#1161
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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i'm having a CAMAB
#1162
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im not in the picture because i havent been to baltimore in a long time
#1163
Mike Nelson here.
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i'm having a CAMAB

Congratulations. Also yes goatstein was a good moderator and should definitely be given mod powers.

#1164
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Im across town.

#1165
Mike Nelson here.
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i asked my school about ways i could pay for tuition after explaining the various ins and outs of my situation and they sent me an email in return. here is the whole email copy-pasted:

On our website we do not guarantee funding through the submission of the Student Financial Profile. York university is committed to assisting student who demonstrate extreme financial need. Due to limited funding, bursaries are prioritized for full-time students, who are receiving OSAP and through the OSAP assessment have demonstrated financial need.
We only assess bursaries in the Summer, for Fall/Winter the SFP is used for assessing scholarships, bursaries and awards. All bursaries require an OSAP assessment, however scholarships are based on grades and some awards are based on grades and extra curricular activities. Most also require financial need.
Student who are aware that OSAP is not an option, are require to secure financial resources outside of York as funding is not guaranteed.
Regards
Student Financial Services
#1166
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university bureaucrats are the worst
#1167
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Once upon a time I got tapped by a friend to help revise some student financial aid policies, specifically the selection criteria documents that committees would be using to determine which applicants receive aid. I was told that they wanted to make their system less obfuscatory and better able to select applicants with serious need instead of continuously giving money to rich white kids who have been privately tutored to be better at navigating the byzantine application process and have inside info about selection criteria. Another one of their priorities was to revise the selection process to enable greater flexibility in disbursing funds throughout the year instead of in clunky unrealistic beginning of semester blocks.

They never let me see the actual policy document, as it apparently had to be kept super secure despite the fact that members of the committee with access to the document would include student volunteers: the least trustworthy creatures imaginable. So I wound up in this ridiculous situation where someone sat in front of me with the document, told me what they perceived as problems, and then I would play a game of hot or cold asking them questions that they would usually only partially answer but which slowly gave me a sketch of the contents of the document.

Once I submitted my recommendations I was told that someone higher up in the administration had decided that actually everything was working entirely as intended and there were no problems with their shitty stupid system. So remember kids: never give meaningless posturing about justice and equity the benefit of the doubt hoping for a shred of genuine intent, it just wastes your time. That's my story, I had fun and I hope you did too.
#1168
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I did have fun.
#1169
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File a grama request on your own boss lolz
#1170
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university education is a giant financial scam perpetuated by banks and pension funds that will keep you indebted for life without any meaningful increase in employability
#1171
Mike Nelson here.
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RBC posted:

university education is a giant financial scam perpetuated by banks and pension funds that will keep you indebted for life without any meaningful increase in employability

somebody call the whaaambulance!!!!

#1172
Mike Nelson here.
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most of my friends from high school that went to university are like university professors and lawyers and doctors and shit. now, maybe they would have become those things if they didn't go to university, but we must admit that their professional practices would be somewhat affected by this today.
#1173
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Every time I'd take a class @ night or over break or whatever it'd be filled with insanely buttmad asshurt caresalts who couldn't get promoted at work without a bachelors.
#1174
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that was probably because theyre just bad at their jobs

and lets be honest here 'fiscal, imaginary friends dont count for anecdotes
#1175
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Thats not true in my current field except for the engineering positions but getting in a good union & getting a class A CDL & learning how to operate is actually fairly f__king hard & you still have to cert for all kinds of nonsense. The trade schools are usually a bad deal though an apprenticeship is much better.
#1176
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Sorry to be clear I wasn't talking to you, I just took what you said as an excuse to talk about myself. I'm not interested in a conversation, especially one where your opening line is "they're probably bad at their jobs."
#1177
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A friend of mine insists that he got his job based on some intrinsic merit and not the degree or school he went to.

