Chit-Chat: Operation: Steven Universe

[Alexander Nicholi]

That sounds like really bad parenting... Also, don't you have friends or family or even teachers with cars?

Well, no, unfortunately. I don't go to school anymore and don't have any friends outside of PC, so I'm fairly alone in most regards. Even if I had teachers I'd have a really hard time finding one I was comfortable hitching a ride with :b

Even back in Colorado where I had some really cool teachers, I could never do that. It sucks being home so much... I think I'm gonna try to sleep again. There's also a small living room chair I can try, we'll see how that works.

 

[Lucid]

Also, stop talking in Fahrenheit, you guys are doing it wrong.

No, the rest of the world is.

 

[Ice1]

Well, no, unfortunately. I don't go to school anymore and don't have any friends outside of PC, so I'm fairly alone in most regards. Even if I had teachers I'd have a really hard time finding one I was comfortable hitching a ride with :b

Even back in Colorado where I had some really cool teachers, I could never do that. It sucks being home so much... I think I'm gonna try to sleep again. There's also a small living room chair I can try, we'll see how that works.

If my choices were sleeping on things man wasn't meant to sleep on, while having it cold, and walking to the store for a couple of hours to buy a blanket, I'd buy a blanket. Why don't you step up for yourself? Also, I'm an outsider to this whole situation, so I'm sorry if I say anything stupid, or something that doesn't apply in your situation :/

No, the rest of the world is.

Owh, do you want to start a fight? 'cause I'll fight for it. I'll use my fists and everything!

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

If my choices were sleeping on things man wasn't meant to sleep on, while having it cold, and walking to the store for a couple of hours to buy a blanket, I'd buy a blanket. Why don't you step up for yourself? Also, I'm an outsider to this whole situation, so I'm sorry if I say anything stupid, or something that doesn't apply in your situation :/

Don't worry about it, you're fine. Unfortunately the only thing I can walk to is a gas station, and they don't sell blankets there. Plus I don't have any money, she doesn't share. It's a real embarrassment the kinds of things she's buying with her income tax refund, and the fact that she's just pissing it away like lotto money. >:

I'll drop everything that I still care about with her if she fucks me out of my social security money. That's seriously the only semblance of a future I have that doesn't involve homelessness.

 

[Ice1]

Don't worry about it, you're fine. Unfortunately the only thing I can walk to is a gas station, and they don't sell blankets there. Plus I don't have any money, she doesn't share. It's a real embarrassment the kinds of things she's buying with her income tax refund, and the fact that she's just pissing it away like lotto money. >:

I'll drop everything that I still care about with her if she fucks me out of my social security money. That's seriously the only semblance of a future I have that doesn't involve homelessness.

If you don't have money, how come you can still donate? Do you mean you don't have cash, just digital money? Also, you're younger than me, why aren't you in school?

 

[Lucid]

If my choices were sleeping on things man wasn't meant to sleep on, while having it cold, and walking to the store for a couple of hours to buy a blanket, I'd buy a blanket. Why don't you step up for yourself? Also, I'm an outsider to this whole situation, so I'm sorry if I say anything stupid, or something that doesn't apply in your situation :/



Owh, do you want to start a fight? 'cause I'll fight for it. I'll use my fists and everything!

My ignorance will over power them.

 

[Ice1]

My ignorance will over power them.

Oh no! You've discovered my only weakness! *melts*

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

If you don't have money, how come you can still donate? Do you mean you don't have cash, just digital money? Also, you're younger than me, why aren't you in school?

Because I get sifted money here and there. Actually most of the money I donated I wasn't supposed to have, I just kind of took. Usually I get a little money here or there and am more interested in spending it on PC than a toy or something from Amazon. Anything worth purchasing for myself I need to save for, plus it's a lot more fun buying for other people than for myself.

I'm going to school from home right now because the school environment was beyond intolerable for me. I was actually really stressed out and dealing with a lot of other things and didn't want it on top of them, so... I'm doing online classes, not really. I don't ever do them at all because they're a waste of time to me. The college I'll be attempting doesn't even require a high school diploma. I've been told I should "follow through on it" but it wasn't something I ever committed to, I was forced into doing it - I was told I've come so far and might as well finish, and to that I've said I don't have it in me. I'm not interested at all, it's stupid.


