UW and I did. This was not a pity post or some political commentary, just adding one instance to the discussion.
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Going to Oregon to do Computer Science >>>>> Going to Washington to do liberal arts. Especially if you like money.haie said:I might be able to add something to this discussion: graduated from UW in 2010 with honors (3.81) in liberal arts (no need to specify which one since they're all the same to non-liberal arts majors); did a few independent research projects for professors (completely irrelevant to anything but what they were researching). Haven't ever made more than 15ish$/hour if I'm remembering correctly, mainly just made 10-11 at jobs requiring no degree (but my UW degree got me them rather easily). Chose going for *another* bachelor's, this time in Computer Science over law school at some middling/shitty school somewhere. Hmm, yeah that about sums it up, I will be graduated next year and can say with certainty that Computer Science, despite its employment prospects, is fucking awful for anyone except WoW losers and Mac geeks. The school I go to now is a legitimate Pac-12 school (not fucking Oregon obviously) and my classmates rib me quite a bit about my other degree; I basically laugh at them because they didn't get to go/graduate from UW and I did. This was not a pity post or some political commentary, just adding one instance to the discussion.
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Wasnt this the last title of Derricks book?HFNY said:Anything I ever do, accomplish, or achieve is because I am white and / or privileged...or at least so I've been told.
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Tailgater hits it spot on ...
Most people I know when I was going to school are more interested in getting drunk, doing drugs, and having sex than they are about building a foundation for their professional life. I'm not saying that any of those things are bad, but they are generally in contrast to putting hard work in academically that will lead to building the needed professional foundation.
Somewhere we've decided that college should be some 4-6 year frat party and that "real life" starts afterwards.
Problem with that is that if you don't lay the right foundation, then you have no choice but to go back and do a "do over" once you wise up a bit.
As someone that has gone through a mathematics program at the UW, it's hard fucking work. Compared to many of the people that I had classes with, I definitely felt TequillaFS in those classes. Enough so that I realized that that wasn't going to be my future and decided to leverage the math background in business school and later getting a TCU MBA (TCU >>> SMU ... so fuck off if you think otherwise).
That being said, I can guarantee you that I'm far better off for going through the UW Mathematics program and that many of the lessons that I learned going through it (and often not realizing until later) have served me well.
There's plenty of opportunity for college students that are prepared to put in the hard work to be able to put themselves in a position to have a very successful professional career. Our ability as a country to fill these positions with our own people is as much of the solution as anything. Right now, we have too many people educated with a certain skill set and knowledge base that is borderline worthless to the business community.
