Up Front: The Up Front Guide to Parenting
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Without anyone looking over their shoulders, they spent at least a year falling down, throwing up, and smashing letterboxes. Any course-work handed in would be done in a blaze of panic; a couple of hastily-typed pages thrown together and sprinted across campus to be flung in a submissions box seconds before the deadline.
I can attest to the truth of this statement, and you are right, my parents should have kept me home. If they had done that, instead of sending me to boarding school and university, perhaps I would have amounted to something by now.
Anyone know a good lawyer? Surely I can make them pay for their mistake?
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Masters in Unemployability.
Oh I wish...
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If only you had been my mother...
I could be a dentist right now!
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ROTFL!! The phil depatment ought to have warnings posted - "This Way Poverty Lies". Still, it's really well educated poverty.
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liam,
Of course my mother's absolute conviction that a degree is a necessity for a successful life is the prime reason that I didn't go to university.
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All that unemployment time would be wasted if you didn't have a whole heap of philosophy to guide your thinking.
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Without anyone looking over their shoulders, they spent at least a year falling down, throwing up, and smashing letterboxes. Any course-work handed in would be done in a blaze of panic; a couple of hastily-typed pages thrown together and sprinted across campus to be flung in a submissions box seconds before the deadline.
At my university, they even have a name: engineering students. (Don't ever let anyone induce you to help mark first-year engineering essays. Your belief in humanity will never recover.)
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At my university, they even have a name: engineering students.
Lucy, did we by any chance go to the same university?
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I have two pre-school daughters. The only thing they know of their father's shadowy day-habits is that one day he'll have a PhD in (gasp!) media studies (oh God!).
We are a shameful mess of a family and deserve all the derision we get.
NB In possibly the most horrible example of our sad domestic life, my eldest daughter said the word "discourse" before she ever saw the Wiggles. (Actually, I don't think she's ever seen the Wiggles).
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Isn't that tantamount to (whisper it now) abuse ?
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Lucy, did we by any chance go to the same university?
If you refer to the tertiary education system of the fair city which we both inhabit, then yes. I sit in one of its offices as we speak.
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PHIL 120 is a gateway drug._
HIST 110 for me - dropped my science papers after the first HIST 110 lecture (also at the university featuring the engineering students, as it happens). Megan Wegan is right - surely there must be some legal comeback against our parents for permitting this descent into a lifetime of unpaid thinking?
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my eldest daughter said the word "discourse" before she ever saw the Wiggles.
High five, sir.
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a lifetime of unpaid thinking
Surely the opposite of politics.
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HIST 110 for me - dropped my science papers after the first HIST 110 lecture (also at the university featuring the engineering students, as it happens).
For me it was HIST 133 (Medieval Europe) - although I still managed to complete my science degree, so my employability hasn't been totally sunk. But the history degree was totally the fun bit.
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NB In possibly the most horrible example of our sad domestic life, my eldest daughter said the word "discourse" before she ever saw the Wiggles. (Actually, I don't think she's ever seen the Wiggles).
Christ. Someone engineer a rescue of these poor tikes. Someone in red, yellow, purple, and blue tops!
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Dear Emma -
Do you think renaming my son "Pension Plan" would imbue him with an appropriate sense of purpose whilst studying at University ?
Yours sincerely
Bay Brown
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I remember reading an article a while ago about the so-called "helicopter Moms" at American universities - the mothers who are constantly hovering around their children, even while the kids are living on campus. While I never encountered their like while at uni myself, I'm sure they exist here.
I sort of fit the "Philosphy as gateway drug" scenario myself, but it was entirely self-inflicted: I was always best at Classics and English at high school, but figured an Arts degree was too impractical. One and a half years of a BE later (having taken Philosophy and Anthro papers as my electvies), I found myself hating what I was doing, so thought "fuck it" and changed to a BA in Philosphy. My parents were fine with it, and it got me a job in Tech Writing (eventually), so I can't complain.
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But I took Physics and Music, and Physics sooo won. Protip: The only student worse than an Engineering student is a Performance Voice student.
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Oh and I was gonna say shouldn't the door to the History department say "here lies madness...to watch them do it again and again and again..."
Gotta admit tho' - Auckland Uni's ploy of whipping up middle class hysteria via the scarcity of educational resources is a coup of marketting.
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The world needs more philosophical tech writers.
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The only student worse than an Engineering student is a Performance Voice student.
On behalf of my best friend, hey! And also, possibly, fair point.
For me it was HIST 133 (Medieval Europe)
I did that! Retained facts: Charlemagne was really, really tall.
The most seriously I nearly went astray (and bear in mind I was doing English lit on purpose) was loving CLAS 215 Hellenistic Egypt so much I nearly changed to one of the few majors of less use than mine.
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The world needs more philosophical tech writers.
I know one who has a PhD in the Philosophy of Theology. So there are some around (well, at least two).
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PHIL 120 is a gateway drug.
HIST 110 for me
They are totally the gateway drugs. I did Phil 102 and Hist 101, and now I'm just about to complete a Masters in Unemployability (History).
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I remember reading an article a while ago about the so-called "helicopter Moms" at American universities - the mothers who are constantly hovering around their children, even while the kids are living on campus. While I never encountered their like while at uni myself, I'm sure they exist here.
They have their own wiki article.
This is also quite amusing.
At my university, they even have a name: engineering students.
The only student worse than an Engineering student is a Performance Voice student.
Laugh it up while you can, arts grads.
You'll be laughing on the other sides of your faces as soon as you need a bridge built, or a new sewage farm, or an electic-petrol hybrid with an improved cupholder to hold your soy moccachino while you drive to your organic farmers market.
Then we'll see whose laughing.
And if that doesn't work, you wait until my army of giant robots is ready....
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