In all honesty I could care less about all of this - I just want to stop worrying, and stop shaking. My body is always so tense and I can hardly rest, I want to start being active and start being happy. I want to find a partner to love and I want friends to hang out with. I don't think that's too much at all. For now PC provides some of that :)

 

[Ice1]

Because I get sifted money here and there. Actually most of the money I donated I wasn't supposed to have, I just kind of took. Usually I get a little money here or there and am more interested in spending it on PC than a toy or something from Amazon. Anything worth purchasing for myself I need to save for, plus it's a lot more fun buying for other people than for myself.

I'm going to school from home right now because the school environment was beyond intolerable for me. I was actually really stressed out and dealing with a lot of other things and didn't want it on top of them, so... I'm doing online classes, not really. I don't ever do them at all because they're a waste of time to me. The college I'll be attempting doesn't even require a high school diploma. I've been told I should "follow through on it" but it wasn't something I ever committed to, I was forced into doing it - I was told I've come so far and might as well finish, and to that I've said I don't have it in me. I'm not interested at all, it's stupid.


In all honesty I could care less about all of this - I just want to stop worrying, and stop shaking. My body is always so tense and I can hardly rest, I want to start being active and start being happy. I want to find a partner to love and I want friends to hang out with. I don't think that's too much at all. For now PC provides some of that :)

That's the main advantage of school environments. You meet loads of people. It's important to get out and make social contacts to achieve social guys, albeit through the internet or in real life. Classrooms force interaction, and they give you a lot of connections to people you may expand your social circle too. It's the same as on PC. We talk in the same thread, so it's not weird when we start a conversation at all. Most friendships come from school, or work, or at least some form of forced interaction, and secluding oneself from that makes it harder to make friends. Luckily you have PC, haha.


On another note, I'm probably have to redo this whole year next year, and put off on uni for one :'(

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I guess it's hard because I find the vast majority of my peers rather... unremarkable. They're not people I can relate with well at all, probably because they're teenagers.

I've always got along better with those far older than me.

 

[Ice1]

Over here we used to have a great social security system for students, which made studying almost free if you got your university degree. People didn't have to worry about finances while studying. They put an end to it this year though. Now we have a loan system, which is worse, but still relatively good. You pay an 0,1% interest rate, and you get 30 years to pay off. I like the first system better, but this one is alright for now. I mean, I could study in America. *shudders*

I guess it's hard because I find the vast majority of my peers rather... unremarkable. They're not people I can relate with well at all, probably because they're teenagers.

I've always got along better with those far older than me.

I've always found that people who say this only look at the 'popular' kids, while the likeminded people mostly are wallflowers like them. I don't believe that there are people who can't relate to any of their peers.

 

[Lucid]

I guess it's hard because I find the vast majority of my peers rather... unremarkable. They're not people I can relate with well at all, probably because they're teenagers.

I've always got along better with those far older than me.

You'll grow out of it hun

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Over here we used to have a great social security system for students, which made studying almost free if you got your university degree. People didn't have to worry about finances while studying. They put an end to it this year though. Now we have a loan system, which is worse, but still relatively good. You pay an 0,1% interest rate, and you get 30 years to pay off. I like the first system better, but this one is alright for now. I mean, I could study in America. *shudders*

Capitalism is quite the ruthless thing.

I don't like how in America they force upon us meaningless education for the first 18 years of our life, and then leave us to somehow get training worth people's while with whatever money and wits we may have. On top of that at no point is any wisdom offered, for money or not. You can still have someone come out of college clueless, and have someone going into high school with so much figured out. We're left completely to ourselves to learn about higher things than bookwork.

I think a lot more value should be put on the teachings of philosophy, and particularly Eastern ways of thought. It's mind-expanding how they think, and is vital for coming to a consensus and understanding with the world around us.

You'll grow out of it hun

I didn't like how the other kindergartners couldn't write their name. I somehow doubt that.

I've always found that people who say this only look at the 'popular' kids, while the likeminded people mostly are wallflowers like them. I don't believe that there are people who can't relate to any of their peers.

