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SciFifreak90 wrote:

We just get to complain about life? Hell yes.

I go to a military college (enlistment was my choice, college was my parents', so we kinda compromised) so you can argue that I knew what I was getting myself into and may not have a right to harp about all this. In this college I cannot refer to myself as I, my friends as they, or ourselves as we. We are now "this recruit" or "these recruits" or "that recruit's M14". We cannot talk outside or across halls or in the mess hall. When sitting we must be upright on the front six inches of our chairs. I wake up at 0430 every morning for physical training, which sucks because I absolutely hate mornings. We have to stare straight ahead whenever not in our rooms or an academic building, they call it being "locked on". We have to greet officers whenever we pass them, but we can't move our heads or eyes to look at their rank so it SUCKS when we pass one without greeting and get reamed out to no end.

Everywhere we walk has to be in the gutter, roads are a privilege. We can only move in straight lines, turning only at 90 degree angles, it's called "squaring", and it sucks and takes forever to get anywhere. Despite that little tidbit, God forbid you show up at any time other than five minutes early to anything. We cannot use facebook, myspace, skype, AIM, or any instant messaging system. Cell phones are prohibited, but we are allowed a single ten-minute phone call home each week. We cannot nap during the day in our rooms, and they have to be pristine each morning for inspection which is ridiculous because they'll just conjure dust out of nowhere to yell at us about even if we dusted that desk like literally two minutes before they came in. There is a rule about this place they've never mentioned but one I've created and believe is, for the most part, true: Recruits can do nothing right.

I don't usually like complaining, but I have to admit that felt good.

Enlistment might not have been the answer. You might have tried ROTC or something so you can be an officer. I'm sorry to hear about your mornings, I'm basically the same. You should maybe try to get to know your officers so that when passing them you could recognize them. That's what I do. I'm sorry to hear of your predicament. Good luck with college.

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Ralin Drakus wrote:

I agree with you two, it's just insane how early they start marketing holidays.  I work in a grocery store right now, and they had Halloween decorations up over 2 weeks ago, and i though THAT was early.......  so trying to cash in on Christmas NOW is just insane.

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Grrrrr Devil Boy ordered a £700 laptop on my credit card without telling me. Thankfully it is sat still in its wrapping ready to be returned for a refund.

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"And then the music that plays at work, around Christmastime all the songs repeat at least four times a day. Tell me that wouldn't make you hate christmas music."

I already do. Except for some songs, Christmas has the WROST songs. Really bad. Like, "what were they THINKING when they wrote this?!" bad. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer bad (by the way, how in the world did a song THAT bad be made into a half hour special? o_O).

" I work in a grocery store right now, and they had Halloween decorations up over 2 weeks ago, and i though THAT was early.......  so trying to cash in on Christmas NOW is just insane."

At least thats the equivilant of the Christmas stuff start to appear in mid November as a pre-Thanksgiving build up. I can deal with that better then seeing the first corner of the store dedicated to Christmas. And the Halloween stuff isn't full blown out yet! And I really like Halloween too. Candy like Easter, but more of it, and its more interisting to get it. Easter would be the worlds boringest holiday if it wasn't for the candy. Plus you get to dress up, and not in fancy clothes like Easter.

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You think thats bad? Some idiot at my old high school got mad and threw a chair through a window. The librarys solution was to close the library during lunch for almost 2 months (which was just about the entire rest of the year). The next year, it was almost never opened during lunch. Which was stupid because in the past, they only closed it on Wednesdays due to teacher meetings in there after school (which I never even understood THAT). So their solution was, rather then make sure people didn't throw temper tantrums, was to just not deal with any potential problem at all. Which made checking out/returning books a MAJOR pain. Not to mention the guy librarian was sexist (but thats a story for another day).

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I hate it when stores push any time of year 6 months before it is even here. Like RIGHT after I got out of school in the summer. A week after school ended for me they were already pushing back to school supplies! I hate it! They rush every season and if you don't buy it then when they FIRST put it out, when that time of year then comes out, there is nothing left to buy cause they  have moved onto the next holiday or whatever.

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BFFC-Draco wrote:

They start putting the Chrismas items out so early, but they don't put  out the eggnog untill a week before.

Actually, I'm a dairy manager, and I ordered in our first egg nog for Thursday. I've already sold over a case. Two other stores had their egg nog in on Tuesday. And it's not just the Pumpkin Spice, it's the regular too.

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MandoGirl0415 wrote:

I hate it when stores push any time of year 6 months before it is even here. Like RIGHT after I got out of school in the summer. A week after school ended for me they were already pushing back to school supplies! I hate it! They rush every season and if you don't buy it then when they FIRST put it out, when that time of year then comes out, there is nothing left to buy cause they  have moved onto the next holiday or whatever.

This used to very much annoy me when I was at school but now I have younglings I understand. They are not advertising to annoy but for the parents who need to get the stuff in ready.

