Borrow or Rob?

According to our Asia expert at work it is, but I have no idea why. I thought that was the accepted term for Australia, New Zealand, et al. Does anyone know what is correct?

amajor7:

This isn’t even funny I just love Mad Men and want to talk about it all the time.

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None of that me-me rappin'.: people are really mad about that "English major/women's studies minor" post

funkyassdicegame:

satanic2chainz:

funkyassdicegame:

abbyr:

satanic2chainz:

funkyassdicegame:

but uhhh it is really hard to find work with an English/American History major and a humanities focused minor (I was film and AAS but I mean yeah)? took me forever after undergrad to find a job.

don’t regret my choices at all but I mean it is a…

With the exception of retail (which was just to pay bills right after a move), every job I’ve had since college was a writing intensive job. They’re there, they’re just coded with other terms. Aside from wishing there had been some more intensive grammar/writing classes, I wish there had been a little more career prep.

English is actually a great major, you just gotta be flexible about how you apply it. Maybe that’s true of every major, but few others have such little focus on careers outside of academia.

I’ve been wondering about the intensive grammar/writing classes part of this. Is that just a side effect of liberal arts English education focusing more on the academic side of things, maybe? (I didn’t really take any creative writing courses while in college, which probably ties into this.)

Well Temple (and I’m pretty sure Arcadia) had “professional writing” or “writing for…” type classes but it’s funny because these classes are usually filled with Journalism, PR, philosophy and business majors (at least they were at temple)

English major motherfuckers want to be simple and whine about the lack of jobs when they don’t do anything to prepare themselves for the jobs that actually want them. 

Yeah, that’s sorta what I expected. Don’t think there were any of these at UC, as far as I know? There was, however, a class on graphic novels, so it’s all good.

A few English major friends had to take a class that involved a lot of sentence diagrams, but it was a requirement for their education double major. I would have hated it, but if I had been offered that class I would have taken it in a heartbeat.

None of that me-me rappin'.: people are really mad about that "English major/women's studies minor" post

satanic2chainz:

funkyassdicegame:

but uhhh it is really hard to find work with an English/American History major and a humanities focused minor (I was film and AAS but I mean yeah)? took me forever after undergrad to find a job.

don’t regret my choices at all but I mean it is a…

With the exception of retail (which was just to pay bills right after a move), every job I’ve had since college was a writing intensive job. They’re there, they’re just coded with other terms. Aside from wishing there had been some more intensive grammar/writing classes, I wish there had been a little more career prep.

English is actually a great major, you just gotta be flexible about how you apply it. Maybe that’s true of every major, but few others have such little focus on careers outside of academia.

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

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Illuminati Zozo: funkyassdicegame: satanic2chainz: Honestly, the fact that schools let...

ghostorballoons:

funkyassdicegame:

ghostorballoons:

bestsharkweekever:

ghostorballoons:

funkyassdicegame:

ghostorballoons:

funkyassdicegame:

funkyassdicegame:

satanic2chainz:

Honestly, the fact that schools let people graduate without doing internships is wild to me. That shit should be required

Get academic credit and learn what its like to look for an entry position in your field

truth bomb. I dunno if I got any…

if there’s anything I wish I learned during undergrad—it’s definitely using that time to just build the fuck out of your resume, you can still get stuff out of your classes while doing so. not taking an internship during my senior year (because my professor who was my contact got fired, whoo!) is maybe the biggest mistake of my college career.

The funny about Ursinus though is that it was so easy to get a radio show and so easy to just ask whoever was WVOU director at the time for a bs title*. My ex-girlfriend was a DJ at Millersville and had to go through so many hoops training and doing grunt work just to get there, so that when she graduated, having “college DJ” on her resume actually carried some weight— which essentially UC students could get for free since WVOU was such a strange trifle. There were a lot of things at Ursinus that at most schools you’d really have to put in a lot of groundwork and striving to get, which, since it was such a small weird school, you could kind of just blunder into. Grizzly editor shit, Lantern shit, etc— which feel kind of meaningless, but like, when you’re just graduating and putting together a CV, don’t LOOK as meaningless to employers as people tend to assume.

*I was STUDIO MANAGER from 2008-2010 for essentially just hanging out on the couch during Nick Hanford’s show when he was director. A literal joke, but it still probably didn’t hurt me when I was applying to the  concert manager gig at BIMF I had for a few summers. 

You could make the genuine argument that the gig I just got was due to experience doing stuff at WVOU, both general manager and other stuff (which admittedly didn’t involve doing a ton). Just because I wrote the occasional email my employers saw fit that I was a capable enough dude to interpret data. So I cannot begrudge that experience in any way whatsoever. (WVOU, in retrospect, really was completely bizarre.)

I cherish everything about WVOU in hindsight. The first time I met Grey Johnson was when he IM’ed the station during “Fun City With Mayor Molly Sheffer and CHristopher Schaeffer, Homeowner.” 

or that time we gave everyone hawthorne heights valentines that we found

oh yeah. I think that time I accidentally wore a suit to a Dragonforce concert was WVOU-related too. I wonder if any of my drawings are still up on the wall there or if Nick took them all or if some dumb clod tore them down or something 

I wish I still had my WVOU shirt, I have like six fucking COSA shirts, there’s no justice in this piss universe

They were still up when I graduated, although someone tore one up a bit. Hell, the AIM client still had people’s names in there who hadn’t been there for years—pretty sure there was some kinda buddy alert for “Molly ‘Cuntlord’ Sheffer” for the entirety of my time at Ursinus, it just never got deleted. Grey Johnson’s WVOU soundboard somehow made it through the entire hard drive getting formatted, too, which is a legitimate miracle.

Perfect. If history needs to preserve anything about Ursinus c. 2005-2010  Western Civilization it should be the Grey Johnson soundboard

Laughing so hard I’m crying

satanic2chainz:

theuppitynegras:

norttron:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.

The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:

• Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.
• Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.
• Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay.  There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.
• There would be no limit on class size
• The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”
• Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.

There’s more here.

notice most of the posters are children of color

I just want you to notice

I’m proud these kids stay marchin

and I’m so mad the city stay not giving  fuck

^

jemsnotes:

NAILED IT a++++ response

ghostorballoons:

satanic2chainz:

how abby gonna betray the whole team for some weak dick doe

-Ursinus English Honor Society minutes, November 2008

Rude. Dude.

ghostorballoons:

A bunch of library books I’ve had out got called in for class reserves next semester, so I can’t renew them. I have to read a ton of books about monks bleeding and acting perverse by Monday or else everything was in vain.

But hey, that means there’s a cool class next semester that’s using them!