I find those in the spotlight just as unremarkable as those in the shadows, honestly. Because of how odd I can be I easily fall into the more nerdy groups, and I'm bothered by their goings on about whatever just as much as the jock going on about his track record, or the ROTC kid going on about his medals. I think, "It's just high school, what does it matter? In the end we're here for a piece of paper. That's it."

There's been maybe one person or two that I had interest in, and they had that beyond-bookwork intelligence. But honestly there were teachers here and there that had that same thing that I really liked, lol

 

[Lucid]

I didn't like how the other kindergartners couldn't write their name. I somehow doubt that.

Obviously, the kids you went to school with were morons.

 

[Ice1]

Capitalism is quite the ruthless thing.

I don't like how in America they force upon us meaningless education for the first 18 years of our life, and then leave us to somehow get training worth people's while with whatever money and wits we may have. On top of that at no point is any wisdom offered, for money or not. You can still have someone come out of college clueless, and have someone going into high school with so much figured out. We're left completely to ourselves to learn about higher things than bookwork.

I think a lot more value should be put on the teachings of philosophy, and particularly Eastern ways of thought. It's mind-expanding how they think, and is vital for coming to a consensus and understanding with the world around us.


I didn't like how the other kindergartners couldn't write their name. I somehow doubt that.

We get philosophy for every year, except our last, in which we learn about different outlooks on life, different religions, philosophers, and all those things. The problem with teaching those things is that they're very subjective. I probably have a different outlook on life, and my mind works differently from yours, that's why those things are very individual and very hard to teach. Schools job is to prepare us for the job market, not for life, as stupid as that is. I do agree that schools could focus on philosophical things a bit more, to give people personal growth, but it is supposed to teach us the sciences, not our life view. I'm glad I live in the Netherlands, where those things seem to be figured out a bit better than in America. The only thing my education seems to be lacking is how to fill out taxes :S

I find those in the spotlight just as unremarkable as those in the shadows, honestly. Because of how odd I can be I easily fall into the more nerdy groups, and I'm bothered by their goings on about whatever just as much as the jock going on about his track record, or the ROTC kid going on about his medals. I think, "It's just high school, what does it matter? In the end we're here for a piece of paper. That's it."

There's been maybe one person or two that I had interest in, and they had that beyond-bookwork intelligence. But honestly there were teachers here and there that had that same thing that I really liked, lol

I think you have to wrong view on high school. "It's just high-school" is not the way to make friends. The people you meet in those social circles, can be taken out of it too. There is no certain high-school mindset that everyone seems to share. That mindset of yours focuses too much on the future. High school may just be a piece of paper, it's also a time to make memories. You might lose contact with those people, you might forget those things, but why not try? You seem to crave the things you consciously seclude yourself from.

 

[Megan]

I don't like how in America they force upon us meaningless education for the first 18 years of our life, and then leave us to somehow get training worth people's while with whatever money and wits we may have. On top of that at no point is any wisdom offered, for money or not. You can still have someone come out of college clueless, and have someone going into high school with so much figured out. We're left completely to ourselves to learn about higher things than bookwork.

To be fair, wisdom is something you have to gain by yourself through experience and that can take whatever time it needs for every individual. You can't just throw money at a system expecting to get some wisdom magically transported into your brain. School's just giving you the most basic tools you need in order to gain experience, although the method they use in order to teach those tools surely is outdated. With society getting smarter every day (I remember hearing how the collective human knowledge seems to be at the point where it doubles every couple years) and better methods being figured out basically every day, you'd think, the school system would benefit from that as well, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Then again, I've been out of the loop for so long now. Back when I went to school, they were changing our system from 13 years to 12 years, which made school slightly more challenging as we now had to get more stuff into our head in less time. Not that I really learnt anything anyway, because I couldn't figure out the concept of learning until like one or two years ago {XD}

 

[Her]

inyotef darling
must every thread involve a discussion above how you above the american schooling system and all in it

 

[Universe]

woah what's up with all the tl;drs in the DCC? i don't think i've ever seen that happen before.

i mean no offense but maybe you could make a thread about it in RT? it seems important.

 

[Livewire]

cough cough make a round table thread about it cough cough

 

[Universe]

cough cough make a round table thread about it cough cough

woot, called it. B)