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11027577 No.11027577[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Is college a complete waste of time for an aspiring writer? I'm lucky enough I had the chance to work at a newspaper as a teenager and I've since done a good bit of freelance work. Yet all my classes seem like a total waste of time. In Intro to International Relations, for instance, we learn vocabulary. What's a norm? What's a hegemon? What's a rogue state? I learn so, so, so much more just reading in my free time and so I'm considering dropping out and getting a full-time job at a paper or something. I see no benefit in staying up until 1 a.m. doing what amounts to busy work for another two years.

Wat do

>> No.11027579

If you can network then it isn't

>> No.11027581

>wanting to write

never gonna make it

>> No.11027594

>>11027577
>he needs an alarm clock to wake up at 6:30 a.m.

>> No.11027609

>>11027579
Maybe. I'm involved with a student mag, so maybe that's something.

>> No.11027621

>>11027577
Someone praising Bukowski is a red flag.

>> No.11027632

>>11027577
If you're so ahead of the class then just step up to graduate-level classes or graduate early, or graduate with the rest of your class but take a masters degree at the same time. Any of those are a better idea than dropping out in an environment where a bachelors is a hard prerequisite for most jobs outside of manual labor. You may also actually learn something.

>> No.11027637
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11027637

>>11027577
>not studying engineering
never gonna make it

>> No.11027656

>>11027621
I've never even read anything by him. I just happened to use that image.

>> No.11027851

>>11027577
You're not just learning vocabulary. Sure the class is probably going at a snail's pace cuz lol american students but it's p important to be specific and not all wishy washy with how you're using terminology in academia.

i mean it's probably still a waste of time i dunno why you'd take an intro class if you want to learn anything but hey

>> No.11027911

>this pic
>wake up at 8:00am
>shower and leave house
>take the subway to work
>browse the internet for 8 hrs at work
>eat at work, too, so no force feed in the morning
>leave work early because theres nothing to do
>get 3200$ net per month
>kek at hobo bukowski

>> No.11027928

>>11027637
Funny you say that considering we all end up in the same place.

>> No.11028002

>>11027851
That's how college works here. You have to have a certain number of credits, but to get those credits you have to start with specific classes. It works for people completely new to the material, but if you already have an interest in it you'll get slowed down for sure.