He's a doctor.
#1178
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if any of us were doctors or going to be doctors we wouldnt be on this fucking shithole
#1179
Poronto
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u dont have to be particularly clever or hardworking to be a perfectly competent doctor. cuba turned a larger proportion of its people into doctors than anywhere else in the world, they're just fine at docting and their only complaint is theres so many of them now that doctoring is no more lucrative than stacking pants at the mall
#1180
Mike Nelson here.
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RBC posted:

if any of us were doctors or going to be doctors we wouldnt be on this fucking shithole

uhhh go to the therapy store and leave us premeds alone!!!!

- future doctor donny

#1181
chickeon
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littlegreenpills posted:

u dont have to be particularly clever or hardworking to be a perfectly competent doctor. cuba turned a larger proportion of its people into doctors than anywhere else in the world, they're just fine at docting and their only complaint is theres so many of them now that doctoring is no more lucrative than stacking pants at the mall

they're amazing at "docting" and extremely intelligent. please do not slander the intelligence of the noble cuban people

#1182
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My ambitionz az a Doctah.
#1183
Poronto
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socialism is impossible in the first world cos were too dumb. right on
#1184
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some of you need to be sent to the countryside
#1185
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animedad posted:

some of you need to be sent to the countryside

#1186
Poronto
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yes please!!! i went last summer, it was really nice
#1187
Mike Nelson here.
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i live in the countryside... too petty-bourgeois. i want full blast bourgeois.
#1188
Poronto
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the correct modern synthesis wd be "sent down to mcdonalds" and luckily this is happening anyway
#1189
Marxsplainer
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im gonna eventually be a nurse practitioner and thats Just As Good As A Doctor, Thank Yoyu Very Much
#1190
Marxsplainer
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and im smart as heck, before you ask. also extremely handsome + likeable
#1191
Mike Nelson here.
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i'm going to be a medical doctor that kickboxes for the chinese army and then plans their economy using swoosh moves
#1192
Poronto
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dank_xiaopeng posted:

im gonna eventually be a nurse practitioner and thats Just As Good As A Doctor, Thank Yoyu Very Much



dude your mom's posting on your account again

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dank_xiaopeng posted:

and im smart as heck, before you ask. also extremely handsome + likeable



Nice!!!! Good work.

#1194
Marxsplainer
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i would brutally kill myself in shame if my dear mother ever were to read my heinous posts
#1195
Marxsplainer
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aw hell im just gonna come clean, i'm an MD-PhD working for the Centers for Disease Control posting hereas the l;ead researcher in a groundbreaking study on the long-term effects of untreated fail aids
#1196
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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anyone can be a doctor given a high enough tolerance for malpractice
#1197
meet me in st louis
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guidoanselmi posted:

I got tickets to go to a local burner festival in two weekends in MO. I don't really know what I'm getting myself into.



stegosaurus posted:

its probably going to be lame



it absolutely was but it was worth seeing. i had fun but it was a wholly empty and unoriginal experience. nothing against the people there, really, but goddamn.

it fills a gap in the lives of burners, and especially for long time ones who have fostered deeper bonds, but that's about it.

if people actually want i could write a few hundred words on it.

#1198
Kurdt
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i've played doctor
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getting into medical school is not some kind of impossible thing. anyone can do it if you are willing to live in Dominica for 2 years. i would say the most important requirement for becoming a doctor is having no life. The pretentious attitude that most doctors have is really unwarranted; it's like learning any other skill or trade.

despite my really good qualifications, i didn't go to white people schools, so I'll probably have to go to the caribbean or a D.O. program, which is lame, but I am going to be a physician within the next 5 years. this should probably scare you.
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guidoanselmi posted:

guidoanselmi posted:

I got tickets to go to a local burner festival in two weekends in MO. I don't really know what I'm getting myself into.

stegosaurus posted:

its probably going to be lame



it absolutely was but it was worth seeing. i had fun but it was a wholly empty and unoriginal experience. nothing against the people there, really, but goddamn.

it fills a gap in the lives of burners, and especially for long time ones who have fostered deeper bonds, but that's about it.

if people actually want i could write a few hundred words on it.

we desperately need content