I do not like early Christmas advertising. There is too much pressure for one day of the year.

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I need a damn job.

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Cin Vhetin wrote:

I need a damn job.

Yeah i get that! ( I just need MONEY!)

I hate the state of NJ and all the red tape and money it takes to sorta survive here.

I hate college too. I learned that I am too old to be on campus any longer, AND that they don't know their butts from their hands. Took nearly 3 hours today to get a few pieces of the puzzle that is me trying to get registered and maybe graduate this century.

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535 Reply by Cin Vhetin (edited by Cin Vhetin Saturday, September 12, 2009 2:26 am)

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Si Titran wrote:
Cin Vhetin wrote:

I need a damn job.

Yeah i get that! ( I just need MONEY!)

I hate the state of NJ and all the red tape and money it takes to sorta survive here.

I hate college too. I learned that I am too old to be on campus any longer, AND that they don't know their butts from their hands. Took nearly 3 hours today to get a few pieces of the puzzle that is me trying to get registered and maybe graduate this century.

I hope your situation gets sorted out soon.

No job -yet-, also, there's a little mistake in the first resumes I sent, so, 50 companies have typos about me; table-top might stop coz we're not enough ppl; and I'm starting the fun part of the month. Today (thursday) really sucked, lol.
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THOSE SUNSOF BETCHES! dang I need to friggan throw somethin...... GOD DANG YOU GOODGAME YOU BALD PEICE OF CRAP!!!!!!!

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lol u mad?

538 Reply by Terra (edited by Terra Friday, August 6, 2010 4:24 pm)

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I think he is, lol. Glad that he yells it here instead of ripping someone's guts off. Would be ... bad, I think. tongue

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I am cooled down now, thank God. I really needed to get that out of my system.

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Yeah, just normal. Sucks that you had to quit that. Now what will you do?

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541 Reply by Miba (edited by Miba Sunday, August 8, 2010 4:33 pm)

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I'm sorry, but what is BOE? (I know nothing about sports)

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Board of Education? Just guessing. Might not be that at all.

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Oh. I was homeschooled so I don't know a lot about how regular schools work.

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544 Reply by Terra (edited by Terra Monday, August 9, 2010 4:47 pm)

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Don't know much about american schools either, our system up here is different.

How is it when you are homeschooled? Do you still have to do it early in the morning? Get the same kind of strict schedule and all that? I've always wondered what you learn when it is not in a public school. There's much less wasted time I bet, since the teacher doesn't have to waste time on classroom clowns and the likes.

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yeah board of education is most likely what karson meant, probably budget cuts or something.

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the eternal dull part of things

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Yes Goodgame was cut because he was the last hired and he wasn't that good a teacher...BOE Board of Education....bullshit really

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That sucks man, are there any other sports teams you could join? (Assuming you still wanna play something else that is)

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nope

550 Reply by Miba (edited by Miba Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:43 am)

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Karson, are there any other kids in your area who wouldn't mind an in-formal game? I know I've played 6-person baseball before.

Terra, We'd do our school books after breakfast usually sometimes we got a later start, and it didn't matter a whole lot about getting up early. No strict schedule. If we took a day off (or a week if we went on vacation) it didn't matter. And we could do it in the summer too, or over the weekend. I remember some saturdays I just sat down with my science book for a while. And if I felt like doing english first one day, great, if the next I wanted to do science first, great. What I think I liked best was the ability to take as long as needed. Math is my weak point, so if I had to spend over an hour of it I could. We got about the same subjects I think, math, english, science, etc. I had started biology but I don't think the others had yet, when I left home. Some subjects were just unnecessary so we didn't do those, such as advanced math, none of us learned that, and we didn't do a whole lot of physics study. See, my mom's weak point is math as well, but my dad is awesome at math but he left when I was 9 so even my grasp of multiplication is shaky. My mom taught us to cook and play piano (though I sorta stopped learning piano I can still play a little though), and she can actually play pretty much any instrument so one of my brothers learned guitar and I thought about taking up violin cause it's not hard (to me anyway, after a 10 minute lesson I played a beginner's duet with my mom). We were always in the library and sometimes my mom would pick historical books for us to read (I really got addicted to the Dear America books). And she would read to us every night, usually from the classics. We traveled a lot so she taught us how to read maps. And in our travels we went to places like the space center in alabama, and various museums, once we went to DC, and we went to a lot of zoos and parks. We almost always had a garden so we learned about weeds and stuff. And my mom taught us how to build, like, chicken coops and such. (we've almost always had chickens) But our schooling was a bit more informal than some people's. I've known other homeschoolers who do have a set schedule. And some who pushed their kids hard to get them GEDs at 16. And some who bought all these tons of books (whereas we mostly got ours from the library or were donated to us from local schools) and programs and stuff.

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